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Steve di Costanzo, host of Radio Base Camp on WPKN radio- 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut interviews Andy Bracken, a co-owner along with Keith Jones of FRUITS DE MER RECORDS.

Fruits de Mer Records with operations in both the USA and England (where it is formally based), produces and pressed limited editon, multi-colored vinyl EP's and LP's.  In business since 2008, their specialty is to  match newish bands with old psychedelic, acid-folk and prog gems.

Record pressings are done in the USA with strictly limited amounts offered.  Each release comes with original artwork.

Thanks Andy for taking the time to talk with Radio Base Camp.

Songs played from Fruits de Mer during this interview:

• ·      Set the Controls for the Heat of the Sun   5:40      Vibravoid
• ·      2000 Light Years from Home            3:14            Stay
• ·      Madman Running Through the Fields  6:10    Cranium Pie

• Radio Base Camp hosted by Steve di Costanzo is hear every 1st and 3rd Friday from 12 noon to 3pm.  It will also be heard on the 4th Friday if there is a 5th Friday of the month.

• I also host  Radio Base Camp-Late Night on the 2nd & 4th Monday nights from 11:30pm to 2:00am.  See seperate related episodes
  

• RADIO BASE CAMP focuses on music from the 1960's to the mid-1970's and far beyond, including: psychedelic, garage, British Invasion, folk/rock, surf, mod, roots of rock and roll... and music that doesn't even have categories. We play deep tracks and unpolished gems, songs you may remember and ones you might not have heard, along with demos, rarities, alternative takes and all kinds of great music that doesn't get played that often.  We also feature new music by current bands, many of whom are influenced by the 60's (and beyond). We do live and telephone interviews with musicians, producers, and chroniclers of an era spanning from the 1950's to present day. We aim to highlight and focus on music with great song writing, sounds and production, having a lot of fun in the process... 

• RADIO BASE CAMP-Late Night   Steve di Costanzo hosts a later night version Monday nights (2nd and 4th) that features the NEW MUSIC SEGMENT called MIDNIGHT MADNESS. You can search for each episode of these shows.
  

• a little history....RADIO BASE CAMP is a radio show that I started in 2007 on live365.com internet radio.  It became a weekly WPKN  "overnight" show from Sunday into Monday for two years before moving to Friday afternoons  in September 2009 with my part-time co-host, Eric Cocks.  In early 2010,  I decided to focus on my own programming and me and Eric reconfigured our weekly radio show into two seperate and distinct shows: Radio Base Camp with hosted Steve di Costanzo and Connections ...With Eric Cocks. 
  

 Radio Base Camp and radio Base Camp-Late Night is hosted by Steve di Costanzo 

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Interviews/Special Shows on RADIO BASE CAMP available on archives:

****Unless noted otherwise, all of these interviews were done by both Steve di Costanzo and Eric Cocks

• Andy Bracken from Fruits de Mer Records in London & Virginia  (Steve)
• Ron Sanchez from Donovan's Brain, Career Records and KGLT in Bozeman, NT   (Steve)
• Felix Cavaliere from The Rascals
• Tommy James from Tommy James and the Shondells
• Carol Kaye (noted session player)
• Singer and songwriter Sam Phillips  (interviewd by Eric Cocks)
• Andrew Sandoval from Rhino Records
• Merrell Fankhauser from HMS Bounty and Farkopady
• Singer-Songwriter Don Cooper
• Sky Saxon from The Seeds
• Peppy Castro from The Blues Magoos
• Johnny Echols from Love
• Richie Unterberger (noted Rock author and reviewer)
• Tom Moon (1,000 Recordings...)
• Mark Naftalin (Butterfield Blues Band-special DJ Show)
• Rusty Ford (Lothar and the Hand People)  (Steve)
• Hilton Valentine from The Animals  (special program with Germaine)
• James Lowe and Mark Tulin from The Electric Prunes