This is an archival podcast of one of my FM Broadcasts. It’s from November 1, 2000.
It was broadcast from the studios at Boston College radio, WZBC – FM, locally transmitting at 90.3 MHz. Also streaming from www.wzbc.org.

In those days, the show was named “Radio Isotope”, though it was always part of the evening avant garde programming called “No Commercial Potential”, Boston’s oldest continuously broadcast avant garde music programming.

(Brian (right) and Me, circa 2004, WZBC air studio)

Radio Isotope Playlist for November 1, 2000:

Environments series:
*Psychologically ultimate Seashore
superimposed with with Lord of the Flies soundtrack
“After The Storm”
*Bruce gilbert – Instand Shed Volume 2 double 7″
*Nonplace rban Field – minimalism
*Regressive Aid – Years and Years/Abominable
*Powerman – The Lost Tribe
*Jerry Leek
*Crash Worship – Flow / Pillar of Fire
*Can – Future Days
*Beaver and Krause
*Climax Golden Twins – Dream Cut Short In The Mysterious Clouds
*Pomassl – Soundrack Number 2
*Come – Come Sunday / Shaved Slits
*Unrest Work and Play
*Scala – Still, from To You In Alpha
*Electric Enigma, The VLF Recordings of Steven P. McGreevy.
*Konet Project selections
*Voice Crack Shock-Late
*Conrad Schnitzler & Giancarlo Toniutti – Kynak
*Shut-Up!

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About the artists:

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Bruce Gilbert – founding member of Wire. My Hero.
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Nonplace Urban Field – one of the projects of Burnt Friedman.
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Regressive Aid: Rare as hell local New Jersey 6-song 12″ from 1983 featuring three artists before they went to play in popular national acts !!! Andrew Weiss – bass (pre – Ween, Henry Rollins Band, Butthole Surfers, Yoko Ono, many others) Sim Cain – drums (pre -Rollins Band, Ween, Eliot Sharp, many others) E. William Tucker – guitar (pre – Scornflakes, KMFDM, Ministry, Pigface, Revolting Cocks,Chris Connelly, 16 Volt, Foetus, many others)
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Powerman – Funky No Wave era New York band, in-line with the sensibilities of the now legendary Liquid Liquid.
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Crash Worship – Crash Worship’s live shows are infamous for their unrivalled chaos and unlimited celebration. Led by a strong trio of drummers, the band creates an atmosphere of bacchanalia. Their recordings explore different aspects of rhythm and psychedelia.Crash Worship sometimes appears with ADRV appended to their name, meaning Adoration De Rotura Violenta (“Crash Worship” in Spanish).
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Can – German pioneers of kraut rock and electronics. Formed in late 60s’ and started to experiment with psychedelic music and free jazz, eventually were joined by singer Kenji “Damo” Suzuki and turned their sound towards a crazy mixture of improvisation, noise, mantra and funk rhythms. “Tago Mago” (1971), “Ege Bamyasi” (1972) and “Future Days” (1973) is their trilogy of masterpieces.
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Beaver and Krause – For better or worse, Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause probably had more to do with introducing the synthesizer into rock music than anyone else.
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Climax Golden Twins – An experimental music duo based in Seattle, often involving a wide range of artists and sound styles for any given project. Their work also includes soundtracks, scores for choreography, gallery installations, and live performances (including an opening performance in 1998 for Sonic Youth.
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Franz Pomassl lives and works in Jaidhof and Vienna. Pomassl operates at the borders of the human auditive perceptional system, working on its expansion. He surpasses the given auditive parameters of technical equipment and explores possible limitations of acoustic perception by denying them. This permanent confrontation between the logos of the machine and human intuition underlies many of his projects.
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Come – The Come Organisation was a record label founded in London in 1979, initially as a vehicle for the group Come. In 1978 Come had recorded their first single, Come Sunday/Shaved Slits, and were unable to find a label willing to release it. Influenced by Industrial Records (Thobbing Gristle’s label) and Ralph Records (The Residents’ label), William Bennett opted to self-release the single. Come ceased to exist in 1980 (even though the I’m Jack LP was released in 1981) as the band morphed into Whitehouse. Come Organisation would become known as a specialisist label in extreme electronic music, showcased by the releases of Sutcliffe Jugend and Leibstandarte SS MB in addition to Whitehouse. The label ceased to exist in 1985, after the release of the classic Whitehouse LP Great White Death, owing to several factors, the principal one being the temporary dissolution of Whitehouse and several key people leaving London as a place of residence. Bennett would later reform the label under the new name of “Susan Lawly”.
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Unrest, Work and Play – The first 12″ EP by this Brit duo who sounded like a cross between This Heat and classic era Magic Band, being totaly original at the same time. Just guitar, drums and singing. Right there with the best of their time (Heat, The Work, L.Voag). Imagine living next door to your favourite band… Perhaps the purest of their three releases (one more EP and a LP for Recommended). Incredible & got to be heard!
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Scala – Line-up is Justin Fletcher, Daren Seymour and Sarah Peacock (all from Seefeel) with Mark Van Hoen (Locust), patron saint of the Jukebox Heart podcast.
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Electric Enigma – For the first time in history, the sounds of the Aurora Borealis and the EMF discharges of lightning bolts bouncing and stretching through the earths magnetosphere have been captured recorded and presented to the public in this ground breaking double CD set. Everyone has seen or has at least heard of the hauntingly beautiful Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights but only a select and elite few have experienced their spectacular, compelling and beautiful sound.
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Konet Project – Among the most popular and most viable theories is that the Numbers Stations are a covert means by which government spy agencies use to maintain contact with their operatives. Another theory is that these are the messages of drug smugglers. Four CDs in this collection with a huge book explaining it. It seems to have become all hush hush once again… Sssssh!
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Voice Crack – Andy Guhl und Norbert Möslang, classic Voice Crack, released in 2000.
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Giancarlo Toniutti & Conrad Schnitzler – two very prolific artists coming together from seemingly incompatible platforms.
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Shut-Up! – formed from mebers of The Girls, a boston legend.