Zum Podcast with George Chen

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George Chen
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ZUM SHOWCASE

SATURDAY NOV 30th at 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, CA - The Intima, Muscle Beach, Spring Breeding.

Presented with Post Present Medium and Pehrspace. Food by Alliance Premier Foods

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Zum is a record label and former print fanzine started in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founder George Chen (freelance writer, musician, comic), now based in Los Angeles, selects music and chats with friends from different genres of creative endeavor.

He is also the co-host of Sup Doc documentary podcast.

Check out the Well Futile Pandora mixtape for more music and comedy.

Credits

George Chen

Episode 6

JACK ROSE Cathedral et Chartes - Kensington Blues

JACK ROSE Tex - Pasture Music Festival and Jubilee 2004

CAROLINA TAR HEELS Peg & Awl - Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Laser To Laser

A FOREST OF STARS Male - The Corpse of Rebirth (Transcendental Creations)

JONNY GREENWOOD Future Markets - There Will Be Blood Soundtrack

PAUL F TOMPKINS New Dads - Freak Wharf

SQUIDS Bull Run

THORNS OF LIFE We Build Al Qaeda In Washington - Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club Sampler

THE RAYMOND BRAKE Threnody - Zum Audio Compilation Vol 1

NUZZLE Everest - Live at Tip Top Inn, SF cassette Dec 1999

SOCIAL JUNK Division - Somebody Should've Told You

SMOG I Feel Like The Mother Of The World - Rock Bottom Riser

H.P. ZINKER To One In Paradise - Staying Loose

ART BEARS The Slave - Winter Songs

EVANGELISTA You Are A Jaguar - Prince Of Truth

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Episode 7

COWTOWN - Wii Arms

DELTA 5 - Mind Your Own Business

BASTARD NOISE - U.S.A. Today

EXTREME ANIMALS - Witch Tricks

LANDED - Osama Oxy Contin

SIGHTINGS - Tar and Pine

THE ART MUSEUMS - What Are They Saying (In a Paris Cafe)

THE MONOCHROME SET - He's Frank

DYMAXION - Cognitive Dissonance Penitentiary

MESH - Beautiful Deceiver (Sound Collector compilation)

SCOUT NIBLETT - I.B.D.

ERICA POMERANCE - You Used To Think

HARVEY MILK - Merlin Is Magic

MY LITTLE RED TOE - David Boring

JANA HUNTER - two cocks waving wildly at each other across a vast open space, a dark icy tundra (split 7" with Inoculist)

CORE OF THE COALMAN - Inerta I

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Episode 8

ROBERTO CACCIAPAGLIA - Find Your Way - The Ann Steel Album (1979)

MOONDOG - Enough About Human Rights - The Viking Of Sixth Avenue

DUNES - Phonetics (Mexican Summer 2010)

TRASH KIT - Sunspots (Upset The Rhythm 2010)

CELESTE - Un Miroir Pur Qui Te Rend Misérable - Morte(S) Nee(S) (Denovali 2010 http://denovali.com/celeste/)

LUDICRA - Truth Won't Set You Free - The Tenant (Profound Lore 2010)

THE BODY - Empty Hearth - All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood (At A Loss 2010)

LIVE RUBBLE - Gazing Into A Pile Of Leaves (2003 CDR)

THIS INVITATION - Burning Telegraph - Sunless (Distinct Mirror Music 2010)

JONNYX AND THE GROADIES - The Upheaval On Titan (2010)

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Episode 9

Zum Podcast
Episode 9
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ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB - Works in Progress April 2008 - Bread #1
LITURGY - Sun of Light - Aesthetica (Thrill Jockey)
VHOLTZ - unreleased 12" track
RENE HELL - Bending (Voice) - The Hilton (Type)
MEREDITH MONK - Masks - Mercy (ECM Records)
GLASS GRAVES - KIT "Rain" Remix - Revocation
HIGH CASTLE - We Were Lovers - Spirit of the West (Zum)
SLEETMUTE NIGHTMUTE - In Adulthood - Night of the Long Knives (Fast Weapons)
DIVORCE - Early Christianity (Optimo)
ZS - Acres of Skin - New Slaves (Social Registry)
COUGHS - Bunny Slope - Live recording from The Smell, July 1, 2005
GROUP DOUEH - Wazan Samat - Guitar Music From the Western Sahara (Sublime Frequencies)

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Episode 10

Zum Podcast Episode 10
ANIKA - Officer Officer (Stones Throw)
ANTIFAMILY - I Of The Law (Difficult Fun)
GA'AN - Arms Can Speak - Black Equus (Captcha)
BORIS - Hope - Attention Please (Sargent House)
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM - Subterranean Initiation -Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
VAN DYKE PARKS - Wall Street (Bananastan)
ARTHUR DOYLE - Stormy Monday - No More Crazy Women (Carbon)
BESTIAL MOUTHS - Hypnagogig Jerk
SISTER FUCKER - Glass Gauntlet - California
TOTAL SHUTDOWN - Ka Ka Ka (Load)
DEL CLOSE AND JOHN BRENT- Basic Hip - How To Speak Hip (Mercury 1959)
SCARCITY OF TANKS - Canister Fault - Sensational Grade (Total Life Society)
RACCOONS - Lad Salad
GULLS - Mdou Moctar "Tahoultine" remix - Music For Saharan Cellphones (Boomarm Nation)

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Episode 11

Zum Podcast Episode 11
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ALVARIUS B - Well Known Stranger - Baroque Primitiva (Abduction)
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED Poptones - Second Edition
ABE VIGODA - World Heart (7" version from split with Mikaela's Fiend) (Zum)
HIGH CASTLE - Farewell To Limbs - Spirit Of The West (Zum)
KUBLAI KHAN - Ricky The Dragon Steamboat (Chocolate River Deconstructions)
GEORGE CHEN - Fishbone Soldier - 3/8/12
RANDYLEE SUTHERLAND - alay#2
ANCESTRAL DIET - Water Buries - Official Waste (Saxwand)
THOLLEM MCDONAS - For All Those Yet To Come - Gone Beyond Reason To Find One (Edgetone)
MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED - Open Air Network - Games Of Chance (Harsh Nice)

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Episode 12

Zum Podcast Episode 12
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George is joined by special guest Sara Wintz to pose the eternal question: what is a hoarder, and am I one?
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THE ETERNALS - Babalu's Wedding
NAHAWA DOUMBIA - Kungo Sogoni - La Grande Canatrice Malienne Vol 3 (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
THE RAINCOATS - Red Shoes - Odyshape (We ThRee reissue)
MOLLY THOMPSON - Small (live video Dec 9, 2011)
CYNTHIA DALL - Be Safe With Me - Sound Restores Young Men (Drag City)
CYNTHIA DALL - Holland - Untitled (Drag City)
KIT - Lazarus Taxa - The Animal Within Us (Caring Is Cool)
BONE AWL - Six Within Death - By Ropes Through Dirt
J.J. BURNEL - Freddie Laker - Euroman Cometh
CHILDREN MEDIEVAL BAND - Sonne (Rammstein cover)

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Nate Denver

Zum Podcast Episode 13 Nate Denver ------------- Nate has been in several bands (Total Shutdown, Nate Denver's Neck, Dig That Body Up It's Alive, and one with me called Sobretooth that we didn't even get to talk about!) and has authored/illustrated the book "Wait, You're Not A Centaur." I caught up with him at his Los Angeles home whilst attending to his burbling baby daughter Sadie. He just completed a kickstarter campaign for a new book entitled "Haunted Armor" so we talk about that, being a firefighter, the SF scene, religion, and his Navy Seal brother who is in the movie Act of Valor. First full on interview format, thanks!------------- TELEVISION PERSONALITIES - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It (Rough Trade)NATE DENVER'S NECK - Mace - End Times Fesitval 2006 (Freedom From)TOTAL SHUTDOWN - Top Gun - Reflections (Thin The Herd) DIG THAT BODY UP IT'S ALIVE - My Captor Is Laughing (Castle Face) NATE DENVER'S NECK - Snuggle Tummy - Prepare To Die (King Crab) NATE DENVER'S NECK - Gravestone Carver - Ghost AlarmNO AGE - Don't Stand Still - Eraser (Sub Pop)

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Mark Gergis

Zum Podcast Episode 14 - Mark Gergis
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How does one go from hanging out in the weirdo Oakland rock scene of the early '90s to arranging/producing collaborations between Omar Souleyman and Bjork? That's just part of the story of Mark Gergis, who works with Sublime Frequencies and recently started his own Sham Palace label. Sham Palace just released a collection of New Wave Dabke. If you don't know what that is, don't worry-all the more reason to listen. We also talk about his bands Mono Pause, Neung Phak, White Ring, the solo project Porest, and much more. Topics include the Heavenly Ten Stems, growing up Iraqi-American in the suburbs, and searching out music around the globe.
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NEUNG PHAK - Khmer 28 - 2 (Abduction Records 047 – 2012) (intro/bed music)
NEUNG PHAK - Kawp Koon Kawp Koon - 2 (Abduction Records 047 – 2012)
MONO PAUSE - Brief Lallation - (Knormalities V.1 7" compilation – 1997)
THE WHITE RING - Excerpt from the film Homeland Security; It's In Your Hands (Electro-Motive Records – 2002)
NEUNG PHAK - Poor - 2 (Abduction Records 047 – 2012)
THE TWELVE STEPPES - Michigan History - Deep North (Porestsound 01 – 1995)
POREST - Continental Revolt - Tourrorists (Abduction Records 034 – 2006)
DARKIE - Look at the Owl (Ye Hue Dam) - Cambodian Cassette Archives (Sublime Frequencies 011 – 2005)
AHMAD AL KOSEM - Love is Not a Joke - Dabke – Sounds of the Syrian Houran (Sham Palace 02 – 2012)
OMAR SOULEYMAN & BJORK - Tesla - The Crystalline Series EP (One Little Indian/Nonesuch – 2011)

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John Benson

Zum Podcast Episode 15 John Benson
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"John Benson vs. The People of California"
-------------Some technical glitches in my chat with John Trevor Benson, but that seems appropriate given our topics of discussion - the legacy of Free Radio Berkeley, Barrington co-op, pre-internet touring, having a Harley dad, being sober, fixing wheelchairs, and converting a former police bus into a venue. Benson was in the bands A Minor Forest, Tic War, Creepy Crawly Claw, Hale Zukas, and Evil Wikkid Warrior, a band with his daughter Quinn. He also has a solo tape coming out soon on Turned Word.
Check out a video by Ryan Junell about the original bus, a story on the recent bus woes (not mentioned in the press anywhere - $5k plus in fines), and if you have ever enjoyed the weirdo performances enabled by John, donate directly to his paypal account - followthatparade AT yahoo DOT com.------------- THE INTIMA - Tundra'd - No Lullaby For Sleep (Zum) intro theme musicA MINOR FOREST - So Jesus Was At The Last Supper... - Flemish Altruism (Thrill Jockey) EVIL WIKKID WARRIOR - Evil Wikkid Warrior (self-released CDR) A MINOR FOREST - Speed For Gavin - Flemish Altruism (Thrill Jockey) HALE ZUKAS - Beating Dream (self-released CDR)

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