Asian Oldies

Three hours of early Latin-tinged sides from Japan; complaint songs from communist China; pop from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore; Indo Rock and Indonesian psychedelic; Cambodian, Indian, and Malaysian film hits; Korean blues; Thai easy listening; Vietnamese soul; scratchy 45s from Brunei, Philippines, and Sri Lanka; and much, much more ...

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The Producers

Three hours of beatmakers, compilers, DJs, remixers, and turntablists, from the East Bay of California to Ramallah, Palestine 

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Ghana

Three hours of Akan, dance music, disco, guitar bands, highlife, hip hop, hip-life, soul, and more, from Accra to Bolgatanga.

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Typical Girls

A mix of 80s pós-punk Brasileiro, Kabyle queens, US/UK no wave priestesses, Khmer cassettes from the 90s, identical twin pop artists from Nigera, plus riot grrrls from Beijing to Singapore

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Unrelated | Laos, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Lee "Scratch" Perry

Featuring:

1. Ear-bending traditional and ethnic minority recordings from the Lao People's Democratic Republic

2. Our favorite tracks from Bollywood's strangest music director duo, Laxmikant-Pyarelal

3. Rare cuts and hits from Lee "Scratch" Perry's half-a-century-and-counting career

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Field & Flow

Urban and rural sounds from Colombia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Spain, and Vietnam.

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Minor Legends

Six sets by minor legends from the six corners of the world: Abranis (Algeria), Little Fujiko (Japan), El Polen  (Peru), Siekiera (Poland), The Triffids (Australia), and Wells Fargo (Zimbabwe)

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Le Punk Français!

Punk rock, proto-punk, new wave, no wave, and post-punk from l'Hexagone.

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MALI

TONIGHT, Wednesday April 18, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three solid hours of scorchers from Mali. From classics and contemporaries to field recordings and unfairly forgottens ...

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Astoria Stories

Music found in the bodegas of our neighborhood, from Albanian, Algerian, and Bosnian, to Egyptian, Greek, Lebanese, Panamanian, and beyond!

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