Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs:
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from April 17, 2025
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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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Music behind DJ: Seascapers |
Comforting Ocean Waves 2
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Comforting Ocean Waves |
Lotus Sound Records |
2021 |
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| Chime Oblivion |
Smoke Ring
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Chime Oblivion | Deathgod | 2025 | Full album released now!!! Today!!! April 17!!!... From Flood Magazine... "Chime Oblivion Work Through Strong Feelings on New Proto-Punk Jam “Kiss Her or Be Her” /////////// John Dwyer’s new project co-founded by Bow Wow Wow’s David Barbarossa will release their self-titled debut on April 18 via Deathgod. //// It was bound to happen eventually: After two decades of non-stop prolific output under the many guises of his Osees project, John Dwyer seemingly cloned himself to lead a second, parallel existence as the band leader for a revolving set of collaborators within jazz fusion projects like Bent Arcana and Witch Egg and beyond. Having recently released SORCS 80 with his primary band, Dwyer is already moving onto his next full-fledged collaboration, this time enlisting iconic new-wave drummer David Barbarossa of Adam & the Ants and Bow Wow Wow, further padded out by members of Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus and punk newcomers FKA Smiley, as well as tapping into the Osees and Bent Arcana talent pools. //// https://johndwyer.bandcamp.com/ | * | 0:03:24 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Pit Scum |
Petrified Society
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PS1 | Self-released (Bandcamp) | 2024 | Playing Toronto tonight @ the Monarch! -- Toronto Quartet recording fast & simple from their space to your ears... As says their Bandcamp ---- :This demo was recorded live off the floor at our practise space by Pit Scum, June/July 2024. Zero band overdubs. ///////// Simon Oates - Voice // Zak Hanna - Guitar // Erik Doole - Guitar // Adam Boyle - Drums //// Play loud or not at all. //// Released July 24, 2024" //// TORONTO FRIENDS!!! ----> "Lunchmeat / Gold Watch / Pit Scum / Nour Hadidi //// Monarch Tavern // 12 Clinton Street // Toronto, ON M6J 2N8 // Doors open @ Apr 17, 2025, 7:30 PM //// Lunchmeat // Gold Watch // Pit Scum // Nour Hadidi" https://pitscum.bandcamp.com/ | 0:04:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Gold Watch |
Scream
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Gold Watch | Self-released (Bandcamp) | 2024 | Playing Toronto tonight @ the Monarch! -- Released August 22, 2024 GOLD WATCH -- Vocals: Matt Mason //// Music: Matt O'Rourke //// Recorded by Dylan Franklin //// Mixed by Jeremy Kessler and Dylan Franklin //// Mastered by James Toth Album Photo by Clayton Churcher //// Album Layout by Kristine Do //////// TORONTO FRIENDS!!! ----> "Lunchmeat / Gold Watch / Pit Scum / Nour Hadidi //// Monarch Tavern // 12 Clinton Street // Toronto, ON M6J 2N8 // Doors open @ Apr 17, 2025, 7:30 PM //// Lunchmeat // Gold Watch // Pit Scum // Nour Hadidi" https://gold-watch.bandcamp.com/ | 0:08:01 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Lunchmeat |
Man Cave Man
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End of Man | Charlie Records | 2025 | Playing Toronto tonight @ the Monarch! -- ALBUM RELEASE PARTY! --- Digitally released March 21, 2025, announced Nov 2024: "Lunchmeat’s first album in 17 years, End of Man, will be out in early 2025. Recorded at Palace Sound by Christopher Sandes, the album is 9 songs and clocks in at just over 29 minutes. The songs are about things like the ghosts of the Lower Don River, labour organising at Amazon, and the brutalisation of Palestine." |||||| "Half of all profits will go to charities/nonprofits that are important to us, including: PCRF (Palestine Children’s Relief Fund), Sistering, Toronto Wildlife Centre, Daily Bread Food Bank. Amounts and organisations to be posted at lunchmeat.band." |||||| Recorded at Palace Sound |||||| Produced by Chris Sandes |||||| Mixed by Sandes and Lunchmeat |||||| Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering |||||| Music by Allemang, Castle, Leblanc, Moore, Morano (2, 3, 5–8), Wells |||||| Lyrics by Allemang |||||| Art by Stéfan Koekemoer |||||| Another chart-topper from Charlie Records" -------- "Please follow us on your music platform of choice. Links aplenty here: https://lunchmeat.band/links. | * | 0:10:36 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Eiyn Sof |
The Arced Pole
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Empyrean Death Rites | Self-released (Bandcamp) | 2025 | Lead-off track, #1, from the 4-song Digital Album released March 23, 2025. [All sales to Repair Together, a Ukrainian NGO focusing on repairing, restoring and rebuilding in de-occupied territories.] - "Four radiant little tangles of energy and noise- synths, drums, voice- loosely about primitive burials and ancient funerary rites; Neolithic reindeer sacrificed on tall arced poles in the middle of Northern European lakes, Scythian burial sites... " --- "Home recordings; DIY with some collaborations and incredible guests sprinkled in. Penchant for fantasy, myth, and play." --- Eiyn Sof (Melissa Boraski)- voice, drums, synths. Rick White- drums on Two Mares" /////////////////////////////////// --------------- "The term “Ein Sof” comes out of Jewish mystic theology. It’s a phrase for the unphraseable, a pair of words that stands in for the infinite-ness of god. It’s something that, almost by definition, no one can get a handle on. The harder you try to force it into words or thought, the more it slips away. Eiyn Sof with a “y” is a musical project that is likewise hard to pin down. It employs the simplest sort of instruments, the most fragile kinds of melodies to reach for the ineffable... //// ...Eiyn Sof is the performing name for Melissa Boraski, a Toronto singer who started in gospel, took a detour through rock bands like the Real Priscillas, broke off her musical career to have a couple of kids and [over the years] finally began inching [then diving] back in her limited spare time, making songs on guitar, piano, voice and an old synthesizer [at first]..." Now, in 2025, she has a Bandcamp page filled with 20 digital releases in various modes w/ various guests + physical releases scattered between various labels [zbtfd, Blue Fog Recordings, Arachnidiscs, and Ur Audio Visual] https://eiynsof.bandcamp.com/album/ | * | 0:13:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Plus Instruments |
How
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79-80 | Plus Instruments | 79/80/2023 | Plus Instruments' existence spans over the last 4 decades. Established in 1978 by Truus de Groot in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, amidst the explosion of Punk Rock. Even though Truus was very active in that genre and “New Wave” as well, the more experimental side gradually took over and the concept of Plus Instruments was born. Plus Instruments is still going strong! Check out Truus' Blue Beast ! //// "Released on Dead Mind Records. 200 copies on black vinyl with insert. Sold out are the 75 copies on purple vinyl Special edition with a signed and numbered print, an envelope with 4 small prints and a cassette with 2 archival live performances from the same period. A Truus de Groot solo performance at Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (1980) and a performance with Michel Waisvisz and Bregt Camphuijzen at the Notre Dame Hall, London (1979).The recordings for this LP were made by De Groot at home and the music is experimental and industrial, it sounds nothing like some of the later material. 7 tracks are taken from the elusive and impossible to find self-released debut cassette as ‘Truss Plus Instruments’ which was sparingly distributed through the legendary Alien Brains fanzine. The other 7 are from the same period (1979-1980) and were selected from the vast archive of De Groot. This selection serves as a long overdue testament of the formative phase of a true female pioneer of electronic music." //// "All Songs written and performed by Truus de Groot - aka Geertruda De Groot - Dewclaw Ditties (BMI)" https://plusinstruments.bandcamp.com/ //////////// From Truus de Groot earlier today, when asked to share words... ".doing some live shows in the fall in The Netherlands with a new line up and coming out with a new Plus Instruments album in September on Ransom Note. Also a brand new Blue Beast album coming up soon. Keeping busy! Maybe mention my website?" Truus de Groot |||||| truusdegroot.com |||||| plusintruments.com |||||| Truus Facebook |||||| Truus tunes on Soundcloud |||||| Truus You Tube Channel |||||| Truus Instagram |||||| | 0:16:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Oksel Dief |
A Fisher King
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Oksel Dief | Of Bits & Pieces | 2024 | Oksel Dief is the home recording work of Matthew McDonough (Chuck Skullz). Started in 2018 out of the usual boredom and an incessant inner monologue about the comings & goings of a post-2016 world. The product of a carrousel of contributors and inspirations, songs run the gamut from rant-style character presentations/assassinations, to Krautrock style repetition, to bedroom recording aesthetics walking the fine line of 90’s nostalgia. It is a spicy meatball. Enjoy responsibly. https://okseldief.bandcamp.com/ | 0:21:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Not A Band |
Frivol
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Secrets | Self-released (Bandcamp) | 2025 | Released December 13, 2024. Expanded newly to a 6-piece, Toronto's Not A Band closed out 2024 with a new four song EP recorded by Nick Joy and Dave Kleiser, and mastered by Josh Korody (Breeze). Their live shows are spectacular and not to be missed. Their expansive sound & multi-directional no-wave, percussive proggy-punk is excellent. They are here: https://hiwerenotaband.bandcamp.com/ | * | 0:24:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| The Ex |
The Apartment Block
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If Your Mirror Breaks | Ex Records | 2025 | In my estimation, The Ex are the other only band that ever mattered. Almost like an April Fool's joke, on April 1, The Ex dropped a new track & announced a new album for that week's end. Unlike morning pranks revealed by noon, this gift kept giving. "This one's for Steve" says the dedication on the back cover, in reference to friend & former recorder Steve Albini. "The Apartment Block" can be found on track 9, and what a track it is!!! ////////// Per BC: "The Ex started playing in 1979. Using guitars, bass, drums and voice as their starting point The Ex have continued to musically explore undiscovered areas right up to the present day: collaborations with jazz musicians and an Iraqi-Kurdish band, Kamagurka, Tom Cora, Sonic Youth, Han Bennink, Jan Mulder, Shellac and Wolter Wierbos. In 2002 The Ex set up a lively musical exchange with Ethiopia." //////////////////// ---> "In true ‘Ex fashion’, If Your Mirror Breaks picks up where 27 Passports left off, and erupts like a musical short story collection, a ten-part series of surrealist daydreams, calls to action, ominous warnings and bursts of vitality tapped into the pulse of time. What time could be more appropriate to release this album in, as the current one? Arnold de Boer, Katherina Bornefeld, Andy Moor and Terrie Hessels once again impress with their trademark urgency and creativity." ---- The Ex - Bandcamp | * | 0:28:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Empanadas IIegales |
Chancletazo
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Sancocho Trifásico |
We Are Time |
2025 |
This afternoon April 17!!! We Are Time just announced Sancocho Trifásico by Empanadas IIegales; the album releases on June 6. The announcement was accompanied by a song off the forthcoming album; Chancletazo. /////////// "Empanadas Ilegales, a Vancouver-based Psychedelic Cumbia and Salsa band, has thrilled audiences since 2017 with infectious rhythms and hypnotic grooves. Blending cumbia, salsa, surf-rock, and jazz, their sound is vibrant and experimental. Their latest album, Creepy Mambo, reimagines Cumbia with synths, dub grooves, and bold percussion for an unforgettable musical experience." https://empanadasilegales.bandcamp.com/ |
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| Sleaford Mods |
Liveable Shit (Live)
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Tied Up In The Bodega (Live) | Rough Trade | 2025 | Recorded live in their hometown of Nottingham on 30th November 2024 to a sold-out crowd, this incredible show was part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the iconic Bodega venue. It's rare for Sleaford Mods to perform for such a small crowd... TWO MEN IN SHORTS and t-shirts, set on dance and destruct. One, bearded, is responsible for the sounds but now only has to trigger the computer, allowing him to dance, limbs going hither and yon, like he wandered into the party, found it to his liking and won’t be leaving til sun-up. His name is Andrew Fearn. The other, non-bearded, begins by clutching the microphone and a drink (non-alcoholic) in one hand while the other ritually, almost independently flicks the side of his close-cropped head and ear. His name is Jason Williamson. in the torrent of narrow sounds you can hear the aggravation and provocation of Public Image and the hammer drill of Nine Inch Nails, the poking in the eye vertical dance of Amyl And The Sniffers and the horizontal interjections of Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad. We don’t just dance, we laugh too. At the savagery directed at the shamelessly venal merchants of cash and the mockery of the earnestly houseproud, at the distaste for the faux bumbling and sympathy for the real fumbling of the well intentioned. | * | 0:42:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| TPM |
All the Boys On The Dole
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Single | Charles and Andrew Hendy | 2015 | T.P.M. are brothers Charles & Andrew Hendy. Coming from Co. Louth, influenced by the dole, depression and anxiety. They are from Dundolk, Ireland. This has shades of Irish Eminem but the message is much harder. "ll the Boys on the Dole was written in a slump of depression, sitting in a broken car with no money, nowhere to go and no end in sight. It is a response to the idea that if you are in our situation you are worthless. You are NOT worthless." Forshadowing bands like Kneecap...this message of ongoing lack of opportunity and class oppression with a Gorillaz swing works. | 0:45:50 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Young Franco, Master Pearce |
Wake Up
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It's Franky, Baby! | Neon Records Pty | 2025 | ‘Wake Up’ was created alongside UK artist Master Peace, and playfully fuses elements of hip hop with dance, pop and punk. The sound is eccentric and refreshingly fun, and deserves to be on everyone’s playlists this weekend. “Working with Master Peace has been an amazing experience. I found out about his project via his record ‘Eyes on You’ and wanted to work with him since that moment. I was writing a bunch of tracks in 2020. One of them being an early version of ‘Wake Up’, which I wrote with Elliot from Delta Riggs. I connected with Master Peace online and once I got to London last year, we smashed this in a couple of hours. His new record is fantastic, and I’m super excited about how this one turned out. Special mention to Danio from Husky Loops for some added production too.” – Young Franco Young Franco is one of Australia’s most prominent electronic producers, and has recently collaborated with the likes of S1mba, Franc Moody and Theophilus London. | * | 0:49:11 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| The Streets |
You Think You've Been Buried
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Single | Mike Skinner LTD. | 2025 | Some of the best lyrics I have heard this year. Also perfect timing for Easter Weekend, lol. The Streets is an English musical project led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner. ravel with Mike Skinner in the second episode of his new YouTube series as he ventures through graveyards, allotments, and takes a sleeper train into the Scottish countryside, all in pursuit of inspiration for his latest song, “You Think You’ve Been Buried.” Check out "The Making of You Think You've been Buried" on YouTube....This episode offers more intimate glimpses into Skinner's creative process, capturing the moments where ideas for lyrics and melodies take shape. Along the way, he reflects on the legacy of Robert Burns, muses about royal remains discovered beneath supermarket car parks, and contemplates the ultimate timeless composition of gravestones. | * | 0:51:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Bilk |
Spiked
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Single | Bilk | 2018 | Bilk are an English indie rock trio formed in Chelmsford, Essex, consisting of Sol Abrahams on vocals and guitar, Luke Hare on bass, and Harry Gray on drums. After debuting in 2018 and going on to release a number of singles and EPs, the band released their self-titled debut album in 2023. Bilk are three musicians who blend angsty indie, rap and punk focused on reflecting on the highs and lows of British youth culture. Bilk’s honest social commentary is as real as it gets. Their raucous live shows are already becoming a thing of cult legend amongst a new generation of music fans, resulting in chaos at venues across the UK. | 0:54:23 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Asbestos Salesman |
A Culturally Appropriate Evening
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Post Sludge Post British Post Slop | Asbestos Branded Records | 2025 | Best album title thus far this year. Asbestos Salesman discovered its new post-sludge, post-britain, post-slop sound in 2023 in their home town of Southend on Sea. Comprised of two working slugs born in the UK, the pair stumbled across a place bountiful in its overflowing dumpsters, grim characters and seedy alleyways. To this day, the duo can be found lingering down by the troughs - feasting on slop and ladelling new ideas into a big box of asbestos. | * | 0:57:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Jim E. Brown |
This Is Not Love
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I Wish I Didn't Like You | Didsburry Parsonage | 2025 | Jim E Brown, Poet and Artist/Activist born in Manchester on September 10, 2001, just one day before the 911. He is an alcoholic and has several degenerative conditions. He is a legend who bares his soul through music and tells it like it is. On his creative process: "Oh well you just pick up a guitar or a synthesizer and you just like, fuck around with the notes and then it kind of sounds like a song, you play some different things that come out. And then you sing on top of that, and then you can say whatever you want on top, for whatever music you’ve made. That recording technology is a bit weird cus it’s like, you can just make some weird music that just sounds like a bit shit, like most of my songs do. And then you just sing over it and it sounds like a song." | * | 1:00:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Stan Laferierre |
Tonic Swing
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Tutti Flutti Swing Band |
Kosinus |
2004 |
This album has a picture of an Afghan Hound on the front and that is delightful, just like this jaunty little number! |
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| CLIFFFS |
Life
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Panic Attack | State Fair Records | 2020 | Noisy garage pop from Dallas TX. Clifffs are pretty annoyed at the way how a lot of modern music is put together. Masterminded by John Dufilho, Clifffs’ second album ‘Panic Attack’ removes all the fluff and provides lean punk rock. 13 songs, 24 minutes and not a single bit of tech wizardry in sight. John said that he was angered that drums and chords are being perfectly placed onto computer screens – rigid and mechanically. His response is to create a purists punk rock album. Strip out all the crap and Clifffs remain a three-piece unit with basic audio production and very little to distinguish themselves from simple punk rock recordings from the mid-1970s. Clifffs have created a tightly woven two-finger salute to the daily grind and whilst they may not enjoy modern music production, they certainly identify with the modern malaise of the world. A little gem for rock fans. | 1:10:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Tiger Toy |
Karate Chop
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Black Cat | Tiger Toy | 2022 | Tiger Toy is no more and have disbanded...after only one release. But what a fun one it is! Charming, disarming this band loves cats and vocals that bounce back and forth. I hope this is not the end of their story... | 1:11:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Eraser |
Talk To Me
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Hideout | Siltbreeze Records | 2025 | The quartet of Sonam Parikh, Pier Harrison Juliette Rando & Kat Bean are the glorious blood & guts behind Eraser. First, let me ask that you are familiar with the golden age of Rough Trade? Then if so, you would immediately connect with the sound of Eraser, which twitches & gyrates in a mashup of Pere Ubu & Kleenex. And yet there is a distinct New York-meets-Berlin No Wave tension underlying the fun. Think The Static meets Mania D. Are you in or out? And yet all of these are just luscious trajectories to lead you into the lair of Eraser's infective polygot of sound. There was a saying in the old days, "The person who can't dance says the band can't play". But in current times that is a bygone sentiment & both burn feverishly in the bloodstream of Eraser. They are here to spread their beguiling contagion upon all who will it. And no vaccine can deny them. FFO; ZE Records, 99 Records, Lust/Unlust, Zickzack. Big hearts and clicky stars for this one.... | * | 1:12:37 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Titanium Expose |
Exile
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Disorders | Titanium Expose | 2024 | Hailing from the Netherlands, TITANIUM EXPOSÉ offers a high-voltage synth punk experience with their debut Disorders. Deranged garage riffs with moments of rockabilly lead the charge, but the star of the show is without a doubt the earworm synth lines that cut through every other instrument and establish their dominance throughout six songs. Vocals drowned in reverb make room for the crazy instrumentation of the songs by providing emphasis without trying to be too in-your-face. Drums are super crunchy and energetic, just the way I like ‘em. Honestly, TITANIUM EXPOSÉ’s Disorders sounds like the lovechild of the CONEHEADS and DIODE, and I’m totally here for it. | 1:14:32 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Rider/Horse |
Today's Gains
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Select Trials | Ever/Never Records | 2021 | I enjoyed this particular relevance of this song to the times we live in, what with a fascist manipulating global markets so he and his billionaire friends can buy the dip. I digress. Rider/Horse is lean. There’s no fat in this wasteland to soften the blows of Kingston’s flagship experimental noise outfit. Select Trials, their first record, personifies the grit of running barefoot over industrial debris. The pandemic project of Chris Turco (drums) and Cory Plump (vocals, guitar), every second of Select Trials’ stabbing drum lines and chanting vocals riff off each other without wasting a second, with the mechanical reliability of industrial activity. "When I play a show I definitely look for vibes, and would like to be paid. But there definitely needs to be an energy to the space in order for it to feel right. People have to feel engaged with the music to attach to it – I have to feel attached to the people. If they’re not having a good time, how the fuck am I supposed to have a good time. If I’m not having a good time, how the fuck are they supposed to have a good time? There’s an immense conversational aspect that happens in a live setting. You have to like, do what you do and be fearless." | 1:16:19 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Prostitutes |
Tagliatelle
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Zum Passer | Emiprica | 2015 | The Prostitutes are an indie rock band formed in 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic. The original members were singer Adrian T. Bell, guitarist Martin Destroyer (Martin Přikryl), keyboard player Stevie LFO (Martin Převrátil), bass-guitarist Mark Jukebox (Marek Dziuba) and drummer Luk Santiago (Lukáš Přikryl). The Prostitutes released their first album "Get Me Out of Here" in September 2006. In January 2007, The Prostitutes were awarded Band of The Year by the main Czech music magazine Filter, being nominated also for Song of The Year with Sunshine. They received the award for Music Video of the Year at prestigious TV Óčko Awards 2006 for the song "Sunshine", being nominated also for The Best Rock Band of the Year and Best New Act. In the readers part of Fllter Awards they received prize for the best song of the year with their successful single "Sunshine". They were nominated for "Czech Grammy" – Anděl Award 2006 for The best new act. They have a new single out "Everybody's Crazy"....but we played this instead. | 1:19:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Thee U.F.O. |
Kranke Schluessel
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Irradiated Rainbows (A Collection of Tape Recordings 2020-22) | Gelatinous Records | 2024 | Hailing from Dublin, Consisting of core members Darragh Hansard & Beth Doyle they have previously said in interviews their aim is to “create as much as possible”. Aiming for quantity might give you pause to think that quality would take a hit. You needn’t worry. | 1:21:44 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Chap |
Social Bob
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The Show Must Go | Lo Recordings | 2015 | A chord progression that just makes my heart weep. Remember a few weeks ago when I told you my new jam was dissonnant choral vocals over chuggy/shoegaze guitars. FOUND ANOTHER ONE. Also remember when I talked about the Chaps being one of the greats that got away? That's why I'm playing this again, because this song is fucking TRANSCENDENTAL AF. Bzzz Baaah the bees are waking up from their sleep. The Chap are an English experimental pop band from North London. Their music is a mix of electronica, rock, Krautrock and pop. Their last release was 2023's Burger Sauce. | 1:23:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Alan Moorhouse |
Music To Drive By
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The Oscar Brandenburg Orchestra Volume 2 |
Radio Program Music |
1971 |
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| Wet Man |
My Dog's A Nightmare
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Single | Wet Man | 2025 | The song is inspired by the sounds of dogs in the Kelham Island community. "Wet Man" is the stage name of Jack Clayton, a Sheffield-based artist, who is a songwriter and performer. He draws inspiration from various genres like punk, garage rock, disco, and 60s pop, but presents his music in an electronic format. Formed during the pandemic ...Jacques says of his origins "Frankly, I was down and didn’t really care what I got. A girl who I loved very dearly had broken up with me prior to this lockdown, and I was being pathetic and feeling sorry for myself. I remember a tiff in which I was called “Wet Man”, a term I had used for indie rock musicians in the 2000s (*excluding the Sheffield band obviously) for lacking depth and character. I was upset by said comment. After all, I am half working-class (at least I tell myself this), but I probably deserved it. To cure my woes, I would entertain myself by trying to recreate late 1960s garage and psychedelic rock using synthesisers, much like the Nuggets compilations but shit.....I always wanted an alter-ego-type act. I was an avid reader of my uncle’s Marvel Comics collection growing up (specifically The Amazing Spider-Man 1-522). Radioactive superpowers don’t necessarily exist, but I needed something, and my demo-like songs weren’t gonna cut it in the big clubs." | * | 1:35:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Mike Chick |
Call Up the Doctor
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"I Don't Write Love Songs" | Mint400Records | 2022 | “I Don’t Write Love Songs” is a compilation of singles Mike Chick has released over the last few years, plus his “More Sh*t To End Up In A Landfill'' acoustic EP. The LP also includes two unreleased songs; “The Sea is Free” and “Share of Moves”, which is definitely about love. The sound of the LP varies throughout, from alternative punk to quiet acoustic numbers and motorik inspired electro pop. There is a song for most people on this LP. Mike Chick is a guy from New Jersey who also sings and plays baritone guitar for the band Yawn Mower | 1:38:46 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Re-Flex |
Mechanical Music
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Movement Of The Action Fraction | Jambo | 2010 | Re-Flex were an English new wave band formed in Birmingham in 1981. They are most notable for their hit "The Politics of Dancing", the title track from their debut studio album released in 1983. The band stopped actively working together in 1985, but occasionally collaborated on individual members' solo projects in the years following. In mid-September 2010, Re-Flex released a six CD box set put together by Paul Fishman, in conjunction with Roland Vaughn Kerridge, entitled Re-Fuse. The set included a remastered version of The Politics of Dancing and five CDs of other previously unreleased material (including the Humanication and Jamming the Broadcast albums in their entirety) which pre- and post-dates Politics. This song is among them and it's...very very good! | 1:42:03 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Annie-Claude Deschênes |
LES MANIÈRES DE TABLE
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LES MANIÈRES DE TABLE | Bonsound | 2024 | Inspired by the pioneers of electronic music, LES MANIÈRES DE TABLE is as danceable and melodic as it is disquieting and dystopian. The album proposes to set the table differently by deconstructing the social codes of politeness, and draws from a wide range of influences, notably Steve Reich’s minimalism, Kraftwerk’s synthetic textures, Herbie Hancock’s stylistic diversity and experimental cinema’s unconventional approach to narrative. | 1:47:29 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Vets |
Electric Games
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Could Have Been:The Rise and Fall of the Vets 1979-83 | Deckchair Records | 2006 | Formed in 1978 initially playing mainly punk rock covers (nearly all sex pistols). Soon graduated into writing and performing own material. After acquiring a home made synth in1979 the bands music changed sonically becoming more synthesizer based. John Peel championed the band playing their first single ‘flies / contrix’ on radio 1 in late 1979. This was followed up by second single ‘world in action’ in June 1980. John Peel played this single to death over the next couple of months, even coming up to Hornsea to play a gig with the band. The band continued to play locally for the next couple of years and were chosen in 1983 to perform on BBC television programme ‘Bubbling under’ focusing on unsigned bands. The band split in 1984 and the various members went on to play with other notable groups / singers including ‘Everything but the girl’, ‘Felt’, ‘Denim’, Nik Heywood, Orange Juice, and the Monochrome set. | 1:48:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Alan Hackshaw, Brian Bennet |
Mermaid
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KPM1000 Series: Synthesis |
KPM Music Ltd. |
1974 |
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| The Serfs |
Bodies In Water
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Single | Future Shock Recordins | 2025 | The Serfs are a deliberately nebulous and incidentally industrialist gang of dance-floor hymners - perturbed and tranced-out troubadours whose sound and musical ideology seems to be a causal manifestation of their immediate environments. Like their Ohio predecessors, The Serfs seem askew from the art that surrounds them, and proud of it. This new single hints at a different, more gentle direction but again...who knows where Serfs goes? | * | 1:57:11 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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DJ Babs:
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DJ Babs:
Tom in Brooklyn:
Mr Fab:
Scott_Oz:
It's Bad Friday already here, so begins my beer & red meat fest!
HAIL SATAN!!
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ultradamno:
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$1 for the digital preorder on AOK, by the way artificialgo.bandcamp.com...
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Feldy:
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ultradamno:
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Derek Westerholm:
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prof.fuzz:
prof-fuzz63.bandcamp.com... pre-order is live now. LPs should be on hand and ship by the end of may.
Derek Westerholm:
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ultradamno:
DJ Blush:
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Kristine:
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shellioh:
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Kristine:
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ultradamno:
Kristine:
DJ Babs:
Kristine:
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prof.fuzz:
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Kristine:
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ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
prof.fuzz:
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Derek Westerholm:
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Derek Westerholm:
DJ Blush:
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Kristine:
DJ Blush:
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prof.fuzz:
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prof.fuzz:
the world would be a helluva lot better place.
ultradamno:
DJ Blush:
Here are a few more:
The Manly Men
Dick Magnet
Bixsexual Bridal Shower
Cold Piss
ultradamno:
Scott_Oz:
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DJ Babs:
prof.fuzz:
psychotic erection
LED: Light Emitting Dildo
heavypettingzookeepers
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ultradamno:
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ultradamno:
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DJ Babs:
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Scott_Oz:
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DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
prof.fuzz:
i was hanging out with john and andy (bass player) at the bug club show a couple of weeks back ... john has been a dallas fixture for a long time.
ultradamno:
Scott_Oz:
DJ Babs:
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Kristine:
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ultradamno:
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Bob Barth:
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Scott_Oz:
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DJ Blush:
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Scott_Oz:
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ultradamno:
Derek Westerholm:
Scott_Oz:
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ultradamno:
Scott_Oz:
DJ Babs:
prof.fuzz:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
And yes please do stop by my birthday party next week it will be a doozy!!!!
Scott_Oz:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
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