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Friendly Dictators (2014)

by The Technical Difficulties Radio Show

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Introduction 01:21
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Prologue 04:16
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The Big Show 00:55
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Happy Prison 00:48
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Really McCoy 00:46
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Dark Marks 01:29
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intermission 00:20
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Top Primate 01:15
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Outroduction 01:19

about

'He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him...'
Proverbs 24:24


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Technical Difficulties: a live radio show on Free Radio Santa Cruz from 1998-2006, from insurrectionary to irreverent...a blend of musics, writings, rants, guests, soundscrape-action + eclectic expositions.

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released December 26, 2014

Text & concept by Dennis Bernstein & Laura Sydell (1990)
Voices + mixing by DJ J-gi wizz + DJ Matter Embryo
Additional excerpts from the Woodstockhausen Suite with Sgt. Scrapes + Paul Couture
Improvisational commentary by DJ J-gi wizz
Cover art by SCR.^.PES
Edited/mixed/produced by DJ Matter Embryo
Recorded live on Free Radio Santa Cruz + KUSP ('Another Sense')
Mastered by Steve McDonald at the Octagon



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