This morning a suprise beginning with avant rock from Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, Thinking Plague, David Bowie and Chicks on Speed.
Neokrautrock from Minerall (Germany)
Electronic in the Cosmic Hour from UK’s
Din label with Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle),
new music from Parallel Worlds (Greece), Cosmic Ground (Germany).
Ambient in the Time Suspended segment with intrusion (USA),
The latest release from Eternell (Turkey via Sweden).

In anticipation of the 2025 Radiothon
Progressive rock marathon from 9:00pm 4/18- 8:00pm 4/19 we will play two European progressive bands,
Magma, their ep from 2015 “Slag Tanz”
Also, the latest archival release from the original Krautrock band Can.
New heavy psych from Psychedelic Source Records (Hungary)
Laurie Anderson-tribute to Amelia Earhart
Cosmic hour-Radio Massacre International (UK) latest Cuniform release
Galactic Furnace part 3.
Aestrata (Germany) latest ambient release on El Culto

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This morning’s journey begins with Buckethead who will be performing @Patchogue Theater on April 16.
Jonas Hellborg & Shawn Lane with Micheal Shrieve, Micheal Delville playing Jimi Hendrix, Steven Wilson along with dissonance from PAKT recordied live in 2023, Lightwave recorded live in a French cave.
The Cosmic Hour brings a long set by Chuck Van Zyl recorded live on Stars End.
The Deep Drift Segment brings Ambient from Blanket Swimming (USA),
Pilot Voyager (Hungary), Eternell (Sweden).

This morning’s journey goes deep into the ambient world of Robert Rich’s sleep concert music. Part 1 of a seven hour studio recreation utilizing his full instrumentation, PVC flutes, samples and elongated drones. An important segment of his long career as an electronic composer. He developed the sleep concert as a student at Stanford University playing communal music concerts during a full sleep cycle. Originally released as the first Blu-Ray audio in 2014 “Perpetual” is also available as a 16bit-96db Bandcamp multi format download .

Melting World-Guitars and synths
Taking a familiar yet unexplored road this morning with guitarists Bill Frisell, Richard Thompson, Carlos Santana with John McLaughlin.
Electronic with Stefan Gubatz (DE), Intrusion (Detroit), Mick Chillage (IRE)
Joni Mitchell recorded at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium on 8/27/79
Ambient with Pilot Voyager
Happy St Patrick’s Day 2025.

Join us as we enter into that ten month portal of local time known as
“Daylight Savings Time”
With an archival edition of the Melting World from 2/25/24-Enjoy!
Space psych from Oresund Space Collective (Denmark), Black Moon Circle (Norway),
The Spacelords (Germany), Pilot Voyager (Hungary)
Not so recent psych from Hawkwind, System 7 (UK), Anubian Lights (USA & UK)'
Kikagaku Moya & Ryley Walker (Japan & USA)
Brand new Can archival release Paris 1973 in memory of Damo Suzuki (1950-2024)
Space ambient from Sphäre Sechs and Drone ambient from Thomas Köner (Germany)

This morning we listen to music from
UK, Canada, Germany and USA
with David Gilmour, Brian Eno,
Radio Massacre International (UK) in the Cosmic Hour
Latest archival release from
Klaus Schulze (Germany)
Ben Neil (USA)
New Ambient from Mathias Grassow,
Nuur & Deep North (Germany) in the Time Suspended Segment

Deep drift expanded from 1/5/25
Technical redo long form ambient prerecord
Steve Roach 2:00-4:00am segment from Joshua Tree Mentalphysics Center all night sleep concert October 27-28/2024.
Recent ambient from Italy’s Alio Die,
Dirk Serries’s ambient guitar with Streams Of Consciousness (Belgium),
Rudy Adrian (New Zealand) extended single from his latest Spotted Peccary sleep focused release.

David Lynch 1946-2025
This morning we celebrate the life of the late artist whose films and music has been a major influence on The Melting World.
We will play the soundtrack to his first film, one that played at the midnight cinema circuit throughout the late 70’s and 80’s
“Eraserhead” along with
Spacerock with Hawkestrel, Chrome
Stoner with Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats.
Krautrock with Birth Control,
electric orange.
Electronic with Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company, James Johnson & Vir Unis.
Ambient with Erik Emil Eskildson.
This Sunday 12-5am
Here where unique sounds begin,
WUSB 90.1fm & wusb.fm

“A Psychoactive Listening Experience”
First show of the new Spring schedule
European psych with the latest releases from Red Sun (Italy), Los Tayos (Hungary), Pascere Lamia (UK) and new music from
Acid Rooster (Germany).
Outstanding sonic clarity from the sixties with the latest archival release from
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention and Miles Davis Bitches Brew complete sessions.
New archival sequencer synth from ARC,
Martin Stürtzer (Germany).
Deep drift ambient from Lorenzo Montana (Italy), Forrest Fang, Variant (USA).

“A Global Journey Within Your Mind”
This morning’s show dives into the electronic world with music from
Trigona (New Zealand), 4x3, U.S.O. (Germany),
Acid Mothers Temple & Infinity Rising Zero (Japan),
Jean-Micheal Jarre (France).
Sequencer synth from The Soviet Space Dog Project (UK).
The Cosmic Hour brings winter themed ambient from Winterhouse (USA & Canada),
Wintersilence (Germany).

Part 1>12-2am
This morning’s program veers into uncharted territory for this show with a set from the ladies recorded in the 60’s with Nico singing a great Lou Reed tune, Joni Mitchell from 1979’s Hejira, Marianne Faithfull recorded live at St Anne’s in Brooklyn in 1989 and a track from Beth Orion’s “Trailer Park” released in 1996.
Music from American composer Harold Budd, Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno & Kate St John, Chanel Light Vessel.
Solo piano from Bruno Sanfilipo (Spain), Patrick Moraz (Switzerland), Holly Bowling, Scott Lawlor.
Global from Material, Gigi (Ethiopia), Channel Light Vessel
The Cosmic Hour brings Ambient with Lori Pate, Poeme

Part 2>
3-5am

Melting World 1/12/25
Progressive with music from Bill Nelson, Steve Hillage (UK), Djam Karet (USA)
Decibel (Mexico) from the Cleopatra box set “Dossier 1977-2017,
New music from Stick Men recorded in Japan.
Spacepsych from Perhaps & French Retropsych from Tarotplane (USA)
Sequencer synth with Paul Ellis, Dweller At The Threshold (USA)
Ambient from Robert Rich,
Bill Laswell & Tetsu Inoue (USA & Japan)
Winter ambient from Jeff Pearce (USA),
Amir Baghiri & Mathias Grassow (Germany)

Cosmic Deep Drift Ambient
with Steve Roach 2-4am segment
live at Joshua Tree Mentalphyics
Joshua Tree, Ca. 10/27-28/24
Eight hour concert.
New Rudy Adrian (New Zealand)
Extended single “The Sleepy Hills 6”
Music for deep hours listening
at WUSB 90.1fm and wusb.fm

This morning we celebrate the life of recently departed Indian tablā player and composer Zakir Hussain. Featuring his solo material and collaborations with British guitarist John McLaughlin and their Shakti incarnations, Mickey Hart, Diga Rhythm Band, Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer.
Zakir was prominent player of traditional Indian music and we will play his collaborations with Shivkumar Sharma, L Shankar, Hariprasad.
Alternating sets will include traditional Melting world music from The Band of Gypsys at the Fillmore East on 12/31/69, The Israelittes (Jamaica) Church of Hed (USA), Red Sun (Italy), Depth Charms (UK), Markus Reuter, new music from Electric Orange (Germany) and
Psychedelic Source Records (Hungary)

Winter Solstice celebration of darkness edition this morning with
Spacepsych from Nektar, Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy's Mirror System (UK),
The Bad Plus interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's "Rite Of Spring"
Lou Reed and John Cale early and later, film music from Alexandre Desplat (France)
Sequencer Synth from Cosmic Hoffman & Steven Parsick
Composers Aaron Martin, Stephano Guzzetti (Italy), Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays,
John Zorn and Jesse Harris.
Fusion with Allan Holdsworth, Mark Wingfield & Markus Reuter's The Stone House
In the Cosmic Hour we visit Cosmique Francias with Tarotplane,
Varient etherscape mix of Intrusion single "Amongst the Stars,
Deep ambient drift with Slow Taste Of Night Air

This morning’s show starting heavy and ending light
highlighting full musical dynamics.
Midnight brings Monster Magnet, Elder (USA), Elecrtric Moon (Germany),
Yuri Gagarian (Sweden), Sonic Demon (Italy), Karkara (France),
Arthur Brown, Krell (UK).
A few tracks from Hawkwind’s live conceptual 1995 Alien tour album
“Love in Space”
2:00am brings electronic synth with Brendan Pollard (UK), spaghetti western ambient from Delre (Italy),
tribal ambient from Byron Metcalf & Shane Morris (USA),
deep drift ambient with an extended single from Max Corbacho (Spain)

This morning's show is divided into two segments. In the midnight segment we check out some new Bandcamp Friday purchases, older and newer releases with the emphasis on the heavy.
Psycedelic Source Records (Hungary) recorded in a field at a goat farm,
Acid Mothers Temple (Japan) release on Riot Season Records, along with
Anchor and Burden (Germany), Ozric Tentacles (UK), Heironymus Dream (Greece)
then stepping back in time to one of my first 8 tracks,
Jethro Tull's Thick As a Brick part 1 (1972)

Melting World second segment starts with part two of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick.
The early morning hours brings sequencer syth from Ron Boots (NL) in the Cosmic Hour followed by ambient from
Mount Shrine (Brazil), Misleading Structures (Greece),Pietro Zollo (Italy),
Christina Giannone (USA)