7-18-19 The NightOwl

Pictured: Ships in the Night

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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)

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.

Listen here for up to two weeks.

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.

Listen here for up to two weeks.

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

Listen for up to two weeks.

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