Favoriting The Long Rally with Scott McDowell: Playlist from September 26, 2018 Favoriting

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Drawing an endless knot. Improvised, international, American, old, abstract, other.

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Favoriting September 26, 2018: Head in the Clouds

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Artist Track Album Label Approx. start time
Grachan Moncur III  Hipnosis   Favoriting     0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Temptations  Psychedelic Shack   Favoriting Psychedelic Shack    0:09:10 (Pop-up)
Count Basie Trio  Baby Lawrence   Favoriting For the First Time  Pablo  0:13:11 (Pop-up)
Perry Robinson  Traveler   Favoriting Traveler  Chiaroscuro Records  0:16:25 (Pop-up)
 
The Clean  At the Bottom   Favoriting Oddities    0:24:38 (Pop-up)
Astral Blessing  A   Favoriting Astral Blessing  Mad Monk  0:28:51 (Pop-up)
Headroom  Flower of Light   Favoriting Head in the Clouds  Trouble In Mind  0:45:43 (Pop-up)
Majutsu No Niwa 魔術の庭  Grand Okeanos   Favoriting At the End of Summer  Music Atlach  0:54:52 (Pop-up)
 
Eleventh Dream Day  Watching the Candles Burn   Favoriting Prairie School Freakout  Amoeba  1:08:34 (Pop-up)
Deux Maisons  Two Balconies   Favoriting For Sale  Clean Feed  1:12:20 (Pop-up)
David S. Ware  African Drums   Favoriting Surrendered  DIW  1:16:21 (Pop-up)
 
Sakata / Laswell / Drake / Cosey  Kaigara-Bushi   Favoriting Fisherman's.com  Trost  1:39:31 (Pop-up)
Dharma Quintet  Cirrus   Favoriting End Starting  Souffle Continu  1:47:58 (Pop-up)
75 Dollar Bill  Slow Jumper's Harp   Favoriting Wooden Bag  Other Music Recording Co.  1:55:59 (Pop-up)
 
East of the Valley Blues  Ressemblera, Pt. II   Favoriting Ressemblara  Astral Spirits  2:04:29 (Pop-up)
Olson/Case/Hardiman  Part 3   Favoriting March of the Mutilated Vol. 3  Tape Drift  2:16:41 (Pop-up)
Low  Rome (Always in the Dark)   Favoriting Double Negative  Sub Pop  2:23:20 (Pop-up)
Mark Fell  INTRA-6   Favoriting     2:27:14 (Pop-up)
Barker Trio  New Wolves, Old Bones   Favoriting Barker Trio  Phantom Ear Music  2:28:57 (Pop-up)
 
Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble  The Early Bird   Favoriting Live in Antibes Vol. 1  BYG/Actuel  2:39:38 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 9:03am
Cheri Pi:

Greetings
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Scott McDowell:

Yo!
  9:06am
Marley Dogg:

Güten morgen
Avatar 9:06am
doncaballero:

What up, everyone!?
Avatar 9:07am
mb:

Top o’ the morning
Avatar 9:07am
Lixiviated Life:

Ok everyone... rally caps
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07am
Sebastian:

dum dum duuuum
  9:08am
?:

><((*>
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Undead83:

><((*> ><((*>
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Rally time!
Avatar 9:10am
TDK60:

Hello Scott,.. the Temps!
Avatar 9:11am
Rev. Turnip Druid:

Who has carrot cake?
Avatar 9:12am
sphere:

psychedelic shack!!!
  9:13am
listener Rey:

Hey Scott. Great start to my Wednesday morning
Avatar 9:13am
glenn:

i'm anti carrot cake, and pro zucchini loaf.
Avatar 9:16am
glenn:

but in all other carrot - zucchini battles, i'm pro carrot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20am
Fuzzy:

No right channel ???
Avatar 9:22am
Lixiviated Life:

More Monk (w/ the bent note funk)
Avatar 9:24am
glenn:

kee-aro-scuro. in italian, h hardens the letter preceding it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:25am
Scott McDowell:

Ah thanks!
Avatar 9:25am
Lixiviated Life:

"looking for ken"?
but.. why?
is he missing?
  Swag For Life Member 9:26am
destructo:

Heh... the live stream player is currently linking to a One Direction live DVD
  9:27am
fredr:

Morning Scott! Nice to hear you early at this time.
Avatar 9:27am
Chris from DC:

Hello. Yay, The Clean!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:29am
fred:

Good Morning Scott and listeners
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31am
The Oscar:

@destructo I saw that before I read the artist name, and thought "Man, I guess I should give One Direction a chance!"
  Swag For Life Member 9:33am
destructo:

@The Oscar - yeah! I was thinking wow, they have really grown as musicians
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34am
crateslinger:

I'm excited. Good luck Scott. Change is good, except when it comes with arthritis.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36am
coelacanth∅:

good morning Scott & others
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36am
AnAnonymousParty:

My arthritis makes it hard for me to pick up change sometimes.
Avatar 9:38am
Pablo:

Hello brovuhh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:53am
Scott McDowell:

Hey !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00am
Planet Tyler:

Hey there Scott, welcome to your new time slot. It's especially working for this rainy day!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02am
Scott McDowell:

: )
Avatar 10:11am
Chris from DC:

Nice, love Prairie School Freakout.
Avatar 10:14am
βrian:

Blue skies over the isthmus today. Good morning.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16am
coelacanth∅:

watching the candles burn sounded like mission of burma to me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17am
coelacanth∅:

(esp the first song on vs. ...or maybe the first song on side 2 of vs.?)
Avatar 10:21am
duke:

This David S. Ware track is one of my all time favorite peices
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21am
coelacanth∅:

rest in peace David.
  10:25am
melinda:

Hi everyone
Avatar 10:29am
βrian:

Salut, melinda. Where's the giant fish?
Avatar 10:31am
Wild Neil||Peace All:

Raining in Buffalo today. VERY humid in the lab, 72%/ Yuk, sticky and kind of lukewarm and confusing. Like a Nickelback concert! (reference: bigfoot ads on tv. heh!).
David S. Ware reminds me of AMAZING Coltrane or other saxaphone greats. Wow!
  10:33am
jimndenver:

so great to hear jazz again on WFMU. great job scott!
Avatar 10:36am
Wild Neil||Peace All:

Toronto has a "world class" jazz station but I gave up listening to it because there is SO MUCH shitty jazz out there. It got really annoying, yuk. FMU consistently plays far far better jazz.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:41am
coelacanth∅:

i'll be listening in the car for a while Scott THANKS!
tchau
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:48am
northguineahills:

The NPR station's jazz show here is usually 90% smooth jazz crap, but occasionally they'll play Coltrane or Pharoah....
Avatar 10:55am
Wild Neil||Peace All:

@NGH-it's like country music. There is some good stuff out there, but you must seek it out. Its like fusion...most of it is crap.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

I THOUGHT this was 75 Dollar Bill!
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duke:

Great stuff today Scott
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Chris from DC:

Just saw Che Chen with David Watson this summer, amazing show.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

File this one to Joe McGasko's Surface Noise program, I guess.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05am
northguineahills:

My car plays 20+ year old cdrs usually perfectly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05am
Scott McDowell:

Haha! totally
Avatar 11:06am
Rocky Horror:

The is what happens when you DON'T take care of your CDs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:08am
Scott McDowell:

No stopping DISK ROT it comes for all of us. : )
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:10am
Rich in Washington:

I wished i had of named my late 80s band DISK ROT. It would've been really prophetic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:12am
Rich in Washington:

I have a few really early CD purchases that are now starting to become unplayable. And I take really, really good care of my CDs. A couple of them are early Shimmy Disc CD releases. Hmmm...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:14am
Scott McDowell:

CD-Rs man, CDs generally OK.
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crateslinger:

Strange that the degradation is audible like that instead of being just a general depletion in digital data leading to a collapse in functionality. After all it is not a mechanical thing, like a tape or an lp.
Avatar 11:15am
Wild Neil||Peace All:

All my CDs are stored vertically. Some skip. I was told in the 80's they would "last forever". Guess not!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15am
Scott McDowell:

DISK ROT is REAL
  11:15am
Dean:

PDO, a British CD manufacturer, produced a huge number of CDs during the late '80s to early '90s that gradually burned to toast. They remedied the situation in two ways. First, they adjusted their production specs to avoid the issue. Second, they replaced free of charge any affected CDs. I must have replaced about fifty of them through the '90s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16am
crateslinger:

of course I don't know how anything works, so whatever.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

@Dean-are they still honoring that deal??
  11:18am
Dean:

Good question, @WildNeil. If you can find PDO (if they still exist), it's worth a try. But you'll have to identify them as the manufacturer of the disks. I was buying heavily in a number of classical labels for whom they produced disks (Hyperion, Pearl, ASV, etc.), so it was relatively easy to find the bronzing items.
  11:19am
Dean:

Usually, "PDO" appeared on the inner ring, what in vinyl parlance we'd call the "run out."
  11:20am
Dan Bodah:

Loved that East of the Valley Blues piece Scott
  11:24am
mjgoins:

This low song is the best
Avatar 11:24am
Chris from DC:

Really need to hear more of that Olson/Case/Hardiman.
  11:27am
Listener Gregory:

I am finding some CDs that will not play in my player but can be read by my computer. Presumably, they are in the process of degrading, and I have to digitize them ASAP.
Avatar 11:28am
Wild Neil||Peace All:

Like a dummy, I gave away 350 albums in 1994. Duh! Because they "were hard to move from apartment to apartment". Boy, I am the KING of bad decisions!
  11:28am
Ed Zeppole:

I saw Low last week at two of their shows @ National Sawdust and as usual, they were phenominal. The new tunes had a more minimal feel live and they played a number of great tunes from the past. National Sawdust is an amazing venue by the way.
Avatar 11:31am
βrian:

Thanks for the excellent show, Scott. Gotta run.
Avatar 11:33am
Carmichael:

Heya Scott and folks. Finally, a plain white homepage! I can't look at some of the others (hear that, Warwick?).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:33am
Rich in Washington:

@Wild Neil||Peace All: Don't feel bad. I've done that both with large chunks of both my CD and record collection at a couple of points in my life. I sometimes agonize over how many records I would have now if not for the two or three purges I've done.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:33am
crateslinger:

If you type in some computer code wrong by one character, you don't get a program that just runs sorta - you get nothing. It simply doesn't work. Well sometimes it runs glitchy, but mostly it just fails altogether. So if a digital compact disk format is deteriorating, some of the data is gone - whether audio or some other type of data. How does that fail to translate as a broken sequence. Anybody?
  11:34am
Listener Gregory:

I am right now digitizing my favorite CD-R: Larks They Crazy, by Robin Holcomb, based on this scary conversation.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35am
Rich in Washington:

I think the last time I did it in around 2003/4 was 'I can find ANYTHING on the web! Who needs CDs?'.
And local used stores still had a really good exchange rate for CDs.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

@Crateslinger-well, they run in parallel, not serially so it gracefully degrades!
Just kidding, no idea whatsofing ever.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35am
crateslinger:

A deteriorated CD should not play at all. There's a lot of smart people in here. Somebody should be able to explain this to a dumbie like me. Or are we all artists?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36am
crateslinger:

You had me for a second Neil... parallel. Good one!
  11:36am
Listener Gregory:

@crateslinger, I think CD players have different error correction procedures.
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Rich in Washington:

I don't know why but I have found that is the case, that a CD that won't play on a CD player can often be read by a computer's optical drive. I have backed up many a questionable CD/CDR that way.
I too would like to know why, though.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Updating ISO documents.
"Get all excited and going to a yawn festival!"
-Steve Martin, "A Wild and Funny Guy".
  11:37am
mjgoins:

I thought when a CD degrades, it just doesn't play sound at all, though?
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Mine skip like a MF. Some tracks still work.
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crateslinger:

Lis Greg - but if the data is simply not there... the player makes it up? Like a session man.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38am
steveo:

this is monk, right?
  11:39am
hendrix wolfbat:

Are you sure we'll be able to turn on the lights if Facebook is gone?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39am
Barney Grubbs:

More likely the coating degrades and scatters the laser that is reading the data, so the data are still there but the read-out is being interfered with to various degrees depending on the local degradation level?
  11:39am
mjgoins:

CDs are purely digital with respect to how they store information. They store a literal series of ones and zeroes, using a special encoding that contains error correction. That stream of data then is translated into another stream of ones and zeros that make up bytes or words, which I think are 16 bits long, representing sound samples at 44.1khz

So if the "outer" digital encoding degrades, the error correction should just fail, and the bad samples should just get skipped.
  11:39am
hendrix wolfbat:

Ie: no Facebook? No electricity
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40am
Rich in Washington:

I understand that the plastic component of CDs can be the unstable element. I used to work in plastics and there are all kinds of things that can go wrong in their formulation to make plastics start to degrade.
I guess. I don't know. I DO know that one of my aforementioned Shimmy releases has what looks like holes in the foil component. I have no idea how that can happen. The plastic is otherwise unmarked.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40am
crateslinger:

it would be funny if some of the missing music was replaced by the player. They could take things in different directions. We could be like, "Whoa man, that was deep." Really old cd's would just be free jazz improv different everyday.
  11:40am
Listener Gregory:

The data don't all disappear at once. It's a continuous process, like fading a book cover in the sun. When it starts, some readers might be lost, but others can fill in the few missing points. NB: All CDs have some missing data, because manufacturing is not prefect.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40am
Scott McDowell:

Yes
  11:41am
mjgoins:

I suppose if the CD player is doing its best to play each valid sample, but skips each bad sample, in real time, you would get white noise playing over your music.
  11:41am
Listener Gregory:

I have a Peter Brotzmann CD that looks like it has fungus, but it's not on the surface. I've lost about half of the music. Total bummer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42am
crateslinger:

This is a future genre. Multiple depleted cd's playing at once. Preferable with accompanied by a laser light show in the planetarium.
  11:42am
Listener Gregory:

@mjgoins, For short intervals the player might guess what sound should be there, which is often somewhat predictable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42am
Scott McDowell:

@hendrix wolfbat, yes to no electricity! poof gone. : )
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43am
crateslinger:

I haven't played a cd or cdr in ten years. I should dig them out and see what kind of historical documents I have created.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44am
crateslinger:

Never took them seriously.
  11:44am
Listener Gregory:

To be clear, I do not actually know what I am talking about.
  11:44am
hendrix wolfbat:

@Scott Mcdowell well no electricity would also mean no WFMU, which would leave an enormous grand canyon sized hole in my life at this point.
  Swag For Life Member 11:44am
destructo:

nothing to do but hire an army of people to rip all my CDs and etch the ones and zeroes into stone tablets, to be buried with me in my sarcophagus
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Joel St. Germain:

Perfect weekday morning show for me. Awesome having you back on the air, Scott.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:47am
steveo:

@hendrx we could all move to jersey city and gather around as djs played records with hand crank victrolas
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49am
crateslinger:

I remember when WFMU was one of the only reasons I had to remain in NYC. Can somebody remind me why I'm still here?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50am
steveo:

it's where the crates need slinging?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51am
crateslinger:

haha. Yeah I guess so.
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

Let's all get real sentimental about CDs like we did about albums in the 90's. Except albums might actually last longer! NOW I see why the national archives store music on 78's!
@Crateslinger-you are there because you can find almost any art form or music you want. Certainly NOT because it's a bargain!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52am
northguineahills:

@crateslinger: I left NYC, and I'm listening to WFMU....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53am
northguineahills:

I had someone last night like my WFMU shirt. She then downloaded the app....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54am
crateslinger:

Neill I'm in bed by 8:30 every night.

NGH - exactly my point...
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Wild Neil||Peace All:

I LIKE owning 0.49 acres of lawn I have to mow every thursday when its warm enough for grass to grow. It is my tiny kingdom of malfunctioning plumbing, electrical, roofing and windows and doors. It's the most valuable thing I don't own yet.
  11:56am
hendrix wolfbat:

@Steveo ok sounds good. I'll bring the marshmallows...lol.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57am
crateslinger:

Five years ago, when I moved out of my apartment of 18 years, the last thing I removed was a wire antenna strung around the place, painted over like four times, that I had to install when I first moved in so I could pick up WFMU. It's actually hard to get the terrestrial signal in Brooklyn unless you're in a car. Manhattan is a huge pile of RF interference between me and my beloved.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58am
northguineahills:

Thanks Scott, awesome vibes!
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crateslinger:

This is an awesome show by the way. I gotta go build some boxes. Thanks Scott!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58am
northguineahills:

@crateslinger: I was streaming WFMU in the 90s before I moved to NYC.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59am
crateslinger:

NGH - I started streaming then too but before that it was a struggle. Bye Scott!
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doncaballero:

Thanks Scott! Great show.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

As long as "Hipnosis" doesn't succumb to disk rot, we're going to be OK.
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