October 24th, 2006

Grow­ing up in sub­ur­ban New Jer­sey, it required a lot of work to learn about new music. Record buy­ing trips to New York City were my surest method of locat­ing releases that I may have heard men­tion of, but never actu­ally saw in stores. The sit­u­a­tion is very dif­fer­ent now, of course, but in high school, I was still a few years away from even dis­cov­er­ing Usenet news­groups and Mosaic was a nov­elty. My musi­cal curios­ity couldn't be sat­is­fied eas­ily for rea­sons of age, loca­tion or bud­get. The record indus­try may bemoan the explo­sion of music on the inter­net, but it has become much eas­ier for music lovers to dis­cover new or his­tor­i­cally over­looked music. Before, "Google" was not yet a verb, and research often required gas money.

In this con­text, dis­cov­er­ing free form radio was noth­ing short of mirac­u­lous to my young brain. WFMU (wfmu.org) was trans­mit­ting weird, cranky, funny, obscure, impos­si­ble music. And I could drive around quaint, quiet and bor­ing sub­ur­ban New Jer­sey while lis­ten­ing to sounds that I never imag­ined pos­si­ble, hosted with unapolo­getic strangeness.

This mix does not come near the eclec­ti­cism of WFMU, by any means, but it is my own exer­cise in mix­ing and sequenc­ing across genre.

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tracklisting:

1. Dark Was The Night — Blind Willie Johnson
2. Alberta — John Lee Hooker
3. Things That I Used To Do — Muddy Waters
4. You Know — Stone Coal White
5. Rhyme Place­ment — Mass Influence
6. Pushin' Orb­itz — Sub-Conscious
7. Glass Bot­tom Boat — Siah And Yeshuah Dapo ED
8. Afraid of the Light — Maspyke
9. Lune TNS — Com­pany Flow
10. Sub­level Dom­i­nance — Self Scientific
11. Armagideon Time — Willie Williams
12. I Love, I Love You — Bar­ring­ton Levy
13. Truth And Rights — Johhny Osbourne
14. Mach/Hey — Jamie Saft
15. Out / Out — Brian Eno
16. Call­ing To The Water God­dess — Hu Vibrational
17. What a Mis­try w/ Paul St. Hilaire — Rhythm & Sound
18. Stump Of A Drowner — Brise-Glace
19. Duende — Nettle
20. Bedouin Raid — Badawi
21. Blood On My Hands — Shackleton
22. tainted dub — lycaon pro­duc­tions
23. Super Duper — Emalkay
24. Rub­ber Chicken — Caspa
25. Youth­man Dub — Juju
26. Molten — Dig­i­tal Mystikz
27. Gut­ted — Burial
28. Fleurette Africaine (African Flower) — Duke Ellington
29. A Change Is Gonna Come — Sam Cooke

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Tags: dj mumbler, freeform, mix

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