🧵1/5 I've started an informal Ahmed Adaweya bio/cataloging project. I'm ripping & uploading 3-4 dozen 45s, LPs & cassettes. I've already posted 11 releases to hear/download with detailed notes, references to other fans & scholars including @simongandrew ahmedadaweya.blogspot.com/

Desert island-level LP up there with Slits Cut and Raincoats Odyshape: Mercenárias, Cadê As Armas? (Baratos Afins, 1986). Not as punk-y as their demos & live recordings from 83-85, but a god-tier all-timer record with no skips

The sudden release of Brazilian punk/hardcore in 82-83 is misleading, given that some of these bands were around in the late 70s, but wouldn't have been able to legally record then. Ripping this & other gems for next week's all-Brazilian, all-vinyl punk, post, new & no wave show

Ripping tracks from the first Brazilian new wave band on record: Gang 90 & Absurdettes, Essa Tal De ... (RCA, 1983). This is my 2nd listen and I am in love. Tune in next Wednesday for our all-vinyl Brazilian punk, post-punk, new wave, and no wave episode: wfmu.org/playlists/shows/169…

Ripping tracks from this amaze-face 2-LP box set by the first Brazilian post-punk band on vinyl: Agentss, Agentss (Nada Nada Discos, 2023). God tier studio and live performances from 1982-83. Comes with beautifully designed full-color 64-page book and 3 posters.

Arabic Singles Going Steady 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/shows/169… TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio we're spinning 45 RPM 7" singles from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. Join us, it's going to be amaze-face!

Fairouz, Habbaitek Bessaif (Pathe, date u/k), an impossibly gorgeous track from this 1970s EP. Spinning mostly rare, obscure 45s on tomorrow night's Arabic Singles Going Steady episode with a couple of notable exceptions, including this one. wfmu.org/playlists/shows/169…

Ripping 45s from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, and Yemen for next week's show. Playing at least one side from this killer single from Morocco. Lemchaheb, Khayi b/w Daouini (Cleopatra, date UK). wfmu.org/playlists/shows/165…

So thrilled about this release I was afraid my expectations would eclipse the actual record. No, it's just incredible, a wide range of phenomenal sounds across 13 tracks plus super-detailed liner notes & terrific photos, an heroic LP. Mekong Shellac (Sublime Frequencies, 2026)

The GF I lived & worked at Tower Records with in the 80s was a Robyn Hitchcock fan; we saw him at the Fillmore in 1988. Had to ask Cory at Academy if Robyn was in fact in this band; he confirmed. First-ever listen, love love love it. The Soft Boys, A Can of Bees (Two Crabs, 1979)

BAD RUSSIANS | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/shows/169… TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio An all-vinyl selection of Soviet-era Russian rock and jazz, including underground favorites, oddities, and lesser-known records, with documentation of their infractions. Join us!

Finally listening Aquarium's Radio Africa (1983) & sensing a Lou Reed vibe on "The Art of Being Quiet." Love the flitting thru stations concept & playful, at times bizarre, variety of styles on this. How would it have felt to have heard this in 83 on the unofficial reel-to-reel?

Continuing to rip tracks for tomorrow night's "Bad Russians" show. Can't really get away without playing Kino's "I Want Change" from the Assa soundtrack (1987, Melodiya). Happy to have finally found a copy of this terrific, Akvarium-heavy LP

"The smell of oil prevails in eternity." The 14-minute title track of Grazhdanskaya Oborona's bracing 1989 Russian Field of Experiments is Yegor Letov's masterpiece, here it is with lyrics translated into English: rutube.ru/video/f82349836ca7…

The most raw and emotionally riveting final track of any album I can think of, Придёт Вода (Water Will Come), from Yanka's posthumous Shame & Disgrace, is one of my favorite things ever recorded, anywhere. If you haven't heard it: youtu.be/Pcmo90xM3uk?si=HIJr…

The first "official" LP by my absolute favorite Soviet-era artist nearly 2 decades after his first magnitizdat releases of the ealy 70s. Yuri Morozov, Performance (Melodiya, 1988). It lacks the endless inventiveness of his earlier songs and synth soundscapes, but I still love it

The tapes for this legendary 2-LP, which some claim helped speed glasnost, were smuggled out of Russia by Joanna Stingray in her coat, the lyrics in her boots. Ripping some tracks for this week's show from the 1986 OG red & yellow discs version with lyric sheets. An all-time fave

Sailin' da South | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/shows/169… TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio : Pioneering, innovative, underground, and favorite hip-hop tracks from Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Memphis, and New Orleans. Join us! And take a moment to pledge! pledge.wfmu.org/donate?progr…