Music Musings

OK, so I have realized a couple of things these last few weeks.

1) Radiohead is possibly the greatest band of my generation.

2) There is still good music being made, and still boundaries being pushed. I found out that I really like *some* of the music coming out of Iceland these days. I thoroughly enjoyed that track by mum a couple of weeks ago. I'm going to try to get some more of that. Just don't try to shove any Bjork down my throat.

3) I forgot how cool Pandora is. They have become a bit more commercialized since last I was there. But, hey, everyone's gotta eat. Can't begrudge them some revenue.

Speaking of Bjork - I am enthralled by the reactable. I want to build one. Anyone else interested? I figure I can get some undergrad research money to do it if I can get some music or computer science people involved.

Playlist 10/19

Firestarter - The Prodigy
Distractions - Zero 7
Sunbeams - UKO
Hunting Bears - Radiohead
Moisture Seekers - Tipsy
sadness of adness - Alexandra Kirkilis
Some Men - Darkel
Cramp Yo Style.... - Thievery Corporation
Beautiful Woman - Darkel
Ooh La La - The Wiseguys
Just Slide - Supertweeker
Let Forever Be (Radio Edit) - The Chemical Brothers
Obscure - Voodoo Child
Voodoo Doll - Danny Tenaglia
Tokyo/Better Day (Ming + FS Remix) - STS9
P45 - Space Monkeyz
Boop - Ursula 1000
Eye for an Eye Backwards - UNKLE
Sunrise - Joshua Kennedy
Rebel Music - Wyclef Jean

Playlist 10/12

Knee 1 - Phillip Glass
Put a Straw Under Baby - Brian Eno
Suitcase in Hand - CFTPA
Face a la Mere (Massive Attack Remix) - Les Negresses Vertes
Echo Vibes - Outfunk
Listen to the Rythmn - Aphrodite
Dancing Behind My Eyelids - mum
Not Enuff Love - Faithless
The Way I Am - Casbah 73
Olympic (Flutey Mix) - 808 State
Scorpion - William Orbit
Party Crashers - Radio 4
Furthest Moment - Quantic
Freefall - Pitch Black
Jardim Di Alma - Arto Lindsay
Storm Coming - Gnarls Barkley
Casanova '70 (The Secret of Cool Brendan Lynch Remix) - Air
Unleash the Comfort (Original) - Cristian Paduraru
Thinking About Tomorrow (lpg D) - Beth Orton
The Way I Am - Timbaland (feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E.)

Playlist 10/5

Remember, every song (almost) has a direct connection with the last. If you missed the show and you want to know how they're related send me an email.

Bring It On Down (VIP Mix) - Aquasky and the Drumattic Twins
Backdrifts - Radiohead
Butterfly Caught (RJD2 Remix) - Massive Attack
I Against I - Mos Def with Massive Attack
Untitled - Kid Koala and Amon Tobin
Dare (Soulwax Remix) - Gorillaz
Enuff - DJ Shadow with Q-Tip and Lateef the Truth Speaker
Girls - The Prodigy
Candy - Riton
Micronesia - Moby
Always Forever Now - Brian Eno w/ U2
Lemon (Oakenfold Jeep Mix) - U2
Your Retro Career Melted (Ursula 1000 Remix) - The Faint
Seven Years (Matrix Remix) - Nu:Tone w/Natalie Williams
Manteca (Funky Lowlives Remix) - Dizzy Gillespie
Roads - Portishead

Degrees

I'm trying a new format this week, I think it'll be fun. Every song will be linked in some way to the song before and after. This is sort of how I organize my club DJ sets - one song reminds me of something in another. Though, for the radio show I'll have more than just musical style to connect the playlist. Tune in to see what Massive Attack and U2 have in common!

First Impressions

I like the studio at Carroll. Plenty of volume in the monitors, so I can kick back and rock out to the jams if I want. However, they don't have a delay dump, and my show isn't in safe harbor, so I may have caused some FCC problems with a couple of those songs. I hope I don't have to pay a fine....

It turns out that the station manager in training is in my Physics 203 class along with the music manager. Maybe I can pull some professor leverage.

Playlist 9/28/07

Chemical Beats (Dave Clark Remix) - The Chemical Brothers
Tahiti Rain Song - Cocorosie
Butter for the Soul - Cornershop
Searching - DJ Icey
Marvel - Mix Master Mike
Into the Blue (Summer Wind Remix) - Moby
Awake Enough - Deep Dish
Our Spring Is Sweet Not Fleeting - Of Montreal
Sci-Fidelity (Ish) - Ph10
Shake Your Coconuts - Junior Senior
Gold Digger - Kanye West
Music Plus 1 - Cornershop
Ten Miles Back - The Crystal Method
Mushaboom (Postal Service Mix) - Feist
Everything Will Be Better Tomorrow - Faithless
Mi Bebe Masoquista - Fatboy Slim
Backroom Speakers - Subjekt
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
Something About Us - Daft Punk
Simple Things - Dirty Vegas
I Am Tha Freshmaka (Static Revenger Remix) - Freshmaka
Dirty Harry - Gorillaz

Back on the Air

It's been a crazy summer, but I have a new job and a new radio station. My debut will be this week (I think) on WCCX, the Carroll College radio station.

I'm still teaching physics, and still rocking out to good tunes, so log on or tune in for some sweet radio action this Friday. As always I welcome feedback, suggestions, cool music links, etc., so keep those coming via blog posts or emails.

Playlist 4/27

Hoops - The Chemical Brothers
Busy Child (Uberzone Remix) - The Crystal Method
Dare - Gorillaz
Shake Your Coconuts (Djosos Krost Remix) - Junior Senior
A Little Less Conversation (JXL Remix) - Elvis Presley
Spice (even spicier) - Aphrodite
B.M. Funkster - Aphrodite
Deaf Mick's Throwdown - Fatboy Slim
Because I Got It Like That (Ultimate Mix) - Fatboy Slim
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Chemical Juice OC Remix
Super Mario Brothers Theme (Techno Remix)
Street Knowledge - Supertweeker
Chocolectricity - Legowelt
Everybody's Wearing My Head (feat. Morel) - Deep Dish
A Little Louder (feat. Mystro) - DJ Icey
Mass Destruction (Tom Middleton Cosmos Mix) - Faithless

Playlist 4/20

Dunky Frummer - Subjekt
Let Forever Be - The Chemical Brothers
Chemical Beats (Dave Clarke remix) - The Chemical Brothers
10th & Crenshaw - Fatboy Slim
Wonderful Night - Fatboy Slim
Unfinished Sympathy (Nellee Hooper 12" Mix) - Massive Attack
Make It Rain - The KLF
True School (Spank Rock Mix) - Coldcut
Funky Noize - Funk Junkies (Huda & Fixx)
Up On This - Huda & Fixx
Slap That Bass (Miguel Migs Petalpusher Remix) - Ella Fitzgerald
Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix) - Nina Simone
Tahiti Rain Song - Cocorosie
Oslo in the Summertime - Of Montreal
19-2000 (Soul Child Remix) - Gorillaz
Dare (Soulwax Remix) - Gorillaz
In My Heart (Ferry Corsten Remix) - Moby
Activity - Way Out West
The Enchanter (with The Strange Sensations & UNKLE) - Robert Plant
Candy - Riton
Flashing for Money (feat. Dire Straits) - Deep Dish
Fire Music (The Supermen Lovers' Remix) - DJ Kimo and Hafid Fido

Playlist 4/13

Welcome/Intro: Butter the Soul - Cornershop
Bass 6 - The Chemical Brothers
Marvel - Mix Master Mike
Where's Your Head At - Basement Jaxx
Think Like Us - Solvent
Boombastic - Younger Youth
Feeling (Circus Mix) - Cassius
Free Fallin' - The Moog Cookbook
Smells Like Teen Spirit - The Moog Cookbook
Blame - Everything But the Girl
Jardim Di Alma - Arto Lindsay
Moisture Seekers - Tipsy
Hyper-Ballad - Bjork
DNA - Photek
Believe (Short Mix) - Uberzone
Everybody - Bad Boy Bill
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
Voodoo People (Chemical Brothers Mix) - The Prodigy
I Against I - Mos Def with Massive Attack

Playlist 4/6

Intro: Butter the Soul - Cornershop
The Heart of Africa - Martin Solveig
Feel the Real (Phats and Small's Mutant Disco Mix) - David Bendeth
Sleeping Faster - The Lo-Fidelity Allstars
B.M. Funkster - Aphrodite
Balkan Hot Step - N.O.H.A.
Don't Laugh (Live Raw Mix) - Josh Wink (WINX)
Verbal (Prefuse 73 Dipped Escalade Mix) - Amon Tobin
Naive Journey (feat. Marlon) - DJ Icey
Right Thing (Tokyo Ghetto Tech Remix) - DJ Shadow
Raining Men (Dillon and Dickins Hers and Hers Vocal Mix) - Martha Wash
Sexy (Dub) - Richard "Humpty" Vission
Driving - Supertweeker
Never Enough - Sharaz
We Came To Party (Long-Version) - Malente
Even Better Than The Real Thing (The Perfecto Mix) - U2
Chemical Beats (Dave Clarke Remix) - The Chemical Brothers
untitled (white label) - Massive Attack

Playlist 3/30

fhqwgads - Strongbad
Techno Song - Strongbad
Everybody - Afropeans
Bridges and Balloons (Pocket Mix) - Joanna Newsom
Anywhere (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix) - Beth Orton
Piano Phase (D Note's Phased & Konfused MIx) - Steve Reich
Cris Chana - Wagon Christ
Pump Up the Volume - M.A.R.R.S.
Roads - Portishead
Sarayet-Sayam Sembtae (Part 1) - The Beatmasters
Sweet Home Alabama - The Moog Cookbook
Come Inside - The Chemical Brothers
Realizer - The Crystal Method
Staying Alive - Wyclef Jean
Roundabout - DJ Icey
Into the Blue (Summer Wind Mix) - Moby
Bring the Funk Baby - Lemon D
Face a La Mer (Massive Attack Remix) - Les Negresses Vertes
If Madonna Calls (JR's House Mix Radio Edit) - Junior Vasquez

Playlist 3/23

The Way I Am - Casbah
Five Minutes of Funk (feat. Whodini) - DJ Icey
No Food - BeeCee
Life is Sweet - The Chemical Brothers
Just Another Groove (Just Another Remix - The Master Blaster Remix) - Mighty Dub Katz
Modular Mix - Air
Rendleshack - Wagon Christ
Thank You (Deep Dish Vocal) - Dido
Aerodynamic (Daft Punk Club Remix) - Daft Punk
untitled white label remix - The Rolling Stones
Driving - Supertweeker
Bold to Sacrifice - Cristian Paduraru
3AM Massive - Eleven & Seven
Not Enuff Love (Skinny Remix) - Faithless
Bring It On Down (VIP Mix) - Aquasky and The Drummattic Twins
Ladies and Gentlemen - Joshua Kennedy

Spring Break

Due to the closure of school today after classes there will be no Music of Sound radio show this week or next week. I'll be enjoying much of the time in South Carolina, where it is hopefully warmer than here in Granville, Ohio. The show will resume as usual two weeks from today.

Playlist 3/2

Lo Fis in Ibiza - The Low-Fidelity Allstars
True Skool - Coldcut
Kiss (White Label Remix) - Prince
Dream Machine (J. Boogie Mix) - Mark Farina
And Go! - DJ Icey
Free to Choose (Original) - Cristian Paduraru
Echo Vibes (Eric Prydz Remix) - Outfunk
The Conspirator (Main Theme) - Quantic Soul Orchestra
The Outernationalist (Rewound) - Thievery Corporation
Somersault (Dangermouse Remix) - Zero 7
Let Forever Be - The Chemical Brothers
Blinded by the Light (Full Mix) - Sharaz
Combustivel - Arto Lindsay
Porcelain - Moby
Rave (Club Mix) - Falabelas
Cantaloop - US3
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Funk At Midnight - DJ Spen
Esta Noche - Federico Aubele
Seven Years (Matrix Remix) - Nu:Tone feat. Natalie

Playlist 2/23

Welcome/Intro: Butter the Soul - Cornershop
Broken Dreams (RNA remix - bootleg)
Hoops - The Chemical Brothers
Nephertiti - 808 State
Beauty Never Fades - Junky XL
The Hit Song - DJ Format
* Disco Funk - Funk Junkies
* Don't Stop - DJ Huff
* KAS-011 (Kaleidoscope Prepress - white label)
* Funky Noise - Funk Junkies
* We Got That Funk - Funk Junkies
* Feel the Funk - Tony Faline
(seeing a pattern here?)
Hey Yeah! - Dynamo Productions
Suitcase in Hand - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
The Number Song - DJ Shadow
* Stimulus - DJ Huff
* Pass the Boom - Tony Faline
* Be Yourself - DJ Gumbee
Traffic - Stereo MCs
One Minute Warning - Brian Eno / U2
Able to Stand - Supertweeker
Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix) - Wildchild
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
Wrong (DJ Sharaz Night Sky Mix) - Everything But the Girl

Show Delay

There may be a slight delay tonight to the start of the show. I think that the station is covering a big basketball game. If you tune in to hear some sports announcer, just give it some time and then try back. I will definitely be rockin' out.

Live Mix This Week

So, I think I have figured out a way to hook up my DJ mixer in the station studio. I have to clear it with the official tech gurus, but I expect to be able to do some live mixing in the studio this week. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Playlist 2/16

Thanks for tuning in tonight, all. I got a lot of good feedback, and good requests for next week. I'll be including some more trip-hop, including Zero 7 and Morcheeba.

For now, here's what hit the air tonight. Thanks to shorter songs and less talking by me we heard quite a variety of music.

Lil Loopin' - Subjekt
Wandering Star - Portishead
Butter the Soul - Cornershop
Vilderness (Chilluminati Mix) - Nils Petter Molvaer
Organ Donor - DJ Shadow
Television - Baxter
Spice (even spicier) - Aphrodite
Cold Blooded (Hidden Soul Remix) - Joshua Kennedy
Voodoo - Audiodrive
Sandstorm - Da Rude
Rollergirl (Radio Remix) - Skylab 2000
We Are All Made of Stars (DJ Tiesto Full Vocal Mix) - Moby
Everybody in the Place (Fairground Mix) - Prodigy
Comfortably Numb (Tiga Remix) - Scissor Sisters
Monkey Racket - Space Monkeyz vs. Gorillaz
I Feel Your Soul Is Free - Filo
Come On (Bump Deluxe Mix) - Miguel Migs
Take California - Propellerheads
Daybreaker (Roots Manuva Remix) - Beth Orton
Mass Destruction - Faithless
Backdrifts - Radiohead

Coming up this week

Next show is going to be tomorrow, Feb 16th. I've got some requested tunes lined up, including some DJ Shadow and a classic trance track by Darude. If you want something played it's a good idea to request it ahead of time via email or comments here. Otherwise, I might not get to it on the show.

As a side note, check out the new link on the sidebar. I just heard about this thing called noise music while researching some piezoelectric microphones for my own research project. Sounds pretty cool to me. If you know where I can get some of this stuff please let me know. My favorite phrase from the wiki entry is this:

...as famous noise musician Masami Akita said, "If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me."

Playlist 2/9

It Began in Africa - The Chemical Brothers
Galaxy Bounce - The Chemical Brothers
Time Travel (Loes Lee Remix) - Introspective
Flashing For Money - Deep Dish
Always Forever Now - Brian Eno and U2
Sadness of Adness - Alexandra Kirkilis
Dream Catcher Dub (white label)
Tokyo (Better Day Remix) - STS9
Electric Avenue (Ringback Remix) - Eddy Grant
In My Heart (Ferry Corsten Remix) - Moby
Numb (Soul Assassins Remix) - U2
Le Soleil Est Près de Moi - Air
Spectral Canon - James Tenney
Sugar Never Tasted So Good - The White Stripes
Ya Dig - ATFC
Break On Through - B.T. vs The Doors
Clocks (Illicit White Label Bootleg Version) - Coldplay
Sunrise - Joshua Kennedy

On the Air

As I type I'm in the middle of my second show. I must say, it sounds great. Word up.

Anyway, here's the blog. I'll start posting playlists after every show, and I might even put up some audio clips eventually. If you have any suggestions for the blog or the show be sure to leave me a comment or send me an email.