I miss doing radio & would like to brainstorm ways to engage with it again. The medium has been in my blood ever since Boston-area college stations opened my ears back in middle school. 5 years of hosting a weekly program on WFMU were incredible–but a huge labor of love. WFMU DJs volunteer their time, … Continue reading RADIO RUPTURE FUTURE
[graffiti in Hamra, Beirut DJ Rupture] I’m pleased to announce that the special guest on tomorrow’s radio show is James Bridle, in town from London, full of provocative ideas & playful manifestations of our current digital-IRL moment, where the very definitions of memory, visibility, tangibility, etc are glitching out/fraying together in fascinating ways then physicalizing … Continue reading RADIO UPCOMING GUEST: JAMES BRIDLE
Last week’s radio show, my first back in-studio in a few weeks, was fun. Began with ‘Moroccan grime’ aka the standout track from Fnaire’s (not very good) new album which sounds like it was produced by Wiley in 2005. Check it, and lots more new heat: + + + [DJ Total Freedom, Paper Mag] And … Continue reading RADIO TOTAL FREEDOM
[old photo of Izenzaren’s lead singer, Igout Abdelhadi] This week’s radio show was a slowdown stretchout, July 4th, fading flags. It begins with Izenzaren’s Akal, a lovely brand-new banjo jam which I saw them perform just a few days earlier down in Agadir Morocco. We later ran into the lead singer Igout Abdelhadi very randomly, … Continue reading RADIO: TITANIC SINK
Wednesday’s radio show with special guest DJ Javier Estrada is now streaming! El programa de este miercoles con la participación especial de Dj Javier Estrada ahora streaming! We go in deep, with Javier explaining why he made 430 songs in the last three years & gave them all away for free; an introduction to the … Continue reading RADIO: DJ JAVIER ESTRADA
Last week’s radio show, In Praise of the Airhorn, is now streaming: And I’m pleased to announce that prolific Mexican producer DJ Javier Estrada will be my special guest on tomorrow’s radio show. The young powerhouse from Monterrey is one of the most interesting beatmakers around right now, and I’ve got a coupla thousand of … Continue reading RADIO: AIRHORN PRAISE & DJ JAVIER ESTRADA
[kids & graffiti on Mhmd Mahmoud near Tahrir] Cairo, Egypt. A few yards down from this graffiti lies the city’s best English language bookstore, and a few yards beyond that, the former British army barracks turned into traffic circle elevated into iconic revolutionary space. Tahrir means Liberation. With Egyptian presidential elections getting very close, now’s … Continue reading RADIO CAIRO
[Humphrey Davies] Next Wednesday, May 16th, award-winning translator Humphrey Davies (The Yacoubian Building, Naguib Mahfouz, Elias Khoury) will be the special guest on my weekly radio show. Davies is going to share some of his favorite sounds from Cairo and the Middle East — everything from spellbinding Quranic recitation to a surprisingly convincing defense of … Continue reading RADIO: HUMPHREY DAVIES & THE LOVEJOY BOOKENDS
Tomorrow I’m DJing an *all-ages* party at 285 Kent in Brooklyn with Prince Rama, Eva Aridjis, Weird Magic, and more. FB invite. dance dance explode dance. I spent today working on a mix, which meant that by the time the radio show rolled around, I was all beat-ed out, so it starts off on a … Continue reading RADIO: FLOAT
[Lars Holdus video still] Adult contemporary grease. Easy listening grease. Talk grease. Us? Classical grease. Last night’s radio show now streaming. To be more precise, it floats or rows over a rickety bridge– Scroll down the comments for further information about cryptographic hash functions, snare militancy, and audio compression. tracklist-
