The most popular guest-DJ duo in Future Shipwreck history is back with another installment of their renowned Tape Safari podcast! Separated by the great North American continent, no one had thought Mimi Zora– now a bona fide New Yorker– would ever return to the tropics of L.A. to unite with Aleeza Marashlian on another perilous trek through the unmapped pop culture jungle. Against all odds, the girls present to us now a triumphant new set of tunes, rescued from the callous and cold trash-heap of history.

When we last met with our courageous heroines, they had victoriously hunted through cluttered thrift stores to bring us all-but-forgotten tunes from Finnish politicians, pop chart stars of Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts, Brian Wilson, and at least one mystery keytarist. This time, we delve even deeper down the rabbit hole:

TSII was born 1/12/08 at Berda Paradise.

It was made with love.

And a dash of a a song that might be about Passover (Track 5, Hooters).

A pinch of a track about Super Nintendo (Track 3, Tobin Mori).

A fistful of great finds, like a tribute to a dead San Diego girl (Track 6, Jonathan Richman) and cable knit sweaters under suspenders (Track 2, Haircut 100).

And a feast of sense memory (Track 4, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band): YOU are running through subway sewers à la Metro, training for a tough-as-nails BMX rally; racing white stallions over hurdles as two country kids chewing hay look on; going head to head with a steam train; working at a busy pizza parlor, carrying hot pizza to the inside tables on your bike; your nemesis with a fancy new bike is good, real good–you’re about to throw in the towel–but then, you win a dance contest. That’s right. YEAH!

(Berda Paradise benefits the Hollywood free clinic, which supports love.)

Track Listing:

1. Bernard LaVilliers - Etat D’ Urgence
2. Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
3. Tobin Mori - Robot Boy
4. Manfied Mann’s Earth Band - Runner
5. Hooters - All You Zombies
6. Jonathan Richman - That Summer Feeling
7. Aretha Franklin - People
8. Them - It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
9. James Van Buren - Three Handed Woman
10. Carl Perkins - Maybelline