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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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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Approx. start time | ||||
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Machine Gun |
Muffy's 1st Date
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Machine Gun | MU | 1988 | feat. Sonny Sharrock | 0:01:46 (Pop-up) | ||||
Jimi Hendrix |
Machine Gun
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Band of Gypsys | Capitol | 1970 | 0:04:24 (Pop-up) | |||||
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet |
Elijah Rock
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For Mahalia, With Love | TAO Forms | 2023 | https://jamesbrandonlewis.bandcamp.com/album/for-mahalia-with-love | 0:14:09 (Pop-up) | ||||
Angel Bat Dawid |
Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit
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Requiem for Jazz | International Anthem | 2023 | https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-for-jazz | 0:23:10 (Pop-up) | ||||
Last Exit |
Discharge
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Last Exit | Enemy | 1986 | feat. Sonny Sharrock & Peter Brötzmann | 0:24:25 (Pop-up) | ||||
Scott Walker |
30 Century Man
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Scott 3 | Philips | 1969 | 0:30:26 (Pop-up) | |||||
Caspar Brötzmann |
Mute Massaker
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Mute Massaker | Our Choice | 1999 | 0:31:48 (Pop-up) | |||||
Caspar Brötzmann |
Cheyenne
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Mute Massaker | Our Choice | 1999 | 0:41:49 (Pop-up) | |||||
Pani Bharata & Troupe |
A Composition For Drums
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Rhythms of Sri Lanka | Lewis Brown | 19?? | Narrator – Mignonne Fernando | 0:48:36 (Pop-up) | ||||
Scorch Trio |
Furskunjt
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Luggumt | Rune Grammofon | 2004 | 0:58:29 (Pop-up) | |||||
Angel Bat Dawid |
Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes
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Requiem for Jazz | International Anthem | 2023 | https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-for-jazz | 1:04:39 (Pop-up) | ||||
Bushman's Revenge |
Hollowed Be Thy Fame
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All The Better For Seeing You | Is It Jazz? | 2023 | https://bushmansrevenge.bandcamp.com/album/all-the-better-for-seeing-you | 1:05:22 (Pop-up) | ||||
Vampire Belt |
Last of the Hipmen
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Unfit Structures | Hermit Hut | 2015 | feat. Chris Corsano | 1:13:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
Halim El-Dabh |
Taming the Crocodile with Trance (1976)
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The Wondrous Reverberations of Halim El-Dabh | Annihaya | 2023 | recorded in Ethiopia; https://annihayarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-wondrous-reverberations-of-halim-el-dabh | 1:17:15 (Pop-up) | ||||
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt |
How To Cook A Wolf
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Made Out of Sound | Palilalia | 2021 | 1:23:18 (Pop-up) | |||||
Caspar Brötzmann Massaker |
Massaker
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The Tribe | Southern Lord | 2019 | reissue of a 1988 album | 1:28:31 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sirone Sextet |
Illusions Of Reality, Part III
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Live In Berlin, Ballhaus 1987 | Sagittarius A-Star | 2011 | 1:37:03 (Pop-up) | |||||
Machine Gun |
Obsession + Oblivion
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Open Fire | MU | 1989 | feat. Sonny Sharrock | 1:43:08 (Pop-up) | ||||
Blauer Hirsch |
Shurike Sprawl
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Cyberpunk | FMP | 1989 | https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/cyberpunk | 1:48:23 (Pop-up) | ||||
Last Exit |
Iron Path
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Iron Path | Virgin | 1988 | feat. Sonny Sharrock & Peter Brötzmann | 1:56:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
Last Exit |
The Black Bat (for Aki Ikuta)
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Iron Path | Virgin | 1988 | feat. Sonny Sharrock & Peter Brötzmann | 1:58:33 (Pop-up) | ||||
Last Exit |
Marked For Death
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Iron Path | Virgin | 1988 | feat. Sonny Sharrock & Peter Brötzmann | 2:02:58 (Pop-up) | ||||
Music of the Dusuns of Tambunan |
Mengalai Music - Gulu Gulu
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A Visit To Borneo | Capitol | 1961 | 2:05:24 (Pop-up) | |||||
Music of the Dusuns of Tambunan |
Sumpotan
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A Visit To Borneo | Capitol | 1961 | 2:06:44 (Pop-up) | |||||
Music of the Dusuns of Tambunan |
Sisipan Banking
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A Visit To Borneo | Capitol | 1961 | 2:08:04 (Pop-up) | |||||
Music of the Dusuns of Tambunan |
Lagu Memabas
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A Visit To Borneo | Capitol | 1961 | 2:10:03 (Pop-up) | |||||
Music of the Dusuns of Tambunan |
Anda'k Anda'k Kurua'k Sundatang
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A Visit To Borneo | Capitol | 1961 | 2:12:11 (Pop-up) | |||||
Mike Ladd |
Field Work (The Ethnographer's Daughter)
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Negrophilia [The Album] | Thirsty Ear | 2005 | 2:14:19 (Pop-up) | |||||
Raoul Björkenheim / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love |
Taajus
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Scorch Trio | Rune Grammofon | 2002 | 2:19:47 (Pop-up) | |||||
Lotfollah Majd |
Seghahe
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Homayoun / Seghahe / Bayateh Zand / Shoushtari / Abuata / Esfahan | Ahang Rooz | 197? | Iran | 2:29:04 (Pop-up) | ||||
Mike Ladd |
Appropriated Metro
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Negrophilia [The Album] | Thirsty Ear | 2005 | 2:34:05 (Pop-up) | |||||
Box |
Untitled 9
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Studio 1 | Rune Grammofon | 2008 | Raoul Björkenheim / Trevor Dunn / Morgan Ågren / Ståle Storløkken | 2:35:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
Last Exit |
Line of Fire
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Cassette Recordings 87 | Enemy | 1987 | feat. Sonny Sharrock & Peter Brötzmann | 2:45:04 (Pop-up) | ||||
Caspar Brötzmann Massaker |
Black Axis
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Black Axis | Southern Lord | 2019 | reissue of a 1989 album | 2:55:30 (Pop-up) | ||||
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CORE
PUNK
FUNK
FREE
JAZZ
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https://music.metason.net/artistinfo?name=Lewis%20Brown&title=Rhythms%20Of%20Sri%20Lanka
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But then I'm pretty dismissive of the whole notion of "visual learning." Sight is the least important sense, to my mind. I could drive blind as well as most Berkeley residents.
But Corsano and Orcutt were, predictably, spectacular.
Dean:
https://www.discogs.com/master/86394-Caspar-Br%C3%B6tzmann-Peter-Br%C3%B6tzmann-Last-Home
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Drums [Acoustic], Drums [Electric] – Blil Bryant
Guitar [Special Guest] – Sonny Sharrock
Producer, Guitar, Bass [Fender Six String] – Robert Musso
Saxophone, Flute – Thomas Chapin
Tape [Tapes], Technician [Vocal Cut-up's] – John Richey
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www.wnycstudios.org...
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Werner Lüdi: alto saxophone
Wädi Gysi: guitar
Mani Neumeier: drums, percussion
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mlamar.bandcamp.com...
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Discotech Underground:
wfmu.org...
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