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NYC downtown alt-disco, New Age Ashram tapes, shoegaze reborn, dark wave, goth-pop, earnest folk-balladry, tape loop/locked groove experiments and glitchy ambience in this hour-long mix.

Paul and Nick select novelty 78 Rpms, cautionary Folk parables, Native American cartoon themes, 80’s Scratch Electro, Vocal Pyrotechnicians, 90’s Noise Rock, Post-Punk Snark, quirk and doom, Religious Cult-Psych-Rock, ending with a Blackbird’s song.

Released on what would have been his 81st birthday, this transmission has stories and music from the late, great Scottish Jazz Saxophonist, Bobby Wellins. Bobby takes us from the Glasgow of his birth to the Big Bands of the 1950s, his residency at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz club in the 1960s, through his non-playing years of addiction to his return to regular recording and performing for the last 40 years of his life.

Looking at past and present uses and abuses of cassette tapes. New tapes as well as the never aired and the rarely heard. Another artist takes the ’4 Track 24′ hour challenge to make a piece of music on cassette within 24 hours. First broadcast on Radio Reverb 97.2FM and DAB in Brighton on 4th December 2016.

To celebrate the 50th transmission (and 5 years of broadcasting) this show is a live mix of all previous 49 shows played simultaneously from start to finish.

52 complete pieces of music in 55 minutes, played from Fidelipac radio cartridges.

Track listing can be found at http://www.currentlyoffair.com/?p=789

Looking at past and present uses and abuses of cassette tapes over the last 5 decades. This show includes the sounds of poltergeists, doomsday cults, fake serial killer confessions, tapes from Cassette Store Day 2015, another artist taking the 4 Track 24 hour challenge, as well as the never aired and the rarely heard.

First broadcast on Radio Reverb 97.2FM and DAB in Brighton on 1st November 2015

The first in a series of shows looking at past and present uses and abuses of the cassette tape format.

TRACKLISTINGLou Ottens, Inventor Cassette Tape1991 - Reborn Ice Horn
Drexciya -  WavejumperC.L.A.W.S. - Disko DiskoAta Kak - Obaa Sima
Ste Spandex - We’re all friends hereHair & Treasure - Good MeconiumWrong Signals - However, The Joke Became SeriousDagir Du - Tomb DrifterHZHA x Grindalf - Pacific TrailEllen Zweig - She travelled the landscapeIce 9 - ‘Untilted’ from Cassette GazetteBlack Spirituals - Mantanzas DubTengui - KicktripMammane Sani et son Orgue - BodoSufjan Stevens - Blue Bucket of Gold (Outro)Michael Stearns - MorningBudal Lardil - Byee Gingara Bushfire FarewellSufjan Stevens - Fourth of JulyInbalance 16 - Best Available Technology(4 track 24) Soundless Mind Eraser - Ferric Dunes (4 Short Wave Radios and Tape Loops)Palmbomen II - Leo DanzingerJohnny Brainstorm and the Mindsmears - Creatures from MarsWashington Phillips - Mother's Last Word To Her Son Blaster Al Ackerman, read by Steve ‘sleaze’ Steele - The man in the green night shirtSauna Youth - Negative Obsessions Graham Dowdall - Light programme

An hour of Electro, Techno and House on the Dancefloor in memory of DJ Chopper.

Appalachian Grove by Laurie Spiegel

Hare Krishna by Alice Coltrane

Louis’ by Albrecht La’Brooy

Oh Jabba by O B Ignitt

Wayne County Hill Cops by Omar S and O B Ignitt

Stellar Awakening by CN

Fade by Holly Herndon

Chord Memories by Shan

Pipe Bomb by Spekter

Su What? by Awanto 3

Chants by Adultrock

Jamaica Burning by Carter Bros

Dancefloor 118 by Margot

Le Prince noir (Pilooski Mix) by Perez

Urals by Walls

Renata by Holden

Answer (Dub) by Ghost Culture

A Thousand Nights by Gregor Tresher

Demented (Or Just Crazy) by Tres Demented

Sharevari by A Number of Names

Nitwit by Shop

Throw by Paperclip People

You are so Just Just by Rework

Unfurla by Clark

Silver Threads by Jo Johnson

A road trip through independent Belgian and French music of the late-seventies and early-eighties: cold wave, industrial, synth-pop, electro, dark wave, disco, new wave and euro-pop.

TRACKLISTING

BELGIUM

Aksak Maboul - Scratch Holiday 1984

Pas De Deux Cardiocleptomanie 1983

Berntholer My suitor 1983

Carol So Low 1981

The Honeymoon Killers Ariane 1982

Telex Moskow Diskow 1979

Antena Frantz 1982

Enzo Kreft I Don't Understand It 1983

Snowy Red Euroshima Wardance 1988

Linear Movement Cytogenetic Movement 1983

Zwischenfall Flucht 1983

Plastic Bertrand ‎– Tout Petit La Planète 1979

Antena Achilles 1982

FRANCE

Jo Lemaire + Flouze Je Suis Venue Te Dire Que Je M'en Vais 1981

Codek Closer 1981

Nini Raviolette Suis-Je Normale 1980

Martin Dupont Wagui 1983

Mathematiques Modernes Disco Rough 1980

Deux Game And Performance 1983

Bernard Fevre Dali 1977

Cha Cha Guitri Les yeux ouverts 1981

Kas Product Never Come Back 1982

Mathématiques Modernes Jungle Love 1981

Reserve ‎ Destination Pour L'Inconnu 1984

Ruth Polaroïd/Roman/Photo 1985

Wax Dance Dupe Edit 1984

Black Devil no regrets 1978

Martin Circus Disco Circus 1978

Martin Dupont Just Because 1984