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

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

    Eye Ear Echos Echos echos from May 24, 2024

    Eye Ear Echos Echos echos from May 24, 2024

    The Vampires of Dartmoore - "Der Henker Von Dartmoore" - Dracula's Music Cabinet

    Elisabeth Schimana - "Homage a Max Brand (2017)" - Electroacoustic Music & Sound Art from Austria 30

    Coil - "Main Title" - The Unreleased Themes For Hellraiser

    Vladimir Ussachevsky - "Piece for Tape Recorder (1956)" - Music For Electronic & Older Instruments

    Beatriz Ferreyra - "Echos" - Cultures Électroniques 14

    Paul Dolden - "Physics of Seduction, Invocation #3 (excerpt)" - L'ivresse de la Vitesse

    Giampiero Boneschi - "Oakum" - A New Sensation in Sounds Vol.2

    Yeast Culture - "Transplant" - Yeast Culture

    Abigail - "A Witch Named Aspilcuetta" - Intercourse and Lust

    Robert Fesler - "Aurora" - μP RPF78

    Michael Garrison - "To The Other Side Of The Sky" - Space, Energy & Light (Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88)

    Miguel Velazquez - "Cumbia de Sal" - Cumbias en Moog
    https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/140285

    • 1 hr 10 min
    Jazz on a Summer's Day from May 17, 2024

    Jazz on a Summer's Day from May 17, 2024

    Shellac - "I Don't Fear Hell" - To All trains

    Azalia Snail - "Take Away His Power" - Power Lover

    Jacques LeJeune - "Déploration De La Mère De Blanche Neige" - Blanche Neige: Suite Musicale En 14 Tableaux De Jacques Lejeune Pour Dire Le Conte Et Danser Avec Les Enfants

    Le Syndicat Electronique - "Close To You" - Retrospect(r)ive 1998-2005

    Canadian Electronic Ensemble - "Arnold (excerpt)" - Canadian Electronic Ensemble

    Lamartine - "Discoccupzione" - Reportage (Musica elettronica da LAMARTINE)

    Michael Prime - "Nepenthes (excerpt)" - Borneo

    Cort Lippe - "Music for Bass Clarinet and Tape (excerpt)" - Computer Music Journal Sound Anthology 26

    Ensemble Laborintus - "For Harp and Percussion" - et Paris

    Daphne Oram - "Bird of Paralax (excerpt)" - Oramics

    Milton Delugg - "Mummy" - Music For Monsters, Munsters, Mummies and other TV Fiends

    Meatball Fulton - "Four Tentacles and a Red Fez" - RUBY: The Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe

    Andy T. - "Jazz on a Summer's Day" - Bullshit Detector

    Wolf Eyes - "Unsplattered Time (excerpt)" - Unsplattered Time

    Aphex Twin - "Minipops 67 (slo field mix)" - Syro
    https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/140054

    • 1 hr 4 min
    R.I.P. Steve Albini from May 10, 2024

    R.I.P. Steve Albini from May 10, 2024

    Big Black - "Intro" - Talks About F*****g

    Big Black - "Interview" - Rema Rema

    Big Black - "Kerosene" - Nothing Short Of A Total War v/a

    Big Black - "Cables" - Bulldozer EP

    Big Black - "Grinder" - Headache EP

    Big Black - "The Model" - b/w He's A Whore

    Big Black - "Kitty Empire" - Songs About F*****g

    Big Black - "Bad Penny" - Last Blast

    Rapeman - "Budd" - Budd EP

    Rapeman - "Kim Gordon's Panties" - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule

    Shellac - "Wingwalker" - Uranus 7"

    Shellac - "Riding Bikes" - Dude Incredible

    Shellac - "Prayer To God" - 1000 Hurts

    Steve Albini - "...On The Music Industry" - n/a
    https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/139793

    • 1 hr 24 min
    Cicada Watch '24 from May 2, 2024

    Cicada Watch '24 from May 2, 2024

    John M Bennett & Adam Naworal - "Blast Off the Wing" - Chance Encounters Vol.5

    Bourbonese Qualk - "Outcry" - Preparing for Power

    P16. D4 - "ANR" - V.R.N.L.

    Lin Ling & the Silvertones - "Forget But Can't Forget You" - Singapore Nuggets, The Ladies (V/A)

    Angus Maclise - "electronic mix for "expanded cinema"" - NY Electronic 1965

    Nicolas Collins - "A Clearing of Deadness at One Hoarse Pool" - Let The State Make The Selection

    Carlo Maria Cordio - "Rosso Sangue" - Pieces soundtrack

    Blackhouse - "Halo Hearth" - 5 Minutes After I DIe

    Kevin Harrison - "The Cantonese Detective Agency" - Inscrutibly Obvious

    Francois Bayle - "III La Preuve Par le Sens" - L'Experience Acoustique

    Rashad Becker - "Dances II" - Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I

    Carlos Giffoni - "The Hidden Path" - Dream Walker

    Sonic Youth - "Bad Mood (She's in...)" - Confusion is Sex

    SS Decontrol - "Fight Them" - The Kids Will Have Their Say

    A Trois Dans Les WC (aka 3WC) - "Contagion" - BIPPP : French Synth​-​Wave 1979​/​85 (v/a)

    :Zoviet*France: - "At The Moment" - Look Into Me
    https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/139521

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Irrational Amalgamations from Apr 26, 2024

    Irrational Amalgamations from Apr 26, 2024

    Water Melon Group - "Gag 2" - Snakeman Show Presents Melon And Exotic Sounds Of Water Melon Group

    Perfect Mother - "Ephemeral Pieces" - You'll So No Wit

    İlhan Mimaroğlu - "Prelude IX for Magnetic Tape" - Face The Windmills, Turn Left

    Les Vampyrettes - "Biomutanten" - Les Vampyrettes 12"

    Mar Vista - "Visions part 1 (Her Eyes Are Closed)" - Kiosque D'Orphée (Une Epopée De L'Autoproduction En France - 1973/1991)

    Charles Cohen - "UTEP2" - A Retrospective

    Stelvio Cipriani - "Blind Man's Arrival" - Blind Man

    Kitchen And The Plastic Spoons - "Blätta" - Best Off

    Leæther Strip - "Zyklon B" - Retention no.2

    Last Days of Humanity - "Slitthered Limbs" - Goresurrection

    C. Spencer Yeh, Okkyung Lee, & Lasse Marhaug - "The Mermen of Poetry" - Wake Up Awesome

    Curtis Roads - "Now" - Point Line Cloud

    Pan Sonic - "Vaihtovirta" - Aaltopiiri

    Randy Greif & Dan Burke - "Just Drift Away" - Fragment 56
    https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/139325

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Faster Than the Speed of Mud from Apr 13, 2024

    Faster Than the Speed of Mud from Apr 13, 2024

    Egil Kalman - "Blågeten" - Egil Kalman plays the Buchla 200

    Ian Boddy - "At Set Points" - Rising from the Red Sand - Volume Four

    John Mcguire - "Pulse Music III (excerpt)" - Pulse Music

    Gary Kail / Zurich 1916 - "Interconnected Amplifier Feedback Loop Piece #2 Section B & D" - Creative Nihilism

    İlhan Mimaroğlu - "Le Tombeau D'Edgar Poe" - Electronic Music

    Herbert Brun - "Futility 1964" - Electronic Music From The University Of Illinois

    Nico Fidenco - "Cannibals at Work" - Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali / Zombi Holocaust

    Ron Geesin - "A Raise of Eyebrows (excerpt)" - A Raise Of Eyebrows

    101 Strings - "Flameout" - Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000

    The Nightcrawlers - "Particle Dance" - Shadows of Lights
    https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138884

    • 56 min

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I've been a long time noiser, I guess you could say. I moved up to Vermont and its hard to find the kind of music I was accustomed to when I lived in Philly. My co-workers listen to classic rock and nu-metal radio at work and my head was going to explode. This podcast has saved me hours of relentlessly mashing my head against the nearest wall. Thank you.

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