5-30-19 The NightOwl

pictured: Clara Moto

Listen for up to two weeks here.  You can skip ahead to the second hour by clicking the timebar.


Playlist (second hour):

1. Orbital   /  The Box, Pt 1
2. Portishead   /  Plastic
3. Clara Moto   /  How We Live in Each Other
4. Yeasayer   /  Ah, Weir
5. Bjork   /  Where Is The Line
6. Bjork   /  Virus (Hudson Mohawke Peaches and Guacamol Remix)
7. Little Dragon   /  Feather
8. Steve Hauschildt   /  Alienself
9. Susumu Yokota   /  the plateau which the zephyr of flora occupies
10. The Black Dog   /  Biomantric L-if-e
11. Death and Vanilla   /  The Dodens Vaniljsas Theme
12. Massive Attack   /  Exchange
13. Shed   /  Taken Effect

5-29-19 Merging w/the Night

pictured: A Tribe Called Quest

Listen for up to two weeks here.

Playlist (first hour):

1. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith   /  Tides IX
2. Bent   /  K.I.S.S.E.S.
3. A Tribe Called Quest   /  Jazz (We've Got)
4. Roger Webb   /  Moonbird
5. PJ Harvey, Thom Yorke   /  This Mess We're In
6. Selda Bagcan, Ahmet Kaya   /  Oyle Bir Yerdeyim ki
7. Lemon Jelly   /  Soft
8. Massive Attack   /  Blue Lines - 2012 Mix, Master
9. Khruangbin   /  Como Me Quieres
10. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith   /  Tides II
11. Bjork   /  Play Dead
12. Stereolab   /  Diagonals
13. Lavalu   /  Waiting
14. Deftones   /  Teenager

5-23-19 SFTC

pictured: Geoff Barrow of Portishead, Beak, Quakers, etc. 

Listen to this one hour radio set here for up to two weeks

I stuck around for an extra hour last week to play more music and to correct something I had said earlier on Merging w/the Night, regarding an influential bassline that appears in Tricky's "Hell is Round the Corner", Portishead's "Glory Box", and Hooverphonic's "Mad About You", among other places. 
The bassline originally comes from Wallace Collection's song "Daydream", which was remade by I Monster for a UK hit in the 90's, and which also appears in The Beta Band's "Squares", again among other places. 

I also played a live version of Portishead's "Machine Gun" featuring Chuck D rapping his lyrics for "Black Steel", a re-do of which by Tricky I played in the previous show.  Check out the video, too! 

Playlist (first hour):

1. Flying Lotus, Thom Yorke   /  Electric Candyman
2. Bjork   /  Takk
3. Wallace Collection   /  Daydream
4. Tchaikovsky   /  Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act 2: No. 10, Scene (Moderato)
5. I Monster   /  Daydream in Blue
6. Portishead   /  Numb
7. Portishead   /  Glory Box
8. Hooverphonic   /  Mad About You
9. Egemen Sanli,Madhu Anziani   /  Seek Not Fame
10. Nirvana   /  Here She Comes Now
11. Orgy   /  Gender
12. Sneaker Pimps   /  Destroying Angel
13. Portishead, Chuck D   /  Machine Gun featuring Chuck D rapping Black Steel
14. Portishead   /  Roads
15. Quakers, Guilty Simpson, MED   /  Fitta Happier

5-23-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: the cover of Laurel Halo's album Raw Silk Uncut Wood.

Listen here for up to two weeks.  You can skip ahead to this second hour of Merging w/the Night by clicking the timebar.

Playlist

1. Weyes Blood   /  Front Row Seat
2. Spelling   /  Under the Sun
3. Burial   /  Rodent
4. Thom Yorke   /  Unmade
5. Poppy Ackroyd   /  Time
6. Laurel Halo   /  Mercury
7. Cocteau Twins   /  Ivo
8. The Orb   /  Wish I Had A Pretty Dog
9. Aisha Devi   /  I'm Not Always Where My Body Is
10. Kedr Livanskiy   /  Your Need
11. Polycubist   /  Frightened Little Pup
12. Clara Moto   /  My Double Edged Sword
13. Nine Inch Nails   /  That's What I Get
14. Dr Octagon   /  Halfsharkalligatorhalfman

5-22-19 Merging w/the Night

Last night's set began with a 20-minute track from Psychic Temple (pictured) with Mike Watt from the Minutemen.
It continued into a nostalgic ramble through some softer songs from hardcore bands in the 90's that I enjoy, some Turkish psychedelia, and then a downtempo/trip-hop set featuring some of my all-time favorite albums.

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Playlist:

1. Psychic Temple, Mike Watt   /  Music for Airports 1/1 - Alternate Take
2. Khruangbin   /  Lady and Man
3. Glassjaw   /  Midwestern Stylings - remix
4. Deftones   /  Digital Bath
5. Team Sleep   /  Ever (Foreign Flag)
6. Selda Bagcan   /  Ince Ince Bir Kar Yagar
7. Tricky   /  Black Steel
8. Portishead   /  Over
9. Tricky   /  Hell Is Round The Corner
10. Susumu Yokota   /  Tayutafu

5-15-19 Merging w/the Night

Karin Dreijer Andersen of The Knife and Fever Ray.

Special guest DJ DemiGods was present to help curate this night's playlist with some dark electronica, predominantly from Northern Europe.

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Playlist:

1. Bjork   /  Utopia
2. The Knife   /  Neon
3. The Knife   /  The Captain
4. The Knife   /  A Tooth for an Eye
5. The Knife   /  Marble House - Live
6. Royksopp   /  What Else Is There?
7. The Knife   /  Cherry on Top
8. Fever Ray   /  Concrete Walls
9. Royksopp, Robyn   /  The Girl and the Robot
10. Julianna Barwick   /  Nebula
11. Easter   /  Cuppa
12. Easter   /  Kilometer
13. Easter   /  Alien Babies
14. Ghost Twin   /  Saturn Swallows the Sun
15. Steve Hauschildt, Julianna Barwick   /  Saccade
16. The Knife   /  You Make Me Like Charity
17. Peaches   /  Fuck the Pain Away
18. Goldfrapp   /  Utopia
19. Bjork   /  My Spine
20. The Woolen Mills Project   /  This is the Sound of Rocks on the Pond kelleyandwes.tumblr.com
21. David Skidmore, Third Coast Percussion   /  Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities: Things May Be Changing (But Probably Not)
22. Wes Swing   /  All Other Love
23. Lamb   /  Gorecki

5-9-19 The NightOwl

Listen  to this second hour of Merging w/the Night for up to two weeks.  You can click ahead on the WTJU player's time bar.

Playlist:

1. Four Tet   /  Teenage Birdsong
2. Death in Vegas, Sasha Grey   /  Honey
3. Roxy Music   /  In Every Dream Home A Heartache
4. Death and Vanilla   /  The Colour of Space
5. PJ Harvey   /  Descending
6. Psychic TV   /  Message From The Temple
7. Bee Mask   /  Moon Shadow Move
8. Susumu Yokota   /  Grass, Tree and Stone
9. Fatima Al Qadiri   /  Szechuan (pictured)
10. Skinny Puppy   /  Grave Wisdom
11. Bjork Gudmundsdottir, Asgerdur Juniusdottir   /  All is Full of Love
12. PJ Harvey, Harry Escott   /  An Acre of Land - Edit
13. Pixie Killz   /  Venus as a Boy

5-8-19 Merging w/the Night

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Playlist:

1. Booboo'zzz All Stars, Laurene   /  Venus as a Boy
2. Black Marble   /  Iron Lung
3. Carlos Nino & Lil' Sci Are What's the Science?   /  Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul
4. Cate le Bon   /  Home To You
5. Cate le Bon   /  The Light
6. The Mountain Goats   /  Doc Gooden  (pictured)
7. Cat Power   /  In Your Face
8. Cat Power   /  Evolution
9. Bat For Lashes   /  A Forest
10. New Order   /  Temptation
11. Nico   /  Sixty Forty
12. Gayngs   /  The Gaudy Side of Town

5-2-19 The NightOwl

A remix of Glasser (pictured) is featured in the second hour of Merging w/the Night, a time I call The NightOwl.  Things tend to get darker and more electronic in the hour of The NightOwl.

Listen to this radio set for up to two weeks.  You can skip ahead to the second hour by clicking the time bar.

Playlist:

1. Gary Numan,Tubeway Army   /  Are 'Friends' Electric?
2. Marilyn Manson   /  Down in the Park
3. Orgy   /  Blue Monday
4. David Skidmore, Third Coast Percussion   /  Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities: Torched and Wrecked
5. Kedr Livanskiy   /  Sky Kisses
6. Glasser   /  Tremel (Astronomer)
7. The Cure   /  Pornography - Remastered; Cold - Remastered
8. Yeasayer   /  Grizelda
9. Yeasayer   /  Let Me Listen in on You
10. Plaid   /  Maru
11. Prefuse 73   /  Popstar Beat

5-1-19 Merging w/the Night

Kazu Makino (pictured) of Blonde Redhead has a new solo album coming out under the moniker KAZU.  The first single, "Salty", is featured in the first hour of this episode of Merging w/the Night.

Listen to this show for up to two weeks.

Playlist:

1. Lucas   /  Lucas with the Lid Off
2. Egemen Sanli, Madhu Anziani   /  Seek Not Fame
3. SASAMI   /  Not The Time
4. The Essence   /  A Mirage
5. The Essence   /  The Cat
6. Egemen Sanli, Madhu Anziani   /  Quechua Invocation
7. Phedre   /  Atomic Love
8. O Terno, Devendra Banhart, Shintaro Sakamoto   /  Volta e Meia
9. KAZU   /  Salty
10. Galaxie 500   /  Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste
11. KH, Four Tet   /  Only Human - Radio Edit
12. PJ Harvey, Gillian Anderson   /  The Sandman; Descending, Arpeggio Waltz

4-18-19 The NightOwl

Stream this second hour for up to two weeks here.

Playlist:

1. The Smiths   /  Meat is Murder
2. Depeche Mode   /  Shake the Disease
3. Liano, Paul Cherry   /  Elks Grazing
4. The Range   /  Carole
5. The Glove   /  Sex-Eye-Make Up
6. The Essence   /  A Reflected Dream
7. Steve Hauschildt   /  M path
8. Meat Beat Manifesto   /  Bass Playa
9. Meat Beat Manifesto   /  Asbestos Lead Asbestos
10. Mira Calix   /  Sparrow
11. Natureboy Flako   /  Nebulous Garden
12. Wume   /  Walled Garden
13. John Tejada   /  Vaalbara
14. Pantha Du Prince   /  Water Falls

4-17-19 Merging w/the Night

Back to normal programming, featuring lots of new music just released.

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Playlist:

1. Sky Ferreira (pictured)   /  Downhill Lullaby
2. Loma   /  Half Silences
3. Shlohmo   /  The Best of Me
4. Cage The Elephant, Beck   /  Night Running
5. Foxygen   /  Face The Facts
6. PJ Harvey, Lily James   /  The Moth
7. Bibio   /  The Art of Living
8. Yeasayer   /  Fluttering in the Floodlights
9. Niniola   /  Bana
10. M.I.A.   /  Ba-na-na Skit, Sunshowers
11. The Smiths   /  William, It Was Really Nothing
12. The Cure   /  Closedown
13. Sebastian Codex   /  Avisame Cuando Puedas
14. Julee Cruise   /  The World Spins
15. Philip Glass, Third Coast Percussion   /  Perpetulum: Part 3

The Smiths vs The Cure, 4-14-19

These cult favorites battled competed for the title of Our Favorite.  Listeners called in to vote and donate to WTJU, as part of the 2019 Rock Marathon.
This show was co-hosted by DJ Dave.  Most of the categories were invented by DJ ANDROID.

• Best Lyrics - The Smiths (obviously)
• Happiest Sad Song - In Between Days (The Cure)
• Happiest Angsty Song - Panic (The Smiths)
• Song Most Likely to be Appropriated by David Lynch - The Funeral Party (The Cure)
• Most Maudlin/Self-Pitying Song - There is a Light that Never Goes Out (The Smiths)
• Literary References - Killing an Arab (The Cure), and Cemetary Gates (The Smiths)
• Best Bass Lines - Fascination Street (The Cure), and Barbarism Begins at Home (The Smiths)
• Best Effects on Guitar - How Soon is Now (The Smiths), and The Kiss (The Cure)

Listeners were split rather evenly between these two bands.  There was no clear winner, and the competition was called a draw.

Stream the show for up to two weeks here

Playlist:

1. The Cure   /  Last Dance
2. The Smiths   /  Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
3. The Smiths   /  Ask
4. The Cure   /  Fire in Cairo
5. The Cure   /  In Between Days
6. The Smiths   /  Oscillate Wildly
7. The Smiths   /  Panic
8. The Cure   /  The Caterpillar
9. The Cure   /  The Funeral Party
10. The Smiths   /  There is a Light That Never Goes Out
11. The Smiths   /  Well I Wonder
12. The Cure   /  Boys Don't Cry
13. The Cure   /  Pictures of You
14. The Smiths   /  That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
15. The Smiths   /  This Charming Man
16. The Cure   /  Killing an Arab
17. The Smiths   /  Cemetary Gates
18. The Cure   /  Fascination Street
19. The Cure   /  A Forest - Extended Mix
20. The Smiths   /  Barbarism Begins at Home
21. The Cure   /  Lovesong
22. The Smiths   /  Hand in Glove
23. The Smiths   /  How Soon is Now?
24. The Cure   /  The Kiss
25. The Smiths   /  The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
26. The Cure   /  Plainsong

Intelligent Dance Music, 4-10-19

A special show benefitting WTJU, as part of the 2019 Rock Marathon.
Co-hosted by DJ Freddie Jin!

Stream for up to two weeks here

Playlist:

1. Aphex Twin   /  On
2. mu-Ziq   /  Goodbye, Goodbye
3. cEvin Key   /  Aphasia
4. The Tuss   /  Rushup Bank 12
5. Clark   /  Vengeance Drools
6. Orbital   /  The Box untitled version 2
7. Caribou   /  People Eating Fruit
8. Autechre  /  Leterel
9. Talvekoidik   /  Such A Perfect Day
10. Secede   /  Outran
11. Seefeel   /  Plainsong
12. Boards of Canada   /  Amo Bishop Roden
13. Jan Jelinek   /  Tendency
14. Carl Stone   /  Panchita
15. Squarepusher   /  Fat Controller
16. Plaid   /  Do Matter
17. Speedy J   /  De-Orbit
18. mu-Ziq   /  Lunatic Harness
19. Autechre   /  PIObmx
20. Squarepusher   /  Beep Street

4-4-19 The NightOwl

Stream or download 4-4-19 radio set here (approx one hour)

Playlist:
Autechre (pictured)   //  Drane
cEvin Key / Ken Marshall   //  Diagnosis
cEvin Key / Ken Marshall   //  Maniac Shuffle
cEvin Key / Ken Marshall   //  Incandescent Glow
Download   //  Carrier Tone
Download   //  Base Metal
Natureboy Flako   //  Crying On The In
The Legendary Pink Dots   //  Curious Guy
Rival Consoles   //  Recovery
The Black Dog   //  Literal Optical Slant
Yagya    //  Rigning Einn

4-3-19 Merging w/the Night

Stream or download 4-3-19 radio set here (approx one hour)

Playlist:

1. New Order   /  Senses
2. The Smiths (pictured)   /  Reel Around the Fountain
3. The Velvet Underground, Nico   /  All Tomorrow's Parties - Alternate Instrumental Mix
4. The Cure   /  The Holy Hour
5. The Cure   /  Disintegration
6. Aphex Twin   /  Girl/Boy Song
7. Anna & Elizabeth   / Irish Patriot
8. Andrew Bird   /  Sisyphus
9. PJ Harvey   /  White Chalk
10. Au Revoir Simone   /  Lark
11. T Bone Burnett, Jay Bellerose, Keefus Ciancia   /  Anti Cyclone
12. The Durutti Column   /  Bordeaux
13. Eartheater    /  Humyn Hymn

3-28-19 The NightOwl

Stream or download 3-28-19 radio set here (approx one hour)

Playlist:

1. Angel Metro (pictured)   /  Intro (Impossible 2 Hate U)  /  Shadows
2. Depeche Mode   /  Halo
3. Ships in the Night   /  Myriologues
4. Grimes   /  Pretty Dark - Demo
5. The Orb featuring Lee Scratch Perry   /  Hold Me Upsetter / Go Down Evil
6. Siouxsie and the Banshees   /  Happy House
7. Natureboy Flako   /  Gelis
8. Massive Attack, Christoffer Berg   /  Psyche - Flash Treatment
9. Plaid   /  Do Matter
10. Dead Can Dance   /  Cantara
11. Kedr Livanskiy   /  Ivan Kupala (New Day)
12. Jah Division   /  Dub Will Tear Us Apart
13. The Glove   /  Perfect Murder - Remastered

3-27-19 Merging w/the Night

Stream 3-27-19 radio set here

Playlist:

1. Cate le Bon (pictured)   /  Daylight Matters
2. The Wailers   /  Road Block (instrumental
3. My Bloody Valentine   /  Blown a Wish
4. Loma   /  Half Silences
5. Cass McCombs   /  Absentee
6. Bauhaus   /  Crowds
7. Nightmares on Wax   /  Les Nuits
8. The Brian Jonestown Massacre   /  What Can I Say
9. Laurie Anderson   /  Bright Red
10. Swans   /  Blind
11. Nils Frahm   /  All Melody (live)
12. Chromatics   /  Running Up That Hill

The NightOwl - Full Moon on the Spring Equinox 3-20-19

Stream or download hour two of this 3-20-19 radio set

Featuring artist cEvin Key (pictured) and his collaborative projects including Skinny Puppy, Tear Garden, Hilt, and Download.

This is the second hour of my final broadcast from our Lambeth studios.

Playlist:

1. Steve Hauschildt   /  Arpeggiare
2. Rechenzentrum   /  Eden
3. cEvin Key   /  Aphasia
4. Hilt   /  Get Out of the Grave Alan
5. The Tear Garden   /  Romulus and Venus
6. Skinny Puppy   /  Dig It
7. Download   /  H Sein Influence
8. The Legendary Pink Dots   /  Just a Lifetime
9. Julianna Barwick   /  Nebula
10. F Ingers   /  All Rolled Up

Final Show at Lambeth Studios, Merging w/the Night 3-20-19

Stream or download 3-20-19 radio set here, approx. one hour long

A full moon on the Vernal Equinox for my last show at our studios in Lambeth Commons on the Grounds of the University of Virginia.  The station moved just a few days later to a new location a few miles away.  We broke a Guinness World Record to christen the station with 82 DJ's presenting a show.  Very exciting!

AND I get to see Nils Frahm play in concert this Sunday.  What a week!

Playlist:

1. Nils Frahm   /  A Place
2. The Cinematic Orchestra, Grey Reverend   /  Zero One-This Fantasy
3. Club Kuru   /  Giving In
4. Nils Frahm   /  My Friend The Forest
5. Sebastian Codex   /  Es Que No Se Que Decir Ahora
6. Anna Calvi   /  Wolf Like Me - Live
7. Cocteau Twins   /  Garlands
8. Brian Eno   /  Golden Hours (2004 Remaster)
9. Mac DeMarco   /  Nobody
10. The Legendary Pink Dots (pictured)   /  Sterre
11. Soundwalk Collective, Patti Smith   /  The New Revelations of Being
12. Lamb, Cian Finn   /  Moonshine
13. Sixtoo   /  Disclaimer
14. Steve Hauschildt   /  Arpeggiare