Wed Apr 08 2026

Red Beats

hosted by Addy Rasgon

10:30 PM - 11:30 PM

Cold War-era jazz, funk, soul, and psychedelic rock that flourished in the shadows of global propaganda wars. While the United States used music as a cultural weapon to push Western ideals, artists from the USSR, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia forged their own radical sounds - fusing tradition with rebellion to discuss the vital reminder: that music has always been more than just entertainment - it's resistance, identity, and revolution.

Spring Is Coming With a Strawberry In the Mouth - Operating Theatre, Spring is Coming With a Strawberry in the Mouth / Rapid Eye Movements (Allchival) 2023

Inertia Creeps - Massive Attack, Mezzanine (Circa) 1998

Rodent - Burial, Rodent - Single (Hyperdub) 2017

Dark & Long (Dark Train / Remastered 2014) - Underworld, Dark & Long 3 - EP (Smith Hyde Productions) 2021

Sex and Trouble - Deux, Decadence (Minimal Wave) 2010

Sleepyhead - Passion Pit, Manners (Columbia) 2009

Shower Scene - Saint Etienne, Finisterre (Deluxe Edition) (Heavenly Recordings) 2002

Sour Times - Portishead, Dummy (Polydor Associated Labels) 1994

Girlfriend Is Better - 2005 Remastered Version - Talking Heads, Speaking In Tongues (Deluxe Version) (Warner Rhino Off Roster-Audio) 1900

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Breakdown (And Then…) - Rowland S. Howard, Teenage Snuff Film (Fat Possum) 1999