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ahhh, winter break - there's something to celebrate!  also something that isn't super relevant to people who aren't students.  to those of you who aren't: happy friday! weekends are nice too.  okay, here is what's coming up in specialty programming this week:

Let's get hype this Friday night at 9 PM on the Inside Track with a new one from Duppy Gun Productions entitled Multiply. Duppy Gun productions is a dancehall production team, label and promo outfit from L.A.  It is made up of Cameron Stallons (AKA Sun Araw) and M. Geddes Gengras, two dudes whose music is clearly inspired by production innovations and styles out of Jamaica.  Dancehall is a high energy genre of Jamaican popular music that has its “roots” in reggae dance clubs in the late 70s.  I guess the point of reference for most folks would be Major Lazer. For this release, Stallons and Gengras teamed up with a huge crew of Jamaican producers and vocalists to throw together this awesome overview of contemporary dancehall tracks.  Tracks are appropriately bassy with lightning speed lyrics and dubbed-out, club destroying rhythms.  Stallons and Gengras produce a number of tracks within too and these are noticeably more psychedelic and out.   Great sounds!

The New Science Experience is back for another round of beat-oriented, heavy contact, sweat, dance, hot, realness.  Tune in for a good time from 10-12 Friday night, Tonight!

This week on Hell or High Water, we'll be spinning gospel tracks from Mississippi and Alabama. A crucible of pain and suffering, these states possess a transcendent spirit. Tune in to be washed in the sense of place that this region exudes and transcend your average Sunday blues. 1pm-2pm on Sunday. 

This week on Broken Music, we enjoy the works of American composer Richard Maxfield. Maxfield involved himself with music at an early age, participating in the All Youth Orchestra of Seattle and composing his own material. Maxfield studied at Stanford and Berkeley, earning several scholarships that allowed him to travel abroad. He attended John Cage's course at the New School, shortly thereafter taking on a course of his own in purely electronic music. Much like Cage, Maxfield often employed randomizing processes to compose his tape pieces. His gritty tape works stood in stark contrast to his graceful instrumental pieces. He entrusted artist Walter De Maria with his music and art archive and over the last few decades select pieces have been made available to the public. Tune in at 2pm to hear a small selection of Maxfield's work.

Join us Monday night at 9 PM for an awesome Outside Track on WXYC.  This week, catch a newly reissued release from the folks at Merlin's Nose, experts in rare psych, entitled Ritt Durch Den Hades by the mysterious Gulaab.  Wow, what. Gulaab’s Ritt durch den Hades is a long lost, apparently ultra-rare “kraut-folk” record from 1979 recorded by a German guitar player who served as an after dinner performer at a luxury Nepalese restaurant for three years.  This release is the culmination of his experiences of and interaction with the music and ideas of this region.  This music is actually pretty incredible.  Made up of virtuosic, reverb guitar playing laid over overdubbed guitar choruses and thick acoustic drones generated from a variety of sound sources, including what sounds like a jaw harp.  Gulaab’s plucking fluctuates from the gentle and folky to the heavy and krauty as he tears reverbing, sustained tones out of his instrument.  Things never get boring thanks to the somewhat infrequent introduction of vocals and percussion.  Don't miss it!