Merging with Global A Go Go, 9-19-18

Listen to 9-19-18 radio set here

"World service bulletin from the nightshift D.J.
To all wavebands on earth
Reconnoitre on the killahertz"

These opening lines from "Global A Go-Go" by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros provided the inspiration for much of this episode of Merging w/the Night.  I love hosting a radio show at night for the freedom it provides.  And it is much nicer to imagine a connection with other music-lovers all over the world, than to think no one is listening.  Thank you, Joe Strummer and friends, including Bill Lupoletti who hosts a radio show Global A Go Go on WRIR Richmond Independent Radio.  I heard an amazing song on his show and decided to feature it as well - from the Dur-Dur Band from Somalia.

The artwork featured above comes from the cover of Flying Lotus' album Cosmogramma (2010, Warp Records).  The song I played, "Zodiac Shit", has a wonderfully trippy video.

Playlist:

1. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros  / Global A Go-Go
2. Flying Lotus  / Zodiac Shit
3. Dur-Dur Band  / Hiyeeley
4. Debruit, Alsarah  / Jibal Alnuba
5. Tricky  / Singing The Blues
6. Gorillaz, Space Monkeyz  / A Fistful of Peanuts
7. New Boss  / Dream Pop
8. Mark Pritchard, Thom Yorke  / Beautiful People
9. Thom Yorke  / Suspirium
10. Tosca  / Doris Dub
11. Yo La Tengo  / The Ballad of Red Buckets
12. Polica  / Smug
13. Radiohead  / Kinetic
14. Four Tet, Oneohtrix Point Never  / Evening Side - Oneohtrix Point Never Edit
15. Nine Inch Nails  / Over and Out
16. Nine Inch Nails  / We're In This Together
17. How To Destroy Angels  / Too Late, All Gone
18. Forest Swords  / The Highest Flood
19. GOLD ZEBRA  / Love, French, Better
20. Andy Stott  / On My Mind
21. The Clash  / Straight to Hell
22. Damon Albarn  / Hostiles
23. Eddie Gale  / The Rain

ANDROID favorites of 2018 so far, 9-12-18

Watch the animated video for Thom Yorke's new song 'suspirium'.

'suspirium' (noun, Latin)  "A sigh or deep breath"


Listen to 9-12-18 radio set

I began this set with 11 of my favorite tracks from this year (in no particular order).  From there, the style cruised from downtempo, to beats, to underground hiphop, to instrumentals.
Some unexpected themes included that many of these songs are on soundtrack-albums, and many feature piano or flute or both.


Playlist:

1. Loma  / Black Willow
2. Nils Frahm  / My Friend the Forest
3. Thom Yorke  / Suspirium
4. Mia Doi Todd, Tunde Adebimpe  / Earthly Happiness
5. Anna Calvi  / Hunter
6. Jonny Greenwood  / The Hem
7. Jonny Greenwood  / Phantom Thread II
8. Yo La Tengo  / You Are Here
9. Yo La Tengo  / She May, She Might
10. Jenny Hval  / I Want to Tell You Something
11. The Glitch Mob, Elohim  / I Could Be Anything (feat. Elohim)
12. Mia Doi Todd, Andres Renteria  / Electrafficbirds Two
13. Tricky, Martina Topley-Bird  / When We Die
14. Tricky, Avalon Lurks  / Doll
15. Ngozi Family  / Hi Babe
16. Carlos Nino, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson  / Cup
17. Carlos Nino, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson  / The Tides
18. Thom Yorke  / The Drunkk Machine
19. Bjork  / Scatterheart
20. Bjork  / Thunderbolt
21. The Notwist  / Close to the Glass
22. MF DOOM, Thom Yorke  / Gazzilion Ear (feat. Thom Yorke) - Thom Yorke Remix Instrumental
23. JJ DOOM, Clams Casino  / Bookfiend (feat. Clams Casino) - Clams Casino Version
24. JJ DOOM, Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke  / Retarded Fren (feat. Jonny Greenwood & Thom Yorke)
25. DJ Shadow, Nils Frahm  / Scars
26. Bjork  / Virus
27. Thom Yorke, Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Edward O'Brien, Philip Selway, Katia Labeque  / Pyramid Song
28. Christopher O'Riley, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde  / Heaven or Las Vegas (arr. C. O'Riley for cello and piano)

ANDROID Female Pop radio set, 9-5-18

Listen to 9-5-18 radio set here

A mostly female set came together, despite no plan for a gender-themed show.  Some things just happen.  The new single 'Woman' by Cat Power and Lana Del Rey set the theme, and it was carried on by new music from Anna Calvi, Lou Rebecca, and several others.  I began with Wah!, who I saw perform and teach yoga this past weekend.  She was enlightening.

An exception to the female theme was Egemen Sanli, who I also saw perform music this past weekend.  I could listen to him forever.  He plays sitar, native american flutes, and various other instruments.  His live set also featured lots of recorded birdsong.
I played several tracks from the new album Elemental Trance (pictured) by Egemen and Clare Hedin, whose vocal stylings fit wonderfully into the show.


Playlist:

1. Wah!  / Brazil
2. Cat Power, Lana Del Rey  / Woman - Single Version
3. Egemen Sanli, Clare Hedin  / Puja
4. Cornelia Murr   / Different This Time
5. Lou Rebecca  / Fantome
6. Egemen Sanli, Clare Hedin  / Whirling Shams
7. DeVotchKa  / Let Me Sleep
8. Mia Doi Todd, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson  / Great Love
9. Egemen Sanli, Clare Hedin  / Invitation
10. Moodoid   / Amour Voiture
11. CocoRosie  / Forget Me Not
12. Elsiane  / Vaporous
13. Anna Calvi  / As a Man
14. Anna Calvi  / Alpha
15. Bjork  / Hunter
16. Idris Elba, Fabienne  / Paradise Circus
17. Massive Attack  / Paradise Circus
18. Olafur Arnalds  / ekki hugsa
19. Wes Swing  / All Other Love
20. Egemen Sanli, Clare Hedin  / Liminal
21. jj  / Ecstasy
22. The Knife  / Neon
23. Lamb  / Gorecki
24. Egemen Sanli, Clare Hedin  / I and I
25. Cocteau Twins  / Lorelei
26. Clinic  / Distortions

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

ANDROID Reggae Set: 7-28-18

Listen to 7-28-18 radio set here


Playlist:

1. Black Uhuru   Android Rebellion
2. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Send Me That Love
3. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Turn Me Loose
4. Jackie Mittoo   Summer Breeze
5. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Concrete Jungle Dub - Original
6. Eek-A-Mouse   Wa-Do-Dem
7. The Heptones   In The Groove
8. Thievery Corporation   Until The Morning - Rewound By Thievery Corporation
9. Thievery Corporation, Racquel Jones   Road Block
10. Massive Attack   One Love - 2012 Mix/Master
11. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Roots, Rock, Dub - Single Dub Mix
12. Massive Attack   Five Man Army - 2012 Mix/Master
13. Horace Andy   Money Dub
14. Jimmy Cliff   Guns of Brixton - Live at KCRW / 2012
15. Jimmy Cliff   Guns of Brixton
16. The Clash   The Guns of Brixton
17. Jimmy Cliff   The Harder They Come - From "The Harder They Come" Soundtrack
18. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Who The Cap Fit
19. Sister Carol   Murdee Stylee
20. Tenor Saw   Soft Answer
21. General Echo, Tenor Saw, Sister Nancy, Buju Banton, Candy Man   Stalag Y2k
22. Sister Nancy   Ain't No Stopping Nancy
23. The Upsetters, Prince Jazzbo   Croaking Lizard
24. Max Romeo, The Upsetters   Chase The Devil
25. Dubblestandart, Lee "Scratch" Perry   Chase The Devil
26. Peter Tosh   Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised) - Original Jamaican Mix
27. The Ethiopians   Train to Skaville
28. Horace Andy   Ain't No Sunshine
29. Max Romeo, The Upsetters   War Ina Babylon
30. The Upsetters   Revelation Dub
31. Bob Marley & The Wailers   Crazy Baldhead - Alternate mix
32. The Congos   Congoman

Artist Feature: Yessirov, guest DJ on Merging w/the Night

Listen to 7.25.18 radio set here

Charlottesville musician Jeff Gregerson records solo work as 'Yessirov', a moniker borrowed from an oft-forgotten character in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.  Gregerson also records, tours, and produces music with Wes Swing.
Yessirov has performed at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, among other venues, and will perform at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar this October 9.

Yessirov served as guest DJ tonight on Merging w/the Night, choosing several from great local artists in Charlottesville  He even read a short passage from the aforementioned Dostoevsky story.  We spoke about his music and our shared love for Portishead's Third album, among other things.


Playlist:

1. Juliana Daugherty   Player
2. Juliana Daugherty   Easier
3. Angel Olsen   Acrobat
4. Yessirov   The Day Passes
5. Yessirov   Weathering
6. Yessirov   Small Comfort
7. Yessirov   The Bouncing Ball
8. Helena Deland   Take It All
9. Here We Go Magic   Over The Ocean
10. Thievery Corporation   Stargazer
11. Diane Cluck   Heartloose
12. Chris Rehm   A Raincoat? For What?
13. Chris Rehm   Learning How to Drive (Your Vespa)
14. Chris Rehm   About Things
15. Portishead   We Carry On
16. Portishead   Plastic
17. Unkle featuring Autolux   Persons & Machinery
18. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa   Thrash About
19. Warpaint   Set Your Arms Down
20. The Knife   A Tooth for an Eye
21. Kid Loco   Theme from the Graffiti Artist
22. Caddywhompus   Splinter
23. The Soil & the Sun   Push Push
24. Wes Swing   All Other Love
25. Thom Yorke   The Eraser

ANDROID late night radio set 7-26-18

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Last week, I played a lengthy pair of tracks from Massive Attack vs Burial.  This week, I followed up with more late night sounds from each of those artists along with others whose music tends towards the dark, atmospheric, melancholic, experimental, and downright trippy.  A trip implies a journey, but you needn't go anywhere.  Here's how google defines 'trippy':

  trip·py
  /ˈtripē/
  adjective informal
resembling or inducing the hallucinatory effect produced by taking a psychedelic drug.
e.g., "trippy house music"


Playlist:

1. The Orb   Drift
2. The Orb   Easy on the Onions
3. Jenny Hval   I Want to Tell You Something
4. Susumu Yokota   Traveler in the Wonderland
5. Mazzy Star   So Tonight That I Might See - .ascension version
6. Burial   Stolen Dog
7. Andy Stott   Violence
8. Massive Attack vs Mad Professor   Radiation Ruling the Nation
9. Massive Attack   Karmacoma (The Napoli Trip)
10. Massive Attack   Teardrop - Mad Professor Mazaruni Vocal Mix
11. Nonkeen   Animal Farm
12. Nonkeen   Chasing God Through Palmyra
13. Massive Attack   Daydreaming - Luv It Dub
14. Polycubist, 8FM, DJ Wicked   Check It Out!
15. Rival Consoles   Odyssey
16. Thievery Corporation, Elin Melgarejo   Lose to Find
17. Tricky   Aftermath
18. Max Richter   Iconography
19. Aisha Devi   Dislocation of the Alpha
20. Sneaker Pimps   Destroying Angel
21. The Knife   Colouring of Pigeons
22. Lamb   Trans Fatty Acid - Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix Edit

ANDROID rock set 7-18-18, Merging with the Night

Listen to 7-18-18 radio set here

While hosting again for Merging with the Night, I played a track from Mazzy Star's new EP Still.  Their vocalist Hope Sandoval (pictured) has a great voice.  In fact, I'd say it is one of the best singing voices of all time. 
It's exciting to hear new music from this group, although in fact many of the songs  on this EP are old ones that were never produced in the studio or which have now been produced in new versions. 
Hope Sandoval's voice is also featured in the Massive Attack vs Burial track I feature in the next show - see the post just below!

Playlist:

1. Free the Robots   Session Two
2. Blackalicious   Make You Feel That Way
3. Free the Robots   Jazzhole
4. Mazzy Star   That Way Again
5. Chromatics   Running Up That Hill
6. Julee Cruise   Floating
7. Kid Loco   Relaxin' with Cherry
8. Melody's Echo Chamber   Breathe in, Breathe out
9. The Glitch Mob, Tula   Keep on Breathing (feat. Tula)
10. Cate le Bon   Duke
11. Angel Olsen   Heart Shaped Face
12. Hypatia   Wray
13. Nightmares on Wax   You Wish
14. Bobby Brown   My Prerogative
15. Radiohead   Pearly
16. Radiohead   Lotus Flower
17. Portishead   Only You - Live
18. Nightmares on Wax   Les Nuits
19. Tricky   Hell is Round the Corner
20. Moonraker   The Rescue
21. 8mm   Give it Up
22. The Notwist   Signals
23. Thievery Corporation   Light Flares
24. Elsiane   Mend - To Fix, To Repair
25. Elsiane   Unstable
26. UNKLE, Thom Yorke   Rabbit in Your Headlights

ANDROID late night radio set

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I began this set with a dark atmospheric/ambient track by Massive Attack and Burial, called 'Four Walls'.  It is a Burial remix of a never-released song from Massive Attack.  The track was finally put out (in a limited selection of vinyl only) along with another Burial remix of Paradise Circus, with album art (pictured) from Robert "3D" Del Naja.  Both of these tracks feature vocals and lyrics by Hope Sandoval.  I played both of the tracks, which together are over 24 minutes long.

I also featured Thom Yorke in this set.  Well known as the singer of Radiohead, he has also released solo albums and performed solo as a DJ, where his electronic and experimental side comes to the fore.  Thom Yorke is the anti-hero for a certain generation of us who came of age with Radiohead and followed their experimental phases into wilder territory along with him.

I also played a lot of Daedelus, an LA DJ with a lot of sound.  His music is often layered over by some of the best rap lyrics around, but his instrumental solo and collaborative work is amazing.  Often groovy, it also tends to veer towards experimental territory.

Playlist:

1. UNKLE, ThomYorke        Rabbit in Your Headlights
2. Massive Attack vs Burial Four Walls / Paradise Circus
3. Squarepusher Iambic 5 Poetry
4. Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke Ego
5. Thom Yorke The Mother Lode
6. Four Tet Tangle
7. Four Tet Untangle
8. Four Tet Parks
9. Thom Yorke A Brain in a Bottle
10. Daedelus, Busdriver Quiet Now
11. Daedelus [Ibid] 2
12. Daedelus, MF Doom Impending Doom
13. Daedelus, Abstract Rude, Busdriver Girls (feat. Abstract Rude and Busdriver)
14. Daedelus [Ibid] 1
15. Daedelus, Jogger I Sent Off / II Sus Per Coll - Jogger Remix
16. The Books It Never Changes to Stop
17. Prefuse 73 Pagina Tres
18. Daedelus, Prefuse 73 Welcome Home - Prefuse 73 Danse Macabre
19. Daedelus, Mike Ladd Welcome Home
20. Daedelus A Touch of Spring
21. Daedelus, Hirshikesh Hirway Thanatopsis
22. Daedelus Raindrops
23. Daedelus   Robotic Girls are Hard
24. Daedelus   Romantic Music
25. Daedelus   Taken' Liberty
26. Daedelus   Last Call

ANDROID rock set: 7-11-2018, Merging with the Night

[Video featuring the song 'Midnight in a Perfect World - Gab Mix' by DJ Shadow with vocals by Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), and visuals from the film Baraka which have been edited to fit the music and words.]

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I guest-hosted the wonderful radio show Merging with the Night (Wednesday nights 11pm-1am on WTJU Charlottesville).  The show is named after a song from Brian Eno, and I played several of Eno's tracks.

A musical theme in this radio set begins with the 1972 hit 'Summer Breeze' by Seals and Croft, which was covered by the Isley Brothers in 1974, and given a doom metal covering by Type-O-Negative in 1993.  The tune also shows up in DJ Shadow's 'Gab Mix' of his song 'Midnight in a Perfect World.  Check out the amazing video above featuring this song.  (Erratum: On the air, I tried to credit the vocals to Saul Williams.  But it is Blackalicious' Gift of Gab.)

"...July is dressed up and playing her tune..."

Playlist:

1. Kurt Vile  Baby's Arms
2. Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams  Emerald and Lime
3. Brian Eno  Baby's On Fire - 2004 Digital Remaster
4. Snail Mail  Heat Wave
5. Seals and Crofts  Summer Breeze
6. Le Loup  Family
7. Le Loup  Beach Town
8. Melody's Echo Chamber  Shirim
9. Melody's Echo Chamber  Quand Vas Tu Rentrer
10. Neon Indian  Deadbeat Summer
11. Boards of Canada  Roygbiv
12. The Isley Brothers  Summer Breeze, Pts. 1 &2
13. DJ Shadow  Midnight in a Perfect World - Gab Mix
14. DJ Shadow  Midnight in a Perfect World
15. Ramin Djwadi  Fake Plastic Trees
16. Radiohead  Paranoid Android
17. Daniel Johnston  Some Things Last a Long Time
18. Thom Yorke  The Eraser
19. Brian Eno  An Ending (Ascent) - 2005 Digital Remaster
20. Modest Mouse  Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive Negative)
21. Suicide  Surrender
22. Aphex Twin  Ageispolis
23. U.S. Girls  Rosebud
24. Type O Negative  Summer Breeze
25. Brian Eno  Here Come the Warm Jets - 2004 Remaster
26. ANOHNI  Drone Bomb Me
27. Andy Stott  New Romantic

ANDROID radio set 7-9-2018 - The Broadcasting System

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Today I served as guest-DJ, subbing for Tyler on his show The Broadcasting System
If you've heard his show before, then you know that the music goes all over the place, and beyond any genre constraints.  Accordingly, I made a playlist that is somewhat experimental and genre-defying.  Of course, music that is genre-defying soon becomes genre-defining...

An artist particularly featured in this playlist is Nils Frahm (pictured), a German composer trained in classical piano who experiments with electronic sounds, both under his own name and with his band Nonkeen.  Frahm also frequently collaborates with other musicians, such as Anne Muller who mixes experimental elements with the classical sounds of her cello.

Continuing this theme of classical-meets-electronic, the playlist also includes Aphex Twin, master of electronic beats who also writes amazing classical piano pieces, and a cover of Aphex Twin by the ensemble Alarm Will Sound, who play his busy beats on acoustic and classical instruments.

Another prominent band featured here is The Books, who weave together sampled dialogue with cello, voice, and found sounds.

I hope you enjoy!

Playlist:

1. Nils Frahm All Melody
2. The Books A Dead Fish Gains the Power of Observation  annotated lyrics
3. The Books Be Good to Them Always  annotated lyrics
4. Lobo Marino El Morro
5. Liminal Drifter Man is Part of Nature
6. Blockhead The Strain
7. Boards of Canada Chromakey Dreamcoat
8. Animal Collective Banshee Beat  annotated lyrics
9. Digable Planets Rebirth of Slick (Cool like Dat)  annotated lyrics
10. Debruit, Murat Ertel Duman (feat. Murat Ertel)
11. Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly  annotated lyrics
12. Alarm Will Sound 4 (arr. J. Johnson and P. MacDonald) (cover of Aphex Twin)
13. Aphex Twin Minipops 67 [120.2][Source Field Mix]
14. Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron Voice in Headphones (with lyrics from Bjork)  annotated lyrics
15. Bjork, Arca Utopia  annotated lyrics
16. Nils Frahm, Anne Muller Journey for a Traveller
17. Nils Frahm   Ambre
18. Wes Swing   Blood Branches  lyrics
19. Nonkeen Ceramic People
20. Max Richter, Clyde Otis, Dinah Washington, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Philip Sheppard, Chris Worsey This Bitter Earth / On the Nature of Daylight  annotated lyrics
21. Olafur Arnalds Til Enda
22. The Books Read, Eat, Sleep  annotated lyrics
23. The Books PS  lyrics
24. The Books It's Musiiiiic!  
25. Kurt Vile Classic Rock in Spring
26. Nonkeen Diving Platform

Artist feature: Lobo Marino. ANDROID afternoon radio set: 7-5-2018

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(see playlist below)

This radio set features an interview (0:15:55 - 0:59:52) with special guests Laney Sullivan and Jameson Price of the band Lobo Marino from Richmond, VA.  www.lobomarino.com
Lobo Marino plays "Earth Folk" / "Drone Pop" music, which admittedly needs some unpacking but makes sense once you hear their songs.
"Earth Folk" refers to music about nature or even music that aims to speak for nature, i.e., advocate for the interests of our environment.  Laney and Jameson live in a communal setting they call the Earth Folk Collective.
"Drone Pop" is a label that may not apply anywhere else, but accurately describes the mixture of rhythms from Jameson's various percussive instruments (he plays many instruments at a time) with the harmonious drone coming out of Laney's harmonium.
Laney and Jameson spoke at length about their social and environmental activism and how their musical efforts fit into a philosophy of life that emphasizes both self- and social-awareness, and that strives for us to improve as individuals, as a society, and as stewards of the earth. 

Playlist:

1. Nirvana   Serve the Servants
2. Ramin Djawadi   Heart-Shaped Box (From Westworld: Season 2)
3. Radiohead   Decks Dark
4. Lobo Marino   We Hear the Ocean, Lift Up the Mountain
5. Lobo Marino   Fellow Worn Traveler
6. Lobo Marino   Holy River
7. Lobo Marino   Smoke and Rock
8. Lobo Marino   Though the Others Pass You
9. Lobo Marino   Awake
10. Lobo Marino   El Morro
11. Lobo Marino   Rainbows
12. Lobo Marino   !Corre, Corre!
13. Lobo Marino   Celebrate
14. Lobo Marino   The Loon (Reprise)
15. Lobo Marino   Honeysuckle, Bittersweet
16. Radiohead   Kinetic
17. Quicksand   Multiverse
18. Quicksand   Spoken Through Clouds
19. Kurt Vile   Baby's Arms
20. Tosca   Suzuki
21. Morcheeba      Big Calm
22. Blonde Redhead      Bipolar
23. Noordpool Orchestra      Paranoid Android
24. Bjork   Venus As a Boy
25. The Velvet Underground   Venus in Furs
26. Mary Lattimore   Bold Rides
27. Beastie Boys   So What'Cha Want
28. Madvillain, Four Tet   Money Folder (Four Tet Remix)
29. The Knife   A Tooth for an Eye

ANDROID late night radio set: 7-5-2018

This set is a good example of what I like to play on my late night shows.

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Playlist:

1. Thievery Corporation, Where It All Starts
2. Thievery Corporation, A Gentle Dissolve
3. Funki Porcini, The Softest Thing in the World (Motorway Accident)
4. Bjork, Enjoy
5. Bjork, Enjoy - Remix
6. Fever Ray, Wanna Sip
7. Vitamin String Quartet, Something I Can Never Have
8. Nils Frahm, The Whole Universe Wants to be Touched
9. Holy Other, Touch
10. Andy Stott, Numb
11. Portishead, Numb
12. Kate Bush, The Sensual World
13. The Herbaliser, The Sensual Woman
14. Lamb, Cotton Wool
15. Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi Is Dead (The Hunger Mix)
16. Peter Murphy, Socrates The Python
17. Clyde Otis, Max Richter, Dinah Washington, John Metcalfe, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Philip Sheppard, This Bitter Earth / On The Nature of Daylight
18. Mary Lattimore, Wind Carries Seed
19. Nearly God, Poems - Edit
20. Liminal Drifter, The Dreams
21. xxyyxx, About You
22. Odd Nosdam, Sisters - Boards of Canada Remix
23. Hidden Orchestra, The Revival
24. Ancient Astronauts, Until the Stars Go Out
25. Thievery Corporation, Until the Morning
26. Thievery Corporation, Resolution

ANDROID late night radio set for the Summer Solstice: 6-21-2018

DJ ANDROID, 91.1 FM Charlottesville WTJU

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Playlist:

1. Blockhead, Coloring Book
2. Nick Drake, One of These Things First
3. The Glitch Mob, I Could Be Anything
4. Massive Attack, What Your Soul Sings
5. Blonde Redhead, Messenger (featuring David Sylvian)
6. The Herbaliser, Shocker Zulu
7. Polycubist, Frightened Little Pup
8. Forest Swords, Ljoss
9. Bjork, All Neon Like (Vulnicura live)
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Stranger Than Kindness
11. Fever Ray, Stranger Than Kindness
12. Forest Swords, Thor's Stone
13. Aisha Devi, Dislocation of the Alpha
14. Braids, Lammicken
15. Tricky, Nneka, Keep Me In Your Shake
16. Nearly God, Martina Topley-Bird, I Be The Prophet - With Drums
17. Andy Stott, New Romantic
18. Four Tet, LA Trance
19. PJ Harvey, My Beautiful Leah
20. Meat Beat Manifesto, Asbestos Lead Asbestos
21. Jenny Hval, That Battle Is Over
22. Jenny Hval ,Heaven
23. Susumu Yokota, Traveler in the Wonderland
24. Madvillain, Do Not Fire!
25. Madvillain, All Caps
26. Madvillain, Four Tet, Meat Grinder (Four Tet Remix)
27. Radiohead, Spectre