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

Play list - 06/28/2007

I spent several hours over the past could weeks trying to fix two of our broken CD players at the station. I was able to get one of the two fixed by replacing some broken parts in it with parts from the other one. So I brought that one back in today and it worked for the whole show, so that was good news!

I played some Bollywood music today and saw a Bollywood movie this weekend. It was called "kuch kuch hota hai" (i think) and was very funny. It can be checked out at the Plaza library, I highly recommend it if you like Bollywood music.

Thanks to The Blind Guy, Bruno, Ray, Gabriel, Mike, and Pat for calling in today!

10:00
grovesnor - nitemoves (from hot chip dj kicks)
groove armada - pre 63
asian dub foundation - culture move
sukshinder shinda - balle
mujhse shaadi karogi - from the movie "mujhse shaadi karogi"
karsh kale - home (midival punditz higher salvation mix)
air - radio #1
lcd soundsystem - someone great
saint etienne - heart failed (in the back of a taxi)
faze action - to love is to grow
cornershop - heavy soup

11:00
rodrigo y gabriella - one / take five
stranger cole - rough and tough
michael franti and spearhead - stay human (all the freaky people)
inner circle - sweet jamaica
thievery corporation - warning shots
prodigy - (#3 on their dj mix cd, i have the cd insert, where's the title?)
positive k - i got a man (from hot chip dj kicks)
pink martini - hang on little tomato
brian dewan - where they belong
royksopp - royksopp's night out
barun kumar pal - drut gat of raga malkauns (from ragas on slide guitar)

play list - 06/21/2007 - MC Hammer

Earlier in the week, I got an email highlighting the new video by MC Hammer called "Bring our brothers home." I thought I'd play it on the show, but I couldn't find it for download on iTunes or anywhere. So here it is:


Definitely not an anti-Bush song, but still a pretty bold video. And here's a discussion of it on AlterNet.

So instead, I played some MC Hammer substitute songs and some Public Enemy to at least get some other good political rap in.

10:00
mc hammer - turn this mutha out
mc hammer - let's get it started
public enemy - fight the power
nas - i can
girl talk - warm it up
girl talk - double pump
beck - devil's haircut
david holmes - not their fight (from ocean's 13 soundtrack)
david holmes - 11, 12 & 13 (from ocean's 13 soundtrack)
david holmes - benedict returns (from ocean's 13 soundtrack)
kool & the gang - hollywood swinging
up, bustle & out - hip hop barrio
rodrigo y gabriela - tamacun
bebel gilberto - aganju' (remixed by latin project on bebel gilberto remixed)
gorillaz - latin simone

11:00
keith frank and the soileau zydeco band - three little birds
inner circle - maria maria
dzihan and kamien - sliding
ananda shankar - streets of calcutta (from rough guide to asian underground)
rahul sharma - pari mahal
lemon jelly - in the bath
fatboy slim - santa cruz
bossacucanova - samba da minha terra (feat. zuco 103 from the now sound of brazil 2)
pink martini - let's never stop falling in love
dr. didg - squeal piggy
krishna das - mahamantra meltdown

Play list - 06/14/2007

Last night we had a station meeting about relocating our tower and transmission equipment. We're considering a location that would be a HUGE improvement over our current one. Our equipment would be in a room in a building instead of in a beat-up trailer on a vacant lot. So that would be great, but also scary, because it would take a lot more money in rent, but would also have many money-saving advantages, like less maintenance. So lots of exciting stuff happening at the station right now.

On to the show.....I played a lot of Latin and Latin remixes today.

10:00
sia - don't bring me down
ani di franco - here for now
chambao - roe por la escalera
ottmar liebert - duende del amor (day)(from putumayo's the best of world music vol 2)
ibrahim ferrer - compositor cunfundido (from putumayo Cuba)
panoptical - and L (from nortec collective - the tijuana sessions vol 1)
dr. didg - dreaming
outback - cuban connections (from putumayo's the best of world music vol 2)
ananda shankar - dancing drums (from sitar beat!)
issa bagayogo - touba (from six degrees traveler 06)
ice: a string tribute to bjork - come to me (from fabric 12, the amalgamation of soundz)
geche - htrs (inst) (from fabric 12, the amalgamation of soundz)

11:00
pizzicato 5 - girl from ipanema (from pink panther's penthouse party)
sergio mendes and brasil 66 - mas que nada
zuco 103 (feat. lee 'scratch' perry) - love is queen omega
willie bobo - spanish grease (from verve remixed)
senor coconut - trans europe express
bob newhart - the grace l. ferguson airline and storm door co.
ror-shak - lisa's song
royksopp - what else is there
exodus quartet - far east coast

Playlist - 06/07/2007 - Short songs

I was going to do a quick set of short songs last week, but didn't get to it. So then i was going to do it this week, and decided last night that i could make a whole show of short songs. i decided that my cuttoff for short songs was 3:00. I think most regular radio singles these days are 3:30 to 4:30 long. So there was no song on today's show longer than 3:00. i'll list the times for some. 44 songs total! whew, i'm afraid i gave our already tired cd players a bit of a workout

10:00
the beatles - eleanor rigby - 2:06
the beatles - penny lane - 2:54
the doors - people are strange - 2:11
esquivel - guanacoa
sam butera & the witnesses - i love paris
perrey and kingsley - countdown at 6
hot butter - skokian
the cavaliers - hold to my baby
mello decision - mello decision
incredible bongo band - bongo rock
david holmes - "10:35 i turn off camera 3"
dum maro dum - asha bhosle and chorus
klaus doldinger - sitar beat (from sitar beat)
john mcdowell - nyc - 0:57
baraat (from monsoon wedding) - 2:10
cornershop - coming up
dj cheb i sabbah - violin solo
they might be giants - fingertips (20 VERY short songs)
they might be giants - spacesuit
dick hyman - legend of johnny pot

11:00
me first and the gimme gimmes - me and julio down by the schoolyard
the ramones - judy is a punk
the hives - antidote
joy division - digital
mary's danish - tracy in the bathroom killing thrills
mary's danish - abalone blues
elastica - 2:1
yeah yeah yeahs - date with the night
shonen knife - bear up bison
bow wow wow - i want candy
mark mothersbaugh - let me tell you about my boat (from Life Aquatic)
bernard hermann - twisted nerve
aim - intro
ladytron - mu-tron
fantastic plastic machine - i've forgotten my fagotto
saint etienne - ivyhouse
mr. scruff - here we go
the incredible moses leroy - welcome to the soft lighties
the specials - too much too young
manu chao - promiscuity
herb alpert and the tijuana brass - spanish flea
barney miller TV theme - 0:47
moby - i like to score

Transition exit song: siva - om nimah shiva ya

Playlist - 05/31/2007

My highlight today was playing a track from the Jane Fonda Workout Record. I just got it and thought it was hilarious and the first song is the Jackons - Can You Feel It. Great song plus funny over-dub of Jane Fonda, I couldn't resist. I was afraid it might irritate people and I'd get complaints, but I think everyone else thought it was funny too. Just now i was searching the internet for an image of the album cover, and found this picture, which is actually a scrapbook that someone made from the album cover, LOL. Nice. And thanks to nilufar for letting me know about jane fonda's recent award:

"The 60th Cannes film festival, which wrapped up Sunday, awarded a Palme d'Or for lifetime achievement to veteran US actress and activist Jane Fonda over the weekend. The exceptional Golden Palm prize, awarded by festival chief Gilles Jacob, had only been awarded three times before since 1946, to French directors Alain Resnais and Gerard Oury and the French actress Jeanne Moreau."

I decided that after playing the Jacksons, some more 70's R&B would be good.

10:00
jane fonda intro: soul ful two - fi-yi dance (from because you're funky)
the jacksons feat. jane fonda - can you feel it (from jane fonda's workout record)
commodores - lady
diana ross - upside down
o'jays - love train
jackson 5 - the love you save
thievery corporation - outernationalist
nightmares on wax - the sweetest
amon tobin - 4 ton mantis
bid feat. seu jorge - e depois (from putumayo brazilian lounge)
chris mancini and lennart - shot in the dark / peter gunn (from pink panther's penthouse party)
propellerheads - spybreak!
big man and the night people - night creeper (from because you're funky)

11:00
frijid pink - house of the rising sun
the doors - break on through
dj cheb i sabbah - tum bin shyam
james asher - nataraj express
faze action - kariba
amadou & miriam - la paix
dr. didg - bendy
groove armada - chicago
deadbeats - feel good
the pleb - no mercy
the funk brothers - papa was a rolling stone

Playlist - 05/24/2007 - JFK + Nature Sounds

Whoops, I can't believe I forgot for four days to put in my play list. I played some JFK speeches in honor of his birthday coming up this week. I didn't know what year he was born, but Bruno called to tell me JFK was born in 1917, died in 1963 at 46 years old. So he would've been 90 this week.

I also found a nature sounds CD this week, so I had a funny idea (I thought) to mix nature sounds in during the speeches. So it would be like JFK was talking in a forest by a stream, or like you were listening to the speeches in the forest by a stream. I got one email saying it was very annoying, LOL. Sorry.

10:00
up, bustle, & out - coffee at senior roody's
mr. scruff - is he ready... + spandex man
sarah vaughn - whatever lola wants (gotan project remix)
JFK speeches
-- election eve
-- swear in
-- inaugaral address
-- state of the union
-- peace corps
(and more, mixed with these soothing nature sounds)
-- the late autumn
-- the cold winter
-- sun after snow
-- the breath of life
state of bengal - elephant ride
mint royale - from rusholme with love
karsh kale - manifest (yossi fine's excentric remix, from traveler 06)
omar faruk teklibek - karam
outback - aziz aziz

11:00
yo la tengo - blitzkrieg bop
lcd soundsystem - watch the tapes
fantastic plastic machine - l'aventure fantastique
dimitri from paris - sacre francais
ladytron - playgirl
tok tok vs. soffy o - missy queen's gonna die
waldorf - you're my disco
st. etienne - railway jam
groove armada - fogma
lemon jelly - nice weather for ducks
royksopp - so easy
sigur ros - saeglopur, or maybe glosoli?? that's what happens when I don't put these in same day :-(

Playlist - 05/17/2007

The English Beat show was great! It's so fun to go to a concert where you know the band's every single song. That doesn't happen for me too often. And they're all great songs. And Dave Wakeling is very cool, I got to say hi to him after the show, which I also don't normally do. So it was a great time!

Today I played some electronic favorites and half of a EuroHit 40. I would've liked to play this funny fake-German song by the Tygorz that my brother sent me a link to, but it seems not quite FCC acceptable. Although he heard it on the radio which made us wonder why they think they can play it and I think we can't. The definition of obscene material is open to the FCC's interpretation, so I guess its just up to each DJ/station to decide how risky they think certain material is. I really didn't need to play it that bad, so definitely not worth the risk for me.

Oh yes, also check out Moby's Body Rock video!

10:00
air - talisman
moby - body rock
the avalanches - since i left you + like a rolling stone
stranger cole - rough and tough
the specials - ghost town
ananda shankar - streets of calcutta
yothu yindi - gapu (from quango world groove)
enigma - invisible love
dick hyman - topless dancers of corfu
perrey & kingsley - barnyard in orbit
mum - the ghosts you draw on my back

11:00
van halen - you really got me
the kinks - all day and all of the night
the clash - should i stay or should i go
lcd soundsystem - north american scum
eurohit40, part 1, march 2007
romanowski - romjack steady
the chemical brothers - denmark
daft punk - da funk

Playlist - 05/10/2007 - Dave Wakeling

Today was one of my favorite shows I've done, and the "Space Show" was one too, so its been a good few weeks. The highlight today was being able to air an interview with Dave Wakeling, lead singer of one of my favorite all-time bands, The English Beat. I've uploaded it as an MP3, so listen to it here!. Dave was a great guy and I really enjoyed talking to him. I can't wait to see English Beat perform at Harrah's tomorrow!

Then I played several English Beat songs and other ska songs. And....I played the song timber, which is a great song, but an even greater video:

Did I mention I've been spending a lot of time on YouTube lately :-)

Congrats to all the ticket winners! And I had lots of callers today, and a studio visit from Howard. Thanks to everyone! Hope to see you at the show!

10:00
the housemartins - happy hour
the cure - close to me
english beat - save it for later
the specials - rudi, message to you
(dave wakeling interview)
english beat - twist and crawl
groove armada - but i feel good
cornershop - motion the 11
les nubians (feat. talib kwali) - temperature rising
oakenfold - zoo york

11:00
erasure - take a chance on me
duran duran - rio
fishbone - slow bus movin'
english beat - i confess
matt bianco - yeh yeh
coldcut - timber
dj shadow - outsider intro
dj shadow - this time (i'm gonna try it my way)
nikodemus & mariano - (212) intro (from turntables on the hudson vol. 2)
philip aupperle - pamplemousse (from turntables on the hudson vol. 2)
propellerheads - velvet pants
the orb - earth (gaia)

Playlist - 05/03/2007

Big news in the station this week is that we have a new general manager, Richard Pirodsky. He's from New York, and has got lots of radio experience. Since I've been at the station (2+ years), this is our second manager and we've had 3 interim mangers. Hopefully he'll hold the spot for a while.

Today had an 80's theme to it for two reasons.
1) I found vinyl versions this weekend of Herbie Hancock's "Future Shock" with Rockit (check out this article) , and Bob and Doug McKenzie's "Take off".
2) The English Beat is coming to town! I gave away some tickets today and I'll have more next week. I may try to do an interview too, we'll see.

Here's my video of the week!


10:00
the orb - little fluffy clouds (see video)
royksopp - triumphant (i meant to play a different track on the cd, but oh well, this one was good to)
una - blue dress
black rebel motorcycle club - ain't no easy way
white stripes - dead leaves and the dirty ground
bob and doug mckenzie feat. geddy lee - take off
loverboy - working for the weekend
vangelis - albedo 0.39
lotus - blue giant
ledward ka'apana - 12th street rag
the english beat - ackee 123

11:00
pet shop boys - always on my mind
dead or alive - you spin me round
herbie hancock - rockit
mix master mike - suprize packidge
ozomatli - eva
the english beat - rotating heads
briza - the metro
groove armada - little by little
cornershop - the london radar
klaus doldinger - sitar (bonus) beats (from sitar beat!)
theivery corporation feat. gunjan - the supreme illusion
karsh kale - distance (banco de gaia remix)

Playlist - 04/26/2007 - Space music

Today was the space show! I hope people liked it. I had fun doing it. As I mentioned, I didn't find an audio version of William Shatner's "Rocketman", but here is the video:

So here are the songs I played:

(Prologue)
perrey and kingsley - the little man from mars
space music (from ultimate sci-fi sounds of mystery and mayhem)

10:00
apollo countdown
john williams - star wars main title
beastie boys - intergalactic
monty python - galaxy song
the karminsky experience - exploration
david bowie - major tom
shonen knife - riding on the rocket
air - surfing on a rocket
they might be giants - destination: moon
derrick morgan - moon hop
lucia pamela - walking on the moon
the byrds - mr. spaceman
4 non blondes - spaceman
blondie - rapture
dj q-bert - redworm

11:00
me first and the gimme gimmes - rocketman
orbital - doctor?
perrey and kingsley - the unidentified flying object
lemon jelly - spacewalk
brian dewan - creatures
they might be giants - why does the sun shine?
the brady bunch - it's a sunshine day
the beatles - here comes the sun
the real tuesday weld - turn on the sun again
bcr - space junk
cassius - planetz
john williams - the imperial march
john wiliiams - ewok celebration and finale
star trek tv sohw theme song

Play list - 04/19/2007

Last week I had Cory Branan on the show. I video taped his song performances, here they are!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJP8id4iKK4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWFqrN9Gck8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94JT0bel3sQ

Today was a sitar kind of day.

Next week is the space-themed show!

10:00
cornershop - heavy soup
cornershop - staging the plaguing of the raised platform
the go! team - ladyflash
up bustle & out - y ahora tu (from ninja tune trip hop and jazz)
ror-shak - fate or faith
monsieur le roc - hunt, pt. 1
mark mothersbaugh - ping island / lightning strike rescue op (from life aquatic)
monsieur le roc - gewichte am sack
sugarman 3 - funky so-and-so
david holmes - $165 million + interest (into) the round up (from ocean's 12)
nickodemus & osiris feat. caro - mariposa (from turntables on the hudson vol. 4)
volume all star - smooverock crewcut (from harpsichord 2000)
darkel - tv destroy

11:00
lord sitar - if i were a rich man
serge gainsbourg w/ michel colombier - psychasteine (from sitar beat!)
govinda - charming the serpent
midival punditz - ali (banco de gaia remix from traveller 06)
portishead - glory box
crustation - purple
briza - boarding pass
various - don't ask
fuse box (from monsoon wedding sdtk)
jah wobbles invaders of the heart - om namah shiva (from asana)

Playlist - 04/12/2007 - Cory Branan

I had Cory Branan from Memphis, Tennesse in the studio today. he did a few live songs, and we played some from CD. I video taped it, hopefully I'll eventually get the video posted.

Other than that, I played some TV theme songs and a Damon Alburn trifecta: Blur, Gorillaz, and Mali Music.

I also played "Once upon a time" from the new Air CD. Here's a link to that video (thanks Kath):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6INvkUrrPg

10:00
different strokes theme
powerpuff girls theme
devo - go monkey go
elastica - stutter
blur - park life
oasis - supersonic
the smiths - panic
a man called adam - easter song
air - once upon a time
lorena mckennitt - marco polo
yothu yindi - gapu
amadou & miriam - senegal fast food
damon alburn et. al. - nabinto diakite (from mali music)
exodus quartet - the far east coast (from ninja tune "trip hop and jazz, vol. 2")

11:00
seu jorge - life on mars?
david bowie - queen bitch
stan getz and João gilberto - girl from ipanema
bebel gilberto - simplesmente (remixed by tom middleton)
royksopp - poor leno (royksopp's instanbul forever take)
gorillaz - man research
cory branan - a girl named go
cory branan - the prettiest waitress in memphis (live)
cory branan - miss ferguson (live)
cory branan - muhammad ali (and me)
cory branan - sour mash (live)
cory branan - hell-bent and heart-first

Playlist - 04/05/2007

Today was a lot of fun. i got lots of calls and got to play from the new euro hit 40 program CD! (even though it skipped and i had to start it over). On the euro hit 40 CD was this hilarious fun German song called Papa Pinguin by pigolo. The dj on the show talks about dancing penguins, so i looked it up on youtube, and i found the video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKG08z85DtY

i was all excited that i'd found this new german music and i showed the video to my 7 year old niece and she said "oh yeah, those are the penguins that sing YMCA in french". sure enough, there is another video, same artist, with a song to the tune of YMCA, but its "I love to ski", in French. so i guess i should be taking music suggestions from my niece from now on, LOL.

10:00
steve martin - grandma's song
brian dewan - obedience school
mark mothersbaugh - the hardest geometry problem in the world (from Rushmore sdtk)
esquivel - honky tonky cha cha
fantastic plastic machine - i've forgotten my fagatto
mr scruff - blackpool roll
nightmares on wax - pudpots
una - angels at my door
st etienne - we're in the city
groove armada - at the river
sia - sunday
tumbara - duality
bonobo - flutter

11:00
incredible bongo band - in-a-gadda-da-vida
war - spill the wine
the who - a quick one while he's away
fatboy slim - going out of my head
fatboy slim - song for lindy
euro hit 40 - april 2007, 1st half (with papa pinguin!)

Playlist - 03/29/2007 - Spring fund drive

This week is the fund drive. $500 was raised during my show. that's only half of what we got during my show in the fall, so that was disappointing. Seems to be that way for everyone this time, the drive as a whole is way behind last drive. Bummer. I've also been going in to answer phones and pitch with people on their shows. that part is kinda fun, but i'll still be glad when its all over. hopefully we'll at least make enough to last until next drive!

The best part was getting a pledge from a military person, Matt, stationed in Kuwait. Awesome to know someone there is listening! And also from a nice woman in Alabama, who called in to say hi too. And from Kathleen, Patricia, Dave, Mary, Rodena, and more. thanks everyone!

10:00
air - kelly watch the stars
portishead - numb
zero 7 - distractions
the doors - strange days (thievery corporation mix)
r.d. burman - mehbooba mehbooba (from best of bollywood, movie:sholay)
baraat (from monsoon wedding soundtrack)
panjabi mc - mundian to back ke
english beat - mirror in the bathroom
the specials - guns of navarone

11:00
ror-shak - a forest
12 girls band - only time
willie bobo - fried neckbones and some homefries (dan the automator mix from verve remixed 2)
devo - whip it (philip steir remix)
burning flames - magician (from soca gold 2000)
blue ventures - ready for the road (from soca gold 2000)
boyoyo boys - daveytown #5
groove armada - if everybody looked the same
chemical brothers - marvo ging

Play list - 03/22/2007

Thanks to everyone who called in: Walter, Ray, Pat, Howard, Jim, others... I felt a little crazy playing Madonna on my show, since she's so main stream. Thought there might be some backlash. But I got no hate calls, so that's good :-) I really think Ray of Light and Hollywood and Music all have good electronic dance songs on them. No surprise since the producers are great electronic artists.

Good video too. The quality here isn't great, but good enough to see that Madonna is hot :-) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZkQwIhcgqw

10:00
steve martin - ramblin' man
lemon jelly - ramblin' man
future sound of london - papau new guinea (from fabric 12 - amalgamation of soundz)
hakan libdo - cuba libre (from fabric 12 - amalgamation of soundz)
rjd2 - chicken bone circuit (from fabric 12 - amalgamation of soundz)
septeto nacional de ignacio pinero - el adios de este momento (from Putomayo presents Cuba)
chambao - ulere
el simbolo - 1,2,3
mana - de pies a cabeza
eek-a-mouse - anerexol
jacob miller & inner circle - tenement yard
hal holbrook as mark twain - creator's pet

11:00
sergio mendes and brazil 66 - day tripper
the beatles - yellow submarine
they might be giants - istanbul not constantinople
tenacious d - wonderboy
madonna - shaanti/ashtangi
william orbit - water from a vine leaf
madonna - ray of light
postal service - brand new colony
lotus - tip of the tongue
r.l. burnside - shick dub
underworld - 8 ball

Play list - 03/15/2007 - Band auction

Last week was the band auction. It went more smoothly than I was worried it would. I had 4 bands in: The New Alligators, Kevin Hiatt, OK Jones, and Applebutta. All were very cool. Kevin played his 12-string guitar live in the studio.

Then in two weeks is the fund drive. So two weeks of music in between fund raising events. St. Patrick's Day is Friday. My tribute to that was also the weekly cover song: Luck of the Irish.

Played from two new CD's. Air's new one, which seems only so-so, and Sia's live one, though I played the studio cut.

10:00
Sia - Pictures
Morcheeba - Trigger hippie
Portishead - Sour Times
air - space maker
gorillaz - tomorrow comes today
q-burns abstract message - he's a skull
niraj chag - nomad (from Jala, compiled by shiva rea)
r-tyme - r-theme
fila brazilia - mammon dad (from Pure Chill)
asrtud gilberto - who needs forever (thievery corporation mix from versions)
lotus - kesey seed

11:00
shonen knife - rain (beatles cover)
shonen knife - luck of the irish (lennon/ono cover)
cornershop - 6am jullander share
sukshinder shinda - hala lalla
ramsey lewis - do what you wanna (mr. scruff's soul party mix from verve remixed 2)
mr. scruff - sweet smoke
dzihan and kamien - slider
fatboy slim - weapon of choice
jean michel jarre - oxygene (part II)