I made you a radio show.
If the stream above isn’t working, you can also just DOWNLOAD IT AS AN .MP3 MIX HERE.
In this inaugural episode of Twenty-Song Tuesday, your DJ (me) walks you through the whole idea. Basically I’m trying to have a WFMU show without being on WFMU, and I think I kind of nailed it. Nothing fancy, I just grabbed twenty pieces of music that I have been intentionally enjoying recently and talked about it a bit.
Set 1 gets us off to a gentle start — mostly solo guitar, and not a word of English.
- Loituma — “Ievan Polkka”
- Wolf Biermann — “Ermutigung”
- Georg Ringswandl — “Radlmare”
- Bettina Wegner — “Cool Sein”
- Maria Elena Walsh — “Manuelita la Tortuga”
Set 2 picks up the pace, but in a gentle way.
- Todd Rundgren — “Healing, Pt. 1”
- YMO — “Perspective”
- Virus — “Wadu Wadu”
- Prefab Sprout — “Ride”
- Hermeto Pascoal — “Musica da Lagoa”
- Ata Kak — “Obaam Sima”
Set 3 gets weird, starting at intergalactic gangster funk and arriving at postcolonial Casio pop via dancehall and gabber.
- Max Rebo (possibly Rick James) — “Lapti Nek”
- Bald Terror — “Rotterdam”
- Lovindeer — “Babylon Boobs”
- Lady G — “Nuff Respect”
- William Onyeabor — “Atomic Bomb”
- Francis Bebey — “Black Coffee Cola”
Set 4 is just three newer songs I have been into lately.
- Ezra Furman — “In America”
- Laveda — “Cellphone”
- Anni Rossi — “Deer Hunting Camp 17”
If you prefer to skip the radio show format, you can stream all of these on my YouTube channel or download them in this .zip file.
I’m not loving the way this microphone sounds, so next week I’ll see what I can do to pump that up. Talk to you then.
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