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Put your ears on a trip to exotic experiments from Spain, then send them round the world to join some of your fellow artists from Electronic Cottage.
Tune in live on KOWS, this Saturday, September 15th, 12:00 AM USA PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (Friday Midnight) here: KOWS Or, anytime for the next month here (this show will disappear in a few weeks): Deprogramming Center 73 Cruise the world from your own home. 
Artwork From Spain's "HAZ 26"
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Mailart is a regular thing around our house. Since so many EC persons are sharing their treasures, I thought I'd share some recent receipts of mine.  above: Ryan Boyd, California below: Justin Jackley, Texas   above: Gen Ken Montgomery, New York and HAZ, Spain (from HAZ 26 book of original drawings)   Fred Sack, Kansas and Dave Fuglewicz, Georgia (envelope from Japanese postcard set) 
Kick off September with the Magnetic Bungalow Show, featuring the mid 1980's Human Flesh cassette album: A Collection Of Ambiant Music, Volume 1. This show features an audio interview with Alain Neffe, mastermind of Insane Music PLUS... a very special unreleased treat!
Tune into this program on Saturday, September 1, 2018, 12:00 AM USA Pacific Daylight Time on KOWS, 92.5 FM (that's Friday at Midnight), here:
KOWS Or else, the link below will hook you up to the show any time: https://archive.org/details/TheDeprogrammingCenter72
Twist your wires together and heat up your speakers. Be warned: a half hour of Jack Hertz followed by a half hour of Phil Klampe could ignite your magneto.
Tune in live on KOWS, this Saturday, August 18th, 12:00 AM USA PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (Friday Midnight) here: KOWS
Or, anytime for the next month here (this show will disappear in a few weeks):
Deprogramming Center 71
Don't be afraid to twist.
Art From Phil Klampe's "Shadows Think Twice"
August's Magnetic Bungalow Show features an experimental Lord Litter cassette album that is so rare that it was never released by its creator. "On The Other Hand, Part 2, At The Gates Of Hell" blends LL's sonic improvs with bits of audio recorded by EC persons Chris Phinney (Mental Anguish), Gen Ken Montgomery, C. Goff III (Herd Of The Ether Space), PLUS other 20th Century cassette artists like Carl Howard (Nomuzic), Dan Fioretti, Alain Neffe (I Scream), Dieter Zobel/Gui Gust (Das Freie Orchester), and more...
Original Cassette Jcard For On The Other Hand, Part 2
Tune into this program on Saturday, August 4, 2018, 12:00 AM USA Pacific Daylight Time on KOWS, 92.5 FM (that's Friday at Midnight), here:
kows92-5.org/listen/ Or else, the link below will hook you up to the show any time: https://archive.org/details/TheDeprogrammingCenter70
This week's Deprogramming Center features excerpts from several Klaus Schulze concerts, all originating from tapes that once belonged to the late Doug Walker of the legendary Alien Planetscapes. Fans of space music, Krautrock, and synthesizers are encouraged to tune in for this rare treat.
You can hear the show live on KOWS, this Saturday, July 21st, 12:00 AM USA PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (Friday Midnight) here: KOWS Or, anytime for the next month here (this show will disappear in a few weeks): Deprogramming Center 69 Now Groove! 
Whether you're familiar with the enigmatic and prolific Ken Clinger or not, this installment of Magnetic Bungalow will provide revelations, history, and entertainment. Ken is still making albums today, which still retain some of the elements that he unveiled to the world in his first cassette release, 35 years ago. Yesteryear's Ken Clinger cassette albums truly showcase the Lo Fi beauties of home recording, and KC.01 is a genuine classic.
Paste-up original art for the KC.01 Cassette
Tune into this program on Saturday, July 7, 2018, 12:00 AM USA Pacific Daylight Time on KOWS, 92.5 FM (that's Friday at Midnight), here
Or else, the link below will hook you up to the show any time: The Deprogramming Center #68
It's time for another radio-active dose of sound experimentation. Some EC folk highlighted in this one too.
You can hear the show live on KOWS, this Saturday, June 16th, 12:00 AM USA PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (Friday Midnight) here: KOWS Or, anytime for the next month here (this show will disappear in a few weeks): Deprogramming Center 67 Now Groove! 
There exists at the University Of Missouri in Kansas City a huge research library of sound recordings, called the "Marr Sound Archive." My wife, Karen, and I took a little trip there on Monday, June 4, to listen to a few rare tapes made by the legendary Raymond Scott. We had a unique and very pleasant experience. The Marr Archive houses copies of millions of records, cylinders, tapes, CDs, digital audio files -- all sizes, shapes, lengths, etc. -- all types of artists from all over the world. There are several "special" collections there as well, including the most extensive collection of Raymond Scott recordings anywhere. The Scott collection contains not only commercially-released productions, but lots and lots of one-of-a-kind items recorded on lathe cut lacquer disks and reel to reel tapes -- radio shows, practice sessions, electronic sound experiments, etc.  Just one row of many shelves at the Marr Archive. These are all 78 RPM records. Raymond Scott was a genius musician and arranger, and was also the inventor of some of the earliest electronic synthesizers. His work influenced artists all over the world from the 1930's to the 1980's, and continues to do so today. His jazz and orchestral recordings are quirky and inventive; some have become permanently embedded in the public consciousness due to Warner Brothers purchasing and adapting them as soundtracks for Looney Toons. In the 1940's, Scott started creating all sorts of electronic instruments and playing around with recording technology, producing sounds that human beings had never heard (nor imagined) before. For more extensive background on Scott, go here: Official Raymond Scott Website.  Twenty-four of the 122 boxes containing rare Raymond Scott recordings at the Marr Archive. The Marr Archive is a research library, and the staff is very mindful of copyrights. Appointments for listening must be arranged in advance, and listening is only allowed in-house (no internet audio files are available). For the sake of preserving rare recordings, guests don't get to handle original materials and only get to listen to digitized audio. Many of the Scott recordings at the library have been digitized, but some haven't, and if you want to hear something that isn't digitized, you are obliged to pay $70/hour for a technician to digitize it for you. To offset all of these rules, the staff at the archive is very helpful and welcoming to guests, which makes a trip to the library a fun and easy experience (at least it was for us). For more information about the Raymond Scott collection, go here: Marr Archive Raymond Scott Collection.  Marr Library Specialist Andrew Hansbrough shows Goff an original lacquer recording of a 1939 Raymond Scott rehearsal. Karen and I arranged to hear four recordings while we were there -- about 1 1/2 hours of material. The library specialist with whom I arranged our visit, Andrew Hansbrough, had prepared a computer terminal with the materials I requested, but he went well beyond that in welcoming us to the Marr Archive. He gave us a personal tour of the entire place. This included demonstrations of some very ancient sound equipment and of the GIANT robot system that retrieves huge palettes of recordings from a vault that extends up several floors into a huge dark void. Among other unique items, he showed us some 20 inch disks made of lacquer on glass during the 1940's (the USA needed all its metal for the war effort back then). Really nice guy!  A primordial dictaphone from the early 20th Century, one of many unique items on display at the Marr Archive. The recordings that Karen and I heard included tapes of experiments made with various versions of Scott's "Electronium" and one tape of advertisement out takes from 1960. None of this stuff has ever been made available to the general public outside of the Marr Archive. The electronium materials were as engaging as any electronic music I've ever heard, ranging in form from rhythmic sounds, to lovely washes, to complete dissonant wildness. The 1960 adverts we heard were obviously being arranged on the spot with some very talented musicians -- the same products (and verbiage) being presented and re-presented in all sorts of genres and styles to determine how best to sell them.  Karen Goff listened to Scott's recordings while perusing a copy of "Raymond Scott Artifacts From The Archives. Obviously we had a great time there, and we will be going back for more. If any of you readers out there ever plan a trip to Kansas City, get in touch with me, and perhaps we could go there together...
This week, the Deprogramming Center's MAGNETIC BUNGALOW program will feature the 1991 cassette album: Hemoglobine by the French group, Quintet De L'Art. C. Goff III recently called attention to this rare album in HalZine 12. The tape is uniquely creative and theatrical, playful and unpretentious. Fans of Dadaism, The Residents, and classic lo fi fun will likely get a smile from this broadcast.
This event will take place Saturday, June 2, 2018, 12:00 AM USA Pacific Daylight Time on KOWS, 92.5 FM (that's Friday at Midnight), coming your way from Occidental, California, via Kansas City, Kansas. (see details over on the right side of this page for links).
If you find this appointment to be inconvenient, the link below will hook you up to the show any time: The Deprogramming Center 66 at the Internet Archive 
See ya at the Bungalow.
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Swami LoopynandaI am one of the several alter-egos of Charles Rice Goff III. I am best known as a radio host, although I have had some of my reviews published here and there over the years, and have even been involved in occasional recording projects. Archives
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