The Intercontinental Radio Show
Serbian punk band Pekinška patka. Hear ’em on The Intercontinental.
Pardon me, are you part shark? What I mean is, if you don’t constantly keep moving, exploring, and devouring, does it feel as though your organs might implode from sheer doldrums? Do unfamiliar smells and sounds intrigue rather than offend you? Are you an incorrigible know-it-all, scoffing openly at poor, unwitting souls who declare Mike Patton’s work to be the utmost pinnacle of musical wackiness?* Would you enjoy traveling to an exotic third world locale with nothing but a ukulele and a homemade shank?
Buddy, have we got a podcast for you.
Based out of WMBR in Cambridge, MA, The Intercontinental is a weekly radio program hosted and curated by one Mr. Jesse Kaminsky. Jesse has an uncanny knack for rooting out the most obscure and delightfully diasporic music you’ll ever hear. As of 2006, the U.N. recognizes 192 different countries, and according to Jesse’s last tally, The Intercontinental has played music from 119 (not counting New Caledonia or Bora Bora or Greenland or Somaliland or Western Sahara or French Polynesia).
Japanese whammy bar surf royalty and Intercontinental regulars, Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys.
Recently, Jesse started a podcast feed for the benefit of everyone who’s not living in Boston or near a computer each Wednesday from 6 pm to 8:00 pm E.S.T. So “tune into the sounds of the Finnish Underground, Tuvan Rock, Asian Psychedelic, Russian Lounge, and Inuit beat boxing” and be ready to shake your tuchus.
*Dear rabid Bunglers, please do not hurt me. I give mad props to Mr. Patton. But the world is vast and strange. I implore you: venture bravely beyond the Tzadik catalog on your next record-buying excursion.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
“Pardon me, are you part shark? ”
Why yes I am. The Jaws Theme plays wherever I go. I’ll give this a listen cause it sounds pretty damned entertaining.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
OM NOM NOM NOM.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
my life is now filled with glee!
May 29th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Hi, great you mentioned Pekinška Patka… It is one of my favorite bands of all time :)
Politics aside, but this band is not exYu, its Serbian :)
And I think all the people whose mother tongue is different than english are blessed, cause we are richer for more good bands / movies etc, both english and domestic :)
Greets from Belgrade, Serbia :)
May 29th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
What I mean is, if you don’t constantly keep moving, exploring, and devouring, does it feel as though your organs might implode from sheer doldrums? Do unfamiliar smells and sounds intrigue rather than offend you?
You’ve helped damage my feeling of being alone in the world. Thanks!
May 30th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Vanja, really? Oops. Strangely, most of the English sources I’ve read cite them as one of the most famous bands from the “Yugoslav punk scene”. You can understand why I’d be confused. :) Sorry about that. Changing now.
May 30th, 2008 at 4:15 am
I like to think of myself more like a musical catfish, swimming around, whiskers feeling for morsels of music ignored by others until something hooks me and reels me into the bright, bright light of the sun, silver glint of the fillet knife the last thing I see as it splits me stem to stern and the sun, the sun is bright —
oh daddy why didn’t you love me?
Hey, that ended somewhere unexpected!
May 30th, 2008 at 5:44 am
mer,
thanks, but it was not so important actually, cause serbia was after all, part of yugoslavia, and so was this band, as it existed in yugoslavia.
on the other side, today we here call things exYu – only things you cant be sure were they serbian, slovenian, croatian, macedonian, montenegrin or bosnian :)
May 30th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Hee. Jon, that was really special. Thank you.
Vanja, yes! I can only imagine how complicated sorting everyone out gets in your region. Oof! :)
May 30th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
You deliver again! Aurgasms welcome!
June 1st, 2008 at 1:54 am
@ Mer…What National Geographic video is that from?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Pekinška patka was good but i always preferred Elektricni Orgazam! (their first two albums anyway)
June 20th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Pekinška Patka was good but i always preferred Elektricni orgazam! (their first 2 albums anyway)