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Conflux Cornucopia Cerebellum Cocktail Hour Ep. #026: Secret Ingredients

January 29, 11am

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Conflux Cornucopia Cerebellum Cocktail Hour: Ep. #026: Secret Ingredients

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Hello fellow Alchemists and Confluxians: Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed last week’s four hour diversion back to the 80’s with Skeevy. There will be a part II. This week, I am looking into my laboratory of oddities for some deep cuts and rarities for you to enjoy. I hope you enjoy this tantalizing mix of warm weirdness.
Set List:
1. Opening Alchemy Jive (0:58) Featuring Rush Hour & Toy Story clips.
2. No Return (1:33) by Craig Wedren & Anna Waronker from the Yellowjackets TV show (opening theme) (2022) Punk
3. MIC BREAK: Lilah (1:00) by Morphine from Like Swimming (1997) Alternative Rock
4. Running Low (6:30) by Leprous from Aphelion (2021) Progressive Metal
5. Gilding the Lily (3:13) by Rocket Moth from Mesolow (2016) Rock
6. Intro/The Rules of the Game (3:59) by Dizzy Twin from Empire (2018) Alternative Rock
7. MIC BREAK: Caterpillar March (1:56) by Kyuss from Blues for the Red Sun (1992) Stoner Metal
8. Nate Poe Crasto (Dub) (8:37) by Angelo Moore from Dr. Madd Vibe’s Comprehensive Linkology (2001) Alternative Rock
9. Rubankh (3:25) by Anekdoten from Nucleus (1995) Progressive Metal
10. MIC BREAK: Sleep (1:58) by the Dixie Dregs from Free Fall (1977) Jazz Fusion
11. The Scythe Pendulum Swing (7:33) by Dizzy Mystics from Wanderlost (2019) Progressive Rock
12. Formicary (5:47) by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum from In Glorious Times (2007) Art Metal
13. Event Horizon (6:11) by Voivod from The Wake (2018) Progressive Thrash Metal
14. MIC BREAK: The Dog Breath Variations (1:49) by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (1969) Art Rock
15. Are You Receiving Me? (9:32) by Golden Earring from Moontan (1973) Rock
16. Second Birth (10:59) by Samsara Blues Experiment from End of Forever (2021) Psychedelic Rock
17. MIC BREAK: Glenn’s Wheels (1:47) by Bear McCreary from the Walking Dead Soundtrack (2017) Soundtrack
18. Black Mass (4:40) by En Minor from When the Cold Truth Has Worn Its Miserable Welcome Out (2020) Alternative Rock
19. Seven Ways Till Sunday (4:46) by T.R.A.M. from Lingua Franca (2012) Jazz Fusion
20. Easily Led (5:08) by We Came From Space from While You Were Away (2018) Progressive Rock
21. MIC BREAK: Miles Davis Funeral (1:41) by Morphine from Cure for Pain (1993) Alternative Rock
22. Dog Eat Dog World (3:58) by Ten from Ten (2013) Alternative Rock
23. Embers (10:47) by Elder from Omens (2020) Stoner Metal
24. Kalopsia (4:38) by Queens of the Stone Age from …Like Clockwork (2013) Alternative Rock
25. BREAKING ALCHEMY: (0:12)
26. MIC BREAK: Last May (1:40) by Allan Holdsworth from Velvet Darkness (1976) Jazz Fusion
27. Little Wing (5:56) by Oz Noy from Who Gives a Funk (2015) Jazz Fusion (Jimi Hendrix Cover)

ALL HEX BROKEN LOOSE – THURSDAY NIGHT – 6-8PM

January 27, 2pm

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Like the Sailor and the Sea – We Are Back

The Clientele – Monday’s Rain (Suburban Light)

The B-52s – Dirty Back Road (Wild Planet)

Brenda Ray – Love’s To Share (Walatta)

New Order – Ceremony

Broadcast – Come On Let’s Go

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Kyoto

Slim Harpo – King Bee

BrightBlack Morning Light – Star Blanket River Child

Konono No.1 – Kulekule (Lubaku)

King Tubby – Tubby’s Roots Dub

Dorothy Carter – – The King of Glory (Troubadour)

The 13th Floor Elevators – Splash 1 (The Psychedelic Sounds Of)

Six Organs of Admittance – Spirts Abandoned (Dark Noontide)

Sun Araw – Horse Steppin’

Wooden Shjips – We Ask You To Ride

Roberto De Simone – Secondo Coro Delle Lavandaie

iMPLOG – Holland Tunnel Dive

Mayo Thompson – Corky’s Debt to His Father

T. Rex – Broken Hearted Blues

Sun City Girls – Space Prophet Dogon

Conflux Cornucopia Cerebellum Cocktail Hour Ep.#025: Allied Forces Ep. #001: Skeevy & Alchemist Combined: 80’s Extravaganza

January 25, 10pm

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SKEEVY AND THE ALCHEMIST KINDLY PRESENT:
ALLIED FORCES: EPISODE #001: EIGHTIES EXTRAVAGANZA VOLUME 1 (PARTS 1 & 2)
SKEEVY SIDE SHOW EPISODE #032 (PART 1)
CONFLUX CORNUCOPIA CEREBELLUM COCKTAIL HOUR EPISODE #025 (PART 2)
SPECIAL GUEST: BOLT REYNOLDS (OH WHATTA STASH)

To get the entire show, start with Skeevy Side Show Episode #032 and then follow up with Conflux Cornucopia Cerebellum Cocktail Hour Episode #025

FROM RAW PODCAST: SKEEVY EPISODE #032: ALLIED FORCES EP. 001 PART A http://podcasts.radiovalencia.fm/skeevy_sidehow/skeevy_sidehow.2022-01-19.2000.mp3

Notes from the Alchemist: This team up was extremely satisfying for me. We expect to bring this team together in the future periodically to explore topics of common interest. There will be a Volume 2 to the 80’s Extravaganza…probably a couple of 90’s as well and you never know what like minded audio junkies might conjure up. Thanks again to Skeevy and Bolt and all of you out there who endured three idiots jawing about the nostalgic 80’s.

IF YOU ARE STARTING HERE….GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING PODCAST UNDER SKEEVY’S SIDESHOW EPISODE #032
Part B Setlist:
1. Walking in L.A. by Missing Persons from Spring Session M (1982)
2. Rock the Casbah from Combat Rock (1982)
3. MIC BREAK: Welcome to part 2 of Allied Forces
4. How Soon is Now by The Smiths (Single later added to a re-release of Meat is Murder) (1985)
5. Overkill by Men at Work from Cargo (1983)
6. The Confessor by Joe Walsh from The Confessor (1985)
7. Hell Bells dies a perfect death……..AC/DC overplayed to death……oh well, such is life.
8. MIC BREAK: Got to get me a new copy of that.
9. Let’s Go to Bed by The Cure (12” Single) (1983)
10. Three of a Perfect Pair by King Crimson from Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)
11. No Sleep Til Brooklyn by the Beastie Boys from Licensed to Ill (1986)
12. MIC BREAK: Kerry King is shredding
13. Kill Again by Slayer from Hell Awaits (1985)
14. Gone Daddy Gone by The Violent Femmes from Violent Femmes (1983)
15. Little Green Men by Steve Vai from Flexible (1984)
16. MIC BREAK: That was Steve Vai? WTF Why no Boingo Reunion?
17. Controller by Oingo Boingo from Only a Lad (1981)
18. The Turning by the Screaming Trees from Clairvoyance (1986)
19. Girlfriend is Better by the Talking Heads from Speaking in Tongues (1983)
20. Dragon Attack by Queen from The Game (1980)
21. Starry Eyes by Motley Crue from Too Fast for Love (1981)
22. Wasting Time by Schon & Hammer from Untold Passion (1981)
23. I Will Dare by the Replacements from Let it Be (1982)
24. MIC BREAK: More yammering.
25. Faster Than the Speed of Light by Raven from Wiped Out (1982)
26. Heartbeat by the Psychedelic Furs from Mirror Moves (1984)
27. Remember when I said I would kill you last…..I lied (scene from Commando) 1985
28. Chemical Wire by fIREHOSE from Ragin’….Full On (1986)
29. Our House by Madness from The Rise & Fall (1982)
30. MIC BREAK: Thanks and Farewell for Now.
31. Essay (Scene from the Breakfast Club) (1985)
32. Don’t You Forget About Me by Simple Minds (Single from the Soundtrack to the Breakfast Club) (1985)

Part 1 set list:
1. Rock! Rock! (Til You Drop) by Def Leppard from Pyromania (1983)
2. MIC BREAK: Introducing the Allied Forces 80’s Extravaganza
3. Allied Forces by Triumph from Allied Forces (1980)
4. Cult of Personality by Living Colour from Vivid (1988)
5. Red Sector A by Rush from Grace Under Pressure (1984)
6. Marriage (scene from the Princess Bride) (1987)
7. White Wedding by Billy Idol 12” Single (1982)
8. Puppy Love by Anti-Momb (Single) (1985)
9. Terminal Preppie by the Dead Kennedys from Second Hand Songs (1982)
10. Pond Song by Dinosaur Jr. from Bug (1988)
11. Rio by Duran Duran from Rio (1982)
12. MIC BREAK: Rippin’ Rio and the PMRC
13. Darling Nikki by Prince from Purple Rain (1984)
14. Rat Race by The Specials (Single) (1980)
15. Burning with Optimism’s Flames by XTC from Black Sea (1980)
16. I’ll Stop the World and Melt with You by Modern English 12” Single (1982)
17. TV Dinners by ZZ Top from Eliminator (1983)
18. In the Dark by Billy Squier from Don’t Say No (1981)
19. Gonna Get Close to You by Dalbello from Whoman Foursays (1984)
20. Lie to Me by Depeche Mode from Some Great Reward (1984)
21. Tin Omen by Skinny Puppy from Rabies (1989)
22. Eighties by Killing Joke from Killing Joke (1985)
23. MIC BREAK: Come as we are oh Thieves of the Eighties.
24. Crushed by a Dwarf (Scene from This is Spinal Tap) (1984)
25. Stonehenge by Spinal Tap from This is Spinal Tap Soundtrack (1984)
26. Breathless by Quiet Riot from Mental Health (1983)
27. Dirty Movies by Van Halen from Fair Warning (1981)
28. My Michelle by Guns and Roses from Appetite for Destruction (1987)
29. Rainbow in the Dark by Dio from Holy Diver (1983)
30. Let’s Go by the Ramones from End of the Century (1980)
31. MIC BREAK: STAY TUNED FOR PART II

Hell’s Kitchen Radio #463: Chip Off The Hell Block

January 24, 11am

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Nothing brings me greater joy than to share my love of music and radio with my wonderful daughter, Lauson. She’s my dream girl, literally. She came to me in a dream a few years before she was conceived and told me her name. She even spelled it for me. It was a seven year old version of her, all with the curly hair she was graced with. I woke up, looked at her mother and said “we’re going to have a daughter named Lauson. L.A.U.S.O.N.”. She replied “we’re having kids?”. We chose not to know the sex of the baby before she was born, but I already knew it was Lauson headed our way.

Lauson first joined me on Radio Valencia when she was 10 years old, ten years ago! I think this was Lauson’s 15th time on with me. Links to her previous episodes are below. I’ve marked all of her song choices. It’s really interesting to see where my influence started and where hers took off. She’s got an excellent ear for many genres. I couldn’t be more proud. How is she a senior in high school already? 

Do I dream of her walking into her college radio station and blowing them all away? Of course I do. I also refuse to live vicariously through my children. She does have a pretty good airname though. And really, can you imagine what her peers would think when they hear she’s been involved in community radio since she was 7? HA! Ok ok ok, I’ll stop now.

Want more from the Spawn of Hell?
First show in 2012
Second show in 2014
Third show also in 2014
Fourth show in spring of 2015
Fifth show in the summer of 2015
Sixth show in summer 2016 along with Saucy!
Seventh show was also during summer 2016
Eight show was December 2016
Ninth show was July 2017
Tenth show was in August 2017
Eleventh show was July 2018
Twelfth show was April 2019
Lucky Thirteen was April 2020
Fourteenth Show from July 2021

Enjoy.

jh

Hell’s Kitchen Radio with John Hell
Mondays 8-10PM
Radio Valencia in SF


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Dholak Gheet: The Family of Apostolic
Somebody To Love: Kalyanji Anandji
Cold Sweat: Bernard Purdie

Why? (The King of Love is Dead): Nina Simone
River Deep Mountain High: Ike and Tina – L
The Sky Is Crying: Sonny Boy Williamson

Lady Grinning Soul: David Bowie – L
Wake Up Alone: Amy Winehouse – L
Listening to Music: A Child’s Garden of Grass
Basically Frightened: Col. Bruce Hampton and Animal Rescue Unit

Be Ever Wonderful: Ted Taylor – L
Duckworth: Kendrick Lamar – L
Run Run Run: White Fence

Late Nights and Heartbreak: Hannah Williams and the Affirmations – L
Savoy Truffle: The Beatles – L
Hypocrisy: Millie Jackson

I Gotta Find Peace of Mind: Lauren Hill – L
Whisper to Me: Cecile Campbell
High and Lonesome: Robert Plant and Alison Krause

Working for the Knife: Mitzky – L
When I Paint My Masterpiece: The Band

We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Animals
What A Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong

DeadLegs: Week 13: Commonwealth in the Rain

January 23, 12pm

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Tonight, Jim, Jamie and Jason go Loew in the Commonwealth with the Jerry Garcia Band. Tune at 8:00 pm!

Songs include: Catfish John | Run For The Roses | Dear Prudence | Tangled Up In Blue | Mission In The Rain | They Love Each Other | Tore Up Over You | Valerie | Don’t Let Go

Sufficient Grounds

January 22, 11am

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I am a big fan of independent freeform radio and what it brings to airwaves and internet. It’s pretty amazing that you can tune in to stations all over the world and be turned on to new music that you would not normally find through your Spotify or Apple Music algorithm. Notable stations that I tune into regularly aside from the always entertaining Radio Valencia are: KALX (Berkeley, CA), WDVR (Delaware Valley, NJ), WFMU (Jersey City, NJ), WFVR (South Royalton, VT), and KEXP (Seattle, WA). I’ll be channeling those stations where I find new music and bringing it to you LIVE Saturday mornings.

Sufficient Grounds – Like a good cup of brewed coffee that begins your day, Sufficient Grounds starts you off right with a music scape into your morning groove of working-out or leftover pizza.

See you LIVE Saturday mornings at 8 to 10am PT and repeated Wednesdays at 8am PT. I am that morning guy, always have been. Comments/requests send them to me sully.radiovalencia@gmail.com

Cheers, Sully

Hell’s Kitchen Radio #462: Never Draw Attention To The Mistakes

January 16, 7pm

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Way back in my college radio days (even before that when I was taking announcing classes at College of San Mateo (CSM), from KKHI announcer, and father of the deepest radio voice I have ever heard, Daniel Odom), I was told to never draw attention to the mistakes. No one really ever pays attention, and if one makes mention of it, then the listener is apt to start to judge the announcer and hence, the station itself. 

I took that to heart.

Once at KFJC, when I was know at the Reverend Dah Wave, I couldn’t help but trip over my inexperienced tongue from time to time; especially in the middle of the night, where the new DJs are expected to host shows for six months before moving onto a non-graveyard shift. Those graves were used to learn more about the vast musical library KFJC has, and learn my voice.

Mistakes were made.

I started taking the approach of drawing attention to them if the moment warranted it. More often than not the moment did not warrant it. I’m pretty deft when it comes to reading and enunciation. My dear friend Amacker “Rocket J. Squirrel” Bullwinkle, who hosted Friday’s 6-10am would often co-host our transition when I came on for the 10-2pm Jazz/Soul/Funk show I hosted “Temple of the Bird”. She would throw a PSA at me (that’s public service announcement to those who do not know), testing to see how well I could read it live on air, without a pre-read. You cannot fool good Reverend.

As for the moments where I slipped up in a miserable manner, often not taking the time to thoroughly check the music I had just played to back announce properly, I would run a lot of names and titles together, and forget something vital, leading a handful of “ums” and “ahs”. I would then purposely stumble and bumble in an even more animated way, to show that I am above nothing. 

Monday night was a lot like this. Our new studio has a lot of needs, including a new turntable and a new router. And my beloved 5TB WD hard drive is starting to crap out. I purchased a 12TB backup this week, and am backing everything up as I write. Back it up, folks.

Monday night my hard drive crapped out a few times, and only when I was about to move into a song. And the server was being a real bore. And the damnable turntable was mocking me! This led to more than one mic break being something akin to a disaster movie, sans the soundtrack; which is sad, because I have an impressive soundtrack collection.

We got the server working, I have a new hard drive, and my fingers are crossed someone got turntable one working properly, leading up to my next show, this Monday 8-10PM PST, featuring the return of my delightful daughter, Little Lauson Hell to the Radio Valencia studio.

Tune in and find out.

Enjoy and go back up your files.

jh

Hell’s Kitchen Radio with John Hell
Mondays 8-10PM
Radio Valencia in SF
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Some Velvet Morning: Vanilla Fudge

Beautiful Strangers: Kevin Morby
No Place To Fall: Townes Van Zandt
Frankie and Albert: Taj Mahal

Cat Black: Ty Segall
Mr. Charlie: Lightnin’ Hopkins
I Want It: Thee Headcoatees
Rocket Reducers #62: Melvins

Venus in Furs: Velvet Underground
Why Are We Waiting/Create the Visitor: Negativland

Somewhere To Go: Brownout
Darkest Light: Lafayette Afro Rock Band
Wesley’s Theory: Kendrick Lamar

Can’t Help Thinking About Me: David Bowie
Mogho Naba (King of Kings): The Pyramids
50 Year Old Man: The Fall

Halloween: Siouxsie and the Banshees

Conflux Cornucopia Cerebellum Cocktail Hour: Episode #024: Fashionably Late for Tea Time with Half Baked Goods

January 15, 4pm

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Hello fellow Alchemites and Confluxians.
News: Contest: Tickets for Dr. Madd Vibe @ the Bottom of the Hill, SF on 1/29/22
I am giving away a pair of tickets, contact me @ thealchemistofradiovalencia@gmail.com
Or on Facebook find the Friends of the Alchemist Group.
I will randomly select a winner from those who want the tickets.

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This week’s show is a collection of very heady tracks to put your mind in a deep reflective state. Put on the headphones and immerse yourself in the music.

Set List:

1. Useful Idiot (0:39) by Tool from Aenima (1996)
2. Breaking Alchemy (0:12)
3. Everything in its Right Place (4:11) by Radiohead from Kid A (2000)
4. Elk.Blood.Heart (5”52) by All Them Witches from Our Mother Electricity (2012)
5. MIC BREAK: Vein Melter (9;10) by Herbie Hancock from Head Hunters (1973)
6. MIC BREAK: Stonehenge (1:58) by Black Sabbath from Born Again (1983)
7. Little Fishes (6:06) by the Claypool Lennon Delirium from South of Reality (2019)
8. Long and Lonesome Road (3:10) by Jess and the Ancient Ones from Astral Sabbat
9. Spirals (11:19) by Monkey3 from Sphere (2019)
10. MIC BREAK: Prepare Yourself (1:59) by Porcupine Tree from The Sky Moves Sideways (1995)
11. Start of Something Beautiful (7:40) by Porcupine Tree from Deadwing (2005)
12. Smoke Room (8:13) by Automatism from Immersion (2020)
13. MIC BREAK: Sphinx Gate (1:59) by Hiatus Kaiyote from Tawk Tomahawk (2013)
14. Pas a Pas (6:42) by Alco Frisbass from Alco Frisbass (2015)
15. Snickersnee (3:46) by the Oh Sees from Face Stabber (2019)
16. MIC BREAK: Spaced (2:24) by the Smashing Pumpkins from Pisces Iscariot (1994)
17. Hannah (5:26) by Robin Trower from Twice Removed from Yesterday (1973)
18. Feathers (6:41) by the Black Crowes from Lost Crowes (2006)
19. Suture Up Your Future (4:37) by Queens of the Stone Age (2007)
20. MIC BREAK: Chili at Airport (Part III) (1:32) by John Lurie from the Get Shorty Soundtrack (1995)
21. Hudson (10:57) by Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski, John Scofield from Hudson (2017)
22. Arcadia Son (7:50) by I.E.M. (Incredible Expanding Mindfuck) from Arcadia Son (2002)
23. FAREWELL MIC BREAK: Democratic Chorale (1:42) by Bent Knee from Shiny Eyed Babies (2014)
24. Help (6:01) by Deep Purple from Shades of Deep Purple (1968)