Sans Serif Playlist (Thursday, February 28, 2008) (Hey Your iPod Is in My Radio Show/Your Radio Show Is In My iPod!)

Set 1
Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come | Space Plucks Dem Bones | Galactic Zoo Dossier

Set 2
Essie Jain | Glory | Live @ WMBR (recorded 4/30/07 | Un-Lively It Up! 2007 Subject to Change Premium CD
Os Sambeatles | If I Fell | Os Sambeatles | mp3

Set 3
Minimal Man | Hospital | The Shroud Of | LTM/Boutique
Itsnotyouitsme | Throne Built For the Past | Walled Gardens

Set 4
Mark Templeton | Difficult To Light | Standing On A Hummingbird
Native | Black Tracks Version | Rockstone | Pressure Sounds

Set 5
Hugo Largo | Earthquake | Drum | Opal
Jerry Lewis & Lee Perry | Burning Wire | Chapter 2 of Words | Trojan

Set 6
Chad Oliveri | In My Mouth (A Terrifying Depth) | Pathetique

Saturday, February 23, 2008 (I Did NOT Have Lobbyist Relations With THAT Woman)

Set 1
Kode9 + Daddi G | Sine of the Dub | 12"
Thomas Brinkmann | Uselessness | When Horses Die | Max Ernst
Shackleton | Blood On My Hands | (R Villalobos Apocalypse Mix) | Soundboy Punishments | Skull Disco/Rough Trade
Thomas Fehlman | 100 Baume | Honig Pumpe | Kompakt
Kirb & Chris | When the World Is Running Down | Niggaz & White Girlz | emusic.com
Cappuccino | Hell Dance With Me | lovefingers.org

Somerville Speakout music: Bert Kaempfert | Wonderland By Night | Decca

Set 2
Kurt Vile | Take My Advice | Constant Hitmaker | Gulcher
Ted Lucas | Raga In "D" | Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli | Numero
Pikelet | Still Growth | s/t | Chapter Music
Directing Hand | Beamsley Beacon | Bells For Augustin Lesege | Secret Eye/emusic.com
Spagirus | Lose the Mind Altogether | Lose the Mind Altogether | Ethedrone [FREE Download: http://www.anticlock.net/ethedrone.htm]

Concert Report Music: Frank Clarke Kids | Trinidad's Steelband Prodigies [http://recordrobot.blogspot.com/2008/02/frank-clarke-kids.html]

Set 3
Homosexuals with Susan Vida | Track 8 | Hyped2Death.com: http://www.hyped2death.com/LiveAtTheWhisky.html
Your Funeral | The Abyss | Local Anesthetic | Smoochy
Pink Section | Jane Blank (Live) | http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/02/pink-section-mp.html
Instruments of Science & Technology | Theme 3 | Music from the Films Of R Swift | Secretly Canadian
Big Youth | All Nations Bow | Roots Techniques | Pressure Sounds
Rodigan vs. Williams | 206 vs. 194 | Rockers Arena | mp3

Set 4
Whiskeytown | 10 Seconds | Strangers Almanac Deluxe Edition | Geffen

Sam Amidon, Starving Artist of the Year, Vermont-Iceland Division, 2007-08

Through total happenstance, WMBR acquired a preview copy of Sam Amidon's All Is Well release (Bedroom Community) in late 2007, before the album's release was unceremoniously delayed until 2008. I thank my lucky stars that something - the unappetizing album cover featuring a sunburned, scrawny and shirtless Sam in cowboy hat - compelled me to listen. Recordings of transatlantic folk songs in Iceland - see similar venture by Bonnie Prince Billy and Valgeir Sigurðsson - it's a wondrous, humble moving record. Compare and contrast two versions of the single, Saro. One directed by Sam; another stock footage collage apparently sanctioned by the label: http://www.speakpeppery.com/saro.mov

Saturday, February 16, 2008 (The Best in Worst In Show)

Set 1
Los Papines | Esto No Lleva Bata | Rumba Sin Alarde | emusic.com
Lizzy Mercier Descloux | Hard-Boiled Babe | Press Colour | Ze
Sammy Gordon & The Hip Huggers | Making Love | Disco Spectrum 3 | BBE
Percee P | The Woman Behind Me | Perseverence: the Madlib Remix | Stones Throw
Toasty | The Knowledge | HF 006 12"
Children of the Night feat. Ranking Roger | We Play Ska | Jive Presents Acid House | Jive
Creation Rebel | Doctor's Remedy | Rebel Vibrations | On-U

Background Music: Sunset Strings & Voices | Release Me | Sunset

Set 2
One More Grain | John Hasselhoff | Having A Ball single | emusic.com
Pan*American | East Coast Bugs | BSI 12"
feat excerpt of Mike Birbiglia | Cracker Please
Jan Jelinek | Palmen Aus Leder (live played by Pole) | Hub Tierbeobachtungen | Touch
feat excerpt of The Bible | Peter Pan Records
Dial | Psychotrance | 168K | Cede/iTunes

Somerville Speakout Music: Bert Kaempfert | Swingin' Safari | Decca

Set 3
John Contreras | Brian | Not Alone | Durtro Jnana
Crib | Constant | Forward Back | W.I.N./devinsarno.com
Brian Harnetty | I Am On the Gospel Highway | American Winter | Atavistic
Psychic Paramount | E5 | Origins & Primitives | No Quarter

Concert Report Music: Real Time Steel Band | Vanity....Thy Name Is Monica

Set 4
These Are Powers | Chipping Ice | Taro Tarot | myspace.com/thesearepowers
Jah Berry | Daily News Version | We Are Getting Bad | Motion

Set 5
That Petrol Emotion | Under The Sky | End Of Millenium Psychosis Blues | Virgin

Saturday, February 9, 2008 (Mitt, Will You Be My Valentine?)

Set 1
Donald Banks | Status Quo | 4th & Broadway 12" [http://myfavouritesound.blogspot.com]
Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble | Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians [Section IX] | Innova
Strategy | Julydub | Dreck/emusic.com
Pierre's Phantasy Club | Dream Girl | Phuture | Trax
Oh No |Smokey Winds | Dr. No's Experiment | Stones Throw
Percee P | No Time For Jokes | Perseverence: The Madlib Remix | Stones Throw
Midnight Riders | Haul & Pull Up | The Unmetered Taxi | emusic.com

Background Music: Mongo Santamaria | Soul Bag | Columbia

Set 2
Cath & Phil Tyler | Wether's Skin | Dumb Supper | No Fi
L'Ocelle Mare | Track 12 | L'Ocelle Mare | Sickroom
Mary Beth Childs | Very High | Dream House | Innova
Giuseppe Ielasi | 4 | August | 12K
Burial | Ghost Hardware | Untrue | Hyperdub

Somerville Speakout Music: Herbert Rehbein | ....And So To Bed (The Love Music of Bert Kaempfert) | Decca

Set 3
Stackwaddy | Willie the Pimp | Life Too Has Surface Noise | Cherry Red
Frantix | Sharin Sharon | Local Anasthetic | Smooch
Metal Vox | Infinity | Wobbly Wave - Tony Coulter's 2006 WFMU Premium | CD-R
Prince Jammy | Life on Uranus | Destroys the Space Invaders | Greensleeves

Concert Report Music: Panoramers Steelband | Live @ Treasure Island Resort \ ELP

Set 4
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo | It's A Demo | Best of Cold Chillin' | Cold Chillin'
4th Street Orchestra | Scientific (Hurting Dub) | Scientific, Higher Raking Dub / Yuh Learn ! | EMI
These Are Powers | Funeral Xylophone | s/r 7 "
7-Year Rabbit Cycle | Pirates | Not Alone | Durtro Jnana / United Dairies

Set 5
Angel | Aftermath The Mutation | Kalmukia | Editions Mego

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Set 1
24-Carat Black | Brown-Baggin' | Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth | Stax
Conga de Santiago | Conga de los Hoys de Santiago de Cuba | Carnaval in Cuba | Folkways
Vicous Base | Drop the Bass (The Sequel) | Cheetah Records 12"
The Real Roxanne w/ Hitman Howie Tee | Roxanne's Groove | Select 12"
Jackie Statement | Just Come In | Unmetered Taxi | emusic.com
Caetaeno Veloso | Soy Loco Por Ti, America | Caetano Veloso | Nonesuch
Chantells/Barnabas| Sister Fay + Version | We Are Getting Bad: Sound of Phase 1 | Motion

Background Music: Enoch Light | Far Away Places Vol. 2 | Command

Set 2
Tom Smith | Quidate Queirda | Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli | Numero
Wendy & Bonnie | Paisley Window Pane | Bearded Ladies | B-Music
Jana Hunter | You Will Take It & Like It | Carrion ep | Gnomonsong
Joao Gilberto | Besame Mucho | Joao Gilberto | Philips
American Music Club | On My Way | Golden Age | Merge

Somerville Speakout Music: Strangers in the Night | Somerset

Set 3
John Stewart | Shackles & Chains | California Bloodlines | Capitol
Rodigan v. Williams | Rockers Arena | Rockers Arena
Malaria | Geld-Money | Emotion | mp3
Track 12 | Folk & Pop Music of Myannmar | Sublime Frequencies

Set 4
Jonathan Kane's Feburary | Live @ WFMU | myspace.com/jonathankane
Air Miami | Dade County Cops Don't Quit | 16 Songs | Teenbeat Originals CD-R
Stackwaddy | You Really Got Me | Life, Too. Has Surface Noise | Dandelion
Human Bell | Hymn Amerika | Human Bell | Thrill Jockey
Skream | Too Much Sushi | Box of Dub 2 | Soul Jazz