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Artist Track Album Label Year New Approx. start time
Au Vol  Seascapes (For Helen Frankenthaler)   Favoriting Anthology of Experimental Music From Canada  Unexplained Sounds Group  2024    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Como Mamas  Out of the Wilderness   Favoriting Out of the Wilderness  Daptone Records  2014    0:03:21 (Pop-up)
The First Minute of a New Day & Lars Bartkuhn feat. Laraaji  July 14th   Favoriting The First Minute  Séance Center  2020    0:07:44 (Pop-up)
 
Shiny Toy Guns  Major Tom   Favoriting Girls Le Disko: The Remixes  Ultra Music  2009    0:19:23 (Pop-up)
Tom Johnson + Ensemble Klang feat. Keir Neuringer  Narayana's Cows   Favoriting Cows, Chords & Combinations  Ensemble Klang  2010    0:23:50 (Pop-up)
Immaterial Possession  Medieval Jig   Favoriting Mercy of the Crane Folk  Fire Records  2023    0:36:46 (Pop-up)
Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band  Egypt Strut   Favoriting Egyptian Jazz  Art Yard  2006    0:39:37 (Pop-up)
Jean Jacques Perry  Island in Space   Favoriting The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean Jacques Perry  Electronic Vanguard  1995    0:44:37 (Pop-up)
 
Dinamarca  Resurrection   Favoriting Staycore 117  STAYCORE  2017    0:48:46 (Pop-up)
Fuubutsushi  Tenel Ka (First Crush)   Favoriting Meridians  Cached Media  2024  *   0:52:58 (Pop-up)
Voice Actor  Another Day   Favoriting Sent From My Telephone  Stroom  2022    0:58:48 (Pop-up)
Voice Actor feat. Yarrow.co  HHBYTL   Favoriting Fake Sleep  Stroom  2023    1:00:08 (Pop-up)
Jamie XX, The Avalanches  All You Children   Favoriting In Waves  Young  2024  *   1:02:01 (Pop-up)
 
Heerlens Percussie Ensemble  Biologic Music   Favoriting Biologic Music  HPE  1986    1:08:05 (Pop-up)
Townes Van Zandt  I'll Be Here in the Morning   Favoriting Townes Van Zandt  Poppy  1969    1:16:02 (Pop-up)
Six Organs of Admittance, Twig Harper  The Scout Is Here (Twig Harper Remix)   Favoriting Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)  Drag City  2024  *   1:18:54 (Pop-up)
Nuno Canavarro  Wask   Favoriting Plux Quba  Ama Romanta  1988    1:24:16 (Pop-up)
 
Amyl and the Sniffers  Big Dreams   Favoriting Cartoon Darkness  B2B Records  2024  *   1:32:14 (Pop-up)
great area  hazards   Favoriting light decline  Relaxin Records  2024  *   1:35:15 (Pop-up)
Sega Bodega & Trustfall  White Flag   Favoriting Reestablishing Connection  self-released  2020    1:37:26 (Pop-up)
Golden Ivy  Kläppen I   Favoriting Kläppen  Malmö Inre  2019    1:40:41 (Pop-up)
Tashi Dorji  begin from here   Favoriting We Will Be Wherever The Fires Are Lit  Drag City  2024  *   1:46:32 (Pop-up)
 
Louie Ramirez  Lucy's Harlem   Favoriting We've Got A Groovy Thing Going: The Latin Soul Of Bobby Marin  Vampisoul  2024    1:53:49 (Pop-up)
Laraaji  All of a Sudden   Favoriting Vision Songs, Vol.1  self-released  1984    1:56:42 (Pop-up)
Mount Eerie  Night Palace   Favoriting Night Palace  P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.  2024  *   2:05:10 (Pop-up)
Ichiko Aoba  Lucifèrine   Favoriting Lucifèrine (single)  Hermine, Psychic Hotline  2024  *   2:09:34 (Pop-up)
INOJ  Time After Time   Favoriting So So Def Bass All-Stars Vol. III  So So Def  1998    2:14:13 (Pop-up)
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio & Roman  Creation   Favoriting All Is Sounds  Pyramid Recods  2024  *   2:18:19 (Pop-up)
 
Lightin' Hopkins with Sonny Terry  Conversation Blues (Remastered 2024)   Favoriting Last Night Blues  Prestige Bluesville  2024    2:27:18 (Pop-up)
Adrián de Alfonso  Arden   Favoriting Viator  Maple Death  2024  *   2:31:06 (Pop-up)
Les Rallizes Denudes 裸のラリーズ  Memory Is Far Away   Favoriting CITTA' '93  Tuff Beats  2023    2:36:45 (Pop-up)
Matchess  The Dew of Sickly Sentiment   Favoriting Stena  Drag City  2024  *   2:44:42 (Pop-up)
Choun Vanna  Tho Thea Youm Chlong (Birds Are Singing But My Love Won't Return)   Favoriting Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1  Sublime Frequencies  2004    2:45:48 (Pop-up)
 
Magic Tuber Stringband & Weirs  The Crozet Tunnel   Favoriting The Crozet Tunnel  Notice Recordings  2024  *   2:50:32 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Deano de los Muertos:

greetings
  3:03pm
Andres:

Good afternoon. I’ll shmelt with you.
Avatar 3:03pm
fudanku:

already shmelting
Avatar 3:03pm
shmelting:

howdy!
Avatar 3:03pm
Adi From Sheffield:

Hello
Avatar 3:04pm
winston legthigh:

great start zabedon, soothing sounds are just what the doctor ordered.
Avatar 3:05pm
winston legthigh:

*shmelting. rookie error.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Jason from Houston:

↳ Song: "Out of the Wilderness" by "The Como Mamas"
Sooooooooo good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Handy Haversack:

Ready to zabedon all hope!

Schmelting! Schmelters!

winston!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Jason from Houston:

Been leaning on a bunch of gospel music since a couple Tuesdays ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Handy Haversack @3:07
I'm Shmelting with you!
Avatar 3:08pm
winston legthigh:

its almost handy hour!
Avatar 3:10pm
Adi From Sheffield:

Inking along with the show ibb.co...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
Hunterian:

Oooo, nice Eisbär callback!
  3:12pm
Paul:

OH NO
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
rf:

I can't tell whether I accidentally have multiple streams open but I'm just going to let it go
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Devin B.:

I'll take a double Eisbär any day!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
scribble:

↳ Devin B. @3:13
I second that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
rf:

↳ Devin B. @3:13
what flavor?
  3:13pm
Paul:

Newish DJ, we believe in you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Devin B.:

↳ rf @3:13
is Grau a flavor?
  3:14pm
Paul:

turn the studio monitors on!
  3:14pm
cbunny:

I have a new Eisbär tattoo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
rf:

↳ Devin B. @3:14
Definitely!
  3:15pm
cbunny:

I got it with my friend Joy, because she’s such a feisty polar bear type of girl!
Avatar 3:16pm
fudanku:

transcendent. lovin the set
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
rf:

↳ cbunny @3:14
Cool! What flavor is it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
rf:

I like a banana Eisbär.
Bananeneisbär
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
zachary:

↳ Song: "July 14th" by "The First Minute of a New Day & La...
Hello, Zabedon. Thank you for filling in.

I am digging the droney filter on that last track.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Ike:

Groovy.
  3:20pm
cbunny:

hahaha! We love bananas!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
zachary:

I'll be right here working.

Keep the synths popping, plucking, and padding.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "Major Tom" by "Shiny Toy Guns"
More NDW—I'm all in!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
rf:

↳ cbunny @3:20
Sounds like a good friend!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Hunterian:

↳ Song: "Major Tom" by "Shiny Toy Guns"
This is an amazing cover—immediately smitten
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Michael C St Lou:

⭐🔊❤🥰
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Handy Haversack:

My reception just went to shit, but I'm under the blanket with a cat and it's freezing in here. Not sure I have the wherewithal to get up and switch sources here.
Avatar 3:23pm
fudanku:

↳ Song: "Major Tom" by "Shiny Toy Guns"
new superior version
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Handy Haversack:

Wait, I think it's back!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Handy Haversack @3:23
Unshmelting in the dirt?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
rf:

↳ Song: "Narayana's Cows" by "Tom Johnson + Ensemble Klang...
whut
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Song: "Narayana's Cows" by "Tom Johnson + Ensemble Klang...
the notes are way better than the math that hurts my head
  3:27pm
Andres:

No males were born?
  3:27pm
seedfriend:

I manage a cattle ranch this is my life
Avatar 3:28pm
winston legthigh:

((((cow)!)!)!)!)
Avatar 3:28pm
fudanku:

dassa lot of milk
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:28pm
Michael C St Lou:

↳ Song: "Narayana's Cows" by "Tom Johnson + Ensemble Klang...
they better get them quotas up🤣
  3:29pm
therblig:

moosic?
Avatar 3:29pm
Carmichael:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @3:08
I'll stop the world and schmelt with you both.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:29pm
rf:

I love how menacing it sounds. There is also something depressing about a cow "waiting to be a mother"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ Song: "Narayana's Cows" by "Tom Johnson + Ensemble Klang...
I mostly know him from Failing (A Very Difficult Piece for Solo String Bass) but this is great. Super wild stuff. Love it. Hey there, Zabedon & all zabedonis.
Avatar 3:30pm
shmelting:

↳ therblig @3:29
lol absolutely
  3:30pm
therblig:

i've herd this somewhere before
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
The Oscar:

↳ Song: "Narayana's Cows" by "Tom Johnson + Ensemble Klang...
Man, I KNOW I'm going to be singing this to myself all day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @3:30
Not meaning to imply that Failing (A Very Difficult Piece for Solo String Bass) *isn't* also great. It's one of my favorite things ever.
  3:31pm
BVP:

Omg
  3:32pm
Andres:

Math rock.
Avatar 3:32pm
winston legthigh:

you wouldn't steer me wrong.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Matt Warwick:

I lost count :(
  3:32pm
Bob from Middle TN:

That’s so many cows
  3:33pm
therblig:

i heard it through the bovine
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:33pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

I hope he got a really good score on his SAT.
Avatar 3:33pm
winston legthigh:

↳ Matt Warwick @3:32
the answer is 942!
  3:33pm
Philly Pete:

This is a very good song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
zachary:

↳ Andres @3:32
Ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
rf:

Please give those poor cows a break
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
rf:

Lol! Count the legs and divide by 4
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
BVP:

i guess ill check back
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
Deano de los Muertos:

wasn’t there an evil cow in Earthworm Jim?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
chresti:

Hi schmelters!
Avatar 3:36pm
fudanku:

absolute beef apocalypse
Avatar 3:36pm
winston legthigh:

happy friday chrestikins!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

Trick question! Cows don't have horns.
  3:37pm
therblig:

Reflections on a Dairy Air
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
rf:

More cowbell?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:41pm
chresti:

happy happy winstonkins!
Avatar 3:42pm
winston legthigh:

↳ chresti @3:41
hope your not stuck on the 5, or the 10, or the 5 and 10.
Avatar 3:44pm
winston legthigh:

going to stretch my legs, see ya later!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
chresti:

↳ winston legthigh @3:42
thankfully not stuck on the 5 and/or 10..
Avatar 3:45pm
Carmichael:

My father, commenting on a lousy hitter in baseball: "He couldn't hit a cow in the ass with a banjo."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
chresti:

↳ winston legthigh @3:44
s'later!
  Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
captain beef fart:

↳ Song: "Egypt Strut" by "Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band"
buried with a donkey, he's my favorite honkey, born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia...
Avatar 3:48pm
Hubig Pie:

↳ captain beef fart @3:45
I was in Cairo when King Tut was having his North American moment back in 1980. Went to the Antiquities Museum and all we got to see were some no-name mummies.
  Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
captain beef fart:

↳ Hubig Pie @3:48
no-name mummies would be a fine band name
Avatar 3:49pm
Adi From Sheffield:

↳ Song: "Resurrection" by "Dinamarca"
Tune! 🙏
  3:50pm
Honest Bernardo from Argentina:

Cooool jams 👍
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
Hunterian:

↳ captain beef fart @3:49
You beat me to that same comment
  3:50pm
Honest Bernardo from Argentina:

Love that line @Carmichael lol
Avatar 3:51pm
jessicaiscool:

Slaying
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
tom tom the pipers son:

hey there zoe schmelting burger...nice surprise....greetings
  3:59pm
Nancy P:

Loving this!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03pm
efd:

Not sure if we've met yet, Zabedon, but I sure am enjoying this show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03pm
rf:

Great set
Avatar 4:05pm
fudanku:

oh i'm bouncin in this steelcase office chair
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:06pm
chinn:

The daylight suits you. Loving the show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:06pm
RB:

↳ Song: "All You Children" by "Jamie XX, The Avalanches"
Hi Folks
Avatar 4:09pm
shmelting:

Hi everyone :) ty. Great to be here with you all in the quickly fading sunlight!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:14pm
tom tom the pipers son:

shmelting with you....wish i could stop the world...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
Mxter Baba:

enjoying these sounds in the stream in the fading sunlight… hello Zabedon and folxes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
zachary:

↳ shmelting @4:09
And thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
tom tom the pipers son:

hello baba...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
Mennlinn Rebarts:

↳ Song: "I'll Be Here in the Morning" by "Townes Van Zandt"
I had this sudden sad feeling come on to me out of nowhere, and then on the next beat a TVZ song comes on the radio :,)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:19pm
RB:

↳ Handy Haversack @3:23
Should we send out the St. Bernard Rescue Dog , with the little barrel on the collar ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:19pm
RB:

↳ Song: "The Scout Is Here (Twig Harper Remix)" by "Six Or...
Nice
  4:21pm
JohnEBGood:

Hi DJ. We get another 40 minutes or so of sun here in Tampa. Thanks for stepping up. Njoying your set ; )
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:21pm
tim:

Hi Zabedon. I'm really enjoying the show! Thanks for playing this SixOrgans/Twig Harper. I was very curious about it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
tim:

↳ Song: "Wask" by "Nuno Canavarro"
This is a great record!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ RB @4:19
I mean, I wouldn't say no ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
rf:

is that Courtney Barnett singing?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
Howard & the Cats:

@schmelting I haven't heard any of your shows before, but I have LOVED everything you've played so far! Thank yoU!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
tim:

↳ Song: "Big Dreams" by "Amyl and the Sniffers"
This is Amyl?!? I've really liked all the songs off the new album so far. I think it might be their best yet
1
  4:37pm
cbunny:

the new Amyl is real good.
Looking forward to seeing them live again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:40pm
NotARealDoctor:

↳ Song: "White Flag" by "Sega Bodega & Trustfall"
W.O.W.!
  4:41pm
cbunny:

I think Cartoon Darkness is a well done reflective document on success and how sometimes it changes the people around you more than it changes yourself.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
RB:

↳ Song: "Kläppen I" by "Golden Ivy"
Nice
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:45pm
LastWhiteRhino:

Enjoying this afternoon's magical journey. Thanks for that Zabedon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
Mxter Baba:

omx you’re crackin me up!! HONK!
  4:54pm
Marie in Chicago:

Good advice! Digging the tunes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
swivs:

I used to think that making the car horns a beautiful harmony would be better but I guess it defeats the purpose, no?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
listener 126464:

Just sit at the red light with your forehead leaning on the horn. Sweet show, Zabedon.
Avatar 4:59pm
shmelting:

We love giving advice here at Shmelting
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
rf:

Have Space Lady and Laraaji ever collaborated?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:02pm
swivs:

Gregorian car horns vibrate the whole block
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:02pm
Destroit:

This show is quietly dominating my headspace and i love it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:04pm
Destroit:

↳ rf @4:59
Lol they totally should
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:04pm
chinn:

↳ Song: "All of a Sudden" by "Laraaji"
This is super mesmerizing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:08pm
rf:

↳ Song: "Night Palace" by "Mount Eerie"
yass
  5:10pm
ben & Reba:

Thank you Shmelting with Zabedon, enjoying your show loud in Butler, PA.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:11pm
rf:

↳ Song: "Night Palace" by "Mount Eerie"
Arrgggghhhhh I told myself no more records this month help
  5:15pm
NJM:

Ooooooooooh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:16pm
tim:

↳ Song: "Time After Time" by "INOJ"
Have you guys ever heard the Miles Davis cover of this song? I really don't recommend it - hahaha! I think he recorded it after he died.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:17pm
Destroit:

↳ tim @5:16
I have not. But i LOVE this song and this remake is cool af
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:17pm
Destroit:

Just saw Cyndi a few weeks ago on her big tour.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:20pm
Handy Haversack:

OK, this hour is about to get a whole lot happier. Cheers, m'dears! Lifting a glass your way!
  5:21pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Song: "Creation" by "The Cosmic Tones Research Trio & Ro...
I love this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:21pm
Destroit:

↳ Handy Haversack @5:20
Happy Haversack has entered the building!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:22pm
rf:

↳ Song: "Night Palace" by "Mount Eerie"
Mt. Eerie playing in NY next week for all you lucky Easterners
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:26pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Destroit @5:21
Lock up your vermouth! Hide your R.E.M. records!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:27pm
Handy Haversack:

This has really flown past, zabedon! Really nice stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:28pm
rf:

TY DJ Zabedon!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:29pm
chresti:

↳ Handy Haversack @5:26
Handy Happysack!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:30pm
Destroit:

↳ chresti @5:29
Atta girl! Hiya chresti…its been a minute 🙂
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:32pm
chresti:

↳ Destroit @5:30
Hiya Destroit!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:35pm
rf:

↳ Song: "Arden" by "Adrián de Alfonso"
so cool!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:35pm
JohnEBGood:

Love the Country/ Acoustic Blues. This is Delta style. Denver, Colorado is home of the Swallow Hill Folk Society. Mary Flowers was one of our teachers. Have a great weekend DJ Z and WFMU family : )
  5:42pm
Gaston:

Unconscionably fabulous track. 11/15/24 another historical day of non stop great music. FMU Rules
  5:44pm
Gary:

Real fine show! Thanks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:49pm
Deano de los Muertos:

Thanks Zabedon
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:50pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Been listening, thank you Zabedon!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:50pm
tom tom the pipers son:

thanks abbazabbadon...!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:51pm
chresti:

Thanks Zabedon
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:52pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:50
Heh. From Abbadon to Zabedon and all the dons between!

Thanks, Zabedon! Really nice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:52pm
JohnEBGood:

Great set DJ. Sandanista!!!
  5:52pm
Dave r:

Fabulous show for twillight
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:52pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Zabedon. It's been nice Shmelting under the full super beaver moon. 🌕
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59pm
listener 126464:

Thank you, Zabedon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:20pm
listener james from westwood:

Pinging from the future via the magic of the archives to say excellent show and please do return soon!
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