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Melting World playlist for 11/03/2024

Phil Lesh 1940-2024 Part 1
This morning's show we remember the life and music of the late Grateful Dead bassist and founding member.
We will be playing select Grateful Dead set segments from 1969, 1973 and 1977 along with bands that are also part of the San Francisco psychedelic movement of the mid to late sixties as well as other bands and musicians that have shared the stage with Phil throughout the years.

Melting World playlist for 10/27/2024

Melting World 10/27/24
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Global electronic & ambient
Arc , Eat Static (UK), Karl Bartos (DL)
Paul Ellis & Daryl Groetsch (USA)
Eternell (Turkey), anthéne (Canada),
Max Corbacho, SLVBRD ((Spain)
Gustavo Denouerd (Argentina)

Melting World playlist for 10/20/2024

Psych exploration with
Legendary Pink Dots (NL & UK), Temple Fang (NL)
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard (Australia), Trigona (New Zealand),
Lush Worker (UK), Kiyazami (Hungary)

Melting World playlist for 10/13/2024

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This morning the archived third Melting World broadcast from 11/28/21.
King Buffalo, Acid Rooster, Pink Floyd, Barrett Elmore, Quarkspace, Ash Ra Temple from the 2000 reunion album Friendship,
Can first archive release from Stuttgart 1975,
Melting World back live next week.

Melting World playlist for 10/06/2024

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This mornings show will feature psych with Porcupine Tree (UK), Abstraccíon (Spain), :nepal (Hungary), Santana (USA).
Zuuhl with Magma's 1973 album Mekanik Destruktiw Kömmando (France)

Melting World playlist for 09/29/2024

This morning a cosmic journey without synths.
Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, John Zorn’s New Masada Quartet,
John Scofield’s latest ECM release.
Henry Kaiser & Waddada Leo Smith electric Miles Davis project “Yo Miles”
Afrobeat with Fela Kuti and Egypt 80 live in Detroit 1986.

Melting World playlist for 09/22/2024

Prerecord this morning as I went to the Steve Roach concert in Brooklyn last night.
Dutch Electro Psych with Drone Assembly.
Cyclical Dreams 2023 fest with Philadelphia’s Chuck Van Zyl
New ambient from Robert Rich & Luca Formentini.
Tuluum Shimering covers series with Neil’s Cinnamon Girl

Melting World playlist for 09/15/2024

Progressive rock foundations with the
50th anniversary of the 1974 live
King Crimson, a legendary exploration in progressive improvisation with tracks from 1992’s release “The Great Deceiver”.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer instrumental mix of “Karn Evil 9”, Spock’s Beard,
Security Project reimagines Peter Gabriel,
and live Jethro Tull from 1977.

Melting World playlist for 09/08/2024

Eastern Scales in Psych, East-West Fusion
The new schedule for the Melting World is every Sunday 12-2am.
Our first show for the fall semester will feature Krautrock with Agitation Free,
Arabic influenced Jah Wobble and Deep Space recorded live,
Ry Cooder and VM Bhatt (USA & India)
Psych from Divine Soma Experience (UK), Pilot Voyager (Hungary), Karkara (France)

Melting World playlist for 08/25/2024

With Autumn on the horizon as well as a new semester and new beginnings we present another extended edition of the Melting World with an amalgam of disparate cosmic sounds with
Euro Psych from Magic Brother*Mystic Sister (Spain), My Brother The Wind,
Our Solar System (Sweden), Hypnodrome Ensemble (Germany),
The Obscure River Experiment (Hungary).
Kosmische with Micheal Hoenig & Manuel Göttsching (Germany)
4th World nwith Jon Hassell (USA), Micheal Brook (Canada), Nodens Ictus (UK).
Alice Coltrane at Carnegie Hall 2/21/71
Ambient From Robert Davies (USA)

Melting World playlist for 08/11/2024

Tonight's extended show we celebrate the life of Jerry Garcia with interviews and a focus on the 1974 PA system the Wall of Sound conceived by Owsley "Bear" Stanley and built by the sound and road crew from the Dead. We will play choice set segments that was fed into that magnificent PA between May-August 1974. Alternating sets will consist of bands that collaborated with and were in the same sphere as the Grateful Dead.

Melting World playlist for 07/28/2024

We present another summer 2024 extended edition of the Melting World with
the growth of electric instruments in jazz. The music is called “fusion”
Going back in time to the 70's with Weather Report, Brand X, Al DiMeola, Billy Cobham,
David Sancious and Tone, Jean Luc Ponty to more contemporary music with
John McLaughlin's latest incarnation of Shakti & his final tour playing the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra,
PAKT, Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane.

Melting World playlist for 07/14/2024

Global Hardware created synth and sequencer journey followed by deep drifting ambient in this extended edition of the Melting World.
Synth from Penterakt, Free System Projekt (Netherlands). Paul Ellis (USA) and archival Steve Roach from the Baltimore 1996 all night rave "Cloudwatch",
Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder (Germany)
Ambient from Aglaia, Antonio Testa & Micheal Moglia (Italy), Nuur & Silenos (Germany) Warmth (Spain) & Fionnlagh (Ireland)), Andrew Heath (UK)

Melting World playlist for 06/30/2024

Tonight's extended show features psychedelic jams from Acid Mother's Temple (Japan), Richard Pinnas (France) & Oren Ambarchi (Australia), Red Sun (Italy), Ghosts of Jupiter (USA), Modoki (Japan & UK)
New Psyche from Psychedelic Source Records (Hungary),New archival live recording from Krautrock legends Can recorded in Aston UK 3/1977.
Ambient and Electronic from Cosmic Ground, Günter Schlienz (Germany),
Oulu Space Jam Collective (Finland).
New ambient from Ludvig Cimbrelius’s project Eternell in the Cosmic Hour

Melting World playlist for 06/16/2024

Extended deep drift segment as a soundtrack to the minds eye. Ambient soundscapes with lower volume and light levels reccomended.
Collaborations from Arborescence (France) & Robert Davies (USA),
Misleading Structures & Warmth (Spain).
New ambient from Purl (Sweden), Max Corbacho (Spain), Serena Gabriel (USA),
Alio Die (Italy), Amtana (Germany).
Somewhat new ambient from Forrest Fang (USA), Bass Communion (UK)

Melting World playlist for 06/02/2024

Extended Psych & dark ambient-5 hours
Euro psych from Giöbia, Modern Stars (Italy), Electric Moon, Vibravoid (Germany),
The Cosmic Dead, Psycic Lemon (UK), Far Flung, King Buffalo (USA).
Experimental punk from Black Flag, progressive metal from Tool.
Dark ambient from James Plotkin-Mick Harris (USA), Streams of Consciousness (Belgium),
new music from Lustmord in the Cosmic Hour.

Melting World playlist for 05/19/2024

Extended Global Cosmic Synth Journey.
Long form releases from Soviet Space Dog Project (UK), Steve Roach, Ministry of Inside Things (USA), recorded live at The Gatherings Concert Series in 2017.
Thom Brennan (USA), Klaus Schulze, Martin Stürtzer (Germany).
Live music from 2023 Cyclical Fest with Cartas de Jápon (Argentina),
Dziekuje Klaus, the Polish-German electronic music project.
Ambient from Germany’s El Culto Label in The Cosmic Hour.

Melting World playlist for 05/05/2024

Progressive and electonic music from Germany this morning celebrating Kraftwerk's May US mini tour and a Los Angeles nine concert 3D residency at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the LA Philharmonic. We will play an audience recording from the last tour of the original band recorded at The Ritz, NYC 8/4/81. Music from Parallel Worlds (Greece), then the Germans take over with Mario Schönwälder, Centrazoon, Thorsten Quaesching & Markus Reuter and Gunter Schlienz in the Cosmic Hour.

Melting World playlist for 04/21/2024

420 Carryover
"Global electro melt journey"
90's melt with The Orb, Byzar, Psychic TV's Two Tablets of Acid
Higher Intelligence Agency & Pete Namlook (UK, USA, Germany)
21st century melt with Eat Static (UK), Ni Moya (Greece), Aythar (Hungary)
Radio Massacre International's electronic homage to Sid Barrett in the Cosmic Hour

Melting World playlist for 04/07/2024

Spring Radiothon-your contribution is vital to the suvival of WUSB
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Solar eclipse edition this morning with
O Yuki Conjugate, Loop Guru (UK)
Werner Durant, Amelia Cuni, Uli Hohmann (Germany and Italy)
Ole Lukkoye (Russia)
Deep meditation featured the latest Projekt release from Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig
Alio Die (Italy), Klaus Wiese(Germany) ambient masterwork "Eclpse" in the Cosmic Hour.

And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon