Robert Tilton, Television Evangelist, 1989

This is a video study I did of Robert Tilton in 1989, and many of these sounds appeared on various industrial music tracks in the years to come. This would be a lot of fun if it wasn't quite so tragic.

Blessings of Obedience - Industrial Strength Dance #6

At Border in Burlington, Vermont on a night in August 1988. Bill Kirby's Escherhead, Astronauts in Grave Peril, the Abdo-Men and also Marvin X & 174K2. The video is by Alfred Snider (me) and represents some crude psychedelic attempts, but hey, it was 1988! This video is dedicated to Bill Kirby, who took his own life not long after the show. I still miss him.

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

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

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

199x-xx-xx Police State

Not sure about the date on this one, but it sounds like the mid-1990s. But, it was a good broadcast, and one I have returned to from time to time. There's just something about a police state...

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

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

Entire library is at:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/

1995-06-28 Fair Use Follies

I love the technique of taking sounds and mixing them together. William S. Burroughs has said, "When you cut into the present, the future leaks out." This is a lot of what happened during this broadcast, with a few of my favorite sample-laden songs for fun and edification mixed in with some other music. Just the first hour of a 90 minute program. Music included: Severed Heads, Andy Fairley, Jah Wobble, Burroughs, Eno and a lot more.

Right click to download, click to listen right away, best with iTunes:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950628fairusefollies.mp3

Entire library is at:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/

Secret Culture - Original Music from 1989

SECRET CULTURE
EIGHT PROGRESSIVE BANDS FROM BURLINGTON, VERMONT
JANUARY 1989

60-MINUTE CASSETTE TAPE

In my town we have a secret culture. We create it and pass it around amongst ourselves. Here is a portion of it that we are willing to share with you.

-Doctor Tuna

COMMODITY FETISH
San Francisco 6:25
Cop Show #2 2:49
Hallelujah Dance Chorus 2:27
…and Justice for Ollie 3:25

FRIENDS OF DOCTOR MABUSE
She Falls Down 4:00
The Same Things 5:20

BROKEN GENDER
God Loves Me So Much 3:62

ACOUSTIC IATROGENESIS
Wild Thang 7:03

MASKED MEN
Marshall’s Law 4:20 (live)

COMMODITY FETISH & DOCTOR TUNA
Mechanization of Perception 9:35 (live)

THE ABDO-MEN
The Legend of Arthur Damage 3:25
The Churning 2:56

ASTRONAUTS IN GRAVE PERIL
Dream Drums 3:20 (live)


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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/secret_culture_8901.mp3

1995-07-05 Alien Mind Screens

William S. Burroughs is inspirational even when he doesn't want to be. A few Burroughs lines laid over music, some other voices, some hints of outer space stuff, some other music and before you know if you have a strange afternoon radio program. That is what this is. Music included: Wiliam Burroughs, Banco de Gaia, T99, Future Sound of London, Producers for Bob, Coil, Schizophrenia, Horizon 222, Locust, Materiale and more.

Right click to download, click to listen, get both parts:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950705alienmindscreens1.mp3
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950705alienmindscreens2.mp3

1995-05-17 System 01

Inspired by the System 01 CD that uses electronic music along with the spoken words of Timothy Leary, I crafted this radio show. Leary says a lot of stuff that I thought only I said, and then all of a sudden there is this CD with him seemingly reading my script. Everything from "infecting the minds of young people with the idea of human freedom" to the "think for yourself" line. Of course, lots of other stuff is also included for listening pleasure, sort of in the light media ecology mode. Music included: Sucking Chest Wound, System 01, Producrs for Bob, My Life in the Thrill Kill Cult, Kode 4, Hilt, Severed Heads, Coil, Orbital, Daisyglow, Hawk, and a lot more. Kind of a lot of my more extreme sample favorites, I especially love that Thrill Kill Cult song, "The Devil does drugs."

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950517system01.mp3

1995-05-15 Inner Source

This show features all new music in that border zone that separates dance from ambience, but with a big dash of samples thrown in for entertainment. Neer, Joi, Outeractive, Holy Ghost, Duke, Hallucinogen, Juno Reactor, New Order, John Scott, Lhooq, Solid, Cocteau Twins, State of Grace, Solar Quest, Another Green World, and more.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950515innersource.mp3

1995-05-10 Gingerbread Man

"Run, run, fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!"

The Residents had a new release and it is an amazing creation. The Gingerbread Man is, according to them, a creature that brings death. This album consists of ten songs, and the first none of them represent individuals at the end of their lives who have had a less than satisfying existence that has been characterized by self-deception. Each song is their story and their testament, wrapped around a little of the G-Man theme.

Bravo for the Residents! After the album I play a bit more from them.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950510gingerbread.mp3

1995-05-03 Pay It All Back

An updated look at the music coming from the On-U label in those days. Lots of great stuff, and something I always really enjoyed. This set did not look at the extensive reggae work of this label, but the more recent non-reggae material. This may be the only label that is suitable for both sides of my weekly radio program.

The music included: Audio Active, Tackhead, Mark Stewart, Strange Parcels, Little Annie, Little Axe, Gary Clail, Forehead Brothers, Maffia, Andy Fairley, and the Timelords.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950503payitallback.mp3