The swinging sounds of Tehran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution this week on Cosmic Slop. 

Cosmic Slop airs every Wednesday from 2:30-4:30 eastern on WMUA.org (91.1fm)

Learn more about the music and find the full playlist over at the Cosmic Slop blog. 

What began in the palm wine bars of the Ghanian ports soon spread throughout western Africa to become known as Highlife. Let the beautifully complex guitar lines mingle with the driving beat and let it all wash over you in the heat of the late July sun. If you have some wine to drink with it, all the better.

Cosmic Slop airs on WMUA 91.1fm or at WMUA.org Wednesdays from 2:30-4:30 eastern. 

Learn more over at the Cosmic Slop blog!

Hailing from northern Laos and Thailand, an area of the world once called Isan, Molam is country folk music that has an irresistible groove. During this show I work my way through some of Molams greatest performers including my personal favorite: Ankanang Kunchai. 

Cosmis Slop airs on WMUA every Wednesday from 2:30-4:30 eastern. Learn more about the show over at the blog! 

Episode 9 of Cosmic Slop features the spiritual jazz of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, and many more jazz luminaries caught up in the divine grace of the civil rights movement. 

Cosmic Slop airs on WMUA, Wednesdays 2:30-4:30 eastern. 

Full playlist can be found here. 

Mauritanian wedding songs, Tuareg guitars, Malian blues, the music of the Sahara. 

Listen live on Wednesday from 2:30-4:30 eastern at WMUA.org

Learn more about the week's show here!

This is the audio from my seventh Cosmic Slop Radio show. The theme of the week was Cambodian music from the 60s and 70s, focusing on the psychedelic and soulful sounds of Sinn Sisamouth, Pan Ron, and Ros Seresothea. 

You can listen to the show live at WMUA.org every Wednesday from 2:30-4:30 eastern and you can listen to the playlist and read a little more about the show over here. 

This is a recording of the sixth episode of my radio show on WMUA Amherst. You can listen live every Wednesday, 2:30-4:30eastern at WMUA.org or you can listen to the playlists over here. 

The sixth episode of Cosmic Slop aired 6/22/22 and was an all vinyl show. Music from around the world spun live in the studio! 

A recording taken from the live streamed DJ set on October 5, 2021. Sorry for all the shuffling paper sounds, but consider it atmosphere and realism I guess. You can listen to the songs played in the set in a Spotify playlist by going here. 

On this episode I take a deep dive into the story of Al Green: a young man with a voice of gold who rose to soul stardom and then gave it all up to preach the word of god. 

The audio for this episode comes from a video I did on Twitch, a sort of live DJ set wherein I played about an hour of music, spinning records ranging from Cambodia to Thailand to Ethiopia to the States. You can watch the video here (which has 12 minutes of silence thanks to Twitch copyright policy) and if it is something you enjoy let me know and I can do some more of it!