Tonight, we're debuting new work by Christopher DeLaurenti (known for The Phonographers Union, 'The Score' column at The Stranger and my favorite of his pieces "Favorite Intermissions: Music Before and Between Beethoven, Stravinsky, Holst" -recordings made secretly during breaks at orchestral concerts.)

Tonight we'll be playing "To The Cooling Tower, Satsop"

From the liner notes:

" In 1972, Washington Public Power Supper System (WPPSS) proposed building two nuclear power plants at opposite ends of Washington state, one in Hanford, the other at Satsop, near Elma, a slender town you can walk through in less than 5 minutes. Due to construction delays and cost overruns, WPPSS was soon mocked statewide by emphatically pronouncing its acronym, "Whoops!" Neither plant was completed. In 1982, WPPSS halted construction, defaulting on 2.25 billion in bonds.

Satsop's two cooling towers and an attendant network of tunnels remained for 25 years, fenced off. Tunnels were buried or blocked. In 1999 at the behest of local and state officials, the facility was renamed Satsop Development Park. As more small manufacturers and warehouses moved in, the area was rechristened Satsop Business Park in 2011.

But the tunnels and towers - as well as their unique acoustic signatures - survive to this day, and should be counted among the sonic wonders of Washington: the Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden, Seattle's A Sound Garden by Douglass Hollis at Sand Point Naval Station, and the One Square Inch of Silence  discovered by Gordon Hempten in the Hoh Rain Forest. All of these places beckon us to listen to the world in a new way.

The tunnels of Satsop acoustically altered my sense of depth, space, and presence. Most of the giant duct-like passageway is a perfect tube, yet random debris, pools of water, boxy alcoves, turns, and the occasional vestibule all contribute to a sound-scape where sounds near and far reverberate, echo, and smear.

To the Cooling Tower, Satsop documents my subterranean journey into these tunnels, humble concrete troughs designed to deliver water for cooling the reactor core. I made no measure in miles or meters; instead, the 44 minute duration of  this album captures my exploration from entrance to exit." - Christopher DeLaurenti

It's The Get Down Goblin Radio Show time. Tonight I'm playing Wolves In The Throne Room, an Olympia black metal band that has a new record that is mostly synths and no drums - has what has been called a " John Carpenter, nefarious 80s horror soundtrack" feel. Also: some weird New Age records my sister found for free outside Easy Street, "Music From Saharan Cellphones" (literally), Tuvan throat singing songs from a Russian prison via Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun, experimental tapes I've got shoved in the bottom of my bag, and other bits of strange audio I've been compiling from the internet. I'm not going to play this System of a Down karaoke vid during my set, but it will give you a taste of what is to come at 8PM.

Tonight on The Get Down Goblin Radio Show: New Shabazz Palaces, noise rap from Clipping., the entire Gang Wizard (Official) discography, This Is My Condition, this Indian ragas album my 9 month old is always banging his head to, Nigerian funk from William Onyeabor, local weirdo's Heatwarmer,Hollow Earth Radio hero Victoria Galinsky, Jacob Smigel's found sound record 'Eavesdrop', Justin Clifford Rhody's found "sounds" disc, "Boiling a Frog" from Eric Ostrowski, tracks from the Queer Rock Camp 2011 comp, and other odds and ends.

This Is My Condition

One man noise-rock band

Playing live at Hollow Earth Radio, June 8 w/ Gang Wizard

Bring a few bucks to donate to the bands

https://www.facebook.com/events/888323587850673/

Music to my ears

We will be interviewing Seattle musician Bill Rieflin today. You may know Bill from his work with REM, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Slow Music, the Blackouts, etc. We’ll be chatting with Bill about his association with Robert Fripp (King Crimson) and The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists, a group of 50-60 freely improvising guitarists who will be performing at Washington Hall on May 25. Tune in from 10-12 to hear this interview on the The Shit Show w Jaybo!

"Having helped define prog-rock in the 60s and 70s with his band King Crimson, Robert Fripp has gone on to create different forms of musical expression over the decades. Nearly 30 years ago he formed a course that became the basis of his current musical outlet, The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists. This group of guitarists creates improvised music as one – thinking, feeling and moving as one unit operating on a seemingly higher level of consciousness.

The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists are all alumni of Guitar Craft, guitar courses Fripp began in 1985 with the goal of developing relationships with guitar, music and oneself. At GC, students use new standard tuning (C, G, D, A, E, G) and developing a unique picking style. While the school welcomes students without experience, most have been playing guitar a couple years. The intensive classes also feature instruction on relaxed sitting for guitarists who play daily, among other practices. Over 3,000 students have taken the courses held on four continents.

After years of training and discipline, the best guitarists from GC can become part The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists, a group whose purpose is the specialized “study in self-organizing properties of complex wholes,” states their website. “A group comes together in service of an aim. At a particular level, each member of the group is that group, and the group may act in and through that person.” - What’s Up Magazine, http://www.whatsup-magazine.com/2014/05/robert-fripp-the-orchestra-of-crafty-guitarists/

WE'RE EXPANDING!!!! Big news for the The Get Down Goblin Radio Show - we're getting a cohost. And it's none other than DJ SHAM AKA That Crazy Sax Player Guy in Prawnyxx (see video). This dude has impeccable taste for atrocious music and is also sooooooo snobby about it he brings his own turntables! Tonight, DJ Sham promises this: "Joe McPhee when he was young and lethal! Terrible John Zorn saxophone! Dirty French Psychedelics! Tune in to learn why Greece will always be better than that filth hole known as Michigan! 8-9:30ish."

One string and a whammy bar. That's all you need.

Tonight on The Get Down Goblin Radio Show (6-8pm) I will be play select tracks from two labels that were gracious enough to send over an assortment of records. First up we've got EM Records in Osaka, Japan -  an independent record label who sent us a huge box of experimental, jazz, blues etc. records. Also, local label Dead Accents dropped by a bunch of experimental noise & stuff from Blsphm, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Great Falls...

As always, I will take your (Lana Del Rey) requests.

Azerbaijan’s Got Talent 

Check out this pretty righteous grunge from the Caucasus region!

Hello city council and Mayor Gere and thank you for the chance to speak. My name is Phil Elverum and I live at… My family, the Lowman family, has been in Anacortes since the 1800s. For future generations and for this present moment, I care deeply about this place and what we mean when we say...

Tonight my new Italian volunteer Simone will be sharing his archives of European free-jazz that just arrived. Most of the artists are Beligium, w/ ties to Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands. All the roads lead to Brussels! Lots of cross pollination and shared band members from all over the region - tonight: jazz from and around the Belgian underground:  Hugo Atunes-Reciprocal Uncles-Mulabanda-Heninz Karlhausen and the Diatonics-Cactus truck- Selvhenter-Squarcicatrici-Ay!  

We picked a photo from the band Ay! because they are the most colorfully dressed.

With this cold and icy weather in the US, maybe it’s time to get a new hobby?

Jan Herman – Election Day Tape (4:48), one-sided 7in vinyl with fold-out poster, Nova Broadcast Press, San Francisco, 1971

Jan Herman – Election Day Tape, one-sided 7in vinyl with fold-out poster, Nova Broadcast Press, San Francisco, 1971

Produced by experimental poet and publisher Jan Herman (born 1942) in collaboration with poet and musician Clark Coolidge (born 1939), General Municipal Election was issued on the occasion of an Election Day in San Francisco on November 4, 1969. Election Day Tape is a noisy sound collage of political speeches and static, intended to be broadcasted in the streets around polling places. Similarly, the satirical, fake election ballot could aggressively interfere with potential voters’ decision.