FFFreakout #245 "Best of 2010 Pt. 2" (Aired on 1/6/11)

#The Roots & John Legend "Hard Times" from Wake Up!
#Robert Plant "Silver Rider" from Band of Joy
#Neil Young "Walk With Me" from Le Noise
#Ratatat "Neckbrace" from LP4
#MGMT "Congratulations" from Congratulations
#Edison High School Band "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" from MN Beatle Project, Vol. 2
*Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month "Mom's House" from Your Wicked Man
*Naked on the Vague "Cryptic Tonsil" from Wet Hair/Naked on the Vague split
*Lee Noble "Terror High" from Creeping Death Fever
*Magic Lanterns "Dark Cicadas" from Platoon
*Forest Swords "The Light" from Daggar Paths
*Gonjasufi "She Gone" from A Sufi and A Killer
*Leisure Birds "Burn the Beach" from Regolith Vol. 1
*Omar Souleyman "Li Raja Behawakon" from Jazeera Nights

#=Carl's Picks
*=David's Picks

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FFFreakout: Podcast #8

Cough Cool "Congrats" S/T CS (Sweat Lodge Guru)

Circuit des Yeux "Barrel Down" Ode to Fidelity 7" (De Stijl)

Deathly Fighters "Contacters" CDRSCY2 7" (Columbus Discount)

Dirty Beaches "Paris" Night City CS (Night People)

Savage Young Taterbug "Nightmare of Party Children" Bored Fortress 7" Club (Not Not Fun)

Ryan Garbes "Carved in Luxury" S/T CS (NNA Tapes)

Lee Noble "Real Light on Real Objects" Sparkling Wide Pressure split CS (Bathetic)

Konntinent "44 55 33" Opal Island CD (Home Normal)

Henry Flynt "The Snake" Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Vol. 1 CD (Locust)

Alan Sondheim "776" Ritual-All-7-70 CD (ESP-Disk)

Hayvanlar Alemi "Karpuzkafa 777" Guarana Superpower LP (Sublime Frequencies)

Cloudcraft "Swirly Morning Raga" S/T LP (Social Music Record Club)

Happy New Year from Free Form Freakout!!! For this week's webcast, we played mostly some new 7" and cassette material that recently arrived, among them this absolute bone-chilling A side from the new Circuit des Yeux Ode to Fidelity single, a promising cut amongst the last batch of the Columbus Discount Records Subscription Club from Deathly Fighters, and another ripper from the always reliable Lee Noble. We also spun some new full-length wax from Hayvanlar Alemi on Sublime Frequencies. If Funeral Mariachi got you craving some classic Sun City Girls aktion, I'd highly recommend picking this one up. Also, arriving just in time for the holidays was the first batch from the Social Music Record & Tape Club, which included the first full-length from Cloudcraft, a new project by Theo Angell and Hamish Kilgour (The Clean). It's an album's worth of gorgeous ragas that can still be had if you head over to the Social Music website.

FFFreakout #244 "Best of 2010" (Live on 12/30/10)

*Razen "Razend Zand" from Razen/Sheldon Siegel split
*Woods "Pick Up" from At Echo Lake
*The Fresh & Onlys "Waterfall" from Play It Strange
*Julian Lynch "Ears" from Mare
*Phantom Payn Days "Paradox Box" from Phantom Payn Daze
*Sun City Girls "Blue West" from Funeral Mariachi
*Richard Youngs "Collapsing Stars" from Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits
*Altar Eagle "Honey" from Mechanical Gardens
#Tricky "Murder Weapon" from Mixed Race
#Devo "Don't Shoot (I'm A Man)" from Something for Everybody
#Gorillaz "Stylo" from Plastic Beach
#Vampire Weekend "Giving Up The Gun" from Contra
#LCD Soundsystem "I Can Change" from This Is Happening
#Superchunk "Learned to Surf" from Majesty Shredding

*=David's Picks
#=Carl's Picks

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FFFreakout #243 "Carl's Annual Holiday Hootenanny" (Aired on 12/23/10)

Queen - "Thank God It's Christmas"
Otis Redding - "Merry Christmas Baby"
Brian Setzer - "Nutcracker Suite"
James Brown - "Merry Christmas, I Love You"
The Blue Hawaiians - "Mele Kalikimaka"
Miles Davis - "Blue X-mas (To Whom It May Concern)"
Lou Rawls - "Christmas Is"
Mickey Rooney - "Put One Foot in Front of the Other"
El Vez - "Mamacita Donde Esta Santa Claus"
Hoodoo Gurus - "Little Drummer Boy"
The Border Brass - "Deck the Halls"
Singing Dogs - "Jingle Bells"
Los Straitjackets - "Christmas in Las Vagas"
Elvis Presley - "Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me"
The Pogues (feat. Kirsty MacColl) - Fairytale of New York"
The Ventures - "Frosty the Snowman"
Bruce Springsteen - "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
They Might Be Giants - "Santa's Beard"

FFFreakout #242 (Aired on 12/16/10)

Outer Limits Recordings - "Julie"
Hype Williams - Track 1 from Find Out What Happens . . .
Belbury Poly & Moon Wiring Club - "The Young People"
Hayvanlar Alemi - "Stamina"
Rangers - "Bear Creek"
Velvet Davenport - "Triangle Pear"
Broadcast & The Focus Group - "Inside Out"
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "The Passenger"
Wayne Hancock & Hank Williams III - "Juke Joint Jumping"
David Bowie - "Life on Mars"
Clarence Carter - "Back Door Santa"
Ramones - "Merry Christmas"
Wilco - "Burned"
Television - "Marquee Moon"

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You can also download this mixtape we recently put together for our (snowed-out) KMSU presents concert. Feel free to get in touch for full tracklist information.

FFFreakout: Podcast #7 - Digitalis / Altar Eagle Feature

Altar Eagle "Honey" from Mechanical Gardens

(Interview section)

Turner Cody "Up Up High" from Buds of May

Steven R. Smith "In Light" from Owl

Scott Tuma "Moccasoclea" from Not For Nobody

Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood "Missing Peace" from Gold Leaf Branches

(Interview section)

Radio People "Designer" from S/T

Roll the Dice "Into the Ground" from S/T

Alphabets "Smile Attack Gleam Force"from  Alphabox

(Interview section)

Altar Eagle "Pour Your Dark Heart Out" from Mechanical Gardens

Altar Eagle "Monsters" from Mechanical Gardens

Altar Eagle "Battlegrounds" from Mechanical Gardens

Thought I'd dig this show up from the archives to replay as a webcast this week as 2010 was another stellar year for all things Digitalis. The audio for the interview sections is a bit rough, so please pardon the "mechanical frog" tones of Brad's voice. But the interview covers quite a bit of ground, including Foxy Digitalis (the webzine), Digitalis Recordings (the label), and Altar Eagle (Brad and Eden's excellent recording project).

FFFreakout #241 (Aired on 12/9/10)

Radio People - "Only My Friends Can Sing"
Lil B - "Love is Strange"
Darkstar - "Aidys Girl is a Computer"
Flying Lotus - "Zodiac Shit"
Tender Meat - "Untitled IV"
STNNNG - "New Black Hole"
The Doozer - "God Does Not Need Light"
Soul Asylum - "Good Morning Good Morning"
Soul Asylum - "Summer of Drugs"
The New Standards - "Michelle"
The New Standards - "Love is the Law"
Mason Jennings - "Child of Nature"
Mason Jennings - "Ain't No Friend of Mine"
The Beatles - "I've Got A Feeling"

On this week's show, we discussed the KMSU presents concert that unfortunately had to be canceled due to the blizzard conditions across southern MN and the Twin Cities. During the second half of the show, we also talked about Tune Town's effort to raise additional money for local music & arts programs through the new Minnesota Beatle Project Vol. 2 album.

FFFreakout: Podcast #6 - Stunned Records Feature

Donato Epiro "Fiume Nero" Sounding the Sun CD-R (no. 52)

     (Interview section)

Warm Climate "Saltwater Simplified" Camouflage on the River Wretched CS (no. 93)

Chrome Wings "Wave Life" Time Patterns CS (no. 82)

Silver Bullets "Gial di Nuovo" Citta Invisibili CS (no. 98)

Xiphiidae "Excerpt from Side A" Pisces Muse CS (no. 101)

      (Interview section)

Eureka "Finity Inn" Eureka CS (no. 1)**

Sean McCann "Untitled #2" Sway CS (no. 12)**

Sleepwalkers Local "Sleepers Awake" Better Living Through Science CS (no. 8)**

Plankton Wat "Sunrise on Tall Trees" Crystal Wizard CS (no. 13)**

      (Interview section)

Dire Wolves "Side A" Jams and the Giant Peace CS (no. 92)

For this week's webcast, we featured the music from the great Stunned Records based out in Portland, a label at the forefront of the current cassette underground. In addition to playing a bunch of tracks from throughout the Stunned catalog, including some earlier releases featured in the new Foundation Stones cassette boxset**, we aired our recent phone interview with Phil French. Phil runs the Stunned label with his wife Myste and is also active in the groups Magic Lantern and Super Minerals. Check out the Stunned website for more information. 

FFFreakout #240 "Carl Solo" (Live on 12/2/10)

Sonics - "Psycho"
STNNNG - "Howling Man"
The Kinks - "Harry Rag"
White Stripes - "Black Math"
Rockford Mules - "Hey, John Wayne"
Johnny Cash - "Wabasha Cannonball"
Hot Rats - "Love Cats"
Wilco - "Shake It Off"
Old Crow Medicine Show - "Angel from Montgomery"
XTC - "Life Begins at the Hop"
Red Pens - "I Want More More"
Link Wray - "Rawhide"
Ramones - "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"
Harry Nilsson - "Everybody's Talkin'"
The Beatles - "Help!"
Devo - "Uncontrollable Urge"
Vampire Hands - "Neil & Neil"

FFFreakout: Podcast #5

Pumice "Pumiceraft" Worldwide Gullet CD-R (Nyali Recordings)
FaravelliRatti "At Noon" Lieu CD (Boring Machines)
Skitter/Ela Orleans "Track 2" The Strongest Walls Open As I Pose 3" CD (La Station Radar)
Jovontaes "Ascending the Temple" Masks of the Land CS (Eggy)
Black Eagle Child "Before I Was Born" Poland CD-R (Sturmundrugs)
Donato Epiro "La Vita Acquatica" Supercontinent CS (Stunned)
Richard Youngs "Albatross is Back" Inceptor LP (Volcanic Tongue)
Ulaan Khol "Untitled #2" III CD (Soft Abuse)
Sparkling Wide Pressure "Jeremy Moves" Field and String LP (Digitalis)

FFFreakout #239 (Aired on 11/25/10)

Velvet Davenport - "Mystery Michael"
Let's Active - "Easy Does"
Soft Boys - "Cold Turkey"
Serge Gainsbourg - "Requiem Pour un Twisteur"
Anne Briggs - "Ride, Ride"
Ed Askew - "Marigolds"
George Cartwright & Davu Seru - "Push Shove"
Vampire Hands - "Poor Bands"
Bruce Springsteen - "Save My Love"
Tom Petty - "I Should've Known It"
U2 - "Moment of Surrender"
Grinderman - "Heathen Child"
George Benson - "Breezin" (Note: Carl's Guilty Pleasure Pick)

On this Thanksgiving show, we spent a good deal of time discussing the many exclusive releases coming out on the Record Store Day Black Friday.

KMSU presents: STNNNG, Vampire Hands, & Tender Meat (Artwork by Nora from KMSU's The Dirty Birds)

                   ***Shotgun Fiction will be performing at Tune Town at 8:00 p.m.

FFFreakout: Podcast #4

Infinite Body "Between You Can Crawl Like This is the End" Bored Fortress 7" Club (Not Not Fun)
High Wolf "Boneless" Bored Fortress 7" Club (Not Not Fun)
Rambutan "Ordinary Vertigo" Erasing the Past 7" (Tape Drift)
The Polyps "Peixe" Fennel's Daughter 7" (Eggy)
Jeans Wilder "Simpler Times" Simpler Times 7" (La Station Radar)
The Fuckin' Flyin' A-Heads "Swiss Cheese Back" Swiss Cheese Back 7" (De Stijl)
Skoal Kodiak "Cruel Tic" Cold As Fuck LP compilation (Insides Music)
Sunken "The Evidence" New Zealand Eels LP (Emerald Cocoon)
Locrian "Omega Vapors" Dissolvers split LP w/ Century Plants (Tape Drift)



Spun the first vinyl offerings from Eric Hardiman's consistently great Tape Drift label. The first was a limited 7" lathe from his own Rambutan project which Byron Coley recently covered in his "Size Matters" column in The Wire (#321) stating:

"Erasing the Past . . . mixes stillness and clatter in equal measures. On the A side, a small drone figure repeats while everything else crumbles slowly onto your shoulders, making an embarrassingly big pile of mock-dandruff. On the flip, Hardiman goes for a steampunk drone that really clanks the old iron, as they say."

The second is a split 12" with his duo Century Plants and the mighty Locrian from Chicago, who have been on an absolute tear this year. Check out the Small Doses website for more on their output and activity.

FFFreakout #238 (Aired on 11/18/10)

The Pretty Things - "S.F. Sorrow is Born"
Circle Pit - "Another Trick"
Purling Hiss - "Passenger Queen"
Iggy Pop & James Williamson - "Kill City"
STNNNG - "Howling Man"
Vampire Hands - "Safe Word"
Tender Meat - Track #4 from Live at the Ritz
The Soft Boys - "I Wanna Destroy You"
Tricky - "Early Bird"
Johnny Cash - "Personal Jesus"
Bruce Springsteen - "Racing in the Street ('78)"
Boz Scaggs - "Lowdown" (Note: Carl's Guilty Pleasure Pick)
Fistful of Mercy - "Father Son"

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FFFreakout #237 "Singles Going Steady" (Aired on 11/11/10)

Tornadoes - "Jungle Fever"
Wet Hair - "In the Garden of the Pharoahs"
Low - "Hatchet (Optimimi Version)"
Desmond Dekker & the Aces - "Israelites"
Super Wild Horses - "How Do You Sleep"
Pens - "You Only Like Me When I Tell You I'm Wrong"
Sun City Girls - "Vine Street Piano (Instrumental)"
Guided by Voices - "Action Speaks Volumes"
Prince - "Let's Go Crazy"
Nilsson - "Everybody's Talkin"
Bob & Doug McKenzie - "Take Off (Stereo version)"
The Kinks - "Waterloo Street"
The Accents - "Roadrunner"
Devo - "Working in the Coal Mine"
The Staple Singers - "Let's Do It Again"
David Lee Roth - "Just A Gogolo/I Ain't Got Nobody (Medley"
Pete Townshend - "Let My Love Open the Door"

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Today we were digging into boxes of old 7" singles and threw in a few new LP tracks for good measure. It's wonderful to have new turntables up at the station!!!

FFFreakout: Podcast #3

The Woolen Men "Boomerang" Sunday CS (Eggy)
Lee Noble "Terror High" Creeping Death Fever CD-R (La Station Radar)
Nite Jewel "The Kamera Song" You Colla The Colour of Mounds CS (Alberts Basement)
The Polyps "Twenty Colored Circle Pt. 1" Twenty Colored Circle CS (Eggy)
Wild Classical Music Ensemble "Dragon draak" Musik Oblik: Music in the Margins 2 CD (Sub Rosa)
Big Blood "Lay Your Head On the Rails (and Comeback)" 3"CD Peasant Magik boxset (Peasant Magik)
Natural Snow Buildings "Curse of the Devil" 3"CD Peasant Magik boxset (Peasant Magik)
Silver Bullets "Farlo Respirane, Cosi" Citta Invisibiii CS (Stunned)



Broke out some things from a new stash that arrived from the very fine Eggy Tapes and Mailorder out of Portland. The Woolen Men cassette contains some highly addictive scruffy pop gems and, while I've just about reached my threshold level for extended synth jammers, this Polyps tape offers a rather refreshing take on the whole synth/electronics bit. Also, dug into the excellent 3" CD box set that Peasant Magik released awhile back to mark their 100th release. Peasant Magik have a massive batch of new tapes ready for order, which you can sample some of the sounds over at their website.

FFFreakout #236 "David Solo" (Aired on 11/04/10)

Vampire Hands - "No Way"
Shahs - "Fear is a Man's Best Friend"
Pigeons - "Smoke"
Fabulous Diamonds - "Untitled #4"
Wet Hair - "Blessed"
Omar Souleyman - "Li Raja Behawakom"
Baths - "Indoorsy"
Blessure Grave - "Stranger in the House"
Jeans Wilder - "Cold Shoulder"
Ela Orleans - "She Who Could Bin You"
Terror Bird - "Shame On Your Side"
Charles Tyler - "Eastern"
Ramones - "The KKK Took My Baby Away"
Cloud Nothings - "Can't Stay Awake"
Klaus Beyer - "Die Glatze"

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FFFreakout: Podcast #2

Shahs "Money for Nothing" Dry Heat/Valley Low LP (TRBRA)
Paradise Sisters "Untitled" Jeff Atkins No. 7 CS (Goaty Tapes)
The Pheromoans "Trevor Eve's House Party" S/T CS (Night People)
Pigeons "Laisse Tomber les Filler" Liasons CD (Soft Abuse)
PC Worship "Dune of Heroin" Dune of Heroin/Godless Love CS (Moon Glyph)
Truth Syrum "To Lose Weight" Why We Look At Our Neighbors CS (Goaty Tapes)
Sun Ra "Outer Nothingness" The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra 3CD (ESP-Disk)

FFFreakout #235 "Carl's Annual Halloween Show" (Live on 10/28/10)

Fred Schneider - "Monster"
MX-80 Sound - "Theme from Halloween"
The Suburbs - "Monster Man"
Luna - "Season of the Witch"
Bobby Bare - "Vampira"
David Bowie - "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)"
Los Straitjackets - "The Munsters theme"
Michael Jackson - "Thriller"
Tegan & Sara - "Walking With a Ghost"
Roky Erickson & the Aliens - "Creature With the Atomic Brain"
Bobby Boris Pickett - "Monster Mash"
Howlin' Wolf - "Howlin' For My Darling"
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Halloween"
(Outro Music: The Omen Theme)

For some truly creepy sights and sounds come out to Grind-Fu Cinema this Saturday for Suspiria, which starts at 7:00 p.m. in Wiecking 220 Auditorium on the campus of Minnesota State University, Mankato.

FFFreakout: Podcast #1

Warm Climate "Lost Teeth/Organ Donor" Edible Homes CS (Stunned)
Andrea Marutti & Fausto Balbo "Set Back" Detrimental Dialogue CD (Boring Machines)
Sparkling Wide Pressure "Mood (Guided)" Facing the Nothing World CD-R (Stunned)
Charlie Nothing excerpt from Charlie Nothing & Dingulator CS (De Stijl)
Dunebuggy "Money Honey" S/T CS (Night People)
Dead Luke "People Are Freaky Then You Die" Cosmic Meltdown CS (Night People)
Weyes Bluhd "Liquor Castle" Liquor Castle CSingle (self-released)
Charles Tyler "Cha-Lacy's Out East" Eastern Man Alone CD (ESP-Disk)