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Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Approx. start time | ||||
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Bhajan Bhoy |
The Milkman (Blackburn)
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Bhoy On The Wire | Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube | 2025 | https://bhajanbhoy.bandcamp.com/album/bhoy-on-the-wire | 0:02:06 (Pop-up) | ||||
Orchestra Comeda |
Hotel Carlton
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Library Of Sound Grooves: Pagan Psych-Folk Glam Vocal Sounds Of The Italian Cinema (1965 - 1977) | Semi-Automatic | 2024 | https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/va-library-of-sound-grooves-pagan-psych-folk-glam-vocal-sounds-of-the-2lp/SA.010LP.html | 0:07:45 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Upsetters |
Haunted House (Inst)
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Land Of Kinks - The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1970, 2CD | Doctor Bird / Cherry Red | 2025 | https://www.cherryred.co.uk/lee-scratch-perry-and-friends-land-of-kinks-the-jamaican-upsetter-singles-1970-2cd | 0:10:18 (Pop-up) | ||||
Marshall Allen |
Boma
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New Dawn | Week-End / Mexican Summer | 2025 | https://marshallallen.bandcamp.com/album/new-dawn | 0:13:10 (Pop-up) | ||||
Black Sugar |
Pussy Cat
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Black Sugar | Sono Radio | 1971 | 0:23:22 (Pop-up) | |||||
Joe McPhee |
Disco Death
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I'm Just Say'n | Smalltown Supersound | 2025 | https://www.smalltownsupersound.com/news/joe-mcphee-im-just-sayn-new-album-out-31-january/ | 0:31:54 (Pop-up) | ||||
Guido And Maurizio De Angelis |
Viaggio
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Library Of Sound Grooves: Pagan Psych-Folk Glam Vocal Sounds Of The Italian Cinema (1965 - 1977) | Semi-Automatic | 2024 | https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/va-library-of-sound-grooves-pagan-psych-folk-glam-vocal-sounds-of-the-2lp/SA.010LP.html | 0:35:09 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Jazz Crusaders |
Freedom Sound
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Freedom Sound | Pacific Jazz | 1961 | 0:38:14 (Pop-up) | |||||
Eric Agyemang And His Kokroko Band |
Kokroko Special
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The Best of Asona Records | BBE Music | 2025 | https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-of-asona-records | 0:46:39 (Pop-up) | ||||
Melanie Jonas & Dave Barker as Mel & Dave |
Spinning Wheel
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Land Of Kinks - The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1970, 2CD | Doctor Bird / Cherry Red | 2025 | https://www.cherryred.co.uk/lee-scratch-perry-and-friends-land-of-kinks-the-jamaican-upsetter-singles-1970-2cd | 0:53:05 (Pop-up) | ||||
Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band |
If There's A Will There's A Way
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If There's A Will There's A Way / Babby Batter 7" | Rocafort | 2025 | https://rocafortrecords.bandcamp.com/album/if-theres-a-will-theres-a-way-b-w-baby-batter | 0:55:53 (Pop-up) | ||||
Zeudi Araya |
Oltre l'Acqua Del Fiume
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Library Of Sound Grooves: Pagan Psych-Folk Glam Vocal Sounds Of The Italian Cinema (1965 - 1977) | Semi-Automatic | 2024 | https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/va-library-of-sound-grooves-pagan-psych-folk-glam-vocal-sounds-of-the-2lp/SA.010LP.html | 1:02:53 (Pop-up) | ||||
Alice Coltrane |
Leo
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Live Paris 2005 | N/A | 2005 | 1:05:43 (Pop-up) | |||||
Five Times Six |
Five Times Six
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If Music presents: You Need This! A Journey Into Deep Jazz Vol. 4 compiled by Jean-Claude | BBE Music | 2025 | https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/if-music-presents-you-need-this-a-journey-into-deep-jazz-vol-4-compiled-by-jean-claude | 1:23:09 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Upsetters |
Spinning Wheel Version (Take 4) (Inst)
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Land Of Kinks - The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1970, 2CD | Doctor Bird / Cherry Red | 2025 | https://www.cherryred.co.uk/lee-scratch-perry-and-friends-land-of-kinks-the-jamaican-upsetter-singles-1970-2cd | 1:32:54 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ayumi Ishito |
Aromatherapy For Erzulie
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Roboquarians, Vol. 2 (feat. Kevin Shea and George Draguns) | 577 | 2025 | https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/roboquarians-vol-2-feat-kevin-shea-and-george-draguns | 1:36:24 (Pop-up) | ||||
Gene Roman |
Don't Lose Control
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Library Of Sound Grooves: Pagan Psych-Folk Glam Vocal Sounds Of The Italian Cinema (1965 - 1977) | Semi-Automatic | 2024 | https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/va-library-of-sound-grooves-pagan-psych-folk-glam-vocal-sounds-of-the-2lp/SA.010LP.html | 1:42:29 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ousmane Kouyaté & Ambassadeurs Internationaux |
Kefimba
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The Original Sound of Mali 2 | Mr. Bongo | 2025 | https://mrbongo.bandcamp.com/album/the-original-sound-of-mali-2-2 | 1:45:55 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sathima Bea Benjamin |
Africa
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If Music presents: You Need This! A Journey Into Deep Jazz Vol. 4 compiled by Jean-Claude | BBE Music | 2025 | https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/if-music-presents-you-need-this-a-journey-into-deep-jazz-vol-4-compiled-by-jean-claude | 1:53:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
Stemeseder Lillinger feat. Craig Taborn |
TYPUS
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Umbra III | Intakt | 2025 | https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/umbra-iii | 2:04:01 (Pop-up) | ||||
Raoul Lovecchio |
All I Need
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Library Of Sound Grooves: Pagan Psych-Folk Glam Vocal Sounds Of The Italian Cinema (1965 - 1977) | Semi-Automatic | 2024 | https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/va-library-of-sound-grooves-pagan-psych-folk-glam-vocal-sounds-of-the-2lp/SA.010LP.html | 2:12:56 (Pop-up) | ||||
Eddie Harris |
Freedom Jazz Dance
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The In Sound | Atlantic | 1965 | 2:15:19 (Pop-up) | |||||
Stephen Davis Unit |
When we were gods
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The Gleaming World | 577 | 2025 | https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/the-gleaming-world | 2:25:05 (Pop-up) | ||||
Phil Chilton / Peter L. Smith |
Blood-Tinted Green Glass
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Library Of Sound Grooves: Pagan Psych-Folk Glam Vocal Sounds Of The Italian Cinema (1965 - 1977) | Semi-Automatic | 2024 | https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/va-library-of-sound-grooves-pagan-psych-folk-glam-vocal-sounds-of-the-2lp/SA.010LP.html | 2:33:42 (Pop-up) | ||||
Omar Thomas Large Ensemble |
Obeah Woman
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Griot Songs | Omar Thomas Music | 2025 | https://www.omarthomas.com/griot-songs | 2:35:48 (Pop-up) | ||||
Hugh Hendricks & The Upsetters |
Land Of Kinks (Inst)
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Land Of Kinks - The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1970, 2CD | Doctor Bird / Cherry Red | 2025 | https://www.cherryred.co.uk/lee-scratch-perry-and-friends-land-of-kinks-the-jamaican-upsetter-singles-1970-2cd | 2:47:56 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sun Ra |
1984
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Live Knittelfeld Austria, July 2, 1983 | N/A | 1983 | 2:50:40 (Pop-up) | |||||
Sun Ra |
Nuclear War
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Live Knittelfeld Austria, July 2, 1983 | N/A | 1983 | 2:56:08 (Pop-up) | |||||
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