Wednesday, May 12, 2010

4 HOUR SHOW April 22nd Silent Shout

Once a semester, and once a summer, I do a longer show, 4 hours plus (record is 7 for me), trying to play the things that I think all fit together but at the same time, play things that I wouldn't have played on either a 2 hour show or in pieces here and there. 


Thus the WSUM weekend, started at 8pm instead of its normal 10pm. It seemed to be a big hit with all the people who normally don't tune in that late to get their Synesthesia fix. 



Tracklisting is going off of the WSUM playlist that I entered, during the show, because I erased the actual (d'oh) playlist. If it seems off or whatever, shoot me an email and I will try to get you the exact song name or whatever. It should be close to thou.


  1. Welcome To My Head by Thunderpuss
  2. Dog Days Are Over by Florence and The Machine
  3. Silent Shout by The Knife
  4. Great Release by LCD Soundsystem
  5. In For The Kill (remix) by La Roux
  6. Starry Eyed (remix) by Ellie Goulding
  7. Fembot by Robyn
  8. Dancing On My Own by Robyn
  9. Drumming Song (remix) by Florence and The Machine
  10. Walking On A Dream (remix) by Empire Of The Sun
  11. Rocket (remix) by Goldfrapp
  12. Rock You All Night Long by Sander Kleinenberg
  13. Same Old Show by Basement Jaxx
  14. The Talk by The Clumps
  15. Where's Your Head At? by Basement Jaxx
  16. Pure Imagination by Willy Wonka
  17. Lay In A Shimmer by Pantha Du Prince
  18. Abglanz by Pantha Du Prince
  19. I Can't Forget You (remix) by Anthony White
  20. Go (remix) by Moby
  21. Behind The Mask by Yellow Magic Orchestra
  22. Strict Machine by Goldfrapp
  23. Azurra by Gui Boratto
  24. Simarions (remix) by Mikeal Weili
  25. Technarchy by Cybersonic
  26. Lyposuct by D.I.M.
  27. Elvi$ by Felix Da Housecat
  28. Under The Sun (remix) by Kidda
  29. Disco Monster (remix) by Lele
  30. Stand In A Line by The Rubies
  31. What You Need by Ciao
  32. The Pong by Audion
  33. Just Fucking by Audion
  34. Surrender by The Chemical Brothers
  35. Two Of Us by Supermayer
  36. Thieves In The Night by Hot Chip
  37. Half A Scissor by Mr. Oizo
  38. Your Woman by White Town
  39. Orinoco Ninja by Die Antwoord
  40. America by Dusty Kid
  41. Other songs, but I don't feel like labeling them, if need be email me.

There really isn't much to say about this show, probably my new favorite show that I did, any show where I play something off of the Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is going to be a good show as far as I am concerned, and Johnny Depp & Tim Burton, how could you. Fuckers that remake was the worst thing EVER. Burton I forgive you, you did make Nightmare Before Christmas after all, but Johnny Depp was been wack sauce, since he left 21 Jump Street.

April 22nd Show: Part A


April 22nd Show: Part B

Like usual, click to download

Enjoy and remember:

"If you want to view paradise, 
simply look around and view it...."

March 18th Show: Here We Go



About this week: I wasn't feeling all that happy, so I did a set with things that didn't exactly make me sad, but just kinda evoke "meh" in me, although there are some very fantastic songs that make "meh" a lot more tolerable for me. Humming is a live version, Portishead who are thought of 'as' Trip-hop, for me they are just a great band who do a very unique sound. Humming breaths a lot more here than the studio version. Here We Go by Jon Brion, is something that has always made me sad and crack a smile at the same time. Who doesn't love music that does that to you. I think the first time I heard Breathe by Telepopmusik was in an Abercrombie and Fitch store and I thought; man who is their corporate music person who has some very decent taste and forward thinking sensibilities, it was MUCH before the song got all played out and stuff.

Tracklisting is approximate

  1. Organ Donor by DJ Shadow
  2. Humming by Portishead
  3. Song 1 by DJ Krush
  4. Here We Go by Jon Brion
  5. Edge Of Blue by DJ Krush
  6. Half Forgotten Daydreams (Twilight) by Kokin Gumi
  7. Samba Da Bencao by Bebel Gilberto
  8. Fu-Yu by DJ Krush
  9. Breathe by Telepopmusik
  10. '95 aka Make Things Right by Lemon Jelly
  11. Boy From School (remix) by Hot Chip
  12. Night Scented Stock by Kate Bush
  13. Unravel by Bjork
  14. Chiminea by DJ Koze
  15. Help Me by Timo Maas
  16. Distractionz by Basement Jaxx
  17. Morskaya by SCSI-9
  18. Relevee by Delia Gonzalez
  19. Leave It by The Field
  20. Hussel by MIA
  21. Love Don't Dance Here Anymore by Tiga
  22. Chase The Sun by Planet Funk
  23. Hearts Collide by Little Boots
  24. Videotape by Radiohead
  25. I Saw A Light by Bat For Lashes
Decided I would get a little bit more half smile--half  0_o  with The Boy From School and some Lemon Jelly. Lemon Jelly are probably the best band and example of "Chillout music" as you can get, they make very good albums and even better compilations. Unravel by Bjork is seriously everything I love about Bjork all at once. Different, strange, on some other shit, and awesome all in 1 song. Leave It by The Field is off of an incredible album from 2009 which was nice to see that it was only 5 or 6 songs, and they all clock in over 7 min's, nice to see some artists have not abandoned the long, building and churning type songs (with all due respect to Joanna Newsom.)

Ended with some love songs, and my favorite Bat For Lashes song, hope you enjoy

March 18th Show  <-- click to download


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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Thoughts on the first half of the year musically speaking

It has been a REALLY bad year for music thus far. Most of the major labels are WAYYY off sales from even last year (is it ever going to bottom out?), even Video Games, are having a down year thus far...

I am working on getting all of the shows from this past semester up and running, but I don't feel like just posting straight shows without words, but maybe that might happen, I am fucking tired of writing, ill tell you that.



Musically I have really only bought 1 album (that I have listened to enough to have an opinion about), and that is Pantha Du Prince's Black Noise album

Pantha Du Prince has made melodic-minimal-techno for the past 7 years, releasing 2 other very good albums with 1 or 2 superior songs on them each.

Pantha Du Prince is available on itunes/Amazon/Beatport & Juno download.

It's kinda hard to find otherwise.

I will probably have a better attitude on music once new albums from MIA, SIA, Ellen Allien and many more release their albums for the summer push.

Until then I will keep my ears tuned for some new Synesthesia magic to share with you.

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May 6th Show: My One And Only Thrill

 Whats good?

Been a super long time since I posted anything, for that I apologize. But on the other hand, I will be posting like its hot, so that is good. This is the supposed last official show of the semester before the summer starts, I was so far behind that I didn't even sign up for the inter period of shows and some losers signed up for my slots so there might not be any Synesthesia shows to officially start the WSUM weekend.



This is the show in 8 parts, I have been experimenting with the links and such so let me know PLEASE if any of the links are broken or don't seem to be straight forward enough, any or all input would be great. Also let me know if the shows seem to crack or peak a lot, if so that is something I will look into possibly fixing.  

Approximate track listing (I didn't play the exact order that I was going to because of technical difficulties.)


May 6th Show (8 parts)     <-- Click to download
  1. My One And Only Thrill by Melody Gardot
  2. Les Nuits by Nightmares On Wax
  3. My Girls by Animal Collective
  4. Sleepyhead by Passion Pit
  5. Lights Go Down by Basement Jaxx
  6. Weak Become Heroes by The Streets
  7. Feels Like Home by Basement Jaxx
  8. Nobody's Home by Ulrich Schnauss
  9. Goodbeatapella by Deee-Lite
  10. Pon De Floor (remix) by The Streets
  11. Pon De Floor by Major Lazers
  12. Today Has Been Ok by Emiliana Torrini
  13. La Ritournelle by Sebastian Tellier
  14. Your Song (cover obviously) by The Streets
  15. Darkness & The Light by Matt Warren
  16. Abglanz by Pantha Du Prince (Best Song of 2010 IMHO).... Thus far  0_o
  17. Disconnect by Plasticman
  18. Fleece On Brain by Matthew Dear
  19. Brutalga Square by DJ Koze
  20. Memory Of A Free Festival by David Bowie
Notes On Songs:

My One and Only Thrill is an amazing album, and Melody has such an interesting personal story, I am rooting for her. Weak Become Heroes, is by far one of my fav Rap songs of all times, and The Streets has made 2 classic albums that should be heard as complete albums to fully appreciate. Feels Like Home by Basement Jaxx, has Meshell Ndegeocello on it, and is really a downtempo masterpiece.

Second hour has some more Techno type music, with a triple threat of Minimal near the end, I ended the show with my favorite David Bowie song of all time: Memory Of A Free Festival

I'll let you know the official summer schedule once I know it myself.

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Synesthesia 10pm--Midnight Thursday Nights WSUM 91.7FM