253. Allez Ali Baba Blacksheep have you any bullsh**?

“In which the outfit known as Gong put their psychedelic meandering to punk power, their aerie-faerie bullsh** to pure raw rebellion and somehow keep the f***ing world on its axis, doing its revolutionary thing around the sun, which is itself swerving in weird cycles through the unknown (un)limits of infinity. By which I mean, what value anarchy if it does not float? … or should you ever find yourself tripping on weapons grade psychedelics and feel the need for a soundtrack that’s both youthfully raw yet somehow cosmically smooth, seek no further than the Allez Ali Baba blacksheep have you any bullshit mama maya mantram found here. It makes perfect sense. All fifteen minutes of it.” (Philip Random)

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The 12 MixTapes of Christmas [2018 version]

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These 12 Mixtapes of Christmas have got nothing to do with Randophonic’s other 12 Mixtapes of Christmas from two years ago, or even with Christmas (beyond being a gift to you). And they’re not actually mix tapes, or CDs for that matter – just mixes, each 49-minutes long, one posted to Randophonic’s Mixcloud for each day of Twelvetide (aka the Twelve Days of Christmas).

There’s no particular genre, no particular theme or agenda being pursued, beyond all selections coming from Randophonic’s ever expanding collection of used vinyl, which continues to simultaneously draw us back and propel us forward (sonically speaking) — music and noise and whatever else the world famous Randophonic Jukebox deems (or perhaps dreams) necessary toward our long term goal of solving all the world’s problems.

Bottom line: it’s five hundred eighty-eight minutes of music covering all manner of ground, from Roy Orbison to Curtis Mayfield to Can, Bob Dylan, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Kraftwerk, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and beyond (and that’s just from the first mix) — anything and everything, as long as it’s good.

16. reSEARCH

Moonlight + Feathers, installment #16 of The Research Series aired in October-2018 on CiTR.FM.101.9.

The sixteenth of a planned forty-nine movies (without pictures), each forty-nine minutes long, featuring no particular artist, theme or agenda beyond boldly going … who knows? Or as Werner Von Braun once put it, “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” And we definitely have no idea where all this will take us.

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16. moonlight + feathers

Rip Rig + Panic – here gathers nameless energy
Minutemen – dreams are free motherfucker
Daevid Allen – gay
ids – rainbow enemy
Mothers of Invention – get a little
Shinjuku Thief – feather woman of the jungle
Marc Barreca – moonlight dome
LSD49 – room with 49 doors [excerpt]
Jimi Hendrix – voodoo chile
Frank Zappa – [small fragment of] swifty
Can – vitamin C
Embryo – Farid excerpt
Gabor Csupo – frozen princess
Full Moon Scientist – lunar base dub
Jerry Garcia – spidergawd

Further installments of the Research Series will air most Sundays at approximately 1am (Pacific time) c/o CiTR.FM.101.9, with Mixcloud streams usually available within twenty-four hours.

341. poet for sale

It doesn’t get much hippier or dippier than this, Daevid Allen, (ex-Gong and Soft Machine) hair no doubt down to his ass, plucking away on an acoustic guitar on some remote commune, everything smelling of patchouli, waxing loose and cosmic on various things relevant to the plight of the poet in modern times. Except he suddenly starts to bite at the end. Like he’s been doing a Rip-Van-Winkle for the past decade, but he’s suddenly snapped awake, and holy shit, it’s 1977, punk rock’s erupting off in the distance, and this anger stuff, it feels good, it feels vital. It actually makes him happy.

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reSEARCH-08 – The Whole Day

Installment #8 of what we’re calling the Research Series aired May-5-2018 on CiTR.FM.101.9

The eighth of a planned forty-nine movies, each forty-nine minutes long, featuring no particular artist, working no particular theme, pursuing no particular agenda beyond boldly going … who knows? Or as Werner Von Braun once put it, “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” And we definitely have no idea where all this will take us.

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08. The Whole Day

citywide vacuum – carbon valence
Jah Wobble – sunshine
Agitation Free – you play for us today
Flying Saucer Attack – the whole day [partial]
Daevid Allen – I am [coda]
Can – spray
Sam Prekop – north south
Everly Bros – lord of the manor
Bob Dylan – father of night father of day
Jack Nitzsche – natural magic
Big Youth – lightning fragment
Holger Czukay – Hollywood Symphony

Further installments of the Research Series will air most Sundays at approximately 1am (Pacific time) c/o CiTR.FM.101.9, with streaming and download options usually available within twenty-four hours via our Facebook page.

05. reSEARCH – the giants drift

Installment #5 of what we’re calling The Research Series aired April-15-2018 on CiTR.FM.101.9.

The fifth of a planned forty-nine movies, each forty-nine minutes long, featuring no particular artist, working no particular theme, pursuing no particular agenda beyond boldly going … who knows? Or as Werner Von Braun once put it, “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” And we definitely have no idea where all this will take us.

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05. reSEARCH – the giants drift

Clara Rockmore – Valse Sentimentalle
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic – drift
Chris + Cosey – the giants feet
Ray Russell – goodbye svengali [edit of an edit]
Goose Creek Symphony – I’ll fly away
Spirit – guide me
Tim Buckley – no man can find the war
Bjork + Thom Yorke – I’ve seen it all
Mythos – encyclopedia terra [part 3]
Giorgio Moroder – transformation seduction
Daevid Allen – bell
Rip Rig + Panic – epi epi arp woosh
Tribal Drift – ants
Cluster – avanti

Further installments of the Research Series will air most Sundays at approximately 1am (Pacific time) c/o CiTR.FM.101.9, with streaming and download options usually available within twenty-four hours via our Facebook page.