One thing I enjoy about college radio, both as a listener and a DJ, is that longer tracks get a chance to fully stretch out. I don’t always have the space to spare, though; I’ll often use excerpts of 15- and 30-minute pieces as a way to flit from one mood to another, but because I’ve usually got a stack of music I’m hoping to play, I’m stingy with the time I give those tracks.
Given a big expanse of time to fill today, with folks still returning from Xmas break, I decided to take the chance to feature only long tracks: 15 minutes or more. It might sound lazy, but 15 minutes goes by really fast when you’re the DJ, trust me.
It turned out to be a fortuitous bit of programming, since a mild cold left me with a sore throat and not much energy today.
As of this writing, the stack of music beside me includes: Tim Berne, Weasel Walter, Aruna Sairam, Todd Rundgren, Magma, Tanmoy Bose (do I dare play a 32-minute tabla solo?) and others.
Here’s the playlist, being updated quasi-real-time. Most album titles link into KZSU’s Zookeeper database; the
icon means there’s a review or description there as well.
Playlist for The Long Form |
Tuesday, 6 January 2009 9am – 3pm |
DJ: Wedge |
Artist |
Track |
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Album/Label |
Hartigan, Royal Ensemble |
Anlo Kete |
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Blood Drum Spirit: The Royal Hartigan Ensemble Live In China
Innova Recordings |
Allen, Tony |
No Accomodation For Lagos |
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Afro Disco Beat
Vampi Soul |
Zappa, Frank |
The Purple Lagoon |
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Läther
Rykodisc |
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— (10:00 a.m.) — |
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Taylor, Cecil |
Amplitude |
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Great Paris Concert
Get Back |
E.S.T. |
Premonition |
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Leucocyte
Decca Music Group Ltd. |
Sairam, Aruna |
Bandanodi |
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Divine Inspiration
Harmonia Mundi Usa |
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— (11:00 a.m.) — |
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Sairam, Aruna |
Bandanodi [cont’d] |
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Divine Inspiration
Harmonia Mundi Usa |
Krause, Drew |
Go-Round |
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Ding
Capstone Records |
Bose, Tanmoy |
Slow Tintal |
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Solo Tabla
Bol Records |
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— (12:00 noon) — |
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Garnas, Agnes Buen/Jan Garbarek |
Margjit Og Targjei Risvollo |
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Rosensfole
Ecm Records |
New Haven Improvisers Collective |
Quantum Decoherence |
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Interference
Self Release |
Evans, Peter/Weasel Walter Group |
The Eyes of Hell |
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Oculus ex Abyssus
ugEXPLODE |
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— (1:00 p.m.) — |
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Magma |
Mekanik Zain |
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Magma Live
Rca Records (Modern) |
Kalhor, Kayhan & Brooklyn Rider |
Silent City |
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Silent City
Harmonia Mundi Usa |
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— (2:00 p.m.) — |
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Smith, Chas |
Descent |
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Descent
Cold Blue |
Berne, Tim/Copenhagen Art Ens |
Impacted Wisdom |
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Open, Coma
Screwgun Records |
EPILOGUE: There, it’s done. Rewarding, and relaxing at first, but kind of boring later on — there’s a lot of sitting around involved, as you’d imagine. Tim Berne will clock out the final 40 minutes of the show now… ‘turns out “Impacted Wisdom” is the one track of the Open, Coma CD that no one’s played on the air ever at KZSU, so, what the heck.