This show is a triple play. The source material is the Trojan Box Sets. I will label what box set then say what tracks I’ve played from them.

Trojan Calypso Box Set:

Lord Kitchener - Love in the Cemetary

Lord Cristo - Dump Boy & The Parrot

Lord Ivanhoe & His Caribbean Knights - The Water Gobbler

Trojan Rude Boy Box Set:

Count Lasher with Lyn Taitt and The Baba Brooks Band - Hooligans

Justin Hinds & The Dominos - No Good Rudie

Lloyd Robinson - No More Trouble

Trojan Originals Box Set:

The Melodians - Sweet Sensations

The Pioneers - Let Your Yeah Be Yeah

Symarip - Skinhead Stomp

Trojan Producer Series Box Set:

Horse Mouth - Herb Vendor

Cynthia Richards - Foolish Fool

Carl Bryan - Soul Scorcher

Trojan Reggae Sisters Box Set:

Judy Mowatt - She Kept On Talking

Debra Keese & The Black Five - Travelling

Marcia Griffiths - Children at Play

Trojan Country Reggae Box Set:

Dennis Brown - Little Green Apples

Jimmy Riley - Statue of a Fool

Roman Stewart - Wolverton Mountain

Trojan Rock Steady Box Set:

The Federals - Shocking Love

Alton Ellis & The Flames - All My Tears

Tommy McCook - The Shadow of Your Smile

Trojan Jamaican Superstars Box Set:

Gregory Isaacs - My Time

Alton Ellis - I Am Still In Love With You

John Holt - Stick By Me

Trojan Mod Reggae Box Set:

Bobby Ellis & The Crystallites - Step Softly

Ewan and Jerry with The Caribbeats - Oh Babe (Sick and Tired)

Lee Perry - The Upsetter

Trojan Ska Box Set:

Lord Brynner - Congo War

Stranger Cole - Rough & Tough

The Valentines - Blam Blam Fever

Trojan Tighten Up Box Set:

Derrick Morgan - Fat Man

The Heptones - Meaning of Life

Micky Chung - Breezing

Not going to lie to you all: this show was slapdash. I figured I could make that a theme, and sort of did. This show ended being a microprogrammed show, which was not something I was expecting at the outset. It worked out well, but I definitely lost the old-school fan by the second hour. I did pick people up, so that’s cool and such.

Anyway, I’ve got better heat this coming week. I’m going to play a sampler of Trojan Box Sets. I have all of them and haven’t really explored them. I might as well do it on the radio since I can anyway. Moving on, the playlist is coming up:

pookey blow - get up (and go to school)- the third unheard: connecticut hip-hop 1979-1983 (v/a)

geto boys - my mind’s playin’ tricks on me -uncut dope

black moon - buck em down - enta da stage

gang starr - no shame in my game - daily operation

big k.r.i.t. w/ devin the dude - moon & stars - k.r.i.t. wuz here

the pharcyde - passin’ me by - bizarre ride ii… (request)

del tha funkee homosapien - if you must - both sides of the brain

mash out posse - ante up - warriorz

odb - brooklyn zoo - return to the 36 chambers

gza - living in the world today - liquid swords

ghostface killah - daytona 500 - ironman

monster rally - moonglow - coral

jorge ben - meus filhos, meu tesoro - africa brasil

black rebel motorcycle club - ha ha high babe - take them on, on your own

disappears - halo - guider

japandroids - rockers east vancouver - post-nothing

the intelligence - tropical struggle - males

pj harvey - 50 ft queenie - rid of me

fIREHOSE - o’er the town of pedro - flyin’ the flannel

thee oh sees - heavy doctor - the dream ep (NEW & REQUEST!)

pere ubu - non-alignment pact - the modern dance

husker du - pink turns into blue - zen arcade

oblivians - guitar shop asshole - popular favorites

wire - start to move - pink flag

the milkshakes - c-a-d-i-l-l-a-c - after school session vinyl

black lips - bicentennial man - arabia mountain

my bloody valentine - emptiness inside - feed me with your kiss ep

the buzzcocks - orgasm addict - singles going steady

x - los angeles - los angeles

the germs - we must bleed - complete discography

misfits - last caress - static age

the gun club - she’s like heroin to me - fire of love

iron maiden - the trooper - the best of iron maiden

This show was intended to be a driving mix for late at night. I was also supposed to put up a smooth mix of it. If demand is high enough, I will do that. In the meantime, all you’ll get is the playlist. It came out well although it’s a touch too future for country/rural driving. It would really work better if you are in a crazy urban night situation.

With that said, I did enjoy this show and the playlist did come out well. 

Charlie - Spacer Woman (Vocal Version) - Single

Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity - From Here To Eternity

Kelley Polar - Entropy Reigns - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky is Falling

Crash Course in Science - Flying Turns - The Minimal Wave Tapes (V/A)

Depeche Mode - Photographic - Speak & Spell

LCD Soundsystem - Beat Connection - S/T

Desire - Don’t Call - II

Nite Jewel - We Want Our Things - Am I Real?

Doctor’s Cat - Feel The Drive - Italo Disco Collection (V/A)

Glass Candy - Touching The Morning Mist - Deep Gems

Deux - Game & Performance - The Minimal Wave Tapes (V/A)

James Pants - I Choose You - Welcome

Com Truise - Glawio - Galactic Melt

Clancy Ever After - The Best Shitty Boyfriend - Iowania

Blue States - Theme From Within - Nothing Changes Under The Sun

Nicolas Jaar - I Got A Woman - Space is Only Noise

Angels in America - Free Galaxy - Cunt Tree Grammar

Echo Lake - Sunday Evening - Young Silence

Tamaryn - Haze Interior - The Waves

Alcian Blue - Night Sky - S/T

Screen Vinyl Image - Lost in Repeat - Interceptors

The Chemical Brothers - Chico’s Groove - Exit Planet Dust

Sa-Ra Creative Partners - The Bone Song - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love

Nightmares on Wax - Survival - Carboot Soul

Everything But The Girl - No Difference - Like The Deserts Miss The Rain

Emilie Simon - Desert - Versions

Can - Moon Shake - Future Days

Melted Toys - Neuzone - Washed & Dried

I tried my hardest to theme this show, but I couldn’t. So, I made a show that represented how I felt this week. This is the playlist that I came up with. 

adult. - glue your eyelids together - anxiety always

deodato - september 13 - prelude

james pants - wash to sea - seven seals

dominant legs - darling girls - invitation

roxy music - beauty queen - for your pleasure

beach house - wedding bell - devotion

steely dan - everyone’s gone to the movies - katy lied

black sheep - similak child - a wolf in sheep’s clothing

mobb deep - shook ones part II - the infamous

jungle brothers - because I got it like that - straight out the jungle

idiot glee - deep descent - paddywhack

linear movement - the game - on the screen

modern witch - light speed - disaro

aphex twin - come to daddy (little lord faulteroy mix) - come to daddy ep

brian eno - sombre reptile - another green world

the cure - a forest - seventeen seconds

delta 5 - you - singles and sessions

the fall - spoilt victorian child - the complete peel sessions

neu! - cassetto - neu! 2

anti-pop consortium - rinseflow - the tragic epilogue

john cale - ghost story - vintage violence

chuck berry - nadine - the great twenty-eight

link wray & his wray men - mashed potato party - mr. guitar

aki aleong & the nobles - body surf - cowabunga! (v/a)

the jesus and mary chain - catchfire - honey’s dead

asobi seksu - strings - citrus

my bloody valentine - (please) lose yourself in me - ecstasy ep

eternal summers - salty - silver

broadcast - lunch hour pops - haha sound

mazzy star - fade into you - so tonight i might see

This week’s show was entitled Daydream. I had a full vision for it, but sometimes, your radio show can’t rule your life; you have to entertain the variety of people that actually give your life its color and relevance. As a result, I couldn’t actually articulate the idea that I had. It was fine as a show, but it wasn’t everything that I think it really could have been. 

chromatics - i want your love - night drive

desire - under my spell - II

craft spells - after the moment - idle labor

brilliant colors - round your way - again and again

air miami - special angel - me, me, me

ariel pink’s haunted graffiti - girl in a tree - scared famous

the cat’s miaow - firefly - songs for girls to sing

ducktails - spring - landscapes

francoise hardy - je t’aime -  the vogue years

beat happening - fortune cookie prize - dreamy

the go-betweens - to reach me - liberty belle and the black diamond express

veronica falls - all eyes on us - veronica falls

best coast - wish he was you - something in the way

girls names - no more words - dead to me

heavenly - wrap my arms around him - heavenly vs satan

the dolly mixture - in your eyes - demonstration tapes

tom tom club - lorelai (remix) - tom tom club

nite jewel - let’s go (the two of us together) - good evening

dam-funk - fantasy - toeachizown

breakbeat heartbeat - sky blue - collective

freezepop - outer space - fancy ultra-fresh

the durutti column - madeleine - the return of the durutti column

guyer’s connection - she’s so hot - portrait

curve - coming up roses - the way of curve

clancy ever after - greater than oneself - iowania (new)

esg - moody (spaced out) - a south bronx story

the blackbyrds - love so fine - city life

bobby vinton - trouble is my middle name - greatest hits

ian and sylvia - so much for dreaming - the complete vanguard recordings

jorge ben - magnolia - a tabua de esmeralda

So, I’ve been trying to push away from Facebook and move towards Google+ because I think that it’s a better social networking system and also better integrated into my lifestyle. This has been slow since everyone I know still leans towards Facebook. Guess that’s part of being the one for the better part of the last decade. 

Anyway, as you may have figured out by now, this is not a show content with sitting on its laurels most of the time. So, to keep pushing the proverbial “edge”, I’m going to more fully shift this show towards G+. It’s at two places actually. 

If you click the link on this page, it will take you to the page for this show. If you search for it on G+, you will get the email address. I’d prefer you use the page as I don’t have to swap emails to check out what’s up. 

Is that cool with everyone? Awesome. Back to your Thanksgiving comas (for the American contingent).

This show is entitled “This Year’s Hits Today!” Why? Seemed like a good idea at the time. Anyway, this show was meant more as an exploration of my own archive of new music than anything else. I’ve piled up a lot of records over these past eleven months+, and I wanted to see how many of them were actually any good. Turns up that more of them are really, really good in fact. They are all definitely different, but they are also quite good. This also isn’t meant to be a comprehensive list. There are other tracks from this year that I just featured in other weeks, and I just wanted to keep that kind of repetition down.

mr. oizo - datsun - stade 2

craft spells - from the morning heat - idle labor

pink skull - humar hair disco - psychic warfare

neon indian - polish girl - era extrana

promwolf - robotess - at last, robotess

processory - farewell, welfare - change is gradual

the ladybug transistor - clutching stems - clutching stems

dirty beaches - sweet 17 - badlands

com truise - brokendate - galactic melt

gauntlet hair - showing - gauntlet hair

true widow - wither - as high as the highest heavens and from the center to the circumference of the earth

young prisms - feel fine - friends for now

crystal stilts - shake the shackles - in love with oblivion

girls names - kiss goodbye - dead to me

wild nothing - golden haze - golden haze

veronica falls - misery - veronica falls

beach fossils - calyer - what a pleasure

twin sister - eastern green - in heaven

memoryhouse - track 8 - the years ep (what is the name of this track? it’s not on the notes)

super sounds namba - yes indeed - life stories

wye oak - we were wealth - civilian

sleep over - casual diamond - forever

kids on a crime spree - impasto - we love you so bad

eternal summers - pure affection - prisoner ep

still corners - in the trees - creatures of an hour

echo lake - in dreams - young silence

wild beasts - loop the loop - smother

blouse - shadow - shadow single 

IUD. SIS. Stay in School cuz it’s the best! IUD. SIS. Stay in School cuz it’s the best! IUD. SIS. Stay in School cuz it’s the best! IUD. SIS. Stay in School cuz it’s the best! IUD. SIS. Stay in School cuz it’s the best!

I need to scan this one in. I have it in the notebook, which sits in the living room of my apartment that I am not writing this from nor will be returning to for seven days.

I can tell you it started with Queen and had at least Air’s “Kelly Watch The Stars (Video Mix)” and Dirty Beaches’s “Speedway King” in it. 

This show was entitled Love and Hate. It was two separate shows, merged at the middle with an awkward transition. This show was originally born as a show where every track played as one containing a swear. That wasn’t feasible actually, so I did this instead.

Love:

loretta lynn and conway twitty - you lay so easy on my mind - louisana woman mississippi man

patsy cline - i love you honey - let the teardrops fall

chris isaak - this love will last - chris isaak

cheap trick - i want you to want me - in color

the association - message of our love - and then…comes along…

stevie wonder - hey love - greatest hits

sade - kiss of life - love deluxe

gloria estefan & the miami sound machine - can’t stay away from you - let it loose

the cars - heartbeat city - heartbeat city

pet shop boys - love comes quickly - please

abba - take a chance on me - the singles

a flock of seagulls - space age love song - single

the b-52s - loveland - mesopotamia

Hate:

titties bounce - gravy train!!!! - hello doctor

das racist - I don’t owe nobody shit - shut up, dude

beck - fuckin’ with my head (mountain dew rock) - mellow gold

the sugarcubes - fucking in sorrow & rhythm - life’s too good

del tha funkee homosapien - pissing on your steps - i was my brother george was here

black moon - niguz talk shit - enta da stage

mash out posse - fuck m.o.p. - ghetto warfare

the pharcyde - oh shit - bizarre ride II

nwa - fuck tha police - greatest hits

the kills - fuck the people - keep on your mean side

peaches - fuck the pain away - the teaches of peaches

misfits - angelfuck - static age

superchunk - slack motherfucker - tossing seeds

times new viking - fuck her tears - dancer equired

mclusky - lightsabre cocksucking blues - mclusky do dallas

pussy galore - pretty fuck look - corpse love

dead kennedys - too drunk to fuck - give me convenience or give me death

I seem to get swamped a lot, so I can’t update as I would like. I have three weeks to post. They will be up in the next 48 hours. Guaranteed.

This was a show of covers (save one unfortunate playing of a request). I hate to go on a diatribe, but I wonder if people listening to my show are actually listening to my show. I said multiple times that my show was a cover show, yet I still got a non-cover request. I know that I do theme programming, but covers are a surprisingly easy thing to get right. I know I have a lot of covers. I know that the station does too. This wasn’t a particularly hard show. Whatever though. It’s now since past, so there’s no reason to get all agitated about it. 

The playlist is coming. I’ll put the original artist in parentheses after the song.

Freezepop - Jem Theme - Fancy Ultra-Fresh (Jem & The Holograms)

Washed Out - Wicked Game - Single (Chris Isaak)

Sambassadeur - La Chanson De Prevert - Sambassadeur (Serge Gainsbourg)

Slumber Party - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Covers Up (Joy Division)

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘66 - Scarborough Fair - Classics vol. 18 (Simon & Garfunkel)

Astrud Gilberto - Light My Fire - Sounds From The Verve Hi-Fi (The Doors)

Galaxie 500 - Listen, The Snow Is Falling - This is Our Music (Yoko Ono)

The Bird and The Bee - Private Eyes - Interpreting the Masters (Hall & Oates; REQUEST! from Sydney)

Pale Saints - Fell From The Sun - The Comforts of Madness (Opal)

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust - 1979-1983: Volume Two (David Bowie)

R.E.M. - There She Goes Again - Dead Letter Office (The Velvet Underground)

Hasil Adkins - Memphis - Out To Hunch (Chuck Berry)

The Mummies - Skinnie Minnie - Never Been Caught (The Sonics)

Guitar Wolf - Rumble - Planet of the Wolves (Link Wray)

Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon - The Real Ramona (not on theme, but request. should have checked)

Tennis - Tell Her No - Online Download (The Zombies)

The White Stripes - I Don’t Know What To Do With Myself - Elephant (Dusty Springfield)

Gary Glitter - Be My Baby - The Ultimate Gary Glitter (The Ronettes)

Sex Beet - Dirty Boots - New Shit (Sonic Youth)

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Surfin’ USA - Barbed Wire Kisses (The Beach Boys)

Los Straitjackets - My Heart Will Go On - The Velvet Touch of… (Celine Dion)

Laika & The Cosmonauts - Theme from Endless Summer - Instruments of Terror (The Sandals)

Delroy Wilson - Islands in the Stream - Reggae Classics (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)

Ken Boothe - I Still Haven’t Found - High Times All Stars Explosion (V/A) (U2)

Blondie - The Tide is High - The Best of Blondie (The Paragons)

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mission Impossible - Press Color (Mission: Impossible Theme Song)

Squarepusher - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Do You Know Squarepusher? (Joy Division)

Glass Candy - Computer Love - Beat Box (Kraftwerk)

The Trashmen - Green Onions - The Great Lost Trashmen Album (Booker T. & The MGs)

The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Cut (Marvin Gaye)

This is the long-delayed Triple Play. I had a lot of ideas for this third installment, but it ended up being about lo-fi recordings. By this, I meant music recorded in basements, bedrooms or on tape decks. Everything sounded particularly poor quality and was made on substandard equipment. In short, the show was totally awesome. This playlist will be listed like regular Triple Play lists with artist then a colon then the songs from them with albums in parentheses.

Vivian Girls:

Wild Eyes (S/T), Can’t Get Over You (Everything Goes Wrong) & Never See Me Again (S/T)

Black Lips:

Crazy Girl (S/T), Feeling Gay (Let It Bloom) & Notown Blues (We Did Not Know The Forest Spirit Made The Flowers Grow)

The Mummies:

That Girl (Death By Unga Bunga!), Stronger Than Dirt (Never Been Caught) & (Doin’) The Kirk (Death By Unga Bunga!)

Beat Happening:

Our Secret (S/T), Drive Car Girl (Jamboree) & What’s Important (S/T)

Half Japanese:

Pour Some Sugar On It, Day and Night & No Beatlemania, all on Greatest Hits

The Fall:

Before The Moon Falls (Dragnet), Repetition (Early Singles) & Industrial Estate (Live At The Witch Trials)

Tyvek:

Air Conditioner (Fast Metabolism), Honda (Fast Metabolism) & Nothing Fits (Nothing Fits)

Real Estate: 

Easy (Days), It’s Real (Days) & Suburban Beverage (S/T)

The Chills:

I Love My Leather Jacket, Rolling Moon & Kaleidoscope World, all on Kaleidoscope World

Gary Wilson:

In The Midnight Hour (Forgotten Lovers), Cindy (You Think You Really Know Me) & Chromium Bitch (You Think You Really Know Me)

Edan:

Humble Magnificent, Emcees Smoke Crack & You Suck (f/ Father Time), all on Primitive Plus

Freezepop:

Duct Tape My Heart (Fancy Ultra-Fresh), Science Genius Girl (Forever) & Tonight (Fancy Ultra-Fresh)

Two ending notes: S/T means self-titled and Freezepop is starting the upcoming show. How? You’ll have to find out when you listen.

Alright, this was Sydney’s last show as my apprentice. She went out in the most appropriate way possible: playing songs by lady rappers. There’s a certain comedy to the premise of this show as Sydney is a moderately inoffensive lady that plays with lasers by professional choice (she’s in physics). I still laugh at the idea of her singing “Yankin’” to herself while shooting said lasers. This is where my disinterest in photography comes to hurt all of us. Anyway, she’s off to brighter pastures and, hopefully, to on-air ones. If she gets a show, I’ll let you know when it is so you can listen to it. In the meantime, this is her playlist.

Salt N’ Pepa - Push It
Ghostface Killah ft. Missy Elliot - Tush
Lady - Yankin
Lady - Twerk
Khia - My Neck and My Back
Riskay - Smell Yo Dick
Missy Elliot - Work It
Missy Elliot - Get Ur Freak On
The Firm - Fuck Somebody Else
Lil’ Kim - Not Tonight
Lil’ Kim - How Many Licks
Yo Majesty - The Monkey
Yo Majesty - Kryptonite Pussy
Anquette - Throw the P
Gangsta Boo - Pretty Pussy Lips
Amanda Blank - Make It Take It
Amanda Blank - Something Bigger, Something BetterRoxanna Shante - Knockin’ Hiney
MC Lyte - Give Me What I Want
Trina - No PantiesAmanda Blank - Might Like You Better
Trina - Hit It Right
Bahamadia - True Honey Buns
Charli Baltimore - Making Love
Lola Monroe - Dancing With No Panties
Sylk E Fyne - Romeo and Juliet
Remy Ma - Everyday I’m Fucking Him
Jacki-O - Nookie