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A comprehensive exploration of contemporary experimental, psychedelic, noise & other obscure music. Hosted by Andy Ortmann (curator of the Nihilist Records label and member of longtime noise project Panicsville) presenting his obsessive perspective on the new difficult music. Peripheral and relating genres, including ethereal, electronic & extreme metal should also be expected in this weekly program. Sit back and relax into the hallucination amplification of The Eternal Now.

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East Orange, NJ

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A comprehensive exploration of contemporary experimental, psychedelic, noise & other obscure music. Hosted by Andy Ortmann (curator of the Nihilist Records label and member of longtime noise project Panicsville) presenting his obsessive perspective on the new difficult music. Peripheral and relating genres, including ethereal, electronic & extreme metal should also be expected in this weekly program. Sit back and relax into the hallucination amplification of The Eternal Now.

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@WFMU

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English

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WFMU P.O. Box 2011 Jersey City, NJ 07303-2011 201-200-9368


Episodes

By Foot Or By Cow, I Don't Care How from Mar 22, 2024

3/23/2024
Omar El Shariyi - "Abgad Hawaz" - Oriental Music Ka Baird - "Gate VI" - Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos Maria Teriaeva - "The Jungle In June" - Conservatory of Flowers Phill Niblock - "Bells & Timps" - Sound Collages Mauricio Kagel - "Zweiter Teil (excerpt)" - Acustica Lelo Nazario - "Discurso aos objetos" - Discurso Aos Objetos irr. app. (ext.) / Nurse With Wound - "Whatever You Feel Like" - A Topography of Lucid Confusion The Exorzist III - "Jabber (excerpt)" - Gospel Jamming Vol. 1 Chad M. Clark / Weasel Walter - "Things in the Basement" - Incantation Sublimation WDCD Radio - "Beggar's Myth (excerpt)" - Error Trove Psychic TV - "Caresse Song" - Allegory & Self Bernard Bonnier - "Casse Tête (Extraits)" - Portrait Musical Mark Shreeve - "Storm Column" - Legion https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138176

Duration:01:08:19

Santamental Journey from Dec 18, 2023

12/18/2023
Douglas Leedy - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" - A Very Merry Electric Christmas To You! Bruno Nicolai - "Drug Party" - Marquis De Sade's Jean Mahtab - "Un Mauvais Champignon" - Un Mauvais Champignon Francois Bayle - "Les Couleurs de la Nuit - Plus Anime" - Les Couleurs De La Nuit Vaclav Nelhybel - "Cosmic Breath" - Electronic Music - Outer Space Lemon Kittens - "What The Cat Brought In" - Terra Serpentes various Don Gere - "Main Theme" - Werewolves On Wheels (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Walls Of Genius - "Eascpae of the Madman" - Electronic Cottage Compilation 004 various Lieutenant Caramel - "Hommage" - Les Bonnes Archive Du Dimanche Tara Cross - "Like I Am" - 1982-89 Neuronium - "Fullness" - Invisible Views John R. Pierce - "Eight-Tone Canon (1966)" - Voice Of The Computer: New Musical Horizons various Joseph Byrd - "Deck the Halls / Silent Night" - A Christmas Yet To Come https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/135034

Duration:00:58:10

You Are How High from Nov 12, 2023

11/14/2023
Daniel Johnston - "What The World Needs Now Is Love" - Mondostereo v/a Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata (T.A.C.) - "Parabole" - Senza Titolo Ennio Morricone - "Theme" - The Thing Eric Peters - "Occult" - The Last House On Dead End Street Jean Schwarz - "Gamma Plus (excerpt)" - Suite N Richard Hayman - "The Peanut Vendor" - Electronic Latin Love Machine Dan Slepian - "Glimmerings" - Computer Don't Break Down H. Tical - "Metastasis" - Impact Synthesized Sound & Music Magnus Lindberg - "Ur (excerpt)" - Ur New Electronic System - "Yoyo-Itou" - New Electronic System Guy Reibel - "Granulations 2" - Granulations-Sillages John Carpenter - "Theme" - Assault On Precinct 13 (The Original Motion Picture Score) https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/133840

Duration:00:59:12

Rhythm of The Night Life Preserver from Nov 3, 2023

11/4/2023
Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra - "Remax" - Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra Quicksails - "Final Walk" - Surface Ka Baird - "Migration" - Sapropelic Pycnic Zoviet France - "Mute Moon" - Just An Illusion PGR - "The Powerful Present" - Silence Rudolf Eb.er - "Side 1 excerpt" - Hexenmilch Tibetan Red / The Oval Language / Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - "Breath of the Hydra (excerpt)" - Breath of the Hydra bc gilbert & g lewis - "3.4 (excerpt)" - 3R4 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/133567

Duration:00:53:49

Ghouly Gravy from Oct 18, 2023

10/18/2023
Gary Fry - "Side 1 excerpt" - Scary Sound FX Harry Manfredini - "Friday the 13th part 3 Theme" - Friday the 13th Part 3 (3D) Soundtrack No artist - "A Nightmare On Elm Street" - Horror World Simon Boswell - "Maggots" - Creepers aka Phenomena soundtrack Nic Raecevic - "Demons of Rage" - Sixth Ear Thurl Ravenscroft - "Children's Day at the Morgue" - A Jazzy Halloween John Zacherle "The Cool Ghoul" - "Dinner with Drac" - Dinner With Drac The Ghouls - "That's What Ghouls & Vampires Are Made Of" - Cool Ghoul's Halloween Party Mix Carl Zittrer - "Let Them Rise" - Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things soundtrack George Todd - "Satan's Sermon II" - Satan's Sermon And Other Electronic Fantasies V/A Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante - "Waiting Death" - Tenebre (sndtk) https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/133010

Duration:01:05:09

Stopped, Dropped & Rolled from Sep 19, 2023

9/19/2023
Nurse With Wound - "Fine Writin'" - Ød Lot Donald Erb - "Kyrie" - Metamorphosis V/A Alistair Macdonald - "Kilim" - Prix Internatinal Noroit-Leonce Petitot 1993 V/A Doris Hays - "Southern Voices (excerpt)" - Voicings for Tape/ Soprano/ Piano Un Drame Musical Instantané - "Tunnel Sous La Manche - Under The Channel" - In Fractured Silence V/A Merzbow - "Uluk Constitution / This Dying Toad Become Forthwith Like Coal For Colour Black" - 抜刀隊 With Memorial Gadgets [Oops... forgot to mention this track.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/132045

Duration:00:59:57

R.I.P. Sakevi from Sep 1, 2023

9/1/2023
G.I.S.M. - "Endless Blockads For The Pussyfooter / (Tere Their) Syphilitic Vaginas To Pieces" [Originally released in 1983] Evil Moisture - "Untitled Side 1 excerpt" - Acid Bath Seeselberg - "Speedy Achmed (Verhaltensanweisung 1973)" - Synthetik 1 PBK / Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - "Zeh (excerpt)" - Ziz Diamanda Galás - "Mutilatus (excerpt)" - Broken Gargoyles Hermann Nitsch - "Disc 2 excerpt" - Requiem Für Meine Frau Beate [Originaly released as a 3LP box in 1977.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/131424

Duration:00:58:16

And now for some AVANT GARDE from Aug 25, 2023

8/25/2023
Mort Garson - "Zoos Of The World" - Journey To The Moon And Beyond Luc Ferrari - "Presque Rien No. 1 (excerpt)" - Presque Rien Mauricio Kagel - "Phantasie fur Orgel mit Obbligati (excerpt)" - Kagel - Ligeti - Zacher Roland Kayn - "Cybernetics III (excerpt)" - split w. Luigi Nono Gottfried Michael Koenig - "Funktion Grun" - Koenig - Pongracz - Riehn Gottfried Michael Koenig - "Funktion Grun" - Koenig - Pongracz - Riehn Rainer Riehn - "Cahnts de Maldoror (excerpt)" - Koenig - Pongracz - Riehn Rainer Riehn - "Cahnts de Maldoror (excerpt)" - Koenig - Pongracz - Riehn Rainer Riehn - "Cahnts de Maldoror (excerpt)" - Koenig - Pongracz - Riehn https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/131176

Duration:01:19:32

The 300th Episode (looks like we made it...) from Jul 21, 2023

7/21/2023
Faxed Head - "The Four Freshmen" - b/w Heavy Metal Cookie Cutter Dome - "Here We Go" - Dome I Fear Of Thought - "Helen Lane" - Born Out Of Dreams v/a Steeple Snakes - "Lata Mangeshakar Says She Regrets Nothing!" - Milk Of Dried Mountain Goats Evil Moisture - "Volk Sac / Rear Head Gnash Hole" - Hostess Double Breasted Windpipe Sissy Spacek - "Drug Ducks" - Sissy Space Camp Zoltán Pongrácz - "Mariphonia (1972)" - Hungarian Electronic Music v/a Master Wilburn Burchette - "A Psychic Journey of Transformation (Part 1)" - Transcendental Music for Meditation [Originally released in 1976.] Thomas Brinkmann - "Untitled 1" - Studio 1 - Variationen Pan Sonic - "Moottori" - Kulma Factrix Cazzaza - "Prescient Dreams" - b/w Zanoni https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/129938

Duration:01:13:58

R.I.P. Ralph & Monte from Jul 6, 2023

7/6/2023
Bart Alberti, M.D. - "Psychiatric Review" - The Worst Of Monte Cazazza Monte Cazazza - "Kick That Habit Man" - The Worst Of Monte Cazazza Ka Baird & Pekka Airaksinen - "Syzygy (For Pekka)" - Hungry Shells Jon Hassell - "Hex" - Vernal Equinox Merzbow & Christoph Heemann - "Mandala (excerpt)" - Sleeper Awakes On The Edge Of The Abyss Richard Lerman - "Promenade Version: Travelon Gamelon (Music For Bicycles)" - Travelon Gamelon (Music for Bicycles) Nurse With Wound - "Orgasm (excerpt)" - Orgasm Mix Ralph Lundsten & Leo Nilson - "Kalejdoskop" - Elektronmusikstudion Dokumentation 1 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/129429

Duration:01:00:15

The Way Eye Feel from Jun 30, 2023

6/30/2023
Leonard Nimoy - "Where It's At" - The Way I Feel Storm Bugs - "Make Customers Matter" - Gift PGR / Thessalonians - "Absolute Equinox" - Altered States of Consciousness V/A Robert Ashley & Paul DeMarinis - "In Sara, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Men And Women (Excerpt)" - In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women International Harvester - "Dies Irae / The Runcorn Report on Western Progress" - Sov Gott Rose-Marie Pearls Before Swine - "Translucent Carriages" - Balakava Calcium - "Psykopathologie De La Vie Mitoyenne" - Calcium Dieter Kaufmann - "Scherzo" - Symphonie Acousmatique Cock E.S.P. - "Side 1" - Avant-Garde Disgrace https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/129214

Duration:00:54:19

R.I.P. Teresa Taylor Nervosa from Jun 22, 2023

6/22/2023
Butthole Surfers - "100 Million People Dead" - Peace - War v/a John Wiggins - "Concrete-Combine excerpt" - Everything All At Once [*Not the same label as the above R.R.R.] John Cage / David Tudor - "Indeterminancy pt.3 excerpt" - Indeterminacy Makoto Moroi - "Shōsanke" - Electronic Panorama: Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, Warszawa v/a Arne Nordheim - "Solitaire" - Electronic Panorama: Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, Warszawa v/a Desmond Briscoe / Brian Gascoigne - "Phase IV" - Phase IV soundtrack v/a https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/128967

Duration:00:48:38

Melodious Memorial Day Massacre from May 29, 2023

5/29/2023
Advisory Circle - "Triadex Two Five Nine" - From Out Here Dome - "Here We Go" - Dome Wobbly - "Absolutely (w. 0th)" - Additional Kids Christine Groult - "Canal Instante (excerpt)" - Etincelles Tom Hamilton / Rich O'Donnell / J.D. Parran - "Formal & Informal Music (excerpt)" - Formal & Informal Music Aminadav Aloni - "The Awakening" - Once soundtrack Psychic TV - "Magick Defends Itself" - Magick Defends Itself Jan Steele & John Cage - "The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs" - Voices & Instruments Dissecting Table - "I Get My Slogun" - Ultimate Psychological Desciption II https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/128151

Duration:00:52:41

Steel Spikes of Kindness from May 18, 2023

5/19/2023
Ut - "Evangelist" - In Gut's House Wolf Eyes - "Days Decay" - Dreams In Splattered Lines Vacant Grave - "Eternal Nightmare" - Eternal Nightmare Kreator - "Choir of the Damned/Ripping Corpse" - Pleasure To Kill Die Kreuzen - "Dirt + Decay" - s/t Raw Power - "Raw Power" - You Are The Victim Cryptic Slaughter - "Rage To Kill" - Convicted Corrosion Of Conformity - "Prayer" - Animosity Butthole Surfers - "Sweat Loaf (live)" - Maung Coil - "Wrong Eye" - b/w Scope John Giorno / Eugenio Giordani - "Pornographic Poem / Voicing (excerpted)" - Rasberry / Insound 1 Electronic / Computer Music V/A Laddio Bolocko - "Goat Lips" - '97-99' https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/127807

Duration:01:00:20

Funk, Punk & Junk from May 11, 2023

5/12/2023
Os Mutantes - "Panis et Circences (English)" - Tecnicolor Ramleh - "Pitbull" - Blowhole Azalia Snail - "Keep Me Warmer" - Burnt Sienna Coil - "I Don't Want To Be The One" - Astral Disaster Václav Kučera - "The Labyrinth" - From Czech Electronic Music Studios V/A German Shepherds - "Communist Control" - Music For Sick Queers Danielle Dax - "Timber Tongue" - Timber Tongue https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/127581

Duration:00:49:18

Life Affirmation Session from May 4, 2023

5/4/2023
The Sound Of Feeling - "Along Came Sam" - Spleen Annea Lockwood - "For Ruth" - ‘Tête-à-tête’ Current 93 - "The Blue Gates Of Death" - The Portable Altamont v/a Spires That in the Sunset Rise - "Rattlesnake" - S/T Nurse With Wound - "Ostranenie (excerpt)" - Ostranenie 1913 Malcolm Clark - "The Sea Devils" - The Music of Doctor Who Rancid Hell Spawn - "Surgery Games" - Gas Mask Love Mort Garson - "I Know You Taurus" - Taurus Francisco Lopez + Nicolas Bernier - "Fiction 1 (excerpt)" - Fictioin Dual Action - "Body Automatic" - Auto Body https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/127355

Duration:01:01:58

Crust in the Wind from Apr 27, 2023

4/27/2023
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - "Making Love To A Vampire On My Knee" - Doc at the Radar Station Anestis Logothetis - "Fantasmata 1960 (excerpt)" - Electroacoustic Works 1960-1980 DDAA (Déficit Des Années Antérieures) - "The Riddle's Standards" - Les Ambulants Doc Wör Mirran - "untitled" - Severe Pig Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - "Talk 1" - Daytime Viewing Gerogerigegege ゲロゲリゲゲゲ - "Final Tuning" - Moenai hai 燃えない灰 Kazumoto Endo - "Side B" - Evergreen Brigette & the Hansen Experience - "Illegales Kindergarten (excerpt)" - Frau Hansen Am Bass Xmal Deutschland - "Qual" - Qual Ray Buttigieg - "Phase 2 excerpt" - Compucircuit 0.008 m/s https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/127125

Duration:00:58:32

Sock of the Blocks from Apr 6, 2023

4/7/2023
Body Falling Downstairs - "The Politics of Ecstasy" - Seattle Syndrome Vol. 1 MV Carbon - "The Sun Will Turn On You" - The Sun Will Turn On You Godflesh - "Nero" - Nero Happy Flowers - "Get Me Off the Broiler Pan" - I Crush Bozo BC Gilbert - "Net in the Feather" - This Way Top The Shivering Man Remko Scha - "Katadeedo Daynatadoh" - Tellus, The Audio Cassette Magazine #22 - False Phonemes Ryuichi Sakamoto - "Thousand Knives" - Thousand Knives Of Ryuichi Sakamoto Ronald Perera - "Alternate Routes" - International Electronics V/A Kommissar Hjuler und Frau + Renee Baker - "Side 2 excerpt" - Concert of the NO!art performance at the Church of the noddy abgeschnitten Titten Sweet Karawane Zoviet France - "Norsch Vorvah" - Norsch https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/126450

Duration:01:03:33

Episode from Mar 24, 2023

3/25/2023
Raglani - "Length of Rodeo" - No Album, Single Only! Füxa - "Second Abductions" - Accretions Twig Harper - "Tr.2 excerpt" - Music for Higher Consciousness Michael Prime - "Insect Wavelengths" - Fructification 23 Skidoo - "Invocation" - Culling is Coming PGR - "Silence (excerpt)" - Silence Soldier/Lair - "Thung Kwian Sunrise" - Thai Elephant Orchestra Ragnar Grippe - "Ten Temperaments (excerpt)" - Ten Temperaments [Recorded in 1981-82] MrDougDoug - "I am Sitting in a Cloud (excerpt)" - I am Sitting in a Cloud Polyphonic Size - "Action Man" - Live for Each Moment [They are Belgian, not French!] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/126015

Duration:01:09:54

More Uncompromising Entertainment from Mar 16, 2023

3/17/2023
Robert Gittings / Helsington Primary School - "Intro / Don't Drink and Drive" - Classroom Projects - Incredible Music Made By Children In Schools Occasional Detroit - "Purple Saliva" - (O-D) The Best In The Abstrkt Ent. Philip Perkins - "At Home and Away" - Drive Time Beatriz Ferreyra - "Petit Poucet Magazine" - Beatriz Ferreyra Larry Wendt - "Next Door" - Recordings 1975-1979 Istvan Szigeti - "Souvenir De K" - Elektroakuszikus Muvek Masonna - "Track 1 untitled" - Evil Black Disc Velly Joonas - "Stopp, Seisku Aeg" - Stopp, Seisku Aeg! 7" Kangaroo Kourt - "Side 2 excerpt" - Atmospheric Distortion Butthole Surfers - "100 Million People Dead" - Ecstasy Marcia Bassett - "Curl In Backwards" - Undulating Akrasboning https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/125738

Duration:01:01:35