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Hi all,

Hope you’re having a excellent sunny Friday so far. To make things even better, WXYC has some awesome shows coming your way this week:

Tonight’s Inside Track, at 9pm, will feature a Best Of compilation of music from Khwanta Fasawang, a leader in the Lam Phaen style of Thai music in the 1980s.

After that, on the New Science Experience, NSE bosses Alex B and Beto T will be spinning an eclectic mix of house, R&B, and techno. It’ll be all over the place - check it out from 10pm to midnight!

Join DJ Cooper M at 1pm on Sunday for Hell or High Water as he explores the catalog of the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC's Wilson Library. This week, the show will feature the 2006 Trikont release In Prison: Afroamerican Prison Music from Blues to Hip Hop. In a nation that imprisons more of its citizens than any other, the system of mass-incarceration heavily impacts the African American community; nearly half the overall prison population is black, and one out of eight African American men between 20 and 35 is in jail. The prison experience has far-reaching repercussive effects on African American culture and society, its music included. This compilation piece "brings together work songs of the chain gangs, imprisoned bluesmen like Robert Pete Williams, the prison-soul of the Escorts, the enraged hip hop accusations of Tupac Shakur, Brand Nubian and K-Solo as well as prison songs by Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, the Last Poets, Nina Simone, the Temptations, and more."

Check out the Backyard BBQ this Sunday from 8 to 9pm for the usual hour of sick local tunes.

And tune in to Monday’s Outside Track at 9pm to hear the latest album from 68 year-old pianist Lubomyr Melnyk, the originator of ‘continuous music,’ a piano technique “based on extremely rapid notes and complex note series usually with the sustain pedal held down to generate overtones and sympathetic responses.” Rivers and Streams is his take on water and the way it moves in large and small bodies. A really beautiful release!