Journey Without Maps brings you vintage, rare, and underground global music from uncharted sonic territories. Every week, I unearth a new musical landscape: African soul & funk, Latin rhythms, eastern European electronica, Middle East psychedelic, Asian surf rock ⦠and more.
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Impossible to believe, but it really is that time of the year. It's Christmas again. Every December, a strange spirit pervades across every corner of the globe â an onslaught of strange customs, a subculture of collective memory, both commercial and ancient. Christmas music is a universe all of its own. This episode features the weird and forgotten sounds traditional and not so traditional yuletide songs: UK synthpop, Asian Surf Rock, video game chiptunes, Irish folk-punk, hip hop, baroque pop, indie rock, and calypso.
Robert Rheims "it Came Upon a Midnight Clear" from "Christmas Love" on JEP Records The Impossible "Santa Claus is Coming" from "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" on Sima Records Monty Python "Part 7: Death (Christmas In Heaven)" from "The Meaning of Life" on MCA Records The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale of New York" from "Original Album Series: The Pogues" on WM UK Bob Dylan "Silver Bells" from "Christmas In the Heart" on Columbia Obba Supa "Blue Xmas" from "To: AM / Free: AM" on Project Mooncircle Beat Happening "Christmas" from "Beat Happening" on K Records John Cale "Child's Christmas In Wales" from "Paris 1919" on Reprise Palace Songs "Christmastime in the Mountains" from "Hope - EP" on Domino Recording Co Calexico "Gift X-Change" from "Aerocalexico" on 2001 Sy Mann "The little drummer Boy" from "Switched on Santa! Merriest Moog Synthesizer Plays Christmas Favorites" on Magic Holiday Records Erasure "She Won't Be Home (Redux)" from "Snow Globe (Deluxe Nutcracker Edition)" on Mute Doctor Octoroc "We Three Konami" from "8-Bit Jesus" on BITZ Records Rush Coil "O holy night" from "8-bit Christmas" on Wily Records C3PO & R2D2 "Christmas in the Stars" from "Christmas in the Stars" on RSO Lord Beginner "Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning" from "Where Will You Be Christmas Day?" on Dust-to-Digital Joseph Spence "Santa Claus Is Comin to Town" from "Living On the Hallelujah Side" on Rounder Blue Star Chorus "Silent Night" from "Xmas a Go Go - Single" on Union Record of Taiwan Jayram Acharya "Sante Claus is Coming" from "Christmas Music" on Odeon The Impossible "Santa Claus is Coming" from "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" on Sima Records
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