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July 8, 2025 31 mins

What happens when music refuses to stay in its lane? It gets some major Stereothematica love. 

This week Christina and Christine talk about the artists who blur boundaries, break molds, and bend genres in ways that feel both surprising and inevitable. These are sounds shaped by curiosity, contradiction, and a refusal to be easily defined.

Videos:

Arthur Russell: This is How We Walk on the Moon (1994)

Yellow Magic Orchestra: Simoon (1979)

Extras:

Psycho Killer feat. Arthur Russell playing cello

Wild Combination documentary

"My favorite song" by Ramesh Srivastava

“‘I Want to See All My Friends At Once’: Arthur Russell and the Queering of Gay Disco” Journal of Popular Music Studies

Live Version of Simoon

The Music That Shaped Haruomi Hosono

Crafting the Sound of the Future

Michale Jackson cover of Behind the Mask

De La Soul Sampling YMO in Big Brother Beat 

Reddit - Let’s Talk Music: YMO 

The Amazing History of YMO

YMO on Soul Train - Tighten Up cover 

Archie Bell and the Drells: Tighten Up 

YMO on Soul Train - Firecracker 

Firecracker Samples:

Afrika Bambaataa: Death Mix II

Mariah Carey: Loverboy

Jennifer Lopez (Featuring Ja Rule): I’m Real

De La Soul: Funky Towel

2 Live Crew: Mega Mixx II

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