This is a triple play show, something that I haven’t done in a while. It was supposed to be tri-monthly then there was a year gap. I don’t know how that happened either.

There was no real agenda coming out of the gate. As I went into the planning wormhole, I found that I only wanted to listen to dance music and hardcore hip-hop, so that’s what this show is made up of. As I noted on the air, this show is the reason that I like to keep my show in safe harbor hours even though most weeks I don’t need it in the slightest.

Daft Punk:

Rollin’ & scratchin’ (Homework), Musique (Single) & Digital Love (Discovery)

Chic:

Good Times (Risque), I Want Your Love & Le Freak (C’est Chic)

Inner City:

Paradise (Paradise), Good Life (Big Fun) & Do Me Right (Big Fun - Big Hits!: The Collection)

Gravy Train!!!!:

Sippin’ 40z (The Menz EP), Hella Nervous & You Made Me Gay (Hello Doctor)

Queen Latifah:

Ladies First, U.N.I.T.Y. & Just Another Day (All from She’s A Queen)

Geto Boys:

Mind of a Lunatic & Scarface (Grip It! On Another Level), Mind is Playing Tricks on Me (We Can’t Be Stopped)

Madvillain:

Meat Grinder, Fancy Clown & ALL CAPS (all on Madvillainy)

Mobb Deep:

Survival of The Fittest, Temperature’s Rising & Cradle to the Grave (all on The Infamous…)

This week’s show was intended to be calmer than last week’s. The playlist is titled “Ambient Returns”. This name makes less than zero sense, so don’t think of it as an official title. The show is just a mix of calm tracks with few guitar based tracks than usual. It is intended to be a palate cleanser from the abuse and shredding guitars of past weeks.

This show is entitled “2 Cool 4 Skool”. I do not attempt to make this show willfully obscure during regular weeks. This week, I aimed for that particular goal, playing music that is obscure and confrontational as well as a lot of deep cuts. I got to play some local music this week too, which is fun. Iowa City is deep in local music, so it’s good to put some of it on the air for play.

Moussa Doumbia - Unite - Ivory Coast Soul (V/A)

Donnie & Joe Emerson - Good Time - Dreamin’ Wild

Suburban Lawns - Gidget Goes To Hell - Single

Ill Ease - Sick Groove - Greatest Tits

Fear of Men - Your Side - Early Fragments

The Red Krayola - Pink Stainless Tail - The Parable of Arable Land

First Prize - Frodoe - The Injuries ‘R’ The Reality (V/A; LOCAL. Special Thanks to David from Wax Cannon for sending me this comp)

The Make-Up - Blue is Beautiful - I Want Some

Liberty Leg - Old Rattler - Boom Box Years (LOCAL)

Caethua - Your First Breath - The Pleasures of Manhood

Silver Pines - Fortress of Daughters - Forces

The Soft Machine - We Did It Again - The Soft Machine

Pat Jordache - Phantom Limb - Future Songs

The Girls - Down Syndrome - Reunion

Les Georges Leningrad - George V - Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou

Angels in America - II - E.M.S.

Terry Riley - Bird of Paradise (Part 3) - Terry Riley

Ornette Coleman - Poise - This is Our Music

Liquid Liquid - Cavern - Liquid Liquid

The Luyas - Face - Animator

Silk Flowers - Birds of Passion - Silk Flowers

The Fibonaccis - The Genius - fi-bo-na-chez EP

Puke, Spit & Guts - KILL FOR KICKS - EAT HOT LEAD

Beck - “Rollins Power Sauce” - Stereopathetic Soul Manure

Mars - Cairo - 78

Wolf Eyes - Broken Order - Always Wrong

Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenzu - What is Life - Life Stories

Joe Band - I Don’t Wanna Dance - The Chocolate Undertow

Sic Alps - Do You Want To Give $$$? - Napa Asylum

This show was entitled “Instro-MENTALS”—and yes, it must be typed and pronounced in this manner. It was all instrumentals. I wanted it to be a little more off the rails than it was, but I only mean that in terms of throwing things together that don’t 100% flow or work off of one another. I was only able to do that for part of the show this week. It was a lot of somewhat uncommon instrumentals for this show, which is a sign of improvement in my world. Anyway, I hope that people enjoyed listening to this one. It actually was a pretty good listen from beginning to end.

If there is one crazy thing that I can say about this show, it is that I always think that I hear some distant talking in the background and subsequently have fucked up my show. Unlike in prior times when this was true, this time it is not. Everyone is for the better because of it. //a.c.

Nadia’s Theme (from The Young & The Restless)

Neu! - Hallogallo - Neu!

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mission Impossible - Press Color

The Fairfax High School Marimba Band - Besame Mucho - Volume IV

Symmetry - The Point of No Return - Themes for an Imaginary Film

Squarepusher - Beep Street - Hard Normal Daddy

Jean-Michele Jarre - Oxygene Part IV - Pure Moods Vol. 1

Fennesz - Before I Leave - Endless Summer

Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness - Light of Worlds

Mickey Chung - Breezing - Trojan Tighten Up Box Set

Gary Wilson - I Woke Into A Thousand Dreams - Lisa Wants To Talk To You

Gang Gang Dance - God’s Money VII - God’s Money

This Heat - 24 Track Loop - This Heat

FPU - Ocean Drive - This is Tech-Pop (V/A)

Metro Area - Atmospherique - Metro Area

Saint Etienne - Urban Clearway - Tiger Bay

Com Truise - Hyperlips - Galactic Melt

Metal Urbain - Panik (Instrumental) - Anarchy in Paris

Bo Diddley - Aztec - The Chess Box

Chantays - Pipeline - Cowabunga! (V/A)

Galaxie 500 - Instrumental - Today

Link Wray - Mustang - The Original Rumble

Pylon - Italian Movie Theme - Chomp More

Tone Rec - Tetra & They - Thugny - Trugny

Sonic Youth - Escapades - Simon Werner A Disparu Soundtrack

King Tubby - Take Five - Declaration of Dub

Minutemen - Cohesion - Double Nickels on the Dime

Dick Dale & The Del-Tones - The Victor - Greatest Hits 1961-1976

The Fall - Service (Instrumental Demo) - The Infotainment Scam

Adult. - Cold Call - Anxiety Always

Global Communication - 7’ 39 - 76:14

This show is inspired by the recent wave of grey weather that has come to Iowa City. It was sunny and warm, then it got grey and cold. This music isn’t so cold. It’s meant more as the soundtrack of what a day indoors would be. Not part for part, but a soundtrack for that lifestyle.
 I hope that you enjoyed it and used it in that manner. //a.c.

The Go-Betweens - The Sound of Rain - The Lost Album

John Cale - Ghost Story - Vintage Violence

Bobby Vinton - Rain, Rain, Go Away - Greatest Hits

Kelly Polar - Chrysanthemum - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling

Brian Eno - Becalmed - Another Green World

The Durutti Column - Self-Portrait - LC

Lazy Magnet - Kraft Durch Freude - Acts Without Error

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Souvenir - The OMD Singles

Blue States - Looking Glass - Nothing Changes Under The Sun

James Brown - Goodbye My Love (Pts 1 & 2) - Foundations of Funk

Beach House - On The Sea - Bloom

Russian Tsarlag - It Never Comes - Split LP w/ Secret Boyfriend

Desire - Colorless Sky - II

Alcian Blue - Turn Away - S/T

Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic - Ferment

Abiku - Televisioni - Technicolor

The Clean - Sad Eyed Lady - Anthology

Beach Fossils - Window View - S/T

Lush - Etherial - Gala

Celestial - Dream On - Celestial EP

Opal - Fell From The Sun - Indie Girls Mixtape

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game - Heart-Shaped World

Ducktails - Art Vandelay - III: Arcade Dynamics

Cornershop - Sleep on the Left Side - When I Was Born for the 7th Time

Portishead - Sour Times - Dummy

Clancy Ever After - The Basement Sesh - Iowania

The Baroness - Wet Season - The Baroness

This show was intended to be a rocking show, but I fell victim to some bad timing. I didn’t quite get this show where I would have liked it. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it didn’t come out where I wanted it to. I ran into some people during the week who listened and liked it. That was cool.

The Feelies - Loveless Love - Crazy Rhythms

Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside - Party Kids - Untamed Beast (NEW)

Wavves - Post Acid - King of The Beach

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak - Jailbreak

The Breeders - Cannonball - Last Splash

PJ Harvey - 50 Ft. Queenie - Rid of Me

Japandroids - For The Love of Ivy - Celebration Rock

Iceage - In Haze - You’re Nothing (NEW)

Motorhead - White Line Fever - The Best of Motorhead

Ty Segall Band - Tell Me What’s Inside Your Head - Slaughterhouse

Chromatics - Three Hearts - Plaster Hounds

Melvins - #2 Pencil - 26 Songs

The Stooges - Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell - Raw Power

AIDS Wolf - Letter To Al Johnson - Clash of The Life Force Warriors

Guitar Wolf - Wild Zero - Planet of The Wolves

Guards - Don’t Wake The Dead - Guards EP

Metz - Knife in the Water - Metz

Black Flag - Six Pack - Wasted Again

Pissed Jeans - Bathroom Laughter - Honeys

McLusky - No New Wave No Fun - McLusky Do Dallas

Husker Du - Masochism World - Zen Arcade

Iron Maiden - Bring Your Daughter…To The Slaughter - The Best of the Beast

Les Savy Fav - Hold On To Your Genre - Inches

The Jesus Lizard - Queen For A Day - Down

Queens of the Stone Age - Into The Hollow - Era Vulgaris

Ten Grand - never let your girlfriend go camping with that guy she met in pottery class…trust me - the list

The Clash - I’m So Bored With The USA - S/T

The Queers - Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got An Ugly Daughter - Punk Rock Confidential

The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner - S/T

Times New Viking - End of All Things - Rip It Off

Jay Reatard - You Mean Nothing To Me - Matador Singles

MC 900 Ft. Jesus - If I Only Had a Brain - One Step Ahead of The Spider

This week’s show started off as one about working. I was going to play work songs. Somewhere in the organization of the show, I found this to be boring and then made a playlist of songs I would listen to while I was actually working. Certainly, this wouldn’t work for every day, but it worked for this particular day.

Kid Koala - Music for Morning People - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Saint Etienne - Sun in My Morning - Tales From Turnpike House

Jesus & Mary Chain - Deep One Perfect Morning - Darklands

Buddy Holly - Early in the Morning - Memorial Collection

Lee Hazlewood - If It’s Monday Morning - Requiem for an Almost Lady

Tindersticks - Until The Morning Comes - Waiting for the Moon

The Lucksmiths - Midweek Midmorning - Naturaliste

Slumber Party - Manic Monday - Covers Up

New Order - Your Silent Face - Power, Corruption & Lies

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Talking Loud and Clear - Junk Culture

Kraftwerk - Tour De France - Tour De France Soundtracks

13th Floor Elevators - Thru The Rhythm - The Psychedelic Sounds of…

Swervedriver - Lead Me Where You Dare… - Raise

The December Sound - Reminder - Silver Album

Tamaryn - Prizma - Tender New Signs (NEW-ish)

School of Seven Bells - Reappear - Ghostory

PJ Harvey - The Wind - Is This Desire?

Air - People in the City - 10,000 Hz Legend

Bauhaus - The Sanity Assassin - 1979-1983: Volume Two

The Cure - Grinding Halt - Three Imaginary Boys

Sonic Youth - Shoot - Dirty

Spiritualized - Step Into The Breeze - Laser Guided Melodies

Pram - Serpentine - Sargasso Sea

Portishead - The Rip - Third

Tom Tom Club - Lorelei - Tom Tom Club

Wild Nothing - Counting Days - Nocturne (NEW)

This was a show that I did exactly 365 days prior. At the time, I didn’t know what the show was. As I looked back through the archive of this radio show, I figured out what this show was called. That would be “Slowdance #6”.

I started off wanting to do a straight replay of this show, but I remembered two things. First, I can’t just playback a show because we don’t have that sort of tech around here. I wish we did, but so it goes. Additionally, when I created the slowdance series of playlists, they never played in order. I would put them on shuffle and play them out. So, in returning to that spirit, I did a show that took those old songs and reordered them.

The first show was a bit poppier than this one was. This one was more mellow, but I think that speaks to the different types of slowdances that you can have. We all have to admit that it was way different dancing to Celine than it was to Keith Sweat. I hope no one slow danced to Keith Sweat, but he was the first person that I could think of. Yea, it’s that kind of day.

//a.c.

Monster Rally - The Birds (Pts 1-2) - Coral

Kraftwerk - Tanzmusik - Ralf & Florian

Charalambides - And So Danced The River - Market Square

Nicolas Jaar - Balance Her In Between Your Eyes - Space is Only Noise

A Shoreline Dream - Motherly Advice - Avoiding The Consequences

M83 - You, Appearing - Saturdays = Youth

lovesliescrushing - virgin blue-eyed - xuvetyn

I Break Horses - Cancer - Hearts

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored - S/T

The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso - S/T

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - She Made Me - Methodrone

The Vera Violets - In The Sun - Dirty Rainbow

Airiel - Shirley Temple Tidal Wave - Crackled EP

Beach House - Master of None - Beach House

Chromatics - Running Up That Hill - Night Drive

Peaking Lights - Key Sparrow - 936

Nite Jewel -What Did He Say? - Good Evening

Dirty Beaches - Goodbye, Honolulu - Seaside EP

Eternal Summers - Salty - Silver

TOPS - Double Vision - Tender Opposites

Seapony - I Really Do - Go With Me

Kitchens of Distinction - Mad As Snow - The Death of Cool

Italian Disco was the theme. I mixed this whole show live, so it was one continuous listening experience. Things are even beat matched—sometimes.

Charlie - Spacer Woman

Roy - Shooting Star (Dub Version)

Koto - Visitors (Vocal Remix)

Mike Mareen - Dancing in the Dark (Galactica Remix)

Coo Coo - Upside Down (Full Power DJ Mix)

Shy Rose - I Cry For You (Toney D’s Extended Mix)

Jessica - Like A Burning Star

Brain Ice - Walking Away (Vocal Extended)

Patty Ryan - I Don’t Wanna Lose You Tonight

Image - Hot Stuff (Long Version)

Valentino - Tonight

Hugh Bullen - Night Girl (Toney D’s Extended Mix)

Caron - Out of the Night (The First Step) (12” Mix)

K.B. Caps - Do You Really Need Me (Extended Version)

Silver Pozzoli - Pretty Baby (Swedish Remix)

Mr. Freaky - Out of My Mind (12” Version)

Dj’s Project - Vision of Love (Extended Version)

Peter Richard - Walking in the Neon (Extended Version)

This whole show came from a room here at KRUI called The Closet of Mystery. It’s a weird, confusing place, explaining why this show is a little bit strange. It’s still good though, so yea, there’s that. Coolzey’s rad. That’s all I have left to say.

Starlight Mints - Popsickle - Single

Vampire Weekend - A-Punk - s/t

Electrelane - On Parade - The Power Out

Eux Autres - The Sundance Kid - Hell Is Eux Autres

The Aislers Set - Mission Bells - How I Learned To Write Backwards

Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter - Retrospect

Suede - Animal Nitrate - s/t

Shonen Knife - Twist Barbie - Let’s Knife

Velocity Girl - Formula 1 Throwaway - Gilded Stars & Zealous Hearts

Dreamdate - 8 Sleeves - Patience

Acid House Kings - Sleeping - Sing Along With…

The Ocean Blue - Either/Or - Beneath The Rhythm and Sound

Kelley Stoltz - You’re Out of This World - The Sun Comes Through

Eyeball Skeleton - The Smokey Turtle - #1

The Birthday Party - Mr. Clarinet - Hits

Standing Nudes - Ghost Story - Ghost Stories

Les Breastfeeders - Tout Va Pour Le Mieux Dans Le Pire Des Mondes - Les Matins de Grands Soirs

The Crystal Method - Coming Back - Vegas

The Juan McLean - Give Me Every Little Thing (Cajmere Remix) - Single

Jimmy Edgar - My Beats - Color Strip

Kraftwerk - Numbers - Minimum-Maximum

kid606 - Boomin’ - Pretty Girls Make Raves

Q-Burns Abstract Message - Feel - Feng Shui

The Sucka MC’s - My Cell Phone - My Cell Phone EP

Cool-Z - Dairy Queen - Single

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full - Paid in Full

Joy Division - Shadowplay - Unknown Pleasures

Cut City - Track One - s/t EP

The Swirlies - Give Us Moonrocks! - Cats of the Wild: Volume Two

James Blake - Klavierwerke - Klavierwerke EP

This show is the continuation of last week’s show. That show was about the subject I. This show was about the object I. As I noted on the air, there is no object I. The object I is Me. Therefore, this week’s show was about me. Outside of the Kitty Wells Request, which came on after my show was over, everything followed this rule. Disciplines are important, even for request. // a.c.

DJ Kool - Let Me Clear My Throat - Single

Gap Band - You Dropped The Bomb on Me - Gap Band IV

The Human League - Don’t You Want Me? - Dare

ABBA - Take A Chance on Me - The Singles

Blondie - Call Me - The Best of Blondie

The Cure - Close To Me - The Head on The Door

Frankie Rose - Know Me - Interstellar

Romeo Void - Talk Dirty to Me - Warm, In Your Coat

The B-52’s - Give Me Back My Man - Wild Planet

The Go-Betweens - To Reach Me - Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express

My Bloody Valentine - (Please) Lose Yourself in Me - Ecstasy EP

Pia Fraus - Come To Me - Nature Heart Software

Chris Isaak - Lie to Me - Chris Isaak

Chapterhouse - If You Want Me - Whirlpool

Brian Eno - Cindy Tells Me - Here Come The Warm Jets

Bill Withers - Use Me - Still Bill

Roger Damawuzan - Wait For Me - African Scream Contest (V/A)

James Brown - You Got To Have A Mother For Me - Foundations of Funk

Phyllis Dillon - Make Me Yours - Trojan Reggae Sisters (V/A)

Etta James - Something’s Got A Hold on Me - The Chess Story (V/A)

Luther Russell - Ain’t Frightening Me - The Invisible Audience

The Microphones - Wake Me Up - Song Islands

Mystery Jets - You Had Me At Hello - Radlands

Wanda Jackson - Did You Miss Me? - Rockin’ With Wanda

Hank Snow - You Pass Me By - Les Triomphes de la Country Music

Emmylou Harris - Bottle Let Me Down - Pieces of the Sky

Merle Haggard - The Fightin’ Side of Me - 12 #1 Hits

The Kendalls - Pick Me Up On Your Way Down - 20 Greatest Hits & More

Johnny Horton - Take Me Like I Am - Honky Tonk Man

George Jones - Walk Through This World With Me - The Essential

Dolly Parton - Hold Me - Jolene

Kitty Wells - I Don’t Claim To Be An Angel - The Best of… (REQUEST)

Hank Williams - Nobody’s Lonesome for Me - 40 Greatest Hits

This is the first of two shows that revisits a favorite well of themes for this show: The Grammar Rodeo. This duo of shows is about I in its subject and object forms.

This week deals with the subject form…which is I. All of the songs in the show have the subject I somewhere within their title. That’s the theme. Next week, it’ll be all about me. This show was also rather aggro. Next week, will be more relaxed.

Biz Markie - I Hear Music - The Biz Never Sleeps

Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin - Enta Da Stage

Jungle Brothers - Because I Got It Like That - Straight Out The Jungle

Gary Wilson - I Wanna Lose Control - You Think You Really Know Me

ESG - I Can’t Tell You What To Do - A South Bronx Story

The Evens - I Do Myself - The Odds (NEW & REQUEST)

The Last - Should I Say A Word - Look Again

Jacob Miller & The Inner Circle - I Shot The Sheriff - Trojan Bob Marley Covers (V/A)

The Fall - I Feel Voxish - Perverted By Language

Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare - Entertainment!

The Rogers Sisters - I Dig A Hole - Purely Evil

The Replacements - I’ll Buy - Tim

Buzzcocks - I Don’t Mind - Singles Going Steady

X - Because I Do - Under The Big Black Sun

Moonhearts - I Said - Moonhearts

The Milkshakes - I Won’t Be There - Still Talking Bout…

Chuck Berry - I’m Talking About You - The Great Twenty-Eight

The Lemonheads - If I Could Talk I’d Tell You - Car Button Cloth

The Cat’s Miaow - I Hate Myself More Than You Do - A Kiss & A Cuddle

Dolly Mixture - Now When I Count - Everything and More

The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You - Underwater Moonlight

Kids on a Crime Spree - I Don’t Want to Call You Baby, Baby - We Love You So Hard

Headlights - I Don’t Mind At All - Wildlife

R.E.M. - The One I Love - Eponymous

Sambassadeur - I Can Try - European

Close Lobsters - I Kiss The Flowers in Bloom - Foxheads Stalk This Land

Talulah Gosh - I Told You So - Backwash

Jesus and Mary Chain - I Hate Rock N Roll - 21 Singles

Zodiac Killers - I Wanna Be A Pornstar - Radiation Beach

The Mummies - I’m Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight - Death by Unga Bunga

Shannon & The Clams - I Wanna Go Home - I Wanna Go Home

Thee Oh Sees - I Can’t Get No - Help

Mika Miko - I Don’t Like Your Widows Peak - C.Y.S.L.A.B.F.

MF Doom - Who Do You Think I Am - Operation: Doomsday

Melanie Fiona - What Am I To Do - The MF Life

In tribute to the end of 30 Rock, one of my favorite shows ever, I took some advice from Jack Donaghy. He fully believes that everything can be overcome with mental power. This was one of the coldest days so far this winter. Rather than believe that to be true, I chose to believe that it was summer. So, this is a summery mix. It was called cruel by some listeners, but it wasn’t intended as such. I just wanted to believe that it was summer, because it is summer in my head.

Martha & The Vandellas - Heatwave - Greatest Hits

Billy Stewart - Summertime - The Chess Story (V/A)

Cam ft. Anggun - Summer in Paris - Single

Nicola Conte ft. Melanie Charles - Mystery of You - Love & Revolution

Kylie Minogue - Loving Days - Body Language

Lemonade - Ice Water - Diver (NEW-ish)

Valentino - You Are The Sunshine (Extended Version) - Single

Annie - Heartbeat - Anniemal

Donna Summer - Walk Away - Bad Girls

Ducktails - Letter of Intent - The Flower Lane (NEW)

Still Corners - Endless Summer - Creatures of an Hour

Melody’s Echo Chamber - You Won’t Be Missing That Part of Me - Melody’s Echo Chamber (NEW)

Pink Floyd - Summer of ‘68 - Atom Heart Mother

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Summer Wine - Nancy & Lee

Astrud Gilberto - So Nice (Summer Samba) - The Silver Collection

Fleetwood Mac - Sunny Side of Heaven - Bare Trees

Wild Nothing - Summer Holiday - Gemini

The Fresh & Onlys - Euphoria - Long Slow Dance (NEW)

Beach Fossils - Daydream - Beach Fossils

The Ventures - Walk, Don’t Run - Golden Greats By…

The Beach Boys - Surfin’ USA - Cowabunga!

Monster Rally - Sun Videos - Coral

Link Wray & His Wray Men - Summer Dreams - Mr. Guitar

Half Japanese - Daytona Beach - Greatest Hits

Kings of Convenience - Gold in the Air in Summer - Riot on an Empty Street

Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk - Sleepwalk- The Very Best of…

Broken Social Scene - Looks Just Like The Sun - You Forgot It In People

Beat Happening - Fortune Cookie Prize - Dreamy

The Wake - Plastic Flowers - Here Comes Everybody + Singles

Seapony - Sunlight - Falling (NEW)

This week’s show was based off of the song from Liquid Sky called “Me And My Rhythm Box”. If you have never seen Liquid Sky, I do recommend it. Anyway, all of the songs are based around the idea of people with machines making music. There are human elements, but I tried to keep them to a minimum.

I’m confident that this was not the best show I’ve ever done, but I think that it did go alright in the end.

Liquid Sky - Me and My Rhythm Box - Liquid Sky OST

Glass Candy - Poison or Remedy - Deep Gems

Nite Jewel - All Out Of Order - Want You Back EP

Oppenheimer Analysis - Radiance - The Minimal Wave Tapes (V/A)

Guyer’s Connection - Dallas - Portrait

Mr. Oizo - France7 - Stade 2

Adult. - Human Wreck - Resuscitation

Peaches - AA XXX - The Teaches of Peaches

Chicks on Speed - Mind Your Own Business - …Will Save Us All

Kraftwerk - Metal on Metal - Trans Europe Express

Linear Movement - Five Faces - On The Screen

Le Le - Breakfast - Flage

Grimes - Oblivion - Visions

Com Truise - Slow Peels - Cyanide Sisters EP

Fall of Saigon - On The Beach at Fontana - Fall of Saigon EP

Anton Maiden - The Number of the Beast - Anton Maiden

Dam-Funk - Fantasy - Toeachizown

The Egyptian Lover - Egypt Egypt - On The Nile

Esplendor Geometrico - Moscu Esta Helado - The Minimal Wave Tapes (V/A)

Gus Gus - Dance You Down - Attention

The Human League - Seconds - Dare

The Normal - Warm Leatherette - Single

Salem - Trapdoor - King Night

Depeche Mode - Photographic - Speak & Spell

Turns up this was an optional show given that this is finals week here at the University of Iowa. I didn’t know this, and, subsequently, spit nothing but straight fire. This show was really, really good. Too bad no one probably heard it. I think it was my best show of the semester by far.

I have a habit of not relistening to shows (this blog only exists to tell me how long it’s been since I’ve played particular songs and informational purposes), but I would listen to this show again. I think I’ll smooth mix this show before I leave Iowa City and post it up here.

This show was inspired by two things. The first is Yacht Rock, the web series that satirizes the musical genre of the same name. In particular, this is inspired by Episode Two. In said episode, Loggins & Messina along with their fictional svengali Captain Koko are getting drunk and being shirtless around a fire. They have to write a song for their alley songwriting battle with Hall & Oates (If this all sounds weird, please click the link and watch. Have your life changed in the process as well). Loggins proposes that they need a hard riff. In a boozy fashion, Koko hits him and reminds the two of them to never lose the smooth.

The second influence is a song that was played at the beginning of the actual show (Al B. Sure was a bonus cut): Careless Whisper by George Michael. If you have ever watched Sexy Sax Man Sergio Flores, you know this song. If you haven’t, go watch that video. NOW. The actual song where that horn comes from gets in your mind. As well, it has, maybe, the prettiest George Michael shots in it. As well, that song is relentlessly smooth. If you wonder how something can be relentlessly smooth, you’re not thinking hard enough.

This playlist was the result. And, I must say, it was really smooth. If you like getting high, this would be a good show to do it to.

Al B. Sure - Night & Day - In Effect Mode

George Michael - Careless Whisper - Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of…

Blue States - Your Girl - Nothing Changes Under The Sun

Jorge Ben - Errare humanum est - A Tabua de Esmeralda

Quiet Village - Gold Rush - Silent Movie

Donnie & Joe Emerson - Baby - Dreamin’ Wild (NEW)

Chris Isaak - Can’t Do A Thing (To Stop Me) - San Francisco Days

TOPS - Double Vision - Tender Opposites (One of My Fave Albums of 2012)

Ducktails - Letter of Intent - Single (BRAND NEW; Like maybe a week & a half old)

Mtume - Juicy Fruit - Juicy Fruit

The Dells - I Miss You - The Chess Story (V/A)

Sofa Surfers - Sofa Rockers - The K&D Sessions (V/A)

Barrington Levy - Under Mi Sensi - The Best of…

DJ Cam - Free Your Turntable and Your Scratch Will Follow - Mad Blunted Jazz

Nicola Conte - Aphrodite’s Dream - Other Directions

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five - Time Out

Chet Baker - Let’s Get Lost - The Best of Chet Baker Sings

DJ Greyboy - Bath Music - Mastered The Art

Thievery Corporation - So Com Voce - The Mirror Conspiracy

Clutchy Hopkins - 3:34 - The Life of Clutchy Hopkins

Peaking Lights - Cosmic Tides - Lucifer (NEW-ish)

Everything But The Girl - Protection - Like The Deserts Miss The Rain (I KNOW THAT THIS IS A MASSIVE ATTACK TRACK!!!!!!!! THIS IS WHERE I GOT IT FROM!!!!!!)

Portishead - Glory Box - Dummy