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A comprehensive exploration of contemporary experimental, psychedelic, noise & other obscure music. Hosted by Andy Ortmann (curator of the Nihilist Records label and member of longtime noise project Panicsville) presenting his obsessive perspective on the new difficult music. Peripheral and relating genres, including ethereal, electronic & extreme metal should also be expected in this weekly program. Sit back and relax into the hallucination amplification of The Eternal Now.

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Electric Samurai - "Sounds of Silence" - Switched on Rock Juan Blanco - "La Fuga" - Aguas Territoriales, Caballos Nino Nardini and Roger Roger - "Expectation" - Studio Ganaro: Space Oddities 1972-1982 VA Biota - "Vagabones pt.2 (excerpt)" - Rackabones Strange - "Kiss of a Butterfly" - Transluscent World Egisto Macchi - "Crostacei" - Fauna Marina Akutt Innleggelse - "Tenk Na!" - Cleanse the Bacteria v/a Chris Connelly - "Nuffield Theater (extract)" - White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly Plays Throbbing Gristle) Cozmic Corridors - "The Summit (excerpt)" - Cozmic Corridors Füxa - "City" - Accretion Charles Amirkhanian - "History of Collage" - Mental Radio Cyclobe / Nurse With Wound - "Untitled (excerpt)" - Paraparaparallelogrammatica (Angry Electric Finger 2) Lary Seven - "TINITUS" - Larynx https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161446
Unlocked Youth - "Entr'Acte" - Entre'Acte Douglas Jorgenson - "Mixed Emotions" - iatrogenics Einstürzende Neubauten - "Womb (excerpt)" - 2 x 4 Dieter Schnebel - "Glossalie: Teil II (excerpt)" - Glossolalie To Live and Shave in L.A. - "Root of Pop Compulsion" - Helen Butte vs Masonna Pussy Bad Smell Joel Vandroogenbroeck - "Fairy Tale" - Far View Rudimentary Peni - "The Flame of Insanity" - Echoes Of Anguish Residents + Renaldo & The Loaf - "The Shoe Salesman" - Title in Limbo Negativland - "Then" - Guns O.L.D. - "Supermarket Monstrosity" - OLD Fred Frith - "Dancing in the Street" - Best of Rapl v/a Polyphonic SIze - "Logique Polygonale" - Saison 1979-82 Thomas Hinter - "12 Franzos'" - Bad Alchemy 21 Sky Bird - "Pasolini's Trembling" - INTENTA: Experimental & Electronic Music from Switzerland 1981​-​93 Hanatarash ハナタラシ - "Hanatara Hopper" - Hanatarash 3 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161227
Sun City Girls - "Soft Fragile Egg-shell Minds" - Dante's Disneyland Inferno Robbie the Werewolf - "Drums and Guns" - Robbie the Werewolf: at the Waleback Arsenal - "When Heads Collide" - Factory Smog Is A Sign of Progress Lars-Gunnar Bodin - "On Speaking Terms II - Poem No. 4/No. 5" - The Pioneers: Five Text-Sound Artists (V/A) Rafael Flores - "Racaille" - Commando Bruno (1981-1987) S.C. Sharma - "After the War" - The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972 Ruth Anderson - "SUM" - split w/Annea Lockwood Gérard Torres - "1999" - C'est La Vie, Monsieur Louis Rudolf Komorous - "Anatomy of Melancholy pt.2 / 1974" - Portrait series Floating Di Morel & Ulf - "White Nights O.T.M. (excerpt)" - ULF / FDM Autechre - "Silverside" - Amber Butthole Surfers - "Mark Says Alright (live 1986 Amsterdam)" - Acid House Jean Jacques Perrey - "Island in Space" - The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160992
Damien Storm - "Realms Destiny" - Ghost Town Human Egg - "Egg" - Human Egg Popol Vuh - "Oh Wie Weit Ist Der Weg Hinab" - Letze Nachte Chris Carter - "AB/7A" - DOA: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle Jean-Baptiste Barriere - "Situations Extremes" - Pandémonium: Non, Jamais L'Espérance (Perspective Pour Une Politique Païenne) Cirith Ungol - "Atom Smasher" - King of the Dead Department S - "Is Vic There? (French version)" - Is Vic There? 7" Rino De Filippi - "Ingranggi" - Nel mondo del lavoro Emily Faryna - "Nothing Near" - Tape Works 1984-1990 Tuxedomoon - "L'etranger" - Suite en Sous-Sol Prurient - "Cocaine Daughter" - Frozen Niagara Falls Brett Naucke - "Universal Voltage" - Ground Fault Matinee https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160772
Cecilia ± - "Quiji" - The Other Side of This Side László Hortobágyi - "Asa-Panangis (Hindubisthan-Gat) (excerpt)" - El-Horto Ang José Vicente Asuar - "Estudio No1 en LA Mayor" - Así Habló El Computador Texas Chainsaw Massacre - "trailer" God Bullies - "Cemetery" - Dog Show Trop Tard - "La Mort est Humaine" - Photodrame Jean-Claude Nachon - "Le Programme Matuer Dans L'Amatrice" - La Femme Objet Fursaxa - "Texas Song" - Fursaxa Organum - "Part 1" - Tower of Silence Zoviet France - "Fidgety Foot" - Look into Me Francis Dhomont - "Chambre de enfants" - Foret Profonde Dissecting Table - "Answer" - Ultra Point Of Intersection Exist Miharu Koshi - "Ryugujyo No Koibito" - Parallelisme Den Sai Kwan - "+1" - Vanity Demos https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160533
Johnny Legend - "Rubber Room" - b/w The Night Of The Sadist Luc Mariani - "Synthetic Suite No.2" - Six Synthetic Suites Ulrich Blume - "While My Synthi Gently Weeps" - Ground Your Ears ! (Impulsive Music Electronical Created) Kaleidoscope - "Snapdragon" - Faintly Blowing Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot" - Daydream Nation Pierre Henry - "Rumeurs" - La Ville. Die Stadt Spykes - "Side 2 excerpt" - Sax & Electronics 4 Emerald Web - "Flight of the Raven" - Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales Priscilla McLean - "Night Images (Studio Techniques)" - Electronic Music From The Outside In Johanna M, Beyer - "Music of the Spheres" - New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media: Women in Electronic Music Rashad Becker - "themes V" - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II Ata Ebtekar - "Picture of a Whisper" - Persian Electronic Music, Yesterday and Today 1966?-?2006 Blue Phantom - "Diodo" - Distortions Claudio Rocchi & The Effervescent Elephants - "Niente di Meno" - Claudio Rocchi & The Effervescent Elephants https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160305
Ìxtahuele - "Zebra Limo" - Pathways to Paradise Negativland - "The Gun and the Bible" - Free Luc Ferrari - "Numero Quatro, Ronda Spain, June 2001 (A Group Of Spanish Tourists In A Museum)" - Les Anecdotiques: Exploitation Des Concepts N° 6 Butthole Surfers - "Ricky" - Double Live no artist - "Ghost Combo (excerpt)" - Halloween Stereo Sounds Lemon Kittens - "The Hospital Hurts the Girl" - The Big Dentist Shapoval Sextet - "Oh, Get Ready, Cossack, there will be a March" - Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (V/A) Esplendor Geometrico - "Rotor" - Mekano-Turbo Sauveur Mallia - "Electronic Africa" - Automation Vol.2 Sohail Rana - "Khyber Mail" - Khyber Mail 400 Blows - "Beat the Devil" - b/w The Beat Continues G.I.S.M. - "Nation's Prosperity" - Military Affairs Neurotic Ragger - "Sunflower Slow Drag" - Euphonic Sounds https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160076
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HNY from Jan 2, 2026

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Foetus - "Succulence" - Halt Henry Kaiser - "Devil in the Drain" - Devil in the Drain Psychick Television - "Detri-Mental Gain" - A Real Swedish Live Show Luc Mariani - "Bereneice's Game (excerpt)" - Video Screens Control Twenty Sixty Six And Then - "At My Home" - Reflections Ralph Lundsten & Leo Nilson - "Na, op 22, 1966" - MUMS: Musik Under Millioner Stjarnor Brigitte Bardot - "Contact!" - Brigitte Bardot Harry Forbes - "Colour Graphics" - Video Tech1 Angelo Baroncini/Bruno Battisti D'Amario - "Stressing Heart" - Music For Movement Violent Force - "Vengeance and Venom" - Malevolent Assault of Tomorrow Laurie Spiegel - "Crying Tone" - Obsolete Systems Richard Truhlar - "Monologues for a Mannequin" - Kali's Alphabet Roland Kovac - "Bits" - Electronic Toys Vol.1 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159870
Planetary Peace - "Christ is Coming" - Synthesis En Halvkokt I Folie! - "Röda Råttor" - In The Shadow Of Death (V/A) Warner Jepson - "Xmas Medley" - Buchla Christmas Älgarnas Trädgård - "There is a Time for Everything, There is a time when even time will meet" - Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat I Forntiden Fad Gadget - "Collapsing New People" - Collapsing New People Herbert Bodzin - "Voices of the Mind" - Revival II: Electronic Tapes 1979-1982 The Frogs - "Merry Xmas" - Here Comes Santa's Pussy 7" Jean Jacques Perrey - "E.V.A." - Moog Indigo Public Image Ltd. - "Track 8 (excerpt)" - Flowers of Romance Coil - "Christmas is Nearing Now" - Moon's Milk White Hospital - "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" - We Wish You a Meery Christmas Bladumb - "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time, Alone..." - no album GG Allin / Norman Dolph - "GG's Xmas Song / 12 Days of Christmas" - Christmas Becomes Electric https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159643
Korla Pandit - "White Christmas" - Merry Xmas R.N.A. Organism - "Weimar 22" - Vanity Records, Vol. One The Fibonaccis - "Sack of Suit Suite" - Terror Vision (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Read By S.T. Joshi Sound by Theologian - "The Memnons of the Night" - The Muse of Hyperborea Bizarre Ko.Ko.Ko. - "Metamorphosis of the Element (excerpt)" - 00 Time Organum - "Part 1" - Tower of Silence Negativland - "Now Listen to This!" - Helter Stupid; Over the Edge Mix Nuclear Assault - "Brainwashed" - Survive Starfuckers - "Distribuisce Pastiglie" - Infrantumi Alessandro Alessandoni - "Viabilità" - Industriale Ground Zero - "Flying Across the J.P. Yen (excerpt)" - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver.1.28 Eg. Oblique Graph - "Fall Into Glass" - Complete Oblique Douglas Leedy - "The First Noel" - A Very Merry Electric Christmas to You! Jean Jacques Perrey - "Little Drummer Boy" - Switched On Santa Joseph Byrd - "Silent Night" - A Christmaws Yet to Come [R.I.P.] Flowting Clouds - "Earth, Sun, Moon" - Earth, Sun, Moon [Due to a 'file management error' last week, the wrong track was played on the show. This has since been corrected, thus this week we present the real 'Earth, Sun, Moon'.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159340
The Gerogerigegege - "B3" - Uguisudani Apocalypse Kathy Kennedy - "Taking Steps" - Voice Tears v/a Studio di Musica Elettronica di Torino - "Wake In Progress" - Computer Music 1966-1972 Coil - "Who'll Tell" - Stolen and Contaminated Songs Spike Jones and the Band That Plays for Fun - "Teenage Brain Surgeon" Bernard Heidsieck - "Chapeau" - Klankteksten ? Konkrete Poëzie Visuele Teksten (V/A) Phobophlyptix - "Territory of Cybermyaisis" - Phobophlyptix Cryptic Slaughter - "Menace To Mankind" - Money Talks Nico Fidenco - "The Dark Side of Soul" - Emmanuelle Gli Ultimi Cannibal (soundtrack) Guy Bezancon - "Vide" - Periplos Robbie Robison - "Vampire Man" - Robbie the Werewolf: at the Waleback Cecilia ± / Ennio Morricone - "About Death / Bambole" - The Other Side Of Thsi Side / Spasmo Don Voegeli - "Musical Vamp with Sequence Pattern, Melodic Statements" - Instant Production Music Vol. 4 Maggi Payne - "Flights of Fancy" - Ahh Ahh (Music For Ed Tannenbaum's Technological Feets 1984-1987) Opera Multi-Steel - "Il Est Trop Tard" - k7 tapes archives 1983-1987 box set Flowting Clouds - "Earth, Sun, Moon" - b/w There are Rivers https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159101
Johnny Gunn & Don Ralke - "Pattern (excerpt)" - Introspection IV - Weirdos From The Uncommon World Of Johnny Gunn With The Outre Musical Sounds Of Don Ralke Biota - "Rail" - Awry Michel Pascal - "Puzzle (excerpt)" - Prix International Noroit-Léonce Petitot 1997 v/a Richard Truhlar - "Portrait of an Interview" - Kali's Cabinet Maria Teriaeva - "Mawa" - Focus Les Baxter - "Prelude in C" - Moog Rock Will To Live - "Justification" - Will To Live William Burroughs - "The Saints Go Marching Through All the Popular Tunes" - Nothing Here Now But the Recordings Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - "Bat Chain Puller" - Son of Dust Sucker The Nightingales - "The Happy Medium" - Hysterics Eric Stone - "Bankruptcy" - Economics Merzbow / John Wiese - "Garden Path Sentence (excerpt)" - Akashaplexia Illusion of Safety - "Track 1 (excerpt)" - RVE (Robol Verification Exercise) Brett Naucke - "Krylon 78'" - Ground Fault Matinee https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158405
Sadie Sads - "W.S.D.G." - Box with Little Doll Nurse With Wound / Diarmuid MacDiamarda - "Volta's Pistol" - Lung Oysters Au Vol - "Seascapes (For Helen Frankenthaler)" - Anthology of Experimental Music From Canada Popul Vuh - "Oh Wie Weit Ist Der Weg Hinauf" - letze tage letze nacht Pain Teens - "You Got To Waste It" - Manmade Disasters H.N.A.S. (Hirsche Nichts Aufs Sofa) - "Poppelsdorfer Sequenzen/ Lottogluck unt with Cannons" - Im Schatten der Mohre Jean Schwarz - "Cable Car" - Erda – Symphonie – Surroundings Marcello Giombini - "Forest Song (Thailand)" - Mondial Folk Synthesizer III (Estremo Oriente-Africa) Rafael Flores - "33A Ritual (excerpt)" - Commando Bruno (1981-1987) Rat Henry - "Attacked in the Street" - Material Pop, Vol.1 PragVEC - "Welcome Home" - Bits Reynold Weidenaar - "Wiener, For Your Usual Magnetic Sequel (excerpt)" - American Society Of University Composers (Record No. 6) Dariush Dolat-Shahi - "Otashgah, Part 1 (excerpt)" - Otashgah: Place of Fire Enno Velthuys - "Blue Heron" - The Acceptable Presence VA https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158192
Lord Sitar - "Emerald City" - Psychedeliquement Vôtre... Purzum - "Bundleteit" - Filosofeline Jon Appleton - "Sashasonjon" - Four Fantasies for Synclavier Black Light District - "Die Wolfe Kommen Zuruck" - 1000 Lights in a Darkened Room Butthole Surfers - "Come Together" - Texas Chainsaw Massacre Rudimentary Peni - "Cosmetic Plague" - E.P.s of R.P. Christinvertion - "Hellish Cannibalistic Insanity" - Embodiment Of Goat Blasphemy Bruno Nicolai - "Foglie Rosse" - La Coda Dello Scorpione OST To Live and Shave in L.A. - "Pink Satin Mule" - Spatters Of A Royal Sperm Rudolf Komorous - "Canon from Anatomy of Melancholy (excerpt)" - CAPAC Musical Portrait Series TS - "Electronic Composition for Non-Ordinary Listening Strategies" - nature heaves a sigh at her dismemberment into individuals Joseph Sledgianowski - "First Drawer" - untitled Claudio Simoetti - "Night Creatures" - Conquest OST Nord - "Entract" - Nord Ernst Jandl - "Calypso" - bist eulen Palais Schaumburg - "wir bauen eine neue stadt" - Palais Schaumburg Swans - "The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed by the Sea" - Love of Life https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157958
Tony & the Monstrosities - "Igor's Party" - S/T Sodom - "Intro (the rebirth...)" - Obsessed By Cruelty Anton Lavey - "Satan Takes a Holiday (vocal)" - Satan Takes a Holiday Die Kreuzen - "Halloween" - Century Days Nuclear Death - "Return of the Feasting Witch" - Carrion For Worm Dennis Michael Tenney - "Opening Theme" - Night of the Demons OST Vincent Price - "A Hornbook for Witches" - A Hornbook for Witches: Stories and Poems for Halloween unknown artist - "Dinner Music for Monsters" - Music for Monsters The Accused / Simon Boswell - "The Hearse / The Maggots" - Martha Splatterhead's Maddest Stories Ever Told / Phenomena Headboggle - "Monster Simulation" - Polyphonic Demo Jack & Jim - "Midnight Monster's Hop" - s/t Current 93 - "Tamlin (excerpt)" - Tamlin Sigillum S - "Terror Auto-Obstetrics (excerpt)" - Terror Auto-Obstetrics Gershon Kingsley - "Ghostly Sounds (excerpt)" - Ghostly Sounds Charles Bernstein - "A Nightmare on Elm Street (excerpt)" - Horror World Elm Street Group - "Do The Freddy" - Freddy's Greatest Hits https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157716
John Harrison - "Welcome To Creepshow (Main Title)" - Creepshow OST Nico - "Lawns of Dawns" - Marble Index Hunting Lodge - "Nomad Souls (excerpt)" - Necropolis Sonic Youth - "untitled VII" - Sonic Death Asmus Tietchens - "Zu viele dicke kinder" - Geboren, Um Zu Dienen Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - "track 15" - 23 Humouroid Dramas by Rudolf Eb.er Richard Band - "First Corpse Re-animated" - Re-Animator OST Exuma - "Damn Fool" - II Hans Conried & Alice Pearce - "Mostly Ghostly" - Monster Rally No Artist - "Cemetery at Midnight" - Hallowe'en Sleep Chamber - "Prescription" - Satanic Sanction Ruth White - "Spleen" - Flowers of Evil Bruno Nicolai - "Gotti Rossi" - Eyeball OST Diamanda Galas - "Artémis" - Saint of the Pit https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157512
Hazel O'connor - "Eighth Day" - b/w Monsters in Disguise Current 93 - "track 1 (excerpt)" - Sketches of My Nightmares and Dreams Occurring Nico - "The Falconer" - Desert Shore Pink Floyd - "Lucifer Sam" - Piper at the Gates of Dawn W. Ravenveer - "Rungler Speech Therapy" - Fuzzy Hair Electronics Vol.1 Jason Crumer - "Emotional Slavery" - Thin Ice Pierre Vasseur - "Champ VII" - "D'ailleurs" - XV Champs Introspectifs irr. app. (ext) & At Jennie Richie - "Track 1 (excerpt)" - Forgone and Ungotten King Diamond - "The Graveyard" - The Graveyard Kangaroo Kourt - "Side A (excerpt)" - Atmospheric Distortions Frankie Stein & his Ghouls - "In A Groovy Grave" - Monster Melodies Claude Larson - "High Resolution" - Syncrosonic Patterns Cecilia ± - "Quigi" - The Other Side of This Side Mort Garson - "Son of Blob" - b/w Party Pooper https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157244
Asbestos Rockpyle - "Chaos in My Mind" - Mystic Sample 3 v/a Big City Orchestra - "untitled" - Beatlerape Bethlehem - "Schuld Uns'res Knoch'rigen Faltpferds" - Dictius Te Necare Het Zweet - "Excuse" - Archives Vol.1 '82-'88 Elias Rahbani - "Beat, Beat, Beat" - Les Plus Beaux Jours De Ma Vie Teitanblood - "Rapture Below" - The Baneful Choir Residents - "Guylum Bardot" - Meet the Residents Demonomancer - "Father of Necromancy" - Poisoner of the New Black Age Brandon Seabrook - "Ballad of Newfangled Vicissitudes (excerpt)" - Sylphid Vitalizers Caroliner Rainbow - "Corn Red Moon" - I'm Armed With Quarts Of Blood Le Fruit Vert - "Too Much World" - Paon Perdu Laughing Hyenas - "Stain" - Merry Go Round Christ on a Crutch - "Food For Thought" - Spread Your Filth Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud - "untitled" - Rest On Your Arms Reversed David Beast - "Fiends From Hell" - Heaven & Hell Blue Phantom - "Microchaos" - Distortions https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157029
Roger Baudet - "Compliainte a Deux" - Musique Électronique Pour La Scène Et L'image 1976 - 1992 Jean-Francois Papin - "Hit of the 16th Century" - Insane Dances Jean Schwarz - "Symphonie (excerpt)" - Erda Bongwater - "The Living End" - Too Much Sleep The Creed Taylor Orchestra - "Gloomy Sunday" - Shock Music in Hi-Fi ???? - "Black Sand" - La Comtesses Perverse Metropakt - "Neuen Strassen" - SNX v/a [From a 4 x 7'' box set] Jurgen Muller - "Sea Bed Meditation" - Science of the Sea Lili Berlin - "Dumdidum" - Suss Und Erbarmungslos Ron Geesin - "On Through Out Up" - As He Stands Cosmonauts Hail Satan - "Mystery Mountain" - b/w A Beautiful Girl Like You Garage Monsters - "Safari to Mumbooba!" - Safai to Mumbooba! PIL - "Death Disco pt.2 megga mix" - Death Disco ep https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156794
Coil - "Main Theme" - Unreleased Hellraiser themes Tara Cross - "Rain Sprouts" - Tempus Fugit Stereolab - "Melodie Is a Wound" - Instant Holograms on Metal Film Denis Smalley - "Chanson de Gestes (excerpt)" - The Pulses Of Time Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - "Both Blue Moons" - Lucy & Aaron Psycho Sin - "Mad Men" - Forward To the Caves Dissecting Table - "Dissect" - Ultra Point Of Intersection Exist Necrophagia - "Season of the Dead" - Season of the Dead No Artist - "Banshee Love Call" - Spooky Sounds John Harrison - "Main Title" - Day of the Dead OST Joel Vandroogenbroeck - "Fairy Tale" - Far View https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156620
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