My cat Anime is nodding off here, but music fans know you can’t nap through a show that plays The Fall, Califone, T Rex, Mouse on Mars, Graham Parker, Firewater, and music from the “Return of the DJ” & “Modulations & Transformations” compilations. I mean how does that show even EXIST?
Well, it won’t for long, I’m doing my last Can Haz DJ show on Radio Valencia tonight starting early (for me) at 8pm and running until 2am. 6 hours. That’s 25% of a whole day! And I still, definitely cannot fit everything in that I’d like to.
I am going out with an extended echoey bang. Playing Jazz, Punk, Rap, Glitch and other Electronica, good old rock and roll, plus New Wave, Dub, country-dust-songwriting-Americana-whaddyacallit, a horde of amazing covers, and a bit of everything else. Want to make a request? Do that here (soon!)
I’ve made the difficult decision to put the weekly Can Haz DJ on hiatus at the end of March. No major crisis, just need the time for other things. So for two more weeks, I’ll be playing an eclectic mix of my favorite music of all time. From Panacea to Kanda Bongo Man and Zap Mama to Adam Ant. Tune in tonight (3/20) at 10pm and next Tuesday (3/27) for the big finale.
I’ll keep up the Facebook page and maybe even a rare blog post. And I’ll add to the pile of Can Haz DJ podcasts from a pile that are in need of cover photos, playlists and a little editing..
Don’t believe me on the eclectic thing? Okay, here are two guitar extremes for ya. Both would make my top 100 songs of all time. Which I’ve been contemplating recently. That’s a personal top 100, your mileage should vary. John McLaughlin covering Mingus’ Goodbye Porkpie Hat (not my favorite version, I’ll save that for the show) and Karma to Burn’s “Twenty”. Enjoy. (mikl-em)
It’s Tuesday night and it’s time for Can Haz DJ, but there’s no set theme tonight. Sometimes I need to be low concept and high spontaneity. You’ll have to trust me as I spin through my music collection–we’ll see where inspiration and happenstance take us. I figure there’ll be some Fall and Saints and a bunch of electronic music thrown in, too. Something by Califone is bound to turn up. Here are videos by South African electronic guy Felix Laband and Television, while you are waiting.
Tonight @ 10pm: March comes in like songs about Lions. We are feline-oriented on CanHazDJ, so there’ll be songs about cats (& no Monkees whatsoever) on tonight’s show. The official end of Dub Month was last week (podcast/playlist for the show is below). But there’s always more to play, so expect flashbacks of dub amongst the cats plus lots more music of many genres on the as-usual eclectic Can Haz DJ show.
Highest Grade Dub by Roots Manuva from Dub Come Save Me
The Lynch by Roots Manuva from Dub Come Save Me
Musical History by Prince Far-I
A Prayer to Jah by Jay Tees
Addis Ababa Rock by Inner Circle from Heavyweight Dub / Killer Dub
Eric B is President (Dub) by Eric B & Rakim
Brain Damage (Adrian Sherwood mix) by Easy Star All-Stars from Dub Side of the Moon
Valley Dub by Twilight Circus
Roots Dub by The Skatalites
Behind Iron Bars by Joe Gibbs from African Dub Volume 4
Suffering by Abassi All Stars from Showcase
Cross the Dub by Abassi All Stars from Dub Showcase
Stalag 17 by Dave and Ansell Collins
Come Along (Side A) by Wayne Smith
Ring the Alarm by Tenor Saw
Three Foot Skank by Beats International
Scientist (Stalag 17) by Scientist
I Chase the Devil by Max Romeo
Chase the Devil (Sin City mix w/ Lee Scratch Perry) by Dubblestandart
Baby I Love You So by Jacob Miller
Black Forces by Augustus Pablo
Stop Them Jah by Augustus Pablo
King Tubby meets The Rockers Uptown by Augustus Pablo from Classic Rockers
King Tubby meets The Rockers Uptown by Ernest Ranglin
Addis Ababba Ethiopia by Dillinger from Bunny Lee Meets King Tubby & the Aggrovators
Heavy Discipline by Prince Far I from Joe Gibbs Original DJ Classics Vol 3
Insub by Tsunami Wazahari
Repatriation by Dubmatix
Oud We Think We Are by Gaudi
Monkey See, Monkey Dub by Adrian Sherwood
Don’t Get Weary Joe Frazier by I Roy
Never Tell I (w/ Dillinger) by Horace Andy
General Penitentiary by Black Uhuru
X-Zibit-i by Sacred System (Bill Laswell) from Nagual Site
Thunupa by Bill Laswell from Roir Dub Sessions
King Tubby’s Gold Dub by Jah Thomas from Trojan Dub Massive
Shaolin Temple by Prince Jammy from Trojan Dub Massive (mixed by Bill Laswell)
Next Dub in Jerusalem by David Solid Gould Vs Bill Laswell from Dub of the Passover
Brand New Dub by Roots Manuva from dub come save me
Interference Dub (Zion Train mix) by Systemwide from Impurely Replied
The Switchback by Pablo’s Eye from Untitled (ten)
Reggaelation by Burning Spear
Wadada (Sema mix) by The Rootsman
You’ll hear original Jamaican dub as well as more recent electronic versions, and musicians of all styles who have incorporated dub into their work, or have dub-style remixes of their music. Including punk, rap, industrial, and many world musics. toward the end of the night, you’ll hear dub-meets-ambient styles that are appropriate for the show’s 1AM end time.
Hear are videos of some of the music you are likely to hear on my shows this month:
Enjoy the week-one podcast of Can Haz DJ dub month, whether you listen online or download it. And tune in for the rest of February for the echo and bass, Can Haz Dub all month–every Tuesday night at 10pm.
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Big fun night tonight on Can Haz DJ! wrote: “Show starts in 40 minutes. I’ll have a flashback to last week’s punk theme, a feature on Jim Fourniadis & the Rats of Unusual Size, a mini-tribute to late Jamaican great Winston Riley, + Surf’s UP! Hawaii 5-0 style, which means Dick Dale, ukuleles, Don Ho, slack key guitar, the Ventures, and Martin Denny. All on Can Haz DJ at 10pm on Radio Valencia”
Tonight Can Haz DJ returns after a week off, and we get back to fundamentals with classic 1977 era punk from both the U.S. and England. Throw in a couple other surprises and finish off the night with some fantastic ambient to put the show to bed after midnight.
Another very special live event is coming to RadioValencia on the afternoon of December 10th, broadcast live from our San Francisco Mission District studios at 2pm Pacific. It’s time again for Hillbilly Hootenanny, this time with a holiday theme!
