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May 2008
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"THE DEATH OF LITTLE KATHY FISCUS" by Howard Vokes MP3	In 1949, three-year-old Kathy Fiscus fell into an abandoned well in San Marino, California. Kathy had been playing in an open field with friends when she disappeared underground after falling into the 14" opening of the uncapped well. For 27 hours, Los Angeles TV station KTLA pre-empted its regularly-scheduled programming to broadcast live news coverage of the event to its viewers. Media historians generally agree that KTLA's coverage of the event set the standard for the kind of live on-the-scene reporting that we still see today. Unfortunately, the broadcast didn't have a happy ending; Kathy was already dead by the time she was pulled up from the well. Testifying to the widespread interest in the event, within weeks Kentucky singer Jimmie Osborne had recorded "The Death Of Little Kathy Fiscus" for the King label, which became a Top 10 hit. In 1964, Starday released the Howard Vokes version of the song, which can be heard here.
""...JUST BECAUSE"" by Phi Mu Washboard Band	The Phi Mu Washboard Band were an intrepid band of sorority sisters from the south who got together as undergrads at a school in Georgia (probably Athens) and applied their talents to a series of pop hits of the day (roughly the early 60s). Many of the songs are quite brief - some under one minute - and the entire album, which is a 12-incher, is over in barely 24 minutes. The titles appear here just as they appear on the jacket and the label, even though at least a few of them are incorrect (for example, track 14, listed as "I Can Smile" is actually a 1960 pop hit called "Happy-Go-Lucky Me", originally sung by Paul Evans). The overall effect of the album is charming, as the instrumental accompaniment includes such "instruments" as spoons, comb, bucket, and, of course, washboard.
	"JUST BECAUSE" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"LOVE HURTS" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"SIDE BY SIDE" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"SEVEN DAFFODILS" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"WHALE OF A TALE" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"SAINTS" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"CHILLY WINDS" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"MAMMA DON'T ALLOW" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"THIS LAND" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"TAKE ME BACK" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"WANDERER" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"CHINATOWN" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"I CAN SMILE" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"TODAY" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
	"PHI MU SUWANNEE" by Phi Mu Washboard Band MP3
"HANNOVER INTERRUPTION: SIDE A" by Merzbow MP3	Masami Akita (a.k.a. Merzbow) is one of the innovators of noise-as-music, with an incredible range of stylistic applications in his repertoire. He also shames most creative artists in terms of sheer productivity. The amount of Merzbow/Masami Akita solo releases and collaborations on LP, 7" vinyl, cassette tape, and CD is absolutely staggering, approximately 400 since 1980; that's an average of 14 releases per year. The thing about his catalog, at least from a fan's perspective, is that so much of it is really very good, the constant experimentation and variation of his approach bearing proof of an extremely bountiful creative spirit. This LP from 1992, apparently titled "Hannover Interruption" (although no such information appears anywhere on the package, not in English characters anyway) was a joint release of Dom Elchklang and the short-lived Dragnet Records label. This album finds Merzbow in full-on, harsh-noise mode, at least at first listen. The more one becomes acclimated to the sound, the more layers of activity emerge: electric groans and roars, bird-call-like feedback, Moog sirens, percussive analog static, thousands of pots and pans falling down a hill, even the occasional vocal. It's this artful layering of sound (among other things) that separates Merzbow from someone that just turns on a noise generator and walks away. These recordings are not included in the massive 50-CD "Merzbox" (Extreme, 2000) although the set does include a disc called "Hannover Cloud" dated 1990. Here is the first side of the LP.
"HANNOVER INTERRUPTION: SIDE B" by Merzbow MP3	The second side of Merzbow's 1992 LP.
"FAKE BEATLES: THE KAISERS" by The Kaisers	Of all the Fake Beatles to come down the pike in recent years, one of the most remarkable was the Kaisers. From 1993 to 2002, this Edinburgh quartet released five studio LPs and one live LP of the purest beat-group sounds this side of Hamburg's Star-Club. Clad in skintight trousers and sporting mile-high quiffs, they were essentially the Fab Four before that group started combing their hair over their foreheads in emulation of German art students. The band applied its verisimilitude to the 1962-63 aesthetic not just to appearance but to song selection -- a mixture of note-perfect originals and the prevailing R&B cover tunes (recorded in glorious mono) that were in the repertoire of every beat combo of the era. A Kaisers bouquet of MP3s follows below.
	"HIPSHAKE SHIMMY KITTEN" by The Kaisers MP3	An uptempo shaker from the Kaisers' debut LP, "Squarehead Stomp."
	"LIKE I DO" by The Kaisers MP3	A tender ballad from the Kaisers' third LP, "Beat It Up!"
	"TIME TO GO" by The Kaisers MP3	A harmonica-propelled rocker from the Kaisers' fourth LP, "Wishing Street."
	"NO OTHER GUY" by The Kaisers MP3	Reminiscent of that Beat standard "Some Other Guy," this track comes from the Kaisers' fifth album, "Shake Me!"
	"WHAT YOU GONNA SAY" by The Kaisers MP3	Single version!
	"SHAKE AND SCREAM" by The Kaisers MP3	This live version of the Kenny Lynch tune is Fake Beatles twice removed.
	"CRY FOR A SHADOW" by The Kaisers MP3	This single B-side is technically not Fake Beatles as it is actually a real Beatles song, but since it's an imitation itself (the Beatles doing Fake Shadows), it qualifies!
"TRUMPET LOVE, PART TWO" by Various Artists	More of the best of avant trumpet. (See the April 2008 "On the Download" for Part One.)
	"CLEAR WATER" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Toshinori Kondo, who may be best known for his work with the Die Like a Dog quartet featuring Peter Brotzmann, Hamid Drake, and William Parker. Kondo is known for electrifying and treating his trumpet sounds with heavy delay, reverb, and other effects reminiscent of Miles' electric experiments of the early '70s. This tendency is clearly in evidence on his recent album for Belgium's Off Records, "Silent Melodies." The songs slowly build in ethereal atmosphere with a minimal and otherworldly vibe. While some solo trumpet albums tend to seem like recorded practice sessions, Kondo's plays like an album in the classic sense. Here's a sample.
	"BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Tom Dijl from his album "Bellerophone." "Bellerophone" sees Djll working with untreated trumpet and offering a clinic on what the instrument can do in the right hands, from staccato bursts to moans and groans to soft spatial passages. His version of "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," although not totally indicative of what the rest of the album is like, pegs Djll as the latest in a line of trumpeters that starts with Bubber Miley and Cootie Williams and includes the Art Ensemble's Lester Bowie.
	"UNTITLED TRACK" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Ruth Barberán. The Creative Sources label out of Lisbon has been quietly and meticulously documenting the new breed of improvisers. Barcelona-based Ruth Barberán's take on the trumpet is abstract, to say the least, and involves the slow development of small gutteral textures, utilizing spittle, mutes, and the trumpet's brass tubes to create sounds one would think not possible. It's a quiet type of fanfare, all scraping and buzzing, manipulating the edges of silence. This untitled track comes from the album "Capacidad de Pérdida."
	"THE BOXER" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Nate Wooley. Jersey City's own Nate Wooley is active in a variety of jazz and beyond-jazz settings both group and solo. He's good at plugging silent spaces and then erecting new ones. In fact, it's almost as if instead of filling silence with sound like most musicians, he seems to be doing just the opposite, as if his trumpet's been sounding for all eternity. A few years back, Wooley released a 3" CD called "The Boxer." It's a twenty-minute drone piece of stark beauty, excerpted here, apparently created from processed trumpet sounds, though not really sounding like much of a trumpet at all.
"COUNTRY TANGOS AND HILLBILLY RHUMBAS" by Various Artists	In April 2008, "On the Download" featured the bizarre but enjoyable world of the country mambo. Here are two more microscopically small sub-genres of the Nashville recording industry: the country tango and rhumba scenes. If you think the intersection of country music and Latin dance crazes represents an unlikely collision of cultures, you are probably right! And yet, here are a bunch of examples of that collision in action.
	"TENNESSEE TANGO" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Pee Wee King.
	"TENNESSEE TANGO" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the York Brothers.
	"TEXAS TANGO" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Sheb Wooley.
	"I CAN'T TELL A WALTZ FROM A TANGO" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Pee Wee King.
	"TOO YOUNG TO TANGO" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Sunshine Ruby.
	"TOO OLD TO TANGO" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Ernest Tubb and Red Foley.
	"TENNESSEE TANGO" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Lucky Stars.
	"RHUMBA BOOGIE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Hank Snow.
	"HILLBILLY RHUMBA" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Mallie Ann and Slim.
	"THE TRAIN WITH THE RHUMBA BEAT" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Rusty Draper.
	"THE RHUMBA BOOGIE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Jimmie Rodgers.
"FINE GOSPEL RECORDS" by Various Artists	Back in the heyday of the independent label, one enterprise that hummed along slightly under the radar was Fine Records of Rochester, NY, which produced spirited releases over the course of 30 years beginning in the late 1940s. The label was owned and operated by Vincent Giancursio, a dance-band saxophonist who decided that if he couldn't hit the big time making music, maybe he'd record someone else who could. After World War II, Giancursio opened Fine Recording Studio. He started off cutting mostly custom recordings, but then began to release 45s on his own label, which he did up until his death at the age of 58 in 1977. During his three decades in the record business, Giancursio supported the music passionately, producing over 3,500 sessions single-handedly, most resulting in limited pressings of rarely more than a thousand copies. The sessions he engineered were wide ranging and eclectic, mostly one-offs by an assortment of jazz bands, garage rock combos, Elvis wannabes and even a few country & western acts. In addition, for a fertile stretch in the '60s and '70s, Fine Records captured on tape a string of electrifying performances of soulful gospel as good as any from the era. Here are some of the best.
	"MY WORK WILL BE DONE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Sons of David.
	"YOU OUGHT TO BEEN THERE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the B.C. Harmonizers.
	"PRECIOUS LORD" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Spiritual Jubilators.
	"CALLED UP TO MEET HIM" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Sensational Zion Seekers of Paterson, NJ.
	"JESUS DELIVERED DANIEL" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Mighty Sons.
	"I FEEL THE SPIRIT" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Inspirational Gospel Singers.
	"WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS?" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Gospel Tone Spiritual Singers.
	"EASE MY TROUBLIN' MIND" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Gospel Hi-Lites.
	"YOU BETTER GET READY" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Bible Aires Spiritual Singers.
	"GLAD NEWS" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Radio Gospel Kings.
	"SINNERS RUN TO JESUS" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Gospel Echoes.
	"I WANT TO KNOW" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Royal Harmonier Singers.
	"THE SAME THING IT TOOK" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Inspirational Gospel Singers.
	"SINNER MAN!" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Gospel Tone Spiritual Singers.
	"SERVANT OF THE LORD" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the J.J. & J. Modernaires.
	"TOO FAR TO TURN AROUND" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Gospel Hi-Lites.
	"NO GRAVES" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Spiritual Jubilators.
	"I CLAIM JESUS" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Gospel Echoes.
	"THERE'S A MAN TAKING NAMES" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Sons of David.
	"CERTAINLY, LORD!" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Bright Clouds.
	"STAND BY ME" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Mighty Sons.
	"WHERE COULD I GO BUT TO THE LORD" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Gospel Tone Spiritual Singers.
	"DRY BONES" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Radio Gospel Kings.
	"SOMEONE IS KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR!" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Bright Clouds.
	"I KNOW I'VE BEEN CONVERTED" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Sensational Zion Seekers of Paterson, NJ.
"MORE CUSTOMUSIC!" by Customusic	By popular demand, another installment of Customusic for your background audio needs. These selections come from the "Atmospheres" portion of the sampler and are meant for use in better restaurants and boutiques. This is pure supper music, a bit slower and more relaxing than the motivational entries from the April 2008 "On the Download." Lively song selection, too. There's a song about a lost love, another song about a lost love, and a song about a one-night stand. Perfect accompaniment for an era when people met for dinner before checking into the motel.
	"GIGI" by Customusic MP3
	"ONE NIGHT OF LOVE" by Customusic MP3
	"TIME WAS" by Customusic MP3
	"MISTY" by Customusic MP3
	"I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE" by Customusic MP3
	"IT'S OVER, IT'S OVER, IT'S OVER" by Customusic MP3
	"LOVE IS HERE TO STAY" by Customusic MP3
"CHRISTIAN SONG DEMOS" by Various Artists	On his web site Those Unbelievable Believers: The Blessed Sounds of Incredible Christian Song Demos, Doc (a.k.a. the Deuce of Clubs) presents a treasure trove of religious amateur recordings, from earnest country croonings to Eagles songs reinterpreted; from professors proclaiming their faith to kiddie Jesus raps; from absolutely hilarious ramblings to some completely insane ramblings. Below are some highlights courtesy the good doctor. None of the artists are known.
	"TREASURES IN HEAVEN" by Various Artists MP3
	"HOT SUMMER NIGHTS" by Various Artists MP3
	"THAT'S PECULIAR!" by Various Artists MP3
	"I AM A MAN; WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?" by Various Artists MP3
	"JESUS IS ABOUT TO "RAP" THIS UP" by Various Artists MP3
	"OH, LORD" by Various Artists MP3
	"O NIGHTINGALE" by Various Artists MP3
	"AWR GAWD IZZ AN AWRSUM GAWD" by Various Artists MP3
	"WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (OF GOD)" by Various Artists MP3
	"HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW" by Various Artists MP3
	"CHRIST IN ME IS TO LIVE" by Various Artists MP3
	"CHOCK FULL OF LOVE" by Various Artists MP3
	"SATAN, YOU LOST, LOST, LOST" by Various Artists MP3
	"SOUL SAVED TONIGHT" by Various Artists MP3
	"AMAZING GRACE" by Various Artists MP3
	"WE WANT TO FISH FOR MEN" by Various Artists MP3
	"GOD, GIVE THE DEVIL THE MEASLES" by Various Artists MP3
	"HOLY JERUSALEM" by Various Artists MP3
	"COME BACK, AMERICA!" by Various Artists MP3
	"THE SAFE SEX IS JUST A FANTASY RAP" by Various Artists MP3
	"WANT MORE OF A TANGY YANGY YANG" by Various Artists MP3
	"THANK YOU, GOD" by Various Artists MP3
"HURT" by Sad Kermit MP3	It's incredibly depressing being green: Sad Kermit covers Nine Inch Nails/Johnny Cash.
"CREEP" by Sad Kermit MP3	He's a creep. And he's green. More from Sad Kermit.
"HALLELUJAH" by Sad Kermit MP3	Sad Kermit tackles the Ubermeister of Misery, Leonard Cohen.
"RUMPUS WITH RUMPO" by Rambling Syd Rumpo	The BBC radio comedy program "Round The Horne" made its name in the mid-to-late 1960s by pushing the limits of the British double entendre. For the musical portion of the comedy, they relied on the amazing Kenneth Williams and his rustic folksinger character Rambling Syd Rumpo. The joke was that Syd was supposedly singing old English folk tunes with long-forgotten archaic words, but the lyrics (written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman) were an equal combination of sly innuendo and hilarious nonsense. It's better to demonstrate rather than try to explain, so here are a small selection of Rambling Syd Rumpo songs that are sure to gladden your earholes and tug at your artefacts.
	"FIRST APPEARANCE" by Rambling Syd Rumpo MP3
	"AN ORANGUTANG WHO WOULD A WOO-ING GO" by Rambling Syd Rumpo MP3
	"THE SOMERSET NOG" by Rambling Syd Rumpo MP3
	"THE GANDERBOGGLING SONG" by Rambling Syd Rumpo MP3
	"THE RUNCOM SPLOD COBBLERS SONG" by Rambling Syd Rumpo MP3
"THE SOUND OF HANDBUILT MICROTONAL GUITARS" by Students of Franklin K. Lane and Wingate High Schools	Artist Paul Rubenstein has been teaching a class called "Building Music" at Franklin K. Lane and Wingate High Schools in Brooklyn. Students learn to build their own guitars, from winding their own electric pickups to designing the guitar body to fretting the fingerboard (Paul has students utilizing a microtonal seven-tone equal temperament scale). After building the guitars, the class then creates original music with these instruments through amplifiers also of their own construction. The students bring a sense of improvisational fun that would be expected from a class armed with homemade amplified electric instruments. Here are a couple of MP3s of their music, vaguely reminiscent of early no wave.
	"UNTITLED TRACK 1" by Students of Franklin K. Lane and Wingate High Schools MP3	This track features Nick on square wave oscillator, Ayonde on guitar, Hector on electric saron, Rashid on claves, Vishal on guitar, and Mr. R (Paul Rubenstein) on shaker.
	"UNTITLED TRACK 2" by Students of Franklin K. Lane and Wingate High Schools MP3	This track features Tyrone and Nick on the guitars they made, Ayonde on electric saron, Hector on claves, Angel on doumbek, Rashid on shaker, and Mr. R (Paul Rubenstein) on tambourine.
"MONKEY MAN" by Melt Banana MP3	Feeling sluggish? Need some energy? Then take a listen to Melt Banana covering Toots & the Maytals' 1969 classic "Monkey Man." Set the volume to 11 and put it on repeat. You'll feel better in no time.
"BALTIMORE: MUSIC FROM BEYOND "THE WIRE"" by Various Artists	In his song "Baltimore," Randy Newman sang how "there ain't nothin' here for free." Little did he know that Baltimore would spawn a scene of artists who would generously share some of their music with WFMU. What follows is an audio sampling of some of the many Baltimore artists who will be making their music available for free non-commercial use on WFMU's Free Music Archive, including Afternoon Penis, The Agrarians, Arc and Sender, Dan Deacon, Double Dagger, Food for Animals, Fuzz Unlimited, Human Host, Lexie Mountain Boys, LO MOdA / Low Moda, Nautical Almanac, Newagehillbilly, Ponytail, Sejayno, Teeth Mountain, Jason Willett, and WZT Hearts. Baltimore isn't just music from "The Wire" anymore.
	"TRACK 1" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Afternoon Penis. Nate Nelson is half of Mouthus, prolific murk-metal masters and operators of the Our Mouth label. He also drums in Religious Knives. Although both groups are based in Brooklyn, Nelson's recently relocated to Baltimore. He's released a handful of CD-Rs and a Heavy Tape under the name Afternoon Penis. This track from his "High Noon" release will blow your mind.
	"SUBSTITUTE FOR MONOGAMY" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Agrarians. Matt Perzinski is now six albums deep into the creepy acoustic tape-hiss balladry and abstract folk that makes up his work as the Agrarians. Here's a track from "We Meet The Medicine," newly released on Baltimore's MT6 Records.
	"MAPS OF THE STARS HOMES" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Arc and Sender, an instrumental trio that's two parts Baltimore, one part Philadelphia. Philly's High Two label released their self-titled debut in 2005. Guitarist/baritone-guitarist Greg Pardew has recently been focusing on his quieter acoustic project Soon Clyde, with the help of his Arc and Sender bandmates and various other collaborators. Pardew says that "playing loud comes in cycles with us," and sent us an unreleased recording, indicating that Arc and Sender has a follow-up album on the way.
	"HUNDRED-YEAR FLOOD" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Arc and Sender from their self-titled album on High Two.
	"SQUARES AND CIRCLES" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Arc and Sender from their self-titled album on High Two.
	"ARMS SALOON" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Dan Deacon. A few years ago, Wham City chief Dan Deacon and a group of creative post-college friends from Purchase New York relocated to a Baltimore warehouse in search of a more artist-friendly environment. Apparently it worked; now Deacon's playing the Whitney Museum, and Wham City's rainbow aesthetic has spread far beyond Baltimore. Deacon has advocated free music all along. He released an album in 2004 on Comfort Stand Recordings, an artist-run Net Label of Creative Commons-licensed music. Here is a track from "Twacky Cats."
	"LION WITH A SHARK'S HEAD (DEMONSTRATION VERSION)" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Dan Deacon from "Twacky Cats."
	"CONNOR KIZER WITH BEAD JEWELRY" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Dan Deacon from "Twacky Cats."
	"WHEN I WAS TALLER" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Dan Deacon from "Twacky Cats."
	"OHIO (DEMONSTRATION VERSION)" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Dan Deacon from "Twacky Cats."
	"THIS CRAZY MOUSE WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Dan Deacon live on WFMU, July 23, 2003.
	"THE HOUSE I WAS ISN'T MY GIRLFRIEND'S PORSCHE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Dan Deacon live on WFMU, July 23, 2003.
	"SONG FOR DINA" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Dan Deacon live on WFMU, July 23, 2003.
	"PIGGLED" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Dan Deacon live on WFMU, July 23, 2003.
	"I'M SORRY, BRIAN WILSON" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Dan Deacon live on WFMU, July 23, 2003.
	"LUXURY CONDOS FOR THE POOR" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Double Dagger, a dynamic punk band from Baltimore that would probably be on Dischord if they were from D.C. This track is from their album "Ragged Rubble" (Stationary Heart).
	"THE PSYCHIC" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Double Dagger from "Ragged Rubble."
	"I WAS SO BORED I WANTED TO HANG MYSELF ON THE DANCEFLOOR" by Various Artists MP3	Double Dagger live on WFMU, March 26, 2006.
	"REARRANGING DIGITAL DECK CHAIRS" by Various Artists MP3	Double Dagger, live on WFMU, March 26, 2006.
	"PLANET SAY" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Food For Animals. Fans of Dalek-style noise-rap take note: Here's another experimental rap group who has collaborated with Faust. Formed in Silver Spring but now based in Baltimore, Food for Animals' debut full-length is out on Hoss in the U.S. and coming out on Cock Rock Disco in Europe. Here is a track recorded with Hans Jochim Irmler from Faust last winter.
	"ELEPHANTS" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Food for Animals from the 2006 "Cock Rock Disco Free MP3" comp.
	"MUTUMBO" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Food for Animals from their album "Belly" on Hoss Records.
	"SHHHY" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Food for Animals from their album "Belly" on Hoss Records.
	"CAMERA SHY" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Fuzz Unlimited. Mike Bell has played with Billy Syndrome, Jennifer Blowdryer, and Ed Wilcox's Temple Bon Matin. These days, when he's not driving a truck somewhere along America's highway system, he's playing music on his own, with Mary Knot as the Dirt, or with his friends from Fuzz Unlimited. Here is a track from their most recent release "Take a Hit" on MT6.
	"EVIL TWIN" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Fuzz Unlimited from "Take a Hit."
	"TOMB OF SCIENCE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Human Host. Led by Mike Apichella, this sci-fi theatrical electro-punk troupe formed in Baltimore in 2002 has been known to feature as many as six members, including Rick Weaver of the Ruined Frame and the Human Conduct label. This track is from their third album, 2006's "Exploding Demon" (MT6 Records).
	"SIX REALMS" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Human Host from their album "Exploding Demon" on MT6 Records.
	"ESCAPE FROM THE ORGAN CHAMBER" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Human Host from their album "Exploding Demon" on MT6 Records.
	"DOGS HOT" by Various Artists MP3	"Are they a cult? A hardcore band who forgot their instruments? A demented cheerleading squad? These six ladies from Baltimore specialize in schizophrenic ramblings, innocent playground chants, Tourettian outbursts, down-home balladry, and bipolar moments of sincerity and frustration." Liz Berg wrote this spot-on description to preview the Lexie Mountain Boys' live performance on her show in June of 2007. They have also played WFMU's Record Fair and SXSW Showcase. Clearly we like Lexie Mountain Boys a great deal. Here is a track from "Boys."
	"TRACK 2" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Lexie Mountain Boys from "Woodgrain Manicure" (self-released edition of 50).
	"VENUS CLEANERS SESSIONS" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Lexie Mountain Boys from a self-released edition of 50 copies.
	"LES JARDINS (DE L'BOULI)" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by LO MOdA. An art-punk 6-piece steeped in the gospel of doom, LO MOdA grooves without any extraneous motions. Here is a track from the J. Robbins-produced "Gospel Store Front" from 2006.
	"ELECTRIC WORLD" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by LO MOdA from "Gospel Store Front."
	"KRAFTWORK" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Natural Almanac. Originally formed in Ann Arbor, Nautical Almanac's core members Twig Harper and Carly Ptak moved to Baltimore from Chicago in 2001. In search of a place to live, record music, and have shows, they bought a building that became known as Tarantula Hill. They also started a label called Heresee, releasing material by everyone from Wolf Eyes to Little Howlin' Wolf. Other Nautical Almanac projects include modified electronics/custom-built instruments and pressing records out of various objects with their record-cutting machine. Here is a track from their "Something" Euro Tour 2005 release.
	"VARIOUS CUT LAZERDISCS" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Natural Alamanac from their "Handcut Record Transfers" CD-R.
	"ONE-OFF OVERCUT METAL LAQUER" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Natural Alamanac from their "Handcut Record Transfers" CD-R.
	"ROLLING IN THE GREEN" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Nautical Almanac from the 2005 "Cover the Earth" CD-R.
	"TRACK 2" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Nautical Almanac from "Rejerks Vol. 4" CD-R.
	"CONTROL FACTOR" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Newagehillbilly, the experimental solo project of Alex Strama. He runs the excellent label MT6 Records (and MT5 Tapes), releasing music by a ton of excellent bands, many of whom are featured in this On the Download. Newagehillbilly is one of several MT6 artists who post free live audio to archive.org, and his live shows are known to feature boxers and machine gun fire. Here is a track from "IV: White Walls," released in 2005 on MT6.
	"LIGHTS ON EINSTEIN" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Newagehillbilly from their album "IV: White Walls" on MT6.
	"BURNING SADDLES" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Ponytail. Ponytail is a four-piece with two shredding guitarists (including Dustin Wong, formerly of Ecstatic Sunshine), a spastic drummer (see Jeremy Hyman in action here), and super-energetic vocalist Molly Siegel. Their forthcoming album "Ice Cream Social," produced by J Robbins, will be released by Baltimore's own We Are Free. In the meantime, enjoy this track from their Creative Capitalism debut "Kamahameha."
	"START A CORPORATION" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Ponytail from their album "Kamahameha."
	"REVERSE TIME APEX, PART 1" by Various Artists MP3	Sejayno is an electro-acoustic experimental trio consisting of Peter Blasser, Carson Garhart, and Severiano Martinez. Blasser designs, builds, and sells custom instruments. These inventions fuel Sejayno's musical experimentations. They describe their new "Reverse Time Apex" cassette as "a 90-minute quantum leap through a fabricated time loop, an...odyssey through cavernous bath houses, ancient barns, bird ceremonies, guitar center, aristocratic feasts, dust tunnels..." Here is Side 1.
	"REVERSE TIME APEX, PART 2" by Various Artists MP3	Side 2 of "Reverse Time Apex" performed by Sejayno.
	"ORGIUM" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Sejayno from "Laity" on Megaphone Records.
	"KEINSEIN" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Teeth Mountain. Teeth Mountain sports a singing saw, a distorted cello, and a computer running Fruity Loops, along with four drummers playing floor toms and a communal cymbal. Group members put on shows and live in a place they call the Comfort Dome. Here is a sample from their forthcoming barrage of releases: 50 CD-Rs on discos compulsivos/luv luv in Spain, 100 CDs on Nail in the Coffin records, and 500 LPs on Shdwply.
	"GHOST SCIENCE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Teeth Mountain.
	"13" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Teeth Mountain.
	"BLACK JERUSALEM" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Teeth Mountain.
	"BEAUTIFUL SONG WITH KICK DRUM SOLO" by Various Artists MP3	Jason Willet is an essential contributor to Baltimore's music community in a number of ways. He's played music as/with Can Openers, Jaunties, Pleasant Livers, X-Ray Eyes, Attitude Robots, Dramatics, and Leprechaun Catering, and he's collaborated with the likes of Jad Fair, Chris Cutler, Ruins, and James Chance. He runs the label Megaphone Records, which has released material from Fred Frith, The Work, and Tim Hodgkinson. Willett owns and operates the True Vine Record Shop, with Ian Nagoski and Stewart Mostofsky. His own music is all over the map, with a pots-and-pans approach to drumming, fuzzed-out everything, and a sprinkle of bachelor pad abstraction. MT6 just put out an excellent compilation of previously unreleased tracks that didn't make it onto Willett's many Megaphone releases over the past 13 years. Here is a sample from "The Sounds of Megaphone Limited."
	"SONG RECORDED IMMEDIATELY AFTER RETURNING FROM X RAY EYES TOUR '96" by Various Artists MP3	Another track from Jason Willett's "The Sounds of Megaphone Limited."
	"OR SO I'VE BEEN TOLD" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Jason Willett with Jad Fair.
	"INSTRUMENTAL WITH FUNKY MIDSECTION" by Various Artists MP3	Jason Willett doing business as the Attitude Robots.
	"CHEWING GUM" by Various Artists MP3	Jason Willett doing business as the Jaunties.
	"HEARTH CARVER" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the WZT Hearts. (Pronounced "wet" hearts.) WZT Hearts are an ambient noise four-piece. "Heat Chief" came out on Hit Dat and Hoss Records, and here's a track from last year's "Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones," released by Carpark.
"FAVOURITE FILMS" by Television Personalities MP3	They started out satirizing the "part-time punks" and eventually went the way of the psychedelic. Along the way, they produced one great record after another. From the singles and rarities collection "Yes, Darling, But Is It Art?", here's one of them.
"CREATION STORY" by Lungfish MP3	Lungfish has been active for 18 years now, and they remain one of the Dischord label's flagship bands. Here is a track from their 1993 album "Rainbows from Atoms."
"ROSE GARDEN" by The Vile Cherubs MP3	Washington, DC's Vile Cherubs are a band with an appealing mystique about them. The legend states that they existed on the fringes of their city's deified post-hardcore scene, but played a truly weird mix of snotty garage rock and swirling psychedelics, way before such practices were deemed cool. More importantly, they were all barely out of high school at the time that most of their recordings were made and since their only releases were self-produced cassettes, it took years for anyone to catch up with them and issue a proper retrospective on CD. In 1993, an unknown label based in Albuquerque issued the best of these recordings as "The Man Who Has No Eats Has No Sweats." Here's a track from the compilation.
"WHERE'S THE FIRE?" by Steve Fisk MP3	Steve Fisk is perhaps as well-known for his production resume (which includes artists ranging from the Wedding Present to Soundgarden to Negativland) as for his involvement in the brilliant instrumental band Pell Mell. Since 1982, he's also released a string of weird and wiggy experimental records with an accent on cut n' paste juxtapositions and the kind of tape manipulations that made his involvement with Steven Jesse Bernstein's spoken word album such an artistic benchmark. Here is a track from his "999 Levels of Undo" album circa 2001.
"SHARI VARI" by A Number of Names MP3	A Number of Names was Sterling Jones and Paul Lesley, whose "Shari Vari" was one of the first and biggest techno tracks to come out of Detroit circa 1980. The song's title derives from an intentional misspelling of Charivari, a collective of young local promoters who were at the time making and flashing big bucks throwing parties in Detroit.
"HEIRS OF THE FIRE (BROOKLYN VERSION)" by Xela MP3	When he's not busy co-running the UK's superb Type record label, John Twells records densely layered and somewhat hallucinatory sound pieces as Xela. His release "The Dead Sea" received a fair amount of airplay in these parts when it came out last year and was called "absolutely stunning" by the folks over at Other Music. John stopped by the WFMU studios in April 2008 to record a brief set that saw him shun the laptop based set-up often employed by similar artists in favor of a micro-cassette player, tons of pedals, trinkets purchased from hippies in the midwest, and an unexpected foray into Brian Wilson vocal territory. Here is the session.
"SURFER'S STOMP" by The Mar-Kets MP3	"Learn the new dance sensation...as recorded by the Mar-Kets, on Liberty Records!"
"EVEN MORE CUSTOMUSIC!" by Customusic	Following the Atmosphere and Production sides, our trip through the Customusic Sampler concludes with two sides labeled Commercial, including the obligatory cover of "More" from "Mondo Cane." This is mall music, so grab your wallet, load the songs onto your MP3 player, and rush out in a buying frenzy! "Shauny O'Shea" is highly recommended to feed your consumer drive.
	"I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER" by Customusic MP3
	"TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT" by Customusic MP3
	"CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE" by Customusic MP3
	"WILLINGLY" by Customusic MP3
	"FLY ME TO THE MOON" by Customusic MP3
	"I STILL GET JEALOUS" by Customusic MP3
	"I'M IN LOVE WITH LOVE" by Customusic MP3
	"MORE" by Customusic MP3
	"SHAUNY O'SHEA" by Customusic MP3
	"LOVE IS THE SWEETEST THING" by Customusic MP3
	"DEEP DOWN INSIDE" by Customusic MP3
	"WHEN WILL YOU" by Customusic MP3
	"IT'S ALL IN THE GAME" by Customusic MP3
	"WHAT KIND OF FOOL AM I?" by Customusic MP3
"ENGELCHEN MACHT WEITER--HOPPE-HOPPE REITER" by Improved Sound Ltd.	Here are some selections from the soundtrack to an arty lite-porn German offering from 1969 written and performed entirely by a band named Improved Sound Ltd. The film is "Engelchen macht weiter--Hoppe-hoppe Reiter" (called "Up the Establishment!" in its U.S. release), and it was directed by Michael Verhoeven, who later went on to direct the arthouse hit "The Nasty Girl." Several of these tracks turned up on the "Electrick Loosers" compilation of pre-krautrock and psych stuff from Germany, and they are appropriately bizarre. Improved Sound Ltd. actually had quite a career in Germany, apparently gaining a bit of notoriety from their 1972 eponymous double LP. The band eventually started putting out country-rock records, then changed their name to Condor.
	"HIT 'EM IN THE FACE" by Improved Sound Ltd. MP3
	"LEAVE THIS LESBIAN WORLD" by Improved Sound Ltd. MP3
	"GET YOUR KICKS ON THE HILL" by Improved Sound Ltd. MP3
	"TITELMUSIK HOPPE-HOPPE REITER" by Improved Sound Ltd. MP3
"SPRING SONG" by Russian Children's Choir MP3	Rescued from a 45-year old record found at a rummage sale. Artist and actual song title unknown. Listener Darla helpfully offers the following explanation of the lyrics. "This song is about collective farm's hollyday and love in Soviet time in Russia. This is holliday's comic song and the singing girl wants everybody to be gay and dancing in round dance. Further, she is singing about her boyfriend. He is pretty, he is a poultry breeder in collective farm. If they are going for a walk, turkeys follow him. She singing that girls in her village are beautiful and very good singing. And all boys at once fall in love with them. In first time her boyfriend understood nothing in love. When he sat down with her he only took place. They have planted a big garden in their collective farm. And she invites her darling sit down under the pear tree. And in final part of song girl singing for people in round dance: "Goodbye, my darling, I have sung to you a song. We invite everybody to our collective farm's holyday!"
"VINYL SINGLES" by Merzbow	The sheer aural bombardment and crafty sonic layering of the finest recordings of Merzbow, a.k.a. Masami Akita, wipe clean floating anxieties and earthbound concerns. While many a listener is sure to find this music to be one long bad thought, others find sanctuary in the bleeps, crashes, blasts, and buzzes—the explosion of sound that is Merzbow. Masami Akita has typically demonstrated a reverence for the 7" format, and to this end, we present two of his singles from the early 90s. Note: "Music for 'The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man" has never been digitally reissued anywhere.
	"SCUM-STEEL CUM-SIDE A" by Merzbow MP3	Side A of Merzbow's single on Vertical Records, 1991.
	"SCUM-STEEL CUM-SIDE B" by Merzbow MP3	Side B of Merzbow's single on Vertical Records, 1991.
	"MUSIC FOR "THE DEAD MAN 2: RETURN OF THE DEAD MAN"-SIDE A" by Merzbow MP3	Side A of the Merzbow single "Music for 'The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man'" on Robot Records, 1994. Featured tracks: Fire; Burning Building of Waco, Texas; Taxi in the Car Wash.
	"MUSIC FOR "THE DEAD MAN 2: RETURN OF THE DEAD MAN"-SIDE B" by Merzbow MP3	Side B of the Merzbow single "Music for 'The Dead Man 2: Return of the Dead Man" on Robot Records, 1994. Featured track: On the Beach.
"DOWNER ROCK GENOCIDE" by Various Artists	For those of you who aren't so into 1970s prog and metal, "Downer Rock Genocide" is the most punk prog/metal comp you'll hear. Badass, Marshall-stacks wielding apes like Necromandus, Iron Claw, and Hackensack, lay holy-riff waste. Take, for example, the unbelievable song "Dog Man" by Monument. A horror story about a guy who bites women and drags them underneath the city, it's so demented that it makes Arthur Brown look like mere showbiz. Another band, Egor, present a scuzz-fidelity live cut that starts with ungodly frayed-cable feedback and burns like a boogie-metallic "Sister Ray." "Downer Rock Genocide" came out on Audio Archives in Sweden in 2000 and is very hard to get. Here's are three of the best cuts.
	"NIGHT JAR" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Necromandus.
	"STREET" by Various Artists MP3	Performed live by Egor.
	"DOG MAN" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Monument.
"FAKE BEATLES: TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS, DO ONE?" by Various Artists	"Tomorrow Never Knows." A revolutionary recording in so many ways, this number, basically "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" marinated in LSD, is still the go-to Beatles tune for those music types normally too cool for that "yeah-yeah-yeah!" teenybopper candy. Here are a few modern-day examples of bands obviously influenced by this "Revolver" perennial.
	"ESPERO QUE LES GUSTE 042" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Los Shakers. The title of this track from 1966's "Shakers for You" LP translates to "I Hope You Like It 042" (and no, they probably don't know what the 042 refers to, either). The Fabuloso Cuatro de Uruguay are hands down the greatest synthesizers of both the early and the later psychedelic-era Fabs. Surely done with a tenth of the time and budget expended on the original, "Espero," thanks to Los Shakers' Spanish-accented English lyrics, comes off as just as lyrically obtuse as those mystical insights John Lennon cribbed from a book whilst tripping.
	"LOST MY MIND" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Matthew Sweet. From 1995's "100% Fun" album, this bit of neo-psych musing from this pop prince has all the requisite trippy trappings. That includes lyrics such as "We follow the same sound / Standing on the ground," which would mean less than nothing if you've never had a Love Special Delivery from Alice Dee and didn't spend your £sd to acquire a London Social Degree.
	"NO TIME TOMORROW" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Squire. This '80s mod revival band displayed a serious Beatles hankering, with songs veering from the "Please Please Me" rewrite of "The Face of Youth Today" to 1982's "No Time Tomorrow," on which the phased vocals, droning guitars, and McCartneyesque bass line justify the tipoff word "tomorrow" in the title. Extra points for the Beethoven's Ninth intro; points deducted for introducing too much melody (and a bridge) into the track.
	"JOE PUBLIC" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Rutles. "Joe Public" is a Neil Innes solo composition that he Rutle-ized for 1996's "Archaeology" album. A lovely and lovingly rendered addition to the Pre-Fab Four canon, the song's lyrics are of a soicopolitical instead of metaphysical bent. More funny-peculiar than funny-ha-ha, "Joe Public" carries on the Rutles' winning streak and marks Innes' mastery of every Beatles archetype.
	"SETTING SUN; LET FOREVER BE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Chemical Brothers. If you held a Revolver to their temples, this electronic music duo would be forced to admit to owing their entire existence to "Tomorrow Never Knows." Therefore, it's unsurprising that they have turned off their minds, relaxed and floated downstream on two separate musical occasions. It also surprises no one that they employed the vocal assistance of Noel Gallagher, a man who surely knows a thing or two about faking the Fab. "Setting Sun," from 1996, got them sued by Apple, who mistakenly accused them of sampling the original. How did they celebrate their victory? By going at it again with 1999's "Let Forever Be," once again using the Oasis leader to season their song.
"ON A COUNTRY ROAD" by John Carter MP3	John Carter embodies a dual legacy as an educator and as a master of his instrument, the clarinet. The licorice stick is primarily associated with pre-war music, from dixieland to Johnny Dodds to Benny Goodman's swing, before it was pretty much outmoded by the lower register of the more "modern" saxophone. John Carter's position as the jazz clarinetist of the "new thing" is rooted in a deep sense of the instrument's history. Nestled within his taut compositions are dusty folk melodies, African elements, and constant references to the jazz past along with passages of free playing and typical '80s synth investigations. Carter's outside experiments acquire meaning and substance because of the hundred or thousand years of culture winding its way through his instrument with each breath. Here is a track from his LP "Fields" on Grammavision from 1987.
"DAUWHE" by John Carter Octet MP3	A second track from John Carter from his album "Dauwhe" released in 1982 on Black Saint.
"HILLBILLY TWISTIN' IS A FUNNY THING" by Various Artists	Previous "On the Downloads" explored the improbably wacky world of country mambo, tango, and rhumba songs. We now turn our attention to country twist songs. "The Twist" officially came to life when Hank Ballard & the Midnighters had a minor R&B hit with the song in January 1959. A year and a half later, Chubby Checker's version of the song hit #1 on the pop charts. It eventually faded from sight only to return to #1 again in early 1962, making "The Twist" the only recording to ever accomplish the feat of reaching #1 twice. As a bona fide case of twist fever swept the world, countless twist-sploitation records were released in an effort to capitalize on the craze. Not surprisingly, some of those efforts were country 45's. A handful of these are featured below.
	"HILLBILLY TWIST" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Hardrock Gunter and Buddy Durham. This masterpiece was first collected on the LP compilation "Twistin' Time Vol. 2" (Knight Records). Nick Tosches in his book "Unsung Heroes Of Rock 'n' Roll" dismisses it as a truly singular atrocity in the career of Hardrock Gunter. See if you agree!
	"TWISTIN' IS A FUNNY THING" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Al Sherron and His Blue Sky Rangers. Al Sherron takes care of business quite efficiently here, in just over a minute and a half. And he works in some yodels, so what's not to like?
	"RODEO TWIST" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Rex Allen. In the 1950's, Allen was an extraordinarily busy actor, appearing in dozens of westerns. In addition, he did a great deal of voice-over work for a variety of Walt Disney nature films and TV shows. His rich and soothing voice was used to great effect when he served as the narrator of Hanna-Barbera's 1973 film "Charlotte's Web."
	"BUFFALO TWIST" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, cut a twist record? He sure did, and here's the proof. This appeared on "Twistin' Time Vol. 1."
	"COWBOY TWIST" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Lou Colburn. Here's another country-flavored twist outing from "Twistin' Time Vol. 1."
	"COUNTRY TWIST" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Charlie and Bill. Charlie Moore and Bill Napier recorded this in 1963 for the Bethlehem label, a subsidiary of Cincinnati's King label, which released the original version of "The Twist" by Hank Ballard & the Midnighters.
	"MAMA TEACH ME" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by June Carter. Carter, a member of the musical Carter Family, had a lengthy career as a singer. She was married to Johnny Cash from 1968 until her death in 2003. Early in her singing career she frequently served as comic relief, experience which proved useful on this entertaining piece of nonsense.
	"TWIST AND YODEL" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Claude Brownell with the Country Cousins. As with the Al Sherron record above, this tune combines twist lyrics with yodels, a deeply satisfying combination.
	"MOON TWIST" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Chuck Dallis. This rockin' 1962 effort on the Glenn label of Hammond, Indiana probably strays a little closer to rockabilly than straight county, but who cares? It's about twisting on the moon!
	"MULESKINNER TWIST" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Ray Kannon. Combining the 1930 Jimmie Rodgers song "Muleskinner Blues" with twist lyrics was clearly a stroke of genius.
"THE SONG RETAINS THE NAME" by Various Artists	These songs, along with "Duluth My Home Town," were part of a 1960s radio imaging package that landed in several markets across the country. "Portland" credits the song to "The Lobsters with Miss WLOB," "Austin" credits it to the PAMS Jingle Singers, and "Duluth" credits it to Claire Scott. PAMS (Programming And Music Services) Jingles is a Dallas-based company that still creates radio packages today. The "My Home Town" campaign combined radio imaging with locally sold singles to inject a bit of civic pride and synergy into the listeners. Each market was able to customize the B side of the single, and in WLOB's case, they went with a swinging, big-band instrumental version. Additional versions are rumored or known to exist for Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Flint, and London. It's an upbeat, twangy little number with a healthy dose of banjo and slide guitar.
	"PORTLAND MY HOME TOWN" by Various Artists MP3
	"PORTLAND MY HOMETOWN (INSTRUMENTAL VERSION)" by Various Artists MP3
	"AUSTIN MY HOMETOWN" by Various Artists MP3
"LIVE AT WFMU" by Bonde Do Role	Bonde Do Role, Brazilian masters of funk carioca (or Baile funk, as it is sometimes known), stopped by to record a live session for Liz Berg's show in mid-May. Miami bass, heavy sampling, and manic high energy were all in full effect for this brief four-song set.
	"GASOLINA/CONTAMINADA" by Bonde Do Role MP3
	"FANIA" by Bonde Do Role MP3
	"SOLTA O FRANCO" by Bonde Do Role MP3
	"BONDALICA" by Bonde Do Role MP3
	"BONDE DO ROLE INTERVIEW" by Bonde Do Role MP3
"THREE-WAY CALL FROM GOD" by Various Artists	God works in mysterious ways, and here's a pair of MP3s showing one of his strangest: a Christian comedy routine about an average Joe getting a phone call from The Man Upstairs. Although the concept sounds like it might be a Christian version of Bob Newhart stand-up, it's not exactly chock full of yuks. What's interesting about these two versions of the same routine is that they're almost EXACTLY the same. Jerry Jordan and Ray Reeves deliver the same monologue, as if they're reading from the same script. To prove the point, below is a stereo mix of the two versions with the recordings synced up throughout. It's sort of like a Christian version of Claude and Clyde, the McBeeBee twins from the old "Bob & Ray" radio shows.
	"PHONE CALL FROM GOD" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Jerry Jordan.
	"A PHONE CALL FROM GOD" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Ray Reeves.
	"PHONE CALL FROM GOD (STEREO MIX)" by Various Artists MP3
"LIVE AT WFMU" by Foot Village	Foot Village is a nation-building group consisting of Citizen Miller on drums, Citizen Taylor on drums, Citizen Rowan on drums, and Citizen Lee on, uh, drums. Lee also wields a megaphone while they all yell like meth-fueled rebel cheerleaders hijacking the marching band drumline. Their new disc "Friendship Nation" is out now. Here they are recorded on May 14, 2008 for Marty McSorley's show (broadcast on May 26th).
	"TAKE" by Foot Village MP3
	"CLUBTRAXXX" by Foot Village MP3
	"CRYBABY" by Foot Village MP3
	"NATIONAL JAMTHUMB" by Foot Village MP3
	"I YOU WE" by Foot Village MP3
	"PROTECTIVE NOURISHMENT" by Foot Village MP3
"WINGS OF THE DELIRIOUS DEMON" by Ilhan Mimaroglu MP3	Turkish composer Ilhan Mimaroglu was a pioneer of analog synth and tape experiments who was affiliated with the Columbia/Princeton Electronic Music Center. He also was a radio DJ at WBAI for several years and produced jazz records for Atlantic, a relationship that culminated in his collaboration with Freddie Hubbard on the twisted album "Sing Me a Song of Songmy." "Wings of the Delirious Demon" was originally released in 1971 on Mimaroglu's Finnadar imprint, a killer label which also released music by Stockhausen, John Cage, Eric Salzman, and Jean DuBuffet.
"IT'S A WONDERFUL NEW BESTLINE WORLD" by Bestline	Ladies, it's 1970. Everyone's telling you that staying at home to raise a family makes you a square. You'd like the extra money, but hubby wants his dinner on the table and the kids need help with homework. How can you possibly have the best of both worlds?Home sales, of course. And if you thought that Tupperware, Avon, and Amway were your only choices, you haven't heard of Bestline. Not only will you be selling some of the best cleaning products on the market, but they're all biodegradable, putting you ahead of the green movement by about three decades. All of this pales, however, to the most incredible gift that any working saleswoman could ever hope to receive...the Baconizer! Sure it's the size of a PlayStation 3 and an obvious fire hazard, but this miracle appliance makes plate after plate of tasty bacon without all that messing around with stoves and pans. All of these ladies agree that Bestline is the most incredible thing that ever happened to them. You will, too, once you listen to their musical testimony.
	"OVERTURE" by Bestline MP3
	"IT'S A WONDERFUL NEW WOMAN'S WORLD" by Bestline MP3
	"SING ALONG INSTRUMENTAL" by Bestline MP3
	"CHILDREN'S VOCAL" by Bestline MP3
	"ROCK INSTRUMENTAL" by Bestline MP3
	"INTERNATIONAL" by Bestline MP3
	"IT'S A WONDERFUL NEW BESTLINE WORLD" by Bestline MP3
	"HOW TO BOOK A BESTLINE PARTY" by Bestline MP3
"HARLEM NOCTURNES" by Various Artists	Earle Hagen passed away in May 2008. His name may not be a household word, but his music is burned into your brain. He was a TV theme writer extraordinaire, whose credits include catchy ditties for "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "That Girl," and "The Mod Squad," to name a few. But Hagen is also the composer behind "Harlem Nocturne", probably one of the most covered saxaphone songs in history (500 versions so far and counting). Writen in 1939 while Hagen was an arranger with the Ray Noble Orchestra, the song has lived on as a standard for every big band, bar band, R&B band, and instrumental band since. It is also of course a crime soundtrack staple. Below are a few of the hit versions. For 36 more versions, see here.
	"HARLEM NOCTURNE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Randy Brooks Orchestra, who regularly used it as their theme song. Recorded in 1941.
	"HARLEM NOCTURNE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Johnny Otis Orchestra. Recorded as an early single for Savoy Records in 1945.
	"HARLEM NOCTURNE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by Herbie Fields. This first popular jazz version dates from 1953.
	"HARLEM NOCTURNE" by Various Artists MP3	Performed by the Viscounts. This 1959 version of "Harlem Nocturne" was the highest charting version of the song.
"LIVE AT WFMU" by Negative Approach MP3	Detroit's hardcore godfathers Negative Approach were very much part of the first wave of hardcore practitioners. John Brannon and company formed in 1981, recorded for Touch and Go, and were one of the most vicious feedback-pummel units going. Songs careened by in seconds, were pretty much politics-free, and focused on sheer vocal/instrumental destruction. In 2006 Negative Approach returned to the stage with Brannon and original drummer Chris Moore augmented by Ron Sakowski on bass and Harold Richardson on guitar. Here they are playing on Brian Turner's show, recorded May 14th, 2008 and broadcast May 27th. The set list: Lost Cause/ Can't Tell No One/ Sick of Talk/ Hypocrite/ Dead Stop/ Whatever I Do/ Tied Down/ Evacuate/ Your Mistake/ Why Be Something That You're Not/ Pressure/ Fair Warning/ Nothing/ Borstal Breakout/ Never Surrender/ Solitary Confinement. Sixteen songs in twenty-five minutes. Amazing.

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