Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs | WFMU

Music behind DJ: Nature Sounds - "Dripping Water in Limestone Cave" - Water Sounds [0:00:00] Zea et Xavier Charles - "You're Dead" - It's Quiet [Keen ears will recognize this as a cover of the 1966 Norma Cecilia Tanega song, also used as the theme song from 'What We Do In The Shadows'... "Zea is Arnold de Boer: minimal, full-on, electric, acoustic, heart-felt, strange- edge." //// "Recorded in one go in one day during our tour in the south of France, march 2022. Also out on cassette. Xavier Charles is an amazing clarinette player from France working mostly in the international improvised music scene. The combination with the open minimal guitar play of Zea works like a treat... Released September 29, 2022"] [0:03:52] The Ex - "In The Rain" - If Your Mirror Breaks [Per BC: "The Ex started playing in 1979. Using guitars, bass, drums and voice as their starting point The Ex have continued to musically explore undiscovered areas right up to the present day: collaborations with jazz musicians and an Iraqi-Kurdish band, Kamagurka, Tom Cora, Sonic Youth, Han Bennink, Jan Mulder, Shellac and Wolter Wierbos. In 2002 The Ex set up a lively musical exchange with Ethiopia." //////////////////// ---> "In true ‘Ex fashion’, If Your Mirror Breaks picks up where 27 Passports left off, and erupts like a musical short story collection, a ten-part series of surrealist daydreams, calls to action, ominous warnings and bursts of vitality tapped into the pulse of time. What time could be more appropriate to release this album in, as the current one? Arnold de Boer, Katherina Bornefeld, Andy Moor and Terrie Hessels once again impress with their trademark urgency and creativity." ---- The Ex - Bandcamp] [0:07:58] Nape Neck - "No Platforming" - Nape Neck [Selected by Arnold De Boer, who also mastered this band's record. Also on Dot Dash Sounds, label of WFMU alumni DJ Tom Dash. -- New compilation album by Nape Neck from Leeds, UK. ""In the very first year of the doomed 2020s, the Leeds, UK-based art-punk trio Nape Neck made their debut with a self-titled/self-released cassette, featuring eight absolutely visceral tracks that held a mirror up to the anxieties and tensions of our hellish timeline and then shattered it on the ground. The five-song tape that followed it, 2022’s Look Alive, was an even more concise statement of intent, hitting like a head-on collision between the razor-edged clang and clamor of the Ex or Dog Faced Hermans and the untamed neo-no wave jabbing and scrabbling of the Scissor Girls and Erase Errata. This new LP collects all of the material from those two cassettes on vinyl for the first time (deservedly so; better late than never), and every single song is just as thrilling now as it was on first listen — if you weren’t paying attention then, you really need to be now. Bobby Glew’s guitar is strangled Andy Gill-style, splintering the taut, locked-in rhythms from bassist Claire Adams and drummer Kathy Gray with shards of serrated noise. Each member of the band contributes vocals, with their lines crossing and overlapping in a highly coordinated exchange of calls and responses. “No Platforming” and “Paperweight” communicate in a series of desperate shouts and clipped Morse code beats, while clattering mutant funk cowbell punctuates the spiraling scratch of “Demonstrations,” and “Aim Slow” tumbles through a rapid cycle of needling guitar and staccato bass throb, as “Warm Air” and “Look Alive” slash and burn like DNA if they’d been a Ron Johnson band. A total knockout — the first half of this decade belonged to Nape Neck, and chances are that the second half will be all theirs, too." - Erika Elizabeth, Maximum Rocknroll/Domestic Departure Records/Collate /////////// Compilation of tracks from the band's two cassettes from 2020 and 2022 - Now re-mixed and re-mastered for vinyl. ///////// Recorded and re-mixed by Matt Benn //////// Mastered by Arnold de Boer" https://napeneck.bandcamp.com/] [0:10:32] Paal Nilssen-Love Circus...

Music behind DJ: Seascapers - "Comforting Ocean Waves 2" - Comforting Ocean Waves [0:00:00] Frank Morton - "US Bugle Call (2)" - KPM 1000 Series Marchtime USA/Hollywood Heyday [0:01:23] Andrew Huang - "Hello" - Lo-Fi [0:01:34] Dead Kennedys - "I Like Short Songs" - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death [0:01:54] Twin Pigs - "Kings of the Data Void" - Godspeed, Little Shit Eater [0:02:22] Big Clown - "Always Knew" - Beatdown [0:03:54] Ghoulies - "Society" - Flat Earth [0:04:45] The Gobs - "Get a Dog (That Can Kill Me if it Wants To)" - 1-2-3-4 [0:05:47] Descendents - "Weinerschnitzel" - Two Things at Once [0:06:53] Descendents - "All" - All [0:07:04] Descendents - "No! All" - All [0:07:09] Kerosene Kream - "Born Too Soon" - Baal [0:07:16] Soft Play - "Girl Fight" - Sugar Coated Bitter Truth [0:08:33] Napalm Death - "Dead" - Earache: The World's Shortest Album [0:08:51] Man is the Bastard - "Lime Doom" - D.I.Y.C.D. [0:08:55] Agnostic Front - "Fight" - United Blood EP [0:09:11] Napalm Death - "You Suffer" - SCUM [0:09:26] Melt-Banana - "So Unfilial Rule" - Squeak Squeak Creak [0:09:30] Hairy Pussy - "Life Stinks" - Superstar [0:09:45] Useless Eaters - "I Hate the Kids" - Singles 2011-2014 [0:09:59] Beige Banquet - "What Is Going On?" - Beta [0:11:26] M.A.Z.E. - "I Just Pay Taxes" - II [0:12:54] Le Shok - "Give Me Something Help Me Please" - We Are Electrocution [0:14:15] Erik Nervous - "I'm A Brick" - Assorted Anxieties [0:14:59] Spray Paint - "Don't Get Sick" - Feel the Clamps [0:16:07] The Sueves - "Knife Wallet" - Change Your Life [0:17:15] Dogs in Ecstasy - "Fuck This Garbage World" - Welcome 2 Hell [0:18:45] Music behind DJ: Clive Richardson - "Gay Activity" - KPM 1000 Series Marchtime USA/Hollywood Heyday [0:19:36] Nomeansno - "No Fkuicgn" - Sex Mad ["Nomeansno (sometimes stylized as NoMeansNo or spelled No Means No) was a Canadian punk rock band formed in Victoria, British Columbia, and later relocated to Vancouver. They released 11 albums, including a collaborative album with Jello Biafra, and numerous EPs and singles. Critic Martin Popoff described their music as "the mightiest merger between the hateful aggression of punk and the discipline of heavy metal." Nomeansno's distinct hardcore punk sound, complex instrumentation, and dark, "savagely intelligent" lyrics inspired subsequent musicians. They were a formative influence on punk jazz, post-hardcore, math rock, and emo. //////// Formed in 1979 by brothers Rob and John Wright, they began as a two-piece punk band influenced by jazz and progressive rock. They self-released their debut Mama LP in 1982, added guitarist Andy Kerr the following year, and signed with Alternative Tentacles. Kerr departed in late 1991 after five LPs with the band, and the group returned to its two-piece formation for the Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy? album. //////// Guitarist Tom Holliston, and briefly second drummer Ken Kempster, joined in 1993. After three further LPs, they left Alternative Tentacles and issued their final album, All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt, in 2006. The Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame inducted them in 2015, and they retired the following year."] [0:23:18] Thalidomine - "No!" - Thalidomide LP 2010 [Thalidomide //// Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic //// https://thalidomide.bandcamp.com/] [0:23:48] Thalidomine - "(We Love) Short Songs (And We Hate Long Ones)" - Thalidomide LP 2010 [Thalidomide //// Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic //// https://thalidomide.bandcamp.com/] [0:23:57] The Ex - "Outlook-Army" - Disturbing Domestic Peace [Yes, we are interviewing Arnold de Boer of The Ex next week!!!!!!!!!!!! --------------------------------------------- "The Ex had formed and recorded their earliest material in 1979 during the heyday of the Dutch squatters movement. Following the band's release of their All Corpses Smell the Same EP, the group's bassist René left the band for New Zealand and was replaced by then 15-year-old Bas. The Ex...

Music behind DJ: Seascapers - "Comforting Ocean Waves 2" - Comforting Ocean Waves [0:00:00] Topo Gigio - "Topo Gigio Is In Love (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, April 25, 1965)" - - ["Topo Gigio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtɔːpo ˈdʒiːdʒo]) is a fictional anthropomorphic mouse, originally the lead character of a children's puppet show on Italian television in the early 1960s. The character, created in 1958 by artist Maria Perego, her husband Federico Caldura and fellow artist Guido Stagnaro, debuted on RAI in 1959 and has been customarily voiced by actor Giuseppe "Peppino" Mazzullo and later Davide Garbolino. His name literally translates to 'Louie Mouse', as topo is the Italian word for 'mouse' and Gigio is a nickname for Luigi ('Louis'). //////// Topo Gigio was popular in Italy for many years: not only on TV, but also in comics, such as the classical Corriere dei Piccoli, cartoons, merchandising and films. The character's popularity spread around the world after being featured on The Ed Sullivan Show in the U.S. in 1963. //////// Today, Topo Gigio still has fans and has become an icon of Italian pop culture. He performs regularly at Zecchino d'Oro festival and other programs created by Antoniano and RAI. The character also spawned two feature-length films, The Magic World of Topo Gigio (1965) and Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967), and two animated TV series that first aired in 1988 and 2020, respectively. //////// The puppet has made appearances and has a fan base in many other countries—including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela and the former Yugoslavia." //////// "Topo Gigio will be the Italian spokesperson during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, presenting the results of the Italian jury."] [0:03:16] The Nightingales - "Giddy Aunt" - The Awful Truth [Newest album, released April 4, 2025. "Nightingales (a.k.a. The Nightingales) are a British post-punk/alternative rock band, formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England, by four members of Birmingham's punk group The Prefects. They had been part of The Clash's 'White Riot Tour', recorded a couple of Peel Sessions, released a 45 on Rough Trade and, years after splitting up, had a retrospective CD released by US indie label Acute Records. //////// Described in John Robb's book on 'post punk' Death To Trad Rock as "The misfits' misfits" and comprising an ever-fluctuating line up, based around lyricist/singer Robert Lloyd, the Nightingales enjoyed cult status in the early 1980s as darlings of the credible music scene and were championed by John Peel, who said of them – "Their performances will serve to confirm their excellence when we are far enough distanced from the 1980s to look at the period rationally and other, infinitely better known, bands stand revealed as charlatans". //////// The original members were Robert Lloyd on vocals, Eamonn Duffy on bass and Paul Apperley on drums, all formerly of The Prefects. The band, before splitting up, played more sessions on John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show than any other band excluding The Fall and Half Man Half Biscuit. //////// In the late 1980s, the Nightingales stopped working but, following the occasional gig between times, they re-grouped in 2004, with Lloyd being joined by original Prefects guitarist Alan Apperley. The current line up features Robert Lloyd, James Smith, Andreas Schmid on bass and ex-Violet Violet drummer Fliss Kitson. //////// Since restarting the group have been more productive than ever – "] [0:05:16] Girls Names - "Third Uncle" - The Next Life ["Belfast, Northern Ireland group Girls Names started their career making noisy indie pop and found a home on Slumberland Records, but as they released more music, their sound took a series of left turns that led them down a more experimental path that saw them...

Music behind DJ: Seascapers - "Comforting Ocean Waves 2" - Comforting Ocean Waves [0:00:00] John Dwyer - "Smoke Ring" - Chime Oblivion [Full album released now!!! Today!!! April 17!!!... From Flood Magazine... "Chime Oblivion Work Through Strong Feelings on New Proto-Punk Jam “Kiss Her or Be Her” /////////// John Dwyer’s new project co-founded by Bow Wow Wow’s David Barbarossa will release their self-titled debut on April 18 via Deathgod. //// It was bound to happen eventually: After two decades of non-stop prolific output under the many guises of his Osees project, John Dwyer seemingly cloned himself to lead a second, parallel existence as the band leader for a revolving set of collaborators within jazz fusion projects like Bent Arcana and Witch Egg and beyond. Having recently released SORCS 80 with his primary band, Dwyer is already moving onto his next full-fledged collaboration, this time enlisting iconic new-wave drummer David Barbarossa of Adam & the Ants and Bow Wow Wow, further padded out by members of Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus and punk newcomers FKA Smiley, as well as tapping into the Osees and Bent Arcana talent pools. //// https://johndwyer.bandcamp.com/] [0:03:24] Pit Scum - "Petrified Society" - PS1 [Playing Toronto tonight @ the Monarch! -- Toronto Quartet recording fast & simple from their space to your ears... As says their Bandcamp ---- :This demo was recorded live off the floor at our practise space by Pit Scum, June/July 2024. Zero band overdubs. ///////// Simon Oates - Voice // Zak Hanna - Guitar // Erik Doole - Guitar // Adam Boyle - Drums //// Play loud or not at all. //// Released July 24, 2024" //// TORONTO FRIENDS!!! ----> "Lunchmeat / Gold Watch / Pit Scum / Nour Hadidi //// Monarch Tavern // 12 Clinton Street // Toronto, ON M6J 2N8 // Doors open @ Apr 17, 2025, 7:30 PM //// Lunchmeat // Gold Watch // Pit Scum // Nour Hadidi" https://pitscum.bandcamp.com/] [0:04:54] Gold Watch - "Fountain Of Blood" - Gold Watch [Playing Toronto tonight @ the Monarch! -- Released August 22, 2024 GOLD WATCH -- Vocals: Matt Mason //// Music: Matt O'Rourke //// Recorded by Dylan Franklin //// Mixed by Jeremy Kessler and Dylan Franklin //// Mastered by James Toth Album Photo by Clayton Churcher //// Album Layout by Kristine Do //////// TORONTO FRIENDS!!! ----> "Lunchmeat / Gold Watch / Pit Scum / Nour Hadidi //// Monarch Tavern // 12 Clinton Street // Toronto, ON M6J 2N8 // Doors open @ Apr 17, 2025, 7:30 PM //// Lunchmeat // Gold Watch // Pit Scum // Nour Hadidi" https://gold-watch.bandcamp.com/] [0:08:01] Lunchmeat - "Sobering" - End of Man [Playing Toronto tonight @ the Monarch! -- ALBUM RELEASE PARTY! --- Digitally released March 21, 2025, announced Nov 2024: "Lunchmeat’s first album in 17 years, End of Man, will be out in early 2025. Recorded at Palace Sound by Christopher Sandes, the album is 9 songs and clocks in at just over 29 minutes. The songs are about things like the ghosts of the Lower Don River, labour organising at Amazon, and the brutalisation of Palestine." |||||| "Half of all profits will go to charities/nonprofits that are important to us, including: PCRF (Palestine Children’s Relief Fund), Sistering, Toronto Wildlife Centre, Daily Bread Food Bank. Amounts and organisations to be posted at lunchmeat.band." |||||| Recorded at Palace Sound |||||| Produced by Chris Sandes |||||| Mixed by Sandes and Lunchmeat |||||| Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering |||||| Music by Allemang, Castle, Leblanc, Moore, Morano (2, 3, 5–8), Wells |||||| Lyrics by Allemang |||||| Art by Stéfan Koekemoer |||||| Another chart-topper from Charlie Records" -------- "Please follow us on your music platform of choice. Links aplenty here: https://lunchmeat.band/links.] [0:10:36] Eiyn Sof - "The Arced Pole" - Empyrean Death Rites [Lead-off track, #1, from the 4-song Digital Album released March 23, 2025. [All sales to Repair Together, a Ukrainian NGO focusing on repairing, restoring and rebuilding in...