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Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.
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Matano & Morning Star |
Binti
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Zanzibara 10: First Modern Taarab Vibes from Mombasa & Tanga, 1970–1990 | Buda Musique | 2021 | 0:02:19 (Pop-up) | |||||
Soft Machine |
As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still
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Volume Two | ABC/Probe | 1969 | song written in tribute/honor of Kevin Ayers | 0:05:56 (Pop-up) | ||||
Yoko Ono |
If You Become Naked
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0:08:28 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Jon Hassell |
Streetfaxx
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Voiceprint (Blind From The Facts) 12" | Opal | 1990 | 0:08:50 (Pop-up) | |||||
Jason Nazary & Leo Chang |
eleven
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Failure to Display | Superpang | 2022 | 0:12:43 (Pop-up) | |||||
Sagittarius |
I See In You
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The Blue Marble | Together | 1969 | 0:20:08 (Pop-up) | |||||
Alfredo Linares |
El Pito
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El Pito | Vampisoul | 2022 | 0:25:13 (Pop-up) | |||||
Michel Legrand |
Un Homme Est Mort
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Un Homme Est Mort 7" | WeWantSounds | 2021 | 0:28:46 (Pop-up) | |||||
François Bayle |
Solitioude
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L'Experience Acoustique | Recollection GRM | 2013 | samples Daevid Allen | 0:32:17 (Pop-up) | ||||
François Bayle |
It
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L'Experience Acoustique | Recollection GRM | 2013 | samples Robert Wyatt & Kevin Ayers | 0:34:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Paul Wall |
Sittin' Sidewayz (Instrumental)
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Sittin' Sidewayz 12" | Swishahouse | 2005 | 0:37:28 (Pop-up) | |||||
Moor Mother & billy woods |
Maroons ft. Imani Robinson & Amirtha Kidambi
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BRASS | Backwoodz Studioz | 2020 | 0:41:18 (Pop-up) | |||||
Anonymous |
Part 2
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Vodun-Rada Rite for Erzulie | Folkways | 1975 | 0:47:46 (Pop-up) | |||||
Linton Kwesi Johnson |
All Wi Doin Is Defendin'
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In Concert With The Dub Band | Shanachie | 1985 | 1:03:10 (Pop-up) | |||||
Esa Pethman |
The Flame
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In Belgium 1967 7" | We Jazz | 2022 | 1:08:34 (Pop-up) | |||||
Julia Reidy |
shifting
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THANKING YOU | Black Truffle | 2020 | 1:12:26 (Pop-up) | |||||
The Lounge Lizards |
Voice Of Chunk
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Voice Of Chunk | veraBra | 1989 | 1:18:30 (Pop-up) | |||||
The Comet Is Coming |
Code
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Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam | Impulse! | 2022 | 1:23:50 (Pop-up) | |||||
A Touch Of The Sun |
Strings Of Beads
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Milk Teeth | Bead | 1975 | Simon Mayo, Peter Cusack, Shelley Lee | 1:30:58 (Pop-up) | ||||
Kifu Mitsuhashi / Chieko Fukunaga / Nanae Yoshimura / Kazuhisa Ohtake |
Nagi
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Gaku: Individuality Of Four Musicians | ALM | 1981 | 1:36:58 (Pop-up) | |||||
Yuzuru Katagiri |
Dear Mr. Isozaki, Vice President of Japan National Railway
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3 Japanese Poets Recorded Live At The Guggenheim Museum, N.Y.C. March 16, 1971 | No Label | 1971 | read by Gary Snyder | 1:37:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Insect Trust |
Our Sister The Sun
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Hoboken Saturday Night | ATCO | 1970 | 1:41:54 (Pop-up) | |||||
Arne Nordheim |
A Forum Of The Arts (1969)
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I Want The Beatles To Play At My Art Center! | Prisma | 2012 | 1:49:01 (Pop-up) | |||||
COWWS' Quintett |
Die Goetheschneise
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Seite A Seite A | FMP | 1991 | Rüdiger Carl, Jay Oliver, Stephan Wittwer, Phil Wachsmann, Irène Schweizer + Mayo Thompson | 1:55:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
COWWS' Quintett |
Nidda River Suite
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Seite A Seite A | FMP | 1991 | Rüdiger Carl, Jay Oliver, Stephan Wittwer, Phil Wachsmann, Irène Schweizer + Mayo Thompson | 1:59:04 (Pop-up) | ||||
COWWS' Quintett |
Joséphine Leaps In
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Seite A Seite A | FMP | 1991 | Rüdiger Carl, Jay Oliver, Stephan Wittwer, Phil Wachsmann, Irène Schweizer + Mayo Thompson | 2:08:36 (Pop-up) | ||||
COWWS' Quintett |
CQ - An Alle
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Seite A Seite A | FMP | 1991 | Rüdiger Carl, Jay Oliver, Stephan Wittwer, Phil Wachsmann, Irène Schweizer + Mayo Thompson | 2:09:11 (Pop-up) | ||||
Los Satelites |
Pa La Playa
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The Afrosound Of Colombia vol. 3 | Vampisoul | 2022 | 2:11:14 (Pop-up) | |||||
Tumi Mogorosi |
Panic Manic
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Group Theory: Black Music | Mushroom Hour Half Hour/New Soil | 2022 | 2:16:15 (Pop-up) | |||||
Sarathy Korwar |
Mango (feat. Zia Ahmed)
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More Arriving | Leaf | 2019 | 2:21:29 (Pop-up) | |||||
Speaker Music |
Techno is a Liberation Technology (ft. AceMo)
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Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry | Planet Mu | 2020 | 2:25:04 (Pop-up) | |||||
Muthi and Mani |
Nagumomu Ganale Pt 1 Raga Aberi
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How the River Ganges Flows: Sublime Masterpieces of Indian Violin 1933-1952 | Third Man | 2020 | 2:30:00 (Pop-up) | |||||
Muthi and Mani |
Nagumomu Ganale Pt 2 Raga Aberi
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How the River Ganges Flows: Sublime Masterpieces of Indian Violin 1933-1952 | Third Man | 2020 | 2:33:20 (Pop-up) | |||||
Alterations |
Fear Of Mayonnaise
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Up Your Sleeve | Paradigm Discs | 2022 | Steve Beresford, Terry Day, David Toop, Peter Cusack | 2:39:17 (Pop-up) | ||||
Los Dementes |
Manicomio A Locha
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Manicomio A Locha | Vampisoul | 2022 | 2:50:52 (Pop-up) | |||||
Jackie McLean & Michael Carvin |
De I Comahlee Ah (extended)
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Melodies Record Club #001: Four Tet selects 12" | Melodies International | 2021 | 2:53:13 (Pop-up) | |||||
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Baritone Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Piccolo Flute, Flute, Drum [Sewer] – Trevor Koehler
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I was playing the Ornette Coleman piece with the Master Musicians of Jajouka (and Palmer), and a colleague came to my office to demand what that hellish music was. She had not even heard of MMJ!! Incredible.
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