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Music of all kinds that hits me in the pit of my stomach, all arranged to find your sweet spot, too. Plus radio shows from the 1940s & 1950s: dramas, mysteries, sci-fi, detectives, and more.
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August 25, 2008: Show 201, with a live set from The Lost Patrol
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Show time: 12 AM - 3 AM
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Set 1: a classical warm up. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Sequentia |
Favus distillans (track 2)
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Hildegard Von Bingen: Voice Of The Blood | Harmonia Mundi | It's about the "complete fulfillment of all higher senses and desires." I heard some music of Perotin recently at the Lincoln Center Out Of Doors festival, and that made me think of this music. One of the leading intellectuals of her age, she also believed music to be the highest form of human activity. Sounds good to me. | *** | |||||
| Klaus Nomi |
The Cold Song (track 3)
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Eclipsed: The Best Of Klaus Nomi | Razor & Tie | This is Nomi's interpretation of the song from Purcell's 1691 semi-opera King Arthur. It's a song of misery and resentment at being brought back to life, and a longing to be dead - again. Makes me think of The Golem. This is my favorite piece of music by Klaus Nomi. | *** | |||||
| Virgil Fox |
Fugue A La Gigue (track 2)
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Bach Live At Winterland: More Heavy Organ | MCA | Happy music, from the person I believe to be by far the greatest classical organist of the 20th century. Virgil's tirade at the end about the rigidity and stuffiness of the (musical) establishment is still dead-on. | *** | |||||
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Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 2: the live set from The Lost Patrol, engineered by Dave Amels. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| The Lost Patrol |
On The Run
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On their upcoming CD | Their new CD should be out in October, and will probably be called Midnight Matinee.You can check their website here. | |||||||
| The Lost Patrol |
Homecoming
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On their upcoming CD | Their new CD should be out in October, and will probably be called Midnight Matinee. | |||||||
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Orbit
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Launch And Landing | ||||||||
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Sirens
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Launch And Landing | ||||||||
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Neon Red
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Lonesome Sky | ||||||||
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Serenade
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On their upcoming CD | Their new CD should be out in October, and will probably be called Midnight Matinee. | |||||||
| The Lost Patrol |
Jukebox On The Moon
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Scattered, Smothered & Covered / their upcoming CD | They've done a new version that will be on their upcoming CD. Just a really nice way to end a set from some really nice people. Special stuff. | *** | ||||||
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Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 3: the old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Sam Spade |
The S.Q.P. Caper
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Originally broadcast November 7, 1948 | (no label) |
A couple check into a hotel, but they aren't married, and the real wife doesn't like it -- only the real wife isn't the real wife at all, the stiff on the floor may not be dead, and the photographic evidence turns out to be dental x-rays - of the killer. Lots of fun. Howard Duff stars as Spade, and Lureen Tuttle as Effie.
A semi-coherent plot to be sure, but this is one of the key reasons this series was / is so beloved. The Adventures Of Sam Spade, Detective (the official title) was on the air from 1946 - 1951, and many episodes survive. The series remains the greatest detective series ever on old-time radio. We'll be hearing another episode very soon. Just 13 weeks after the series began, "...Duff had become Spade, overcoming two intimidating handicaps -- the image of Bogart and the power of the novel. Compared to Bogart's dour and straitlaced Spade, Duff's was a cutup: a hard-knuckled master of street-level whimsy and sarcastic comeback. His sense of burlesque was superb. The Adventures Of Sam Spade was its own entity, owing little to the forces that had created it." (Dunning's The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio). |
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Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 4: the psych rock portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Scenic |
A Journey Through The Outer Reaches Of Inner Space (track 9)
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The Acid Gospel Experience | Hidden Agenda | Long, low key and meditative psych. | ||||||
| Vapaa |
Varjoista (track 2)
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Hum Hum Hum | Last Visible Dog | Resonant, slightly acidy but still calm, evolves into psych rock, bit tormented towards the quiet end. | ||||||
| Up-Tight |
Song For Lucrezia II (track 5: faded out by -3:35)
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Lucrezia | Alchemy |
Anticipatory but still intense start, calms down for vocals each time, superb from -6:30 to my fade out. |
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| Farflung |
Unborn Planet (track 1)
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A Wound In Eternity | Meteor City | Heavy-ish psych rock. | *** | |||||
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Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 5: dark & rhythmic with Plastikman. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Plastikman |
In Side (track 9)
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Consumed | Novamute | Darkly rhythmic all the way. Starts and ends very quietly. | ||||||
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End of show mic break. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Listener comments!
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Mike:
Andrew, your DJ:
Ike:
Since the whole playlist is posted in advance, you must plan out the whole show ahead of time, I guess. I like all the details. Strange that the comment box doesn't get the "live" frames treatment though. Thus, no auto-refresh.