Frequency Horizon

NorCal DJ soupANDsalad delivered his second guest mix for the Frequency Horizon podcast, which aired on Pirate Cat Radio 92.9FM, in June 2024. This hour of music is a recording from an ecstatic dance he played. It's a journey through a wide range of emotions and sounds, and will be good company for your introspective travels—as well as bright summer days. #dance #vibes #electronicmusic #house #tec...

I gathered together a collection of some of my favourite memories from my time producing my Frequency Horizon radio show for Pirate Cat Radio in Los Gatos, California. In this aircheck, a Guadalajaran DJ gives us a tour of his neighborhood, we take in a dog surfing competition in Pacifica, interview a Canadian with a sense of humor, connect with some French interviewees via a phone booth set up at...

I hit the slopes one final time this season—this time at Palisades Tahoe. And I head out to Bakersfield, California to take in the wondrous spectacle that is Lightning in a Bottle music festival, checking out sets from the likes of Skrillex, MIA + Rufus du Sol, and even scoring an interview backstage with Nia Archives!

I fret about whether I'm about to get scammed as I head out to Lightning in a Bottle Music Festival 2024. And ANDON delivers a fantastic warm-up guestmix called "La Barosa" from across the Atlantic Ocean.

Mat calls in from Long Beach in the Tofino-Ucluelet area of Vancouver Island, Canada. Plus, San Francisco-based Rave Mom sends in a sick guestmix—and tells us about how she actually grew up in the area our radio station now covers.

We check out the various booths along East Cliff during the Logjam Longboard surf competition. And WYA? (Where You At, from San Jose) provides a dope guestmix in the second half of the show. This is the Frequency Horizon! Tune in live each week from 10-midnight on Friday on kpcr.org or 92.9FM in Los Gatos, California (or Campbell or San Jose). #staychill #surfing #ocean #waves #edm #electronicmusi...

In addition to a varied music stream of chill proportions, we'll take you on a hike in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and contemplate the benefits of surfing with a pair of rad Guatemalan brothers just north of Santa Cruz. Tune-in live every Friday night from 10-midnight on 92.9FM Pirate Cat Radio kpcr.org.

A couple European exchange students we meet by the beach in their van have a surprisingly inspiring perspective on journalistic possibilities. DJ Yuka Yu (@yukaswat) teaches the fundamentals of electronic music mixing. And our program manager randomly appears when when I'm surfing instead of completing my show—and yet it's kinda awesome...

Since the solar eclipse rolled through North America this week, we decided to replay our mini-doc from the 2017 Oregon Eclipse music fest. DJ Little John was at that event. And in this we have the first-ever "sneak peek" mini-mix from him—straight outta Shanty Shack, in Santa Cruz. This show first aired on 92.9FM Pirate Cat Radio in Los Gatos, California. Tune in each Friday at kpcr.org from 10-mi...

We go from a rainy surf at Steamer Lane on a Wednesday evening in Santa Cruz, to linking up with some dudes who appeared on the Frequency Horizon a few years back (when we were on the air in Canada). We’ll check out the London Elektricity show in Oakland. And DJ Melisa delivers her third guestmix… just days after we land on the cover of Metro Silicon Valley (at least as part of a sidebar)! Here's...

In this episode, we sip wine alongside diplomatic missions from around the Pacific Rim on a vessel named the Klamath in San Francisco. There were Canadians hanging out on board, but we turn our attention to the Chinese consulate and the Japanese foreign affairs office to try to give you a glimpse of where the Pacific world is headed. And we interviewed Kiki from the innovative Geek Wonderland bran...

There’s a lot of movement happening on this week’s Frequency Horizon episode… Thaddeus Laton meets up with a hitchhiker and ends up putting on an EDM festival in Ninilchik, Alaska. Neumonic drops a deeply-personal track in advance of a DJ tour. Max Newman @maxnewmandj brings us a 1-hour Balearic mix from Spain. And Aphrodite touches down in San Francisco as the jungle he helped pioneer rises to pr...

In this week's episode of the Frequency Horizon (broadcast on Pirate Cat Radio just as 38 inches of snowfall was underway), we offer an on-the-slope view of how one independent ski hill (Sierra-at-Tahoe) is doing a couple years after a devastating wildfire ripped through the property. Shout-out to the marketing department for giving us a behind-the-scenes look at how a local-focused mountain ticks...

From hitting the waves at Montara State Beach during a milky twilight, to reconnecting with Fava MC (and discovering he's a teacher back in Germany), to getting to meet my favourite author Sheila Heti (who also happens to be Canadian but has a rad global outlook), I’ve been reminded of just how magical life can be. (Not to mention I put out my second-ever newspaper as an official editor). https://...

Do you ever wonder how California plans to handle global warming? Are you curious about the longterm impacts of last year's storms (you know, the ones that were so bad they were categorized as natural disasters)? Well, on today's Frequency Horizon program, we have the answers. Because we'll interview a trucker hauling giant boulders from the Cali interior to West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz. Plus, w...

We chilled out for January (and I hope you enjoyed the "mixtapes" in the meantime) but now we're back, with a vengeance! We've been collecting-up plenty of oceanic content and delicious electronic tracks for y'all to take in. And I hope you're ready for what's about to be unleashed. Because this week we're taking stock of things from the white sands and emerald seas of Carmel Beach, interviewing b...

We take you along with us to an O'Neill movie premiere in the Pleasure Point neighborhood of Santa Cruz. And we remember some of our favourite radio moments of the year from our journeys far and wide. Plus, I wrapped some moody #house, emphatic #electro-#pop, and #liquid #dnb rollerz up with a bow and put them under the tree for ya!

Today on the program we’ve got a solid mix of dubstep, trance, house, and—my favourite—drum n’ bass. We’re enjoying our new space on the dial—92.9 FM in the “South Bay” portion of the “Bay Area” (in Northern California, of course). We’ll still have surf-style segments in the weeks to come, but after the cross-continent journey last week, we’re dishing up a pure-music show this time 'round. Hope yo...

We ruminate on the evolving state of the Detroit metropolis while paying homage to the birthplace of techno. We meet frequent Frequency Horizon collaborator Jamie Cowling face-to-face on the East Coast and take in the Jersey Shore on a first-look. We'll also tap into energy from Toronto and Windsor, Ontario, as well as Fort Wayne, Indiana, along the way... Listen live 10-midnight on Pirate Cat Rad...

In this week's episode we play ambient-influenced tunes from Andre 3000 and ThenVersusNow and dance numbers from Barry Can't Swim and Jem Cooke, before sprinkling in some #poppunk and #midwest #emo. And we'll play our interview with investor Jay Eum about the implication of the APEC summit in San Francisco, not too far away. But it all leads up to our documentary about the 2023 O'Neill Coldwater C...

In this week's episode I opine about my new fitness foray that got me lost on the side of a mountain. As the actors' strike draws to a close, we bring you a longform interview with Desi Kole, a woman who worked on Pirates of the Caribbean who is now directing her first-ever feature film. And we'll take a roadtrip from Los Angeles to San Francisco with Bengali singer and philosopher Elma Siddiqui....

We take a jaunt down to the lighthouse on West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz to see 10+ foot waves pummeling the Monterey Bay. And we’ve got a solid mix of #organic #dubstep, #minimal #ambient #techno and some more commercial #dance tracks, too. Listen live every week from 10-midnight at kpcr.org or via the "Pirate Cat Radio" station on the TuneIn app.

I don’t know if you saw the UCSC students in costumes out and about mid-week last night around Santa Cruz… but I have to say, I love how everyone’s getting into the Halloween spirit here across the Monterey Bay. In this week’s show we’ll head up to the Makoto show in San Francisco and play a variety of moody tunes.

This episode features an original composition by Dr. Jevgenij A. Raskatov, an associate professor in chemistry and biochemistry at UCSC, who can make stringed instruments sound both mysterious and incredibly moving at the same time. We take you to a “bear”-celebrating street festival in San Francisco that randomly helps us round out our coverage of global affairs. And we visit Natural Bridges in S...

We interview the relative of one of the victims of the Hamas attack on the Supernova psychedelic trance music festival in Israel. (Oct. 13, 2023 broadcast version of the episode aired on 101.9 FM Pirate Cat Radio in Santa Cruz but the originally-intended second hour was cut off due to a technical glitch. The file has been edited as a result.)