3/28/07

Tonight was a really funky evening. Lots of grooves in the pocket. The Do Make Say Think concert last night was amazing and I am pumped about the Antibalas show on Saturday. More jams next week, moving right along into April (not the cruellest month, but a very lovely one).

Everything is Everything:

Raga Desh—Tarana (drut tîntal) / Lalith Rao / Raga Darbari Kanhada, Raga Desh
In Search of Truth (Alternate Take) / Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes / Astral Traveling
Earth / Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane / The Elements
Stuff / Miles Davis / Miles in the Sky
Lansana's Priestess / Donald Byrd / Street Lady
The Funky Side of Life / Sound Directions / The Funky Side of Life
Memories of Edith Johnson / Pharaoh Sanders / Pharoah
People Be Happy / Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid / Tongues
Give the Drummer Some / Norman Connors / Dance of Magic
Miss Vicki / Stanley Cowell / Illusion Suite
Buzzard Feathers / Compost / Life is Round
To the Women in My Life/Le Lis / Billy Cobham / Spectrum
Hummin' / Cannonball Adderley / Country Preacher "Live" at Operation Breadbasket
Freddie's Dead (Instrumental) / Curtis Mayfield / Superfly
Gotta Get Away / Ju-Par Universal Orchestra / Moods & Grooves
Do You Dig It, Man? / Kashmere Stage Band / Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974
Voices Inside (Everything is Everything) / Donny Hathaway / Live
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted? / Jimmy Ruffin / 45

miles in the sky

3/21/07

Subbing for "Positive Vibrations" from midnight until 1. A playlist I hastily threw together.

Tristeza não tem fim, felicidade sim:

O Sonho (Moon Dreams) / Airto / The Essential Airto
Maria Domingas / Gato Barbieri / Under Fire
Desafinado / Antonio Carlos Jobim / A Certain Mr. Jobim
Impending Doom / Daedalus / Exquisite Corpse
Testamento / Vinicius de Moraes / Days in Mar Del Plata
Milton Road / Mice Parade / Obrigado Saudade
Sound-Support Surface Noises Reaching Out to You / Le Fly Pan Am / Ceux Qui Inventent N'Ont Jamais Vacu
My Game of Loving / White Noise / An Electric Storm
Spray / Can / Future Days
Sun Sets on Clarion / Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice / Gipsy Freedom
Clarence in Wonderland / Kevin Ayers and the Whole World / Shooting at the Moon
Interstellar Overdrive / Pink Floyd / The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

3/21/07

Holding down the rhythms here at RR this week. A more electronic-heavy selection than in the past. The show was very smooth except for the Oneness of Juju track skipping at the very end. Next week is Spring Break for MIT, but I'm sticking around and the show must go on.

We dream free:

Othello / Chicago Underground Trio / Possible Cube
Another Day / Jaga Jazzist / The Stix
Ode to the Big Sea / The Cinematic Orchestra / Motion
Change Down / Bonobo / Dial 'M' For Monkey
FCSN (Concrete/Field) / FCS North / S/T
Toy Boat / Jeff Parker / The Relatives
Superheroes / Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid / Tongues
If We Can Ever Find a Way / Guillermo E. Brown / Soul at the Hands of the Machine
The Hidden Camera / Photek / The Hidden Camera
Bubble Life / Squarepusher / Hello Everything
Casio / Styrofoam / Tristeza: Mixed Signals
Wonderful Rainbow / Lightning Bolt / Wonderful Rainbow
Running With Scissors / Proem / Negativ
Just Briefly / Daedalus / Exquisite Corpse
Projections of (What) Might / Glenn Kotche / Mobile
Soft & Open / Boom Bip / Blue Eyed in the Red Room
I Won't Race You / Caural / Mirror For Eyes
The Owl and the Snake / Matt Bauer / Wasps and White Roses EP
Comin' Back to Me / Jefferson Airplane / Surrealistic Pillow
Quilted Giraffe / 33.3 / S/T
Um, Circles and Squares / Dosh / The Lost Take
Mltply / Machinedrum / Bidnezz
Love Theory / Malcolm Kipe / Breakspiracy Theories
You Know the Formula Right? / Dabrye / Instrmntl
A Joy (Koushik's Quick Mix) Instrumental / Four Tet / A Joy 12"
F.H.H. Instrumental / RJD2 / The Horror
Thinking of You / Yesterday's New Quintet / Angles Without Edges
Bunky's Pick / Cut Chemist / Bunky's Pick
Young Warrior / Madlib / Slim's Return 12"
What's the Buzz / Cast of "Jesus Christ Superstar" / "Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack
Chants/Don't Give Up / Oneness of Juju / African Rhythms 1970-1982

3/14/07

I could not man the helm for this installment of RR, but trusted aural explorer Electronic Max graciously stepped in and provided the sounds. His selections are tasty and much appreciated. His show, Darkbot Radio, is on WMBR Friday evenings, 2-4 a.m. His website is darkbot.csail.mit.edu. Next week I will be back on top of the airwaves spinning, so tune in then!

And all the world went:

Lomond / Loess / Wind and Water
Happy Ending / If Then Else and Pizzicato Five / Happy End of You
Light House / Helios / Unomia
Blues in the Keys of Red / Long Distance Runner / The Fire of Cumulative Hours
This Evening So Soon / Oren Ambarchi / Suspension
5/4 / The Clogs / Tides
Binoculars / Savath & Savalas / Folk Songs For Trains, Trees, and Honey
2 Candles, 1 Wish / Mono / Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
The Passage, Part II / Invert / Between the Seconds
Plays Albert Ayler, Part II / Ekkehard Ehlers / Plays
S Z 2 / Battles / B EP
March / So Percussion / Amid the Noise
Sister Surprise / Terre Thaemlitz / Replicas Rubatos
Transition Suite / Caural / Mirrors For Eyes
M. Daguerre / Rachel's / Handwriting
Kirakiraboshi / Susumu Yokota / Sakura
Quiet Now / Daedalus / Invention
L'eclat du Ciel Etait Insoutenable / Hrsta / L'eclat du Ciel Etait Insoutenable
Slightly All the Time / Soft Machine / Third

3/7/07

First show of the season. I lost the playlist so here is a general recollection of what I played. You can check this against the recording if you'd like.

I can hear a collective rumbling in America:

Black Bed Blues / Charalambides / A Vintage Burden
(I Wanna Live On) Sunbeam Creek / Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice / The Flood
Long Song / Devendra Banhart / The Black Babies
#3 / Panda Bear / Young Prayer
The Times They Are A-Changin' / Bob Dylan / The Times They Are A-Changin'
Procession of the Cherry Blossom Spirits / Six Organs of Admittance / School of the Flower
Coney Isle / Roscoe Holcomb / An Untamed Sense of Control
The Sun / Windy & Carl / Consciousness
This Wheel's On Fire / The Band / Music From Big Pink
Be Good to Them Always / The Books / Lost & Safe
Folkloric Feel / Apostle of Hustle / Folkloric Feel
Red / Brightblack / Ala.Cali.Tucky
Lullabye / Vietnam / The Concrete's Always Grayer On the Other Side of the Street
The End / The Doors / Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine
One Note / White Magic / Through the Sun Door
Get A Little / Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention / Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Mercury Snake / Old Time Relijun / Witchcraft Rebellion
The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or the Big Dig) / Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band/ The Dust Blows Forward
How Can I Love You If You Don't Lie Down / Silver Jews / Tanglewood Numbers
* / Windsor For the Derby / Difference and Repetition
An Ecumenical Matter / Loose Fur / Born Again in the USA
Ghost Ship in a Storm / Jim O'Rourke / Eureka
Hello Spiral / Gastr Del Sol / Upgrade & Afterlife
Old Cutler / Feathers / Absolute Noon
Diagonals / Stereolab / Dots and Loops
La Jeteé / Isotope 217 / The Unstable Molecule