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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Approx. start time |
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Takako Minekawa |
Klaxon!
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Roomic Cube | What Are Records? | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) |
The Lorraine Bowen Experience |
Modern Way of Living
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Greatest Hits Volume One | Lorraine Bowen | 0:04:11 (Pop-up) |
Shang Shang Typhoon |
Paper Tiger
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2 | Sony Music | 0:07:08 (Pop-up) |
Chambers Brothers |
New Generation
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Time Has Come: The Best of the Chamber Brothers | Columbia/Legacy | 0:11:21 (Pop-up) |
Jake McKelvie & the Countertops |
Coming Too
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Solid Chunks of Energy | Jake McKelvie & the Countertops | 0:13:40 (Pop-up) |
Lulu |
The Boat That I Row
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7-inch single | Epic | 0:16:55 (Pop-up) |
Quarteto de Ramon Martinez (aka Don Tosti's Quartet) |
Chicano Boogie
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Pachuco Boogie: Historic Mexican American Music vol. 10 (various artists) | Arhoolie | 0:20:00 (Pop-up) |
Kid Creole and the Coconuts |
Endicott
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In Praise of Older Women...and Other Crimes | Sire | 0:22:29 (Pop-up) |
Henry Mancini |
Theme from The Mancini Generation
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The Days of Wine and Roses (box set) | RCA | 0:26:48 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Tipsy |
Bunny Kick ![]() |
Uh-oh! |
Asphodel |
0:29:30 (Pop-up) |
Oranj Symphonette |
A Shot in the Dark
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Plays Mancini | Gramavision | 0:33:38 (Pop-up) |
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos |
Postizo
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The Prosthetic Cubans | Atlantic | 0:35:59 (Pop-up) |
Sheila Chandra |
Out on My Own
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Out on My Own | Indipop | 0:40:59 (Pop-up) |
Raincoats |
Pretty
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Looking in the Shadows | Geffen | 0:45:05 (Pop-up) |
Yoko Ono |
Talking to the Universe
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Rising | Capitol | 0:49:19 (Pop-up) |
La Yegros |
Trocitos de Madera
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Viene De Mi | EMI | 0:52:20 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Hoppy Kamiyama & Bradford Reed |
Nepa Nepa ![]() |
The Bubbleman 2 |
God Ocean |
0:57:06 (Pop-up) |
Bostich + Fussible |
Motel Baja (vocals: Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz)
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Motel Baja | Nacional | 1:01:32 (Pop-up) |
Attwenger |
Dum
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Dog | Trikont | 1:05:47 (Pop-up) |
Teddy Bears |
Cobrastyle featuring Mad Cobra
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12-inch single | Atlantic/Big Beat | 1:09:02 (Pop-up) |
Ting Tings |
Shut Up and Let Me Go
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We Started Nothing | Columbia / Red Ink | 1:12:01 (Pop-up) |
Ramones |
I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
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Ramones | Sire | 1:14:58 (Pop-up) |
Whodini |
The Freaks Come Out At Night
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Escape | Jive/Arista | 1:16:35 (Pop-up) |
Ninian Hawick |
Scottish Rite Temple Stomp
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Steep Steps | Grimsey | 1:21:07 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Simply Saucer |
Mole Machine ![]() |
Cyborgs Revisited |
Sonic Unyon |
1:24:01 (Pop-up) |
Pizzicato Five |
Loudland!
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The Fifth Release from Matador | Matador | 1:27:56 (Pop-up) |
Juliana Hatfield |
Magic
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Sings Olivia Newton-John | American Laundromat | 1:32:28 (Pop-up) |
Girls at Our Best |
This Train
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Pleasure | Cherry Red | 1:37:00 (Pop-up) |
The Muffs |
I'm Here I'm Not
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Really Really Happy | Oglio; Five Foot Two | 1:39:39 (Pop-up) |
Petula Clark |
You're the One
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I Love to Sing (box set) | Sequel | 1:41:35 (Pop-up) |
(and the) Native Hipsters |
Mr. Magic
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There Goes Concorde Again ... | Mechanically Reclaimed Music | 1:44:05 (Pop-up) |
The Electric Prunes |
Get Me to the World on Time
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The Electric Prunes | Reprise | 1:48:21 (Pop-up) |
Stereolab |
Percolator
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup | Duophonic; Elektra | 1:50:36 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Yo La Tengo |
From a Motel 6 #2 ![]() |
Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo |
Matador |
1:54:20 (Pop-up) |
Rolling Stones |
She's a Rainbow
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Their Satanic Majesties Request | London | 1:59:08 (Pop-up) |
The Plugz |
El Clavo y la Cruz
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Repo Man (soundtrack) | MCA | 2:03:05 (Pop-up) |
Boredoms |
Anarchy in the UKK
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Chocolate Synthesizer | Reprise | 2:05:59 (Pop-up) |
Mrs. Grossman |
Hunt and Pecker (aka The Typewriter)
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Education and What-not with Mrs. Grossman (and Monty) | found tape | 2:10:33 (Pop-up) |
Motor Humming |
Aluminum Man
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Musical Aluminum | Tzadik | |
The Rip Off Artist |
Must Be Catchin'
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blu tribunL (various artists) | Inflatabl | 2:14:59 (Pop-up) |
Halcali |
Tandem
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Bacon | For Life | 2:18:22 (Pop-up) |
MKRNI |
Humedad
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Jumper | Madhouse | 2:22:22 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Igor Stravinsky |
loop from Symphony in Three Movements ![]() |
Igor conducting Columbia Symphony Orchestra |
Columbia |
2:26:03 (Pop-up) |
Mellow |
Take Me Higher
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CQ (soundtrack) | Emperor Norton | 2:31:51 (Pop-up) |
Shirley Bassey |
Light My Fire
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Shirley Bassey Is Really "Something" | United Artists | 2:36:14 (Pop-up) |
Nobody feat. Ikey Owens of Mars Volta |
Girls Alone (Nobody Muzak Mix)
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The Free Design: The Now Sound Redesigned (various artists) | Light in the Attic | 2:39:49 (Pop-up) |
The Free Design |
Girls Alone
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Heaven/Earth | Project 3 | 2:43:41 (Pop-up) |
Signor Rossi (soundtrack) |
Viva La Felicita
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Signor Rossi | Crippled Dick Hot Wax | 2:47:33 (Pop-up) |
Marlui Miranda |
Credo
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Ihu 2 - Kewere: Rezar: Prayer | Pau Brasil | 2:50:57 (Pop-up) |
Metá Metá |
Oranian
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Metá Metá | Kiko Dinucci | 2:55:23 (Pop-up) |
Young Marble Giants |
Wurlitzer Jukebox
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Colossal Youth | Rough Trade | 2:59:07 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Francis Bebey |
Amomi ![]() |
Un Petite Ivorien |
Ozileka Records |
3:01:52 (Pop-up) |
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes |
Everybody's Talkin'
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Best of | Legacy/Epic | 3:08:20 (Pop-up) |
Ashford & Simpson |
Ain't That Good Enough
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Gimme Something Real | Warner Bros. | 3:12:03 (Pop-up) |
Anonymous 4 |
Veni spiritus eternorum alme (Come, kind spirit of the ages)
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The Origin of Fire: Music and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen | Harmonia Mundi | 3:15:06 (Pop-up) |
Aphex Twin |
Blue Calx
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Selected Ambient Works Volume II | Sire | 3:15:28 (Pop-up) |
Lewis Carroll, Beatrice Lillie |
The Mock Turtle's Song
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The Nonsense Verse of Carroll and Lear | Caedmon | 3:17:56 (Pop-up) |
Leona Anderson |
Fish
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Music to Suffer By | Unique, a subsidiary of RKO Teleradio Pictures | 3:19:39 (Pop-up) |
Felix Kubin |
There Is a Garden
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Suppe für die Nacht | Korm Plastics | 3:21:44 (Pop-up) |
Lewis Carroll, Cyril Ritchard, Alec Wilder |
Pig and Pepper (excerpt)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Riverside | 3:25:20 (Pop-up) |
Monty Python's Flying Circus |
Argument Clinic
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Previous Record | Charisma/Buddah | 3:26:58 (Pop-up) |
Sukia |
Feel'n Free
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Contacto Espacial con el Tercer Sexo | Nickelbag | 3:30:32 (Pop-up) |
The Cardigans |
Step on Me
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First Band on the Moon | Mercury | 3:34:43 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Lester |
Take the Local ![]() |
Lithuanian Luau |
Lost Records |
3:38:35 (Pop-up) |
Tele Novella |
Words That Stay
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Merlynn Belle | Kill Rock Stars | 3:42:40 (Pop-up) |
Billie Davis |
Just Walk in My Shoes
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She Wants You! Pye Records' Feminine Side 1964-1970 (various artists) | Ace | 3:45:21 (Pop-up) |
Yola |
Barely Alive
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Stand for Myself | Easy Eye Sound | 3:47:46 (Pop-up) |
The Juniors of Canarsie High School |
excerpt
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Dotty's Dilemma, or We're Off to See the Clutz (sic) | Canarsie High School | 3:51:18 (Pop-up) |
Rosemary Clooney & Perez Prado |
Adios
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A Touch of Tabasco | RCA | 3:53:05 (Pop-up) |
John Morris |
Silent Movie March
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Mel Brooks' Greatest Hits featuring the Fabulous Film Scores of John Morris | Asylum | 3:55:28 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Johnny Beecher |
Sax Fifth Avenue ![]() |
45 played at 33 |
Warner Bros. |
3:58:19 (Pop-up) |
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