HOLY SHIT: DOWNLOADABLE SHOWS ARE BACK

What's good listeners?

C+ here, I know, I know, I KNOW

I have not been updating the website, but that is going to change. 

All shows from the past spring and summer and this fall will be uploaded starting TODAY

Check back OFTEN for all sorts of Synesthesia goodness.

And of course new shows will continue from the mothership, the home of intergalactic student radio in the universe @ the WSUM towers Thursday nights 10pm to Midnight weekly.

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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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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March 4th: Dog Days Are Over

Boing boing, what's good people?

Show starts off with the 3 new tracks from Die Antwoord and then the mongo gets even heavier.

Christopher Walken, doing spoken word to Lady Gaga..... Genius

I played some Lady Gaga mixed with Ziggy Stardust, fun and kinda works, I personally am not all that big into "mashups", since I think they are usually just lazy and not all that interesting. However it somewhat works here.

However the mashup of Die Antwoord & Enya is balls.


March 4th: Parts 1--8  <-- (go here to download show)



Tracklisting

1. Zef Side by Die Antwoord
2. Orinoco Ninja by Die Antwoord
3. Enter The Ninja by Die Antwoord
4. Christopher Walken Pokerface Intermission 
5. Love Under Pressure by Ladystardust
6. Just Dance by Ladystardust
7. Little Bird (Animal Collective remix) by Goldfrapp
8. Paris (live) by Friendly Fires
9. Zero (DiscoWeirdo Re-Edit) by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. I Know Your Girlfriend Hates Me (Get Shakes remix) by Annie
11. You've Changed (Alexander T remix) by Sia ft Lauren Flax
12. Obsessions (Monsieur Adi remix) by Marina & The Diamonds
13. Hollywood (Radioproof remix) by Marina & The Diamonds
14. Hollywood (Fenech-Soler remix) by Marina & The Diamonds
15. Your Love by Nicki Minaj
16. Bump and Grind (Filthy Jerks remix) by R. Kelly
17. Holidays In Congo (Myd Remix) by Rainbow Arabia
18. Starry Eyed (Monarchy remix) by Ellie Goulding
19. Dog Days Are Over (Breakage remix) by Florence + The Machine
20. Under The Sheets (K.A.T.B. remix) by Ellie Goulding
21. Flashback (DJ Kue remix) by Calvin Harris
22. Not Going Home (Herve's remix) by Faithless
23. Remedy by Little Boots
24. Disco Monster (Alecto Remix) by Lele
25. MC's Can Kiss (Zombie Disco remix) by Uffie
26. Ce Jeu (Tepr remix) by Yelle
27. Disco Biscuit Love (Dept. remix) by The Jezabels
28. Fish Paste by Die Antwoord

If it would help I could start doing the tracklisting by where they are in the parts

Also "Ce Jeu" by Yelle is remixed by the guy who produced the song in the first place, weird, i know. 


How can anyone hear "Holidays In Congo" and not instantly want do this:

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1st Song Of The Week (SOTW) "I Got A Story To Tell"

The 1st SOTW is in honor of a man who died 13 years ago on March 9th 1997

The Notorious B.I.G.

His 1st album was called "Ready to Die" and his 2nd album was called "Life After Death" released March 25th.....

15 days AFTER he was murdered. I always remember how pumped I was to go and get "Life After Death" and how ironic and perverse that it was getting this mans magnum opus, which was so rife with him dealing with his own mortality.

The last song on the album is called: "You're Nobody (Till Somebody Kills You)".

Anyway this posting isn't really tied to how much of a tragedy his life and music is and was.

This is about the music. 

There used to be a time when album release dates were a big thing. Albums didn't get leaked, they had lead in singles and promotional tours.

Albums were events.

The Exclusive Company, used to do midnight release parties, I remember getting all sorts of albums the night they came out, and the one I remember the most was the album release for "Life After Death" by Biggie.

They had all the promotional posters up, and there was a big line of people really excited to be getting the album. It used to always reassure me that there were so many diverse people who were just as into music as me that they would be up and out and about at midnight on a Monday night/Tuesday morning, I really miss those days.

Sometimes I wonder if we all lose our sense of wonderment and enthusiasm for the world, when we get older & our lives get filled with so many bad things.

I digress....

I couldn't decide to do this post on his album release date (March 25th) or on his death (March 9th) I did know that, I wanted to have the 1st SOTW be about my favorite rapper.

So as to the music: 3 songs

1. I Got A Story To Tell <-- "you better talk to him...., arm, leg"
2. Juicy <-- "It was all a dream...."
3. Wake Up Show Freestyle <-- "I wanna curse"

 I have always thought that good flow and rapping, reminds me tremendously of poetry, and Biggie was almost comically gifted with prose and flow.

Biggie is certainly somebody....