8-28-19: Special Artist Feature - Joy Division / New Order

Listen here (starts 3 mins in).

Playlist:

1. New Order   /  Ceremony
2. New Order   /  Procession
3. Joy Division   /  Transmission
4. Joy Division   /  Love Will Tear Us Apart
5. New Order   /  Dreams Never End
6. New Order   /  Truth
7. Joy Division   /  Heart and Soul
8. Joy Division   /  Twenty Four Hours
9. New Order   /  Your Silent Face
10. New Order   /  Age Of Consent
11. Joy Division   /  Novelty
12. New Order   /  Blue Monday
13. Joy Division   /  Disorder
14. Joy Division   /  Shadowplay
15. New Order   /  Leave Me Alone
16. New Order   /  The Perfect Kiss
17. Joy Division   /  Digital
18. Joy Division   /  She's Lost Control
19. Joy Division   /  Komakino
20. Joy Division   /  Passover
21. Joy Division   /  Dead Souls
22. Joy Division   /  Decades

8-24-19 Reggae Vibrations

This set features many "toasters", such as I-Roy (pictured), and reggae cover songs.

Listen here for up to two weeks (begins at minute 1:58, you can click ahead in the timebar).

Playlist:

1. Horace Andy   /  Raggamuffin Dub
2. Dennis Alcapone   /  Mava
3. Bob Marley & The Wailers   /  Rainbow Country
4. The Tennors   /  Weather Report
5. King Tubby, The Techniques All Stars   /  Stalag 17
6. Prince Jazzbo   /  Natty Pass Through Rome
7. Ken Boothe   /  You're No Good
8. Maxi Priest   /  Wild World
9. King Stitt, The Dynamites   /  Fire Corner
10. Leslie Butler   /  Ashanti Ganja Dub
11. I-Roy   /  High Jacking
12. The Upsetters   /  Croaking Lizard (feat Prince Jazzbo)
13. Horace Andy   /  Natty Dread A Weh She Want
14. U-Roy   /  The Great Psalms
15. U-Roy   /  Words of Wisdom
16. Augustus Pablo, The Upsetters   /  Vibrate Onn - Jamaican Mix
17. Wayne Smith   /  Under Me Sleng Teng
18. Scotty   /  Draw Your Brakes
19. Booboo'zzz All Stars, Olivier Smith   /  Clint Eastwood
20. Gorillaz, Space Monkeyz   /  Dub 09
21. Ini Kamoze   /  Color Me Reggae
22. Bob Marley & The Wailers   /  My Cup
23. The Upsetters   /  Dread Lion
24. Easy Star All-Stars, Corey Harris, Ranking Joe   /  Time
25. The Upsetters   /  Super Ape
26. Santigold   /  Wha' You Feel Like, Don't Blame Me, Gold Fire
27. Easy Star All-Stars   /  Great Dub in the Sky
28. Orange Blossom   /  Desert Dub
29. King Tubby   /  Special Brew

8-22-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Exploded View

Listen here for up to two weeks.

Playlist:

1. Nils Frahm   /  All Armed
2. Carla dal Forno   /  Make Up Talk
3. Exploded View   /  Raven Raven
4. The Microphones   /  The Pull
5. Colleen   /  Soul Alphabet
6. Holly Herndon   /  Alienation
7. Download   /  Calling Monster Island
8. Octo Octa   /  Who I Will Become
9. HTRK   /  Dying of Jealousy
10. Jenny Hval   /  High Alice
11. Kedr Livanskiy   /  Razrushitelniy Krug (Destructive Cycle)

8-21-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: Melody's Echo Chamber

Listen here for up to two weeks.

Playlist:

1. The Cars   /  Moving in Stereo
2. Smog   /  Bathysphere
3. The Brian Jonestown Massacre   /  Melody's Actual Echo Chamber
4. Melody's Echo Chamber   /  Quand Vas Tu Rentrer
5. Clara Moto, Mimu   /  Joy of My Heart
6. Cocteau Twins   /  Rococo
7. Drab Majesty   /  Not Just a Name
8. Death and Vanilla   /  A Flaw in the Iris
9. Hydromag   /  P.J.R.
10. Janet Jackson   /  When I Think of You
11. The Magnetic Fields   /  Smoke and Mirrors

8-15-19 The NightOwl (full moon baptismal edition)

Pictured: Carla dal Forno

Listen here for up to two weeks:   (starts at minute 62, you can click ahead on the timebar).

Playlist:

1. Air   /  Electronic Performer
2. Anika   /  I Go To Sleep
3. Seefeel   /  Time To Find Me (AFX Fast Mix)
4. Tropic of Cancer   /  Stop Suffering
5. Carla dal Forno   /  Took A Long Time
6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds   /  God Is In The House
7. Kelly Lee Owens   /  1 of 3
8. Kraftwerk   /  Numbers
9. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith   /  Until I Remember
10. Kronos Quartet   /  Smell Memory

8-14-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: JFDR

Listen here for up to two weeks (starts at minute 7, you can click ahead on the timebar).

Playlist:

1. Siouxsie and the Banshees   /  Scarecrow
2. Thievery Corporation   /  The Cosmic Game
3. Clinic   /  Ferryboat of the Mind
4. Sad Lovers & Giants   /  Colourless Dream
5. Cocteau Twins   /  Blind Dumb Deaf
6. Radiohead   /  Down is the New Up
7. Thom Yorke   /  Runwayaway
8. HTRK   /  You Know How to Make Me Happy
9. Nils Landgren Funk Unit   /  Venus As A Boy
10. Carla dal Forno   /  Clusters
11. JFDR   /  White Sun
12. JFDR   /  Airborne
13. Nina Simone   /  Either Way I Lose

8-8-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Aisha Devi

Listen here for up to two weeks (starts at minute 64, you can click ahead in the timebar).

Playlist:

1. Carmen Villain   /  Are You For Real
2. Carmen Villain, Jenny Hval   /  Borders
3. Aisha Devi, DeForrest Brown Jr   /  Teta 7hz (Tool)
4. Aisha Devi   /  The Favor of Fire
5. Tricky, Scriptonite   /  Blood of My Blood
6. Ships in the Night   /  Elegy
7. Max Richter   /  we circle through the night, consumed by fire
8. Prefuse 73   /  Female Demands
9. The Cure   /  Three
10. Bauhaus   /  In Fear of Dub

8-7-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: Penelope Trappes

Listen here for up to two weeks (starts at minute 3, you can click ahead on the timebar).

Playlist:

1. Carla dal Forno   /  Summertime Sadness
2. Hauschka   /  Random Summer
3. Angel Olsen   /  All Mirrors
4. Gardens & Villa   /  Rosie
5. Leo Coltrane   /  That Third Thing
6. Jah Division   /  Transmission
7. Olafur Arnalds, TOKiMONSTA   /  they sink - TOKiMONSTA remix
8. Olafur Arnalds   /  undir
9. Beak>   /  Battery Point
10. Erlend Oye, Barck & Comixxx   /  Rainman - Barck & Comixxx Remix
11. Penelope Trappes, JFDR   /  Maeve - JFDR Rework
12. Flying Lotus, Niki Randa   /  Getting There
13. F. S. Blumm, Nils Frahm   /  Day One Two

8-1-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Ian Curtis of Joy Division

Listen here (second hour, click ahead on the player's timebar)

Playlist:

1. Joy Division   /  New Dawn Fades
2. Joy Division   /  Twenty Four Hours
3. The Cure   /  Seventeen Seconds
4. Julianna Barwick   /  Prizewinning
5. Four Tet   /  Daughter
6. Skee Mask   /  50 Euro to Break Boost
7. The Tear Garden   /  Malice Through The Looking Glass
8. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult   /  Forbidden Saints
9. Steve Hauschildt, GABI   /  Syncope
10. Kelley Lee Owens   /  S.O.
11. Joy Division   /  Isolation

7-31-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: Carmen Villain

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Playlist:

1. Radiohead   /  Fitter, Happier
2. Radiohead   /  Paranoid Android
3. Two Lone Swords, Lali Puna   /  It's Not The Worst (Lali Puna remix)
4. Thievery Corporation    /  A Gentle Dissolve
5. Bob Marley & The Wailers   /  Don't Rock My Boat
6. Connan Mockasin   /  Faking Jazz Together
7. Carmen Villain   /  Infinite Avenue
8. My Brightest Diamond   /  To Pluto's Moon (Son Lux Remix)
9. Khruangbin   /  Sisters and Brothers
10. Geryon   /  Nerves
11. Mo Kolours   /  Biddies
12. Public Image Ltd.   /  The Order of Death
13. Kelley Lee Owens   /  Bird

7-18-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Ships in the Night

Listen here (hour two, you can skip ahead by clicking the timebar)

Playlist:

1. Brambles   /  Such Owls as You
2. Angel Metro   /  Intro (Impossible 2 Hate U)
3. Ships in the Night   /  Myriologues
4. Duran Duran   /  Come Undone
5. Carmen Villain   /  Observable Future
6. DJ Shadow   /  Mutual Slump - In Tune and On Time
7. Beak>, Mario Batkovic   /  Alle Sauvage - Mario Batkovic version
8. Stereolab   /  Freestyle Dumpling
9. MF Doom   /  Arrow Root
10. Penelope Trapps, Cosey Fanni Tutti   /  Carry Me - Cosey Fanni Tutti Rework
11. Kraftwerk   /  Computer Love
12. John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Matt Haimovitz, Uccello   /  Kashmir (Arr M. Haimovitz & L. P. Woolf for Cello Ensemble)

7-17-19 Merging w/the Night

Pictured: Trentemoller

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Playlist:

1. Thievery Corporation   /  The Cosmic Game
2. Trentemoller, Lina Tullgren   /  In The Garden
3. Kelley Lee Owens   /  Lucid
4. Clara Moto   /  For All Reasons So Sad
5. Thievery Corporation   /  A Gentle Dissolve
6. Flunk   /  I Love Music
7. Bjork   /  Alarm Call
8. Janet Jackson, Q-Tip, Joni Mitchell   /  Got 'Til It's Gone
9. Laurel Halo   /  Moontalk
10. Nas   /  The Message (instrumental)
11. Art Ensemble   /  Garance - Mighty Bop Remix
12. Daniel Wohl, POLICA   /  Angel (feat. Polica)
13. Hoover   /  Absolute Zero
14. Massive Attack   /  Be Thankful For What You've Got

7-11-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Holly Herndon

Yessirov stuck around to help The NightOwl swoop in with some darker, more electronic sounds.

Holly Herndon was a highlight.  She pushes the boundaries with a human/artificial intelligence chorus of voices, emphasizing "alien song craft and new forms of communion".

Another highlight was spontaneously placing Tool's "Reflections" just after Kraftwerk's "The Hall of Mirrors".  This is what The NightOwl is all about.


Listen here for up to two weeks (second hour, begins just after the 60 min mark - you can click ahead on the timebar).

Playlist:
The Cure   /  Siamese Twins
The Cure   /  Faith
Aphex Twin   /  Alberto Balsalm
Dungen   /  Alberto Balsalm - Aquarium Drunkard's Lagniappe Session
Holly Herndon   /  Frontier
Holly Herndon   /  SWIM
PJ Harvey   /  Death
Kraftwerk   /  The Hall of Mirrors
Tool   /  Reflection
Portishead   /  Threads

7-10-19 Merging w/the Night, with special guest yessirov

Eternal Summers (pictured), from Roanoke, Virginia, will be playing this Saturday night in Charlottesville, VA along with yessirov and pnqbud.  It's going to be a great show!

Yessirov joined me in the studio for this show and curated the first half of the playlist.


Listen here for up to two weeks.

Playlist (first hour, begins at 4:24):

1. Eternal Summers   /  Millions
2. LCD Soundsystem   /  Dance Yrslf Clean
3. Deerhoof   /  Offend Maggie
4. Be Forest   /  Empty Space
5. Joanna Newsome   /  Swansea
6. KAZU   /  Meo
7. yessirov   /  Small Comfort
8. Thom Yorke   /  Runwayaway
9. Penelope Trappes, Poppy Ackroyd   /  Kismet - Poppy Ackroyd Rework
10. The Books   /  The Future, Wouldn't That Be Nice

6-27-19 The NightOwl

'We interrupt this broadcast to bring you breaking developments...'

Thom Yorke's album ANIMA came out as I was recording this show.  Naturally, as soon as I realized it was available I dropped my plans and played it on the air, hearing it for the first time along with whomever was listening to the radio at that time.

Listen here for up to two weeks (you can skip ahead to this second hour by clicking the timebar).

Playlist:

1. Olafur Arnalds, Max Cooper   /  ypsilon - Max Cooper's '19 Remix
2. Flying Lotus   /  Physics For Everyone!
3. Meat Beat Manifesto   /  Carrier Freq
4. Gudrun Gut   /  Rock Bottom Riser
5. Amon Tobin   /  Pale Forms Run By
6. Kool Keith, KutMasta Kurt   /  Sex Style
7. alva noto   /  Uni Sub
8. Thom Yorke   /  Traffic
9. Thom Yorke   /  Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain)
10. Thom Yorke   /  Twist
11. Thom Yorke   /  Dawn Chorus

6-26-19 Merging w/the Night

Portishead is comprised of Beth Gibbons (pictured), Geoff Barrow (pictured), and Adrian Utley (not pictured).  Utley was added as an official band member just after helping them record their first album Dummy.

Listen here for up to two weeks.

Playlist:

1. Clara Moto   /  I Saw Your Love
2. Bent   /  Swollen
3. The Sabres of Paradise   /  Planet D (Portishead Remix)
4. Gonjasufi   /  Candylane
5. Portishead   /  It Could Be Sweet
6. Norma Tanega   /  Illusion
7. Olafur Arnalds, Brasstrio Mosfelldals   /  Dalur - Island Songs V
8. DJ Shadow, Little Dragon   /  Scale It Back
9. Apanemic   /  Stay Alone
10. Zero 7   /  Simple Things
11. Portishead   /  Theme From To Kill A Dead Man
12. Be Forest   /  Atto II
13. The Dining Rooms   /  Subterranean Modern
14. Clara Moto, Mimu   /  Lyra
15. Portishead   /  Sheared Box

6-22-19 Reggae Vibrations

Pictured: Burning Spear frontman Winston Rodney

Listen here to this 2 hour radio set for up to two weeks.

Playlist:

1. Burning Spear   /  Farther East of Jack (Old Marcus Garvey)
2. Burning Spear   /  Slavery Days
3. Burning Spear   /  Marcus Say Jah No Dead
4. Burning Spear   /  Black Wa-Da-Da (Invasion)
5. Ini Kamoze   /  World a Music
6. I-Roy   /  Noisy Place
7. Augustus Pablo   /  Java
8. DUBCON   /  Heliosphere
9. Sly Dunbar   /  A Who Say
10. Claude Fontaine   /  Cry For Another
11. Augustus Pablo   /  Peace and Love Dub
12. Tricky, Jose Maria, Kidd Rasta, Fil Bucchino   /  Black Steel - 2009 Remix
13. Jackie Mittoo, King Tubby   /  Freedom Rockers
14. Thievery Corporation   /  The State of the Union
15. King Tubby, Prince Jammy   /  Violent Decision Dub
16. Horace Andy   /  Spying Glass
17. Massive Attack   /  Spying Glass
18. Massive Attack   /  Light My Fire - Live From United Kingdom
19. King Tubby   /  North Circular Dub
20. Santigold   /  Coo Coo Coo
21. International Dub Ambassadors, Gomba Jahbari   /  Top Ranking
22. Althea and Donna   /  Uptown Top Ranking - Remastered
23. Dubblestandart, AishaE   /  Sun is Shining - Dub
24. Bob Marley & The Wailers   /  Soul Rebel
25. U-Roy   /  Natty Rebel
26. Bob Marley & The Wailers   /  Run For Cover - Soul Rebel Version
27. The Upsetters   /  Soul Rebel - Version 4
28. Pompidoo   /  Synthesizer Voice
29. Gorillaz   /  Dracula
30. Scientist   /  Drum Song Dub
31. Johnny Osbourne   /  Ready or Not
32. Fugees   /  Ready or Not

6-20-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Octo Octa

Listen here for up to two weeks.  (This second hour begins at minute 65.  You can click ahead on the timebar.)

Playlist:

1. Royksopp   /  Across the Graveyard (Lost Tapes)
2. Laurel Halo   /  Chance of Rain
3. Radiohead   /  Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief
4. Plaid, Orbital   /  Maru - Orbital Remix
5. Octo Octa   /  I Need You
6. Download   /  Suni C
7. Depeche Mode   /  Useless
8. cEvin Key   /  Bobs Shadow
9. KAZU, Nosaj Thing   /  Salty - Nosaj Thing Remix

6-19-19 Merging w/the Night

Listen here for up to two weeks (This first hour begins at minute 4.  You can click ahead on the timebar.)

Playlist:

1. Laurie Anderson   /  Freefall
2. sir Was, Little Dragon   /  Deployed
3. Flunk   /  Blue Monday
4. Jai Paul   /  Crush - Unfinished
5. Jai Paul   /  He
6. Mulatu Astatke   /  Yegelle Tezeta
7. Janet Jackson   /  What Have You Done For Me Lately?
8. Janet Jackson   /  Go Deep
9. Drugdealer, Weyes Blood   /  Suddenly
10. Bat For Lashes   /  Kids In The Dark
11. Khruangbin   /  Mary Always
12. PJ Harvey   /  The Orange Monkey
13. Drab Majesty   /  Not Just A Name
14. ScubaZ   /  The Vanishing American Family
15. Lamb   /  The Secret of Letting Go

6-12-19 Special Artist Feature: Bjork!

A special 2 hour radio show in homage to Bjork, and her influence on electronic music.

Thousands of remixes have been made by DJ's inspired by her music.  Some can be found at bjorkremixes.com, Sunday in the Park, and Feisar.  Back in the 1990's, there was a wonderful place for amateur, unofficial remixes at the Bjork Remix Web (arktikos.com).  Unfortunately, it is no longer up, but many fans (like me) downloaded substantial parts of it.  I play a few late in this set.  I would love to find more remixes and more information about the DJ's.  Perhaps this will be an ongoing research project...

This show is part of a fundraising week to support non-commercial, independent radio station WTJU.  If you support non-commercial, community radio, then please consider making a donation.  It's truly a wonderful cultural resource, staffed by volunteers like myself.

Listen here for up to two weeks.

Playlist:

1. The Sugarcubes   /  Birthday  /  Life's Too Good
2. Bjork   /  Human Behavior  /  Debut
3. Bjork   /  Venus as a Boy  /  Debut
4. Bjork   /  Possibly Maybe  /  Post
5. Bjork   /  Joga  /  Homogenic
6. Bjork   /  Headphones  /  Post
7. Bjork   /  Bachelorette  /  Homogenic
8. Bjork   /  Scatterheart  /  Selmasongs
9. Bjork   /  Aurora  /  Vespertine
10. Bjork   /  Oceania  /  Medulla
11. Bjork   /  Wanderlust  /  Volta
12. Bjork   /  The Pleasure is All Mine  /  Voltaic
13. Bjork   /  Virus  /  Biophilia
14. Bjork   /  History of Touches  /  Vulnicura
15. Bjork   /  Future Forever  /  Utopia
16. Bjork, Fluke   /  Hyperballad (Fluke Mix)
17. Bjork   /  The Modern Things (Colder Mix)
18. Bjork, disk69   /  Unravel (On The Horizon Mix)
19. Bjork, Alec Empire   /  5 Years (Alec Empire Remix)
20. Bjork   /  All Neon Like (Classic Mix)
21. Bjork   /  Immature (I Know Who's My Missing Element Mix)
22. Bjork   /  Oxygen (Deep Breathing Mix)