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Mid-Valley Mutations episodes

  • The Horror of Haunted Houses

    The Horror of Haunted Houses (#240) (849)

    After getting lost in the Mid-Valley on my way home from a show, I stumble upon a pair of “Haunted Houses,” and have to endure these ridiculous experiences.

    Fortunately, I was allowed to crack wise to help me get through the night. Radio Riffing on two ridiculous horror classics, for those who enjoy a little comedy with their weirdness.

    Enjoy!

    https://ia601402.us.archive.org/20/items/mutation-240/Mutation240.mp3

     

    Live Playlist & Comments

     

    Artist

    Track

    Album

     (This episode written by Austin Rich)

    William Castle
    House on Haunted Hill
    William Castle Productions
    Mini-Mutations
    Various Improvised Organ Bits
    Throughout Hour One
    George Waggner
    Horror Island
    Universal Pictures

     

    2 hr 12 min
  • Issue #34: The Martin Newell Interview

    Issue #34: The Martin Newell Interview

    Written & Performed Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Austin & Martin Newell.

    Issue #34, produced in March of 2021, containing some spacey musical stories, Namely: “The Martin Newell Interview.” 

    https://ia601408.us.archive.org/22/items/20220225-1030-radio-zine-034/20220225%201030%20Radio%20Zine%20034.mp3

     

    Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

    Statues * Martin Newell * Penny Novelettes (To be released sometime this year.)

    Goodnight Andromeda * Martin Newell * Penny Novelettes (To be released sometime this year.)

    25 min
  • The Language & Music of The Wolves: A Momentary Lapse of Reason Retrospective

    The Language & Music of The Wolves: A Momentary Lapse of Reason Retrospective (#239) (848)

    Miss Rikki joins me for a trip through nostalgia and great mixes, as we replay some choice selections from a few of our finest radio moments together. We also catch up with Miss Rikki, to talk about all the things that she is involved in now.

    Enjoy!

    https://ia601401.us.archive.org/10/items/mutation-239/Mutation239.mp3

     

     

    Live Playlist & Comments

    Artist

    Track

    Album

    Label

    Our Lasting, Erroneous Impression

    Robert Redford
    The Wolf You Never Knew [Excerpts]
    The Language and Music of The Wolves
    Music behind DJ:

    Paco Jones

    A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Theme Song)
    Written For This Program in 2014.
    The Thelonious Monk Quartet And Pee Wee Russell
    Blue Monk
    Miles & Monk At Newport
    Peter Sellers
    [Excerpts]
    Hoffman
    Salvador Dali
    [Excerpts]
    … on Paranoic Critical Method 1963
    Orson Welles
    … discusses the effect of violent films
    Talk Collection
    BBC 4
    splitting headache
    [unidentified sample]
    Patrick McGoohan
    [Excerpts]
    … interviewed by Warner Troyer for Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977
    Frank Zappa
    [Excerpt]
    On The Record Industry and MTV
    The Mirror Scene
    Wings of Desire
    Miles Davis
    Straight, No Chaser
    Miles & Monk At Newport
    Katherine Hepburn
    [Excerpts]
    60 Mins Interview with Morly Safer
    Patrick McGoohan
    [Excerpts]
    … interviewed by Warner Troyer for Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977
    Peter Falk Scene
    Wings of Desire

    On The Flip Side

    Music behind DJ:

    Martin Denny

    Voodoo Dreams
    Hypnotique
    Flip Wilson
    Twenty Minutes of Silence
    You Devil You
    Vanilla Fudge
    Break Song
    Near the Beginning
    Flip Wilson & Redd Foxx
    The Church of What’s Happening Now
    The Firesign Theater
    40 Great Unclaimed Melodies!
    Dear Friends
    Albert Brooks
    “Real Life” Trailer
    Richard Nixon
    Checkers Speech
    George Carlin w/ Flip Wilson
    What’s Happening News
    Lilly Tomlin
    Alexander Graham Bell
    This Is A Recording
    Telephone Courtesy Educational Film
    George Carlin w/ Flip Wilson
    WINO Radio

    How To Win At Conversation With Mom

    Music behind DJ:

    Martin Denny

    St. Louis Blues
    Hypnotique
    Daniel Kibblesmith
    How To Win At Conversations With Mom
    The Wayne Mason Trio
    [Most of A Side]
    LIVE! at the La Pesada
    Kermit Schafer
    [Excerpts]
    All Time Great Bloopers (6 Record Set)
    The Relaxed Wife
    Stress Relief With Tranquilizers
    Etiquette Lessons
    Cindy Goes To A Party
    Anita Bryant
    Drugs Are Like That
    Man… Or Astro-Man?
    Evert 1 Pipkin
    Made From Technitium
    Music behind DJ:

    Man… Or Astro-Man?

    Weightless In Zero Return
    Made From Technitium

    All Of The Drugs My Parents Did Not Do

    Glozell Green
    I Hate Cilantro, It’s Gross
    [Excerpts From One Of Miss Rikki’s Musical LPs]
    Pan Am Films
    Traveling Through Time
    [Excerpts From One Of Miss Rikki’s LPs]
    Learn How To Touch Type
    Etiquette Lessons
    Cindy Goes To A Party
    Anita Bryant
    Drugs Are Like That
    Frank Capra
    Excerpts
    Our Mr. Sun
    Educational Film
    Act Your Age
    Coronet Films
    You And Your Parents

    There Is Not A Rhinoceros In This Room

    Music behind DJ:

    Jackie Davis

    Glow Worm Cha-Cha-Cha
    Mondo Exotica: Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 1
    Lionel Hampton with Rhythm and Reeds
    ‘Round Midnight
    Golden Vibes
    Bertrand Russell
    There Is Not A Rhinoceros In This Room
    Lecture – Wesley Cecil
    Charlie Parker, Tadd Dameron & Curley Russell
    Move
    Live Sessions
    Robert Redford
    The Wolf You Never Knew [Excerpts]
    The Language and Music of The Wolves
    Salvador Dali
    [Excerpts]
    … on Paranoic Critical Method 1963
    Carlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Nelson Boyd & Max Roach
    Hot House
    Live Sessions
    Fannie Flagg
    Sylvia Miller UFO Abduction
    Fernwood Tonight
    Bette Davis
    Excerpts
    The Dick Cavett Show
    “What Ever Happened To Baby Jayne?” [Excerpt]
    Katherine Hepburn
    Excerpts
    The Dick Cavett Show

    Epilogue

    Music behind DJ:

    X

    I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
    Beyond & Back: The X Anthology
    Glozell Green
    I Hate Cilantro, It’s Gross
    Bruce Springsteen
    Open All Night
    Nebraska
    Henry Miller
    Excerpts
    The Henry Miller Odyssey 1969
    Phillip Seymour Hoffman
    Excerpts
    Almost Famous
    Jeffrey Lee Pierce on What’s Wrong With Everything
    1989 Interview
    The Dead Milkmen
    I Hear Your Name
    Eat Your Paisley
    Robert Redford
    The Wolf You Never Knew [Excerpts]
    The Language and Music of The Wolves

     

    2 hr 23 min
  • Issue #30: The Distance Between Things

    Issue #30: The Distance Between Things

    Written by Flann O’Brien & Austin Rich, and Performed by Austin Rich.

    Issue #30, produced in January of 2021, featuring some sport shoe and sweat pants clad stories, including, “Cycling,” “Pulling Away From Social Media,” and more selections from “Waama, Etc.” 

    https://ia601407.us.archive.org/33/items/20220218-1030-radio-zine-030/20220218%201030%20Radio%20Zine%20030.mp3

     

    Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

    Bennett Cerf * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

    Our Weapons Are Useless * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

    26 min
  • The People Who Died: 2022 Edition

    The People Who Died: 2022 Edition (#238) (847)

    2022 has been hard on all of us already, and we’ve lost a number of excellent artists and performers that touched all of us quite a bit. With that in mind, here’s two hours of songs in tribute to those we have lost and loved, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

    Enjoy!

    https://ia601505.us.archive.org/16/items/mutation-238/Mutation238.mp3

     

    Live Playlist & Comments

     

    Artist
    Track
    Album

    The People Who Progged

    The Ventures
    He Never Came Back
    Ventures In Space
    Steven Sondheim
    No More
    Into The Woods
    Budgie
    Make Me Happy
    Squawk
    King Crimson
    I Talk To The Wind
    In the Court of the Crimson King
    Procol Harum
    Cerdes Outside the Gates Of
    Procol Harum

    Electronique Fantastique

    Peanuts
    Briefcase
    A Charlie Brown Valentine
    The Ventures
    Journey To The Stars
    Ventures In Space
    Dr. Johnny Fever
    Drunk Test
    WKRP in Cincinnati
    Garry Bradbury
    Memory Lane
    Panspermia Plus
    Vangelis
    Main Titles
    Blade Runner Soundtrack
    Michaelangelo Antonioni
    Opening Title Sequence
    La Notta Film

    Land of Broken Hearts

    Peanuts
    I Haven’t Seen Your Name Yet
    A Charlie Brown Valentine
    The Ventures
    Lullaby of The Leaves
    “Ginchy” b/w “Lullaby of The Leaves”
    Erik Muller
    First Poem
    Live At A Reading
    Erik Muller
    Second Poem
    Live At A Reading
    The Five Satins
    Land of Broken Hearts
    The Dixie Cups
    Iko Iko
    Chapel of Love
    Dr. Johnny Fever
    Pink Floyd
    WKRP in Cincinnati
    Betty Davis
    They Say I’m Different
    They Say I’m Different
    Peanuts
    Refreshments Will Be Served In The Back
    A Charlie Brown Valentine
    MX-80
    Halloween Theme
    Das Love Boat

    A Phone Call From Pete da Fraser

    Pete da Fraser
    Phone Interview
    11 February 2022
    The Long Division Trio
    House
    Live at Sprout, Springfield, Oregon, 9-11-2015
    Remember Valsetz
    Percussion/Log Jam
    Live at the Butte Tavern, Nov 21, 1989
    The Long Division Trio
    Fifty-Nine
    Live at Sprout, Springfield, Oregon, 9-11-2015

    Pure, Unprocessed Worm

    The Giant Worm
    Moment
    Paging Dr. Pavlov
    Pete Remembers
    The Giant Worm
    Off The Shelf
    Soundcloud Selections
    Xeres Bit
    The Giant Worm
    Do Not Panic
    Soundcloud Selections
    Xeres Bit
    The Giant Worm
    Invisible
    Paging Dr. Pavlov
    The Giant Worm
    The Goldfish Goes Hungry
    protoWorm
    Xeres Bit
    The Giant Worm
    Cheese / Abandon Ship
    Live at the Space, 5/28/17

    Elegy For Those We Lost

    Xeres Bit
    Brian Eno
    Prophecy Theme
    The Dune Soundtrack (1984)
    2 hr 4 min
  • Issue #28: The Tools of The Trade

    Issue #28: The Tools of The Trade

    Written by Flann O’Brien & Austin Rich, and Performed by Austin Rich.

    Issue #28, produced in January of 2021, featuring some clipped and scribbled on stories, including, “Quarantine hobbies,” “Planners,” “Postcards,” and more selections from “Waama, Etc.” 

    https://ia601408.us.archive.org/14/items/20220211-1030-radio-zine-028/20220211%201030%20Radio%20Zine%20028.mp3

     

    Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

    Zombie Compromise * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

    Customized * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

    26 min
  • Before ’75 Part II: Blank Generation

    Before ’75 Part II: Blank Generation (#237) (846)

    In this History Lesson (originally aired on 10 September 2011), we offer some clips from some music documentaries, that focus on how all this wonderful music got started. This version is a little re-vamped from the original broadcast, for Jungle Room Listeners.

    This began last week! Feel free to listen to them as a four hour “documentary.”

    Enjoy!

    https://ia801509.us.archive.org/31/items/mutation-237/Mutation237.mp3

     

    Live Playlist & Comments

    Artist
    Track
    Album
    Label

    Ghost Riders in New York

    Narrator
    Part 9 Punk: Introduction
    Rock & Roll Documentary
    PBS
    Richard Hell & The Voidoids
    Blank Generation
    Blank Generation
    Music behind DJ:

    The Flamin’ Groovies

    Slow Death (San Francisco, California, 72)
    Suicide
    Frankie Teardrop [Edit]
    Suicide
    Suicide Interview
    Kill Your Idols Documentary
    Suicide Interview
    Punk Attitude
    Suicide
    Ghost Rider
    Suicide

    The Ohio Scene

    Music behind DJ:

    Killer Kane Band

    Longhaired Woman
    David Thomas Interview
    Toronto TV
    Rocket From The Tombs
    30 Seconds Over Tokyo
    The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs
    The Dead Boys
    Punk Roots In Ohio
    Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
    Frankenstein
    Down In Flames (Cleveland, Ohio, 75)
    Eve Of The Dead Boys (October, 1975)
    Cheetah Chrome
    Cleveland Scene
    Interviews From The Edge
    Mirrors
    She Smiled Wild
    Cheetah Chrome
    Cleveland Scene
    Interviews From The Edge
    Mike Rep & The Quotas
    Rocket To Nowhere (Columbus, Ohio, 75)
    Rocket to Nowhere 7″
    Cheetah Chrome
    Cleveland Scene
    Interviews From The Edge
    Bizarros
    Lady Doubonette (Akron, Ohio, 76)
    “Lady Doubonette” b/w “I Bizzaro”

    We’re All Devo!

    Music behind DJ:

    Nervous Eaters

    Loretta (Boston, Massachusetts, 76)
    Loretta
    Devo
    We’re All Devo!
    Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
    Devo
    De-Evolution In Akron
    Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
    Devo
    Jocko Homo (Booji Boy Version)
    Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
    Devo
    De-Evolution In Akron
    Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
    Devo
    Clockout
    Hardcore Devo Vol. 2 1974 – 1977
    Devo
    De-Evolution In Akron
    Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
    Patti Smith
    Free Money (NYC, 75)
    Horses

    The Modern World

    The Punks
    Drop Dead (Detroit, 75)
    The Punks
    Music behind DJ:

    Wayne Kramer

    Ramblin’ Rose (Detroit, Michigan, 74) (Edit)
    Ramblin’ Rose
    Narrator
    Part 9 Punk: The Modern Lovers
    Rock & Roll Documentary
    PBS
    The Modern Lovers
    Roadrunner
    The Modern Lovers
    Narrator
    Part 9 Punk: The Modern Lovers
    Rock & Roll Documentary
    PBS
    The Modern Lovers
    Girl Friend
    The Modern Lovers
    Narrator
    Part 9 Punk: The Modern Lovers
    Rock & Roll Documentary
    PBS
    Neon Boys
    That’s All I Know (Right Now) (NYC, 73)
    That’s All I Know (Right Now)/ Love Comes In Spurts/ High Heeled Wheels

    But Where Can We Play?

    Music behind DJ:

    Electric Eels

    Agitated (Cleveland, Ohio, 75)
    Agitated / Cyclotron
    CGBGs & Max’s
    Punk Attitude
    Wayne County & The Backstreet Boys
    Max’s Kansas City ’76 (NYC, 76)
    Max’s Kansas City
    What I Remember
    CGBG’s: The Roots of Punk Documentary
    George Brigman
    Jungle Rot (Baltimore, Maryland, 75)
    Jungle Rot: I Can Hear The Ants Dancin’
    What I Remember
    CGBG’s: The Roots of Punk Documentary
    The Dogs
    John Rock (Lansing, Michigan, 76)
    Tough Enough / John Rock

    Garage Revival

    Music behind DJ:

    The Suicide Commandos

    Monster Au Go-Go (Minneapolis, Minnesota, 76)
    The Suicide Commandos
    The Environment
    CGBG’s: The Roots of Punk Documentary
    The Gizmos
    Chicken Queen (Bloomington, Indiana, 76)
    The Gizmos
    The Environment
    CGBG’s: The Roots of Punk Documentary
    Blondie
    In The Sun (NYC, 76)
    X Offender Single
    DMZ
    Boy From Nowhere (Boston, Massachusetts, 76)
    Live At The Rat ’76
    Narrator
    Part 9 Punk: Garage History
    Rock & Roll Documentary
    PBS
    Music behind DJ:

    The Flamin’ Groovies

    Slow Death (San Francisco, California, 72)
    Television
    Little Johnny Jewel (NYC, 75)
    Little Johnny Jewel
    CGBGs & Max’s
    Punk Attitude

     

    1 hr 59 min
  • Issue #46: The Michael Cassutt Interview Part 4

    Issue #46: The Michael Cassutt Interview Part 4

    Written & Performed by Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Michael Cassutt.

    Recorded 7 April, 2021.

    Issue #46, produced in July of 2021.

    https://ia801403.us.archive.org/25/items/20220204-1030-radio-zine-046/20220204%201030%20Radio%20Zine%20046.mp3

     

    26 min
  • Before ’75 Part I: Ain’t It Fun?

    Before ’75 Part I: Ain’t It Fun? (#236) (845)

    In this History Lesson (originally aired on 3 September 2011), we offer some clips from the unfortunately titled, “Punk Attitude,” documentary, and focus on the music a little more than the interviews. This version is a little re-vamped from the original broadcast, for Jungle Room Listeners.

    This show continues next week! Tune in to follow the story!

    Enjoy!

    https://ia601503.us.archive.org/0/items/mutations-236/Mutations236.mp3

     

    Live Playlist & Comments

    Artist

    Track

    Album

    Label

    Part 01

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Pere Ubu

    Final Solution (Cleveland, Ohio, 76)

    Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection

    Rough Trade Records

    Music behind DJ:

    The Kingsmen

    Louie Louie

    “Louie Louie” b/w “Haunted Castle”

    Wand Records

    Part 02

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Marlon Brando

    “What Have You Got?”

    The Wild Ones

    Columbia Pictures

    Iggy & The Stooges

    Search & Destroy (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 73)

    Raw Power

    Columbia Records

    Part 03

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Chuck Berry

    Maybellene

    The Chess Story: 1947 – 1975

    Chess Records

    Part 04

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Strawberry Alarm Clock

    Incense And Peppermints

    Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968

    Rhino Records

    Part 05

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Music behind DJ:

    ? & The Mysterians

    96 Tears

    “96 Tears” b/w “Midnight Hour”

    Pa Go Go Records

    Part 06

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    The Sonics

    Strychnine

    Here Are The Sonics!!!

    Norton Records

    Part 07

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    The Standells

    Riot on Sunset Strip

    The Best of the Standells

    Rhino Records

    Part 08

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    The Count Five

    Psychotic Reaction

    “Psychotic Reaction” b/w “They’re Gonna Get You”

    Double Shot Records

    The Velvet Underground

    The Gift (Edit)

    Peel Slowly And See

    Polydor Records

    Lou Reed

    Lou Reed on Andy Warhol

    Part 09

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    The Velvet Underground

    All Tomorrow’s Parties (1965)

    Peel Slowly And See

    Polydor Records

    Music behind DJ:

    The Seeds

    Pushin’ Too Hard

    The Seeds

    GNP Crescendo

    Part 10

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Michael Yonkers Band

    Boy In The Sandbox (1968)

    Microminiature Love

    Sub Pop Records

    Part 11

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Huey Newton

    White Responsibility

    It’s All Meat

    Feel It (1970)

    It’s All Meat

    New Music Records

    Part 12

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    MC5

    Kick Out the Jams (1969)

    Kick Out the Jams

    Elektra Records

    Part 13

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Sir Lord Baltimore

    Helium Head (I Got A Love) (1970)

    Kingdom Come

    Anthology Recordings

    Music behind DJ:

    Kim Fowley

    Queen Of Stars (Loop)

    Part 14

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    The Doors

    Light My Fire (Edit) (Live)

    Alive, She Cried

    Elektra Records

    Part 15

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Alice Cooper

    Long Way To Go (71)

    Love It To Death

    Warner Bros. Records

    Part 16

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    The Stooges

    Not Right (1969)

    The Stooges

    Elektra Records

    Part 17

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Marc Bolan & T.Rex

    Buick Mackane (72)

    The Slider

    Reprise Records

    Music behind DJ:

    Death

    Politicians In My Eyes (Loop)

    Part 18

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    David Bowie

    Hang On To Yourself (72)

    The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars

    RCA Records

    Part 19

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Zolar-X

    Space Age Love (LA 74)

    Timeless

    Alternative Tentacles Records

    Part 20

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    The New York Dolls

    Vietnamese Baby (NYC, 73)

    The New York Dolls

    Island Records

    Part 21

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Debris

    One Way Spit (Chickasha, Oklahoma, 75)

    Static Disposal

    Anopheles Records

    Music behind DJ:

    The Punks

    Drop Dead

    The Punks

    Part 22

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Death

    You’re A Prisoner (Detroit, Michigan, 75)

    …For The Whole World To See

    Drag City

    Part 23

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    The Dictators

    Master Race (NYC, 75)

    The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!

    Epic Records

    The Mumps

    We Ended Up

    How I Saved The World

    Sympathy For The Record Industry

    Part 24

    Punk Attitude

    Shout! Factory

    Music behind DJ:

    Link Wray and The Wraymen

    Raw-Hide

    Peter Laughner

    Ain’t It Fun (Cleveland, Ohio, 75)

    Take The Guitar Player For A Ride

    Tim Kerr Records

    2 hr

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Experimental Radio the way grandma used to make."