Play list - 07/26/2007

it was another day of sending out bad song information, lol. for my cover song, i picked the aquamarines doing apache. i thought the original was by incredible bongo band in 1972 or so, but they weren't the first to do it either. bill at the station came in and said he thought it was jorgen ingmann in the late 60's. someone else called in and said they remembered jorgen ingmann's version. so i announced that i was wrong and that it was jorgen ingmann's song. of course, that was wrong too. bill looked it up, and it was originally by the shadows in 1960. aaaargh. but as my friend dickie said, at least it shows that people are listening and paying attention :-) Check out all these versions of Apache and read more about it

And here's an album cover of the original artists:


also played a lot of japanese music in the second hour

10:00
new direction - freak power (fila brazilia mix from brazilification)
zero 7 - give it away
the wiseguys - cowboy 78
gorillaz - 19/2000 (soulchild remix from g-sides)
cheb mami & k-mel - parisien du nord (from putumayo world groove)
english beat - doors of your heart
damien "jr. gong" marley - move!
white stripes - dead leaves and the dirty ground
elliot smith - needle in the hay
the donnas - it's on the rocks
boogie pimps - somebody to love (club mix)
the clash - police and thieves

11:00
aquamarines - apache
incredible bongo band - bongolia
cibo matto - sugar water
fantastic plastic machine - beautiful days
pizzicato five - go go dancer
puffy amiyumi - call me what you like (if you like rock-n-roll)
shonen knife - explosion (japanese version)
the 5678's - woo hoo
cornelius - star fruits surf rider
air - mer du japon
sia - pictures
lemon jelly - nervous tension

Play list - 07/19/2007

Last weekend I DJ'ed outside in Westport with Bill O Connor, the Thursday Morning Buzz DJ. He does it weekly with another guy who has equipment, but that person was busy, so I brought my equipment. It was fun, I played some funk, some Motown kind of stuff, and some electronic. The bad part is that the hours were 11 pm to 2 am. So I didn't get to bed until almost 3:00 which is WAY late for me (I'm such a wimp). And I still wake up at 9:00. I was still wiped out on Monday, took me 3 days to recover, LOL. But it was fun.

A couple of CD skips this week, that was a bummer. But otherwise good show.

10:00
one at last - palmonte
zap mama - miss.q.in (from putumayo world groove)
dr. didg - street music
midival punditz - forest dreams
albert brooks - new national anthem
beastie boys - b for my name
the j.b.'s - ?? with the intro used by public enemy
sugarman 3 - pure cane
david holmes - fender roads (from ocean's 13 soundtrack)
david holmes - snake eyes (from ocean's 13 soundtrack)
davy jr. and guess who - party in joe craig's ear (from because you're funky)
cold war kids - passing the hat

11:00
radiodread - climbing up the walls
dubolition - dubolition
farid - sunday paper (from turntables on the hudson 5)
lee perry - roast fish & cornbread
sly & robbie - bad girls dub (until it stopped)
william orbit - dark eyed kid
steve martin - cruel shoes
pink martini - kikuchiyo to mohshimasu (until it skipped)
feist - sea lion woman
beastie boys - suca de tangerina
the go team! - ladyflash
cold war kids - saint john
grand national - talk amongst yourselves (dj sasha remix from involver)

play list - 07/12/2007

Wow, what a crazy time in the studio today. An electrician volunteered to fix a grounding problem with the turntable. We told him that between 8am to 10am was good working time because we run long syndicated shows without interruption. So he started at 9:00. Around 9:40 we started saying "Okay, only 20 more minutes until we have to go on air." But we weren't done, so he just kept working. And Richard (our manager) and Mike were helping him too, and I moved all the chairs out to make space, so I did almost the whole show standing up with 2-3 other people walking in and out of the studio around me. And the whole show the mixing board had its lid off and the electrician was removing wires and probing connections, LOL. At one point he asked if he could just short something real quick as a test, which would make the music cut out momentarily. I told him I didn't think that was a good idea.

After all that I was pretty amazed that I only made one mistake, and ironically it was after he'd already left. I started playing the wrong track on a CD, and I wasn't sure if the track was clean, so I had to fade it out after about a minute and then just go to the one I wanted. Not too bad though.

another funny thing that happened is mike told me at 11:35 that i could give two concert tickets away. it seemed a little late in the show since i hadn't mentioned it at all, but i announced it, a woman called in right away, and she was there to get them before the show ended at 12:00. start to end, quickest ticket giveaway ever (for me).

started out with some tour de france songs...

10:00
senor coconut - tour de france
shonen knife - cycling is fun
chico cesar - papo cabeca (from putumayo festa brasil)
luca mundaca - ha dias (from putumayo brazilian lounge)
bebel gilberto - river song (grant nelson remix from bebel gilberto remixed)
zuco 103 - brief passions
ror-shak - i don't want
pizzicato five - baby love child
goldfrapp - ooh la la
cassius clay - much ado about cassius
cassius - cassius 99 remix
shonen knife - tortoise brand pot scrubbing cleaner's theme (sea turtle)

11:00
the kingwoods - purty vacant
the sex pistols - holiday in the sun
the hives - a little more for little you
cold war kids - tell me in the morning
cold war kids - hair down
amon tobin - verbal
radiohead - climbing up the walls (fila brazilia mix (this was my mistake))
the orb - toxygene (fila brazilia mix)
cassius clay - the gang's all here
ray charles - mess around
thievery corporation - amerimacka
banco de gaia - how much reality can you take?
2raumwohnung - ich weib warum (from putumayo world groove)
krishna das - namah shivaya

play list - 07/05/2007

i went to canada for this past week, celebrated canada day up there. i left right after last week's show and just got back. had a good time. i heard a couple songs during the trip that i'd heard on eurohit 40 cd's, so that made me want to play some euro hit 40. i ended up playing an older one that i'd never played before.

the other thing i was excited to play was cold war kids, which i just got. great stuff. and i played a few german electronic songs

10:00
cold war kids - we used to vacation
cold war kids - hang me up to dry
dominik eulberg - der buchdrucker (from hot chip dj kicks)
grauzone - film 2 (from hot chip dj kicks)
euro hit 40, august 2006
rouge rouge - attention (from putumayo world groove)
r.d. burman w/ asha boshle & kishore kumore - aa dekhan jara (from sitar beat!)

11:00
rodrigo y gabriela - stairway to heaven
afro celt sound system - life begins again (feat. robert plant)
harmony nights - southern man
celso fonseca - atlantico (from now sound of brazil 2)
kraftwerk - antenna
blotnik brothers - tin can
flaming lips - yoshima battles the pink robots (parts 1 and 2)
brian dewan - rumplestiltskin
ulrich schnauss - molfsee