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Our signal went kaput this month so the Currently Off Air emergency broadcast machine randomly auto-selected 52 complete pieces of music in 55 minutes. A Riot-Girl-Jazz-poetics-ambient-hip-hop-orchestral-folk-electronica mix up
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As many of our regular contributors are taking an ill-deserved break or hawking their creations around the Edinburgh Fringe, this show is collection of odds & ends that didn't make it in to the previous 10 shows. Job Centre Ugliness, Mr Blank's job proposal, another School book story, Howard Beale's raving meltdown, DJ Chris from Alaska's K-BHR waxes lyrical about light, poetry from Tex Ritter, Ginsberg and MF Doom's, music from Do Make Say Think, Pavement, Burial, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, Bohren und der Club of Gore, Sun Ra, Vincent Gallo, Thomas Dolby and the extraordinary Daniel Wakeford.

  

The first four episodes of the 963 part Space Drama 'The Tesla Frequencies'. A live radio link to the Outernational Space Station goes awry. A vanished astronaut, a space station filled with global eccentrics, Strange radio frequencies recorded by an Astronaut before his disappearance from the Tesla module hint at an Extra-terrestrial radio link. Four 15 minute episodes first broadcast as part of the Currently Off Air podcast and UK radio show.

Our signal went kaput this month so the Currently Off Air emergency broadcast machine randomly auto-selected 55 minutes of sonic mayhem to fill the dead air.

Playlist:
Intro
Sound of Year Round Please KEITH TEXTOR
Jingle JOHN BAKER
Listen SOUNDLESS MIND ERASER
Listening to Richard Brautigan
Cut Ups WILLIAM BURROUGHS / COLDCUT
Worldwide Intro
Come with us
We are part of the loud minority
Graffitti Rock excerpt
Flowers for Those You Love RICHARD BRAUTIGAN
Discipline 21-II SUN RA
Beneath the Undertow ISOTOPE 217
Man in the Green Night Shirt BLASTER AL ACKERMAN read by STEVE Sleaze Steele
Turkish March CRISS CROSS
We travel the spaceways SUN RA
Push it out BETA BAND
Allegro (Sonata II - Bach) MOE KAUFMAN
Humdrum SAUL WILLIAMS
Gossipo Perpetuo JEAN JACQUES PERREY
Howl ALLEN GINSBERG
Kalchoma KRISHNA SHAH
Wheels FRO FIGGIS
Thriller LESTER BOWIE's BRASS FANTASY
Light my Fire HELMUT ZACAHARIAS & HIS ORCHESTRA
Wingwalker SHELLAC
Hindi Soundtrack Music TIZRE MANZIL
Digichant URSUAL RUCKER
Chakan JEFF GILSON
There are other Words SUN RA
Dirty feet and Giggles LAIKA
Wind AIR
In a sentimental mood JOHN COLTRANE & DUKE ELLINGTON
Seat Soundtrack SOUNDLESS MIND ERASER
Journey into Satchidinanda ALICE COLTRANE
Sinking of the Titanic GAVIN BRYARS
Cafe TIM BUCKLEY
Perpeteum Mobile ARVO PART
I only have eyes for you THE FLAMINGOS
Electro Weird JOHN BAKER

The B-side of a themed show about life on the road: road songs and roaring engines, Beat Generation benzedrine buzz from Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Hunter S. Thompson, Lee Ranaldo, Mamie Van Doren and Morphine. Songs from the side of the road by The Modern Lovers, The Normal, Arlo & Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Sun Ra, Tom Waits, Bongwater and Audio Bunny.

  

More coverage of the 2011 Brighton Festival. Featuring an interview with Yael Karavan on her ensemble's award winning show, 'Anima', Fred Pipes on Open Houses, Cine-City's 'Hangover Square' installation, drunken clowns loose in Hove, and, possibly inaccurate festival reports from FTarts correspondent, Malone Carter.

Currently Off Air's first show for Brighton Festival Radio features a hunt for Matt Rudkin, a dance maestro whose funny and alarming show, 'Naive Dance Masterclass', plays at the Nightingale Theatre. There is an interview with il pixel rosso's Silvia Mercuriali. Along with filmmaker, Simon Wilkinson, she has created a show, 'And the Birds Fell from the Sky', at the Old Market, which is a mixture of outlaw clowns, interactive film, video goggles and immersive theatre. Also, protest songs, Balkan Brass and various absurdities.
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The A-side of a themed show about life on the road: road songs and roaring engines, Hells Angels, Taxi Drivers, Jack Kerouac, Tom Waits, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Lee Ranaldo, radio jingle doctors and Bobby Doughnuts reporting on Drunken Wacky Races.

A themed show about the mind: E.S.P. parties, telekinetic stunts and hypnosis aboard the Outernational Space Station. Includes Episode 3 of the Space Drama, 'The Tesla Frequencies', sports reporter, Iam Ham-Roll covering the 'It's an E.S.P Knockout World Championships' in Cuba, mindful music from 60s Beat Girls, 70s troubadours, 80s protopunks and Shoegazers. Warning: stuffed full of sonic guff. Produced by BiF.

The second part of Space Drama 'The Tesla Frequencies' makes up part of this Love in Outer Space themed show. Correlli loses it, recordings of a disappeared astronaut turn up, a Cyborg declares his lust, Barry White swears it up, Bobby Dougnuts covers onanism, collages of Love and Sex provided by the 365 Days Project.60 minutes of the usual mix of absurd comedy, cut ups and music.

Currently Off Air is a monthly sonic soup of absurd comedy, cut ups and tributes to the golden ages of radiowave transmissions. This month: a wassailing bowl of wacaday doom, Bobby Doughnuts reporting from the Reindeer shaving championships, anti-Porn dental pain, the Faruk clown tribe invade Brighton, Shatner's Jingle blow out, Laboratoro in session, music from Frusciante, The Sonics, Beck, Rotary Connection, Jim White and a Charlie Brown christmas.

Also broadcast on Brighton's Radio Reverb 97.2 FM on Fridays at 9pm and repeated during the last hour of each week (11pm GMT). Produced by Buck in Fudgy. Playlists are available at www.currentlyoffair.com

Currently Off Air is a monthly sonic soup of absurd comedy, cut ups, mix downs and tributes to the golden ages of radiowave transmissions. This month: Chegwin ragga, Badalamenti drones, Bubblegum Dream Pop, Cameron's Bromance, Nordine's Envelope, Stanshall's Shirt, Outside correspondents banged up inside, Bristow's defective night Swim, Last Month's Quiz, Schoolbook stories, Burrough's Ah Pook, A Life in Sound, Stanley Holloway's Brahn Boots, Huggy Bear's Bullets. Also broadcast on Brighton's Radio Reverb 97.2 FM on Fridays at 9pm and repeated during the last hour of each week (11pm GMT). Produced by Buck in Fudgy. Playlists are available at www.currentlyoffair.com

Radio fuzz, dream pop, useless reporters, leching lurgies, irrational hagglers, Cut-ups and put-downs. The only place where UK Chancellor, George Osbourne can be heard alongside Burroughs and Bongwater.

Currently Off Air is a monthly sonic soup of dream drones, absurd comedy and bullshagen concerning the looming end of radiowave transmissions.
Also broadcast on Brighton's Radio Reverb 97.2 FM on the last hour of each week (GMT). Produced by Buck in Fudgy.

Playlists are available at www.currentlyoffair.com

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