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This Island Earth
Sunday March 2nd, 2025 with Rob Bitschofsky
Mostly new releases, but starting with a blast from the 80s and ending with some lovely jazz from Abdullah Ibrahim.

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Time Is Tight
The Clash - Sound System
The Magnificent Dance
The Clash - Sound System
Fever
Stereo MC's - The Rebirth of Cool -- A Deeper Shade Of Blues
One World (Not Three)
The Police - Ghost in the Machine
No More Apartheid (feat. Peter Gabriel & Shankar)
Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City
Kwela
Jack Bruce - A Question of Time
Hot Hot Hot
Buster Poindexter & His Banshees of Blue - Buster Poindexter
Plains of Africa (Echo, Echo, Echo)
Dub Syndicate - Obscured by Version New
Pleasurezone Transmitter
Dub Syndicate - Obscured by Version New
An Afro Futurist Poem
Anthony Joseph - Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back New
Tony
Anthony Joseph - Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back New
ALE
Tony Allen & La BOA - LA BOA MEETS TONY ALLEN New
Rational Culture
Tim Maia - World Psychedelic Classics 4: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia
Procissão
Gilberto Gil - Tropicália Essentials
Mr. Odds And Ends
Telstars - Orbiting New
Sweet Vibrations
Telstars - Orbiting New
Imouhar (Injustice Version)
Mdou Moctar - Tears of Injustice New
Où mène la nuit
Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains - Âge Fleuve New
Decolagem
Tunico - Tunico New
Nonvignon
Gretchen Parlato - Gretchen Parlato
We Burn so Brightly (feat. Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar)
Anoushka Shankar - Chapter III: We Return to Light (feat. Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar) - EP New
Hiraeth (feat. Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar)
Anoushka Shankar - Chapter III: We Return to Light (feat. Alam Khan & Sarathy Korwar) - EP New
Modo Avião
Caixa Cubo - Modo Avião
Aguas da Amazonia: Purus River (feat. Constance Volk)
Third Coast Percussion & Philip Glass - Philip Glass: Aguas da Amazonia New
Aguas da Amazonia: Japurá River (feat. Constance Volk)
Third Coast Percussion & Philip Glass - Philip Glass: Aguas da Amazonia New
Una mañana de abril
Forma Antiqva, Aarón Zapico & Pablo Garcia Lopez - De sópitu New
Jazz Raga
Gabor Szabo - Mizrab
After the Last Sky
Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates & Dave Holland - After the Last Sky
Abendmusiken
Green Cosmos - Über Dem Berg New
Whoza Mtwana
Dollar Brand - Dollar Brand: Live at Montreux
Interactive CKCU
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Greetings, Earthlings! Starting out mostly in the 80s here!

1:17 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Drake, Unofficial Co-Ambassador of Island Earth
LOVE IT WHEN YOU BE IN 'DA HOUSE, ROB !!!!! I was working at Record Runner on Rideau St the day The Clash released "Black Market Clash" the (EP) and "Sandanista" the (Double LP) on the same day. Jim, Jack and I played nothing else in the store for a full week !! Every track on both releases are outstanding. The Clash rule, man !!! Thanks for making my day, buddy. And That is a classic track by The Police; they were at their peak with Ghost in The Machine. I see you have a Buster Poindexter track in tribute of David Johansen's passing. RIP. Nice touch, Rob !

1:31 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Drake 'n Dad
oops......co-mascot........sorry Junie

1:32 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Neil & Drake, The Dancing Labrador
Just scrolled down and what a massive playlist today. You are indeed "on yer game" sir !!

1:35 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Great to have you on board, Drake the dancing (and record store working!) Labrador! I concur with everything you say about The Clash and The Police. Those were good times. And yeah, Buster for David Johanson, since the Dolls don't quite fit our format!

1:35 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Still filling it in, N & DDL! But yeah, lots of goodies today! Strap in!

1:42 PM, March 2nd, 2025
N & DL
OMG....I forgot it was Buster Poindexter who did "Hot Hot Hot ...such a fun track ! Like I said.......Massive playlist of treats for my ears today !!

1:43 PM, March 2nd, 2025
N & DL
Worked for a record distributorship too....ABM !! Sound familiar?1

1:46 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Yeah, I always had a soft spot for Hot Hot Hot. Rest In Peace, David Johansen. He brought a lot of great music in a great style to the world.

1:46 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Nah, don't recall ABM. Maybe before my time here? I'm from out west, Calgary.

1:47 PM, March 2nd, 2025
PeterB co-something-er-other
Just hi all, wagging along to be with the cool ones. (I will leave any drooling and/or panting out of mind for now ;^) Anthony Joseph. Damn cool! Love the recording.

1:56 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Drake 'n Dad
Fed just about every rave at the time and many hungry ears..........when did you arrive from the west?

1:56 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
PeterB: right on, man. Yep, new Anthony Joseph is always good news. Neil: I arrived at the tip of the tail of 1999, ready to crack open a new millennium in Ottawa.

2:00 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Shubham
Good show Rob

2:12 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Thanks, Shubham! Loads more to come!

2:22 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Shubham
Where in Ottawa do you live?

2:34 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
I'm an inner-city man, Shubham, but the precise location is classified!

2:35 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Shubham
What’s playing now

2:41 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Would have been either Mdou Moctar or Telstars. If it sounded older and had sweet singing, it was Telstars. If it had loads of guitar and sounded newer, it'd be Moctar.

2:52 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Neil & DL
What wonderful timing to arrive in Ottawa, Rob....the Millennium.......right about the same time I launched my little events company.....Millennium Events

3:34 PM, March 2nd, 2025
N & DL
Hey is this Abdullah Ibrahim playing now?

3:36 PM, March 2nd, 2025
N & DL
BTW I found Kwela on youtube...............so very happy about that. It was amazing to hear today and thx for the hot tip for "Dusty Grooves" website........tres tres cool mon ami !!

3:40 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Right on, Neil! Yep, good time to come here, and nope, not Abdullah yet. This is from the new Anouar Brahem album. Kwela is indeed cool, and also stop by Dusty Groove next time you're in Chicago. It's cool indeed!

3:42 PM, March 2nd, 2025
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Ugh. I ended up talking too much and way overestimating how much Abdullah I. I would have time for. Oh well, I'll bring the rest to a future episode!

3:48 PM, March 2nd, 2025
N & DL
Go to your room hahahaha. Thanks for the amazing lineup today, Rob. My ears almost exploded with ecstasy!

5:26 PM, March 2nd, 2025