How "Marijuana, the Devil's Flower" may have sounded like in 1951, as heard on Shortwave Radio, inside a Bomb Shelter

Ethan Persoff 5:28 pm Mon Apr 27, 2020

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds

Welcome back. A few years ago, in 2010, the radio station WFMU posted a wonderful set of songs on its incredible blog.

Both songs had the identical title, "Marijuana, the Devil's Flower", or "MTDF" for short. I fell in love with both of these tracks and have pined for an opportunity to do something fun with them. For this week's program, hear MTDF turned into a shortwave radio broadcast signal, using an RF Nomad and an AModulator. Then hear MTDF looped oddly through a set of samplers. Here's a set of soundcloud links:

Ethan Persoff · SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #7: Marijuana, The Devil's Flower

Ethan Persoff · Episode 7, Introduction: "Setting Up Your Own Home Bomb Bunker"

Ethan Persoff · Episode 7, Side A: "MARIJUANA" (The Shortwave Flower)

Ethan Persoff · Episode 7, Second Segment: "I Have a Lot of Cereal to Share"

Ethan Persoff · Episode 7, Side B: "MARIJUANA" (The Devil's Remix)

I was going to call this one "The Bong Bunker" but thought better of it.

Back next week and may all marijuana temptations only be heard, never consumed! – Ethan (Bandcamp/Soundcloud)

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