This week’s edition of Mindtrain served as a four-hour preview of the upcoming IAMINDUST experimental music festival. The festival happens over the course of three nights, November 10-11-12, at The Lab in San Francisco. Over twenty artists from the Bay Area and beyond are slated to perform at the festival, including Chrome, Illusion Of Safety, Thomas Dimuzio, Instagon, John Trubee, Nux Vomica and others. The program presented selections by virtually all of the featured artists, including many archival recordings and unreleased tracks, giving special focus to the the definitive work of longstanding post-Industrial sound artist Dan Burke aka Illusion Of Safety.

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Playlist for Mindtrain 15 – 08 November 2011

• Dan Burke & Thomas Dimuzio – Deregulation / Closed Circuit / Upcoming Events – Upcoming Events

• Night At Noon – Untitled – Unreleased
• Kwisp – Teriyaki Vest Odyssey – Teriyaki Vest Odyssey
• Nerfbau – Claws – Unreleased
• Headboggle – Green Glass And Land Preserve Surround – Unreleased
• The Rubber-O-Cement Speculum Fight – Small Dimethyl Bird Scalp Punch “Sd10” I/O Interface / “D1” 16 Line Digital Mad Foot Rocket Twist Envelope “5die2” File Bubble Airplane Skin Cellar 7)SEPSIS / HIGH CELL BIND ECHO: a) Hair Composition For Red Rubber Band Cable, b) Infection, Contamination – Medusan Magnetic Tape Hair-Head Autocorrelation
• Nerfbau – Frozen Meat Leaker Locker – (Triskaidekaphobia) 13,000.00 Milliseconds (Compilation)

• Dark Muse – Once Amid A Dream – The Fossil Dungeon Program No. 2 (Compilation)
• Sci-Hi – Untitled – Urban Space Music, Vol. 1
• James Goode – Spatio-Sensory Installation (Excerpt) – Audio Odditions Kompilation III: The IAMINDUST Chronicles 2008 (Compilation)
• Death Of The West – Palace Of Swords – Unreleased
• Future Blondes – Live At SXSW 3/15/2011 (Excerpt) – Unreleased
• Chrome – I Am The Jaw – Read Only Memory
• John Trubee – Angelic Overview – Radio Tokyo Tapes, Vol. 2 (Compilation)

• Thomas Dimuzio – Admonium – 8th Annual Outsound New Music Summit (Compilation)
• Instagon – Xtra Luggage Fee – Auricular Audio Magazine #15 (Compilation)
• The Deglet Noor Fakirs – Live At Jawbone Canyon (Excerpt) – Unreleased
• Nux Vomica – Levitation Into Air – The Crowning Of Nature
• Cursed Chimera – Filth Is What You Made – The Glitch PATH
• Nux Vomica – Intelligibles And Visibles – The Crowning Of Nature
• Noisepsalm – 23rd AbDUBction – Auricular Audio Magazine #13 (Compilation)
• Cloud Shepherd – Adaptive Happenstance – Future Now
• Nihil Communication – We Are Violent – We Are Violent
• Cursed Chimera – Taste Of Failure – The Glitch PATH
• Illusion Of Safety – Projection Needs A Hook – In Session

• Illusion Of Safety – Tolerance – In Session
• Illusion Of Safety – Puer / Lilt – Of & The

• Thomas Dimuzio – Live At IAMINDUST 2010 (Excerpt) – Unreleased

I’ve been planning this show for months now, pulling albums and tracks from my library of dark and disturbing music and adding them to an enormous playlist in iTunes. This past week I went through that playlist, weeding out many selections and keeping only the darkest and scariest examples of spooktacular music from many of my favorite artists.

The early recordings of Current 93 have always sounded extremely demonic and malevolent to my ears, and tracks from these albums took up a lot of the program, including many of the remixed versions which Andrew Liles released (issuing remixed versions of five entire albums between 2008 and 2009). Other artists from that post-Industrial milieu whose work fit into the ‘Dark 80s’ vein included (inevitably) Coil, Diamanda Galas and Lustmord. The disturbingly dark Rock In Opposition neo-medieval chamber music of Belgium’s Univers Zero figured prominently in the program as well as one of Magma’s most hellish selections. And finally I sprinkled in some more recent recordings from the 90s and 00s by Boyd Rice And Fiends, Apoptose, John Watermann and a few others. There was so much scary music to draw from in my collection I could have easily done a 12-hour special, but I think the concentrated assortment found herein will suffice.

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Playlist for Mindtrain 14 – 01 November 2011

• White Noise – The Black Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell – An Electric Storm

• Current 93 / Andrew Liles – KillyKillKilly: A Fire Sermon (Remix) – The End Of Red Dreams: A Remix By Andrew Liles
• Lustmord – Heresy, Part I – Heresy
• Current 93 – From Broken Cross, Locusts – Dogs Blood Rising
• Diamanda Galas – Cris d’Aveugle (Blind Man’s Cry) – Saint Of The Pit
• Post Scriptvm – Crepusculum – Raspad
• Forms Of Things Unknown – Black Candles & Pentagrams ‘N Shit, Parts I & II – Cross Purposes

• Coil – Are You Shivering? – Music To Play In The Dark, Vol. 1
• Current 93 / Andrew Liles – Alone Into The Alone (Remix) – Dead At Bar Maldoror: A Remix By Andrew Liles
• 400 Lonely Things – Crickets Window – Tonight Of The Living Dead
• Current 93 – Christ’s First Howling / Fields Of Rape – Live At Bar Maldoror
• Rhea Tucanae & Pixyblink – Night-Gaunts – Fungi From Yuggoth
• Univers Zero – La Musique d’Erich Zann – Ceux Du Dehors

• Univers Zero – Jack The Ripper – Heresie
• Diamanda Galas – Free Among The Dead – The Divine Punishment
• Current 93 / Andrew Liles – Falling Back In Fields Of Rape (Remix) – Dogs Blood Ascending: A Remix By Andrew Liles
• John Watermann – Second Shudder Project: Fitting The Gas Hose – Calcutta Gas Chamber
• Boyd Rice And Fiends – Joe Liked To Go (To The Cemetery) – Wolf Pact
• Univers Zero – Triomphe Des Mouches – Ceux Du Dehors
• Magma – Ork Alarm – Kohntarkosz

• Coil – Solar Lodge – Scatology
• Current 93 / Andrew Liles – Maldoror Est Mort (Remix) – Dusk: A Remix By Andrew Liles
• Lustmord – Section 3: Dark Companion – The Place Where The Black Stars Hang
• Apoptose – Violet Silence – Schattenmadchen

• Zola Jesus – Night – Stridulum

This week’s Thursday Night Wildcard slot served as a special Halloween edition of Ferrara’s Enchanted Jukebox, featuring two hours of dark and morbid, evil, scary music from my own extensive library of industrial, dark ambient and experimental recordings. This was but a teaser for the four-hour Halloween edition of Mindtrain which airs next Monday night at midnight. Included were choice selections by Lustmord, Coil, Diamanda Galas, Current 93, Univers Zero and others.

I’ve always had a special preference for all kinds of dark music, so it was a real pleasure to search through my entire music library to find the most creepy and disturbing tracks by many of my longtime favorite artists. Hopefully some of you will want to download the podcast and archive it for future listening whenever you’re in the mood for something scary…

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Playlist for Ferrara’s Haunted Jukebox – 27 October 2011

• Diamanda Galas – La Treizieme Revient (The Thirteenth Returns) – Saint Of The Pit

• Coil – The Hellraiser Theme – Unnatural History II: Smiling In The Face Of Perversity
• Post Scriptvm – Ruins Of Men – Raspad
• Pixyblink – 666 On The AM Dial – Ivy
• NON – Theme From Dark Shadows – Blood & Flame
• Lustmord – Section 1: Sol Om On – The Place Where The Black Stars Hang
• Current 93 / Andrew Liles – From Broken Cross, Locusts (Remix) – Dogs Blood Ascending: A Remix By Andrew Liles
• Diamanda Galas – The Litanies Of Satan – The Litanies Of Satan

• The Virgin Prunes – Beast – A New Form Of Beauty
• 400 Lonely Things – Cellar Company – Tonight Of The Living Dead
• John Watermann – Fourth Shudder Project: The Black Milk Clasp (Clubbing, Tearing, Wrenching, Cutting, Spurting, Boiling, Processing) – Calcutta Gas Chamber
• Nurse With Wound – Sheela-Na-Gig – Drunk With The Old Man Of The Mountains
• Univers Zero – La Faulx – Heresie

• Nico – Evening Of Light – The Marble Index

This week’s edition of Mindtrain was devoted exclusively to ‘outside’ jazz recordings of the 1960s and 70s, with an emphasis on music by Gunter Hampel and artists in his circle, most notably Marion Brown, Anthony Braxton and Jeanne Lee (Hampel’s wife until her death in 2000). Many of the tracks I played were drawn from vinyl releases on Hampel’s own Birth Records label, most of which have been to this date unreleased on CD. One of these albums (featured here in its entirety) was Familie, a live concert recording documenting a totally improvised performance by Braxton, Hampel & Lee from 1972, recorded at the Theatre de Mouffetard in Paris on April 1 of that year.

Other artists whose work I chose to include on the program included Eric Dolphy (whose brief recorded legacy cast a huge influence on the jazz avant-garde across the decades following his premature demise in 1964), Archie Shepp and Patty Waters. Jazz is a genre I don’t give enough attention to on Mindtrain, and hopefully this program somewhat served to make up for that fact.

It bears mention that my first exposure to this music (free improvisation, avant-garde jazz or what you care to call it) was in the 1970s as a teenager growing up in Southeastern Massachusetts. Many nights I stayed up listening to late-night college radio on headphones, and it was on stations such as WBUR (Boston University), WBRS (Brandeis) and WBRU (Brown University in Providence, RI), that I was introduced to the recordings of Gunter Hampel, Marion Brown, Sun Ra and other forward-thinking jazz artists. Hopefully this edition of Mindtrain can serve to expose a handful of today’s listeners to this great music.

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Playlist for Mindtrain 13 – 25 October 2011

• Archie Shepp – Blase – Blase

• Eric Dolphy – God Bless The Child – In Europe, Vol. 1
• Marion Brown – Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun – Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun
• Gunter Hampel – Different Point Of View, Different Reality – Cosmic Dancer
• Patty Waters – Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair – Patty Waters Sings

• Marion Brown & Gunter Hampel – Gesprachsfetzen – Gesprachsfetzen
• Eric Dolphy – Burning Spear – Iron Man
• Marion Brown & Gunter Hampel – Exhibit A – Gesprachsfetzen
• Gunter Hampel – Morning Song – The 8th Of July 1969
• Marion Brown & Gunter Hampel – Tomorrow Is The Beginning Of The End Of Yesterday – Gesprachsfetzen

• Gunter Hampel – Look At Me For What I Truly Am, Rather Than That What You Believe Me To Be – Cosmic Dancer
• Marion Brown & Gunter Hampel – Improvisation – Reeds ‘N Vibes/li>
• Eric Dolphy – Hat And Beard – Out To Lunch
• Gunter Hampel – Purple Skies – Enfant Terrible
• Marion Brown & Gunter Hampel – Arrow In The Wind – Reeds ‘N Vibes

• Anthony Braxton / Gunter Hampel / Jeanne Lee – Familie (Parts 1 & 2) – Familie

• Patty Waters – Wild Is The Wind – College Tour

As I’m typing this blog entry, I’m listening to some amazing music by Gunter Hampel, ripped from out-of-print LPs released during the 60s and 70s and recently downloaded to my computer. This is some truly inspired free jazz, featuring the likes of Jeanne Lee and Marion Brown along with multi-instrumentalist Hampel, and I’ll definitely be playing some of this fine, hard-to-find-or-define music on my program next week.

This week’s show tended toward mostly somber and contemplative contemporary classical, ECM label third-stream jazz, and dark electronic/symphonic pop and ballads, except for some more raucous sounds from Cindytalk and our own Ure Thrall (aka Doktor Sleepless of the Interstellar Nihilism late-night program) toward the end of the show. And because I was pressed for time in putting together the music for tonight’s program (having recently started a full-time temp day job), I played a number of long pieces or song suites from the likes of Jonathan Bepler, Nurse With Wound, and Agnes Buen Garnas with Jan Garbarek.

The longest piece I played was an entire one-hour drone work from a CD collaboration by Finnish hard-edge post-Industrial analog electronic duo Pan Sonic and legendary NYC shamanic minimalist Charlemagne Palestine, released in the year 2000 as part of the limited edition Mort Aux Vaches series of Dutch radio broadcasts of contemporary experimental composers and musicians. Regular listeners of Mindtrain know by now that I’m a big fan of the drone school of minimalism, as I’ve featured long works by La Monte Young, Catherine Christer Hennix, Black To Comm and others on past programs. This untitled work by Pan Sonic and Palestine is a monolithic aural entity, building in harmonic density and volume over the long steady course of the recording. Essential stuff, seldom heard and long out-of-print.

And be sure to tune in next week for some psychically liberating free jazz from Gunter Hampel and company…

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Playlist for Mindtrain 12 – 18 October 2011

• Cockney Rebel – Mirror Freak – The Human Menagerie

• Luxuria – Stupid Blood – Beast Box
• Jonathan Bepler – Air Prelude / Song Of The Vertical Field / Level Glass Nocturne – Cremaster 3 (Original Soundtrack)
• Marianne Faithfull – Prologue / Sleep – A Secret Life
• Antlers Mulm – White Tears – Of Withered Sparks
• John Cage / Stephen Drury – Souvenir – In A Landscape
• In The Nursery – Elegy – Trinity

• Agnes Buen Garnas & Jan Garbarek – Margjit Og Targjei Risvollo – Rosensfole
• John Surman – Not Love Perhaps – Private City
• A.C. Marias – Some Thing – Time Was
• Nux Vomica & Voice Of Eye – The First Gate – Fire Of The Unitive Path: Three Rivers
• Nurse With Wound – The Little Dipper Minus Two (Echo Poeme Sequence No. 1) – The Little Dipper Minus Two (Echo Poeme Sequence No. 1)
• Crass – Sentiment (White Feathers) – Christ: The Album
• Heidi Berry – Cradle – Love

• Pan Sonic & Charlemagne Palestine – Untitled – Mort Aux Vaches

• Marc Almond & Michael Cashmore – Gabriel – Gabriel & The Lunatic Lover
• Rykarda Parasol – The Thing They Love – For Blood And Wine
• Dead Can Dance – Circumradiant Dawn – Spleen And Ideal
• The Jefferson Airplane – Two Heads – After Bathing At Baxter’s
• Istvan Marta / Kronos Quartet – Doom, A Sigh – Black Angels
• Ure Thrall – Premonition 9/11 – Premonition 9/11
• Cindytalk – Circle Of Shit – In This World
• Antony And The Johnsons – Mysteries Of Love – I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy

• Cockney Rebel – Death Trip – The Human Menagerie

The featured release this week was Miraculous Mechanical Monster by Andrew Liles, concluding (for the time being, at least) my ongoing presentation of recordings from his richly diverse Monstrous series. This LP is the triumphant eruption of a sickly twisted and demented mind, as depraved as (and much funnier than) anything Frank Zappa ever put out. Thanks to Doktor Sleepless of the Interstellar Nihilism show for exposing me to this record (sick minds think alike, heh).

Other highlights of the program included C, a relatively early composition by Ryoji Ikeda (in ten parts), Vinny Golia’s music for contrabass saxophone, a couple long selections from the exemplary German dark ambient artist Apoptose, classic tracks by King Crimson and Alice Cooper, and songs from the Auricular Audio Magazine compilation series.

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Playlist for Mindtrain 11 – 11 October 2011

• Ice-T – Midnight – O.G. Original Gangster

• Ryoji Ikeda – C – 0 Degrees C
• Nico & The Faction – Camera Obscura – Camera Obscura
• Monica Richards – The Hunt – Infra-Warrior
• My Boyfriend The Pilot – Blazing The Trail For A Stronger America – Auricular Audio Magazine #15 (Compilation)
• Polyphonic Size – Nagasaki Mon Amour – The Prime Story
• Zola Jesus – Swords – Conatus
• Jan Steele – Distant Saxophones – Voices And Instruments

• Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention – Sleeping In A Jar – Uncle Meat
• Vinny Golia – Single Booth Enclosure Third (Revisitation) – A Gift For The Unusual: Music For Contrabass Saxophone
• Bennie Maupin – Excursion – The Jewel In The Lotus
• 15 Degrees Below Zero – 3.12.1 / 2.19.2 – Resting On A
• Waldteufel – In Den Zwolften – Rauhnacht
• Black Light District – Die Wolfe Kommen Zuruck – A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room
• Vinny Golia – The 15th – A Gift For The Unusual: Music For Contrabass Saxophone
• Apoptose – Ba-137m – Schattenmadchen
• Alice Cooper – Blue Turk – School’s Out

• Lothar And The Hand People – Machines – Presenting Lothar And The Hand People
• Andrew Liles – The First Heart Attack Was The Best / To Kill The Monster – Miraculous Mechanical Monster
• The Penetralia – Battlestar Fucking Galactica – Smatterings, Volume One (Compilation)

• Apoptose – Asche – Schattenmadchen
• Pierrot Lunaire – Plaisir d’Amour – Gudrun
• Antony And The Johnsons – The Lake – The Lake
• King Crimson – The Night Watch – Starless And Bible Black
• David Lynch & Dean Hurley – The Air Is On Fire, Part VIII (Distortion) – The Air Is On Fire
• Roque Banos – Trevor’s Lair / Sleepless – The Machinist (Original Soundtrack)
• A Pyxie Worm – I Cut My Doll’s Hair And Now She’s Bald – Auricular Audio Magazine #13 (Compilation)
• Theandria – When Death To Either Shall Come – Rebirth

• King Crimson – Fracture – Starless And Bible Black

I love filling in for Tony Dushane in this time slot, and it’s been a while since my last sub on Drinks With Tony. This is the second round of Drinks With Ferrara, and my programming sensibility leans toward old-school punk, psychedelia and easy listening, with heavy helpings of weirdness and musical derangement for the cocktail hour.

Tonight I led off with a rare BBC recording by perennial faves the Bonzo Dog Band, followed by a set that featured new tracks by Zola Jesus and John Cale amid stretches of post-punk, pop and experimental sounds. The new John Cale five-track EP is a far cry from the classic records of his early career, but good enough to make me look forward to the full-length CD that can’t be far off. The new Zola Jesus album Conatus is great though, a step forward in the direction of the previous CD. I’m excited about her upcoming gig at the Independent next month, having missed her recent visits to the Milk Bar and the Rickshaw Stop.

Then there was some locally produced music from saxophonist David Slusser and Edmund Welles, the world’s only heavy metal bass clarinet quartet. The Slusser recording is a few years old now, and it features Ralph Carney adding additional wind prowess to the tunes. The Edmund Welles track is from their latest CD Imagination Lost, the third one to come from this amazing foursome of fearsomely talented players.

This was a fun show, and I think you’ll enjoy the podcast (especially since we got the kinks all ironed out with regard to the audio problems with the live stream). I love butting the Last Poets up against Ol’ Blue Eyes, and sticking Jackie Gleason in the same set with the Virgin Prunes!

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Playlist for Drinks With Ferrara 02 – 05 October 2011

• The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – Give Booze A Chance – The Complete BBC Recordings

• Ryoji Ikeda – Channel X: Testone / Trans-Missions / This Is A Recording – 1000 Fragments
• Andrew Liles – Side A (33 RPM): 2662002 / 1931982 / 1921980 / 2591980 – Monster Munch
• Zola Jesus – Vessel – Conatus
• Annie Anxiety – Cyanide Tears – Barbed Wire Halo
• Vanessa And The O’s – Bagatelle – La Ballade d’O
• John Cale – Hey Ray – EP: Extra Playful
• Pere Ubu – Sentimental Journey – The Modern Dance
• The Contortions – I Can’t Stand Myself – No New York (Compilation)
• Nurse With Wound – Cruisin’ For A Bruisin’ – Huffin’ Rag Blues

• David Slusser – Jazzdeath – Trouble In Tiretown
• Television – Little Johnny Jewel (Parts 1 & 2) – Marquee Moon
• Jaap Blonk – Der Minister II – Flux De Bouche
• Edmund Welles – Watch Me Die – Imagination Lost
• Henry Mancini – Floating Pad – Mr. Lucky
• Lothar And The Hand People – Sex And Violence – Presenting Lothar And The Hand People
• Lisa Germano – Candy – Lullaby For Liquid Pig
• Annie Anxiety – Hello Horror – Barbed Wire Halo
• The Last Poets – This Is Madness – This Is Madness
• Frank Sinatra – I Get A Kick Out Of You – The Best Of The Capitol Years

• The Virgin Prunes – Dave-Id Is Dead – If I Die, I Die
• The Dresden Dolls – My Alcoholic Friends – Yes, Virginia
• Jackie Gleason – Girl, Boy, Dance, Affair – Tawny
• John Cale – Guts – Slow Dazzle

This week on Mindtrain I opened the show with a lovely acoustic song by Mia Doi Todd from her CD Zeroone, a fine release I happened upon at the thrift store where I worked last winter. That was followed by a set dedicated to our beleaguered and beloved planet Earth, including one great long piece by Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas, and a cult classic by David Axelrod: Earth Rot (as timely today as when it was released back in 1970).

There was quite a bit of synth-based post-punk / post-industrial / new wave stuff in the show, and more of those fabulous Monstrous recordings that Andrew Liles has been putting out since last year. The last hour of the program featured an archival recording of a work in Just Intonation by microtonal composer Catherine Christer Hennix, The Electric Harpsichord – a hypnotic drone-based Minimalist masterpiece in the tradition of La Monte Young, recorded in 1976 but not released till 2010, in an expensive edition by Die Schachtel.

Please Note: We’ve been having technical issues with our live stream here at Radio Valencia during the past week. You may hear some intermittent signal dropouts during the first thirty minutes of the podcast for this show, but the rest of the program should sound fine.

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Playlist for Mindtrain 10 – 04 October 2011

• Mia Doi Todd – Digital – Zeroone

• Pearls Before Swine – I Saw The World / Another Time – Constructive Melancholy: Thirty Years Of Pearls Before Swine
• Current 93 – Let Us Go To The Rose / All The World Makes Great Blood – Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre (The Broken Heart Of Man)
• David Axelrod – The Signs (Parts I-IV) – Earth Rot
• Pharoah Sanders – The Creator Has A Master Plan – Karma

• Pink Industry – Pain Of Pride – New Naked Technology (2010 Remasters)
• SPK – Walking On Dead Steps – Auto Da Fe
• Propaganda – Frozen Faces – A Secret Wish
• Chris & Cosey – Dr. John (Sleeping Stephen) – Exotika
• Troum / Asianova / Voice Of Eye – Actualization (Parts 2 & 3) – Actualization / Excrement Of Old Dreams
• Nux Vomica & Voice Of Eye – Tripod Of The Elixir – Fire Of The Unitive Path: Three Rivers
• Andrew Liles – Twilight/Flashback – Mind Mangled Trip Monster
• Everything But The Gargoyle – Pretty Blue Forever – Four Flies On Grey Velvet

• Comus – Drip Drip – First Utterance
• Andrew Liles – Entheogens For Diddy Men – Mind Mangled Trip Monster
• Principal Edwards Magic Theatre – Freef (‘R) All – The Asmoto Running Band
• Lisa Germano – Liquid Pig – Lullaby For Liquid Pig
• Pixyblink – Ocean Floor – Cinder
• Lisa Germano – From A Shell – Lullaby For Liquid Pig
• John Cale – Sanities – Music For A New Society
• Faust – Expecting S. In Love – Untitled (Klangbad Gold CD)
• Marianne Faithfull – The Stars Line Up – A Secret Life
• Chris & Cosey – Send The Magic Down – Take Five

• Psychic TV – Thee Full Pack (For Bachir Attar) – Force The Hand Of Chance
• Catherine Christer Hennix – The Electric Harpsichord – The Electric Harpsichord
• David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti – Dwarfland / Love Theme – Mulholland Drive (Original Soundtrack)

• Blondie – Sound Asleep – Eat To The Beat

Tonight’s midnight edition of Ferrara’s Enchanted Jukebox was hastily thrown together at the last minute, as I decided to go into the studio and test out the new mixing board which got installed today. Things weren’t all connected like I thought they’d be, so there were a couple embarrassing minutes of dead air at the outset, as well as some distortion in the signal due to the very hot preamps in the channel strips of our new board (which will take some getting used to). Hopefully it didn’t sound too bad for the handful of listeners out there.

I played some stuff tonight by my friend Robert Turman, who put out a CD a couple years ago with Aaron Dilloway entitled Blizzard. Robert and I played together with Boyd Rice in an early trio during the late 1970s. After I dropped out, the group became NON and Robert stayed on for one or two records before NON became Boyd’s long-running solo project. I also played a long track by 400 Lonely Things, another friend’s project which I featured a couple weeks back on my regular show Mindtrain. And then there was some Cindytalk, Amon Duul II, and a mindbendingly hypnotic cover of a Spacemen 3 song by Bowery Electric.

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Playlist for Ferrara’s Enchanted Jukebox 06 – 03 October 2011

• Blue Oyster Cult – Astronomy – Secret Treaties

• Amon Duul II – Restless Skylight Transistor Child – Tanz Der Lemminge
• Mick Jagger – Memo From Turner – Performance (Original Soundtrack)
• Cindytalk – Everybody Is Christ – Camouflage Heart
• Robert Turman & Aaron Dilloway – Track 03 (Untitled) – Blizzard
• Bowery Electric – Things’ll Never Be The Same – A Tribute To Spacemen 3 (Compilation)

• Jeff Buckley – Lilac Wine – Grace
• Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger And The Trinity – When I Was A Young Girl – Streetnoise
• Scivias – Passion – And You Will Fear Death Not
• 400 Lonely Things – Bullfight At Swan Lake (A Tone Poem For Tchaikovsky, Sylvian And Gollum) – The Late Show
• The Pale 3 – Opening (Sissi Search) / The Letter / Truck Attack / Straw – The Princess & The Warrior (Original Soundtrack)

• Jeff Buckley – Dream Brother – Grace

This week I decided to feature The Conet Project in its entirety – That’s four CDs of recordings of shortwave numbers stations (totaling four hours and forty-five minutes), without interruption. You can read more about this extraordinary audio document here and here.

The fact of the matter is that I’ve been very sick with a head cold, and consequently I simply didn’t feel up to doing a regular show with four hours of assorted selections, coughing and sneezing over the air during track announcements. Next week I will return to the usual eclectic variety of music that I like to present on the program.

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Playlist for Mindtrain 09 – 27 September 2011

• Dominic Frontiere / Vic Perrin – Control Voice Introduction – The Outer Limits (Original Television Soundtrack)
• Dominic Frontiere – The Outer Limits (Main Title) – The Outer Limits (Original Television Soundtrack)

• The Conet Project: Recordings Of Shortwave Numbers Stations – Track List

• Dominic Frontiere / Vic Perrin – Control Voice Sign-Off – The Outer Limits (Original Television Soundtrack)
• Dominic Frontiere – The Outer Limits (End Title) – The Outer Limits (Original Television Soundtrack)