The Eccentric Grooves of Logan 5

Somehow I ended up spending 9 full hours performing the DJ craft this weekend, including 5 hours at a "beer camp" release party and 4 hours of radio. As much as that's mentally exhausting in one capacity, I feel so privileged to serve as a conduit / librarian / entertainer / teacher / shamen to greater or lesser degrees. The earlier evening show was more along the positive/fun/funky vibe, and this show as on the deep tip. This was definitely heightened when halfway through the AAP one of the turntable tonearms crapped out, which led to a much more techno-oriented set than I normally would play in the second hour of this show, given that I usually play about 3/5 vinyl and 2/5 digital (hence newer). Well, hey, that's live radio, and full spectrum dance music. Podcasts will be up when I get my shit together not available this week. But you know I love you anyway. Playlist Martin Landsky “Sweet Sweet Morning (Swayzak Dub)” Audioelectronic “Two Trains Running (S...

Nina Simone “Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter” Antibalas “Dirt and Blood” Orgone “Matanza” Telephones “Watermelon Man” Lindstrom and Prins Thomas “Plunk Og Pirk” Late Nite Tuff Guy “I Don't Like Acid” Grace Jones “Warm Leatherette” Eddy Grant “Funky Rock 'n' Roll” Panico “Lupita” Buffalo Daughter “Cold Summer” Playgroup “Make It Happen (Zongamin Remix)” Dave Borla “Micro Chips And Salsa” Mr. Oizo “Last Night a DJ Killed My Dog” Franz Ferdinand “Dark of the Matinee (Headman Remix)” Holy Ghost! “Wait and See (CFCF Remix)” Junior Boys “The Equalizer (Morgan Geist Graphic Mix)” Isolee “Can't Sleep All Night” Bis “Shack Up” Beck “Girl (8bit remix)” Alpines “Cocoon (Xxxy Remix)”

It's sweltering out there. Still, at 11pm at night. At midnight. Chico's melting after a weekend of the triple digits. Sweaty times require sweaty funky music, my friends, and that's what filled my crate several days ago when I did a little extracurricular KZFR set on Wednesday night. So carrying that over to this evening, we find this set starting out with a hot blast of funk, settling into a deep dancefloor groove, and soon moving beyond into uncharted territories. Soon, we've forgotten the radiating pavement and swamp cooler buzz, as the ethereal vibes of some deep sea techno envelope us. This is how I cool off, and it's late now, time to open windows and drift to sleep on the breeze. Playlist Zongamin “Make Love Not War” The Jimmy Castor Bunch “It's Just Begun” Salsoul Orchestra “Getaway” Northend “Tee's Happy” Electra “Feels Good (Carrots & Beets) (dub)” Pittsburgh Transit Authority “Now's Tomorrow” Smith and Hack “Frederi...

A show that explores all crevices of our dance music from light to dark, toe-tapping to hard-hitting, breakbeats to throbbing machine beats... shared with love. Playlist Instant Funk “No Stoppin' That Rockin' (M and M 12" Mix)” Asha Puthli “Space Talk (Kompleks re-edit)” REL “In Due Time” Flying Lotus “GNG BNG” TINO “Body Dub” Bulletproof Space Travellers feat. DJ Quest “Black Hole” Amon Tobin “Fast Eddie” A Guy Called Gerald “Humanity (feat. Louise Rhodes)” Shockout “Whowouldseekwar (inst)” Meat Beat Manifesto “Fragments” Scientist “(Unknown Track)” Hot Chip “Just Like We (Breakdown) (DFA Remix)” Pluton and Humanoids “World Invaders ( Vocal )” Exodus “Together Forever” Isolee “Pillowtalk” Matthew Jonson “Marionette (the beginning)” Kill Memory Crash “Doorway Nine” Dadub “Perseverance” Si Begg “Sing Circle System” Vangelis “Tales of the Future” Podcast Download the show (big ol' MP3 file)

After taking a week off to commune with nature and other forms of music, I was pleased to dig into the vinyl vaults for this show to bring some uptempo funk, summertime house music, sax-infused techno, and even some late night electro. Playlist Bobby Konders “Massive Sounds Feat. Mutaburaka: the Poem” from Cool Calm and Collective Russ Gabriel “He's The Man” from He's The Man Jeff Settle “Jeff's Whistle Song (FK5 remix)” from Jeff's Whistle Song (FK5 remix) Isolee “Beau Mot Plage (Freeform Reform, Pt. 1 & 2)” from Beau Mot Plage (Freeform Reform, Onionz & Original Versions) Laurent Garnier “The Man With The Red Face” from The Man With The Red Face Der dritte Raum “Doppel (Autotune Remix)” from Doppel (Autotune Remix) Gold Code “The Day After (Jonah Sharp Remix)” from The Day After (Jonah Sharp Remix) Basic Channel “Enforcement” from Lawrence “Swap” from Swap Alton Miller “Clouds Are Gone (Henrik Schwartz remix)” from Cl...

Annular Eclipse of the Sean This show was an example of where I see community radio as different from a regular music podcast - not just content but context! Electronic music journalist and PR professional Sean Yoder graciously dropped by to talk about electronic dance music landscape as he sees it from the business perspective - how artists are getting their music out, and how listeners are taking it in. We paid our tribute to those who left us this week, and played some as-yet-unreleased tracks from Sean's artists, including some really innovative techno corkers. I hope you'll enjoy the conversation and the tunes as much as we enjoyed doing it. Feedback always welcome through comments or on the Facebook page . Playlist Donna Summer “I Feel Love (12" Mix)” Bee Gees “You Should Be Dancin'” Quando Quango “Atom Rock” Signal Deluxe “Imperial Aerosol Kid ([a]pendics.shuffle Remix)” on Blaq Arthur Oskan “Fat Mobile” on Thoughtless Music The Nova...

photo courtesy b.e.global @ flickr I'm mighty happy to invite my first guest on the show: Sean Yoder will join us this Sunday evening to play some music and to talk about the business / hobby / passion of electronic dance music.  Although he got started in the music scene over 20 years ago, as the promoter and resident DJ of the local "Zocalo" evening communal events for electronic music, he's recently been exposing Chico to the sounds of our most innovative local producers and jocks.  As a public relations manager for numerous music producers, record labels and DJs through his VinylJunkie PR firm , as a tastemaker DJ himself , and as a journalist with the global music magazine Ibiza Voice and formerly publications like Big Shot and our local alternative weeklies, Sean has tracked the evolution in the way our music gets from the artist to the dancer/DJ/consumer from the analog days to the digital future. Join us as we delve into this heady topic and play some de...