Who's a DJ?
 

I'd imagine that on a Sonic Youth board that practically everyone must be a dj, but I'm asking specifically about radio, in particular if you have a stream or not.

My show, What's This Called? is on KPSU in Portland (these days, it was on KAOS in Olympia from '93 to '03 and I did other shows before that starting with KUGS in Bellingham in 1985) and it streams online, plus there's an archive where you can download previous shows.

Who else??

im a jockey of discs too. i used to hav a show in dublin on a pirate radio station callrd alcies restaurant, later then xfm (not the english station). that lasted about a year. ran an idie/punk club in dublin city with mates called dazed, that ran for a long time and now am trying to get something happening down here in my local small town of wexford.

im trying to get the local radio station to allow me to play but they have no intrest saying that "we already cater for independant music because we play coldplay, busted, u2 and nirvana" they dont have a clue and are more interested in keeping housewives and farmers happy by shit programming and death announcements.......

a podcast maybe a future project tho......

I just got a gig, starting in January, on our town's "free" underground station. I get to play and say anything I want, according to the "boss." I get 3 hours a week, Thurs. 9-midnight. Unpaid, but this should be a blast. I'm thinking of reading a passage from Naked Lunch between sets.

i hire and fire the dj's at my college radio station (klsu). occasionally, i go on with a friend and do a late night experimental show.

I used to have a show on a Pirate Station.

Tell us more about this Chout. I'm quite interested in Pirate radio.

I take it you don't stream, or you would have mentioned that, eh?

Me but not In that form. I know how to DJ dance music.

That's what I'm doing. A skulls and bones station, beginning in January. The most fascinating thing about it, for me, is that I have complete freedom. I can say and play anything for three hours one night every week.

actually, we do, but our website is a mess right now and we're on automation, so mosltly boring indiepop is getting played right now.

http://www.klsu.fm is the address if you're feeling brave enough to see our site (the streaming link is in the top right)

There is a long shot I may be able to pick this up, given our vicinity and my semi-powerful radio. AM I'm guessing?

:) Yeah, long shot. Unless, what's your vicinity--10 blocks of the station? That's about the farthest those half-dozen or so watts send the signal, I believe. I live about five miles or so out from the station--the station is downtown and I'm in the burbs. I can't pick up even a ghost of a whisper from the station.

So much for supporting the burgeoning Iowa pirate radio scene.

(you're going to have loads of fun)

I'm looking forward to it. Send me requests in advance, if you want.

Oh, and I'll play a bunch of STNNNG!

Well, the State next door...

So much for that idea. Perhaps someone will enjoy it so much and relay it?

I'll bring in some aluminum foil to wrap around the antenna. Maybe that will help boost the signal. I'll bend it to the west, too.

I've deejayed at Freeform KDVS 90.3 FM in Davis, CA for 13+ years now.

The links for downloading or streaming the programs appear with the weekly playlists and hundreds of record/CD/CDR/tape reviews in my blog linked below...

I'm thinking of calling myself DJ Dead-Air.

I'll cross my fingers and scan with my trusty shortwave, the E10.

cool

Here's an article that was written about the station from a few years back...my two friends are interviewed, and I'm Gumby in the pic.
http://citypages.com/databank/24/1203/article11780.asp

Funny article. What is the current status of FRTC?

It's still around and in a new location, been a few places since that article. That was in a garage with a propane heater that wouldn't work frequently - I did a few shows in subzero weather in the winter.

Did a show once where I tuned all my guitar's strings to one note and droned for two hours straight. I may make a cd out of it and 'release' it.

It is fun, may go back and do another show, got a little burnt out on it after a while. I have tapes of nearly every show I did.

You should share them sometime! In the Shortwave Radio thread, maybe?

Its sort of rare, but every once and a while I'll pick up clandestine stations, which are politically motivated stations from places like Myanmar or Colombia, and if the folks responsible are caught they are probably killed.

Ha! I used that name commercially (as in to pay the bills) in Olympia WA for several years, and still every NYE. Nowadays there's also some guy using the same moniker up in Seattle who has a My Space and everything. I don't really care enough to challenge him as to who had it first, since the music I play under that name is '80s pop for cash and if he can stand being falsely associated with it, more power to him.

See above post. I do a bit of that for money, though I do what I really like on my radio show.

I have a show on my college's station. See sig...

What's your timeslot on there Rick? I looked on the schedule, but couldn't figure out when you're on. Do you use the same name?

Same question as above - what time, what name? Your damn website expects me to download the program schedule as a PDF, I hate that!

i used to be the md/pd at my college station back in the 90's (kdur), that's how i began collecting cd's (xtra promos), before that i was into tapes/records only; i dj'd a free form show from late 92 thru late 98, i had 3 hours 1 day a week (usually 9-mid on fridays). i taped prolly 70% of my shows, but lost most of them in a move :( i still have a few left, but nothing to play them on (double :() on air i was "dj jive cold rhymin' mc white fat matt the extreme alternative g" or some bullshit like that.

i think i miss it.

Mondays at 12 midnight Pacific.

Or listen whenever on the archive, as I suspect most do.

Have you heard about a new noncommercial radio station coming to Portland...very likely, it seems.

I might be moving to Portland. My wife's looking for work out thataway, and since she's the bigger breadwinner, I'll follow and do whatever. Is Portland still cool?

He is a DJ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9mlwcAmEpo
This should carry a warning for being one of the most embarrassing music videos ever made.

There was a time when I could count dozens of Portland bands as my current faves, and I'd be driving back and forth between here and there at least every other month. Now, it seems to have slowed down, but it's still very active...somewhere, I read that they have a current inventory of about 2500 bands and musical projects. Insane! I wonder if the whole Sacramento area even has 300?

Underrated food city (so long as you avoid burritos (except King Burrito) and Chinese (except some dives on 82nd)). Lotsa shows. All kindsa music. Best new record store in the West with Exiled Records on SE Hawthorne at 46th. Tons of other stores there for certain niches.

Sometimes, it's so hip that it hurts. Just try not to cringe when the Mercury columnists spout some kinda coded slang all the time and "edgy irony." But at the same time, it's mass media and yet it's centered on music and art at the most grassroots of levels...as in, they even write about house-shows sometimes, and then the cops don't even show up to bust it.

And then, you can take the bus to the bottom of Marquam Canyon and hike up 1000 feet, traverse the crest, get lost in a forest with waterfalls, and come back downtown on a return trail. All within a couple hours.

Yeah, it's still my ideal city.

It's actually this job and this radio station that keeps me in the Davis/Sacto area.

I love Portland, though a certain amount of lack of cool is what I like about it. There's plenty to do, but it's just as easy not to do it in that there isn't some self-propagating inbred "scene" requiring one to participate in it at all times (can you tell I lived in Olympia for ten years?)

As Rick says, there's lots of good cheap food, though I'd debate him on the burrito front. I'm rather pleased with the cheap Mexican food options, but then he's living in CA, so I suppose I should just shut up. Again, I'm comparing to where I was last, and this is WAY better.

Yes lots of great music stores, from the infinite selection of used cds at Everyday Music to the awesome niche noise/experimental selection at Anthem on Belmont.

Tons of great musicians doing cool things too, but there is kind of a lack of a band scene per se, or at least there is no "Portland sound". However, I think that's a good thing really, as do most of the musicians you talk to. Nobody wants to sound like everybody (or anybody) else.

I saw what Rick said about an emerging alternative radio station of some sort, and yeah, I've hear the buzz about it of course. I don't really think anything is going to happen too quickly though, it's not that easy to break into the crowded airwaves here legally. Anyway, we have a few decent shows on KBOO, quite a few on KPSU, and I honestly think our whole station is at least decent (though we're only on AM city wide, we are on the net in a big way, and FM on PSU campus.) There was a pirate station too, but the FCC killed it recently.

Nice

I used to be a DJ at campus radio station. I had an hour-long broadcast every Wednesday about avant electronics and noise music. Nobody really gave fuck about it but I really really REALLY enjoyed playing Masonna to people that knew nothing about it :)

Currently on Thursday nights midnight-2am... Although I wont be programming for the next 4 weeks because winter break is coming up and Im heading back home for that time. Although I'll be back on the second week of January (will probably do a best of 2006 show).

Also, our schedule changes every quarter so I may or may not have a new time slot on after that.

"night of the living tongue" every thursday night on KBOO is best.
as far as portland goes... meh, its ok.


ive played on the radio, but never DJ'd

The new station would be a totally legal full-power FM non-commercial community station. But I can't speak anymore specifically about it in a public forum. Just trust that it is looking like an eventuality and not just a dream. And I think the model for it to strive toward will be something more like WFMU or KFJC.