Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Episode 01, Some Assembly Required

Episode 01, Some Assembly Required

01 John Oswald - "Power"
02 The Bran Flakes - "Let us praise him children"
03 Negativland - "(Untitled)"
04 Escape Mechanism - "Today"
05 Steve Fisk - "Kennedy saga (part VII)"
06 Brian Eno/David Byrne - "Help me, somebody"
07 The Tape-beatles - "The law of repetition"
08 Steve Fisk - "The Way"
09 Lecture on Nothing - "Truckloads of bibles"
10 Negativland - "I am god"
11 Rik Rue - "Standing for nothing/falling for everything"
12 Escape Mechanism - "No reason"
13 Public Works - "Follow me"
14 The Evolution Control Committee - "Yakaroni and cheese"
15 Laso Halo - "One Jesus"
16 Naked Rabbit - "His name is Jesus"
17 Space Mesa - "Light of eternal mind"
18 Negativland - "Christianity is stupid"


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Unfinished Business - Part IV

Unfinished Business - Part IV (Business Is Finished)

I couldn't wait to upload the remaining episodes... The need to wrap this up sooner than later was too great. I just posted 4 of the last 5 to the archive and am uploading the fifth as I type this.

Episode #1 was produced sometime in March or April of 2001, and it's the last to be added to the archive. So Some Assembly Required has been in syndication for just over a decade. I'd been doing the show live up to that point, in Minneapolis, and only started to pre-produce in 2001 so that I could send the show out to air on other radio stations.

It turned out to be a lot more work than I had anticipated, but by the time I realized what I'd signed myself up for there were more than five stations expecting new episodes every week. I took pride in that and so somehow found the time. Within a couple of years the show was being broadcast in dozens of different cities and my fate was sealed.

Thanks again to everyone for all the emails I've been getting since announcing the show's retirement. It actually means an awful lot. It's been really great to hear from folks who listened regularly and enjoyed the show. I'll miss it as well, of course!

Episode #1 is up next... enjoy.

Thanks for listening,
Jon Nelson


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Episode 04, Some Assembly Required

Episode 04, Some Assembly Required

01 The Tape-beatles - “Love”
02 Wobbly - “Ask me me me?”
03 Negativland - “Stress in marriage”
04 Involution - “Lab love”
05 The Bran Flakes - “Learning about love”
06 Steinski and Mass Media - “Wild about that thing”
07 Negativland - “The playboy channel”
08 The Tape-beatles - “Rhythm filler”
09 Steve Fisk - “Love X 8”
10 Silica-Gel - “Sex w/ a woman”
11 Wobbly - “3 sex tunes: Eggs, Baby, Feelings”
12 The Bran Flakes - “Feelings”
13 The Button - “The most ugly man in the world”
14 Echelon/Jane Dowe - “Robot love I love you”
15 Lecture on Nothing - “The art of love”
16 The Tape-beatles - “Desire”
17 Silica-Gel - “I honestly love you”
18 The Bran Flakes - “Mutual admiration and love”


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Episode 05, Some Assembly Required

Episode 05, Some Assembly Required

01 Wobbly - “I’m in the zone”
02 Plunderphonics All Stars - "Untitled (segment, side A)"
03 Cast of Thousands w/ Escape Mechanism - “Draining”
04 Silica-Gel - “Master of the game”
05 Negativland - “Discernment"
06 Negativland - "Metaloop"
07 Tom Recchion - “Out of the dunes”
08 Turntable Trainwreck - "(Untitled)"
09 People Like Us - "(Untitled)"




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Episode 06, Some Assembly Required

Episode 06, Some Assembly Required

01 The Evolution Control Committee - “Rocked by rape”
02 John Oswald - “Pretender”
03 Natasha Spencer - “The house she flew in on (excerpt)”
04 William S. Burroughs - “Origin and theory of the tape cut-ups”
05 William S. Burroughs - “Recalling all active agents”
06 The Evolution Control Committee - “Bush speech (corrected - part 1)”
07 Negativland - “Yellow black and rectangular”
08 The Evolution Control Committee - “Bush speech (corrected - part 2)”
09 The Tape-beatles - “The law of repetition”
10 Steinski and Mass Media - “Its up to you (the war mix)”
11 People Like Us - “More plunderblunders”
12 Escape Mechanism - “Culture”
13 Pedro Rebelo - “...Just cartoon music”
14 The Tape-beatles - “From the tide or the wind”
15 People Like Us - “Whistle song”
16 Corporal Blossom - “Plastic job”
17 Steinski and Mass Media - “The xen to one ratio”
18 Glockenspiel - “When the record goes around”


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Episode 07, Some Assembly Required

Episode 07, Some Assembly Required

01 Lecture on Nothing - “Grab and pull”
02 Escape Mechanism - “No reason”
03 Public Works - “Noise”
04 Steev Hise - “Retrofuturist trip-swing (gender politics mix)”
05 People Like Us - “Sugar & splice”
06 John Oswald - “White”
07 Steinski and Mass Media - “Everything’s disappeared”
08 Escape Mechanism - “Digital occasion”
09 David Shea - "(untitled)"
10 Silica-Gel - “Beauty bugaboo”
11 Antediluvian Rocking Horse - “The premier needs protection”
12 David Shea - "(untitled)"
13 Laso Halo - “One Jesus”
14 People Like Us - “Yodel bomber”

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Friday, May 13, 2011

Unfinished Business - Part III

Getting pretty close now...

Just posted five more (old) episodes. Looks like I'll get the remaining shows posted by June at the latest. These last few episodes are all from the very first syndicated season of the show, produced at least ten years ago. The fact is they're sometimes a little bit difficult for me to listen to now, but here they are nonetheless...

More coming soon. I should find the time to upload another four episodes sometime in the next week or two and then it's just the debut episode - Show #1. The countdown to closure has begun...

Thanks for listening!
Jon

Episode 09, Some Assembly Required

Episode 09, Some Assembly Required

01 People Like Us - “Repeat to fade”
02 Public Works - “Substance”
03 Wobbly - “Only musical”
04 John Oswald - “Angle”
05 The Bran Flakes - “Welcome to the human race”
06 Lecture on Nothing - “The heimlich maneuver”
07 Steve Fisk - “I wish I were dead, part 1”
08 Laso Halo - “Sleepy time jazz”
09 Tim Maloney - “Thunderclock”
10 Silica-Gel - “Pssst”
11 Negativland - “Tribal mandate”
12 Public Works - “Numbers (side A)”


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Episode 10, Some Assembly Required

Episode 10, Some Assembly Required

01 The Tape-beatles - “The American adventure”
02 Steve Fisk - “Ragged old flag”
03 Negativland - “The gun and the bible”
04 The Tape-beatles - “America is confident”
05 The Evolution Control Committee - “Bush speech (corrected - part 1)
06 The Evolution Control Committee - “Bush speech (corrected - part 2)
07 Steinski and Mass Media - “Its up to you (the television mix)”
08 Project Data Control - “Blame the media”
09 Negativland - “Our national anthem”
10 Steev Hise - “Slicing up amerika”
11 Adam “Ad-Rock” Horowitz - “Countdown”
12 The Evolution Control Committee - “Rocked by Rape”
13 Lecture on Nothing - “Chicken Sludge”
14 Christopher Penrose - “American Jingo”


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Episode 11, Some Assembly Required

Episode 11, Some Assembly Required

01 Christian Marclay - “Jukebox Cappricio”
02 Wet Gate - “The invocation of Heather Nitrate”
03 Wobbly/Weatherman - "(Untitled)"
04 Michael Townsend - “11-11”
05 Plunderphonics All Stars - "Untitled (Public Works side)"







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Episode 12, Some Assembly Required

Episode 12, Some Assembly Required

01 Lecture on Nothing - “Beyond names and forms”
02 Rik Rue - “Dream speed”
03 Silica-Gel - “Personal dream”
04 Turntable Trainwreck - ""Untitled)"
05 The Button - “Shifting frequencies”
06 Escape Mechanism - “Wake up”
07 DJ Shadow - “What does your soul look like (part 1 - blue sky revisit)
08 Mag Wheels - “Wake up”
09 Laso Halo - “Sleepy time jazz”
10 David Shea - “Shock corridor”


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Episode 13, Some Assembly Required

Episode 13, Some Assembly Required

01 John Oswald - “Way”
02 Steve Dirkx - “Ringo is god is acid”
03 The Tape-beatles - “Grave implications”
04 Big City Orchestra - “Bulldog”
05 John Oswald - “Beatles”
06 The Residents - “Beyond the valley of a day in the life”
07 The Tape-beatles - “Scream scream scream”
08 Big City Orchestra - “Bleujay”
09 The Bran Flakes - “Call me patches”
10 Steve Fisk - “Taxman”
11 Escape Mechanism - “Why does the light fall?”
12 Negativland - “Helter Stupid”


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