Pânico na Zona Sul STARTING EARLY - 6:30 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Four decades of Brazilian hip-hop on vinyl, 1984–2022, from the country's first rap record to a 21st century soundtrack of a documentary on pixo. Classics, rare gems, enduring personal favorites. Join us!

SOUND ON: One of the greatest hip hop records ever made. Racionais MC's, Sobrevivendo No Inferno (Três Selos Paralelo, Fatiado Discos, Cosa Nostra, 2025 RE of 1997 Cosa Nostra OG). Ripping for tomorrow night's all-Brazilian, all-vinyl hip hop episode: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

SOUND ON: The first hip hop LP released in Brazil. Black Junior's, Break (Young, 1984). The group began life in 1982 as a dance group, Funk Junior's. Ripping for tomorrow night's special 3-1/2 hour all Brazilian hip-hop on vinyl show: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

One of the most influential Brazilian rappers of all time, virtually unknown here. Sabotage, s/t (Somatória Do Barulho, 2017). This posthumous LP and 2001's Rap É Compromisso are well worth tracking down. Listen: youtu.be/GrptmMIg_Uc?...

SOUND ON: What could be more Brazilian than a hip hop track on the national motto. Ideologia Radical, Ordem e Progresso (Zamzebe Record's, 1995, the only known release on this label).

SOUND ON: This excerpt might not be doing it justice, but I love how this track slips into no wave-y dissonance & angularity. Black Soul, Tráfico, Morte, Corrupção (DJ King's, 1993). Ripping for this week's all-Brazilian hip-hop show wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Holy bananas this record is [series of fire icons]!!! Googoosh Dolls, A1000 (Drifting Boat Records, 2026). Check it out on Bandcamp: googooshdolls.bandcamp.com/album/a1000. Picked up today at Paradise of Records w/a sweaty handful of Brazilian hip-hop LPs from the 1980s-90s.

SOUND ON: Poet & DJ Marc Nasdor turned me on to this EP 10 years ago and I fell in love with Marietta Méhes's voice. Trabant, Eszkimó asszony fázik (Favorit, 1984, Hungary). First listen on vinyl. Purge.xxx compiled 2 LPs of their stuff in 2024 & 2025 (see Bandcamp)

SOUND ON: Got this 1987 CD for the Ahmed Adaweya & Mohamed Fouad tracks, but the big surprise is Sayed Darwish's grandson, Iman Al-Bahr Darwish, and this awesomely funky bit of nonsense, "Hatjin Ya Reit." Various Artists, no title (Sout El Hob/EMI, 1987).

CALTEX DIVAS | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we spin Persian pop, folk, rock & disco from the iconic female vocalists of Caltex Records. Tracks recorded in Iran + later sessions produced in the US for the legendary label founded in Los Angeles in 1980

Ripping dozens of Caltex Records CDs for this Wednesday's show featuring Googoosh, Homayra, Delkash, Ramesh, Leila Forouhar, Susan Roshan, Marzieh, and many others. Bookmark the page and see you Wednesday night at 7:00 PM EDT: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Picked up this terrific 3-LP mid-eighties run on Sembol from trans Turkish diva Bülent Ersoy yesterday at Academy in Manhattan: Düşkünüm Sana (1983); Yaşamak İstiyorum (1984); Anılardan Bir Demet (1986)

Don't Talk About Freedom | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on @WFMU's @GTDRadio we're spinning Indonesian psychedelic, prog, folk, funk, and hard rock 1967-82. Join us!

Holy apesh*t avant-folk LP feat. Hungarian, French & German trio. Human beings! How? How on one hand so awful combined sh*t-show of bullsh*t from recorded history to now yet sudden amaze-face (as if secret #BFF) in art? Pân-Râ, Music from Atlantis (self-released, 1978). 78 stars!

How a Polish hippie-era threnody for Józef Bem (1794–1850) brings me to sobbing tears every listen is a mystery to me. First time hearing it on vinyl. Czesław Niemen, Niemen Enigmatic (Polskie Nagrania Muza, 1970). Listen here if you don't already know it: youtu.be/OZ7hFHqon1E?...

Do You Love Me? 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social Inspired by Lana Daher's 2025 documentary, this episode drifts through Lebanon's vibrant and resistant 1960s-80s musical landscape, continually reshaped by the realities of civil war. Hope to see you at 7

Reissue of the year: Legendary Indonesian gamelan prog album Guruh Gipsy, s/t (La Munai, 2026 RE of OG self-released 1977 cassette). Stunning. Listen to Barong Gundah www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKg...

Still can't believe I found a copy of this. Ziad Rahbani, From the Popular Musical Play L'Auberge Du Bonheur (EMI, 1974). A stunning record w/Amal Ghulam's incredible version of B'attelak Ya Habib Arrouh tinyurl.com/ms353rvm

SOUND ON: Ripping this mind-blowing LP for Wednesday's show. Mohammad Jamal, Doroup El Hawa (EMI, 1981). This is the opening of the last track on Side A, "Mili Ma Mal El Hawa." Bookmark: wfmu.org/playlists/sh... and see you in two days!

Lana Daher's "Do You Love Me" included tons of great music, including "Rita and the Rifle" from this magnificent LP. Marcel Khalifé, Promises of the Storm: One of Lebanon's foremost composers sings songs of Palestine (Paradon, 1983 RE of Le Chant Du Monde 1976 OG). Ripping for this Weds' show

Ripping tracks from dozens of Lebanese LPs for a show this Wednesday inspired by Lana Daher's stunning collage film "Do You Love Me." Various Artists, Lina Lina Ya Lina (Voix de l'Orient Series, 1980). See it if it's playing near you, especially if you've already seen Jocelyn Saab's seminal work

Massive grail: Recommended by Kyle at Paradise of Replica; turns out it's Brothers in Mind, notorious punk outfit that looped preexisting tapes & sang over them. Vova Siniy & Brothers in Mind, Those Very Songs (Russian Disc, 1993), mind-blowing "best of" compilation 1984-92. tinyurl.com/353k4csr

Bleak comfort. 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social : Electronic, experimental & avant-pop from Belgium, Borneo, Canada, Egypt, England, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, UK, USA, and Vietnam

Yemen | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning Yemeni tracks from our personal cassette and 45 RPM collection, select recordings from compilations, and sounds found online. Join us

Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT 7-10 PM EDT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio A label founded to support contemporary Palestinian artists. The Uzbek composer crowned the "Ennio Morricone of Central Asia." Pirate mixes from Mexico DF...& much more. Join us!

EAST EURO ERAS | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio Post-Liberation Albanian CDs, 1969 Yugo 45s, 1990s Romanian party jams, an unearthed 1970s Ukrainian jazz funk concert, early 20th Century Bulgarian 78s, a 1989 DIY cassette from Hungary. Join us!

7-10 PM EDT | One Summer Afternoon in 2001, as I Pedaled Furiously Down 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Nawal Al Zoghbi's El Layali Poured from the Open Window of a Passing Car to Became Part of the Sound of the Street Rushing Past wfmu.org/playlists/sh... #WFMU @gtdradio.bsky.social

Finally listening to all 8 tracks by legendary Lebanese beat group the Cedars/Sea-ders. I met the guy who released this LP at his record store in Lisbon a couple years ago. The Sead-ders, s/t (2012 RE of 2008 OG, Groovie Records, Portugal).

Double Feature: Early Spring | Late Spring wfmu.org/playlists/sh... 7-10 PM EDT TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning early to mid 20th Century Japanese tracks, from the first recordings through ryukoka, Latin, and enka, to 1950s-60s jazz, pop, and group sounds. Join us!

SMITH, ROBACK & SANDOVAL 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social A journey through the world of Kendra Smith, David Roback, & Hope Sandoval, beginning w/Kendra's punk debut & winding through the heart of the Paisley Underground, Opal, Mazzy Star & beyond!