Thru Realms Of Terror And Mild Moony Lustre

No.170, aired May 23, 2012. Read the first 5 plates of William Blake’s Milton.

Part 1

1. B.O.R.N. – Facepuller
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Ham On The Bone – GWAR
4. Birth – Max Roach & Anthony Braxton
5. Cry Of The Banshee – Exciter
6. Dance Griot – Max Roach & Anthony Braxton
7. Prime Miss – Facepuller

Part 2

1. Crack In The Egg – GWAR
2. Rebirth – Max Roach & Anthony Braxton
3. Rising Of The Dead – Exciter
4. Spirit Possession – Max Roach & Anthony Braxton
5. Gor-Gor – GWAR
6. Soft Shoe – Max Roach & Anthony Braxton
7. Sailing – Ripcordz

Angry Beat Of Oysterpiling

No.169, aired May 16, 2012. Content from 1970s & 1980s, with readings from Maggie O’Sullivan’s ALTO: London Poems 1975-1984, music from Last Call: Vancouver Independent Music 1977-1988, and Anthony Braxton’s Complete Remastered Recordings, an 8-CD box set from Black Saint records including spanning the years 1978-1989.

Part 1

1. Talk To The Birds – Bob’s Your Uncle
2. Composition No.69M – Anthony Braxton -- After Lady Nijo – Maggie O’Sullivan
3. Have Not Been The Same – Slow
4. Composition No.69O – Anthony Braxton -- At This Moment / Goldenrod / Towards Engagement – Maggie O’Sullivan
5. King Blood – Rhythm Mission

Part 2

1. 1 + 1 Is 3 – Oversoul Seven
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Composition No.105A – Anthony Braxton -- 1 + 1 = 3 / ALTO – Maggie O’Sullivan
4. When All Is Said And Done – Napalm Death

Meat Metamorphosis

No.168, aired May 2, 2012. A double episode featuring a double album: Zappa & the Mothers’ 1968 monster Uncle Meat. More passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses were played with instrumental tracks. Sublime serendipitous moment was Narcisus staring at his reflection to the tune of “The Legend Of The Golden Arches.”

Part 1

1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
2. Bandstand – Tandoori Knights
3. The Voice Of Cheese – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
4. Here Today, Guano Tomorrow – Dayglo Abortions
5. Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
6. Jacques And Madeleine – Run Chico Run
7. Zolar Czakl – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
8. Celebration I – Harry Freedman

Part 2

1. Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
2. King Queen – GWAR
3. Celebration II – Harry Freedman
4. Tandoori Party – Tandoori Knights
5. Black And Huge – GWAR
6. The Legend Of The Golden Arches– Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention

Part 3

1. Louie Louie (At The Royal Albert Hall In London)
2. The Spawn Of Yog Sothoth – Dayglo Abortions
3. Celebration III – Harry Freedman
4. Dog Breath Variations – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
5. Constant Lover – Magneta Lane
6. Sleeping In A Jar / Our Bizarre Relationship – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
7. Sexecutioner – GWAR
8. The Uncle Meat Variations – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention

Part 4

1. Electric Aunt Jemima – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Toccata For Voice & Flute – Harry Freedman
4. Prelude To King Kong – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
5. Easy Street – Ernie Klinger
6. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
7. Fuck My Shit Stinks – Dayglo Abortions
8. Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In Copenhagen) – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
9. Books & Ribs – Tandoori Knights

Opaque, Unbreathable, Fallacious Paradise

No.167, aired April 25, 2012. Read Theses 15 – 21 of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle.

Part 1

1. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet
2. We’re Turning Again – Frank Zappa
3. The Prisoner – D.O.A.
4. I Don’t Even Care – Frank Zappa
5. Inner Constellation (con’t) – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet
6. Weeping Widow – April Wine
7. Berlin Butcher – Emetics
8. Alien Oriface – Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. Red-Checkered Stretcher – Emetics
2. Inner Constellation (con’t) – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet
3. Electric Jewels – April Wine
4. Inner Constellation (con’t) – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet
5. Casey’s Wake – Emetics
6. Inner Constellation (con’t) – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet
7. Dominion Of Deceipt – 3 Inches Of Blood
8. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
9. Inner Constellation (con’t) – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet
10. Unknown – D.O.A.

Young Bear, Young Spirit

No.166, aired April 18, 2012, featuring two of the drum bands who played at the 34th annual Spring Celebration Pow Wow at Regina’s Brandt Center.

Part 1

1. Necklace Breaker – Young Bear
2. Ley de Vida – Cerebros Exprimodos
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Severe – Young Bear
5. Roots Bloody Roots - Sepultura
6. Stan The Man – Young Bear
7. Bad Luck Blues – Guitar Slim
8. YB Style – Young Bear
9. Choke – Sepultura
10. Young Bear Family – Young Bear

Part 2

1. Contest – Young Spirit
2. Kairos – Sepultura
3. Intertribal – Young Spirit
4. Trouble Don’t Last – Guitar Slim
5. Intertribal – Young Spirit
6. Romper la Red – Cerebros Exprimodos
7. Jingle Side-Step
8. Relentless – Sepultura
9. Contest – Young Spirit
10. Yukatan – Sun Ra

Sepultura & Metamorphoses

No.165, aired April 11, 2012. Primarily a primer for the Sepultura concert at the Exchange. Included some more passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses on audiobook.

Part 1

1. CAKE! – A Band
2. Ratamahatta – Sepultura
3. 4 Songs For Voice & Piano, op.12, no.1 – Anton Webern
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Skulls In The Closet – Les Georges Leningrad
6. Arise – Sepultura
7. 4 Songs For Voice & Piano, op.12, no.2 – Anton Webern
8. Scissorhands - Les Georges Leningrad
9. 4 Songs For Voice & Piano, op.12, no.3 – Anton Webern
10. Septicschizo – Sepultura
11. 4 Songs For Voice & Piano, op.12, no.4 – Anton Webern
12. Deathboy – Kill Cheerleader

Part 2

1. RefuseResist – Sepultura
2. Fast – John Weinsweig
3. Attitude – Sepultura
4. They Think They’re Packing Up, But They’re Not – A Band
5. Escape To The Void – Sepultura

Apprehension Of The Unfolding

No.164, aired March 28, 2012.

This episode had readings of the “Time and History” chapter of Guy Debord’s Society of The Spectacle alongside passages from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine audiobook.

The key to interpreting Wells was found in Debord’s 125th thesis: “Man’s appropriation of his own nature is at the same time the apprehension of the unfolding of the universe.”

In The Time Machine, the universe unfolds humanity into two different species, one permanently childish, naive, indolent & sensual, and the second nocturnal, calculating, pragmatic & predatory. No doubt this text was an admirable nod to Darwinism when first published in the 1890s, but with the help of Debord’s Thesis no.125, the real meaning of Wells’ two-species humanity becomes plain. Wells has apprehended a two-fold nature in his own humanity, a passive consumer on the one hand and a joyless labourer on the other. He unfolds his futuristic world according to this bipolar vision – the light of enlightenment apart from the darkness of industry.

And in case it needs to be said, the class system in The Time Machine has little or no relation to existing class relations in late capitalist society, it more resembles the twilight of the aristocracy, when the kings & queens & dukes & knights became increasingly like helpless, caged animals. In the modern world, division of labour is the determinate factor in class relations. Labour, productivity is the most basic human quality, therefore Wells’ passive pastoral species is not human at all but a breed of post-human cattle. And the meaning of the Sex Pistols' “God save the Queen / She ain’t no human being” was thus revealed.

Featured album was Ornette Coleman’s The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Part 1

1. Organic Space – Guerilla Funk Monster
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Fuera de Control – Cerebros Exprimidos
4. Eventually – Ornette Coleman
5. puddle pants / Savages – Guerilla Funk Monster
6. Lonely Woman – Ornette Coleman
7. interligeridoo / How Long ‘Til We Get There – Guerilla Funk Monster

Part 2

1. No Sabes Que Existo – Cerebros Exprimidos
2. Bent Time – Burro
3. Wake Today – Guerilla Funk Monster
4. Chronology – Ornette Coleman
5. Introduce The Metric System In Time – The Hives
6. March Of The Crabs – Anvil