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TONITE on your RADIO!
It’s the Begilufin ROBOTS & COMPUTERS show!
Bleep! Zoink! Rrrrr!
Your loyal radio-droids Ziv Lode and Dan Abbott are reprogrammed and ready to deliver an hour (3600 seconds precisely) of international tunes themed around COMPUTERS and ROBOTS. Affirmative. Tonight we plug in and spin a multitude of crudely assembled mechanolectrical grooves from around the globe. Robots from Japan, machines from Italy, electronic brains from Brazil and erotic circuitry from (of course) France. Human resistance is futile!
We’ll also escape from the machines for a few minutes on our “Island” section where we check out the action-packed bland new debut album from Geneva’s explosive Yalla Miku - a wild whirlpool of North/East African and Swiss sounds to melt your mind and tangle yer toes. Out shortly on Bongo Joe Records.
As always, this is live, spontaneous and rather silly radio - we always throw in a couple of mistakes for your entertainment
- Brother John Rydgren - Computers
- Radio Trip - Computer Singing
- Bent Bolt & The Nuts - The Mechanical Man
- Kid Koala - Robochacha
- Michel Polnareff - Computer's Dream
- Vainica Doble - La Máquina Infernal
- Gilberto Gil - Cerebro Electronico
- Yalla Miku - Hyper Tigre
- Yalla Miku - Asmazate
- Jean Michel Jarre - Eros Machine
- Bruce Haack - School For Robots
- Plastics - Robot
- Mr. Bungle - None Of Them Knew They Were Robots
Begilufin
Begilufin is an hour long radio show broadcast live twice a month from the heart Berlin on the station Pi Radio. On Begilufin we play a wild, confusing mess of international sounds, stretching from the birth of recorded music to something we heard two days ago. We do our best to ignore the normal, accentuate the weird, and ignore borders, boundaries and time-zones. Each show revolves around a central theme and then we surprise each other (and you, dear listener) with our selections live on air.
Since you ask, ‘Begilufin’ is a Hebrew word meaning intoxicated, inebriated, drunk, sozzled or smashed - a perfect description of the delirious off-centre mix of crazed music we like to spin on the show or indeed the effect it might have on your ears.
Begilufin was created by Ziv Lode in 2010. Ziv was joined by Dan Abbott a couples of years later after a chance meeting in a kindergarten playground revealed a mutual love of the music of Erkin ‘The Turkish Hendrix’ Koray.