NEW EPISODE- Mesozoic Comets + Dialogues with Dewdrops

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Join us as we discuss pranks of whirlwinds, reveal lessons from mischievous dewdrops, and of course we'll examine luminous halos at the apex. Venus' chastity belt has been unlocked...this can only entail one thing: hit play if you dare. For example...we've unpacked some recent fan mail [on the account of an anonymous listener's burning question on sex & intimacy].

//episode #74// UNCENSORED + UNCUT

Ingredients: explicit content, meet me in the fire, explode like cosmic light and magic, disappear into a love so profound, stars could only long to be on earth. sprinkle: sister yooboop-goop. faktoree settings deleted. arugula + sausage, caught a light sneeze.

Musical interludes by Chuck Jackson, Hot Chocolate, Vanessa Daou, AlunaGeorge, and others to help quench your third-eye-thirst. Literature referenced: Why the World Isn't Grey by Hazel Rossotti, and The Strange Phenomena Handbook by Tim Williams.

Welcome to your anti-holiday mixxtape~


TRACK LISTING

1. BEG ME - CHUCK JACKSON

2. INTO THE TREES - HOPE SANDOVAL

3. IM IN CONTROL - ALUNAGEORGE FT. POPCAAN

4. TWO TO TANGO - VANESSA DAOU

5. HEY THERE SENORITA - ANDY CAVELL

6. EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE - THE POLICE

7. DAUGHTER - SMASHING PUMPKINS (DEMO)

8. OPEN THE DOOR - WELLS FARGO

9. BUMP & DILLY DOWN - HOT CHOCOLATE

10. DO ME (GLEN MEADMORE MIX) - PSYCHIC TV

11. ONCE UPON A DREAM - MARY COSTA

12. TINKER TOY TOMORROW - MILK 'N' COOKIES

13. I'M A REAL POLICEMAN - QUEER TO THE CORE COMP.

14. HE NEEDS ME - SHELLEY DUVALL/NILSSON

15. MY BEAUTIFUL WHITE DOG - VINCENT GALLO

16. ST. JUDY'S COMET - PAUL SIMON

17. 25 YELLOW DOORS - FAUST

18. OPEN THE DOOR - WELLS FARGO

19. ON BOARD - GRAZE

20. TAKE MY BREATH AWAY - BERLIN

21. YOU'RE A NATURAL HIGH - HOT CHOCOLATE

22. NATURE BOY - NAT KING COLE

23. HOW DO THEY SPEND CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN? - EL ROD

24. SIT DOWN BESIDE ME - CHRIS BRITTON

25. LET ME GET UP ON IT - TOM WAITS

26. WIND ON WATER - FRIPP & ENO


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NEW EPISODE- Gargling Ghoulash

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Proventriculus! Yumz. Irodophanes—ichthyo cells? An invitation arrived just the other day, from a boy I would become acquainted with…examineeng in ways, so that I might finalize my long-winded dissertation: whereas a new hypothesis did be concluded. Tender epidermis? No tears/no fears.


Ingredients: 

-  Ulmus rubra chewed at da source

-  Wrapped two pairs w/confetti (deja woo woo)

-  Exhilarating screen shots e.g. X-mas day 

-  I lick yr swollen snout Ms Meowzah

-  Cuntry strumboli at your doorstep?

-  Aufgegangen (secret ingredient)

-  Lloyd Krampuss ist sehr ready

-  Take me for reel, reel

-  3 lbs Aerenchyma

-  I brought mashed potatoes



Track Listing

1. Hot Cock Annie - The Frogs

2. Dreambox - The Frogs

3. Feet - Hiroshi Yoshimura

4. Peaches and Cream - Beck

5. Constant Craving - KD Lang

6. Der Mond ist Aufgegangen - Tangerine Dream*

7. The Rain The Park & Other Things - The Cowsills

8. Pilots of Purple Twilight - Tangerine Dream

9. Catching the Butterfly - The Verve

10. I Could Show You How - Naked Eyes

11. The Great Morpheum - Sopwith Camel

12. Flower Girl - Kinoko Teikoku

13. I Root - Michael Nau

14. Unit 10 - What Should I Buy the Family?

15. Fairy Fountain - Super Guitar Bros

16. Playground Love - AIR

17. I Love You Don’t Forget It - Caterina Valente

18. The Wedding Song - C. Duncan

19. Now and Then - The Beatles

20. The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies


*082524 woahh

NEW EPISODE- Symphony of the Wind

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Welcome to your Monday morning mixxtape. Flood gates flutter without delay. The archaic mist is getting warmer...

Ingredients: 

(_) Perpetuum Mobile 03

(_) Běž zajíčku běž za ní

(_) Pober jí to koření

(_) Fuchsin Fields: Procured Pleasant Chasms

(_) Alas, the Poets*

(_) Magenta Manifestations 

(_) Epicurean Sister Plink

(_) Became; and it feee-eeels…

*hath been proofread [fixed]

O! my gawk  -sultry spectral tunes by Allen Toussaint, Earth, Deuter, L. Subramaniam, and quite a few other delectable deviants.

Track Listing

1. Garland - L. Subramaniam 

2. Southern Nights - Allen Toussaint

3. Aquarius - Boards of Canada

4. In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Picket

5. Symphony of the Wind - Valentina Goncharova

6. Offering of Love - L. Subramaniam

7. Örökmozgó -Gyorgy Kurtag

8. Yes, I'm Ready - Barbara Mason

9. Judy Garland - The Boy Next-door

10. Head - Prince

11. Out of Hiding (Father's Song) - Steffany Gretzinger

12. Offener Himmel I (Gleichzeitig) - Deuter

13. Ready To Take A Chance - Barry Manilow

14. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino

15. A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins

16. Can't Get It out of My Head - ELO

17. The Boyfriend - Maxwell Davies

18. Whenever You're Ready - The Zombies

19. The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull - Earth

20. Book of Life & Crime - Old Time Relijun

21. Last Train - Allen Toussaint

22. How's It Gonna End - Tom Waits

23. You Really Got Me - The Kinks

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NEW EPISODE- Sister Moon Bug

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A mixtape for tango strengths; when lightening strikes I'll still be glued inside your heart, at the root of the cinna-bun tree. When the wheels come off, I'll be an astronaut.

Ingredients: Reprise for exhumed archetypes in space/back on earth (zeeboop). Auspicious evening birdsong with wings turned toward the eclipse. Quirky pygmy-stains on my pillow, lampshade trembles softly. Extricate the moisture levels, sort through olde emails with glee (toothpaste on your chin hauntings). 166 hues; "Hiya, Leslie -hows abouts anotha' kiss?"   

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NEW EPISODE- Mirror to Mirror: Pool Ov Destiny

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Welcome to Season 7, fellow Venusians  -make sure you've got your notebooks ready, as for today's class we'll be touching on a few elements we've had tucked behind our bra strap. As you might have predicted, it's almost our anniversary (we like to plan ahead), so in honor of this momentous event, we're laying out all the cards onto the table. 

Join us as we discuss theories toward an understanding ov the mind ov thee artist, while touching on procrastination. Per your requests, we'll also be summoning the magician from his headquarters...as many moons ago, two like-minded individuals had begun their journey to self-discovery...this was a lonely endeavor, but a necessary one at that. This my friends, is a true story.  

Ingredients: piano dreams, socks on inside-out, bubble baths, public oaths; tasting space for Ryan @ Leslie Saucer Radio <3

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NEW EPISODE- Chapter 24: Flawed Mangoes

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Take a bite, the ballet is about to depart from her echo chamber (but not without a few paper cuts). The sorcerer's code ain't no stranger to the vision of the diamond. Fools may rush in, but they practice the alphabet first. Daylight dub in the lotus garden proves astronomy to be divine, as Isis calms Osiris with Vaclav's lekorice dance du ventre. *69 will bring you back to me, as Frankie does the twist with Aurora (a tulip in both their sweaty palms). Do the diaspores take the milky way express?

Welcome to your Saturday night toon-dip. Ingredients: Folky vanilla headspace, spiced disco serenades, and rainbow dub by Laurence Crane, Mbilia Bel, Marie Rottrova, and Vaclav Neckar.

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NEW EPISODE- Full Moon Fever

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This morning I woke to a lizard above my head (on the pillow), it was watching me as I rolled over and gazed into its eyes. It crawled up my arm and into my hair. “Damn good address for a rat...” the milk passed through the homogenizer. As a boy I memorized these mornings well, the hum as my vision polestarred. Down below she mowed the lawn, my umbilicus queen in her pollen suit…

Join us as the moon continues to wane beneath the spell of the Taurean. Are you prepared for the whirlwind, dear listeners? Merge, Venus! Celebrate this last supermoon of 2024 with a plentiful load ov traxx from our archive -including beats by The Believers, Johnny Kongos & The G-Men, Eric Dolphy, and Manos Hadjidakis.

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NEW EPISODE- Scuba Diving with Mephistopheles

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It's true, dear Venusian  -Autumn is close to completion. Tick-tock and lip gloss, whilst a slumbering bumble bee extends its proboscis. The stars of track and field packed their bags on a drowsy afternoon (podczas pływania z fallusem). 

Welcome to your Monday morning mixxtape - episode #66 includes some of our favorite musings by Shivkumar Sharma, The Joe Cuba Sextet, Jiří Šust, Wilson Pickett, and many others. Get dizzy on the seven seas with us!

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ALL HAIL P. BARBATUS- A Medicinal Glimpse

It may not look like much to the passerby, but the Plectranthus barbatus has quite an alluring list of facts beneath its fuzzy-leafed surface.

With over 10 different ethnobotanical properties, p. barbatus is a unique plant in the Lamiaceae family  -but not at all a stranger to the common-day botanist. Herbal extracts can be used as an antioxidant (keep in mind…we’re working on a tincture down in our laboratory).

The renowned benefits of this specimen can be used for stomach disorders, nervous system conditions, respiratory disorders, and helps aid in circulation. This succulent creature is often referred to as the Patta ajavayin, or the Karpuravalli. The following are also well researched ethnobotanical properties: anti-tumorigenic, antifungal, and anti-viral.

All hail the humble, yet mighty, p. barbatus!!

NEW EPISODE- Soliloquies for Aurora

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Caressed by the fragrant greenery by which they were once shrouded: exposed neuroses of the jacaranda trees aligned their blooming phases. A tongue beyond the tide! I can haves Starship Troopers on repeat, between midnight and Cloe -she was feathering the door handle in the magnificent chamber.

On the floor of the train: a piece of fuzz, a blue rose, a sandal, a quarter. Fern, Asplenium (cordially hid our gaze). As tempting as his sudor expressed; Aurora Ljubav was speechless. As was I. Despite all affirmative balmy-ness, Ms Brodersonia Umredi had an extended adoration for past participles, mosses, and panorpidae. 

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NEW EPISODE- Starwood Thrush-Hunt

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How does a plate of broccoli relate to Claude Levi-Strauss' Introduction to a Science of Mythology? Claude's early works were rarely celebrated, as his experiments didn't always appeal to his fellow anthropologists. But we're dancing on his grave anyhow, as his alien love-call tastes like honey.

Aside from these ghastly scrumptious happenings, we’ll be discussing the essentials of costume improvisations…and why the first rainfall ov the season encourages you to vote! If you're feeling down in the dumps, you're in luck  -as Deng Ming-Dao's work is also a featured literary treat. It's sure getting spooky out there…”Open sesame," begged thee Iguana. "Only by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin" whispered Clementine. 

Our playlist includes quite a few tracks by A Car That Swims; a band who's new to our archive. Appearances are also made by VHS Ghost, Connie Francis, Quetzalcoatl(us)…the list is endless.

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NEW EPISODE- Lyall's Daramulum Molecules & Other Stories

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Welcome to Season Six of our program  -we'll depart with an interlude into some of our favorite go-to films for when we're down-in-the-dumps analyzing behavioral traits of the wind via Lyall Watson. 

This is true, for our first episode of the season we'll be reading a few excerpts from Watson's nonfiction masterpiece, "Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind", which we in fact featured exactly a year ago. Watson was not only a zoologist & botanist, he also was instrumental in creating The Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Of course, to honor Samhain we decided to recite a few spells from Llewellyn's infamous Spell-A-Day Almanac of long lost lore & self-sustainable meditations. 

Stay till the very end of our episode for tunes from Colin Blunstone, Peter Grudzien, Ofege, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Strawberry Switchblade, Yukiji Asaoka, and a dozen others from our ever expanding archive.

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RECOMMENDED READING- A Manual of the Vascular Plants

Salutations fellow Phytophiles,

Whether you’re just a brown-thumbed beginner, or a flourishing master in the garden, we always like to recommend the following guide…as not only a vital compendium for all your needs amidst butterfly sonnets, but a rather attractive illustrated book for your shelves.

We present to you John Hunter Thomas’ Flora of the Santa Cruz Mountains: A Manual of the Vascular Plants. This glorious hardcover features economically essential plants for your greenhouse  -Hunter’s 434 page guide is bloated with introductory divisions of Pterophyta + Lepidophyta (to mention just a few). But what follows are chapters which fluctuate between stratigraphic columns of rocks, interdigitation of plant communities, and streambank vegetation. Not for sale, but a featured book from our archive.  Stanford University Press, circa 1961.

An excerpt: Synonyms are included only for convenience in referring to the same taxon in other regional and sectional floras. The type localities of many proposed taxa occur within the Santa Cruz Mountains. I have made no attempt to list or include these taxa unless they are still considered to be valid. A number of species such as the Berberis darwinii and Viburnum tinus have been observed growing spontaneously. One can predict that in the next few years quite a large number of additional plants will be found as occasional escapes from cultivation, or as accidental or deliberate introductions.

NEW EPISODE- Morning On Panther Mountain

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My fellow Venusians, thee end ov the year is just around the corner! We appreciate you sticking around, although we hope you won't be disappointed...we're not exactly getting spooky just yet. With time, my little ghoulz und goylz, we promise - said the panther in heat, all the while muttering to a plate of cucumbers.

For this morning's program we feature tracks by Strange Boutique, Mark Fry, White Noise, The Birthday Party, Loose Joints, O. Nytrova, The Red Crayola, and a few other spinning plates from our endless archive. 

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NEW EPISODE- Hunting Wasps & Palaearctic Larvae

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Have you noticed the influx of post-eclipse creatures...such as the velvety blue-winged Scolia dubia (order Hymenoptera), or the distinctive song of the Palaearctic bush cricket? Lest we forget just how the Cerceris sextoides happen to resume a perch, and...where is it that the carnivorous larvae's blackish goo resumes its salvation?

We'll answer all these questions and more with a focus on our most recent antiquarian find (circa 1921); J.H. Fabre's MORE HUNTING WASPS  -a plentiful 14 chapter guide containing essays in the Souvenirs entomologigues series.

//Featuring some of our tried n' true favorite traxx, by utterly strange fruits…flicker, blam, pow: Dionigi, Stellar Tunnel, Underworld, Faust, Ovi, The Charities, Philip Glass, Szun Waves, Mary Costa, Irma Thomas and...well, the list just goes on and on. 

PSST - STAY TUNED for our episode (to follow), as we announce updates on the concoctions we've been hatching in the greenhouse. 

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NEW EPISODE- CHANNEL 6

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Melodies & mischief stem from the silvery laughter of 11 marvelous marigolds resting atop the television set…and beneath the dance floor was therefore resurrected the liquidized embers ov Zephyrus. S/he asks at once, “did you bring enough ice cream to share with the rest of the class?” 90's commercials from our VHS archive make their auditory appearance as well…it’s true, we’ve recently been sorting through quite a few boxes of tapes and couldn’t help but allow for such sweetness to bleed over into our programme. 

//episode # 54 also features the careful caress of various vocal moon-bathers skipping stones at the triathlon -such as Nino Rota, The Normal, Tim Hecker, Amanaz, Bunny Mack, Eden Ahbez, Oiseaux-Tempete, Amon Duul II, The Limelites, and many others.

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HUMMINGBIRD SAGE SEEDS- End of Summer Sale!

NEW TO OUR SHOP -we’re now selling a large batch of seeds from our own Salvia spathacea i.e. the hummingbird sage; native to central California, S. spathacea is radiant and sticky. It’s unusual magenta blooms are spellbinding.

September is the perfect time to sow the seeds of these shade-loving perennials. Once mature, their dried leaves +  flowers can be used medicinally -as a decongestant; soothing sore throats, and can also be made into a beneficial stomach tonic.

If it’s by chance your birthday (or, someone you know) BUY ONE GET ONE FREE! Click here to stop by our SHOP VENUS page before we sell out!

NEW EPISODE - Sugar Water Shadows

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Summertime preparations for over-thinkers begin in the trunk of one's car, or while seated in a squeeky chair...as smoke rings sing love songs to the fire trucks at dawn. I choked on a counterfeit raspberry. Ach ach Liebling, ich mag alles was du machst!

Our featured playlist has been curated to help ease your heat rash, and expand your third eye -including interludes by Voy Ho, Sinn Sisamouth, Maysa Matarazzo, Helena Vondrackova, Kim Jung Mi, Stereo Total, Al Massrieen, Underworld, Natasza Zylska, Kikagaku Moyo, and quite a few others from our archive.

We wish you the very best this summer, whether you'll be slithering at a balanced pace or sailing off to new horizons —be well in your endeavors, and don’t eat any stale juniper berries. 

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