Month: May 2018

Half Hour of Power Hiatus

Greetings, chiptune fans!

The Half Hour of Power show will be on a three week hiatus due to travel.  The next show will air on June 27th.  I will try to set up some scheduled streams of old episodes on June 6th, 13th and 20th, but I can’t guarantee these will work.   If they don’t work, you can always listen from the archives!

Something Blue – Everlasting – Friday, May 25 at 20:00 UDT

I will be running the show manually this week and it will be my first time so hopefully there will be a minimal amount of glitches. This weeks show is called Everlasting featuring Dave Koz, Charlie Wood, Lee Konitz, Kenny Wheeler, and Sean Jones. So, jazz. It’s all good but I am particularly knocked out by Lee Konitz with the Kenny Wheeler Quartet recorded in 1999 and rereleased in 2016, from the “Olden Times” CD. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at http://sbblues.com.

Playlist

Dave Koz and Friends, Route 66 featuring Aubrey Logan
welcome
Charlie Wood, World Painted Pink
Dave Koz and Friends, If You Really Love Me
Dave Koz and Friends, This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) featuring Kenny Latimore and Shelea Frazier
talk
Charlie Wood, Junk In The Trunk
Sean Jones Quartet, I Don’t Give a Damn Blues

Lee Konitz with the Kenny Wheeler Quartet, Kary´s Trance (Live at Birdland Neuburg)
Lee Konitz with the Kenny Wheeler Quartet, Lennie´s (Live at Birdland Neuburg)
talk
Sean Jones Quartet, Don’t Fall off the L.E.J.
Sean Jones Quartet, New Journey

Who is Hairy Larry Anyway?

Hairy Larry is a musician, songwriter, producer, and promoter. He has been playing music in Northeast Arkansas for over 30 years. He is currently playing piano in a jazz group, Bebop Beatniks, bass in a blues band, Delta Legends, and in an acoustic trio, HairyLarry’s Merry Pranksters.

He is the host of Something Blue on KASU, an NPR affiliate. Many Something Blue shows can be heard as podcasts at sbblues.com. Something Blue is broadcast on the internet at kasu.org Saturday nights at 10:00 PM CST. Something Blue can also be heard on anonradio, anonradio.net/listen/.

Larry is a retired computer consultant and is back in school studying music composition at Arkansas State University. He has written hundreds of songs including the early internet hit, “Love Stuff” and a YouTube favorite, “Won’t Be Down Always”.

Hairy Larry has promoted area musicians by putting on festivals and other live music events including Blues Fest, Sunday In The Park, Bebopalooza!, and Jazz Thursday. He owns HairyLarryLand, a recording studio and indie label. HairyLarryLand CDs can be heard at hairylarryland.com. Larry is an active concert taper and has posted many recordings to the Live Music Archive at archive.org.

He is webmaster at Delta Boogie and the Delta Boogie Network at deltaboogie.com and deltaboogie.net. You can also find him as @hairylarry on Mastodon or email him at hairylarry@deltaboogie.com.

New Show+DJ on aNONradio — DJ Hairy Larry!

Let us all give a warm welcome to our new DJ, Hairy Larry (SDF member ‘hairylarry’), and his show “Something Blue”! This show will feature blues, jazz and other American roots music as played by musicians all over the world. There is a focus on live music and the show also includes production music recorded for “Something Blue” in Northeast Arkansas.

“Something Blue” with Hairy Larry livestreams every Friday, 20:00-21:00 UTC (4-5PM EDT/1-2PM PDT/9-10PM BST/10-11PM CEST).

“Something Blue” will debut on aNONradio.net this coming Friday, May 25th so please show your support by tuning in!

Half Hour of Power playlist EP14, 2018/05/23

Continuing the “artist of the week” theme, tonight’s show was dedicated to the music of Czech chiptune artist Factor 6, a member of the excellent AY Riders and YM Digital  bands who also does solo work under the alternative name Akio Tenshi.  Like Yerz, Factor 6 is a talented “multi-instrumentalist”, and this show features AY and SID tunes, Amiga MODs and a 1-bit track.

  1. Akio Tenshi – Distant Space Signals
  2. Factor 6 – AdraSTea Orbit (from YM Digital Album Spontaneous Compression)
  3. Factor 6 – Thirty-One (from 1-bit Wizards album The Journey Begins)
  4. Factor 6 – External Turnouts
  5. Factor 6 – Funky Symptom
  6. Akio Tenshi – On da Moov
  7. Akio Tenshi – Lost Friend
  8. Akio Tenshi – Summer Memories

Half Hour of Power playlist EP13, 2018/05/16

Tonight was (already!) the second Yerzmyey night, hot on the heels of last week.   This time I focused on Yerz’s more unconventional or experimental output, featuring a song made on a Raspberry Pi (RPi Zwei), a song made on two synchronised ZX Spectrums, one using an AY sound chip and one using the beeper (Proof of Concept), and a song made on a ZX Spectrum but heavily post-processed using filters, phasers, phlangers, delays, reverbs and more to lend the sound of “Berlin School” electronica (Unknown Radiation Spectrum).  Yerz is certainly not a one-trick pony.

  1. Yerzmyey – Ambiental
  2. Yerzmyey – Proof of Concept (from album Astral Combat)
  3. Yerzmyey – Chouyaku (from album Microsongs)
  4. Yerzmyey – Death Squad (from album Deathsquad)
  5. Yerzmyey – Weird (from album Freakuencies)
  6. Yerzmyey – Industrial Fucking Part 5 (from album Astral Combat)
  7. Yerzmyey – RPi Zwei (from album RPi Zwei)
  8. Yerzmyey – Mission Highly Improbable Part 1 (from album Mission Highly Improbable)
  9. Yerzmyey – Mission Highly Improbable Part 2 (from album Mission Highly Improbable)
  10. Yerzmyey – Unknown Radiation Spectrum (from album Strange Light Under My Bed)

Half Hour of Power playlist EP12, 2018/05/09

Tonight was the first ever Yerz Night (yes, there will be more)!  All tracks are by my favourite chiptune artist Yerzmyey, a talented and innovative dude who has been rocking beeps since 1989, has started two chiptune bands (AY Riders and YM Digital) and has played live at major chiptune events in Japan and the US!

  1. Yerzmyey – Where is Love? (from album Ye Olde Square)
  2. Yerzmyey – Break Space (from album ZX 81)
  3. Yerzmyey – Arcane Zone (from album RetroBeat)
  4. Yerzmyey – XL Dance (from album XL Digital)
  5. Yerzmyey – Time Machine II (from album aTTraction)
  6. Yerzmyey – Trackers Forever! (from album Oldschool MODe)
  7. Yerzmyey – 5th Channel (from album Interphase)
  8. Yerzmyey – Haunted Mansion (from album Brutal and Aggressive)
  9. Yerzmyey – Jigoku no sanba (from album Microsongs – sadly faded out before end!)

Half Hour of Power playlist EP11, 2018/05/02

I was short of time and a little lazy this week, so most of tonight’s show was one epic 22 minute track from Stig’s amazing album Velocity!  The album only has two tracks, and the other one goes for even longer at 27 minutes!  If you liked what you heard tonight, please consider buying the album to complete the experience.

  1. Stig – Velocity, part one
  2. Mister Beep – Slowing Down the Chaos
  3. Irrlicht Project – Meta-ls