Monday, September 17, 2007

1984-02-24 Surf Party


This is a party radio segment (Fridays from 8-11 PM on WRUV-FM), and is the same as the "On the Beach" show already posted. We hear the end of Jay Strausser's Trenchtown Rock program at the beginning. Then a brief news segment.

It may say surf party but it is actually just a mix of fun music that does feature some surf music. They we get into some new wave (B-52s, etc.) and continue for a full 90- minutes.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk840224surfparty.mp3

Sunday, September 16, 2007

1984-02-10 Hard Chore


It is 1984 and I am becoming interested in punk music. Now is the time for that, so enjoy it. There is some Negativland for between songs, but the real punk stuff is pretty cool. 90 minutes of energy and expression.

This might be distressing to some, but those people are probably not even listening to this program.

Hooray for Catholic Discipline's song "Underground Babylon."

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk840210hardchore.mp3

1984-01-10 Uniformed Zombies


An examination of various forms of zombie behavior, whether it is government induced, sexually driven or technologically demanded. This show is actually a lot of fun and reminded me of some good bands that I had forgotten.

The music consisted of: New Order, X, The Group, The Cure, Systems of Romance, The Units, Gang of Four, Girl Scouts, Final Minutes, Pulsalamma, Comateens, and a lot more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk840110uniformedzombies.mp3

1984-01-10 On the Beach


From a dark winter in Burlington, Vermont comes this radio show of mystery and music. With a decided Doctor Who theme, this show illustrates my increasing small abilities as a mixer. Nice station identification by my daughter Sarah Jane.

The program goes from a frosty musical menu into a long and sad examination of the dreary weather forecast before trying to break out with some different music to make us think of something else. Thanks to Jean Michel Jarre as well as New Order and some surf music.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk840110onthebeach.mp3

1984-00-00 Instrumentals


I decided to play an hour of instrumentals, and then by the end I had cars outside the window honking their horns to the music. Lots of fun. Those were great old days. Chuck Morton and Luz Johnson were beeping the horns. I needed to fill in some time on the air, so I did. I did not know the exact date, and I did not read a play list. We do get to hear the beginning of my next segments, a salute to The Stranglers, an awesome band.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk840000instrumentals.mp3

1983-10-28 My 33rd Birthday


<== A picture of me at about the time of this show

As with all my birthdays on the radio, it tends to be very self-serving and introspective. This is the first birthday I ever had on the radio, so things were a bit formative. Thanks to Unit Buy for all of his support during this period. Unit Boy is right there with me in the studio asking for requests and making odd comments.

The music consists of: Crazy Joe & the Variable Speed Band, Dick Dale and the Deltones (the first record I ever purchased), the Ventures, New Order, Vanilla Fudge, Brian Eno, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Eno & Fripp, Prince, B-52s, The Tubes, The Cure, Steppenwolf, Neil Young, Sly & the Family Stone, and even the start of Jay Strausser's Trenchtown Rock at the end, since at that time I was on 3-6 PM on Friday.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk831028birthday.mp3

1983-01-07 Noise Crisis


This goes back quite a ways, to the very early days of the program. It had started in 1982 and was just now picking up steam. I thought that I was exploring the role of noise in music, but little did I know that for the next 17 years this was to be an ongoing theme that I would come back to time and time again in many different ways. This is, therefore, an early noise exploration, and some might think that it is a little long on music and a little short on noise, but so be it. I was just getting warmed up. It may be more electronica than anything else, but what did we know in 1983?

Music consisted of: Kraftwerk, Art of Noise, China Crisis, Brian Eno, Eno & Fripp, Bjorn Lindt, Jon Hassell, Edgar Froese, and a lot more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk830107noisecrisis.mp3

1994-xx-xx Never Ending



I am not sure of the date. No play list was read on the air. Quite an interesting mix of light beats and ambient sounds. Nice feature of a Lisa Heller Boragine station identification in the middle. That leads me to believe it might be somewhere in the mid-1990s, and I am going to mark it as 1994.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk000000neverendibg.mp3

1997-09-xx Global Broadcast


This was the first global internet broadcast of the College of Musical Knowledge. The station had just gone online with a stream of all broadcasts. It was another radio show that I am unsure of the exact date on. I hate it when that happens, but then this is a pretty good show so it deserves to be cataloged.

This is a dancey show, but not the kind of normal dance music you would find in a club, but an interesting mix of differently sounding things with a beat. The music consisted of: Freestylers, Traction, Taylor, Fade, St. Etienne, EHF, Gus Gus, St. Tenor, Dubstar, Secrets, Still, American Frontier Culture and a lot more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk000000globalbroadcast.mp3

Saturday, September 8, 2007

1994-07-27 The Tape Beatles


"Media ecology" is a musical style where the "artists" use only found sound to weave together a new musical/acoustic experience. In this show I want to salute the work of that obscure group from Iowa known as the Tape Beatles. There are a number of other groups mixed in.

The show consists of: Tape Beatles, Zoviet France, Negativland, Pelican Daughters, Autopsia, Crosley Bendix and more.

This may sound fairly lighthearted, but this is way serious stuff. As William S. Burroughs said, "When you cut into the present the future leaks out." The ways in which this 1994 broadcast is relevant in 2007 are amazing.

Please do not forget your instructions for the Omega Contingency Plan.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk940727tapebeatles.mp3