1987-12-09 Dark Wednesday

Cover of NegativlandNot a lot of sunlight in these northern climes, and I am not sure that Jim and Tammy Bakker will shed much light on the situation. But, they are a great mix with some real industrial music. Robert Tilton drops in as well. There is something about industrial music and television evangelism. Oh, and Sister Susan's Astronautica is on the beginning of the show, and I love it when she says, "Tune Tuna in again then, use a radio if you have to."

Music included: Controlled Bleeding, Nocturnal Emissions, Hafler Trio, Blackhouse, Patsy Cline, Frisco Komonoff, Vicky Love, Negativland, Minimal Compact, Missing Brazilians, Renaldo and the Loaf, Zoviet France, Hunting Lodge, and a lot more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk871209_dark_wednesday.mp3

1987-11-04 Necklace of Tears

Image by Pink Sherbet Photography via FlickrDarker, sadder, more spacious than most progams. Not sure what was going on with me this week but this is an expression of my emotional state. The nice part is that I often get it worked out of my system through this program.

Music included: 7 From Life, Controlled Bleeding, Chris & Cosey, Klaus Flouride, Randy Grief, Nocturnal Emissions, Zoviet France, PGR, 93 Current 93, Roger Miller with the Big Industry, Einsturzende Neubauten and a lot more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk871104necklace_of_tears.mp3

1987-10-00 Three Cheers for the Pope

Image via WikipediaPapal news and words in the electromagnetic medium made me do this. Not very papal as I scan it now, but fairly entertaining in a proto-industrial way.

Music included: PGR, Acoustic Iatrogenesis, Throbbing Gristle, Hula, Chrome, Test Department, Severed Heads, Sympathy Nervous, Hunting Lodge, Genesis P. Orridge and a lot more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk871000_3_cheers_4_the_pope.mp3

1986-07-30 Infatuation

Cover of MerzbowInfatuated with what? Why infatuated with sounds and electromagnetic beams that can influence the thoughts and feelings of innocent people, of course. Just another alternative music selection for a Wednesday, another day at the office for me.

I really like the beginning, a program ID from my then 8 year old daughter, Sarah Jane.

Music included: Commodity Fetish, Merzbow, SPK, Grechtikeits Liga, Hula, Chrome, Mnemonists.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk860730infatuation.mp3

1986-04-09 One True Radio Studio

Image by angellea via FlickrThis episode of One True Radio inolved a lot of patching together of various noises and sounds, both by myself and by various artists whose work I have discovered. No play list exists for this show.

This seems to be a lot of dark ambient collage.
"Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Although it had its roots in the 1970s, Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s^{[citation needed]} with the introduction of newer, smaller, and more affordable Effects units, synthesizer and sampling technology. Dark ambient is an unusually diverse genre, related to industrial music, noise, ethereal wave, and black metal, yet generally free from derivatives and connections to other genres or styles." Wikipedia

BUT, this sampling also includes a lot of voices, sound effects and other snippets from a wide variety of sources.

The show does not start until a few minutes in, so do not be deceived.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk860409otr1.mp3

1986-02-05 Industrial One True Radio

Image via WikipediaOne True Radio was a sign up show at WRUV for many years where people would do the unusual. Here are the first 90 minutes of one show that I did in 1986 that featured "industrial music." I begin by giving a definition of this genre and then set about to play some of it.

Music included: Art Barbecue, Halfler Trio, 93 Current 93, Coil, Test Department, Hula, Etantes Donnes, Controlld Bleeding, Flagellants, Einsturzende Neubauten, El Topo, Chrome, Severed Heads,  and a lot more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk860205otr1.mp3

1986-02-12 Humans and Machines

Image by dolcedo via FlickrThere are diffefrences, but they are narrowing. That is this week's theme, but it plays itself out in both subtle and not so subtle ways.

Music includes: Legendary Pink Dots, Nocturnal Emissions, Test Dept., Psychic Youth, Shriekback, New Order, Cabaret Voltaire, Chrome, Tuxedomoon, Trevor Horn and the Art of Noise, Severed Heads, Edward Kaspel, Legendary Pink Dots, the Wake, Anna Pigale, Anna Domino, Holy Toy, Coil, Aqsak Maboul and a lot more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk860212_humans_and_machines.mp3

1985-12-04 Reach for N

Image by StephenZacharias via FlickrThis will forever remind me of Steve Dolley, debate coach at the time and star of "Hour of the Wolf News" on WRUV, as he would often (randomly say) "Reach for N." Of course, then there was a song of that title, and the idea for the program took off. A nice mix of interesting stuff here. I am not sure of the claim at the end of the show that anybody who sits through this for 90 minutes "must be sick," because I just did and rather liked it. But then, that may, in itself, prove the claim.

Artists include: Propaganda, Art of Noise, Andrew Poppy, Blaine L. Reininger, Durutti Column, John Fahey, Tuxedomoon, Tangerine Dream, Phantom Captain, Voice of Authority, Skinny Puppy, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire, SHop Assistants, Copernicus, Bauhaus, Joy Division, General Strike ("Reach for N") and a lot more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk851204reachforn.mp3

1986-01-08 Hi Fi Companion

Cover of Nurse With Wound

I am really starting to diversify my musical interests at this point. A mere 18 months at WRUV has exposed me to many new forms and formats of music. This is one of those weeks, it sets the stage for years to come.

Artists include: Psyclones, Legendary Pink Dots, Edward Kaspel, Residents, Cabaret Voltaire, Biting Tongues, Severed Heads, Front 242, Art of Noise, Voice of Authority, Chrome, Nurse with Wound, Blaine L Reininger, Einsturzende Neubauten, Neozalanda, Propaganda, Skinny Puppy,  and a lot more.

Comes in two parts, download both:

http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk860108hificomp1.mp3

http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk860108hificomp2.mp3

1983-01-07 Noise Crisis

A very early approach to sounds and noises playing the role of music. This is 1983 after all, and before New Wave even happened. This is a nice mixture of early sound music, and it stands up well after all these years and it becomes a bit more electronic as it goes along. Well done, if I do say so to myself.

Music included: Kraftwerk, Computer Love, Robots, Art of Noise, China Crisis, Brian Eno, Eno & Fripp, Bjorn Lindt, Jon Hassel, Edgar Froese, and a lot more.

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

1990-07-11 - Exotica

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The date is almost illegible but this is how I make it out. Nice warning that people might be offended. Well, it was 1990, let's remember.  Wow, this has a lot of very interesting but very strange music. A good mix this week.


Music included:  Severed Heads, Sleep Chamber, Commodity Fetish (remixes), Pankow, Chris & Cosey, Throbbing Gristle, Legendary Pink Dots, Residents, Consolidated, Women of the SS, Tasteless Cuts, Psychic TV and a lot more.


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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk90711exotica.mp3

0000-00-00 - Police State

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Not knowing the date doesn't really matter, because the threat of the police state is, like poverty, always with us, or so it seems. This is an 90 minute exploration of that idea -- the police state that is hidden and the police state that is not so hidden. As befits this program theme there is a lot of proto-industrial music along with some harsher beats and dance music as well. This is an ass-kicking musical experience.


Music included: Horde, Thick Pigeon, Hula,  SPK, Spig, Graeme Revell, Aqsak Maboul, Current 93, Noizeclot, William S. Burroughs, Axis, Sleep Chamber, Data Bank A, Blackhouse, Chrome, Chumbawamba, Masked Men and a lot more.


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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk000000policestate.mp3

000-00-00 - Never Ending

Image via WikipediaAnother one of those cassettes without a date.  No idea what this is all about except for the title on the tape case.
The program consist of some softer techno music with some atmopsheric qualities from song to song. I do recognize some Air Liquide in there. There was a rebellious phase I went through when I did not read a play list, which now I very much regret. It sounds very nice even without a play list!
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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk000000neverendibg.mp3

0000-00-00 - Global Broadcast

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I do not know the date and I can barely remember the situation. The cassette tape was unmarked except for the show title.  It seems as if the power was off and we were not broadcasting, but I went ahead and did it anyway.


This is a unique situation because I did not seem to play ANY songs that I now recognize during this show. Very odd that this would happen, but then this was an unusual day.

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

1995-04-05 Present Time Exercises

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That funky CMK ID, "you were warned."


"Present time exercises" were some experimental tapes done by William S. Burroughs.  We get a lot of those and then a strange variety of music that I neither remember or read a p[layliost for. I do recognize the early demos of Commodity Fetish's "Machine Culture." Nice stuff and great days, those were. Too bad this clip is so short.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950405presenttimeexerc.mp3

1995-03-15 Languid Sounds

Image by Collin Key (a busy week) via Flickr
This program is composed of some industrial ambient music. I was just exploring the less drastic industrial sounds and how they could fit together at this time. A few sound effects and other things in to provide variety and alternative. It was also the mood of the week, sort of languid. March can be that way in Vermont as you expect spring but it is not quite there yet. But, as so often happens, it livens up as the program goes on.


Music included:  Severed Heads, Alter Ego, Link, Inner Space, Kinesthesia, Resistance D, Ultramarine, Future Sound of London, Air Liquide, Chris & Cosey, Psychic TV and a lot more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950315languidsounds.mp3

1995-02-01 EZ Listening

Image by Beverly & Pack via FlickrLove the Monty Python "ladies" station ID to begin the show.

I have no idea where the music came from in the first twenty or so minutes. Very instrumental, dark, solemnly soothing. Then there is a nice set of Residents cuts, and then we end at the 45 minute mark, as part 2 of this show has been lost.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950201ezlistening.mp3

1985-05-03 Industrial Party

Cover of Severed Heads
You have to love the samples from THE EVIL DEAD used here in this program. Still exploring and experimenting with industrial music on a Friday night. Arthur Nalis is with me again with his musical selections.


Music included:  Wired, Severed Heads, 23 Skidoo, Zazou Bikaye CY1, Chris & Cosey, Chrome, Najma, Dave Ball, A Primary Industry, Richard H. Kirk, Savage Republic, Joeboy in Rotterdam and a lot more.


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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk850503nedindustpartya.mp3

1985-04-05 Industrial Strength Party

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Party Radio took place on WRUV-FM back in those days right after Jay Strausser's Trenchtown Rock. Armed with a raucous bunch of recordings I took on the task to entertain for three hours. Industrial music guru Arthur Nalis was there with me, but was called Mr. X. The Ride Board through the distortion mask sounds interesting.


Music included: Hula,  Residents, Blaine Reininger, Bushido, Tuxedomoon, Bauhaus, Legendary Pink Dots, Ferdinand, Swans, DNA, Test Department, Chrome, Glen Branca, Throbbing Gristle, Dome,  Des Aires, Non, Boyd Rice, Women of the SS, Richard H. Kirk, Savage Republic, Zazou Bikaye CY1, Dave Ball, Winston Tong, Stooges, SPK, Wire, XRay Spex, Honeymoon Killers, Anna Domino, 150 Murderous Passions and a lot more.

Get both parts, click to listen right away or right click to download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk850405indstrparty1.mp3
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk850405indstrpartyb.mp3

1985-09-04 Kiss of Death

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Not sure why the name, but this is a solid program in the mid-80's style. We seem to have moved on by the more lighthearted new wave and now there is something darker and a bit more techno coming from Europe. But the impetus of the light to fight back was there, and we heard some lighter hearted stuff as well to give it a more rounded sound, even including some Go-Go music.


Music included: Propaganda,  Clan of Xymox, Shriekback, Severed Heads, Ubahn X, tv themes from the 1960's, New Order, Blaine Reininger, Shriekback, Nico, Cure, Propaganda, Sly & Robbie, Icy Hot, D Street, and a lot more.



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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk850904kissofdeath.mp3