WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 17, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 6:54pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	7:32pm Arvo: Just saying hello from the movie theater!
	8:51pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	8:57pm Mr. X: Camp-o-ree!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Arvo, Imaginos and Mr. X! Yep, we've still got a little camping weather left!
	9:00pm Krys O.: Hey!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:00 Hooray! It's Krys O, too!
	9:05pm Mr. X: I get the feeling I'm going to be adding lots of interesting stuff that's new to me to my playlists tonight.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Side A" This is from a 110 minute tape, rather than a 90 minute tape, like I have been running in previous installments. So I had to cut around 20-ish minutes of songs from this tape to make it work for this show.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:05 I hope so! I like this tape, but it's not really like what I usually play.
	9:11pm WR: To quote Tower of Power: "What is Hip?!?!?"
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:11 Hell yeah!
	9:14pm Mr. X: Bow ties will finally be hip in 2074.
	9:15pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 Sooner if the Doctor has any say
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 I think Dr. Who finally changed that. But I can attest, when I started wearing bow ties, they were not cool, and hadn't been for a long time. But when I moved to Portland, around the time that I got this tape from Cheryl, I would see some other guys at shows wearing bow ties, so I knew that the loyal few of us were changing the tide.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 Jinx!
	9:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Was thinking the same
	9:17pm Mr. X: You've always been ahead of your time(lord.)
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: At the time that I got this tape, I knew almost NONE of these artists. There's a couple, later in the tape, that I did know, but not much, really.
	9:17pm Amygdala: ↳ Song: "Accidental Measures In Cool" by "Paul Haslinger" Sweet tunes! You appear to have had a wonderfully successful hip replacement.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: I'm slightly ashamed to admit it, but I used to refer to this tape as, "Make-Out Music."
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Amygdala @9:17 Sometimes the right hip doctor can do WONDERS.
	9:19pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 It's the left one that we worry about...
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: I do sort of love that the tape sounds sort of blown out, the way tapes would sound when the signal was a little hot.
	9:21pm WR: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 oh, need to relearn how to tie my box tie.
	9:21pm Mr. X: Looks like Tricky is up next. I really like that song.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:21 I'm really bad at it. However, I have learned that clip-on tech has been with us since the 20's, so I embrace most kinds of bow ties, and appreciate when I don't have to tie it.
	9:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr. X @9:21 Martina Topley-Bird is wonderful.
	9:24pm Krys O.: Enjoyed both shows. Thanks, Austin. Good night, all.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:24 Sleep well, Krys O! Until next time...
	9:26pm Imaginos: Turning in early. Waking early again tomorrow to pick up tix for a Polynesian show I want to see
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 Very cool! Have fun out there!
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 I will.
	9:27pm Mr. X: Definitely over-amped gain on this tape.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 Since it's how I've come to know these songs, I sort of love it. But I can tell they sound less than perfect.
	9:29pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 as a kid, had and had to wear the bow ties with the little metal clips. As a flamboyant adult I got a couple that have an adjustable strap. Just barely learned how to actually tie a box tie, required for a formal affair I attended decades ago and have not tried it since.
	9:30pm WR: I am going to be moving my stuff from one storage to another one soon. I am going to look for my box of mix cassettes, see if any have survived.
	👻 9:34pm ramencity: hullo huloo!
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:30 I would love to find out what you find!
	9:39pm Mr. X: ↳ ramencity @9:34 greets
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:34 Ramen City Kid! It's always lovely to see you in the chat.
	9:41pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Piece O'Peace" by "Spearhead" My band opened for one of Michael Franti's bands once, but I can't remember which one it was.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:41 We need to get more of your checkered history on tape. You have connections to everyone!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Trailerpark" by "Blur" Blur was one of the few bands I knew before I got this tape.
	9:43pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 "If I have to make up stories, I will!"
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Trailerpark" by "Blur" You can sort of hear the future "Gorillaz" sound peeking out in this song.
	9:46pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 There was like a Blur vs. Oasis battle raging in the mid-90s. You had to be careful about expressing a preference.
	9:47pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 Good point, yes.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:46 I was always on the Blur side, but that was not a popular opinion for a while, among certain dedicated folks. I never thought Oasis was that exciting.
	9:49pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 Same. I regarded Blur as kind of the new XTC.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I also knew the Beastie Boys before she gave me this tape. Considering my brother bought in their first Hip Hop album, and since I have really enjoyed them for a very long time, it's astonishing how long they've been an impact on me.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:49 I never really got into XTC, but I do like some of their tunes. I like that side-project better, with all the 60's psyche-pop wanna stuff.
	9:52pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Dukes of Stratosphear were lots of fun, for sure.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:52 That's the one. I always forget the name of that band, for some reason.
	9:54pm JM in Texas: Howdy! I’m enjoying this Gruve tape : )
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:54 JM In Texas! Lovely to see you in the chat.
	9:55pm Mr. X: Gruve is in the Heart.
	9:56pm JM in Texas: ↳ Mr. X @9:55 Indeed it is!
	9:56pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Le Pan Perdu" by "Cibo Matto" Love me some Cibo Matto.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:56 This was my introduction.
	9:58pm drowsy: hey Austin, outside on the phone, quick thanks to you!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ drowsy @9:58 Wonderful to see you in the chat, drowsy!
	9:59pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 I first discovered them while house-sitting for my bass-player. I went through his music collection, and played this the most.
	👻 10:00pm ramencity: I don't even remember that there were 110-minute tapes...
	10:01pm Arvo: Hi Movie. Is over
	10:02pm Arvo: I had a 132 minute tape once. True story
	👻 10:02pm ramencity: Was there a Bow Wow Wow remix called "C30 C60 C90 C110 Go!"???
	10:03pm Mr Fab: Hey, Austin, this was my 90s. I had zero use for grunge, Britpop, the whole 4-white-guys-w/electric guitars thing just seemed exhausted. But all this electronic stuff was literally music that had never been made before. Cibo Mato, tricky, Beasties, all that sampling stuff. oh, but I did really like cornershop, too. Maybe they were some weird offshoot of Britpop?
	10:05pm Mr Fab: ↳ ramencity @10:02 Wasn’t a remix, one of their regular songs. Encouraging home taping was another of Malcolm McLaren‘s publicity stunts.
	👻 10:06pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:05 Sorry, it was a bad joke, that a remix would add "C110" to make it longer...
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:03 This tape was my introduction to that stuff. Cheryl has always been a little hipper than me, and would direct me to stuff that was gonna be huge soon.
	10:07pm Mr Fab: ↳ ramencity @10:06 Oh, I get it now, duh!
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: When I was a kid, I mostly only liked Rock and Roll. Then I went through a long phase of just listening to weird shit. Now it's equal parts weird shit and stuff you can move to. I guess that's how we age...
	10:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:06 Was Cheryl from California? Cuz LA college/public radio played this stuff all the time, that’s how I knew it. In fact, I learned about Cibo Matto from legendary WFMU DJ Irwin! He would guest DJ on local radio when he was in town, and he played their demos before the album came out.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:10 New Orleans, as a kid. I can't remember where she went to college.
	👻 10:11pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:10 She's from Lafayette! But went to school in N'Orleans...
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:10 I had / have that Chusid book, Songs In The Key of Z, which is how I know about him.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:11 Got it! I forget some details.
	10:12pm JM in Texas: Austin - your recollection of the differences between 110 and 120 minute blank cassette tapes describe what I experienced. Also, my good friend swore that the brick of 15 sold at SamsClub were somehow inferior to the two pack sets, which he only purchased. I was a brick guy!
	10:12pm Mr Fab: Looks like Cheryl and I both had copies of this comp: www.discogs.com... two songs in a row from it, so far. Def. a fave album of mine from that late ‘90s/early ‘00s era.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:12 I don't recall there being a difference quality in two-packs vs. bricks, but I do think you got a slight price break for buying in bulk.
	👻 10:13pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:12 What is in that space baby's hand? Midwestern Jello Salad?!
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:12 I'll have to track that down... or just download, most likely.
	👻 10:15pm Heather Z: Last week, a friend gave me a dual tape deck unit and a 14 pack of 60 minute Maxells! I think the best thank you gift I can return is a real mix tape from the tub of tapes in the basement. I think I remember how to tape to tape record? It's gotta be like riding a bike. Which I actually don't know how to do but...
	10:16pm Mr Fab: Oh, I see inner thumb is also on this tape. Yeah, there is a song by them on “space baby blastoff,“ too. That was a free CD given away by the emperor Norton label. There were stacks of them at record store check out counters. So not surprisingly, I’m sure that album got around, and made a lot of converts of those groovy, electro lounge groups they featured at the time.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:15 Nice to see you in the chat, Heather. I never really stopped making tapes, but there was a long time where I made more mix CDs than tapes. In recent years I've been making a lot more tapes again.
	10:17pm Mr Fab: ↳ ramencity @10:13 MARTIAN Jello salad! That plays music!
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:16 I remember the era when you would find CDs like that at record stores. "Those were the days..."
	👻 10:18pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:17 mmmm - peyote jello salad..
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: Actually, I have to thank The Ramen City Kid. His stereo was where I made a LOT of mix tapes, in the old days. He had a nice stereo, and I only had a walkman. I learned about a lot of music through his stereo.
	👻 10:20pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 Great show!! Having fun listening and running out quickly to check the moon! I lost access to a home dual cassette player in 2016 but was basically only doing CD mixes by then anyway. Now I can try my hand at tapes again!
	👻 10:21pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 my stereo says 'hey'
	👻 10:22pm ramencity: I think I have a picture of you making a mixtape, circa... 30 years ago?!
	10:22pm laurapanic: I'm late and I don't like missing Austin's shows, they are part of my work routine. But at least we are funkin' today!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:22 Oh shit! You just might. I did it all the time. I sort of only cared about music for a long time.
	10:22pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Not only a slight price break, but for a short run the bricks came with a single 110 minute all black metal bias cassette. I typically used those to make a mix of music by one band: Sonic Youth, Depeche Mode, Bjork, The Cure and so on. Oh - I also made one with The Legendary Pink Dots on Side A and solo Edward Ka-Spel on Side B……this is the one I probably played the most.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:22 laurapanic! Hooray!
	10:23pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 hooray!!!
	👻 10:23pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Up All Night" by "Groove Collective" ooh vocoder r'n'b!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:22 Oh, I love that! I could go for a Dots / Ka-Spel mix tape going into this winter.
	10:24pm Mr. X: I made all my mix tapes on my brother's stereo.
	10:25pm Arvo: I remember not understanding what a mixer was, much less a four track, around the age of 11 or 12, and I was cutting up tapes and trying to make it resemble a cross fade, taping stuff back together with scotch tape. Interesting results. In fact, my first DJ sets were with a dual cassette deck that had a built in mixer, age 16 or 17.
	10:27pm Arvo: Before I had a dual cassette deck, I had two single cassette decks, one with a built in mic, and so I used to make tapes of me rapping over instrumentals. Hopefully that never ended up on a mix tape I made ... Again, I was 10 or 11 before I got a dual tape deck. First tape deck was for Christmas when I was 8.
	10:32pm Maulydaft: Hey all, just popping into the chat (and then popping into bed): love the tape discussion! I had a "Cosmo" two deck stereo. Did LOTS of tapes from the radio. Loved those memorex clear/blue/yellow ones. I made clay earrings of those a couple years ago! Ha!
	👻 10:32pm ramencity: I recorded my own "comedy show" called "Albanian National News" when I was ~12. Half Monty-Python-style, half actual Monty Python scripts read into a tape recorder.
	10:33pm Maulydaft: ↳ ramencity @10:32 LOL Love that!
	10:34pm Arvo: When I was 19, I was given at least 500 tapes from an elder goth, and some of them were mix tapes from the 80s, with faded sharpie drawings of goth like fonts...
	10:35pm Maulydaft: ↳ Arvo @10:34 Whoah! Arvo do you still have them?
	10:35pm Mr. X: The down side of cassettes was when the machine ate them. Lost a few prized mixtapes that way.
	10:37pm Arvo: ↳ Maulydaft @10:35 Not likely, but maybe in storage. Not a lot survived that move, but a lot of it was donated to WZRD. I think about calling and requesting something I previously owned, but that seems rude.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:35 Yes. I learned the importance of regularly cleaning the heads. But even then, there's mechanical failure you can't control.
	10:38pm Arvo: ↳ Mr. X @10:35 There was always the possibility to recover those chomped tapes, but sometimes the tapes would be wound in reverse, which was kinda cool to me sometimes.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:32 Do these still exist?
	10:38pm Mr. X: I think I was about 12 when I got a portable cassette recorder for xmas. The first thing I did was to record myself reading Ray Bradbury stories.
	👻 10:39pm Heather Z: It was always fun trying to do creative names for the spines. I think I still have The Elegant Penguin Mix and Draining the Bottle in my stash with a few Songs for Heather and, of course, Songs to Cry To, Dream To, etc.
	👻 10:39pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 sadly they do!
	10:39pm Maulydaft: ↳ Arvo @10:37 LOL no you should totally call WZRD and request some of that! Wouldn't it be neat if they played it??
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:38 That's pretty cool! It was a major epiphany, to not only get my own radio, that I could listen to in my room, but one that could record the radio or my voice. (But not at the same time, sadly.) That device blew my mind for years and years afterwards.
	10:40pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo @10:27 My first tape deck was an Akia dual deck that my grandparents ordered for me out of a JC Penny catalog. The best thing about that deck was it allowed you to play two tapes at the same time……oh the possibilities!!! I quickly realized I needed a 3rd deck to capture all these creations I was coming up with. This was all made possible by the Realistic mixer from Radio Shack.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:39 No way, that's cool. All the stuff I made like that is gone, because I'm dumb.
	10:40pm Maulydaft: There's a home movie archive... there should be a home recording on cassettes archive!
	10:40pm Arvo: When I was in seventh grade, I had a friend who had a dual cassette deck that played on repeat, and I still never have seen one again, but it was thrilling when the Halloween sound effects tape played on repeat and I discovered that no one was flipping it on Halloween.
	👻 10:41pm ramencity: I used to record the radio by holding a tape recorder up to it. I still remember getting my first "real" stereo in high school, and not believing you could talk while taping something, and not hear yourself later when you played it back. I remember stomping and shouting to 'test' it...
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:40 I have a Realistic deck that does that now. You can have it on infinite repeat, or just to play Side A, flip, and Side B. Or only one side of a tape. I really love it.
	10:42pm Arvo: ↳ Maulydaft @10:39 I always hope to hear something of mine on WZRD, but I haven't yet. Except when my friend who was the music director entering it all into the catalog played it. I remember she played one of my Juice Machine tapes, incidentally.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:41 I had some tapes of me recording all sorts of dumb stuff off of the TV that way: holding a tape deck with a mic up to the TV. I wish I had those dumb tapes.
	10:43pm Arvo: ↳ JM in Texas @10:40 Very cool. I knew about those, but never had one.
	10:43pm Maulydaft: I had all these great recordings I did as kid similar to you guys. I remember so many details of them because I listened to them over and over... this year I had the task of getting all my media digitized and I've found all those cool cassettes are gone. I'm slightly devastated. I'll never hear my cousins and I making fun of Gorbachev again LOL
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:42 That's because JUICE MACHINE Rules!
	10:43pm Mr. X: I remember that sensation of hearing myself back on those early recordings. "Do I really sound like that?" It was such a weird feeling. But now I'm used to it and I don't notice any more.
	10:44pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "You Must Learn All Night Long" by "Fantastic Plas... Another song from "Space Baby Blast Off." I'm sure Cheryl was plenty cool, but clearly that album was her secret DJ weapon!
	10:45pm Maulydaft: Oh dang Beck... I'm supposed to be going to sleep! :D
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:44 I'm starting to realize! Well you know how it is with mixes...
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:45 Ha! Well, the show is only another 15ish minutes...
	10:46pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Sorry to disillusion you...
	👻 10:46pm ramencity: ↳ Maulydaft @10:43 Maybe your cousins could get together and do a Gorby roast!
	10:47pm Mr. X: I had a rule never to start a mixtape with the first song on an album, so that I wouldn't play it and think that it was that album.
	10:47pm Arvo: I had stuff by Tricky, Cibo Matto, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Beastie Boys, but if I went to dance music, it was very often Chemical Brothers, for good or ill.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:46 It's all good. I think I figured that out once, but forgot to track down the comp. So it goes.
	10:47pm Maulydaft: ↳ ramencity @10:46 Ha! I'm sure it would end badly... we'd be fighting over politics now ;)
	10:47pm Maulydaft: ↳ Mr. X @10:47 Smart!
	10:48pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo @10:47 "Back with another of those block-rockin' beats." Couldn't go wrong with that.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:47 Depending on the mix, I would often set out different "rules". But I would often do dumb stuff when I was making mixes for girls, just to try and impress them, and it would never work.
	👻 10:48pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Mas Que Nada" by "Sergio Mendes" RIP Sergio...
	10:49pm Maulydaft: Oh I love this song! Austin I want to go to sleep! LOL
	10:49pm Arvo: I recently played Paleface, who Beck considered an influence, after all, he let Beck sleep on his couch.. I also had the first two Beck CDs. I wonder how much of that would resonate with me now. I kept track for a while, but it is not likely to my tastes anymore.
	10:50pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 If I had $1 for everyone I tried to get into punk by making mix tapes for them... sigh...
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: At the time I got this tape from Cheryl, I didn't know Sergio Mendes. Now I have a bunch of his records, thanks to her.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:50 Sometimes it works! Sometimes... not as much.
	10:50pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Mas Que Nada" by "Sergio Mendes" My parents would play this at cocktail parties and such.
	10:51pm Arvo: ↳ Maulydaft @10:50 I crashed on someone's couch (in Cleveland) who made me a tape of Cleveland punk, wish I still had jt.
	10:51pm Maulydaft: ↳ Arvo @10:49 I was late into the game with Beck because he "wasn't punk enough"... but I'm still a fan :)
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Que Rico El Mambo" by "Pérez Prado" Again, I didn't really know Perez Prado until I got this tape. Then I fell in LOVE, and now have many records. Thanks Cheryl!
	10:51pm Maulydaft: ↳ Song: "Que Rico El Mambo" by "Pérez Prado" Nice!!!
	👻 10:52pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 I had my parents' old Perez Prado record as one of my first, when I was a kiddo. I loved how happy it sounded...
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: When I can't think of what to listen to when I have to clean the house, I put on a Perez Prado record.
	10:52pm Arvo: ↳ Maulydaft @10:51 Only reason I had Beck CDs was because I was ripping off Columbia House - 11 CDs for $1
	10:52pm Mr Fab: I think I discovered Perez Prado cuz every damn thirft store and used record shop had his stuff in the bargain bins.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:52 My parents didn't like this kind of stuff. They only listened to hippy rock and roll.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:52 Still true!
	10:53pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 I had so many Perez Prado records, loved finding them in thrift stores.
	10:53pm Maulydaft: ↳ Arvo @10:51 I bought a 7" in Cleveland that might have been a local punk band... Blippy? Ring any bells?
	10:55pm Arvo: I listened to a Buffalo Springfield album for the first time in its entirety today. I am into the hippy/country rock vibe, always in hopes of finding more "sunshine pop" vibes.
	10:55pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo @10:55 Which one? I like them.
	10:55pm Arvo: ↳ Maulydaft @10:53 No bells at the moment! The track list was typewritten ...
	10:57pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo @10:55 Gotta listen to the new Sheena's show "Kitsch n Synch" with GeorgyGirl!
	10:57pm Arvo: ↳ Mr. X @10:55 I listened to their first one and "Again", plus some four volume demo collection.
	10:57pm Arvo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:57 I did listen this week!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:57 Oh, yes! I caught a little, and it was great! Her shows are always great.
	👻 10:58pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Soul Bossa Nova" by "Quincy Jones" This always makes me think of Dream Warriors 'My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style,' that sampled it... "My definition.. my definition is this!"
	10:58pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo @10:57 Both classics. Last Time Around is good too, a bit more country and morose at times.
	10:59pm Mr Fab: ↳ ramencity @10:58 eggZACKlee what I was just typing!
	10:59pm Arvo: ↳ Song: "Soul Bossa Nova" by "Quincy Jones" This reminds me of the Austin Powers soundtrack.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:58 I know you love the Dream Warriors. I should listen to them, I don't know anything about them.
	👻 10:59pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:59 Nice! I love that album..
	11:00pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 yeah 'My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style' was huge. Still have many lyrics memorized.
	11:00pm Arvo: ↳ Mr. X @10:58 I enjoyed them very much. I have been doing stuff like that lately. Making sure I have listened to Janis Joplin in a proper fashion... "Essentials"
	👻 11:00pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @11:00 "Follow Me Not" made it onto a few mixtapes back in the day, too...
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @11:00 I very much love Janis Joplin. But that I DID grow up with; my mom played it ALL the time.
	11:01pm Mr. X: Thanks Austin (and Cheryl.) Good stuff.
	11:02pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:01 I also recently played a track by Burl Ives, which is the same song being played in the movie Animal House when Belushi smashed the guitar. That was in the car stereo for way too long as a kid.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Is that The Meters in that bass / guitar sample?
	11:03pm Arvo: Good show! Cheerio!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Glad I could share this tape with ya'll. Next week: Arvo Zylo takes over!
	11:05pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 mr Google sez it samples "Love Break" by The Salsoul Orchestra.
	11:06pm Mr Fab: This show reminds me of Stereolab...and Fatboy Slim...and Portishead...and...

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 17, 2024

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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September 17, 2024: Camping Cassette's Vol. 6: Cheryl's Story

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Artist	Track	Approx. start time
	a song
Side A "Side A"
The Sensualists	dips & Peaks "dips & Peaks" by "The Sensualists"	0:01:55 (Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	0:05:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Sounds of The Mid-Valley (Day)	0:07:01 (Pop-up)
""
Cornershop	Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu	0:10:46 (Pop-up)
Paul Haslinger	Accidental Measures In Cool	0:14:01 (Pop-up)
White Town	Your Woman "Your Woman" by "White Town"	0:18:54 (Pop-up)
Tricky	You Don't "You Don't" by "Tricky"	0:23:15 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Sounds of The Mid-Valley (Day)	0:27:58 (Pop-up)
""
Spearhead	Piece O'Peace "Piece O'Peace" by "Spearhead"	0:37:32 (Pop-up)
Blur	Trailerpark "Trailerpark" by "Blur"	0:42:32 (Pop-up)
The Sensualists	le korg "le korg" by "The Sensualists"	0:46:44 (Pop-up)
Beastie Boys	In 3's "In 3's" by "Beastie Boys"	0:47:52 (Pop-up)
The Inner Thumb	Club Kidnap "Club Kidnap" by "The Inner Thumb"	0:50:12 (Pop-up)
Cibo Matto	Le Pan Perdu "Le Pan Perdu" by "Cibo Matto"	0:54:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Sounds of The Mid-Valley (Night)	0:58:11 (Pop-up)
""
Side B "Side B"
Fantastic Plastic Machine	Bachelor Pad	1:04:29 (Pop-up)
Titán	C'mon Feel The Noise "C'mon Feel The Noise" by "Titán"	1:09:24 (Pop-up)
Pimp Daddy Nash	Jump, Jive and Wail	1:12:06 (Pop-up)
Groove Collective	Up All Night "Up All Night" by "Groove Collective"	1:18:53 (Pop-up)
Handsome Boy Modeling School	Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II)	1:23:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Sounds of The Mid-Valley (Night)	1:27:11 (Pop-up)
""
Pimp Daddy Nash	Chick Packin' Stack Back	1:35:53 (Pop-up)
Fantastic Plastic Machine	You Must Learn All Night Long	1:40:14 (Pop-up)
Beck	Tropicalia "Tropicalia" by "Beck"	1:44:15 (Pop-up)
Sergio Mendes	Mas Que Nada "Mas Que Nada" by "Sergio Mendes"	1:47:33 (Pop-up)
Pérez Prado	Que Rico El Mambo "Que Rico El Mambo" by "Pérez Prado"	1:50:08 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Sounds of The Mid-Valley (Night)	1:53:31 (Pop-up)
Quincy Jones	Soul Bossa Nova "Soul Bossa Nova" by "Quincy Jones"	1:56:45 (Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	1:59:13 (Pop-up)
Cornershop	Candyman "Candyman" by "Cornershop"	2:01:11 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:54pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	7:32pm Arvo: Just saying hello from the movie theater!
	8:51pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	8:57pm Mr. X: Camp-o-ree!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Arvo, Imaginos and Mr. X! Yep, we've still got a little camping weather left!
	9:00pm Krys O.: Hey!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:00 Hooray! It's Krys O, too!
	9:05pm Mr. X: I get the feeling I'm going to be adding lots of interesting stuff that's new to me to my playlists tonight.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Side A" This is from a 110 minute tape, rather than a 90 minute tape, like I have been running in previous installments. So I had to cut around 20-ish minutes of songs from this tape to make it work for this show.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:05 I hope so! I like this tape, but it's not really like what I usually play.
	9:11pm WR: To quote Tower of Power: "What is Hip?!?!?"
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:11 Hell yeah!
	9:14pm Mr. X: Bow ties will finally be hip in 2074.
	9:15pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 Sooner if the Doctor has any say
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 I think Dr. Who finally changed that. But I can attest, when I started wearing bow ties, they were not cool, and hadn't been for a long time. But when I moved to Portland, around the time that I got this tape from Cheryl, I would see some other guys at shows wearing bow ties, so I knew that the loyal few of us were changing the tide.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 Jinx!
	9:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Was thinking the same
	9:17pm Mr. X: You've always been ahead of your time(lord.)
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: At the time that I got this tape, I knew almost NONE of these artists. There's a couple, later in the tape, that I did know, but not much, really.
	9:17pm Amygdala: ↳ Song: "Accidental Measures In Cool" by "Paul Haslinger" Sweet tunes! You appear to have had a wonderfully successful hip replacement.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: I'm slightly ashamed to admit it, but I used to refer to this tape as, "Make-Out Music."
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Amygdala @9:17 Sometimes the right hip doctor can do WONDERS.
	9:19pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 It's the left one that we worry about...
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: I do sort of love that the tape sounds sort of blown out, the way tapes would sound when the signal was a little hot.
	9:21pm WR: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 oh, need to relearn how to tie my box tie.
	9:21pm Mr. X: Looks like Tricky is up next. I really like that song.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:21 I'm really bad at it. However, I have learned that clip-on tech has been with us since the 20's, so I embrace most kinds of bow ties, and appreciate when I don't have to tie it.
	9:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr. X @9:21 Martina Topley-Bird is wonderful.
	9:24pm Krys O.: Enjoyed both shows. Thanks, Austin. Good night, all.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:24 Sleep well, Krys O! Until next time...
	9:26pm Imaginos: Turning in early. Waking early again tomorrow to pick up tix for a Polynesian show I want to see
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 Very cool! Have fun out there!
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 I will.
	9:27pm Mr. X: Definitely over-amped gain on this tape.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 Since it's how I've come to know these songs, I sort of love it. But I can tell they sound less than perfect.
	9:29pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 as a kid, had and had to wear the bow ties with the little metal clips. As a flamboyant adult I got a couple that have an adjustable strap. Just barely learned how to actually tie a box tie, required for a formal affair I attended decades ago and have not tried it since.
	9:30pm WR: I am going to be moving my stuff from one storage to another one soon. I am going to look for my box of mix cassettes, see if any have survived.
	👻 9:34pm ramencity: hullo huloo!
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:30 I would love to find out what you find!
	9:39pm Mr. X: ↳ ramencity @9:34 greets
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:34 Ramen City Kid! It's always lovely to see you in the chat.
	9:41pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Piece O'Peace" by "Spearhead" My band opened for one of Michael Franti's bands once, but I can't remember which one it was.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:41 We need to get more of your checkered history on tape. You have connections to everyone!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Trailerpark" by "Blur" Blur was one of the few bands I knew before I got this tape.
	9:43pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 "If I have to make up stories, I will!"
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Trailerpark" by "Blur" You can sort of hear the future "Gorillaz" sound peeking out in this song.
	9:46pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 There was like a Blur vs. Oasis battle raging in the mid-90s. You had to be careful about expressing a preference.
	9:47pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 Good point, yes.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:46 I was always on the Blur side, but that was not a popular opinion for a while, among certain dedicated folks. I never thought Oasis was that exciting.
	9:49pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 Same. I regarded Blur as kind of the new XTC.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I also knew the Beastie Boys before she gave me this tape. Considering my brother bought in their first Hip Hop album, and since I have really enjoyed them for a very long time, it's astonishing how long they've been an impact on me.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:49 I never really got into XTC, but I do like some of their tunes. I like that side-project better, with all the 60's psyche-pop wanna stuff.
	9:52pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Dukes of Stratosphear were lots of fun, for sure.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:52 That's the one. I always forget the name of that band, for some reason.
	9:54pm JM in Texas: Howdy! I’m enjoying this Gruve tape : )
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:54 JM In Texas! Lovely to see you in the chat.
	9:55pm Mr. X: Gruve is in the Heart.
	9:56pm JM in Texas: ↳ Mr. X @9:55 Indeed it is!
	9:56pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Le Pan Perdu" by "Cibo Matto" Love me some Cibo Matto.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:56 This was my introduction.
	9:58pm drowsy: hey Austin, outside on the phone, quick thanks to you!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ drowsy @9:58 Wonderful to see you in the chat, drowsy!
	9:59pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 I first discovered them while house-sitting for my bass-player. I went through his music collection, and played this the most.
	👻 10:00pm ramencity: I don't even remember that there were 110-minute tapes...
	10:01pm Arvo: Hi Movie. Is over
	10:02pm Arvo: I had a 132 minute tape once. True story
	👻 10:02pm ramencity: Was there a Bow Wow Wow remix called "C30 C60 C90 C110 Go!"???
	10:03pm Mr Fab: Hey, Austin, this was my 90s. I had zero use for grunge, Britpop, the whole 4-white-guys-w/electric guitars thing just seemed exhausted. But all this electronic stuff was literally music that had never been made before. Cibo Mato, tricky, Beasties, all that sampling stuff. oh, but I did really like cornershop, too. Maybe they were some weird offshoot of Britpop?
	10:05pm Mr Fab: ↳ ramencity @10:02 Wasn’t a remix, one of their regular songs. Encouraging home taping was another of Malcolm McLaren‘s publicity stunts.
	👻 10:06pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:05 Sorry, it was a bad joke, that a remix would add "C110" to make it longer...
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:03 This tape was my introduction to that stuff. Cheryl has always been a little hipper than me, and would direct me to stuff that was gonna be huge soon.
	10:07pm Mr Fab: ↳ ramencity @10:06 Oh, I get it now, duh!
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: When I was a kid, I mostly only liked Rock and Roll. Then I went through a long phase of just listening to weird shit. Now it's equal parts weird shit and stuff you can move to. I guess that's how we age...
	10:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:06 Was Cheryl from California? Cuz LA college/public radio played this stuff all the time, that’s how I knew it. In fact, I learned about Cibo Matto from legendary WFMU DJ Irwin! He would guest DJ on local radio when he was in town, and he played their demos before the album came out.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:10 New Orleans, as a kid. I can't remember where she went to college.
	👻 10:11pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:10 She's from Lafayette! But went to school in N'Orleans...
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:10 I had / have that Chusid book, Songs In The Key of Z, which is how I know about him.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:11 Got it! I forget some details.
	10:12pm JM in Texas: Austin - your recollection of the differences between 110 and 120 minute blank cassette tapes describe what I experienced. Also, my good friend swore that the brick of 15 sold at SamsClub were somehow inferior to the two pack sets, which he only purchased. I was a brick guy!
	10:12pm Mr Fab: Looks like Cheryl and I both had copies of this comp: www.discogs.com... two songs in a row from it, so far. Def. a fave album of mine from that late ‘90s/early ‘00s era.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:12 I don't recall there being a difference quality in two-packs vs. bricks, but I do think you got a slight price break for buying in bulk.
	👻 10:13pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:12 What is in that space baby's hand? Midwestern Jello Salad?!
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:12 I'll have to track that down... or just download, most likely.
	👻 10:15pm Heather Z: Last week, a friend gave me a dual tape deck unit and a 14 pack of 60 minute Maxells! I think the best thank you gift I can return is a real mix tape from the tub of tapes in the basement. I think I remember how to tape to tape record? It's gotta be like riding a bike. Which I actually don't know how to do but...
	10:16pm Mr Fab: Oh, I see inner thumb is also on this tape. Yeah, there is a song by them on “space baby blastoff,“ too. That was a free CD given away by the emperor Norton label. There were stacks of them at record store check out counters. So not surprisingly, I’m sure that album got around, and made a lot of converts of those groovy, electro lounge groups they featured at the time.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:15 Nice to see you in the chat, Heather. I never really stopped making tapes, but there was a long time where I made more mix CDs than tapes. In recent years I've been making a lot more tapes again.
	10:17pm Mr Fab: ↳ ramencity @10:13 MARTIAN Jello salad! That plays music!
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:16 I remember the era when you would find CDs like that at record stores. "Those were the days..."
	👻 10:18pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:17 mmmm - peyote jello salad..
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: Actually, I have to thank The Ramen City Kid. His stereo was where I made a LOT of mix tapes, in the old days. He had a nice stereo, and I only had a walkman. I learned about a lot of music through his stereo.
	👻 10:20pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 Great show!! Having fun listening and running out quickly to check the moon! I lost access to a home dual cassette player in 2016 but was basically only doing CD mixes by then anyway. Now I can try my hand at tapes again!
	👻 10:21pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 my stereo says 'hey'
	👻 10:22pm ramencity: I think I have a picture of you making a mixtape, circa... 30 years ago?!
	10:22pm laurapanic: I'm late and I don't like missing Austin's shows, they are part of my work routine. But at least we are funkin' today!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:22 Oh shit! You just might. I did it all the time. I sort of only cared about music for a long time.
	10:22pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Not only a slight price break, but for a short run the bricks came with a single 110 minute all black metal bias cassette. I typically used those to make a mix of music by one band: Sonic Youth, Depeche Mode, Bjork, The Cure and so on. Oh - I also made one with The Legendary Pink Dots on Side A and solo Edward Ka-Spel on Side B……this is the one I probably played the most.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:22 laurapanic! Hooray!
	10:23pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 hooray!!!
	👻 10:23pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Up All Night" by "Groove Collective" ooh vocoder r'n'b!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @10:22 Oh, I love that! I could go for a Dots / Ka-Spel mix tape going into this winter.
	10:24pm Mr. X: I made all my mix tapes on my brother's stereo.
	10:25pm Arvo: I remember not understanding what a mixer was, much less a four track, around the age of 11 or 12, and I was cutting up tapes and trying to make it resemble a cross fade, taping stuff back together with scotch tape. Interesting results. In fact, my first DJ sets were with a dual cassette deck that had a built in mixer, age 16 or 17.
	10:27pm Arvo: Before I had a dual cassette deck, I had two single cassette decks, one with a built in mic, and so I used to make tapes of me rapping over instrumentals. Hopefully that never ended up on a mix tape I made ... Again, I was 10 or 11 before I got a dual tape deck. First tape deck was for Christmas when I was 8.
	10:32pm Maulydaft: Hey all, just popping into the chat (and then popping into bed): love the tape discussion! I had a "Cosmo" two deck stereo. Did LOTS of tapes from the radio. Loved those memorex clear/blue/yellow ones. I made clay earrings of those a couple years ago! Ha!
	👻 10:32pm ramencity: I recorded my own "comedy show" called "Albanian National News" when I was ~12. Half Monty-Python-style, half actual Monty Python scripts read into a tape recorder.
	10:33pm Maulydaft: ↳ ramencity @10:32 LOL Love that!
	10:34pm Arvo: When I was 19, I was given at least 500 tapes from an elder goth, and some of them were mix tapes from the 80s, with faded sharpie drawings of goth like fonts...
	10:35pm Maulydaft: ↳ Arvo @10:34 Whoah! Arvo do you still have them?
	10:35pm Mr. X: The down side of cassettes was when the machine ate them. Lost a few prized mixtapes that way.
	10:37pm Arvo: ↳ Maulydaft @10:35 Not likely, but maybe in storage. Not a lot survived that move, but a lot of it was donated to WZRD. I think about calling and requesting something I previously owned, but that seems rude.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:35 Yes. I learned the importance of regularly cleaning the heads. But even then, there's mechanical failure you can't control.
	10:38pm Arvo: ↳ Mr. X @10:35 There was always the possibility to recover those chomped tapes, but sometimes the tapes would be wound in reverse, which was kinda cool to me sometimes.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:32 Do these still exist?
	10:38pm Mr. X: I think I was about 12 when I got a portable cassette recorder for xmas. The first thing I did was to record myself reading Ray Bradbury stories.
	👻 10:39pm Heather Z: It was always fun trying to do creative names for the spines. I think I still have The Elegant Penguin Mix and Draining the Bottle in my stash with a few Songs for Heather and, of course, Songs to Cry To, Dream To, etc.
	👻 10:39pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 sadly they do!
	10:39pm Maulydaft: ↳ Arvo @10:37 LOL no you should totally call WZRD and request some of that! Wouldn't it be neat if they played it??
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:38 That's pretty cool! It was a major epiphany, to not only get my own radio, that I could listen to in my room, but one that could record the radio or my voice. (But not at the same time, sadly.) That device blew my mind for years and years afterwards.
	10:40pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo @10:27 My first tape deck was an Akia dual deck that my grandparents ordered for me out of a JC Penny catalog. The best thing about that deck was it allowed you to play two tapes at the same time……oh the possibilities!!! I quickly realized I needed a 3rd deck to capture all these creations I was coming up with. This was all made possible by the Realistic mixer from Radio Shack.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:39 No way, that's cool. All the stuff I made like that is gone, because I'm dumb.
	10:40pm Maulydaft: There's a home movie archive... there should be a home recording on cassettes archive!
	10:40pm Arvo: When I was in seventh grade, I had a friend who had a dual cassette deck that played on repeat, and I still never have seen one again, but it was thrilling when the Halloween sound effects tape played on repeat and I discovered that no one was flipping it on Halloween.
	👻 10:41pm ramencity: I used to record the radio by holding a tape recorder up to it. I still remember getting my first "real" stereo in high school, and not believing you could talk while taping something, and not hear yourself later when you played it back. I remember stomping and shouting to 'test' it...
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:40 I have a Realistic deck that does that now. You can have it on infinite repeat, or just to play Side A, flip, and Side B. Or only one side of a tape. I really love it.
	10:42pm Arvo: ↳ Maulydaft @10:39 I always hope to hear something of mine on WZRD, but I haven't yet. Except when my friend who was the music director entering it all into the catalog played it. I remember she played one of my Juice Machine tapes, incidentally.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:41 I had some tapes of me recording all sorts of dumb stuff off of the TV that way: holding a tape deck with a mic up to the TV. I wish I had those dumb tapes.
	10:43pm Arvo: ↳ JM in Texas @10:40 Very cool. I knew about those, but never had one.
	10:43pm Maulydaft: I had all these great recordings I did as kid similar to you guys. I remember so many details of them because I listened to them over and over... this year I had the task of getting all my media digitized and I've found all those cool cassettes are gone. I'm slightly devastated. I'll never hear my cousins and I making fun of Gorbachev again LOL
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:42 That's because JUICE MACHINE Rules!
	10:43pm Mr. X: I remember that sensation of hearing myself back on those early recordings. "Do I really sound like that?" It was such a weird feeling. But now I'm used to it and I don't notice any more.
	10:44pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "You Must Learn All Night Long" by "Fantastic Plas... Another song from "Space Baby Blast Off." I'm sure Cheryl was plenty cool, but clearly that album was her secret DJ weapon!
	10:45pm Maulydaft: Oh dang Beck... I'm supposed to be going to sleep! :D
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:44 I'm starting to realize! Well you know how it is with mixes...
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:45 Ha! Well, the show is only another 15ish minutes...
	10:46pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Sorry to disillusion you...
	👻 10:46pm ramencity: ↳ Maulydaft @10:43 Maybe your cousins could get together and do a Gorby roast!
	10:47pm Mr. X: I had a rule never to start a mixtape with the first song on an album, so that I wouldn't play it and think that it was that album.
	10:47pm Arvo: I had stuff by Tricky, Cibo Matto, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Beastie Boys, but if I went to dance music, it was very often Chemical Brothers, for good or ill.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:46 It's all good. I think I figured that out once, but forgot to track down the comp. So it goes.
	10:47pm Maulydaft: ↳ ramencity @10:46 Ha! I'm sure it would end badly... we'd be fighting over politics now ;)
	10:47pm Maulydaft: ↳ Mr. X @10:47 Smart!
	10:48pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo @10:47 "Back with another of those block-rockin' beats." Couldn't go wrong with that.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:47 Depending on the mix, I would often set out different "rules". But I would often do dumb stuff when I was making mixes for girls, just to try and impress them, and it would never work.
	👻 10:48pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Mas Que Nada" by "Sergio Mendes" RIP Sergio...
	10:49pm Maulydaft: Oh I love this song! Austin I want to go to sleep! LOL
	10:49pm Arvo: I recently played Paleface, who Beck considered an influence, after all, he let Beck sleep on his couch.. I also had the first two Beck CDs. I wonder how much of that would resonate with me now. I kept track for a while, but it is not likely to my tastes anymore.
	10:50pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 If I had $1 for everyone I tried to get into punk by making mix tapes for them... sigh...
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: At the time I got this tape from Cheryl, I didn't know Sergio Mendes. Now I have a bunch of his records, thanks to her.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:50 Sometimes it works! Sometimes... not as much.
	10:50pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Mas Que Nada" by "Sergio Mendes" My parents would play this at cocktail parties and such.
	10:51pm Arvo: ↳ Maulydaft @10:50 I crashed on someone's couch (in Cleveland) who made me a tape of Cleveland punk, wish I still had jt.
	10:51pm Maulydaft: ↳ Arvo @10:49 I was late into the game with Beck because he "wasn't punk enough"... but I'm still a fan :)
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Que Rico El Mambo" by "Pérez Prado" Again, I didn't really know Perez Prado until I got this tape. Then I fell in LOVE, and now have many records. Thanks Cheryl!
	10:51pm Maulydaft: ↳ Song: "Que Rico El Mambo" by "Pérez Prado" Nice!!!
	👻 10:52pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 I had my parents' old Perez Prado record as one of my first, when I was a kiddo. I loved how happy it sounded...
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: When I can't think of what to listen to when I have to clean the house, I put on a Perez Prado record.
	10:52pm Arvo: ↳ Maulydaft @10:51 Only reason I had Beck CDs was because I was ripping off Columbia House - 11 CDs for $1
	10:52pm Mr Fab: I think I discovered Perez Prado cuz every damn thirft store and used record shop had his stuff in the bargain bins.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:52 My parents didn't like this kind of stuff. They only listened to hippy rock and roll.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:52 Still true!
	10:53pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 I had so many Perez Prado records, loved finding them in thrift stores.
	10:53pm Maulydaft: ↳ Arvo @10:51 I bought a 7" in Cleveland that might have been a local punk band... Blippy? Ring any bells?
	10:55pm Arvo: I listened to a Buffalo Springfield album for the first time in its entirety today. I am into the hippy/country rock vibe, always in hopes of finding more "sunshine pop" vibes.
	10:55pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo @10:55 Which one? I like them.
	10:55pm Arvo: ↳ Maulydaft @10:53 No bells at the moment! The track list was typewritten ...
	10:57pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo @10:55 Gotta listen to the new Sheena's show "Kitsch n Synch" with GeorgyGirl!
	10:57pm Arvo: ↳ Mr. X @10:55 I listened to their first one and "Again", plus some four volume demo collection.
	10:57pm Arvo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:57 I did listen this week!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:57 Oh, yes! I caught a little, and it was great! Her shows are always great.
	👻 10:58pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Soul Bossa Nova" by "Quincy Jones" This always makes me think of Dream Warriors 'My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style,' that sampled it... "My definition.. my definition is this!"
	10:58pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo @10:57 Both classics. Last Time Around is good too, a bit more country and morose at times.
	10:59pm Mr Fab: ↳ ramencity @10:58 eggZACKlee what I was just typing!
	10:59pm Arvo: ↳ Song: "Soul Bossa Nova" by "Quincy Jones" This reminds me of the Austin Powers soundtrack.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:58 I know you love the Dream Warriors. I should listen to them, I don't know anything about them.
	👻 10:59pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:59 Nice! I love that album..
	11:00pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 yeah 'My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style' was huge. Still have many lyrics memorized.
	11:00pm Arvo: ↳ Mr. X @10:58 I enjoyed them very much. I have been doing stuff like that lately. Making sure I have listened to Janis Joplin in a proper fashion... "Essentials"
	👻 11:00pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @11:00 "Follow Me Not" made it onto a few mixtapes back in the day, too...
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @11:00 I very much love Janis Joplin. But that I DID grow up with; my mom played it ALL the time.
	11:01pm Mr. X: Thanks Austin (and Cheryl.) Good stuff.
	11:02pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:01 I also recently played a track by Burl Ives, which is the same song being played in the movie Animal House when Belushi smashed the guitar. That was in the car stereo for way too long as a kid.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Is that The Meters in that bass / guitar sample?
	11:03pm Arvo: Good show! Cheerio!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Glad I could share this tape with ya'll. Next week: Arvo Zylo takes over!
	11:05pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 mr Google sez it samples "Love Break" by The Salsoul Orchestra.
	11:06pm Mr Fab: This show reminds me of Stereolab...and Fatboy Slim...and Portishead...and...

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 17, 2024

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