We Are Time

The playlists are tucked safely away --- don't fret -- but the one thing is they are not in reach, as they are trapped in an area of the house where sanding is being done to the floors. The floors (wooden), and the walls with a new paint job will look beautiful once all is said and re-done.

UNTIL THEN...
Please visit and download mp3s from where the sort of name for this blog got its name from-- The Pop Group song "We Are Time".
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~edge/pop_group/index.php

I recently viewed the 1994 Mario/Melvin Van Peebles film "Panther". I highly reccomend it to anyone. It is an engaging film. It is a fictional but fairly true and autobiographical portrayal of the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party. Finding the movie though might be a bit difficult, as the video and dvd are both out of print (the dvd fetches upwards of 200 dollars online and the video -- anywhere from 14-50 dollars-- a shame!)
I had been reading chapters in a book on the CIA and FBI's true involvement in the flow of drugs in this very country since the 1940s, and one of the essential points in "Panther" was how the rampant flow of illegal drugs had been brought about through our governments own very greed and need to keep "subversives" out.
In my opinion, it is drugs that have kept movements from happening. Of course, There are many other factors that attribute to a society that feels as though we need to let "business happen" as it is "none of our business" to "get involved". I believe this is what killed the anti-war/peace movement when many involved turned to drugs. Drugs keep people under a bind. The film ended with a statistic (early/mid-90s statistic)that over 300,000 addicts were in the US around 1970 -- that by the early/mid 90s there were over 3 million. This, I have a feeling has increased.
A lot of people think that today's society is just "more open" and accepting of drugs, as under recreational use as many think-- they are a fine thing that can expand the mind, creativity, can help attain a slim figure, make you feel relaxed, etc.
I am not going to argue a few of these factors. People obviously do them for various reasons -- one recurring one is to feel relaxed and escape reality for a bit.
I do think the war on drugs is one big joke. I do feel as though we are now being bombarded by nonillegal/prescription drugs from our very government and the pharmaceutical industry that want a new market of people to peddle to since the inner cities, suburbs, and rural areas are now rampant with illegal drugs.
I heard a news report the other week that people caught with crack cocaine receive more time in jail and harsher fees and sentencing than those caught with cocaine. Cocaine is more expenseive than crack, the harder form of an already hard and destructive drug. So crack is more an epidemic among poor people while wealthy business people and obnoxious party people with money choose cocaine. It is to me, still a racist and classist crime that this is happening. No one deserves to go to jail for drug use unless they are committing crimes, are violent, etc-- in thier use of it.
We need to look at drug abuse as a epidemic -- and I think our government needs to make reparations as part of the havoc they have helped create.
Playlist will be updated later today.

91.7FM
WMUH Allentown
Friday 6/10/05
12-2pm
via real audio at :
http://muhlenberg.edu/wmuh
(N) = new release



(N)Negativland -- No Business -- No Business -- Seeland (new record. http://negativland.com )
The Homosexuals -- prestel -- astral glamour (disc sampler donated to us from Tony Bleach -- acbleach.blogspot.com . Thanks! )
Dambuilders -- Blockhead (live Devo cover)--- Split 7" with San Francisco Seals (Barbara Manning) from 1994
Floyd Smith -- soul strut -- 45
(N)Dave Leibman / Ellery Eskelin Trio -- You Call it -- Different but the Same -- Hatology (http://hathut.com -- Leibman is currently a fellow Pocono resident in Stroudsburg. This is a pretty top notch new release.)
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Young Marble Giants -- Searching for Mr. RIght -- Colossal Youth
Chico Barque and Elis Regina -- Noite Dos Mascarados -- Garota de Ipanema Original Soundtrack (1967 brasilian film soundtrack on Philips)
Uzeda -- right seeds -- 4 -- Touch & Go
Fang -- the money will roll right in -- landshark
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Ognir & The Nite People -- I Found A New Love -- 45 -- Samson records. Hazleton, Pa mid 60s garage punk. Found this last week while digging in Hazleton! )
Uno -- boogie beat -- 12" on Tyron Park
Klein & MBO -- Dirty Talk (instrumental) -- 12"
Positive Noise -- refugees -- v/a: Second City Statik: A Glasgow Compilation (Scottish punk and post-punk bands from 79)
(N) Early Man -- Tight -- s/t ep -- Monitor
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The Slits -- typical girls -- 7"
Close Lobsters -- just too bloody stupid --
The Halo Benders -- On a Trip -- God don't make no junk
(N)Okotopi --- where's the beef? (there was no beef to this one. It was pretty boring and unmoving instro electronic blip-bloop stuff that went nowhere.Therefore, it was cut short. Sorry.)
The Passage -- do the -- lp --
Dinosaur L -- clean on your bean #1 -- Seeping Bag 12" (Arthur Russell
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(N) Del Cielo -- be scared -- us vs. them
The Volcano Suns -- jab(?) --- bright orange years
Success 'N Effect -- blue print
Material -- discourse -- 12" ep
Circus Lupus -- split 7" w/ Trenchmouth (Dischord)
(N)Nouvelle Wave -- teenage kicks (cover of Undertones classic in this bossa nova style --new on Luaka Bop)

Negativland -- Freedom's Waiting -- Free -- Seeland
Stiff Little Fingers -- Law & Order -- Peel Sessions ep --Strange Fruit
(Morning Call Newsbreak)
Chameleons -- Nostalgia -- The faun and the bellows
The Five Dutones -- the gouster -- v/a: Show 'em whatcha Got: Sixteen Soul Slathered Sizzlers
(N) Need New Body -- Magic Kingdom -- Where's Black Ben?
Robert Wyatt -- Alfie -- Rock Bottom
(N) Orthrelm -- Ov -- Ov -- Ipecac (played ohh...around 5 minutes of this 45 minute song -- which happens to be the entire record )
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Franklin -- Slider -- Go Kid Go
Slovenly -- Plug -- 7" ep -- New Alliance
Oscar Brown Jr. -- I Was Cool -- Sin & Soul (R.I.P. Please read my notes below. He Was indeed Cool! )
Kebek Flektrik -- Wardance #1 -- 12" -- Rio (Electro Disco classic from Gino Soccio and Pat Deserio. Oddly enough the two usually went under the moniker "Kebekelektrik" , allowing me to wonder if this 81 release was a boot?)
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Tom Ze -- Curiosidade -- 12" ep (remixed by John McEntire)
Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers -- Freddie's Dead-- Super Freak (yes, this is a Curtis Mayfield cover. Funkier, with more breaks and all instro. The record also came out several years before the Rick James single.)
52nd Street -- Cool as Ice -- 12" -- Factory
(N) Kraftwerk -- Number (live) -- Min-Max (live)
Ony -- Modern Art -- 12" (private press synth pop/post punk from the early 80s found lurking in the massive WMUH record library!)
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(N) Sleater-Kinney -- Jumpers -- The Woods
(N) Ariel Pink -- Momento to -- Haunted Graffitti -- Paw Tracks
Deception Bay -- the place in the spur???(can't read my handwriting!) -- My Color
Oblivious -- Static Party -- Soul Food
Bad Brains -- supertouch -- rock for light
B People -- I Said Everybody -- Petrified Conditions 79-81
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(N) Odd Nosdam -- Untitled Three -- Untitled Three
The Ex -- The Sky is Blue Again -- Disturbing Domestic Peace (Ex Records)
The Eyes -- Don't talk to Me -- 7"
45 King -- the Free Style -- 12" (Tuff City)

Notes ---
Just one really. It concerns the late Oscar Brown, Jr.
-- if you don't know about him, PLEASE read here----http://www.oscarbrownjr.com/WebPagesUS/biography.htm . Really incredible man he was. ANd of course, MSN News was late on the game -- as this was just posted hours ago -- but look here too while you are at it ---http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8159421/ . The song I played was a kind of more humourous and tongue-in-cheek song. But if you heard the song from Sin & Soul -- "Bid 'Em In", where it is just him as the voice of an auctioneer auctioning off a young Black woman into the slave trade, it is disturbing, downright horrifying and well... has put me to the brink of tears. This man was TRULY AMAZING! Do yourself a favor, read up on him. And if you can find a copy of Sin & Soul -- do it. It really is a great record.)

12-2PM
Thursday, May 26th
WMUH Allentown
http://muhlenberg.edu/wmuh
(n)=new
(r)= request

This was a switch-day due to fellow dj Brian O'Neill hosting a live acoustic performance from the legendary rock band, The Strawbs. We were more than happy and willing to oblige. It looks like he had a lot of fun.
It was good that we also got to see our pal Tony (Love goes to building on fire : http://acbleach.blogspot.com/) --- who followed us up and has a show on Thursdays from 2-4pm. He was gracious enough to let us burn his copy of the Brazilian post-punk comp that just came out on Soul Jazz. It was a good time.

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Negativland -- Drink it Up -- Dispepsi -- Seeland
Ratsia -- hkuuinen Rattaus -- v/a: Break the Rules -- Rare punk and power-pop 78-82 (This sounds like this was this bands take on The Buzzcocks "I don't Mind" -- in Swedish of course!)
James -- skullduggery -- stutter (I noticed that fellow pocono resident/patti smith guitarist Lenny Kaye produced this James album, thier first full length from 1985.)
Inez + Charlie Foxx -- I ain't going for that -- greatest hits
(n) Out Hud -- old nude -- let us never speak of it again -- kranky
Rapeman -- steak and black onions -- touch and go
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Omegatribe -- duty calls --- lp (crass people being more melodic. of course, all songs relating to freedom, peace, and unity!)
The Lifeguards -- everybody outta the pool -- 45 (this song was inapropriate. it got up to *maybe* 60 degrees that day. Nobody was in the pool. And if they were... then they better have heeded the adivce of the Lifeguards!)
Color Me Pop -- don't stop -- 45
Popol Vuh --- wilig arm -- seligpreisung
(r) This Heat -- solar -- health & efficiency -- piano/rough trade
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The Triffids -- Tender is the Night -- Sandy Born Devotional -- rough trade
The Flesh Eaters -- dominoes -- no questions asked -- atavastic
Ralph Martiere -- Crazy, Man, Crazy -- 45 ("man, that music's gone!")
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(n)Orange Juice -- Blue Boy -- v/a: (some domino records comp?)
Stockholm Monsters -- never really understand -- v/a: homework; diy post-punk (just watched the Factory Records dvd box set. It reminded us to pull out the homework comp.)
Agent on Travel -- in search of -- 7"
Lady B --- To the Beat Y'all -- 12" (early female hip-hop mc from philly.)
(n) Watchers -- the sun -- ???
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(n) Million Dollar Marxists -- do the emotion -- give it a name
Radio Alarm Clocks -- psycho -- wake me when it's over -- (More of that distinct early Ohio punk sound. Sonics cover.)
Paris 1942 -- She Cracked -- v/a: amuck (Placebo records comp of Arizona bands. 2 covers in a row. This one a Modern Lovers cover)
The Burning Emotion -- thewhatchamacallit -- 45 (fun soul/r&b. it's a dance --- called thewhatchamacallit.)
Hall of Fame -- Baby, we... -- 7"
The Melvins -- forgotten principle -- demos: 83

-- there is a few more tracks I think to be added to this playlist. The other one will remember. ------