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Playlist for 23 September 2009 | The Higher The Hair...

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(* = new)
Artist Song Album Label Comments New Approx. start time
Omo  2pm   The White Album  Loaf 

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*   0:00:00 ( )
Mum  Prophecies and Reversed Memories   Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know  Euphono    *   0:03:43 ( )
Pastels / Tenniscoats  Two Sunsets   Title Track  Domino 

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*   0:07:13 ( )
Luciano  Fran Left Home   Tribute To The Sun  World and Sound    *   0:11:57 ( )
HTRK  Waltz Real Slow   Marry Me Tonight  Blast First Petite 

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*   0:15:42 ( )
 
Music behind DJ:
Jonathan Kane 
Rololer Coaster   Jet Ear Party  Table of the Elements / Radium      0:21:48 ( )
TV Ghost  The Singularity   TV Ghost  In The Red 

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*   0:30:09 ( )
Times New Viking  No Time, No Hope   Born Again Revisited  Matador    *   0:32:26 ( )
Psychedelic Horseshit  Can't Get Enough   Magic Flowers Droned  Siltbreeze 

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  0:35:03 ( )
The Ex  Frenzy   30  Ex 

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*   0:37:08 ( )
Crash (Thierry Muller & Philippe Doray)  Vaughan's Ballad   Poutre Apparante Sampler for WFMU  Poutre Apparente 

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*   0:41:53 ( )
39 Clocks  78 Soldier Dead   Pain It Dark  Bureau B 

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  0:47:27 ( )
Psychedelic Furs  President Gas   Forever Now  Columbia      0:53:46 ( )
 
Music behind DJ:
Space Junko 
          0:58:27 ( )
Johnny Cash  Wo Ist Zu Hause, Mama?      

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  1:04:07 ( )
Johnny Cash  Werr Ken Den Weg (I Walk the Line)           1:05:51 ( )
Dean Carter  You Tear Me Up   Call of the Wild!  Big Beat      1:08:26 ( )
Speedy West  West of Samoa   Steel Guitar  Sundazed 

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  1:10:44 ( )
The Campbell Brothers  Jump for Joy   Pass Me Not  Arhoolie      1:13:38 ( )
Les Paul  Steel Guitar Rag   My Isle of Golden Dreams  Universe Italy 

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  1:18:18 ( )
Cliff Carlisle  Shanghai Rooster Yodel   Blues Yodeler & Steel Guitar Wizard  Arhoolie      1:21:21 ( )
Dezurik Sisters  The Arizona Yodeler   American Yodeling 1911-1945  Trikont 

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  1:23:40 ( )
Arrington de Dionyso  Mani Malaikat   Malaikat Dan Singa  K Records    *   1:26:22 ( )
Daw Bandon  Bong Ja Bong (Bong, oh Bong)   Siamese Soul, Thai Pop Spectacilar vol 2 1960's-1980's  Sublime Frequencies 

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  1:32:40 ( )
 
Music behind DJ:
Johann Georg Albrechstberger / Munich Chamber Orchestra 
Menuetto - Moderato   Concerto for Jews Harp, Mandora and Orchestra  Orfeo      1:36:14 ( )
Carney Hild Kramer  Name   Black Power  Shimmy-Disc 

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  1:42:46 ( )
Can  Thief   Delay 1968  Spoon 

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  1:47:06 ( )
Carnival of Coal  Baker Street   French Cancan  Kodiak / Season of Mist      1:52:33 ( )
The Slew (Kid Koala)  Shackled Soul   100%  Nuphonic 

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*   1:57:04 ( )
Foot Village  Energy Hunters   Anti-Magic  Upset the Rhythm 

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*   2:01:30 ( )
 
Cobra Killer  Goodtime Girl   Uppers And Downers  Monika 

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*   2:12:31 ( )
Magic Magic  French Song   Magic Magic LP  TPR 

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*   2:16:17 ( )
Love Is All  Last Choice   Title Track  What's Your Rupture?    *   2:19:17 ( )
Yacht  Psychic City (Voodoo City)   See Mystery Lights  dfa 

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*   2:21:43 ( )
3 Na Massa feat Ceu  Boce Guia   Self Titled  Nublu 

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*   2:27:38 ( )
Karol Y Su Amor  Llorando Se Fue           2:31:00 ( )
Rocket Matsu  Floater   We All Believe In Utopia (V/A)  In Poly Sons 

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*   2:35:50 ( )
Wevie Stonder  Gagged and Bound   The Horse of Wooden Troy  Skam 

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  2:39:55 ( )
 
Music behind DJ:
Zatumba Nilsson 
          2:45:33 ( )
17 Hippies  Uz   El Dorado  Hipster 

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*   2:48:51 ( )
Elakelaiset  Das Model   Das Humppawerk EP        2:52:16 ( )
Balanescu Quartet  Model   Possessed  Mute 

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  2:55:19 ( )

Listener comments!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:00am From: Dan B

Yay! It's Wednesday Kensday on WFMU!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:00am From: Ghengis Jung

Good morning.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:01am From: Parq

Is it Wednesday already?

Wed. 9/23/09 9:02am From: Dan B

Nineteen days until the new schedule starts. How's it looking so far, Ken?

Wed. 9/23/09 9:03am From: Ken

Morning all! No word on the new sched yet Dan.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:03am From: The Observer

El bebé es enorme.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:04am From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

The playlist says this Omo song is new. However, I am sure I heard this at least as early as 1978. It was part of the anti-New Wave movement. Is it a remake?

Wed. 9/23/09 9:05am From: C

was that the same yoko omo who broke up the beatles?

Wed. 9/23/09 9:08am From: Ken

The Omo appears to be a new release Dum Guy. Nothing about it being a reissue in the notes.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:09am From: Dan B

That's not exactly... a vinyl fetish photo, is it?

Wed. 9/23/09 9:11am From: annie

morning all!! hi ken! been listening, just loggin in now.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:13am From: Parq

Dan, the kid in the picture is now 62 and one of the Record Fair's most established vendors.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:15am From: john from oslo

Ripe melons already?

Wed. 9/23/09 9:15am From: dc pat

C: not it was the same Paul McOmo that broke up the Beatles

Wed. 9/23/09 9:16am From: dc pat

YES H8TRK!!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:16am From: Ken

That's me after my tonsilectomy in 1965.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:18am From: C

was that music therapy or how they used to administer medication back then.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:19am From: BSI

present.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:22am From: annie

please excuse me for a few minutes while i listen to kirk cameron tell me why darwin is wrong....

Wed. 9/23/09 9:23am From: dc pat

DON'T DO IT annie!!!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:24am From: north guinea hills

I'm in the mood for Morris dance recordings....

Wed. 9/23/09 9:24am From: john from oslo

I'm sorry to interrupt your show Ken, but BEYONCE HAD ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME!!!!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:25am From: ttrishnce

"ignorance is a right!"

Wed. 9/23/09 9:25am From: Doctor's notes

It's a miracle that the boy awoke from his Como, but continue with the Duke every four hours, and an Ella at bedtime, until we're sure he's really got the thing licked.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:25am From: annie

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/09/22/growing-pains-star-wages-war-on-darwin-vandalizes-books/


ken,, sound bytes!!!!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:25am From: north guinea hills

the rest of the luciano album is pretty awesome,....

Wed. 9/23/09 9:26am From: Mark

Geez all I got was ice cream when I had my tonsils removed

Wed. 9/23/09 9:26am From: Swami

Happy Birthday Mrs. Swami!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:26am From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

You Lie!

<sorry to get all politcal debate on you>

Wed. 9/23/09 9:27am From: annie

mrs. swami's birthday!!???? happy birthday!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:28am From: fishmonkeystew

Happy Kennesday everyone!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:30am From: annie

darwin sucks!!! pass it on... ..

Wed. 9/23/09 9:31am From: J-Mar

Today's my son's fifth birthday! Just this morning, we were walking to the bus stop, when he turned to me and said, "Corn weenie! Really! Really!" (It might have been because we were talking about different languages and I was coaching him on how to say, "Au contraire!")

Wed. 9/23/09 9:32am From: BSI

J-Mar..... that is beyond beautiful!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:32am From: annie

j-mar!! i love indoctrination at an early age!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:33am From: Dan B

Aw, man. I miss Arrested Development. I'm still quoting lines from it with friends all the time.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:38am From: dc pat

jeeze Ken, you're slaying here...

Wed. 9/23/09 9:39am From: Mark

Well an Arrested Develoment movie is in the pipeline

Wed. 9/23/09 9:40am From: Dan B

Can't happen soon enough, Mark. :-D

Wed. 9/23/09 9:41am From: Mark

I guess the movie is more of a maybe

Wed. 9/23/09 9:42am From: Mark

get it, maybe

Wed. 9/23/09 9:50am From: dc pat

that's a big record.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:53am From: Ken

What label did this Psych Furs comne out on?

Wed. 9/23/09 9:54am From: Bad Ronald

Psych Furs yeah!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:54am From: Bad Ronald

Columbia

Wed. 9/23/09 9:54am From: dc pat

wasn't a major like Epic or something?

Wed. 9/23/09 9:55am From: dc pat

Furs: first 2 albums ruled but I saw them the same year I saw Bow Wow Wow and BWW blew them away.

Wed. 9/23/09 9:56am From: Bad Ronald

I think the Album is "Forever Now"

Wed. 9/23/09 9:57am From: Bad Ronald

"Talk Talk Talk" is the one w/"Pretty In Pink" on it...

Wed. 9/23/09 9:57am From: ttrish

wikipedia says columbia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychedelic_Furs#Albums

Wed. 9/23/09 9:58am From: Dan B

I love this Space Junko tune, but I can't seem to find it anywhere...

Wed. 9/23/09 9:58am From: Janet H

Good Morning!

Wed. 9/23/09 9:59am From: dc pat

I think Bad Ron's right about the album: Forever Now

Wed. 9/23/09 10:00am From: Mark

Bez is still alive?

Wed. 9/23/09 10:00am From: bb

ah ken..i would like to see bez and those psych furs

Wed. 9/23/09 10:01am From: Bad Ronald

I could dig seeing the Furs...

Wed. 9/23/09 10:01am From: Alex

Oh Yes... Your playlist is soooo interesting Ken! Know gimme those tix!@

Wed. 9/23/09 10:02am From: john from oslo

(rocktober)

Wed. 9/23/09 10:02am From: dc pat

not me, boy. Once was enough, as I said above, they blew. What's his face, the bass player was yelling at the audience for not being into it...but that was 20 some years ago...

Wed. 9/23/09 10:02am From: Mark

Bez in 2007:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bez-2007.jpg

Wed. 9/23/09 10:04am From: Mark

well if you're going to have Nora Ephron I would guess Meryl Streep

Wed. 9/23/09 10:05am From: Bad Ronald

They were good when I saw them tour "Forever Now", they had a cellist and Richard Butler smoked through the entire set...

Wed. 9/23/09 10:05am From: Gigantor

Ooh, haven't heard this in a while!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:07am From: ttrish

BBC In Pictures : Sydney Dust Storm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8270495.stm

Wed. 9/23/09 10:08am From: Ken

Anybody know, did these two Johnny Cash in German tunes ever come out on an album?

Wed. 9/23/09 10:11am From: Ken

Bad Ronald - The tix are yours! Email me at ken at wfmu dot org to collect your winnings.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:11am From: charlie c.

digging those two old vinyl pics!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:12am From: heinz

You mentioned Spotify. Spotify is actually Swedish. Eilert is there as well as Philemon Arthur & the Dung, Elakeleiset etc, but not Peter Wahlbeck
Hello from Sweden

Wed. 9/23/09 10:12am From: Mark

http://www.amazon.com/Wo-Ist-Zu-Hause-Mama/dp/B00000AX1D

Wed. 9/23/09 10:12am From: Parq

I saw the Furs in 1980, when they were touring to support their first album. There were still nine guys in the band at the time. Over the years, I watched them shrink to a trio.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:13am From: cribley

The Unissued Johnny Cash

http://www.amazon.com/Unissued-Johnny-Cash-johnny-cash/dp/B00196SMH2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1253715128&sr=1-1

Track listing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unissued_Johnny_Cash

Wed. 9/23/09 10:14am From: cribley

Only $50 on vinyl.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:15am From: Bad Ronald

Done, thanks Ken!!!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:17am From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

I would actually attend church if they played music like this Jump for Joy.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:17am From: Devin

Good morning all! ... Ken this Campbell Brothers tune has such an awesome sound!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:18am From: Ken

Need a label for this Les Paul if anybody can help...

Wed. 9/23/09 10:18am From: bb

also a record called the man in black international. evidently with songs in german and spanish http://german.about.com/library/blmus_jcash.htm

Wed. 9/23/09 10:19am From: Sitting at the side of my bed.

Wondering when the second shoe is gonna drop.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:20am From: Bad Ronald

Capitol I think for Les Paul...

Wed. 9/23/09 10:25am From: JCityJensen

morning Ken! morning People!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:25am From: annie

brigitte bardot turns 75!!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:25am From: Ken

Sorry to keep asking for your help, but can anybopdy find the label for this American Yodeling comp? (Were in a playlist reporting period in case you didnt notice...) Thanks for the research help everybody! Maybe some artists will actually get paid from all this...

Wed. 9/23/09 10:26am From: Yodeling forever

Hey Ken - Did you borrow these songs from the Old Codger? I Love YODELING!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:28am From: listener mark

Hello Ken, This is all so much better in high speed internet. No more dial up connection.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:28am From: Mark

Trikont for yodelers

Wed. 9/23/09 10:28am From: wha?

Is that Tom Hanks on the car hood?

Wed. 9/23/09 10:29am From: Hugo

Hi Ken. It's on the Trikont label, based in Munich, Germany. I do have that yodelling comp.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:29am From: Peter K.

Allmusic.com gives the label for that Les Paul compilation as "Universe." That may be a typo for Universal, or it may be some kind of semi-legit, possibly bootleg label. The CD contains material Paul recorded for both Decca and Capitol; I think "Steel Guitar Rag" is a Decca recording. If I learn more, I'll let you know.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:30am From: Bad Ronald

typo on Russian radio link. It should be:

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2009/09/09/russian_radio_small.jpg

Wed. 9/23/09 10:30am From: dc pat

I'm seeing Vocalion label for the Dezurik Sisters

Wed. 9/23/09 10:30am From: Mark

gosh Malaikat Dan Singa isn't out officially until November 3

Wed. 9/23/09 10:31am From: BSI

alert! We've hit squeaky droneville!
brain vitamins!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:32am From: Mark

http://www.amazon.com/American-Yodeling-1911-1946-Various-Artists/dp/B0000257GW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1253716313&sr=8-1

Wed. 9/23/09 10:32am From: dc pat

ok, never mind.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:32am From: ozzy skateboard

ken gives good sax

Wed. 9/23/09 10:33am From: Peter K.

Amazon gives Universe Italy as the label for the Les Paul box. It also gives the title as "Isle of Golden Dreams," even though the song is called "My. Island of Golden Dreams."

Wed. 9/23/09 10:33am From: dc pat

that was the original release

Wed. 9/23/09 10:34am From: anyone to everything

there ya go

Wed. 9/23/09 10:34am From: C

that sublime freq stuff is a gift that keeps on giving.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:35am From: still b/p

No Russian socialism!
No British nationalization!
No Canadian bureacracy!
No Brazilian wax!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:36am From: memphis jake

this daw bandon track is hot. gotta get this.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:36am From: anyone to everyONE

d'oh

Wed. 9/23/09 10:37am From: ttrish

no American cheese !

Wed. 9/23/09 10:38am From: C

no public opinion
no single players
no social networking

Wed. 9/23/09 10:39am From: BSI

U.S. out of North America!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:39am From: Bob

no woman
no cry

Wed. 9/23/09 10:40am From: sonar from DC

Couldn't wait to log on this morning to get my ken fix...speaking of beatniks. I once had a mix tape a friend made for me of beatnik nihilistic poems and coffee-house music. It was great. I lost the tape. Does anyone know where I can get beatnik coffee-house music/poems?

Wed. 9/23/09 10:41am From: ozzy skateboard

no public showers
no singing carolers
no social diseases

Wed. 9/23/09 10:41am From: ttrish

No Nose !

Wed. 9/23/09 10:41am From: Doug in Canada

Watch out for the socialism ... lose your roosters, and poor people getting free stuff ... beware.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:42am From: Hugo

That Thai stuff sounded slightly up-country to me. Would be great to hear Carabou on FMU, though only available on cassette back in the day. Thai country rocks!

Wed. 9/23/09 10:42am From: jojo

i was asked the same, although "where's your house" is also relevant

Wed. 9/23/09 10:49am From: -max-

Morning Ken, Sweden, et al. Late start today. Saw Arrington de Dionyso (who is appearing on 7SD tonight) on Monday night at the Musicka Mystica Maxima Festival in NYC. He was using a Tuvan throat singing technique with several various instruments. It was pretty incredible, actually.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:54am From: Doug in Canada

If there's one song that gives me that nauseating 70's feeling ... it's Baker Street ... I can almost get over that with this version ... almost ...

Wed. 9/23/09 10:56am From: dc pat

Baker Street always reminds me of one of those summers we drove from PA down to FLA to see my AuntUncleCousin. 16 hours or so stuck in a car listening to this song over and over and over and...among other tunes.

Wed. 9/23/09 10:58am From: ozzy skateboard

do I hear the slippery sound of a actual cassette tape?

Wed. 9/23/09 10:59am From: Carmichael

Good day, Ken and faithful listeners.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:01am From: C

hey, that's a pic of me chillin' on the couch after MY tonsillectomy

Wed. 9/23/09 11:05am From: Carmichael

Hey Ken, it's Springsteen's birthday! How about mixing him with some Wiggles??

Wed. 9/23/09 11:06am From: Bruce

Son, take a good look around.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:07am From: memphis jake

sweet breckman dub mix, ken.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:08am From: Joe Steele

Wow, Ken played something that I bought before it got played on FMU. I feel cool.

You know its Coltrane's birthday too.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:09am From: Peter K.

Today is not only Bruce Springsteen's birthday; it's John Coltrane's and Ray Charles's too. Quite a day...

Wed. 9/23/09 11:09am From: Carmichael

John or Chi?

Wed. 9/23/09 11:10am From: paul

oh foot village. what do you expect with a cd with naked people on the cover

Wed. 9/23/09 11:12am From: -max-

I will atone, by helping this Swedish man with his melons...

Wed. 9/23/09 11:20am From: C

hey ken, will you guys be giving away funny cigarettes tonight?

Wed. 9/23/09 11:22am From: dea

whats funny???

Wed. 9/23/09 11:24am From: BSI

Having to do with nothing: BSI live at Velvet Lounge DC tonight. Part of the Sonic Circuits fest.

No live version of Corn Weenie this time: that sort of madness could never be repeated.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:25am From: ATF

when is tonight?

Wed. 9/23/09 11:26am From: C

uh...regular ol' cigarettes with jokes wrtten on them...that's all i mean by funny sir.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:26am From: dc pat

BSI: Ah, may be there...

Wed. 9/23/09 11:27am From: kEN

No, no funny cigarettes tonight. Andy has a way of extracting the humor out of them.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:30am From: C

will there be any funny tonight?

Wed. 9/23/09 11:31am From: Ken

Anybody have time to find the album and label on this Karol Y Su Amor track?

Wed. 9/23/09 11:32am From: Ken

Yes, there will be funny tonight. Just no funny cigarettes this time.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:33am From: Ghengis Jung

I have a Sun City Girls record with this song on it... Weird.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:36am From: Ike

I must admit I'm stumped by this one.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:37am From: still b/p

I have Llorando Se Fue by different artist at a different tempo in a mixed Latin CD, included as a Lambada...the forbidden dance!

Wed. 9/23/09 11:39am From: Ghengis Jung

The Sun City Girls version is called The Shining Path, from Torch of the Mystics.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:40am From: north guinea hills

i always thought the penetraso* was the forbidden dance.

*not obscure.

Wed. 9/23/09 11:45am From: paul

does zatumba get royalties if he's listed on the playlist?

Wed. 9/23/09 11:45am From: sherri

your dj speaks

Wed. 9/23/09 11:51am From: Ghengis Jung

Zatumba Nilsson - related to Harry?

Wed. 9/23/09 11:51am From: BSI

holy crap!

Wed. 9/23/09 11:57am From: paul

WRSU!!!!!!

Wed. 9/23/09 11:57am From: Avant Reguard

lovely visual representations to the 1258th set youve ever done. listening out of berlin. if you want more german influenced art check out this film
http://www.vimeo.com/6209093

Wed. 9/23/09 11:58am From: Ike

I think you made up some of those radio stations. Or some of them no longer exist.

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