Listen to 9-19-18 radio set here
"World service bulletin from the nightshift D.J.
To all wavebands on earth
Reconnoitre on the killahertz"
These opening lines from "Global A Go-Go" by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros provided the inspiration for much of this episode of Merging w/the Night. I love hosting a radio show at night for the freedom it provides. And it is much nicer to imagine a connection with other music-lovers all over the world, than to think no one is listening. Thank you, Joe Strummer and friends, including Bill Lupoletti who hosts a radio show Global A Go Go on WRIR Richmond Independent Radio. I heard an amazing song on his show and decided to feature it as well - from the Dur-Dur Band from Somalia.
The artwork featured above comes from the cover of Flying Lotus' album Cosmogramma (2010, Warp Records). The song I played, "Zodiac Shit", has a wonderfully trippy video.
Playlist:
- Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros / Global A Go-Go
- Flying Lotus / Zodiac Shit
- Dur-Dur Band / Hiyeeley
- Debruit, Alsarah / Jibal Alnuba
- Tricky / Singing The Blues
- Gorillaz, Space Monkeyz / A Fistful of Peanuts
- New Boss / Dream Pop
- Mark Pritchard, Thom Yorke / Beautiful People
- Thom Yorke / Suspirium
- Tosca / Doris Dub
- Yo La Tengo / The Ballad of Red Buckets
- Polica / Smug
- Radiohead / Kinetic
- Four Tet, Oneohtrix Point Never / Evening Side - Oneohtrix Point Never Edit
- Nine Inch Nails / Over and Out
- Nine Inch Nails / We're In This Together
- How To Destroy Angels / Too Late, All Gone
- Forest Swords / The Highest Flood
- GOLD ZEBRA / Love, French, Better
- Andy Stott / On My Mind
- The Clash / Straight to Hell
- Damon Albarn / Hostiles
- Eddie Gale / The Rain