Episode 50! It would be a wee bit extra to go for the Best of 2022 Part 4, so we end the year with a Christmas metaphor of wrapping something up and opening something up. Happy New Year and good riddance 2022.

All over the map genre wise as usual -- super fuzzed out angel metal, chopped and glitched hip hop business, Mediterranean rock with psych/funk flavors, and fresh jazz!

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Excerpts from this episode:

Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard: Strontium

They Hate Change: Breathing

Ben Lamar Gay: To Be Behaved Upon

Liraz: Gandomi

model home: Keep Pushin

Wau Wau Collectif: Baye Kate

Elaquent: Tiger Stripes

Every loaf of the Magic Organ is baked with a focus on quality and appreciation. Do we honor the folks making all different types of music? Absotitly.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and elsewhere. You can support them by listening. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you.

Join your host, The Magic Organ Guy aka The Skeptical Chimp aka Rando Music Guy for devastational fades and spot on nonsense. As usual we're hung up on quality, not on genre. Thanks for listening!

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Episode 49: Best of 2022 Part 3! People are grooving on the Magic Organ best of year episodes, we appreciate all listeners joining the party, and we're sporting a different look than a lot of the other year end lists. You may see records here and there that are on other lists but not all in one place. All the musicks, they're all good musicks!

All over the map genre wise as usual -- Spanish language stylish electro, rock, nihilistic punk, old school reggae, blastin' blastin' blastin'.

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Excerpts from this episode:

Lucrecia Dalt - No Tiempo

The Murlocs - Subsidiary

Thee Oh Sees - Social Butt

Horace Andy - Careful

Yves Jarvis: Bootstrap Jubilee

Wormrot - Hatred Transcending

Fantastic Negrito - Virginia Soil

Every loaf of the Magic Organ is baked with a focus on quality and appreciation. Do we honor the folks making all different types of music? Absotitly.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and elsewhere. You can support them by listening. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. If you feel the urge gimme 5 shits on the iTunes and render unto me my cyber cookie.

Join your host, The Magic Organ Guy aka The Skeptical Chimp aka Rando Music Guy for devastational fades and spot on nonsense. As usual we're hung up on quality, not on genre. Thanks for listening!

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Episode 48: Best of 2022 Part 2! First off the mistakes. I pay tribute to the Spanish language World Cup broadcaster, I don't know his nationality but I don't think he's Spanish. Secondly, the last track is called Conversation Piece and I called it Conservation Piece. Too stupid to live.

All over the map genre wise as usual, lots of different stuff-- cumbia, metal, Meters Style funk. I hope you enjoy it if you don't maybe you'll change over time.

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Excerpts from this episode:

Maral: Shy Night

Cumbiamuffin: La Promesa

Misery Index: Administer the Dagger

King Jammy: Track and Trace Dub

Philip Jeck: Barrow in Furness

Surprise Chef: Conversation Piece

Every loaf of the Magic Organ is baked with a focus on quality and appreciation. Do we honor the folks making all different types of music? Absotitly.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and elsewhere. You can support them by listening. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. If you feel the urge gimme 5 shits on the iTunes and render unto me my cyber cookie.

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Episode 47: We kick off the best time of the year to be a music listener -- year end best of lists and podcasts! And I know we're early but the plan is to have 3 best of 2022 episodes to finish off this year, take a break and then three more in January 2023 for all the shit I hope to find in other folks' best of year lists. Ah, the interwebz. I encourage all to forage as well as listening to the Magic Organ!

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Excerpts from this episode:

Billy Woods: Remorseless

Doldrum: The Offering

BKO: Ngon

Dead Cross: II

Thiago Franca $ A Espetacular Charange do Franca: Cara Do Apetite

TSHA: Sister

Every loaf of the Magic Organ is baked in with a focus on quality and appreciation. Do we honor the folks making all different types of music? Absotitly.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and elsewhere. You can support them by listening. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. If you feel the urge gimme 5 shits on the iTunes and render unto me my cyber cookie.

Join your host, The Magic Organ Guy aka The Skeptical Chimp aka Rando Music Guy for devastational fades and spot on nonsense. As usual we're hung up on quality, not on genre. Thanks for listening!

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Episode 46! Free Speech. What with the sale of Twatter to the world's richest man there's a lot buzz about free speech or the lack thereof. What to make of it? More beefing I'm guessing.

What about the freedom to listen outside of the American mainstream culture? That's what we're interested in at The Magic Organ. Helping folks escape the oppression of Taylor Swift, Jay Z, and Ye. Oh, there ya go, back to free speech when you give a shout out to Ye!

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Excerpts from this episode:

Orchestra Gold: Keleya

Bazooka: Kapou Allou

Conjunto Ingeneria: Mambo Silbado

Lucrecia Dalt: Dicen

M.I.A.: F.I.A.S.O.M., Pt. 2

Robert Chaney: Breath

Palm: Parable Lickers

Every loaf of the Magic Organ is baked in with a focus on quality and appreciation. Let us honor the folks making all different types of music? Absotitly.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and elsewhere. You can support them by listening. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. If you feel the urge gimme 5 shits on the iTunes and render unto me my cyber cookie.

Join your host, The Magic Organ Guy aka The Skeptical Chimp aka Rando Music Guy for devastational fades and spot on nonsense. As usual we're hung up on quality, not on genre. Thanks for listening!

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Episode 45! The Magic Organ Bucket 1! I have a playlist called Magic Organ bucket and I toss tunes into that bucket as I listen when the playlist for the current podcast is already full up. This episode is made up of tracks from the Magic Organ Bucket.

Secondly, I use these show notes to correct mistakes committed during the creation of the podcast. In this episode I recommend a Reverend Peyton tune as Roast Beef and Kisses when the actual title is Pot Roast and Kisses. Whew, I feel better. I don't want to burn anyone's time on the search bar.

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Excerpts from this episode:

Quadry: In Your City

TSHA: The Light

Ceu: Um gosto de sol

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band: Rattle Can

Daphni: Always There

Liberty College Choir: Jesus Is Calling America

Every loaf of the Magic Organ is baked in with a focus on quality and appreciation. Let us honor the folks making all different types of music? Absotitly.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and elsewhere. You can support them by listening. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. If you feel the urge gimme 5 shits on the iTunes and render unto me my cyber cookie.

Join your host, The Magic Organ Guy aka The Skeptical Chimp aka Rando Music Guy for devastational fades and spot on nonsense. As usual we're hung up on quality, not on genre. Thanks for listening!

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Episode 44! Entitled Brisk, no fucking around, we just get in there spinning and spinning. Same party spirit served up with a little bit less random nonsense.

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Excerpts from this episode:

SunDub & Lutan Fyah: Jump and Dance

Mamaleek: Badtimers

OFF!: Invisible Empire

George Riley: Time

Orchestra Fuego: Con Ella Quiero Bailar

Jake Blount: Just as Well Get Ready, You Got to Die

Momi Maigia: Mansani

Every loaf of the Magic Organ is baked in with a focus on quality and appreciation. Let us honor the folks making all different types of music? Absotitly.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and elsewhere. You can support them by listening. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. If you feel the urge gimme 5 shits on the iTunes and render unto me my cyber cookie.

Join your host, The Magic Organ Guy aka The Skeptical Chimp aka Rando Music Guy for devastational fades and spot on nonsense. As usual we're hung up on quality, not on genre. Thanks for listening!

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Episode 43!!! The Guardian is running a series of articles about changing music listening habits and they suggested asking friends (aka the human algorithm) for music recommendations. I'm your rando internet music friend, the Magic Organ guy. Believe me, you could do a lot worse.

As I recorded this episode I noticed how much music from Mexico and Brazil I chose for this episode so I added an 'o' in homage to the human algorithm.

Voila! The Human algorithmo.

Excerpts from this episode:

Nnux: Ciudad

The Mauskovic Dance Band: Ventura Phase

Marina Allen: Celadon

Ray Laurel: COCONUT PERFUME

Edson Natale: Levante

Sonido Berzerk: Oshun

EL PLVYBXY: A Pulmon

Do we honor the folks making all different types of music? Absotitly. Every loaf of the Magic Organ is baked in with a focus on quality and appreciation.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and elsewhere. You can stream them, you can support them. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. If you feel the urge gimme 5 shits on the iTunes and render unto me my cyber cookie.

Join your host, The Magic Organ Guy aka The Skeptical Chimp aka Rando Music Guy for devastational fades and spot on nonsense. As usual we're hung up on quality, not on genre. Thanks for listening!

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Episode 42!!! When you realize there's a lot of shit to listen to and ask are you growing those two things are related and shit.

Most of me is in this podcast for the shits and giggles and a small part of me hopes folks can change their headspace. Cuz they changed mine!

Excerpts from this episode:

Ken Whitely: Are You Growing?

Sudan Archives: Milk Me

Heart of the Ghost: Specters

GA-20: Crackdown

Kenny Beats: Hold My Head

Russian Circles: Conduit

Emeralds: Photosphere

Do we honor the folks making all different types of music? Absotitly. Every loaf of the Magic Organ is baked in with a focus on quality and appreciation.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and elsewhere. You can stream them, you can support them. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. If you feel the urge gimme 5 shits on the iTunes and render unto me my cyber cookie.

Join your host, The Magic Organ Guy aka The Skeptical Chimp aka Rando Music Guy for devastational fades and spot on nonsense. As usual we're hung up on quality, not on genre. Thanks for listening!

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Episode 41!!! We celebrate Labor Day 2022 in a variety of ways. First, I'm still working on delivering the Magic Organ fresh to your device in the wake of my summer accident. Second, and more importantly, we recognize the labor that goes into the music you hear on this podcast as well as other music you hear. Except maybe Drake, he's lazy as shit. We kick off Ep. 41 with cumbia from the eastern part of Mexico and we go all over from there. Please God remember my 5 shits on iTunes, Lord knows I've earned it. And whoever you are and wherever you are hopefully your labor is worthwhile and appreciated.

Excerpts from this episode:

Sonido Gallo Negro: Cumbia Espantamuertos

Jlin: Nyakinyua Rise

BKO: Sadiona

Death by Dub: Kibosh

Mega Bog: Diary of a Rose

Meechy Darko: The MoMA

Do we not mix it up genre wise? Yes indeedly doodly we do. Do we honor the folks making all different types of music? Absotitly. Every loaf of the Magic Organ is baked in with a focus on quality and appreciation.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and elsewhere. You can stream them, you can support them. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. If you feel the urge gimme 5 shits on the iTunes and render unto me my cyber cookie.

Join your host, The Magic Organ Guy aka The Skeptical Chimp aka Rando Music Guy for devastational fades and spot on nonsense. As usual we're hung up on quality, not on genre. Thanks for listening!

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