04/25/26 - Best-Of Spotify Edition

Best of Talkie and Jam (Spotify Edition)

Next, a different sort of thing. I'm doing a best-of for my show. I've had it for three years, but I'm transferring to another school, so I'm wrapping things up here. Hopefully I'll be able to continue it at the new school.

I've gathered my favorite tracks from over the years and made a Spotify playlist out of it. Of course, it doesn't include everything I've played—some of it isn't on Spotify—but that’ll be next week.

This week, I'm just playing a sample of the playlist.

Listen to the show at wmre.live @ 2:00PM EST! Also, consider checking out the spotify best-of below! A behemoth!

04/11/26 - Jam_27

Listen to the show below!

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Günter Schickert	Puls	Überfällig	Sky Records	1979	Krautrock. Repetitive, psychedelic textures blending rock and electronic music. Notable for its association with the German scene rather than purely sonic traits. Schickert was connected to Klaus Schulze, which demostrates the importance of scene participation in genre classification.
Ali Farka Touré	Goye Kur	The Source	Hannibal Records	1993	Malian blues blending traditional Songhai music with American blues. Considered a pioneer of "desert blues," but often excluded from being called it due to ethnic and geographic distinctions between Songhai and Tuareg musical traditions.
Caetano Veloso	Tu Me Acostumbraste	Araçá Azul	Philips	1973	Filin (Cuban bolero-jazz fusion). A Spanish-language performance on a Brazilian record associated with MPB. Shows how genre labels break down when records draw from multiple cultural and musical traditions.
Spirit Agent	Womanism	Depth Perception	Navigators	1999	90s abstract hip hop from Florida. Stylistically closer to underground NYC rap than Southern hip hop trends of the time. Genre as a loose descriptive category rather than a geographically fixed identity.
Ziad Rahbani	Houdou Nisbi	Houdou Nisbi	Relax-in Records	1985	Lebanese music (musiqa lubnaniyya) combining Levantine traditions with Western jazz orchestration. Reflects how "Western" influence can vary widely. Here, leaning toward smooth jazz and fusion.
Invisible	Durazno Sangrando	Durazno Sangrando	Talent / CBS	1975	Argentine progressive rock led by Luis Alberto Spinetta. Jazz-influenced in a nuanced way atypical of prog rock, and lyrical in an abstract, poetic tradition typical of prog rock.

03/21/26 - Jam_26

Listen to the show below!

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Babenzele Pygmies (Bayaka)	Women Gathering Mushrooms	Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzele Pygmies	Ellipsis Arts	1995	Field recording captured in a naturalistic context rather than a studio. Ethnomusicological practice where music is documented as lived experience rather than authored "songs." Title reflects recording conditions rather than an original name.
The Diablos	The Wind	Single	Fortune Records	1954	Doo-wop. Group's only national hit. Eerie, surreal atmosphere compared to contemporaries like The Platters. Influential on Smokey Robinson and the Detroit vocal scene.
Peter Barclay	You Are Loved	I'm Not Your Toy	Numero Group	2023 (rec. 1990s)	Dreamy, atmospheric DIY art pop. Originally recorded at home and later compiled by Numero Group. Cassette-based independent recording culture.
Majida El Roumi	Kalimat	Kalimat	Music Master	1991	Lebanese pop in the musiqa lubnaniyya tradition. Blends Arabic musical forms with Western orchestration.
Enrique Morente & Lagartija Nick	Omega	Omega	El Europeo / Discos Probeticos	1996	Radical flamenco nuevo/art rock fusion. Lyrics adapted from Federico García Lorca. Highly controversial within traditional flamenco circles for experimental approach.