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The always amazing Odd Nosdam has posted a great mixtape of early garage and r&b songs in celebration of his birthday:

01 THE JUNIOR RAYMEN - RUMBLE '66
02 TEDDY AND HIS PATCHES - SUZY CREAMCHEESE
03 THE PASTEL SIX - BANDIDO
04 ROGER & THE GYPSIES - PASS THE HATCHET PT1
05 GENE AMMONS - MOITO MATO GROSSO PT1
06 ROGER & THE GYPSIES - PASS THE HATCHET PT2
07 GENE AMMONS - MOITO MATO GROSSO PT2
08 JOE TEX - IM A MAN
09 LOU DONALDSON - PEEPIN
10 BABY CORTEZ - GETTIN RIGHT
11 TEDDY AND HIS PATCHES - FROM DAY TO DAY
12 THE KINGSMEN - HAUNTED CASTLE PARTY
13 HARLOW WILCOX AND THE OAKIES - MOOSE TROT
14 THE RIVIERAS - H B GOOSE STEP

wish him a late happy birthday and download the mix here

KDVS Fundraiser

KDVS is an amazing freeform radio station in Davis California that I am lucky enough to have a show on. We are having our annual week-long fundraiser starting April 20, and are trying to raise $60,000. Two-thirds of our budget comes from listener donations, so we need your help to keep our freeform programing on-air. We have amazing premiums for those that donate $25 or more, you can view these premiums here (they work out to be about a dollar for dollar value - and they are tax deductible). Plus, if you donate during our show you will get an excellent CD mix that I put together with some really unique tracks (including Moon Wiring Club, Drahomira Song Orchestra, and a never before released song by Benedict Siegel). You can donate to our show here.

If you love freeform/community/alternative radio and the music that we bring with it - and if you can afford to donate (even a little) - then please support us.
Thank you

Drahomira Song Orchestra

Drahomira Song Orchestra is a French duo consisting of former film students Julien Pacaud and Jean-Christophe Sanchez. They make sometimes ambient, sometimes drony, sometimes industrial musical compositions...or I guess they're more like musical scrapbooks - musical ephemera (hehe). Their music is unlike anything I have heard before, yet it has always felt very familiar, like they taped in and recorded some sort of collective unconscious and put it to beautiful music.


They are also filmmakers and graphic artist - I haven't been lucky enough to see any of their films, but both Julien Pacaud's graphic art (as displayed) and Jean-Christophe Sanchez's paintings are remarkable and consistently intriguing. Their art can be viewed over their very fun website, and can be purchased at DeviantartArt

You can download some of their albums at their last.fm page, and some more over at Mutant Sounds. You can find a couple albums of theirs for sale here and here.

Here are a few tracks off their 1999 album Strange Baltic Laboratoire, which has quickly made its way into one of my all time favorite albums:

The Rules by Heart
Gymnastik Nocturne
Fin de Journée au Politburo
Now Change Head Back Sorry










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