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"I always liked the bad girl in the cowboy movies – the dark haired girl, the one who dies at the end for her sins… and I wanted to be the sort of person who she would find attractive"

Song and Memory: 96 Tears - for chef Anthony Bourdain the song '96 Tears' by ? and the Mysterians was a gateway drug to sex, drugs and rock and roll... produced by Kara Oehler, Ann Heppermann and Rick Moody for the Hearing Voices series 'Song and Memory'.

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NPR on the "original mix tape" by McLuhan

On March 20th, NPR's All Things Considered featured a discussion of the "original mix tape" created by communications theorist and philosopher Marshall McLuhan, along with creative director Jerome Agel and producer John Simon. Based on McLuhan's famous book of the same name, NPR's Oliver Wang writes, "The Medium Is the Massage, nods to the ways media can soothe or lull consumers into complacency, the album's noisy fractures and flips seem more designed to mirror the uneasy chaos created from constant media distractions. This was, remember, some 40 years before YouTube and Twitter, yet The Medium Is the Massage feels positively prescient in predicting the sound of our contemporary information age. Now, as it was then, the jump into the electronic whirlpool can be exhilarating and disorienting, somehow making those brief moments of silence seem all the louder."

Check out Sensate's "the first spoken arts record you can dance to" —a remix of Agel and Simon's remix by Jeffrey Schnapp and Kara Oehler.