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Gary @garysgotabanger

Poet, cartoonist, DJ, international music enthusiast. Taste-blind American

Joined May 2012
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2 Jun 2024
🧵1/5 I've started an informal Ahmed Adaweya bio/cataloging project. I'm ripping & uploading 3-4 dozen 45s, LPs & cassettes. I've already posted 11 releases to hear/download with detailed notes, references to other fans & scholars including @simongandrew ahmedadaweya.blogspot.com/
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7-10 PM EDT | One Summer Afternoon in 2001, as I Pedaled Furiously Down 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Nawal Al Zoghbi's El Layali Poured from the Open Window of a Passing Car to Became Part of the Sound of the Street Rushing Past wfmu.org/playlists/shows/165… #WFMU @GTDRadio
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Finally listening to all 8 tracks by legendary Lebanese beat group the Cedars/Sea-ders. I met the guy who released this LP at his record store in Lisbon a couple years ago. The Sead-ders, s/t (2012 RE of 2008 OG, Groovie Records, Portugal).
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Double Feature: Early Spring | Late Spring wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164… 7-10 PM EDT TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio we're spinning early to mid 20th Century Japanese tracks, from the first recordings through ryukoka, Latin, and enka, to 1950s-60s jazz, pop, and group sounds. Join us!
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SMITH, ROBACK & SANDOVAL 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164… TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio A journey through the world of Kendra Smith, David Roback, & Hope Sandoval, beginning w/Kendra's punk debut & winding through the heart of the Paisley Underground, Opal, Mazzy Star & beyond!
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Technically speaking, tho, *every* Omar Khorshid album is the very best of Omar Khorshid. Omar Khorshid, The Very Best Of Omar Khorshid (Belly Dance Delights) (Voix De L'Orient/EMI, 1979).
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Mind-blowing sounds on this incredible new release. Himba performers recorded by Ian Brennan, Himba Hymn - Ghosts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast (@SublimeFreq, 2026).
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Finally scored Volume 1, completing the set! Laila Morad Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (Soutelphan, 1975). One of the greatest Egyptian voices of all time. Is it coincidental that Oum had passed just months before these were released, or had Wahab & Hafez been sitting on them, waiting ... ?
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Smith/Roback/Sandoval World Domination Update: Critical mass reached w/acquisition of this short but stunning EP: Kendra Smith Presents The Guild Of Temporal Adventurers, s/t (Fiasco, 1992). A 3-hour Smith/Roback show centered around Opal's tempting, or do we need Mazzy/Sandoval?
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What Was Vaporwave? 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164… Join us TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio for an unorthodox retrospective 2010-2020
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Smith Roback Sandoval World Domination Update: Nabbed their elusive bootleg! Opal, Early Recordings Vol. 2 (not on label, 2018). Lo-fi, but far from unlistenable. Looking forward to putting together a show in the very near future ...
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LET THE MUSIC EAT YOU | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164… TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio An all-vinyl show feat. 21st Century Euro dub, Maghrebi trance, Brooklyn pirate radio, Libyan folk poetry, Texas industrial, distressed pop from Australia, Québécois electronic, J-Punk & more
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Super #SmithRobackSandoval nostalgia hit: I first heard this in a railroad apartment in San Francisco's Western Addition ca. 1988. Rainy Day, s/t (Klimt Records 2025 RE of OG 1984 Llama Records). Had no context for it then; love it now, esp. Kendra's vocals on Chilton's Holocaust
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Smith Roback Sandoval update: Pre-Opal live recording from the year Rainy Day came out. Clay Allison, Live at the Electric Banana 5-22-1984. Terrific version of David's No Easy Way Down (titled "Cherry Jam" on this boot). What this LP lacks in hi-fi, it makes up for in intensity.
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Another addition to the multi-tentacled Smith/Roback/Sandoval World Takeover: Kendra Smith, Stille Im Meine Hamburg (Overzealous Editions), a strange one-off written by Jonah Corey. The two would go on to form The Guild Of Temporal Adventurers w/ Orson, Eergott Liqueure & others
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The Smith/Roback/Sandoval World Domination Project slowly inches forward w/ items in the mail today, including this crucial contractual obligation LP: Opal, Early Recordings (Rough Trade, 1989).
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Holy crap this is mind-blowing jazz funk fuzz! Shapoval Sextet, Kobzareva Duma (Shukai, 2020), picked up at @RecordGrouch
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Death Is Not the End's pirate radio series is mind-blowing; first listen to David Goren's Brooklyn Pirates: Neighbourhoods In The Sky, 2014–2021 (2025), which I had high hopes for & which the LP exceeds. Love love love this
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I loved his first record, Songs of Horaman; this new one is every bit as powerful. Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian, Noor-e Vojood (Radio Khiyaban, Cardinal Fuzz, Centripetal Force, 2025).
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South Korea on Vinyl 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163… TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio we're spinning soul, funk, folk, psychedelic, DIY, and disco on wax from the Republic of Korea. Join us!
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SOUND ON: First listen to one of a dozen new Libyan 45s received in the mail today. Hassan Al-Bousaifi, Lemlaya (Voice of the Desert, date u/k, Benghazi).
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