Hypnosis---what is it? What does it do? Is it a state? A mode? A fraud? A magnetic flux? These and other questions will be explored in a live blend of my dozens of hypnosis records and tapes, along with readings from my collection of hypnosis literature and pamphlets. DO NOT OPERATE HEAVY MACHINERY AND LISTEN
a mellow and receptive survey of non phallic guitar music. the guitar as receiving instrument, eschewer of virtuosity, convex resonance chamber, pure muscle of continuous emotional birth. curiosity for all different types of plucked or strummed strings strung in tension. harp included. correct breathing posture required.
I have eleven samplers. They are all my children. Like children, they all have problems and need care and attention. In this episode, I play all of them at once and try to get them to harmonize.
To make up for my previous show, where not only did I transform into a werewolf on the air, but also posted a doctored photo of a gruesome dog bit, and the wolf-like dog that bit me (also doctored), I played some pretty good funky soul and soulful jazz. To all of those that texted me thinking I was seriously injured by a stray dog, I'm so sorry.
I try to put on a very normal radio show with normal records---Beatles, the Who, Postal Service. Stuff like that. Unfortunately, I was bitten by a stray dog right before the show began. As the live episode unfolds, I gradually, and then abruptly, transform into a werewolf.
Joined by label owner John Moses as his collection of bone meets mine for a Valentine's Day love fest. What could be more romantic than two bearded men closely listening to and then dissecting vanity records? Nothing.
A two-hour improvised audio novel performed live, blending deep listening to Kenneth Higney's rare album 'Attic Demonstration' with a confessional narrative about befriending Higney to make a documentary—then abandoning the project and him. An examination of artistic extraction, guilt, documentary ethics, and how we live with betrayal and loneliness. High-wire spontaneous storytelling about the people we use to tell our own stories.
Downtown New York experimental music with composer/improviser Elliott Sharp, featuring four exclusive improvisations created for this broadcast. Sharp's work paired with Milford Graves, Morton Feldman, and deep ethnographic recordings in an asymptotic approach to the downtown aesthetic—getting infinitely close without ever fully arriving.
A dark meditation on the possibility that extraterrestrial signals have rained down on earth and overwritten our programming to introduce an age of violence and rampage. Progressive synth soundscapes are played over samples from the classic Saul Bass scifi film. Produced in the height of the ICE crackdowns, when masked men with guns resembled so many killer ants.
A tribute to DJ Screw's chopped-and-screwed technique, inspired by the slowed-down Olsen Twins 'Pizza' remix that made something innocent terrifying. 1990s hip-hop time-stretched and pitched down live, transforming familiar tracks into surreal, syrupy dread. Houston lean culture meets internet absurdism.
Deep gospel records that require no apology, no context, no intellectual frame—just powerful singing, urgent faith, and undeniable feeling. The real thing.
Self-released Christian records of middling quality, encountered without pre-listening as Christmas approaches. Initially dismissible as 'bullshit,' but through deep listening, finding earnest faith and heartfelt devotion—a partial conversion on the road to Damascus.
An exploration of dub techno—a questionable genre where Basic Channel minimalism meets Jamaican echo chambers. Joined by Jimmy to investigate whether this fusion works or if we're just waiting for something that never arrives.
Deep spiritual jazz from tiny labels and private pressings—obscure records that pushed beyond Coltrane's innovations into cosmic, devotional, and Afrocentric explorations. Heavy listening for those seeking transcendence through sound.
Electro and early hip-hop from 1983-1985—drum machine funk from DMXs and 909s that anticipated sample-based production. All tracks available at The Wiz electronics stores, capturing the moment when hip-hop was still sold alongside stereo equipment rather than in record store rap sections.
A survey of private-press organ records—vanity recordings of home organists, church musicians, and hobbyists who pressed their performances to vinyl. The lonely sound of solo organ practice, American parlor music traditions, and one person's fascination with a deeply unfashionable instrument. Parallels to modular synth are implied.
A critique of ambient music's contemporary clichés—challenging the idea of 'liminal spaces' as nothing more than nature plug-ins and shimmer reverb in Ableton. AI voices recite internet conspiracy theories about the Atlas comet over original live-generated drones. Anti-ambient ambient music for the algorithm age.
A collaborative live remix session—two producers building continuous mixes from improvised on-air remixes using original beats and samples. Real-time composition, call-and-response production, and the joy of making music together without a plan.
Moody instrumental hip-hop from 1996-2004—downtempo loops and atmospheric beats blended with dialogue from 'Total Recall' about giving the people air. Music for late nights and claustrophobic moments, searching for oxygen in sealed systems.
Hip-hop from 1991—the moment when conscious rap, Native Tongues influence, and pop crossover collided. Backup dancers, sky-pagers, Tracy Chapman samples, Edie Brickell loops—the year rap got self-aware, sample-heavy, and briefly optimistic before everything shifted.
A historical journey through dub music from its origins in Jamaican nyabinghi drumming and Count Ossie's spiritualism through the version wars of the 1970s-80s. Deep, respectful exploration of dub as spiritual practice—bass, echo, space, and the African diaspora's most profound sonic innovation.
More cursed vanity pressings and failed dreams on vinyl—private records bought for under $3 and encountered live on air without pre-listening. Volume 2 of exploring the American impulse to press delusion into permanent form.
Deep soul 45s for when the internet feels unbearable. No concept, no agenda—just the healing power of rare soul music pressed to seven inches. A rose blooms because it blooms, it is without why.
A live history of scratching and turntablism—from Grandmaster Flash's innovations to contemporary techniques. Demonstrating the evolution of the turntable as instrument through performance, breaking down techniques, and celebrating the art of manipulating vinyl in real-time.
Private-press new age records and cassettes exploring the theme of transformation—breaking through the limitations of the present to reach toward something better. Synthesizer meditations on renewal, hope, and the perennial American belief that a new age is always just ahead. Maybe it is. We cannot know unless we reach for it.
A lifetime of collecting obscure spoken-word recordings—EVP experiments by Konstantin Raudive, George Meek's questionable Spiricom Device, Sufi poetry with Southern accents, private astrology readings, animal field recordings, hypnotic regressions, Street Fighter II sound effects—live-mixed and manipulated to create an unstable alternate reality. Through turntable looping and layering, all these voices coexist in one suprasensible performance where categories collapse and everything speaks at once.
Dark coldwave and minimal synth paired with lush CTI jazz records from the 1970s—finding balance between glacial electronic despair and warm acoustic hope. Music for navigating depression through sonic extremes.
An on-air excavation of 'cursed' records—private vanity pressings bought for under $3, never auditioned before broadcast. Misguided covers, failed dreams, earnest attempts at art that never found an audience. The host drinks Bailey's and encounters these records in real-time, reveling in American delusion pressed to vinyl.
Ninety minutes of live electronic improvisation with musician W. Heel—turntable scratching meets modular synthesis and looping in real-time composition. Two practitioners building ambient soundscapes from scratch, documenting the meeting point between DJ culture and experimental electronics.
Dark instrumental hip-hop from the 1990s underground—unreleased demos, rare edits, and lost beats from producers who never broke through. Music made in isolation during rap's most fertile creative period, recovered and recontextualized.
Synthesizer music for sensory deprivation, blended with dialogue from the film 'Altered States.' A sonic float tank experience exploring isolation, consciousness, and the terror of turning inward. Music for darkness and dissolution. Some of these trips can get pretty spooky.
Exclusive Memphis tape scene instrumentals from 1995—lo-fi beats and interludes captured on cassette during a fertile moment of regional hip-hop production. The show's title reflects the feeling of being trapped while a dangerous psychopath with nukes controls the wheel, using Memphis's dark, hypnotic sound as the soundtrack to immediate political dread.
A live pool party mix—psychedelic funk, corrupt grooves, and birthday chaos. Sound for bodies and water.
Experimental flutist Jane Rigler joins for live improvisations and conversation about deep listening and extended techniques. Exploring breath, air, and metal—the fundamental physics of making sound through a tube. Multiple in-studio performances documenting the outer edges of flute practice.
A pause-week mix—no concept, just records that needed to be played.
Live in-studio improvisations with experimental clarinetist duo BENI ADAM, exploring Middle Eastern techniques and extended approaches through effects pedals. Five performances including a spontaneous moment when the host's dog joined in, responding to piercing whistles and flutes. A study in breath, resonance, and interspecies communication.
A surreal response to RFK Jr.'s health appointments and his literal brain worm—new classical synthesizer music blended with global ethnographic recordings and samples from the cult film 'Liquid Sky.' Music for living in a reality too absurd to process rationally.
A collaborative deep-dive into hip-hop production with a fellow DJ and producer—breaking down classic beats, revealing sample sources, and analyzing the craft of beat-making. From the Bomb Squad to J Dilla, exploring the art and science of turning records into rhythm.
Cosmic disco and electro exploring space as both utopian escape and existential dread. Is space the place—or just another failed American fantasy? Music about rockets, planets, and the human impulse to flee Earth, caught between hope for the future and terror of what we're running from.
Progressive synthesizer music and experimental cassettes from the 1980s, live-mixed with dialogue from science fiction B-movies to construct a found narrative about the dread of space exploration. Forget utopian Star Trek futurism—this is cosmic horror, isolation, and the terror of contact with the unknown. Found narrative meets analog synth exploration. There is no return trip.
Soft soul and contemplative jazz for the moment when winter breaks—watching snow melt and sun emerge. Music for quiet afternoons and seasonal transitions, drifting between melancholy and hope.
Stripped down late 80s fast rap from the funky drummer blended on 4 turntables with cosmic synth and new age records from the same era. (See volume 1)
An immersive audio narrative where the DJ persona has been captured by masked men. A cassette of the show has been hidden somewhere in Catskill with instructions for my release; clues are embedded in the mix. Time-stretched free jazz drums collide with field recordings, voicemails from debt collectors, and messages from mystics. An unstable sonic investigation of surveillance, debt, authority, and escape.
A funk megamix built from private collections shared by archeologist friends—rare 45s and deep album cuts that aren't supposed to leave the vault. Pure funk joy, and my shame in fronting like I got more than three rare funk 45s.
A deep dive into DJ Krush—the Japanese producer who perfected abstract, atmospheric instrumental hip-hop in the 1990s. Rare B-sides, interludes, and overlooked tracks from the master of 'black rain beats,' exploring his influence on trip-hop, lo-fi, and downtempo culture.
Grown-and-sexy boom bap hip-hop from the 1990s featuring prominent horn-work. Music for late nights and making moves (maybe).
Rare psychedelic records from the 1960s-70s sourced from legendary collectors—the so-called 'Psych Mafia' of gatekeepers who control access to the rarest vinyl. Music from mail-order catalogs, private sales, and shadowy networks. An exploration of psychedelic rock's collector underground and the power dynamics of who gets to hear what. Don't tell anyone what you heard.
Soft psychedelic folk and acid folk from the late 1960s-70s, including music by gender-nonconforming and proto-trans artists exploring gentleness as resistance. Private-press records and obscure albums imagining a softer, more fluid world—a counter-narrative to both mainstream masculinity and hard rock aggression.
Private-press new age music confronts its central contradiction: the promise of cosmic unity built on radical individualism, and the central lie: You are alone. Synthesizer meditations and found spoken word exposing new age consciousness as simultaneously empowering and isolating—the American religion of self-reliance taken to its spiritual extreme.
The overlooked moment when electro could have become either hip-hop or techno—1983-1986 drum machine funk from Detroit, LA, and beyond. Foundational tracks from the scene that birthed both sampling culture and electronic dance music, captured before the split. Rare 12-inches and regional pressings documenting American electronic music's most fertile crossroads. You must dance.
A New Year's meditation through private-press new age cassettes and vinyl—music for recalibration and sustaining intention through the transition between years. Synthesizer explorations of focus, clarity, and the challenge of maintaining purpose when the calendar resets and nothing actually matters.
Obscure soft psychedelic rock about heartbreak paired with deep soul explorations of love—white melancholy meets Black emotional depth. Two American traditions of romantic longing in conversation, revealing how different communities process the same universal feelings through sound.
Downtempo instrumentals and early-2000s hip-hop beats blended with cassette lectures from Dr. Christopher, a charismatic herbalist who claimed to cure all illness by drinking copious amounts of herb tea, and prepare humanity for coming plagues. Snake oil salesmanship meets instrumental boom-bap in a meditation on alternative medicine, American hucksterism, and the search for healing outside institutions.
An anti-Thanksgiving special centered on Eugene McDaniels' despairing track 'The Parasite.' Angry, grieving music for a holiday built on erasure—fast rap, protest soul, and raw emotional catharsis. No gratitude, no abundance, just facing what hurts and fucking shit up.
Sweet funky jazz as collective healing in dark political times. Centered on Idris Muhammad's 'Power of Soul'—a record Muhammad called his favorite after receiving a letter from a convict saying it 'got him through the joint.' In the aftermath of the 2024 election, this show offers soul-jazz as survival music, getting us all through the joint together.
A Halloween live remix of the 1976 after-school film 'Kenny and Company,' reconstructing its musical score through synthesizers and horror sound effects. The show transforms a Gen X coming-of-age story into something simultaneously nostalgic, unsettling, and emotionally resonant—exploring free range childhood, weird cousins, VHS memories, and the strange comfort of obsolete media.
A poor taste tribute to DJ Screw's chopped-and-screwed technique applied to free jazz drumming—Milford Graves, Andrew Cyrille, Jerome Cooper time-stretched and pitched down, layered with drones and spoken word about Black Jesus and African Christianity. Experimental jazz meets Houston lean culture in an unlikely but reverent collision.
Spiritual jazz meets private-press new age, woven together with a rare Sufi lecture from Naropa University on the 12 levels of mystical initiation. Two American underground spiritual movements—one rooted in Black consciousness and improvisation, the other in white countercultural meditation—finding unexpected common ground in the search for transcendence.
Late-1990s underground hip-hop at its most isolated and atmospheric—lonely beats and introspective raps from the tail end of the indie rap era. Music for empty streets and long nights, as raw and lonely as sushi from the gas station.
Progressive synthesizer music and experimental cassettes from the 1980s, live-mixed with dialogue from science fiction B-movies to construct a found narrative about the dread of space exploration. Forget utopian Star Trek futurism—this is cosmic horror, isolation, and the terror of contact with the unknown. Found narrative meets analog synth exploration. There is no return trip.
Academic electronic music from the 1950s-70s—dissonant, experimental, and historically gatekept by institutions. This show explores the tension between being drawn to a world that excludes you, blending rare synthesizer records from university studios with John Lilly's experiments teaching dolphins to communicate. A personal reckoning with electronic music's elitist origins and its strange, lonely beauty.
A live collision between two 1980s American undergrounds: stripped-down fast rap from the 'Funky Drummer' era and ethereal new age synthesizer music—same years, opposite worlds, surprisingly blendable. Features rare cassette recordings from the legendary 1983 Christmas Rap Battle (Kool Moe Dee vs. Busy Bee), blended in real-time with private-press cosmic meditation music. A study in parallel American dreams. The music of surrender meets the music of urgent liberation. Choose your character.
An exploration of guitar as texture rather than virtuosity—players treating the instrument as a receiving device for sound rather than a tool for technical display. From prepared guitars to feedback experiments to minimalist drones, this show traces an alternate guitar tradition focused on listening, space, and sonic exploration rather than showmanship.
Instrumental hip-hop from 2001-2004—the overlooked final era of sample-based beat culture before the industry shifted. Rare 7-inches from small labels capturing the sound of producers working in isolation after FCC deregulation fractured rap radio. This is the moment when underground beat-makers perfected their craft just as the world stopped listening.
A deep dive into the private-press new age cassette underground of the 1980s-90s, blending unreleased synth music with spoken word from astrology readings, shamanic conferences, and spiritual gatherings. The show opens with a rare recording of an actual home water birth set to new age synthesizers—intimate, strange, and deeply human explorations of consciousness and creation from the cassette era.