The PopCulteer
January 24, 2025
Your PopCulteer and his lovely and healthy wife are on the way to Louisville for the GI Joe Winterfest show, but we do have some radio shows to tell you about Friday on The AIR. This afternoon we serve up a new episode of MIRRORBALL and an encore episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat! The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear these shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found elsewhere on this page.
MIRRORBALL
Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, Mel Larch brings you a major departure from her normal classic Disco era fare. This time you’re going to get highlights from a new release by a classic Disco artist. In fact, this is a preview of an album that doesn’t come out until almost a month from now.
It’s a new record by France’s top Disco artist of the 1970s, Cerrone, and it’s his classic Disco hits, but they’ve been re-recorded with a symphony orchestra.
With “Disco Symphony” Cerrone revisits twenty-one of his greatest hits performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Cannes (+50 musicians) directed by the legendary Randy Kerber. You’ll also hear Cerrone himself on the drums, plus an additional bass-guitars-keyboards band playing with the orchestra. Merging the power of electronic music, the groove of Disco and the unique touch of a symphony orchestra.
For this show, you might want to pull that bellbottom tuxedo and sequined evening gown out of the closet, and do the baroque boogie like Bach, Beethoven, Boney M and the Bee Gees. It’s the mash-up you didn’t know you needed.
Check out this very danceable playlist…
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Cerrone with Symphony:
“Love In C Minor”
“Look for Love”
“Cerrone’s Paradise”
“Rocket In The Pocket”
“All We Are”
“The Impact”
“Je Suis Music”
“Give Me Love”
“Love Is Here”
“My Desire”
“Africanism Gimme Some Loving”
“Drum Symphony”
“Hooked On You”
“Took Me So Long”
“Supernature”
You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays Sunday night at 11 PM and throughout the following week Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM plus there’s a mini-marathon that includes the latest episode Saturday nights at 9 PM
Sydney’s Big Electric Cat Enters A Forbidden Zone
Also on The AIR at 3 PM, it’s Big Electric Cat time as Sydney Fileen delivers a special mixtape edition of her show that pays tribute to one of my favorite bands, Oingo Boingo. Truth be told, Sydney called on me to recommend a few tunes for this playlist when she put it together last fall.
Before Danny Elfman was an Oscar and Bafta nominated and Emmy Winning soundtrack composer, he helped mutate the theatrical troupe, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, into the trailblazing New Wave band, Oingo Boingo, and before his career as a film composer became his main creative outlet, his band was one of the definitive examples of West Coast New Wave Music.
You will hear the New Wave era hits, misses and deep album cuts from Oingo Boingo, and some tracks from Danny Elfman’s “So-Lo” album, in this fast-moving and mind-blowing mixtape special. I even tipped off Sydney to a few pre-fame rarities by the band.
Check out this killer playlist…
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Oingo Boingo
“Violent Love”
“Forbidden Zone”
“Ain’t This The Life”
“You Got Your Baby Back”
“Ballad of The Caveman”
“Only A Lad”
“Little Girls”
“On The Outside”
“Controller”
“Private Life”
“Nothing To Fear”
“Grey Matter”
“Who Do You Want To Be”
“No Spill Blood”
“Nothing Bad Ever Happens To Me”
“Good For Your Soul”
Danny Elfman
“Gratitude”
“It Only Makes Me Laugh”
“Everybody Needs”
Oingo Boingo
“Just Another Day”
“Dead Man’s Party”
“No One Lives Forever”
“Stay”
“Weird Science”
“Not My Slave”
“Cinderella Undercover”
“Wild Sex (In The Working Class)”
“California Girls”
“Goodbye, Goodbye”
Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon, Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.
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