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Happy New Tier! 340 Returns!

That’s what the Morse above says. Inventor Samuel Morse was pro-slavery and a candidate for the 19th Century version of Trump, the anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic ‘Know Nothing’ Nativist party who started riots over race and religion. He seems oddly relevant to what is happening in the States in the last week with the Capitol Building attempted coup/insurrection.

I found that out after I had recorded this episode but it all seems weirdly in sync with re-evaluating the past and the weird political history of the United States – of recent immigrants pulling up the ladder for later immigrants. And I see now these insurrectionists and rioters are freaking out that they are being arrested, purged from social media and on No Fly lists for storming government buildings to start a revolution. What did they expect?

Music varies in this episode from punk to dub, reggae and rocksteady to arabic funk and disco, acid to indie dance, hiphop to nu-gaze, cosmic disco to chilled neo-classical ambience. We say goodbye to Trump (hopefully), Elias Rahbani and Harold Budd and hell-oh to 2021 – please don’t be like your Big Brother…

Know Your 340 Onions, Elizabeth…and Don’t Take the Stand, it’s Government Property! (2:07 181Mb)

Elizabeth’s revolution isn’t going that well
Sabo – Surviving 2020 (Edit)
TINCA & ViDor – Donald Trumpet 2020
B Dolan – Safety Theater
Spectrum City – Lies
Asian Dub Foundation featuring Stewart Lee – Comin’ Over Here
The Pagans S.O.H. – The Pagans Are Alive
IDLES – Model Village
Pure Hell – These Boots Are Made for Walking
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu – 3AM Eternal (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu vs Extreme Noise Terror)
Psychostick – Obey The Beard
DJ Caution – Falah Rmx
Elias Rahbani and His Orchestra – From The Moon
Ceephax Acid Crew – The Snake Block (Ice Rink Emotions)
Gil Scott-Heron – Angel Dust [The Reflex Revision]
The King Blues – A New England (Billy Bragg Cover) (Acoustic)
Arab Strap – The Turning of Our Bones
The Melodians – I Will Get Along Without You
Desmond Dekker – Fu Manchu
Freddie McGregor – What Difference Does It Make
Bruce Ruffin – Rain
Peter Broderick – Let It Go .-.. . – .. – –. —
Harold Budd with Cocteau Twins – Ooze Out And Away, Onehow
Alan Braxe – Spacer
Douglas Dare – Dance Me to the End of Love .. .- -. -.-. . — . – — – …. . . -. -.. — ..-. .-.. — …- .
David Bowie – Five Years (from the Old Grey Whistle Test)
Lanterns On The Lake – Understudy