The Musical Education of FroggyMe and his influences.

There are many radio shows through the years, most of which are amazingly still on the air, that have influenced me. In this post, I will list them; if you like my show, you may like these shows as well. All have archives, live streams during the show, and are on terrestrial radio if you happen to live within reception.

Acid Jazz on KXJZ
Back in the summer of 1995 I was listening to the jazz radio station out of Sacramento State university as my dad drove us to the grocery store in our quaint mountain town, when this show came on called Acid Jazz. I had to stay in the parking lot and listen! When we got home, I continued to listen on the living room stereo, and have been listening ever since.
The show was started by host Steve Milne who was aware of the acid jazz, rare groove, jazz-rap and UK jazz dance scenes. He added it as a show to his Saturday night line-up, which started with his show Global Beat, a show be created as a response to the late 80s world music craze. While I enjoyed listening to Global Beat, I couldn’t wait for Acid Jazz to come on later in the evening.
Steve Milne still continues to guest host the show, but usually the host is the music director at KXJZ, Gary Vercelli. Another host named John Florek hosted the show from approximately 2002-2007. His take on the show emphasized funky and jazzy jam bands, and so was my education on groups like Particle, Jacob Fred Jazz Oddessy, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Skerik, and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe/Robert Walter’s 20th Congress/Greyboy Allstars (though actually I already knew about the Greyboy Allstars and DJ Greyboy from Steve Milne’s 90s episodes of the show.)
I highly suggest you catch archived episodes on the website, and at archive.org, especially the Steve Milne hosted episodes. A good one to start with is this one in honor of Lee “Scratch” Perry. Also, I uploaded 4 partial episodes of the show that I taped in the 90s.
I actually don’t suggest you listen to the show live, as it conflicts with FroggyMe’s Fantastic Fantasy, so don’t do that, haha. The show used to be produced live in the studio, and I even chatted with Steve Milne on the phone when he was there during the show, but it is now produced as a podcast and aired at a later time, so there is no real reason to catch it live anyway, unless you are within reception of KXJZ and want the thrill of listening to it over terrestrial radio waves. The archives are sufficient for Acid Jazz, but for the remainder of the shows listed below, I do suggest catching them live, as they are live in the studio and it’s more fun that way.

Gilles Peterson Worldwide
Gilles Peterson started as a pirate radio DJ at Radio Invicta, playing soul jazz and jazz funk for all the UK jazz dancers from a ship floating off the shores of the UK (unless Radio Invicta was just in an attic, and I’m not going to look it up.) He later had influential shows on Jazz FM, Kiss FM, and went mainstream in 1998 on BBC Radio 1. I used to listen to him via RealPlayer 10 to catch his shows on BBC Radio 1. He has since moved to BBC Radio 6 Music, and I highly suggest catching his show. It’s a Saturday morning show in the US, Saturday afternoon for people in the UK.
He is the originator of the term “acid jazz” and founded both the Acid Jazz and Talkin’ Loud record labels. His current label is Brownswood, named after his house he keeps just to house his massive record collection.
If you hurry, he currently has episodes (they expire after a month) celebrating the unique sound of London club culture with Broken Beat in the early 2000s (with Bembe Segue, Bugz in the Attic, Masters at Work, IG Culture, 4 Hero, Domu, Two Banks of Four, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Da Lata, Paul Murphy, UNKLE, Ed Rush and Optical, DJ Shadow), and an episode celebrating Manchester and Liverpool soccer.
Shoot, as I type this I am being blown away by the Broken Beat episode, but I see that it expires in 8 hours. Oh well.

RISE/Listen Here
In the late 90s, Mark Maxwell started a spiritual jazz show called RISE on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles. The description of the show was “RISE is a weekly creative jazz celebration of African roots, social consciousness and spiritual transcendence.” When I moved to southern California to go to college, I was blessed to discover this show and the amazing spiritual jazz scene in Los Angeles. The show was usually hosted by Mark Maxwell, with guest hosting by Ollie Bivins and Leroy Downs. Leroy Downs now has a great show on KCRW, and until a couple months ago, RISE was still going strong. Mark Maxwell decided to hand the show over to Ollie Bivins, and the show was rebranded Listen Here (named after the Eddie Harris song). Ollie Bivins with Listen Here continues the deep kozmigroov spiritual sounds that we had come to love on RISE. Unfortunately management at KPFK were idiots, and stole the time slot out from under Ollie Bivins, so instead the weekly show we were to continue, he’s only once a month. The show the other weekends is still good, but it’s just straight-ahead jazz, and clearly a prerecorded podcast, where-as Ollie is always live in the studio, and playing the deepest spiritual jazz vinyl and new releases. Expect to hear from labels like Impulse!, Strata East, Nimbus West, Milestone, and more.
His show is Sunday night into Monday morning midnight to 3AM in the Pacific time zone. If you are in the area, it’s on 90.7 FM Los Angeles. KPFK.org has archives of the show for a couple weeks. Listen Here is the 4th Sunday (Monday morning) of each month.
KFPK archives.

Innamissions
When I was on the acid-jazz email listserv, there was a weekly playlist always posted by a DJ at KUCI 88.9 FM Orange County, California, with a show called Swope Transmissions. His playlists were amazing, and when I started DJing at KUCI myself, I was happy to discover a friend of the classic Swope Transmissions show host. His name is J. Pulaski, and he has his own awesome long running show on KUCI called Innamissions.
He plays super groovy future soul, deep house, broken beat, and similar sounds from labels like Tru Thoughts, Ubiquity, BBE, Sounds in Colour, Ninja Tune, Mo’Wax, which is fitting since I believe he works at both Tru Thoughts and Ubiquity.
His show is every Monday evening on KUCI from 8PM-10PM Pacific. You can catch it live at KUCI.org. Typing this up, I just discovered they give him an encore broadcast on Sundays. Nice! And here is an interview with J. Pulaski.

Higher Ground
Another show I discovered from the acid-jazz email listserv was Higher Ground on CIUT in Toronto, one of snowdusk’s favorite radio stations! It is hosted by Jason Palma, and I loved reading his playlists in the 90s.
His show Higher Ground is still going strong, and has episodes on Thursday evening 8-10PM Eastern time. The station hosts time limited archives, so be sure to catch the show any time!

If you are interested in the acid-jazz email listserv I mentioned, it was archived by the moderator at that link. I don’t think it is live anymore, but if it is, I am definitely going to sign back up and get my playlists on it. The archives are full of good info about lots of music. The listserv was hosted by UCSD (I think the email was acid-jazz AT ucsd.edu), and in 2006 the archives moved to a UCSD server. Those archives unfortunately no longer exist, but the original archives from ~1995-2006 are at the aforementioned link. The list originally started in 1993. I started reading the archives around 1995, and joined in ~1998.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this, and I hope you enjoy some of those shows! –FroggyMe

Dally Rhythms – 2021.09.19

Tracklist

  • Lukas Trunk – Pushing (Original Mix), E minor, 125 bpm
  • Rachel Row – Follow The Step (KiNK Beat Mix), G major, 122 bpm
  • Face Off – Let It All Down (Vijay & Sofia Zlatko Remix), G major, 120 bpm
  • Oliver Koletzki, Juli Holz – Zuckerwatte (David August Remix), A minor, 124 bpm
  • Franco Tejedor, Martin Gardoqui – Internal Rhythm, A minor, 124 bpm
  • DJ Funky T, Sanna Hartfield – Leaving You (Dubstrumental Mix), A minor, 124 bpm
  • Costa Mee – Baby Fly (Original Mix), A minor, 121 bpm
  • MANIK – Recourse featuring Cari Golden (Original Mix), A minor, 121 bpm
  • Cassius – Sound Of Violence (Borche Deep House Mix), Ab minor, 120 bpm
  • De Graal’ – Deep Inside (Original Mix), Ab minor, 120 bpm
  • Felipe Puertes, Severin Borer – Earth Wind and Fire (Original Mix), Ab minor, 120 bpm
  • Ivan Masa – Don’t Stop the Groove Man, Eb minor, 122 bpm
  • Laura Jones – Love In Me (Maceo Plex Remix), Eb minor, 123 bpm

Available for download in the archives.

SUYF! – Playlist 9/19/21

Songs inspired by silenced laughter. Love ya, Norm!

  • ARCHIVE (26 seconds of silence at the beginning)
  • Stand Up Comedy – U2
  • I Ain’t No Joke – Eric B. & Rakim
  • Black Comedy – Miles Davis
  • Ha Ha, Hee Hee – Sly & The Family Stone
  • Ha! Ha! Said the Clown – Manfred Mann
  • Ha Ha Ha Armageddon – The Julie Ruin
  • Ha Ha Ha – Flipper
  • People Funny Boy – Lee “Scratch” Perry
  • That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore – The Smiths
  • The Comedians – Roy Orbison
  • The Comedians, Op. 26: Comedians’ Gallop – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Kirill Kondrashin
  • Super Subway Comedian – Suicide
  • Jokerman – Bob Dylan
  • The Joker – Steve Miller Band
  • Joker In the Pack – The Adicts
  • Humor Me – Pere Ubu
  • Laugh, I Nearly Died – The Rolling Stones
  • Laugh, Laugh – The Beau Brummels
  • How Will I Laugh Tomorrow – Suicidal Tendencies
  • It’s Not Funny Anymore – Hüsker Dü
  • It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry – Bob Dylan
  • King of Comedy – R.E.M.
  • Laughing – R.E.M.
  • . . . And The World Laughs With You – Flying Lotus, Thom Yorke
  • Laughing Boy – Mary Wells
  • Laughing in Rhythm – Slim Gaillard And His Peruvians
  • Lenny Bruce – Bob Dylan
  • Ha Ha You’re Dead – Green Day

FroggyMe’s Fantastic Fantasy – playlist for Sept. 19th, 2021

Incognito – Millennium – 100 Degrees and Rising
Incognito – Time Has Come – 100 Degrees and Rising
John Scofield – Chank – A Go Go (feat. Medeski Martin & Wood)
Greyboy – Texas Twister (Melvin Sparks) – Freestyling (1993 Ubiquity)
Melvin Sparks – It Is What It Is – It Is What It Is
Groove Collective – Winner (feat. Bill Ware on distorted vibraphone and vocals) – It’s All In Your Mind
Groove Collective – KOG – People People Music Music

Repercussions – Test of Time – Earth and Heaven
Bobby Hutcherson – Montara (remixed by The Roots feat. The Jazzyfatnasties on vocals) – The New Groove: The Blue Note Remix Project vol. 1 (Blue Note)
Incognito – Spellbound and Speechless – 100 Degrees and Rising
Incognito – Fountain of Life – Beneath the Surface

Omid – Del Cerro Park – Afterwords 3

John Coltrane – Resolution – A Love Supreme (Impulse!)
Kurt Elling – Resolution – Man In The Air
Fania All Stars – Desafio – Delicate & Jumpy (Fania)
Fania All Stars – I’ll See You Again – Delicate & Jumpy (Fania)
Fania All Stars – El Himno De Amor – Delicate & Jumpy (Fania)

Intergalactic Wasabi Mix – Ep 825 – 2021/09/18

Tracklist:

THELEEGRIFFITHS (TLG) – Tomorrow Never Knows
Prodigy – Voodoo People (Dust Brothers Remix Remastered)
Fatboy Slim – Praise You (Mike D And Ad Rock)
808 State – In Yer Face
Hydroponic Sound System & Furious – Breakneck Speed
Meat Beat Manifesto – Lurker
Mono – Playboy
Meat Beat Manifesto – Return To Bass
Lo Fidelity Allstar – Battleflag (Tom Morello RATM Renegade Remix)
Jungle Brothers – True Blue Remix by Aphrodite and Micky Finn (1996)
Keoki – Grind Me Baby
Mono – High Life (Next Century Short Dub Mix)
Propellerheads – Big Dog
The Chemical Brothers – Elektrobank

ASFO 2021–09–18

Eighteen people in orbit at one time, for what must have been the first time, albeit only for about a day ; a brief discussion of the “9/11” show I could have done, but chose not to ; and I read the statement from the Prime Minister of Australia purporting to announce the planned acquisition of nuclear–powered submarines in cooperation with the USA and UK, and discuss why it makes no sense whatsoever.

2 Supplementary Shows

Peripheral Vision #2: 13 September 2021

An intro to the UK ambient electronica scene, with a focus on the
group of sonic collagists associated with the Ghost Box label –
The Focus Group, Belbury Poly, The Advisory Circle, Beautify Junkyards, The Caretaker, John Foxx, et al. – and their sound sources: the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, 1970s TV incidental music, advertising jingles, public information films, station idents, and so on.

Callsign ‘A’ – The TV Trap – The Advisory Circle (Ritual and Education, 2008)

It Is Real – Pye Corner Audio (The Spiral, 2017)

We Have Visitors – Pye Corner Audio (Black Mill Tapes Vol. 1: Avant Shards, 2020)

The Moonlawn – Belbury Poly (Ritual and Education, 2008)

The Willows – Belbury Poly (Ritual and Education, 2008)

The Spiral – Pye Corner Audio (The Spiral, 2017)

Mogadon Coffee Morning – The Advisory Circle (Ritual and Education, 2008)

Dupla Exposição – Beautify Junkyards (Cosmorama, 2020)

Sundial – The Advisory Circle (Ritual and Education, 2008)

Clockwork Horoscope – Belbury Poly (Ritual and Education, 2008)

Alsh – The Focus Group (Ritual and Education, 2008)

Underwater Automobiles – John Foxx (Tiny Colour Movies, 2006

Cherry Cola (Pye Corner Audio Remix) – Andy Bell (The Indica Gallery – EP, 2021)

Bromiding Place – The Focus Group (Ritual and Education, 2008)

The Devil’s Children – Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop (The Changes: Original Television Soundtrack, 2018)

After the Bridge – Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop (The Changes: Original Television Soundtrack, 2018)

A Garden by the Sea – Beautify Junkyards (Cosmorama, 2020)

Corner of the Eye – Belbury Poly (The Gone Away, 2021)

A Journey and Arrival at Henley Farm – Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop (The Changes: Original Television Soundtrack, 2018)

Giant Steps* Episode 19: “Giant Steps”

* This show was formerly known as The Freshmaker Show. To mark the name change to Giant Steps, this show featured nine versions of “Giant Steps”, as performed by:

  • John Coltrane
  • Woody Herman
  • Iiro Rantala & Ulf Wakenius
  • Bugge Wesseltoft
  • Panzerballett
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk
  • Poncho Sanchez
  • Steve Smith/Scott Henderson/Victor Wooten
  • Joey Alexander

Intergalactic Wasabi Mix – Ep 824 – 2021/09/12

Tracklist:

Omni Trio – Rogue Satellite
DJ SS – Lighter
Origin Unknown – Mission Control
Michael Rose + Kinder Atom – Illegal
Roni Size – Transaction
Origin Unknown – Truly One
Congo Natty – Emperor Selassie I (feat. Black Star & Bounty Hunter)
Renegade – Terrorist
Cybotron – Got To (feat. Dillinja)
DJ Solo – Axis
Fast Floor – Plight of the Innovators
Origin Unknown – Valley of the Shadows
Etherwood – Begin By Letting Go
Korn – Falling Away from Me (Krust Remix)
Omni Trio – Renegade Snares
DJ Zinc – Super Sharp Shooter

Intergalactic Wasabi Mix – Ep 823 – 2021/09/11

Tracklist:

Zodiac – The Mysterious Galaxy
Kebekelektrik – Magic Fly
Munich Machine – In Love With Love
Giorgio Moroder – Machines (Metropolis)
Digital Emotion – Get Up, Action
Silent Circle – Touch In The Night
Blue System – Magic Symphony
The Twins – Face To Face – Heart To Heart
Fancy – Colder Than Ice
Desireless – Voyage Voyage (12″ Edit)
Dee D. Jackson – Galaxy Police (Vanity Project Re-Edit)
Jean-Michel Jarre – Fourth Rendez-Vous
Videokids – Communication Outerspace
Giorgio Moroder – Chase