Saturday, November 29, 2008 (Shoppe Til Thou Droppe)

Set 1
Electric Company | Theme
Morris Jefferson | Spank Your Blank Blank | Private Stock 12"
Bar-Kays | Holy Ghost | Disco Mix | Stax/Volt 12"

Set 2
Easy Ready | Easy Reader
Marius Cultier | Guanavaco | Calypsoul 70 | Strut
Biz Markie | Biz Dance (Part One) | Goin' Off | Cold Chillin'
Brasa Brazil & Hempa | I Go Bahia | Jean-Pierre Massiera Psychoses: Discoid | Mucho Gusto
Peter Van Hoesen | Trusted (Norman Nodge Reconstruction) | Trust EP | emusic.com
The Lady Blacktronika | It's All About Survival (I Heart Huckaby Mix) | Ocean Species EP | emusic.com

Set 3
Broker/Dealer | Midnight | 100 | Ghostly/emusic.com
Peverlist | Gather | drunk10
Skeletons | STEPPER aka Work | Money | Tomlab
Cutty Ranks | Wi Nuh Play | Ward 21 Presents Mad Ting Riddim | Ward 21/emusic.com

Somerville Speakout: This week = Best of Speakout, with music courtesy of Bert Kaempfert's Christmas Wonderland (Decca)

Set 4
Frankie Rose | Where Do You Run To? | Yeti Six Comp
Thee Oh Sees | Highland Wife's Lament | The Hounds of Foggy Notion | Tomlab
Bukka White | Promised True & Grand | Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long | Mississippi Records
Brethren of the Free Spirit | I Am a Flower of Sharon and a Rose in the Valley (excerpt) + The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With the Lamb | The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With the Lamb | Important

Set 5
Gary Farr | Dustbin | Take Something With You | Sunbeam
Smiling Jubilaires | Waiting For Me | The Lord Will Make A Way | ABC Songbird
Milton Henry | Who Do You Think I Am? | Who Do You Think I Am? | Wackie's

Set 6
Zomby | Fuck Mixing, Let's Dance | Where Were You in '92? | Werks/emusic.com

Bonus Hour
Moritz Von Oswald | Watamu Beach Rework | Watamu Beach ep | emusic.com
Philip Jeck | Live in Liverpool | Touch
Jonas Reinhardt | Lucien Lift | s/t | Kranky
Josef Van Wissem | Thelema | A Priori
Ursula Bogner | Punkte | Recordings
Taylor Deupree + Christopher Willets | Live in Japan
White Light | Dassin | Black Acts | Smells Like Records



Johann Johannson | Fordlandia | Fordlandia | 4AD
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis | The Moan Thing | The Proposition | Mute



Pocahaunted | Time Fist | Island Diamonds | Not Not Fun
Alps | A Manha Na Praia | III | Type

Breakfast of Champions Playlist, Friday, November 28, 2008

Set 1
Nik Void | Rocket USA| Blast First Petite
Front | Polaroid | Mutant Sounds blog
Stephen Mallinder | Cool Down | Pow Pow Plus | Rough Trade
Ultravox | Mr. X | Vienna | Chrysalis
Von LMO | Smudge Head | Future Language | Muenster

Set 2
Blackblack | Inbetween Days | Perfect As Cats
Spherical Objects | Ten to Nine | Part & Parcel | LTM
The Oh Sees | Qudrospazzed | Peanut Butter Oven ep | blog.wfmu.org
David Grubbs | Holy Fool Music | An Optimist Notes the Dusk | Drag City

Set 3
Band of the Week: The Sound | Words Fail Me | Jeopardy | Kordova
Young People | Hot Horse | Five Sunsets In Four Days | Too Pure
Mike Rep | I Was There | Columbus Discount Records
Dickies | Hideous | So Indie It Hurts: ROIR USA sampler | ROIR/emusic.com

Set 4
Getchachew Mekuria + The Ex | Eywat Setenetegaw | Moa Anbassa
Andy Fairley | Now | Fishfood vs Birth of Sharon | Brighton Archives/emusic.com

Concert Report Music: Ultravox | Vienna | Chrysalis

Set 5
Tracy Shedd | Valentine | Live for WMBR
Christina Carter | Original Darkness | Kranky
Pocahaunted | Riddim Queen | Island Diamonds | No Not Fun
The Occasional Keepers | Leave the Secret There Forever | True North | LTM

Next week's Band of the Week: Wu Tang Clan | Sham On a Nuh | Return of the Wu | Legacy
Next week's Band of the Week II: Moving Violations | MTV | Taang!

Set 6
Danielle | Ultra Ye Ye Chicks
Halo Benders | Big Rock Candy Mountain | God Don't Make No Junk | K
Mike | Reckless Policies | Messthethics Greatest Hiss | Hyped2Death
Las Malas Amistades

Set 7
God | Sewer Swine

The Land of Sea & Birds Playlist, Friday, November 28, 2008

Set 1
Christopher Hobbs | Aran | Ensemble Pieces | Obscure
John Adams | American Standards | Ensemble Pieces | Obscure

Set 2
Christopher Hobbs | McCrimmon Will Never Return | Ensemble Pieces | Obscure
Gavin Bryars | 1-2, 1-2-3-4 | Ensemble Pieces | Obscure
Echospace | Reflection Reflection II

Set 3
Peter Gordon | Star Jaws | Star Jaws | Lovely Music

Saturday, November 2, 2008 (Panic in Dee-Twah)

Set 1
Fragments | Nutbush City Limits | http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/
The Horrors | Shadazz | Blast First Petite/emusic.com (Happy B-day Alan Vega)
Gerry & the Holograms | Increased Resistance | http://www.lastdaysofmanonearth.com/blog/?p=302
Machine | You've Come A Long Way Baby | Machine | RCA Victor
Chocolateclay | I Ain't Mad At You | s/t | Cat/Henry Stone/emusic.com
Glenmore Brown | Brown Dub | Dub from the South East | Pantomine

Background Music: MFSB | MFSB | Philadelphia International

Set 2
Theo Beckman & Boston Modern Orchestra Project | Heroin (L. Reed; Arranged by David Lang) | Naxos/emusic.com

For evidence of Lou Reed's douche-iness: http://www.spin.com/articles/spin-interview-lou-reed?page=0%2C1 (hat tip: Gladstone)
Blithe Sons | Try To Find A Memory In A Darkened Room | free download at digital.othermusic.com
Hush Arbors | Rue Hollow | Hush Arbors | Ecstatic Peace

Somerville Speakout Music: The Stan Foster Continental Impression | Music the Kaempfert Way | Mp3

Set 3
Moolah | Crystal Waters | Woe Ye Demons Possessed | EM
Shackleton | New Dawn | Scuba 12"
Sebbo | Watamu Beach | emusic.com
Opotopo | Belema | Nigeria Special | Sound Way
Di Melo | A Vida Em Seus Metodos Diz Calma | Blue Brazil 2 | Blue Note
Ol' Dirty Bastard | Shimmy Shimmy Ya | Wu: the Story of the Wu Tang Clan | Legacy

Concert Report Music: Esso Steel Band | Steel Band in Bermuda | Edmark

Set 4
Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson | House Carpenter | At Folk City | Smithsonian Folkways
Kath Bloom & Loren Connors | There Was A Boy | Sing the Children Over | Chapter Music
Diane Cluck | Pray Headaches Away | Live @ WMBR
Max Ochs | Raga Puti | s/t | Tompkins Square
Ann Clark w/ Vini Reilly | Pandora's Box | Places | Red Flame

Saturday, November 15, 2008 (Your Nominee For Secretary of Disco)

Set 1
Jimmy Castor Bunch | Troglodyte (Cave Man) | emusic.com
Ry-Co Jazz | Si I Bon Di I Bon | Rumba'Round Africa | RetroAfric/emusic.com
The Fatback Band | Spanish Hustle (Album Version) | Raising Hell | Polydor
The Boss | Great Guga Muga | Money Maker | Coxsone / Studio One
Greater Than One | We're OK | All the Masters Licked Me | Brainwashed Archives
First Love | Party Lights (Liquid Pegasus Edit) | www.beatelectric.com
North End | Tee's Happy | The Rapture | !K7 Tapes
Wee | I Luv You | You Can Fly My Aeroplane | Asterisk

Background Music: Moe Kauffman Curried Sole | Kama Sutra

Set 2
Eddie Harris | Please Let Me Go | Eddie Harris Sings the Blues | Atlantic
Johann Johannsson | The Great God Pan Is Dead | Fordlandia | 4AD
Hal Hartley & Jeffrey Taylor | Flirt (Closing) | Possible Music 1 - Soundtrack |
Rio En Medio | Pictures of You | Perfect As Cats: A Tribute to the Cure | Manimal
Polk Miller | Pussy Cat Rag | s/t | Tompkins Square

Somerville Speakout Music:

Set 3
Religious Knives | Major Score | The Door | Ecstatic Peace
Sightings | Black Peter | Through the Panama | Load
Tribal Chants Ensemble | Mbira | Tribal Chants, Drums & Songs of Africa
Juaneco y Su Combo | El Lanto de Ayaimama | s/t | Barbes
Megapuss | Lavender Blimp | Surfing | Vapor
Godwin Scotland | Adelebo Ilu Eko | Delta Dandies | Honest Jon's

Concert Report:

Set 4
Mike Rep & Quotas | I'm Goin Down | Columbus Discount Records
Hush Arbors | Sand | s/t | Ecstatic Peace
Rick Potts | Pretty Bird | dublab.com
U Brown | Give Me Strength, Oh Jah | Satta Dread | mp3
b12 | Omni Therapy (Twisted) | Last Days of Silence Remixes | emusic.com
Kamran Sadeghi | Thickness | Through Thickness

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Set 1
Skyy | Let's Turn It Out | Skyy | Salsoul
Black Diamond | New York City Dream | s/t | Able
South Shore Commission | Free Man - Unreleased Acetate 12" Version | Tom Moulton - A Tom Moulton Mix | Soul Jazz
Afro Brazilian Band | Groove | Authentic Afro-Brazilian Music | & Rhythms | Emusic.com
Karl Hector & Malcounts | When the Sun Breaks Through | Sahara Swing | Now Again
Fiesta De Virgin Del Carmen, Atacames | Fix Planet
Santogold | Unstoppable-Night Dub |
Lions | Cumbia Del Lion (Free former ToddyTsPsycho Dub)| White Label | Ubiquity
Spicey Ham | Sex Sex & More Sex | B-Boy Records | Rare & Unreleased | Traffic
Julia Holter | ?? | dublab.com
Paulo Bagunca e a Tropa Maldita | Olhar Animal | s/t | Discos Mariposa
Ben Reynolds | Here Toucheth Blues | Live @ WMBR
Larkin Grimm | Anger In Your Liver | Parplar | Young God
?? | Zamba Tiv (Part 2) | Folk Music in Mongolia | Ethnic Music from the Land of Genghis Khan | emusic.com
Fluxion | Opaque | Fluxion | Chain Reaction 12"
Mauro Picotto | Bug | emusic.com
Pawn & Sonic D | Roots | Roots | emusic.com
Arthur Russell | Planted A Thought | Love Is Overtaking Me | Audika
Semoe | I Think | Fix Planet | thethingonthedoorstep.blogspot.com

Saturday, November 2, 2008 (Vote No on Proposition WMBR!)

Set 1
Pete Jolly | Seasons | Seasons | Dusty Groove America
Malone & Barnes & Spontaneous Simplicity | Moonstruck | Freedom Serenade | Luv n' Haight
?? | Suppanhong | Thai Beat a Go Go | Subliminal Sounds
Drums of Death | DODFUCKSUPANESCORTTUNE | emusic.com
Nightfall | Keep It Up (Dim's DJ Friendly Re-Edit) (Vinyl Only Version) | Cocktail Disco | BBE
Soferno B | Mugger In the Hi Wash | Soferno B In Dub

Background Music: Various Artists | Relax Vol. 2 | Top Hits

Set 2
Arthur Russell | Maybe She + Goodbye Old Paint | Love Is Overtaking Me | Audika
Fight Bite | Strings | Emerald Eyes | s/r
Pantaleimon | Even If Love (Eclipse) | Heart of the Sun: Pantaleimon Remixed & Realised | Durtro
Essie Jain | Goodbye | The Inbetween | Ba Da Bing!

Somerville Speakout Music: Bert Kaempfert | The Happy Wonderland Of | Polydor

Set 3
Crash Course In Science | Kitchen Motors | Cakes In the Home | http://www.myspace.com/ccis
Wolverton Brothers | Dead Horse | Old Ugly & Loud | Starhustler
Crispy Ambulance | Are You Ready? | The Plateau Phase | LTM
Windy & Carl | Rhodes | Songs for the Broken Hearted | Kranky

Concert Report Music: Rolfo's Trinidad Steel Band | Capitol

Set 4
Sam Tyler-Wood & Pet Shop Boys | I'm In Love With A German Film Star | Kompakt
J.V.C. Force | Doin' Damage (House Version) | B-Boy Records: The Archives - Rare & Unreleased | Traffic
Deadbeat | Sun People (Dub Diversionaire) | Roots & Wire | emusic.com
King Midas Sound | Cool Out | Cool Out | Hyperdub 12"/emusic.com

Set 5
Gold Coast Police Band | Rocking in Rhythm | Delta Dandies (Dance Bands in Nigeria, 1936-41) | Honest Jon's