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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live sound collage right now, for the last scheduled time" - Show #827, from Nov. 21, 2022 [Final show, here today, live. Very incomplete list of samples used is below!] Set: Incomplete list of sources sampled follows below Coldplay - "The Scientist (instrumental)" Coldplay - "The Scientist (instrumental) (backwards)" Girl Talk - "Imagine" - Less Than All Day (Kenzo's All Day remix) Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "May be one of the last" - Show from Oct. 3, 2022 CKUT radio cassette - "Side A" CKUT radio cassette - "Side B" Tyler Broadcasting - "Ken usually says it's his last show" - WTJU Nov. 14, 2022 Irene Trudel - "First ever last ever" - WFMU GTDR Nov. 14, 2022 - "The genius engineering of the 3½ inch floppy disk" Geodesium - "West of the Galaxy" - West of the Galaxy [Mark C. Petersen] Tangerine Dream - "Running Out of Time" - Miracle Mile s.t. The Caretaker - "Various" - Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 1 Miles - "We all thought we'd said goodbye" - thirtySomething [Unsure if audible] Tangerine Dream - "Running Out of Time (backwards)" - Miracle Mile s.t. Apprentice & Ken - "Last ever radio show, crying" Dorothy, others - "Glinda's Return-Dorothy's Farewell-There's No Place Like Home-Finale-Cast List" - Wizard of Oz Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Tom Stoppard - "There must have been a moment when we could've said no, and we missed it. We'll know better next time" - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead HAL 9000 - "I am constantly occupied, which is all a conscious entity can ever hope" - 2001: A Space Odyssey William Shatner / NASA - "Universe" Coldplay cover (Bitesize piano) - "The Scientist (piano tutorial playthrough)" Electric Light Orchestra - "Tears In Your Life" - Flashback Geodesium - "Clouds Upon Clouds" - Stellar Collections 2 Journey - "Faithfully (Kenzo loop)" The Addams Family - "Closing Credits theme" Geodesium - "The Andromeda Collection" - Stellar Collections Luke Million - "Film & TV Music Pt. 1: Recreated on Synthesizers" - Luke Million in the Studio Live stream feedback - "Give the Drummer Radio live stream" Irene Trudel - "Live Nov. 21, 2022" Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants to Rule the World (guitar only)" John Lennon - "Imagine (bass only)" John Lennon - "Imagine (singing and piano only)" John Lennon / Steve Fitch - "Imagine (de-mix)" Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Extended Karma Extravaganza, Unfinished (from "Karma Police")" Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "More Hanson, Please" Magnetic Fields / Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "The Book of Dumb" Albert Brooks, James L. Brooks - "I feel like I'm slipping, but do people who are slipping feel that way, or only because their standards are so high?" - Broadcast News movie Firesign Theatre - "Radio techniques to multitrack recording" - Interview on Midday Firesign Theatre - "Radio studio cut into smaller pieces" - Interview on Midday Geodesium - "The Light Years Collection" - Stellar Collections 2 Geodesium - "Light Flights" - Stellar Collections 2 Holly Hunter, James L. Brooks - "just want to sit here,feeling to stay here is powerful" - Broadcast News movie Bruce Hornsby & The Range - "The Way It Is" Fairuza Balk (directed by Walter Murch) - "I haven't really said goodbye yet" - Return to Oz Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Endings collage" - Show from Oct. 3, 2022 Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor" Terry Gilliam - "Various" - Zero Theorem interview Alexandre Desplat - "The Imitation Game" - The Imitation Game Datamaster - "IBM documentation documentary" - Datamaster Ease of Use: A Documentary Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Casio Man" - Club Jam Surgeon Vacation: Show from Oct. 11, 1997 Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Ken & Joe talking over New Kids on the Block" - Show from 1994 or 1995 Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Tanya duplicity sampling jamboree w/John" - Show from Aug. 27, 1998 Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "PSA excerpts" -...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "2nd-to-last Last Ever" - Show #826, from Nov. 7, 2022 [Live improvised sound collage experiment, right now. (Somewhat complete list of sources sampled follows, not currently in sequence.)] Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "2nd-to-last Last Ever" Alan Silvestri - "End Title (Alternate)" - Back to the Future II (Expanded) Alexander Desplat - "Mr. Fox in the Fields" - The Fantastic Mr. Fox Ken - "John Linnell snow avalanche dream" - "Top 80 greatest piano intros" Faith No More - "Non-Epic (Ken's minimalist remix)" [0'06] - "Ground Theme" - Super Mario Bros. [0'07. Various] The Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow" [0'07] Dr. Seuss (narration by Marvin Miller, music by Marty Gold) - "Yertle the Turtle" - Yertle the Turtle [0'09] Van Halen piano cover - "Right Now" [0'14] Laura Dern - "Occupy life, pure life" - Enlightened [2:50] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The antepenultimate" - Show #825, from Oct. 24, 2022 Stars of the Lid - "The Evil That Never Arrived" - And Their Refinement of the Decline They Might Be Giants - "Hey Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had s Deal" - Miscellaneous T They Might Be Giants - "Birdhouse In Your Soul (Techno Remix)" [Very brief] The Caretaker - "Recollected Memories From The Museum Of Garden History" - Recollected Memories From The Museum Of Garden History ["1928"] Ken - "Everything will make you better" The Caretaker - "forgotten dreams (side c)" - Deleted Scenes & Forgotten Dreams Pink Floyd, Ranjit Souri - "The Great Gig in the Sky piano cover" [3:51] Ween - "She Wanted To Leave (Reprise)" - The Mollusk [Dancing in the Show Tonight reprise] Pink Floyd - "Pigs On The Wing (8-track tape Snowy White version)" [3:10] The Beatles - "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight (Take 17 / Instrumental / Strings & Brass Only)" - Abbey Road (Super Deluxe Edition) Patrick McGoohan, George Coulouris - "Power, people, sides, defy, too old for escape, how to distinguish the sides" - The Prisoner, episode 9: Checkmate [3:40] Patrick McGoohan, Ronald Radd - "How long been here, would've ensured peace, independent mind, I'm a prisoner too" - The Prisoner, episode 9: Checkmate [3:41?] Harold Ramis - "Anxiety is just excitement, stay cool" - Reelin' In The Years Archives Harold Ramis - "Improvising, failure is a living nightmare, you don't die from embarassment, things could always be worse" - Reelin' In The Years Archives Steve Paxton - "One thing is clear, I have little memory of what I have improvised, and I can't reconstitute them" - Chute (from Contact Improv Archive 1972-1983) Sarah Silverman - "Improvisation, talking about Larry Sanders Show" - Sarah Silverman on Garry Shandling The Addams Family - "The kids need to go to school (excerpts)" - The Addams Family Goes To School [3:04] Jerry Lewis - "Could wing it, can't improvised, used to be able to experiment, worked 2 out of 4 times, people too aware, want their money's worth" [3:14] Panaroma / Steve Fitch - "MM88-2" - The New Abnormal [3:44] Graham Chapman, Monty Python - "You don't need to follow me, don't follow anybody, you're all individuals, don't let anyone tell you what to do, you've got to work it out for yourselves" - Life of Brian movie [3:46] Morgan Freeman - "Forget about the way it used to be, this is not a damned democracy. We are in a state of emergency and my word is law" - Lean On Me movie [3:45] Morgan Freeman - "i want absolute silence, no one is permitted to move during the singing of the school song" - Lean On Me movie Morgan Freeman - "there's only one boss in this place, and that's me" - Lean On Me movie Morgan Freeman - "I want every door in this school chained and locked, all of them" - Lean On Me movie Morgan Freeman - "Tear down cages in cafeteria, if you treat them like animals, that's exactly how they'll behave" - Lean On Me movie Morgan Freeman - "You will sing the school song on demand or suffer dire consequences" - Lean On Me movie Morgan Freeman...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The Biweekly Antepenultimate" - Show #825, from Oct. 24, 2022 [New live sound collage today. Samples used listed below (mostly complete)] Set: Today's samples used (mostly complete): Henry Mancini - "Pink Panther Theme" [0:00] Ken - "You can hear it without listening" [0:01] Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks - "Don't kill yourself, take the leap, do what you're afraid to do" - Joe Versus the Volcano [0:02] Alan Silvestri - "Delorean Reveal" - Back to the Future...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Decades of Dictatorship (the slippery slope)" - Show #316, from Jun. 1, 2004 [0:00:00] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "I Torture Myself (Art & Music as Confessional)" - Show #326, from Aug. 24, 2004 [0:29:55] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The Coming Storms" - Show #307, from Apr. 20, 2004 [1:26:39] Ken - "What almost was, goodbyes 2022" [1:55:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/120477

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live noise: Classical cut ups, kiddo, TMBG, Portsmouth Sinfonia, How Do You Learn" - Show #748, from Dec. 14, 2020 [Including: Clair de Lune, Mozart's Magic Flute overture, Beethoven's 5th loops, KLERE This Must Be the Beginning, Lullatone, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Random Rab, Scolastic, Strauss's Blue Danube, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, They Might Be Giant's Why Does the Sun Shine and Mrs. Train, previous WTJU DJ] [0:00:00] Ken's Last Ever Radio...

Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - It's Too Much Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "It's Too Much (first and last segments)" - Show #260, from July 28, 2002 [Improvised live on WFMU's Rotating Hosts slot. Late at night, with a sleeping DJ behind me. Listing of samples used follows, in real time: ] [0:00:00] Dan Bodah - "Talking" [Introduces my set, while talking over his "The Necks" track] [0:00:03] The Necks - "Sex" - Sex [(Chris Abrahms, piano) Track played last by prior...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Anxiety-Failure-Tragedy-Excitement-Acceptance (All beings follow the path)" - Show #796, from Jan. 17, 2022 [Live sound collage improvised right then! With some Sept 2022 updates. Details below.] [0:00:00] Set: Source samples used in this live sound collage: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "If You Leave Me loops" - Pretty In Pink s.t. [0:00:00] Ken - "Intro" [0:00:56] Edward Carini & Maria Callas of Scholastic - "Figuring Things Out" - Kindle:...

Ken - "Introduction and stream echo chamber" Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Elsewhere" - Show #238, from Sept. 24, 2000 [Noise, layers, building terror and hypnotic immersion from within a claustrophobia-inducing cement bunker at Momenta Art, during the Williamsburg Elsewhere Festival, to gallery audience and live broadcast on pirate radio station free103point9, in Brooklyn, NY. Full list of audio samples (not in sequence) follows:] Digitonal - "My Life as a Loop" Digitonal -...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Every Path is the Right Path (give up without giving in) (v8/29/22)" - Show #515, from 1/14/17 [With some 2020 & 2022 talk overlaying. Full list of samples follows:] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Excerpts] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Ramu Misses You (is it just me)" - Show from 7/12/17 [Excerpts] Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville - "Can't Sleep excerpt" - Chasing Sleep movie [Always...

Live stream feedback - "Transition from previous show" [0:00:00] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Mommy?" - Show #257, from Feb. 6, 2002, live at Chama, East Village, NYC [Scary hypnotic weaving, with three-year old niece as glue. From a very different Ken's Last Ever era, the debut of the Electronic Musical Experiment @ Chama, East Village, NYC, in 2002.] [0:00:06] Ken - "Intermission 2022" [0:59:52] Ken - "Intermission 2021" [1:01:01] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza -...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Back and Forth" - Show #266, from Sept. 3, 2003 [Source listing] [0:00:00] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Starting up and winding down (100-minute edit)" - Show #493, from Dec. 25, 2013 [ Way detailed source listing] [0:19:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/117810

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Layered Laughter Brings New Closure to the Guy" - Show #368, from May 31, 2005 [I think the cat just fell.] [0:00:00] Music behind DJ: Ken [0:03:10] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Conduct the Symphony of Your Life" - Show #452 from 3/14/13 [List of samples follows:] [0:03:31] Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "Conduct the Symphony of Your Life" Lou Reed - "Street Hassle" - Street Hassle [0:04:03] Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville - "Can't...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Lush Field Recordings Blend" - Show #560, from Nov. 29, 2017 [As updated for today. Source samples listed below:] Ken - "2021 welcome/intro" Vincent Duseigne - "Amiens station / 80000 Amiens, France" Ken - "We're going places" Vincent Duseigne - "Nearly 100 different recordings, blended live" Apprentice - "The younger apprentice perforrms a series of mic checks" Vincent Duseigne - "Nearly 100 different recordings, blended live" Ken - "You should...

Live stream feedback echo chamber - "Thanks Irene" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Loops in Isolation" - Show #337, from 10/19/04 [Pretty, aimless, self referential. Remastered in 2022.] [0:00:00] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Regenerative Memory Feedback (w/2021 update)" - Show #727, from July 20, 2020 [Halfway mark handoff brief excerpt, with 2022 live radio apprentice mic play] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Inside of the Ending" - Show #360, from 3/29/05 [I won't...

Set: Act & Move On (If you miss the faux pearls, you get the ducks.) Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Act and Move On (If you miss the faux pearls, you get the ducks.)" - Show #436, from July 5, 2012 Working titles: This show is about people, and things and ideas, all coming into contact. | Not going with the flow | Gravity (perhaps it's just another word for fate) | Fields around us | It's all so easy once you let go | There's magic in three | It's no good being just one...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "No Tomorrow Life" - Show #361, from Apr. 5, 2005 [Tranquility is sudden; I look for conclusions. Sampled sources are listed below:] Set: Sampled sources, in no particular order: Four Tet - "Harmony One" - Pause Philip Glass - "Act 1, Scene 2: Trial" - Einstein on the Beach The Beatles - "Revolution 9" - White Album Dr. Seuss - "Sneetches excerpts" - The Sneetches Joel Coen, director & writer; Ethan Coen, writer; Billy Bob Thornton, actor; Carter...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Emptying Our Boxes (2022 update)" - Show #647, from May 8, 2019 [What's he building in there? List of samples used, below:] [0:00:00] Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "Emptying Our Boxes (2022 update)" Jon Brion - "Jimmy's Breakdown" - Magnolia [0:00:00] Ken - "2022 intro to the 2019 & 2020 intros" Stanley Kubrick's Boxes - "Boxes" - Stanley Kubrick's Boxes [0:03:31] Ken - "We'll open some of the boxes" [0:04:05] OutKast - "B.O.B. loops"...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Welling Up (like a crab you could go backward)" - Show #485, from Nov. 13, 2013 [List of samples used, below:] [0:00:00] Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "Welling Up (like a crab you could go backward)" Sigur Rós - "Takk..." - Takk... [Loop] [0:00:02] Music behind DJ: Ken [0:02:34] Sigur Rós - "Takk..." - Takk... [0:05:49] Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - "American Girl" - Greatest Hits [0:07:28] Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers -...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Regenerative Memory Feedback (w/2021 & 2022 updates)" - Show #727, from July 20, 2020 [(When did you start losing your mind?) Augmented today 2022 and in 2021. List of samples used, not quite complete, and in no particular order, below:] Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "Regenerative Memory Feedback" Clem Leek & Jannick Schou - "Pimlico" - Pimlico Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "You Can't Separate Them Later, + (As long as you don't...

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "So Now You Take My Breath Away" - Show #352, from Jan. 25, 2005 [Partial list of samples follows:] Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "So Now You Take My Breath Away" Explosions in the Sky - "Your Hand in Mine (loops)" - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place Wayne Dyer - "Space, silence between the notes" - 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace Cliff Martinez - "Can I Sit Next to You" - Solaris s.t. Cliff Martinez - "Wear Your Seatbelt" -...