In case you missed the 18 hours of amazing sounds WFMU brought you from Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival, you can relive the magic via the archives, where many of the sets are streaming in part and full. Broadcasts included Suicide, Grinderman, Battles, Fresh & Onlys, Interpol, Prince Rama, Animal Collective, Pissed Jeans, Ducktails, Oneohtrix Point Never, Monochrome Set, Einsturzende Neubauten (pictured left), Moon Duo, Ty Segall, Half Japanese, Aias, Dan Melchior Und Das Menace, Glenn Branca Ensemble Sonny & the Sunsets, No Joy, Julian Lynch, Deerhunter, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Soft Moon, Za!, Davila 666, and you can listen to the entire sets of Dean Wareham (performing Galaxie 500), Pere Ubu (performing the Modern Dance plus early singles), and a totally crushing Swans set (complete with WFMU shoutout!). From the point of view of one of the FMU team out here for these shows and broadcasts, it was a total dream and despite a few technical glitches, dropouts, and harried moments of getting through security for recordings, plus dodging political and soccer carnage in the streets of Barcelona, we had an incredible array of great sounds and recordings, some of which we hope will get up on the Free Music Archive (where some of the 2009 and 2010 artists kindly allowed some MP3s to be available) in the near future. Let's hope the Sting banter David Thomas from Pere Ubu let loose on Saturday's broadcast is included.
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