Welcome to
Radio Bastet - Vintage Belly Dance Music!
Remember those old LP's in your parents' record
collection - the ones promising "exotic adventures
in far-off lands" and featuring sexy harem girls in
skimpy costumes entertaining smiling, hooka-
smoking sultans? Perhaps you were never able
to get past those harem girls (for one reason
or another!)... If not, you may be surprised
to learn that you missed out on some pretty
great music! Of course, if you did get around
to actually listening to the records, you already
know how great they were! The late 1950's through
the early 1980's were the heyday of popular
recordings of Middle Eastern/Oriental dance
that's "belly dance") music.
My name is Marisa Young, and I'm a 40-something
bellydance enthusiast (American Tribal Style and
Tribal Fusion are my favorites) living in Portland,
Oregon, USA. Radio Bastet was born in the spring of 2002 at Live365.com, and now has its own home
here on the World Wide Web.
Here you will find podcasts of my favorite
cuts from my ever-growing collection of
"old school" belly dance vinyl LPs in a radio-
show format, compiled for your listening and
dancing enjoyment. I hope you will find Radio Bastet
informative and entertaining! Thank you
so much for joining me in this celebration of vintage belly dance music! Now - Let's dance! Yalla!
If you don't have an iPod or other mobile mp3 player,
please don't panic! You can still stream the
programs. Just left-click the gray "POD" graphic
at the top of the playlist, or the "Direct Download"
link at the bottom of the playlist, and the program
will play directly from your browser.
Each program is approximately one hour 10 minutes
in length. All tracks, with the occasional rare
exception, are created from the original vinyl;
some surface noise is inevitable. I do think a
little snapcracklepop just adds to the
overall retro charm, don't you? Please forgive
my rather lame spoken intros and closings; I am
not by any stretch of the imagination a professional broadcaster!
RADIO BASTET IS PRODUCED IN PORTLAND, OREGON BY
ZOLAC MEDIA!
Email me! webmaven @ radiobastet dot com
Since August 6, 2002,
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