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The September edition of the Delightful Imperfections show on Widgeon Airwaves, with a focus this month on timeless chill classics from the last 20 years.

Broadcasted Sep 25th 2022, from www.widgeontheatreboat.com. Tune in the last Sunday of every month.

Big thanks to the all the artists for their wonderful sounds! If you like what you hear, pease take a moment to check out some of their other music.

1. Echo Season - Refraction (https://soundcloud.com/echoseason)
2. Sysyphe - Deep as a Black Forest (https://soundcloud.com/sysyphe)
3. Younger Brother - SYS 700 (https://soundcloud.com/youngerbrother)
4. Ott - Sommersettler (https://soundcloud.com/ottsonic)
5. Kuba - How the Future Sounded (https://soundcloud.com/kuba-laurence-harvey)
6. Max Melvin - Sometimes
7. Aural Planet - Sunfruits Avenue (Sundial Aeon remix) 
8. Aerum - Icedive (Slow)
9. Cubering - Traditional State (https://soundcloud.com/microcosmos/cubering-transitional-state)
10. Reasonandu - Upsurge (edit version) (https://soundcloud.com/reasonandu)
11. Man of No Ego - Nebra (https://soundcloud.com/manofnoego)
12. Zinovia Arvanitidi - Floating 
13. Liquid Bloom & PERE - The Mycelium is Listening (feat Paul Stamets) (https://soundcloud.com/liquidbloom)
14. Claudio PRC - Artic Movement (https://soundcloud.com/claudioprc)
15. Alba - Arising & Passing Away (https://soundcloud.com/alba)
16. Ren Toudu - Seaside Serenade
17. Zero Cult - Lotusoul (https://soundcloud.com/zero-cult)
18. Desert Dwellers - Peaceful Air (space mix) (https://soundcloud.com/desertdwellers)

Delightful Imperfections on Widgeon Airwaves - Sep 2022 (Downtempo / Psychill / Timeless Chill)

Aussie favourites at Glastonbury 2013 & 14, Boomtown & BOOM Festivals propagating the secret to growing abundance, improving life and reversing climate-change with energetic live mash-ups of vintage speakeasy-style electroswing wonk & ukulele quirk to Lettuce Turnip the Radish Beets & Rocket!

Formidable Vegetable Sound System - Yield

NO MAN'S LAND Playlist - August 1 + August 8, 2024

Tune in locally on CIUT 89.5 FM every Thursday from 6:00-8:00pm (EST) and listen live online at www.ciut.fm

ARTIST - TRACK
Unknown Reality - Late Night Flow
Expedizion & Sixis - Awakening World (Seamoon Remix)
Karavan Sarai & Carmen Rizzo - Kiss Her Eyes (Silk Road Mix)
Smadj (ft. Erik Truffaz, Talvin Singh, Ibrahim Maalouf - Fougueuse (Live)
Poranguí - Sueños de la Selva (AtYyA Remix)
Haunted Water y blaca - Teardrops [Haunted Water Remix]
Mercedes Nasta - Paracutin (El Buho Edit)
Nicola Noir - 100 Stories (M.Rux Remix)
Anchor Hill - Incremental Liberation
Desert Dwellers - Saraswati's Twerkaba (Nanosphere Remix)
Dub FX - Colours (Organikismness and Salmonella Dub Remix)
Goldie - The Mirrored River (Instrumental)
Discoshaman - Making a Cyborg (Edit)
Feathered Sun - Get On
Zen Dub - Artifact
Bit Deff - Chant (Original Mix)
Kaminanda - Liquid Sunrise
Griff - Jitter
Common Citizens - Of Your Youth [ft. Kaleigh Watts]
Kurup - Surf Na Mata

No Man's Land

NO MAN'S LAND - August 1 + August 8 - Radio Mix 2024

NO MAN'S LAND Playlist - November 28 - Radio Mix 2024

Tune in locally on CIUT 89.5 FM every Thursday from 6:00-8:00pm (EST) and listen live online at www.ciut.fm

ARTIST - TRACK
A Path Untold - I See
Kurup - Opium Gait
John Montoya - Cumbia De Piedra (Derrok Remix)
Balancé - Madrugada
EXZ - Cacimba
Roderic - Is This On? (feat. Liah Alonso)
Xique- Xique - Protetores & Orixás (JPATTERSSON Trumpet Edit)
Barda - Las Cosas Que Hay Detras del Sol (ft. Nick Drake)
Bloom & Kotka - Reverie (Arkee Remix)
J Boogie's Dubtronic Science - Chopsticks
Synapson - Soro Te Karaba (ft. Victor Deme)
Nicola Noir - Drunk Elephant (Timboletti Remix)
Islandman - Dimitro (Carbalido Remix)
Yemanjo - Chaouen (Original Mix)
SoDPM - Coming Home (Original Mix)
Turu Anasi - Tomaso (Original Mix)
El Búho - Aguas Claras (Nicola Cruz Remix)
Hani Niroo - شب بود (Detmolt Edit)
Dalholt & Langkilde - Groovin Man
SaQi - Orishas

NO MAN'S LAND - November 28 - Radio Mix 2024

The most recent edition of The Wild Camp Out was so damn deeeeelightful it's officially now crowned my favourite Australian festival...

What a community? What a vibe? What an utter sensory delight and what absolutely stunninggggg land to be frollicking upon feeling right at home following one of the most authentic and heartfelt Welcome to Country experiences I have ever been a part of ✊

Thankyou to Royal Jelly Productions and the entire Wild Camp Out team, you bunch of legends! Truly honoured to be a part of the magic created this time round and sincerely hope to be back again!

As always deepest gratitude to the original maestros below for making these here exquisite creations that have had such a profound effect on me recently and will forever live in my soul rent free ❤️
 
Daughter of the Sun (Ft Katie Tupper & Justice Der)
Centre (Ft Sridaya Srivatsan
A Slight Return - Partika
No Mind Dub - Mike Rauss & Guacayo
You Gotta Be Free (Ft Karen Gibson Roc) - Lemongrass
Golden Nectar - J Boogie's Dubtronic Science
White Sands - Tommy Guerrero
Cumbia del Olvido - Nicola Cruz
Shaman - MORSE
Desierto - Coqui Tramontana & SoDPM
Playa Paraiso - Zip Zip, Blue Noir
A Spoonful of Honey - KlangDruide
Wake Up - Al Jawala & Murmusica
Revenge of the Wankers - Oceanvs Orientalis
Aube - Walter Astral
Tanguita - Tot La Momposina - Jonajosu Remix
Desert - Jose Solano
Quiero - DJ Dandara & Anissa Damali - Pophop Remix
In the Beginning (ft Nathan Nicholson) - Claptone
Havana 1959 - Mano Tiro
Neunivai - Shanti Radio
Oiga Mi Alero - Lemurian & Seba Campos - Mollono Bass Remix
Know How - Justin Jay & George Sandler
Malo Okoma (ft Theresa Ng'ambi) - Dj Poolboi

The beauty of sharing this home recording in lieu of the live set is that it gave me the ability to leave a number of tracks intact with their original flow and integrity rather than slicing, dicing or skipping along to squeeze everything into my allocated time slot. 

On that note, ran out of time to play the final track I had hoped but it is so so beautiful and fitting to the event i've chosen to include it in hopes it still reaches the ears of who might need to hear it <3 

Artwork ~ Scott Tuckfield - Source of Warmth

⫷Wild Camp Out 2025⫸⚬⫷Serendipitea⫸

NO MAN'S LAND Playlist - May 8 + May 15 - Radio Mix 2025

Tune in locally on CIUT 89.5 FM every Thursday from 6:00-8:00pm (EST) and listen live online at www.ciut.fm

ARTIST - TRACK

Shamans Dream & Geometrae - Moon Whisperer
Shaman's Dream & Geometrae - Dream River
Liquid Bloom & Poranguí - Prayer Of Protection (Ryan Herr Remix)
Dirtwire - Mycelium
saQi	Broken - Castles ft. Pharroh
The Human Experience - Heavenly Bodies (feat. Johnne Perez)
Zen Baboon - Baby Boombay (Remaster)
Subaqueous - Glimmers (Moon Frog Remix)
Harptress - Imagination (Original Mix)
Kaleema - Ritual
Tor - Foxglove
Aljanah - Evoke
CharlestheFirst - Breathe
LikeATree - An Ocean Refuses No River
Viken Arman - Nostalgie
HOVR - Afterlove (Extended Mix)
Nina Simone - Feeling Good (Kognitif Remix)
Oonga - El Caracol ft. Ana Arias (El Búho Reshik)
El Buho - Mot Mot
Urmet K - Mantra Chants (Beatless Mix)
Martins Garden - She Came Along
Blackboxx - Stranded Under Sunsets
Hakou - Silver
eelison - Moving Borders

NO MAN'S LAND - May 8 + May 15 - Radio Mix 2025

A slowish sensual journey through Trip-Hop, Medicine songs, Bass, Oldies, Afrobeats, R&B, Jazz, DownTempo, Funk, World music and more.

Played live, June 2025, at "Sweet Eros", a sensual play party, at a beautiful vila on the beach of Ko PhaNgan, a tropical island in south Thailand. 

Thank you Michal and Oren.

Featuring :

Aaliyah
Amy Winehouse
Bahramji
Beyonce
Blackenart
Blaq Pages,Soko7,Nick & Navi
Bruno Mars
Burna Boy
Chris Brown+Davido  x  LL Cool J
CMAN
Cutso
Cutso / Dstrukt
Discoshaman
El Extravagante & Bob Marious 
El Gadzé
Esther Phillips
Etta James
Fabolous, B2K
Faith Evans
Feral Fauna
Full Crate
Fullbodydurag
Jazzy Jeff 
Jeremih
Joe Kay
Juls Baby
Justin Timberlake
Karolina קרולינה
Kinobe
Koolade
Kruder & Dorfmeister:
Louis Armstrong
LUM
Manalang
Masego
Missy Elliott
Mr Eazi
Nebbra
NIE
Omah Lay
Portishead
Radio Tarifa
Ray Charles
RAYMOND
Rema
Remy Ma
Rihanna
Rising Appalachia and The Human Experience
Rocker's HIFI
Sade
Shirley Bassey
Soulcenter
Subaqueous
SZA
Take Vibe
Tekno Miles
Tera Kòrá
The Black Eyed Peas
The Oddness
Thomas Vent
Thornato
TOMANKA
Tricky
yohenkwart

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Sweet Eros - Sensual Play Party

A next-level experiment in ecological electroswing, Radish Beets is a creative collaboration of re-wonkified tracks from Formidable Vegetable Sound System's debut album, Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual remixed by some of the world's finest electronic producers.

Radish Beets

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The Edge (Spoonbill Remix)

This mix is my set from the Wild Lotus Yoga Festival opening for DJ Drez and Kr3ture on July 12th 2025.  It will awaken your soul and move your body to the deep, disco, tribal house beats with love and inspiration.  

Wild Lotus

NO MAN'S LAND Playlist - July 17 + July 24, 2025

Tune in locally on CIUT 89.5 FM every Thursday from 6:00-8:00pm (EST) and listen live online at www.ciut.fm

ARTIST - TRACK
Mercedes Nasta - Paracutin (El Buho Edit)
Palov meets A.Angelides - Afrika Revisited (Bandura Remix)
Larralde - Ofrenda del Payador (Muno Edit)
Prisma & Martin Boder - Turbina de Amor
Digital Afrika - Brazilian Blend
Elizeth Cardoso - A Flor E Espinho (Corazón Edit)
Barcelona Gibsy Klezmer Orchestra - Amari Szi Amari (BALMARKODES Edit)
Candeleros - Sonidub (Coconutah Remix)
Nicola Cruz x History of Colour - Paruma
Balmarkodes - Yabay (Original Mix) (Medman Vocal Chill Edit)
Scott Nice - Touching Down
Teemu Raudaskoski - Kaamos
Bonga - Mona Ki Ngi Xica (Ibu Selva Edit)
Roni Iron - Reminds Me of You (Ola Se Thymizoun Edit)
Gerra G (ft. Gilberto Gil) - Umeboshi
Palmer - Sienna
Mr. Toé (ft. Carla Valentini) - Sube A Nacer
Iorie x Arutani - De la Vida (Original Mix)
Turu Anasi - Tomaso (Original Mix)
San Ignacio - Metaterraza
Xique- Xique - Protetores & Orixás (JPATTERSSON Trumpet Edit)
J Boogie's Dubtronic Science - Chopsticks

NO MAN'S LAND - July 17 + July 24 - Radio Mix 2025

NO MAN'S LAND Playlist – July 31 + August 7, 2025

Tune in locally on CIUT 89.5 FM every Thursday from 6:00-8:00pm (EST) and listen live online at www.ciut.fm

ARTIST - TRACK
Kaya Project - Forgiven (Hibernation Remix)
beatfarmer - Song of Dawn [opening]
Organismic - Ultrafiltration
Little Star - May the Way (Liquid Love Drops Remix)
Monolink - Amniotic
Wolf Tech - Another Day
Martins Garden & Yechidah - Scarabaeus
Thds - Couteau (Original Mix)
Peter Power - Drowsy Arousal (Original)
Lukas Endhardt - Solo Tu
Random Rab - Mareación
SaQi - Cherubim
The Polish Ambassador - Earthship
Kaleidoscope Jukebox - Melting Pot
Desert Dwellers - Shaolin Clouds (City Mix)
D-Echo Project - Zo en Zo
Baaba Maal - Souka Nayo (Thievery Corporation Remix)
The Wisdom of Shankara - Goa Step
Sub Liquid - Zebra Face
Kaminanda - Moonlight Tango
Sub Liquid - Fly

NO MAN'S LAND - July 31 + August 7 - Radio Mix 2025

NO MAN'S LAND Playlist - August 14 + August 21, 2025

Tune in locally on CIUT 89.5 FM every Thursday from 6:00-8:00pm (EST) and listen live online at www.ciut.fm

ARTIST - TRACK
Geometrae x Skysia x Equanimous - Achiote
Equanimous & Geometrae - Merging Elements (Medman Chill Edit)
Shaman's Dream - Breath Of Ma (AtYya Remix)
David Starfire (ft. Jeff Stott & Ganga Giri) - Osho (Mystral Remix)
The Polish Ambassador - A Seafarer's Map to the Overworld
CloZee - Rain Dance (ft. ESCPE)
Junket Light - Beneath A Red Moon Light
DISSØLV - Clairvoyage
Kaminanda - Conscious Droplets
Desert Dwellers - Dreams within a Dream (Halfred Remix)
Pedra Branca - Itapua (Gerra G Remix)
Axel Thesleff - Akasha
Martins Garden - Amuns
ChrisNa KaRast - Awakening Lionz
Tribal Alchemy (ft. Abelid) - Contact
Regndans - Djinn (Original Mix)
The Wisdom of Shankara - Doors to the Digital Dimension (beatfarmer Mix)
David Starfire - Indian Summer (Govinda Remix)
Kalya Scintilla - Kamakshi Devi (Tribone Remix)
Lo.Renzo - Water Jar
Smoke Sign - Welcome to Neo India (Kalya Scintilla Bollywood Bounce Remix)
David Starfire - Qilin (ft. Len Pong) (AMB Remix)

NO MAN'S LAND - August 14 + August 21 - Radio Mix 2025

Possibly the first ever band to promote the joys of gardening, food and sustainability through dance music, West Australian ‘ecological edutainers’, Formidable Vegetable Sound System bring you their latest single, ‘You Are What You Eat’- an infectiously bouncy electroswing track all about... Dirt!

Featuring Michael Barker (ex John Butler Trio/Black Sorrows) on drums, Mal Webb on horns, Kylie Morrigan on strings, Charlie Mgee on ukulele & vocals and produced by award-winning Melbourne electronic producer, Spoonbill, 'You Are What You Eat' explores the never-ending connectedness of the food-chain in the band's unique style of 'biodynamic-organic ukulele-electroswing'.

Soon after the track was released, it was picked up and shared by none other than the UN, who used it to celebrate the closing of the 2015 International Year of Soils - the kind of thing that could only happen to this one-of-a-kind band that have toured the world for three years performing brass-soaked ukulele electroswing songs about plants, peak-oil and permaculture.

More info at: www.formidablevegetable.com.au

Grow Do It

You Are What You Eat - Single

Formidable Vegetable Sound System - You Are What You Eat (Radio Edit)

From the album 'Grow Do It' by Formidable Vegetable Sound System - Out Sept 2 2016 at: http://music.formidablevegetable.com.au

Written by Charlie Mgee
Produced by Spoonbill
Lee Hardisty - tenor sax
Mayuka - baritone sax
Mal Webb - trombone, slide trumpet & gourd bass
Charlie Mgee - ukulele & vocals
Michael Barker - drums

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Permaculture principle 6: Produce no Waste - In nature, there is no such thing as waste, only stuff in the wrong place! Heed this mantra and become a master of nutrient cycling!

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"Charlie is spearheading a new and exciting form of musical activism. He is becoming one of the most important voices in a global cultural movement 
that began right here in Australia." 
- Harry Angus, The Cat Empire 

Permaculture: A Rhymer’s Manual from Western Australia's Formidable Vegetable is the first of its kind. An album of ethical, ecological edu-tainment designed to spread the word of sustainability without making you want to tie-dye your shirt or go out and buy a djembe.
Permaculture is basically a way to get ourselves out of habits of self-destruction and into one of abundance and prosperity.
After recognising a desperate need for people to stop talking about sustainability and start getting off their asses, WA permaculture troubadour Charlie Mgee grabbed his ukulele and came up with 12 songs covering each of the principles of permaculture from David Holmgren’s book, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. 

With an all-star cast of Australian musicians including Mal Webb, Alex Burkoy (Tinpan Orange/Juila Stone), Michael Boase (Nicky Bomba’s Bustamento), Loren, Freya Hanly, prodigious 19-year old Harry Jakamarra from Broome on banjo and WA’s own 10 piece live electro-swing band Ensemble Formidable, the album is filled to the brim with tracks of truly grooveworthy proportions with styles ranging from ‘energy-descent electro-swing’ and ‘climate-change reggae’ to ‘peak-oil polka’.

In just three short months, Charlie Mgee has already busted out live shows of permaculture songs at internationally acclaimed festivals including Woodford Folk Festival (QLD), Eclipse 2012 (Cairns), Folk, Rhythm & Life and Rainbow Serpent (VIC) and has shared the stage with class-acts such as Nicky Bomba’s Butamento, Spoonbill and Fat Freddy’s Drop.

After a massive turnout to a follow-up permaculture workshop resulting from an especially cranking gig at Eclipse 2012 Festival, Charlie reflects on his ultimate goal for the project: 

“Right now, music is one of the most effective tools we have to communicate ideas on a mass scale and I think I’m really just starting to recognize the power that that can have with regards to introducing people to ideas on how to live more sustainably. I’ve had people that I wouldn’t have thought would be into sustainability in a million years come up to me going: “Man, this sounds awesome! I’m gonna check out this permaculture stuff!” It’s really reaffirming for what I’ve set out to do.”

With included info on the permaculture principles covered as well as chord charts and lyrics to learn the songs on ukulele, the album has been designed to achieve everything from permaculture teaching resource to ukulele lesson to general morning dance routine.

In a world gone hectic, now really is the time to start growing abundance everywhere, starting at the front door. While we’re at it, you might as well Lettuce Turnip the Beet!  (...that would be Rad-ish.)

Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual

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No Such Thing as Waste

Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/growdoit

After a sold-out Australian national tour, Formidable Vegetable are back with some all new freshly-boosted electro-funk full of positive ecological action that the whole neighbourhood can get down to as they launch their new album 'Micro Biome'. 

With accolades from the UN and having toured to over 20 countries, Formidable Vegetable inspire folks from 5 to 95 to grow their own food, restore their own biosphere and live a better life with irresistibly funky home-scale solutions to the many problems of the world. 

From the local farmers market to massive festivals such as Glastonbury, Formidable Vegetable are as at home on stage alongside the likes of Radiohead, Dolly Parton and The Rolling Stones as they are in their own garden.

Official Website: http://www.formidablevegetable.com.au

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