Synecdoche

Today the Wayback Machine is set for September 17, 1994. DJ Cruz from Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs was my guest and he spun a mix of hip hop gems. Cruz even waxed psychedelic with some Jimi Hendrix and—bonus—a live performance from Street Level! There might even have been a dancehall chantreuse but my memory is kind of hazy. Enjoy!

1. Orbital “Are We Here”
2. The Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
3. ID
4. Aisha Kandisha’s Jarring Effects “Fin Roh”
5. Ira Cohen “Kathmandu Dream Piece”
6. Dusty Legune “Mudlark”
7. Outback “Cuban Connections”
8. ID/Ticket Giveaways
9. Lights In A Fat City “Cubed”
10. High Lonesome Soundsystem “Waiting for the Lights”
11. Microglobe “Trust”
12. Ice Cube “Ghetto Bird”
13. PSA: Recycle
14. ID
15. DJ Cruz “Live and Direct”
    1. Patra “Worker Man”
    2. Jomanda “I Like It”
    3. Grand Puba “Reel to Reel”
    4. Funkadelic “One Nation Under A Groove (Instrumental Version)”
    5. ID
    6. Eric B and Rakim “I Know You Got Soul”
    7. Eric B and Rakim “Eric B Is President (Album Version)”
    8. Boogie Down Productions “The Bridge Is Over (MVPs)”
    9. Biz Markie “Vapors”
    10. Eric B and Rakim “Microphone Fiend (Extended Remix)”
    11. EPMD “You’re A Customer”
    12. Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick “La-Di-Da-Di”
    13. Run-DMC “Peter Piper”
    14. Mary Jane Girls “All Night Long”
    15. ID
    16. Tuff City Squad “To My Mellow”
    17. Street Level “Live and Direct”
    18. Unknown “Unknown”
    19. O.C. “Time’s Up”
    20. Unknown “Unknown”
    21. Unknown “Unknown”
    22. Unknown “Unknown”
    23. Nadine Sutherland and Terror Fabulous “Action”
    24. Various Artists “Pirates Anthem”
    25. ID
    26. Mary J Blige and Super Cat“ Dolly My Baby”
    27. Jeru The Damaja “Come Clean”
    28. ID
    29. Onyx “Throw Ya Gunz”
    30. Jimi Hendrix “Are You Experienced (DJ Cruz Mix)”
    31. ID
    32. Miss Jones “Freestyle”
    33. ID
    34. Double X Posse “Unknown”
16. The Orb “Towers of Dub”
17. Orbital “The Naked and the Dub”
18. ID
19. Ahlam/Mengle
20. The Drum Club “Dream Time”
21. The Drum Club “Follow the Sun”
22. Bandulu “Gravity Pull”
23. PSA: Give Blood
24. ID
25. Stephen Kent “China Basin”
26. Comic of the Week: Generation X

The Wayback Machine takes us way, way back to November 5, 1993. At the time I was into hardcore and punk like any angry young man from the early 90s. Even so, I still had sensitive, melancholy side to me. I was inspired to put together a show where you could turn off the lights, burn a candle and paint your nails black and tell your friends “I’d tell you what I’m feeling but—sigh—you wouldn’t understand.”

The first and last 15 minutes of the show are kind of muffled. When I digitized the original cassette the show was recorded on I discovered those parts of the show were actually playing backwards. I’m not quite sure what happened but it was easy enough to restore those sections to play properly, if muffled.

Secondly, I used a voice modulator during the show and it sounds terrible. I don’t know what compelled me to commit to it but it sounds terrible and for that, I apologize.

1. M1-Alterantive “The Marvels of Insect Life Theme”
2. ID
3. SPK “In Flagranto Delicto”
4. Halcyon Daze “Ragman”
5. The Wolfgang Press “Cut the Tree”
6. A Scanner Darkly “This is the Way”
7. Unknown “Unknown” One Truth?
8. ID
9. Bauhaus “Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Instrumental)”
10. Mother “Tiny Fingers”
11. Area “Green Light (Original Mix)”
12. Pink Industry “The Corpse (Absolute Version)”
13. Southern Death Cult “Moya”
14. ID
15. Beautiful Pea Green Boat “Nostalgia”
16. Dead Can Dance “Frontier (Demo)”
17. Shock Headed Peters “Thumbs of A Murderer”
18. Psychic Surgery “Greeks and Romans”
19. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult “Universal Blackness”
20. ID
21. Unknown “Unknown”
22. Boris Mikulic “Diana”
23. Mumbles “Two Clouds”
24. Coil “Main Title (Unreleased Hellraiser Theme)”
25. Clan of Xymox “Muscoviet Musquito”
26. Unknown “Unknown”
27. The Cure “World War”
28. No Trend “Teen Love”
29. ID
30. Unknown “Unknown”
31. PSA: Recycle
32. ID
33. Gene Loves Jezebel “Shaving My Neck”
34. Johanna’s House of Glamour “Dark Hour”
35. Christian Death “This is Heresy”
36. Double Happiness “Cut”
37. Jesus and Mary Chain “Cut Dead”
38. Unknown “Unknown”

I’m sure I’ve already mentioned this a dozen times or so but all the shows I’m posting to Mixcloud come from unlabeled cassettes of my shows from WMFO 91.5 FM. That means when I digitize each cassette it’s always a surprise to discover what’s on them. Today’s Halloween show from 1993 is exactly that and does it rock!

A Bazooka Joe Halloween show means Samhain and Misfits, Black Sabbath and Slayer, Voïvod and Bauhaus and so much more. It also means a wicked spoken word piece by Ryk McIntry that tells Hyde’s account of things. And it also means a live set from Veil of Thorns!!! Really, I don’t know what else what you could ask for. Oh, fine, I’ll throw in some “Monster Mash.”

1. PSA: Give Blood
2. Boris Mikulic “Inspired by the Devil”
3. Samhain “Initium”
4. Black Sabbath “Black Sabbath”
5. ID/Comic of the Week: Children’s Crusade
6. Neil Norman & His Cosmic Orchestra “Twilight Zone”
7. Carcass “Reek of Putrefaction”
8. Slayer “Seasons in the Abyss”
9. Bauhaus “Bela Lagosi’s Dead, Live”
10. Voïvod “Batman”
11. Ministry “Every Day is Halloween
12. ID
13. Rick McIntyr “Hyde’s Account of Things”
14. Veil of Thorns LIVE & DIRECT
15. ID
16. Rudimentary Peni “Nightgaunts”
17. Rudimentary Peni “The Horrors in the Museum”
18. Misfits “Halloween II”
19. Slaughter Shack “Vampire”
20. The One Way Streets “Jack the Ripper”
21. Alien Sex Fiend “Now I’m Feeling Zombified”
22. Venom “Welcome to Hell”
23. Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt Kickers “Monster Mash”
24. Skinny Puppy “Draining Faces”
25. Vic Mizzy “The Addams Family (Main Theme)”
26. Megadeth “Five Magics”
27. Morbid Angel “Chapel of Ghouls”