ooooh boy, care to share an ID for this one? :)

In its most basic form, Thai molam is a rural folk music consisting of a “master singer” and a bamboo mouth organ. Although dismissed by urbanites as low-class, taxi driver music, molam is a raw, soulful, groove-oriented genre with many interesting variations. We are therefore thrilled to present this beautiful and deep selection of 1970's molam from rare 45s & LPs from Dangdut Banget (http://zubaidahrecords.com). Make sure to check out our 24/7 radio platform here: https://www.radioisaforeigncountry.org.

หมอลำ (RIAFC062)

Thailand’s Psychedelic Country Sounds (RIAFC062)

i knocked my head yesterday and now I see the spirals
they form in your eyes + spread
they ooze from the follicles of your hair
squirm out of the cracks in the floor

can you see the spirals?
if so you are not alone
i breathe spirals from my lungs
sneeze them from my tomb
oh won't you spiral with me, spiral with me...

originally transmitted on netilradio.com

Silence & Wisdom - Deux Filles
2008 - Transcend
From Small Acorns - Neotropic
To Catch A Tone - Pablo’s Eye
Chai - The Higher Intelligence Agency
The Calling (Loved’Ub Mix) - A Positive Life
Sprinkle - Off and Gone
Mingos - Eritokwa
Amb 7 - Pablo’s Eye
MOLLY & AQUAFINA  - Dean Blunt
Famous Grapes (part 4) - Nate
Part Three - The Threshold HouseBoys Choir
Alice Effekt - Drome
Qawwali - Pinch
Armenian Orientation - Haruomi Hosono
Fluresence - Space Time Continuum
Devotion - Tirzah
Ice - David Motion + Sally Potter
Crystal Clear (Clear, Like an Unmuddied Lake) - The Grid
Gangstaz (Instrumental) - Pinch
Turning In Circles - King Softy
silent kiss - exael

Big Leg's Bits - My Cocoon Is My Tomb [8.10.21]

Immersive & hypnotic, this mixtape features (mostly) manipulated field recordings of obscure sounds & music from Tanzania to Borneo.

Photo credit: Andreas Mass

Exploding Suitcases from Radio Palestine: Sounds of The Eastern Mediterranean (Sublime Frequencies) 
Fade from Air Tapes – Excavation Series (Power Moves Library) 
Izeze (Iwawa) from Echoes of the Unquantized World 01 (Duckfood) 
Chibeu (Mae Hong Son, Thailand) – Lisu Mix – Kink Gong (Discrepant) 
Laos 2000 from Early-Century Sound Recordings – Mark Gergis (Discrepant) 
Dhvāni – Budhaditya Chattopadhyay from Anthology of Exploratory Music from India (Unexplained Sounds Group) 
Excerpt from Cho Oyu 8201m (Field Recordings From Tibet) – Geir Jenssen (Ash International) 
Raft 29 - Honey Hunters – Mike Cooper (Room40) 
A Fistful of Stardust from Archeophony – Raed Yassin (Akuphone) 
Syria 1998 from from Early-Century Sound Recordings – Mark Gergis (Discrepant) 
Excerpt from Volume One – Naujawanan Baidar (Radio Khiyaban) 
Excerpts from Orange Twin Field Works - Volume I – Jeff Mangum (Orange Twin Records) 
Excerpts from Sounds of Urumqi and Under a Dim Crescent Moon, Shirley & Spinoza Radio 
Excerpt from Suling Pereret cassette (Bali 886, Year Unknown) 
Balia – Saprin Ojo Lalove Ensemble (Gugus Gema, 2020) 
Excerpts from Asian Radio Environments, Jesse Paul Miller 
Nadaswaram Tannoy (Amba Vilas Palace, Mysore, India) from A Distant Invitation - Jesse Paul Miller (Sublime Frequencies) 
Titi Mati & Nocturnal Soundscape from Kwangka: Funerary Music of the Dayak Benuaq of Borneo – Vincenzo della Ratta (Sublime Frequencies)

Gonzo Ethnomusicology (RIAFC073)

Buddhist prayer machines and Hindu mantra or chanting machines are small plastic boxes resembling transistor radios that play various Buddhist and Hindu prayers and short music loops used for meditation. Found throughout India, China and Tibet, these portable, usually battery-powered, low-fi electronic devices are popular across the region. This mix features samples from these devices and the FM3 Buddha Machine brand, as well as a number of artists who manipulate them to create new sonic textures.    

TRACKLIST
17 – Chang Fo Ji - Buddha Machine Loops from China (Discrepant)
3 Hani Pipa – Kink Gong – Voices (Discrepant)
18 – Chang Fo Ji - Buddha Machine Loops from China (Discrepant)
Dry Valley – Sun City Girls (Staubgold)
16 – Chang Fo Ji - Buddha Machine Loops from China (Discrepant)
Bp Simple – sunnO))) (Staubgold)
10 – Chang Fo Ji - Buddha Machine Loops from China (Discrepant)
Center Of Excellence - Buddha Machine Commercial (Staubgold)
1 – Chang Fo Ji - Buddha Machine Loops from China (Discrepant)
Little Yellow – Blixa Bargeld (Staubgold)
21 – Chang Fo Ji - Buddha Machine Loops from China (Discrepant)
A Dragon Lies Listening – Alog (Staubgold)
24 – Chang Fo Ji - Buddha Machine Loops from China (Discrepant)
3 Tietä Valojen Taa – Es (Staubgold)
Winged Life – Minit (Staubgold)
23 – Chang Fo Ji - Buddha Machine Loops from China (Discrepant)
Layer 02 – Robert Henke (Staubgold)
12 – Chang Fo Ji - Buddha Machine Loops from China (Discrepant)
Random selections from Hindi mantra/chanting boxes

Buddha Machine Radio (RIAFC075)

The soulful sounds of South Indian mandolin, featuring Uppalapu Srinivas, the child prodigy who at the age of nine introduced the mandolin into the carnatic tradition (something that normally takes generations), and Sreeusha and Sireesha, self-taught sisters popularly known as the Mandolin Sisters, all to a backdrop of field recordings made on location in India by World Listener. As always, you can expect a few brief detours along the way, including a group of children practicing a carnatic song at school, some loud bus music, and a wonderful Tamil radio collage from the LP Bats in the Temple by Robert Millis.

South Indian Mandolin (RIAFC076)

Madrotter presents a selection of rare Sundanese records & cassettes. 

TRACKLIST
01 Darso & Euis Kuraesin Sriwenda - Si Ka'i (calung)
02 Iyar Wiarsih & Jugala Group - Oray Welang (jaipong)
03 Nyai Sumiati & Jugala Group - Dermayon (jaipong)
04 Ciung - Mojang Priangan (Pergosi Odong Odong)
05 Imal Kurnia & Hare Hare Group - Satyam Shiuam (jaipong India)
06 Wahyuni & Ujang Suryana Group - Kecik Kecik (jaipong)
07 Herlin Radjiman & Ujang Suryana Group - Jembatan Merah (jaipong krontjong)
08 Ipah Gebot, Tati Herawati & Darsita Group - Arjuna Rayungan (jaipong)
09 Yoyoh Komsiah Dadi - Entog Mulang (pencak kawih)

Sundanese Mixtape (RIAFC095)

A mesmerizing mixtape from Greek musician Tasos Stamou. Bouncing back and forth between his recent retro Balkan folk-wave album for the Akuphone label and some of the styles and sounds that inspired it. Vintage combo keyboards, a folk instrument used in a contemporary context, long sustained krautrock and beyond.

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Balkan Express Mixtape (RIAFC097)

The month of Saturnalia is upon us. So here is an aural accompaniment for decorating the tree, sipping Glühwein and being festive.
I'm angling towards choral and early music with this one.  So there is a certain focus on Medieval and Renaissance aesthetic. Both, the original surviving sacred and secular works reinterpreted by modern ensembles as well as pieces by the contemporary composers and recording artists inspired by early music form and techniques. Some folk and jazz deviations are also included to keep things fun.

The show is bookended by the recitation of the extract from Virgil's Eclogue 4 having to do with Saturnalia and his prediction of 'forthcoming birth and a new golden age'. The text is in Latin and was considered prophetic among people in the early Middle Ages as foretelling of the birth of Christ. I'm not at all religious, but such facts and conjectures are very fascinating.


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Tracklist:
01.	Virgil  "Virgil’s Eclogue 4, lines 1-17 (Part 1)" 39–38 BC Pantheon Poets
02.	Atrium Musicae • Gregorio Paniagua  "Gentle Robin [1530]" 1976 Erato
03.	Tom Johnson "First Bell" 1982 India Navigation
04.	Norma Winstone "Enjoy this Day" 1972 Argo
05.	Morton Feldman, Joan La Barbara "Snow Falls" 1989 New Albion
06.	Meredith Monk "Astronaut Anthem" 1987 ECM
07.	Arvo Pärt "Alleluia-Tropus" 2016 ECM
08.	Mirka Křivánková, Jiří Stivín & Co. Jazz System "Minimální doteky / Minimal Contacts" 1985 Supraphon
09.	Women Of The Voices Of Ascension, Hildegard von Bingen "O virga ac diadema" 1997 Delos
10.	Krzysztof Penderecki "Sanctus" 2009 Hyperion
11.	Michel Doneda "Le Passeur D'Étoiles" 1985 Nato
12.	R. Murray Schafer / Vancouver Chamber Choir "Snowforms" 1986 Grouse
13.	Tibor Szemző "Methuselah Soft" 2021 Fodderbasis
14.	Capilla Musical Y Escolanía De Santa Cruz Del Valle De Los Caídos, Atrium Musicae "Secuencia ''Potestati Magni'' (Monasterio Scala Dei de Tarragona)" 1968 Hispavox
15.	Meredith Monk "Travelling" 1981 ECM
16.	Zeit "In Cerchio" 1981 Materiali Sonori
17.	Hans Kotter "Spanieler" 1980 BIS
18.	Unknown "Parnell's March  (pipe)" 1978 Ocora
19.	John Surman & Jack DeJohnette  "Kentish Hunting" 1981 ECM
20.	Eduardo Paniagua "En Santa Maria" 1968 Hispavox
21.	Marcel Pérès & Ensemble Organum "Prière eucharistique: Prêtre "Introibo ad altare Dei"" 1995 Harmonia Mundi
22.	Lucia Bosé & Gregorio Paniagua "Io Pomodoro - Io Non Attendo" 1981 CBS
23.	Mirka Křivánková, Jiří Stivín & Co. Jazz System "Mlhavé doteky / Misty Contacts" 1985 Supraphon
24.	Dead Can Dance "The End Of Words" 1990 4AD
25.	John Surman "Caithness to Kerry" 1979 ECM
26.	Atrium Musicae • Gregorio Paniagua  "Allemande tripla  [Banchetto Musicale, 1617]" 1976 Erato
27.	Márta Sebestyén "Zúgadoz Az Erdő" 1992 Hannibal
28.	Virgil  "Virgil’s Eclogue 4, lines 1-17 (Part 2)" 39–38 BC Pantheon Poets
29.	Dead Can Dance "Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book" 1990 4AD

Hermetic Journals: Saturnalia Special (December 2022)

For his second show of the year Dangdut Banget pulls out his favourite records from Peru. Hot tropical music from the Amazon to the Andes mountains ...

Dangdut Banget On Another Note: Peru Special - 25th March 2023

Recorded at Kiosk Radio on Friday 27-04-2017
Ondula and Eva Geist each did a mix before their As Longitude gig at NOSE JOB in Beursschouwburg
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ONDULA at KIOSK RADIO for NOSE JOB (27-04-2018)

Artwork: Naturskræk (Fear of Nature) by J.F. Willumsen

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In Absentia Mix #17 - Rose Hip November

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