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The Eternal Now with Andy Ortmann | WFMU
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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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Anthony Moore - "Ready Ready" - Flying Doesn't Help
Elmulab - "List" - Microprocessor 8080A
Luc Ferrari - "Étude aux accidents" - L'oeuvre Electronique (10-CD Box)
BOP - "Other Options (excerpt)" - And So It All Ended
V.D.B. Joel / Florian Voelxen - "Cascades" - Contemporary Pastoral and Ethnic Sounds
Maria De Alvear & Antoine Beuger - "Besando El Tiempo (9/10.2 1995)" - Besando El Tiempo
Cozmic Corridors - "Dark PAth" - Cozmic Corridors
Leather Nun - "No Rule" - Slow Death
Phallus Dei - "Prolog" - Pontifex Maximus
Autechre - "777" - LP5
Raglani - "Days of Evaporation" - Give Wonder
Yves Daoust - "La Gamme" - Musical Portrait series
Diana Deutsch - "Introduction" - Musical Illusions and Paradoxes
Trevor Wishart - "Journey (excerpt)" - Journey Into Space
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162576
Ilhan Mimaroglu - "Fragmentation" - Music For Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar
Mira Calix - "A Mark of Resistance (excerpt)" - Ansent Origin
Pan Sonic - "Fermi (excerpt)" - Gravitoni
Nasmak - "The Only Thing I Remember Is Your Taste And Your Smell" - Sound Cosmodel (V/A)
Asmus Tietchens - "Fast Food" - Der Fünfte Himmel
Psycho Sin - "Life's Getting Ridiculous" - Forward to the Caves
Current 93 - "The Ballad of the Pale Christ" - Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow
Lesego Rampolokeng & the Kalahari Surfers - "Transitions" - End Beginnings
Guido & Maurizio de'Angelis - "Savana" - Ironmaster La Guerra Del Ferro (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Alien Sex Fiend - "I'm Not Mad (excerpt)" - Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain
Pink Industry - "Not Moving" - Who Told You, You Were Naked
Six Feet Under - "Revenge of the Zombie" - Warpath
United Mutation - "Wake Up" - Dark Self Image
Barbara, the Gray Witch - "Witchcraft Surprises" - Barbara, the Gray Witch
Stereolab - "Peng! 33" - Peng!
Mark Shreeve - "Storm Column" - Legion
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162365
Strangulated Beatoffs - "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" - The Beatoffs
Władysław Komendarek - "Bolero" - Klasytronika
Thomas Brinkmann - "untitled" - Studio 1 - Variationen
Luc Marianni - "Ecran Lunaire" - Video Screens Control
Annie Anxiety - "Soweto Suntan" - Devastate to Liberate v/a
S.B.O.T.H.I. - "178" - Nichts Niemand Nirgends Nie!
Repulsion - "Acid Bath" - Horrified
Markus Eichenberger - "Atemketten Nr 27/8+Do (Pt One)" - Bad Alchemy no.6 v/a
The Organ Grinders - "Hall of Hours" - Out of the Egg
DUG DUG'S - "No Te Asustes (Es Sólo Vivir)" - Cambia, Cambia
Dr.Know - "War Theater" - Wreckage in Flesh
Jacula - "Triumphatus Sad" - In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162167
Davy Jones - "Head movie promo" - Head proomo
Bongwater - "The Porpoise Song" - b/w You Don't Love Me Yet
KONSTRUKTIVIST - "Mansonik No.1" - Psykho Genetika
Strawberry Switchblade - "Jolene (extended mix)" - 12'' Album
Joy Division - "Day of the Lords" - Unknown Pleasures
Anima - "Freeano Forte (excerpt)" - Der Regt Mich Auf / A Controversy
Negativland - "Unknown Jamming (excerpt)" - unknown source
Denis Dufour - "Blue Rocket on a Rocky Shore" - Complete Acousmatics Vol.1
Jeffrey Stolet - "Imagined Destinies" - Music from SEAMUS, vol. 25 (V/A)
BENE GESSERIT - "Syanoq!" - Music For The Fun Of It
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161921
ANSCHLUSS - "Tout Suite Nice" - Anschluss
Idea Fire Company - "The Wheelhouse; Parts 1-4" - The Fourth Dimension is Money
XX Committee - "Damarc" - Network
Éliane Radigue - "Untitled side at 16 RPMs" - Σ = a = b = a + b
Éliane Radigue - "Untitled side at 45 RPMs" - Σ = a = b = a + b
Éliane Radigue - "Part 1" - Triptych [Recorded in 1978]
Éliane Radigue - "Koume" - Trilogie De La Mort
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161690
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
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



