DJ DownDog's yoga-inspired radio sets, 8-29-18

Listen to yoga radio set 1, 8-29-18
Listen to yoga radio set 2, 8-30-18

ANDROID was reincarnated as DJ DownDog to host back-to-back shows in honor of this year's Floyd Yoga Jam.

Playlist - yoga set 1:
1. Lobo Marino / Awake
2. The Polish Ambassador / Sri Gurvastakam
3. Sultan Khan, DJ Markarian / Tarana - Thievery Corporation Mix
4. Yo La Tengo / Love Chant
5. Cheb i Sabbah, DJ Markarian / Ganga Dev
6. Thievery Corporation / Shiva - TC Remix
7. Midival Punditz / Chandini Chowk
8. Thievery Corporation / Doors of Perception featuring Gunjan
9. MC Yogi, East Forest / Breathe Deep (feat. East Forest)
10. Olivia Neutron Bomb, DJ Markarian / Prakriti
11. Thievery Corporation / Satyam Shivam Sundaram featuring Gunjan
12. Bitter:Sweet / Don't Forget to Breathe
13. Marti Nikko, DJ Drez / Driving with Ganesha
14. Lobo Marino / El Morro
15. Lobo Marino / Those Who Persecute
16. Bally Sagoo, Gunjan / Noorie
17. Benjy Wertheimer, John De Kadt / Tabla Breath
18. Bikram Singh, Gunjan, Tigerstyle / Kawan 2
19. Thievery Corporation / Holographic Universe featuring Gunjan
20. DJ Drez, Marti Nikko, Domonic Dean Breaux / Krishna's Dub
21. Wah! / Ganesha
22. Maneesh de Moor / Silent Ganges
23. Bombay Jayashri, DJ Markarian / Bhavani
24. Maneesh de Moor / Namaste (Sadhana Remix)


Playlist - yoga set 2:
1. Maneesh de Moor / Namaste (Sadhana Remix)
2. Beny Wertheimer, John De Kadt / One River
3. Wah! / Heart Sutra
4. Bliss, Sophie Barker / Breathe
5. Michael Mandrell and Benjy Wertheimer / Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation)
6. Tuu / All Our Ancestors
7. DJ Drez / Nectar Drop
8. Mo' Horizons, DJ Markarian / Remember Tomorrow
9. Karsh Kale, DJ Markarian / Anja
10. DJ Drez / Sugar Drop 77
11. Lace / Random Rab
12. Thievery Corporation / The Supreme Illusion featuring Gunjan
13. DJ Drez, Domonic Dean Breaux / Shri
14. Christophe Goze / For Your Love
15. Nicola Conte, DJ Markarian / Missione a Bombay
16. Lobo Marino / Holy River
17. Random Rab / Apparently
18. Dan The Automator / My Guru
19. DJ Drez / Yearning
20. Bliss / Dunia
21. DJ Drez / Ganesh's Theme
22. Krishna Das / Baba Hanuman

ANDROID Reggae Set, 8-25-18

Listen to 8-25-18 radio set here

Rub-a-Dub stylee, it's all about expressing yourself.


Playlist:

1. Bim Sherman with Dub Syndicate / Keep You Dancing
2. Hopeton Lewis / Express Yourself
3. 10 Ft. Ganja Plant / Chalwa
4. Scotty / Draw Your Brakes
5. Mikey Dread / Datc Tribute to King Tubb - Dub / Instrumental Reggae
6. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Paul Groucho Smykle / Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)
7. Eek-A-Mouse / Ganja Smuggling
8. Mikey Dread / Roots and Culture
9. King Tubby, Augustus Pablo / Keep on Dubbing
10. Sugar Minott / Dancehall Stylee
11. Super Cat / Fighting For
12. The Revolutionaries / Kunta Kinte Dub
13. Thievery Corporation, Zee / Thief Rockers
14. Mia Doi Todd, Saul Williams  / Philomel With Melody
15. Finley Quaye / Even After All - Burning Dub
16. Dubblestandart, AishaE / Sun Is Shining
17. Lee "Scratch" Perry / Run for Cover - Original
18. King Tubby / Ragga Muffin Stylee Dub
19. Jimmy Cliff / One More
20. Jimmy Cliff / You Can Get It If You Really Want
21. Bob Marley & The Wailers / Crazy Baldhead - Alternate mix
22. Adrian Sherwood / Starship Bahia
23. The Clash / Bankrobber
24. Peter Tosh / Jah Guide - Dub Plate
25. Ranking Dread / Shut Me Mouth
26. Winston Francis / Let's Go to Zion
27. Rhythm & Sound, Love Joy / Best Friend - Mixed
28. Shuggie Otis / Island Letter

Special guest Jeff Gregerson returns, 8-22-18

Listen to 8-22-18 radio set

Very pleased to have Jeff back on Merging w/the Night to pick about half of this show's tunes.

Playlist:

1. Brad Mehldau / Knives Out - Live
2. Radiohead / Knives Out
3. Stromba / Blue Skin
4. Helena Deland / There Are a Thousand
5. Juliana Daugherty / Bliss
6. Blonde Redhead / Anticipation
7. Blonde Redhead / Falling Man
8. Autolux / Capital Kind of Strain
9. Stromba / Manphibian
10. Atoms For Peace / Dropped
11. Thom Yorke / A Brain in a Bottle
12. Animal Collective / Daily Routine
13. Ada Lea / Half Loving
14. Bjork / Human Behavior
15. Aphex Twin / Fingerbib
16. Alarm Will Sound / Fingerbib (arr. J. Newman)
17. Elliott Smith / Cupid's Trick
18. Elliott Smith / 2:45 AM
19. Heatmiser / You Gotta Move
20. Heatmiser / Half Right
21. Jeff Buckley / Vancouver
22. Stromba / Feel Her Procedure
23. Anna Calvi / Don't Beat the Girl out of My Boy
24. Cocteau Twins / Heaven or Las Vegas
25. Serge Gainsbourg / Ballade de Melody Nelson
26. Pumpuang Duangjan / Sao Dok Kum Tai (Lady From a Flower)
27. Groupe Inerane / Kuni Majagani

ANDROID late night radio set, 8-23-18

Listen to 8-23-18 radio set

I played lots of intelligence dance music (IDM) and related sounds this past Thursday.

Playlist:

1. Caribou / People Eating Fruit
2. Pole / Heim - Four Tet Remix
3. Pole / Heim
4. DJ Brace / Eupatheia
5. The Orb / Go Down Evil
6. The Books / Excess Strausses
7. Nils Frahm, Anne Muller / Long Enough
8. Olafur Arnalds / Til Enda
9. Steve Reich / Electric Counterpoint
10. Blockhead / Zip It
11. Pantha Du Prince, Animal Collective / Welt Am Draht (Animal Collective Remix)
12. Forest Swords / Crow (DJ-Kicks) - Mixed
13. PJ Harvey / Electric Light
14. Skinny Puppy / Yo Yo Scrape
15. Skinny Puppy / The Soul that Creates
16. The Knife / Pass This On
17. The Lounge Lizards / Bob the Bob
18. Mikey Dread / Datc Tribute to King Tubby - Dub
19. Nine Inch Nails / Over and Out
20. Zomby, Reark / Natalia's Song
21. Kiasmos / Orgoned
22. LFZ / Start Forever
23. Andy Stott / Science & Industry
24. Alex Stolze, Qrauer / Cell to Cell - Qrauer Remix
25. Boards of Canada / Sick Times

ANDROID radio set 8-15-18, Merging with the Night

Listen to 8-15-18 radio set here

Last night, I played several more songs from Mia Doi Todd (pictured) and her collaborations with Dungen, Dntel, and Saul Williams.
I also played multiple "throwback" tracks including Some Velvet Morning by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, and Poison by Bell Biv Devoe.  It's an eclectic playlist, to say the least.  I'd say it begins to show the breadth of my interests in music, as the genres represented here include jazz, rock, edm, dreampop, hip hop, downbeat, industrial, experimental,... and more that are hard to name.

Playlist:

1. Robert Glasper Experiment   Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Bonobo, Szjerdene   Get Thy Bearings
3. Mia Doi Todd, Saul Williams   Through This House
4. Mia Doi Todd, Dungen   Fly This Place
5. Sebastian Codex   Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
6. Brian Eno   Dead Finks Don't Talk
7. Anna Calvi   Hunter
8. Kraftwerk   The Man Machine
9. Easter   Kilometer
10. Easter   Kinds of Fruit
11. Koushik   Battle Rhymes for Battle Times
12. Nancy Sinatra   Some Velvet Morning
13. Slowdive   Some Velvet Morning
14. TV On The Radio   Ambulance
15. TV On The Radio   Staring At The Sun
16. Tommy Guerrero   Handful of Hell
17. Mia Doi Todd   My Room is White (Dungen Remix)
18. Mia Doi Todd   Deep At Sea (Dntel Remix)
19. Lali Puna, Dntel   The Frame - with Dntel
20. Dntel   Last Songs - Remastered
21. Dirty Beaches   Lord Knows Best
22. Bell Biv Devoe   Poison
23. Kool G. Rap & D.J. Polo   Poison - hip hop version
24. The Prodigy   Poison
25. The Tear Garden   Romulus and Venus
26. Nico   Chelsea Girls

ANDROID Reggae / Late Night Set 8-11-18

Listen to 8.11.2018 radio set here

Recorded during the weekend anniversary of last year's communal trauma in Charlottesville. (A reminder about 8.12.2017, the third white supremacist rally around monuments last summer)

The WTJU studios are located next to dorms on the UVA Grounds which currently are housing hundreds (thousands?) of police who came to our city, which pre-emptively declared a state of emergency.  (When I arrived at the studio Wednesday night, I had to park illegally in a sea of state police vehicles that spilled out onto sidewalks and into courtyards.  By now, I'm having regular small talk with an officer guarding the area as I come and go.)

But as of now, it is still unclear if there will be anyone driving to Charlottesville this weekend to show us just how contemptible and ugly their racist/fascist politics are.  The local confederate-sympathizers probably don't want to be publicly associated with last year's debacle or its organizer, and so will stay home.  So, we are wondering if there are any out-of-towners who want to celebrate the atrocity of last year.

Our community is still healing from the emotional damage from last summer.  We have to learn how to accept the past for what it is.  Events related to last summer, but also on a bigger scale, our country seems unable to get past its foundational problems of race and slavery.  We need to learn how to accept what happened, without ignoring the ugly parts.  Here in Charlottesville, we have the special problem of having inherited the moral paradox of the slavemaster of Monticello, a man at the heart of Charlottesville's historical identity.  Jefferson left us with something to explain, and we could start by admitting his influential failures when it comes to racial justice and injustice.

The past is what it is.  We cannot change the past.
Who do we want to be now, and in the future?  How can we help create a better society?

The lyrics of Bob Marley (pictured) point us in a good direction as we confront our society's problems.  The tradition of social criticism in reggae music is an appropriate way to call out injustice without encouraging violence.  We can declare war against oppression without taking up arms, and call out evil and lay it bare.

Playlist:

1. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Crazy Baldhead Dub
2. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Crazy Baldhead
3. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Who The Cap Fit
4. King Tubby   Ragga Muffin Stylee Dub
5. Bob Marley & The Wailers   War
6. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)
7. King Tubby, Augustus Pablo   Keep on Dubbing
8. Bob Marley & The Wailers   No More Trouble
9. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
10. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Positive Vibration
11. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Three Little Birds Dub
12. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Roots, Rock, Reggae
13. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Running Away
14. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Crazy Baldhead
15. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Get Up, Stand Up
16. Nightmares on Wax    Survival Dub
17. Junior Murvin    Police and Thieves
18. Gregory Isaacs   Slave Master
19. Sinead O'Connor   Drink Before the War
20. Erykah Badu   Didn't Cha Know
21. Colleen   Everyone Alive Wants Answers
22. Radiohead   Climbing Up The Walls (Zero 7 remix)
23. Thievery Corporation, Elin Melgarejo   Lose to Find
24. Bowery Electric   Passages          the sampled poem 
25. King Tubby   Take Five
26. Bob Marley   Mellow Mood
27. Bob Marley & The Wailers   War / No More Trouble (live)
28. Olafur Arnalds   Happiness Does Not Wait
29. The Notwist   Consequence
30. Nils Frahm   My Friend the Forest

ANDROID rock set 8-8-18, w/ guest Freddie Jin

Listen to 8-8-18 radio set here

WTJU is an eclectic station featuring rock, jazz, folk, and classical music of many stripes.

Last night, I had the pleasure of having jazz DJ Freddie Jin on the show to play some of his favorite rock sounds including Shoegaze, Japanese New Wave and soundtrack selections.  We shared the set, alternating every 3 or 4 songs, as we "cross-pollinated" between the jazz and rock departments.
You can hear Freddie's jazz show Point of Departure, an exploration of avant-garde, free, and spiritual jazz, on Monday nights 9-11pm on WTJU 91.1 FM Charlottesville.

ANDROID played music from the new album from Mia Doi Todd (pictured).  It's a collaborative soundtrack and score for the new film A Midsummer's Night Dream, which Todd also co-stars in as the Faerie Queen Titania (with Saul Williams, who also appears on the soundtrack, as King Oberon).
I can't say enough good things about this album.  It's going to prove one of the very best of the year.


Playlist

1. Robert Glasper   Reckoner - Live at Capitol Studios / 2014
2. Gabor Szabo, Jim Stewart   Some Velvet Morning
3. Brian Eno   The Big Ship
4. Mia Doi Todd, Tunde Adebimpe   Earthly Happiness
5. Mia Doi Todd, Luis Perez Ixoneztli   Great Love Theme in Flute
6. Mia Doi Todd, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson   Great Love
7. Sebastian Codex   Reckoner
8. My Bloody Valentine   Angel
9. The Warlocks   Song For Nico, Pt.2
10. Spiritualized   Here It Comes (The Road) Let's Go
11. Spiritualized   Walking With Jesus
12. Cowboy Junkies   Sweet Jane
13. Nico   Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
14. The Velvet Underground   Jesus
15. Mum   The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records
16. Dip In The Pool   Rabo Del Sol
17. Masahide Sakuma   Trois Matins
18. Jun Togawa   Eyesball Tale
19. CheShizu   A Broad Daylight
20. Susumu Yokota   Traveler in the Wonderland
21. Anna Calvi   Strange Weather (feat. David Byrne)
22. Tanukichan   Natural
23. Tanukichan   Radiolove
24. Sebastien Tellier   La Ritournelle
25. Deafheaven   Night People
26. Mia Doi Todd   When Doves Cry
27. Aphex Twin   Acrid Avid Jam Shred