Vinyl Shortlist 2025 (Part 1 of 2) wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT 7-10 PM EST on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social A roundup of the year’s listening on vinyl. New LPs, reissues/represses, single & multi-artist compilations, & collections of previously unreleased tracks from Algeria to Zimbabwe

Ripping a bunch of 2025 heat for tonight's show. Pastor Chris Congregation, West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up Serpents” (Sublime Frequencies, 2025). See you kids in 7 hours! wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Noisy compared to 2020 RE, but the sound & cover images on this OG are crisper, punchier. Racionais MC's, Raio X Brasil - Liberdade De Expressão (Zimbabwe, 1993). Sometimes love for faves fades; I've been listening to these guys for over a decade & it just grows with every listen

First listen to this legendary LP. Sweet baby Jesus in the manger this is good. Caetano Veloso s/t (Philips, 1969). I'm gonna have to go back and read his autobio again. Lanny Gordin's guitar! "Alfomega"! Mind-blowing

First listen to this legendary LP. Sweet baby Jesus in the manger this is good. Caetano Veloso s/t (Philips, 1969). I'm gonna have to go back and read his autobio again. Lanny Gordin's guitar! "Alfomega"! Mind-blowing

No matter how old we are how much music across how many borders or decades we've heard there're countless gobsmacking albums we'll get to listen to for the first time in tonight's case it's Mikhail Chekalin's Post-pop Non-pop (Melodiya, 1989) take a listen youtu.be/DogBsxDcNQM?...

The work that must have gone into this project is mind-boggling. Tehrangeles Vice: Iranian Diaspora Pop 1983-1993. 2XLP, copious photos & liner notes inside the gatefold & 24-page book, plus lyrics. Congrats to Discotchari & everyone else involved in this timely, necessary, thrill-packed release!

Peter lives here in #Tucson and is a mensch. He loves Thai music so much he taught himself how to read/speak Thai! He knows so much and happily shares his deep knowledge. Don't miss this! bsky.app/profile/bode...

The King of Luk Thung! 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Special guest Peter Doolan of Monrakplengthai guides us through the world of Suraphon Sombatcharoen, Thailand’s King of Luk Thung. Era-defining classics, song duels with bandmates, moving tributes & more on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social

Mind-blowing 1970s Palestinian field recordings from the mighty Mo’min Swaitat's Majaaz Project (majazzproject.com): Atef Swaitat & Abu Ali, Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic Dabka Archive (2025). Played a FLAC on my show in Sept, but 1st vinyl listen, picked up today @ Ergot

I might have missed it but really did no one include this brilliant gut-wrenching LP in their AOTYs? This could change, I suppose, but at the moment it's tied for me between this & Marie de la Nuit's Transportees. Nadah El Shazly, Laini Tani (One Little Independent Records, 2025)

My GOD this's a great fucking record. Two side-length live tracks from New Jersey 1975. Free jazz? M80s? Guitars? "Death to the alchemists!" WTF. Bangone Ensemble, Live At The Ledge 1975 (Open Mouth, 2025). Came highly recommended by Brian at Record Grouch & now I'm recommending it to you

Kuelekea Kusini: Musics from the Southern Hemisphere wfmu.org/playlists/sh... 7-10 PM EST tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning gobsmacking tracks from Angola, Bolivia, Papua New Guinea, and beyond. Join us!

Immersing myself in Spiritual Jazz 18, 4 LPs, tracks from Estonia, Azerbaijan, GDR, etc. Behind the Iron Curtain vols. 1 and 2 (Jazzman, 2025). "The history of jazz in the USSR is inherently complex and contradictory ..." As is listening to it in 2025. I recommend it & the liner notes that come with

Ripping LPs for an all-vinyl 2025 new+reissue+compilation show Dec 31, including this brilliant integration of the past to illuminate the present. Marie de la Nuit, Transportées (Permanent Draft, 2025, despite what (c) says on back of LP). Worth reading the notes (see other pics)

Thank you, guitar. 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... An Argentinian punk concert from 1981. A 21st Century Lebanese avant-gardist. A 1968 Brazilian classic. Japanese free jazz from 1975. Gobsmacking tracks from Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and more. #WFMU @gtdradio.bsky.social

Picked this out-of-control EP up from Sublime Frequencies' HM at the 4th Annual Record Hawk Show last October. The Smashchords, s/t (Smashtrade Records, 1981). Ripping some tracks for this week's guitar-forward episode ...

Ripping this killer live LP by Argentina's Los Violadores for this week's show. LOVE LOVE LOVE this record & grateful for Federico Gómez Levitanas's essay at shit-fi.com/articles/Los..., which includes link to a translation of the band's manifesto of sorts. A @wfmu.bsky.social Record Fair score!

Stopped in to Academy Records Annex to pick up some home-taped Arabic cassettes Cory alerted me to, and wound up also finding this personal grail: Original Wings, Change This World (EMI, 1979), feat. all-timer Igba Alusi youtu.be/2hC1HI0deuw?...

THE ACADEMY | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning Studio One earworms & bangers from ska to dancehall. Join us!

The Higher the Hair, the Closer to God | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Beirut-born Sabah boasted an alleged 3,500-song repertoire. On tonight's three-hour tribute, we'll be covering some 1.14285714% of her total output. Join us tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social

Ripping some of my favorite & rarest Sabah tracks for next week's show. This is the soundtrack for Lahn Hobbi (El Ahram, date unknown). Sabah's range never ceases to amaze me. Killer tracks from her on this and the soundtrack for Afrah El-Chabab, which I'll be ripping in a moment

New National Anthem | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social, we're spinning avant-garde, folk, pop, and traditional music from Algeria, Brazil, Congo, Iran, Nepal, and beyond. Join us!

First time hearing this Moroccan powerhouse. Aziza Galal, Ila Awel Mattabeuna (Sout El Hob, 1976), her debut LP. Holy crap, it's amazing. Discogs only lists 13 records, she retired at 26 in the mid-1980s. Ripping the whole damn record for you kids who'll be listening in Wednesday

Ripping a track from this personal grail for next week's show. Les Frères Mégri, Mahmoud Hassan Younès (OG Philips, 1973). A terrific Moroccan LP that doesn't really quite sound like any other

First listen. Caetano Veloso, Transa (OG Philips, 1972, trifold). "Walk down Portobello Road to the sound of reggae ..." "You look completely different from those straights who walked around on the moon". Perfect dreary light rain gray-blue-silver sky gnawing sadness music

Finally found a good listenable copy of Os Mutantes' s/t first LP (Polyfar, 1986 RE of Polydor 1968 OG). I dunno how Brazilians feel about this album at this late date, but I've always loved it & am loving it even more out of real (small) speakers. I almost forgot they do "Baby"!

Found one of my all-time grails at the @wfmu.bsky.social Record Fair today: A 1st mono of Tropicália Ou Panis Et Circencis (Philips, 1968), one of my favorite compilations ever, first time hearing this music on something other than a computer

We're back! Tonight 7-10 PM EST on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social Since I Left You: Select tracks from singles, LPs, cassettes, and CDs picked up in Singapore. Hope to see you there! wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

THE REAL DIVAS OF LAHORE! 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Inspired by Saad Kahn's Showgirls of Pakistan, we dive into the world of legendary Lollywood playback singers, from “melody queen” Noor Jehan to Naseebo Lal, whose songs were banned in Punjab for their “sexually explicit” content.

We Are Bitch, Or Not | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio we're spinning tracks from the first decade of all-girl & female-fronted Japanese punk & adjacent on vinyl, 1977-86. Join us!

I have NOT listened to this exhilarating historic LP nearly enough. Aunt Sally, s/t (2022 Mesh-Key RE + 7" of 1978 concert; OG 1977 Vanity Records). Ripping this and records by several other artists for an all J-women punk-related episode for this coming Wednesday. Totally great!

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I have love love LOVED this album for years but finally got it on vinyl. Early all-women Japanese post-punk band Mizutama Shobodan's The Maiden's Prayer Is Dada-Da-Da! (Spittle 2025 RE of Kinniku-Bijo 1981 OG). Ripping it now for an upcoming show

The Kiosk of Orpheus | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social: Memories. Repartures. Materia Verbal. Communion of Saints. Digital Office. Kiosque d'Orphée. Join us!

Nagat, Baligh Hamdi, Omar Khorshid, Samir Srour and dozens of others are calling you out to Pancakes Records today where we'll be spinning some 30 Arabic 45s from the 60s & 70s from 2-4 PM EDT -- let's hang out! 20-77 Steinway St, Queens, NY 11105

The first listen to MIA, Kala (XL 2021 RE of 2007 OG), I was a bit disappointed. Pulled it out tonight prompted by a Twitter mutual's enthusiasm & am loving it. A reminder that "best music" takes may be not really so much right or wrong but a potential gift if they nudge you to listen again

Wowza. Finally getting around to this notoriousness. The Beach Boys, The Smile Sessions (Capitol, 2025 RE of 2011 OG). Almost bought a bootleg CD attempt to create the album in the late 90s on the street near Columbia University but was flat broke those days & maybe knew I'd eventually get 2 hear it

Majnoun | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning tracks released in 2025 by artists from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and the North African/Middle Eastern diaspora. Join us!

SOUND ON: Another grail, Yao Su Rong's Love Is Forever (Crown Records, 1971). Granted, she released a dozen other LPs in 1971 alone (and a whopping 40 LPs in 1970), but, yes, this is the one I've always wanted.

SOUND ON: One of my favorite compilations of all time just got updated and reissued. Ryukyu Rare Groove REVISITED | Okinawa Pops 1957-1978 (Nipponophone 2025). Love love love this music so much. Tears!

Made a poster for Sunday's event. Come see & hear me sling a few dozen Arabic bangers & novelty 45s at my local record store this coming Sunday maybe we can share a beverage or something

I wonder if Shiloh likes this LP? First listen to this gorgeous, dramatic Japanese private press folk album. Gekidan Buraiha, The Modern Bible (First & Last 2025 RE of 1975 self-released OG). The OG released in an edition of 100; this version doubles their impact at 200.

SOUND ON: I'll be DJing a 2-hour set of Arabic bangers & novelty 45s at my local record store next Sunday, September 14. "Arabic Singles Going Steady," 2-4:00 PM EDT, Pancakes Records, 20-77 Steinway St, Astoria, Queens. Would love to hang out with some of you kids!

Ripping a track from Nadah El Shazly's Laini Tani (2025, One Little Independent Records) for a 3-hour special show this Wednesday focusing on music released this year from the Arabic-speaking world & diaspora wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Kids! Adults! Seniors! I'll be spinning rare Arabic bangers & novelty 45s at Pancakes Records on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens a week from Sunday (9.14.2025). More info to come, but carve out some time 2-4 PM-ish to hear incredible sounds & peep some truly unique sleeve art! (20-77 Steinway St)

Sonic Bazaar | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social : Recent-ish experimental releases, hot takes on Zambian rock, Guru Guru Brain, outsiders from the US and USSR, Libyan Tuareg music

Here's a take no one will second: My absolute favorite Zambian rock group is Blackfoot. They only released 2 sonically similar LPs, Youth Power (1975, Goodson; 2021 RE via Vinyl Me Please; 1976's Millie is the same LP) & 1978's The Foot Steps. Love the rhythm guitar-forward sound

First listen to Gilberto Gil's 5th or 6th LP, Expresso 2222, a Fontana 1982 RE of the OG 1972 on Philips. I've only heard his 68 LP (w/Os Mutantes) prior. He's maybe the biggest Brazilian artist who I haven't yet heard much of. Doing what I can now to take care of that gap.

SUPERGRAIL! Absolute beast of an album, cut from a 1973-74 Cambodian cassette, 500 LPs printed a decade ago, impossible to find, I've had my tentacles out for a few years, finally nabbed. Drakkar Band, Drakkar '74 (Metal Postcards, 2014 RE of 1973 cassette-only OG)