Frequency Horizon

Frequent Frequency Horizon collaborator Jamie Cowling sends in an original heartfelt song, and it turns out it mixes perfectly with hip-hop and drum n’ bass. And DJ Natty from Vancouver Island shares a guestmix from the 2023 Pachena Bay Music Festival.

On this week’s episode, we meet a couple from London who’ve been living in a tent for weeks and finally got the chance to hit up a sick drum n’ bass show—after an experience in Yosemite National Park that was literally life-changing. Plus, we’ve got an awesome “introductory” drum n’ bass guestmix from DJ Rambo—sent in all the way from New Zealand (after a nautical voyage from Fiji—and some compute...

Michael Simler returns my bicycle, which he'd rented for Burning Man 2023. And despite the hectic, rainy circumstances at this year’s event, the bike is somehow in better condition than when he left. He gives us the blow-by-blow of his first every Burn via a longform convo. And DJ Ergot—a Santa Cruz County local I met down at Steamer Lane just hours after last week’s episode—delivers a guest mix w...

This week's episode features some pretty genuine poetic content from eastcoaster Jamie Cowling and a guest mix from Salinas EDM DJ @kalveronic2000. Theme: Butterflywingtip "BBB" Catch our weekly radio show on KPCR.org and the TuneIn app each Friday from 10-midnight Pacific (or 101.9FM in Santa Cruz).

On this week’s Frequency Horizon, we’re heading to Burning Man! Well, I didn’t make it there—something I was a little bummed about at first, but then I felt much better about as time went on (as you could imagine)… But my bicycle managed to make it to the Playa without me… In the second hour, we have a special guest mix crafted specifically for the Frequency Horizon by soupANDsalad. @soup-and-sala...

In this week’s episode we head around the globe—and beyond~ We update you with new information about an upcoming Afrobeat show we previously told you about, and learn about the connection of one of our listeners to famous Kenyan funk musicians. Friend of the show Resonant Dog—aka Bernardo de la Torre—surprises us with an exquisite organic house and downtempo set that taps into his growing apprecia...

It was under a pleasant sunset at Avila Beach—and at other San Luis Obispo-area surfside haunts—that we assembled this week’s episode. It features an interview with Southern Californian DJ Ravell, who tells us about a collaboration he’s been working on with Jack Trades (a fellow Angeleno), titled "Calling." Soundcloud producer MIKELOPS drops us a line after we let him know his track’s been selecte...

Here's what's on tap for our third installment for Pirate Cat Radio 101.9 FM Santa Cruz: We stop by a street festival with a skate competition on the East Side to snag an interview with talented Santa Cruz artist Jimbo Phillips—who tells me about the role of the ocean in his creative process; we rolled into downtown San Francisco for a chat with MC "all the way from Germany" Fava and Hospital Reco...

The week, we take you to the premiere dog surf comp of the year—the World Dog Surfing Championships at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica, California (Aug. 5, 2023). We interview a Swiss broadcasting team covering the event, incorporate some quality play-by-play action from OneTakeMedia.com’s Dan O’Connor, and even interview a winner who calls Santa Cruz home. Plus, we dip down to Hollywood—to a pool par...

In this week's episode we're hitting the slopes—in the middle of the summer. That's right. For our inaugural KPCR LP 101.9FM Pirate Cat radio (Santa Cruz, California) episode, we're heading out on a midnight foray through Yosemite National Park to beat the traffic to make it to Mammoth Lakes for a July snowboarding session. We've also got a sweet interview with Hospital Records DJ Fred V on his fi...

Here's a DJ set I did a few months back at Radio Bilingue in Salinas... Tracklist (please go support these artists because they're rad af): Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwickofficial - Do You Know the Way to San Jose (FH's Washout Edit) Rhyolite @rhyolite1 - EXTERNAL TRANSMISSION Serum @serum, Paul T @paul-t & Edward Oberon @edwardoberon - Take My Breath Away [V Recordings] Emperor @the_emperor - Sunde...

From connecting with the innovative All Gas No Brakes crew of YouTubers in Echo Park, to tense moments with Mexican authorities on surf and dental jaunts south of the border, to a heartfelt memorial segment to early-adopter Dylan Roberts, to a 30-minute chat with melodic techno DJ Christian Löffler, there's quite a bit on offer in our debut Dublab "Guest Session." First aired on Dublab Radio Dec....

In this episode we descend on Venice Beach as Los Angeles County slowly starts to open up -- after all its surf spots were closed during the coronavirus pandemic. We'll head to the sand as surfers catch their first legal waves, in the process of delivering this one-hour episode to 99.1 Venice Radio, a low-powered underground-minded radio station covering a section of West LA, as they put it, "From...

The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina's book of New York Times investigative reporting about the lawless seas, is arguably the most thorough account to date of the seedy side of ocean life. We're dedicating the entire episode to highlighting the themes behind those stories, playing tracks released as part of the Outlaw Ocean Music Project, which taps producers of house, ambient, drum n' bass, dubstep -- an...

To complete our re-launch trilogy, we have an action-packed episode ushering us back to Los Angeles just as the coronavirus forces us to rethink everything. We process the new reality with a sci-fi radio play, a neurofunk tribute, a conversation with documentarians of the Syrian conflict, and on-the-ground interviews as LA's stay-at-home order goes into effect. COVID-19 Radio Drama > Pt.1 0:00 > P...

We continue the adventure through Quebec, stopping at a U-Pick farm outside Montreal (22:22) to interview documentarian Chloé Gayraud, making a cameo at Piknic Électronik downtown (30:45), and interviewing experimental noise artist Tom Jacques (1:29:52) at an underground brasserie in Rimouski. Cover: A Touch of Gold by Nancy Wood Theme: Nasoshnik #GetMorePlays Tracklist: Dwig @dwig "From There to...

There's a lot of ground to cover in Ep. 107. We'll ride in a hot air balloon, chat with a Grammy-nominated producer consider recording rules, and meet a reggae broadcaster navigating the opaque nature of social media. Art Chat w/ Jay Paul Bicknell - 18:23 Hot Air Ballooning - 53:56 (co-produced by Valerie Brassard-Lepage) Pirate Reggae Radio - 1:36:45 with KDLR Keep Di Link Radio https://www.faceb...

This time 'round we feature a longform interview with Coachella headliners RÜFÜS DU SOL... 13:31 - Rufus Du Sol interview 1:18:37 – Unique "RIP dispatch" from Desert Hearts 2019 music fest for my grandfather 1:37:20 - First “cut copy” broadcast on KCRW in Los Angeles. Read my full article with Rufus du Sol and see an amazing photoshoot in the pages of Flaunt magazine: https://www.flaunt.com/store/...

In Episode 105 I see an unusual site in the middle of the night in Manhattan Beach — a black man in a leather jacket. I offered to give the man (Robert Tucker, pictured) a ride in my Ford pickup. I was fascinated with where our conversation took us… Macky Gee (@mackygee) “Black Widow” https://www.beatport.com/track/black-widow-original-mix/6435521 Rennie Foster (@renniefoster) “Falling Skyward” ht...

I made it through a year of highs and lows in the City of Angels! So lets fire up the Aphex Twin (@aphex-twin-official) and contemplate how far we've all made it in the last 12. It's crazy to think in that time I've managed to live in Los Feliz, Venice Beach, Westwood, Koreatown and Silverlake (and everywhere in between and beyond, right?). Plus, I've done a wide assortment of gigs in the process...

This we go on an in-depth tour of LA's Little Tokyo with infamous video gamer Chazo (you can read about him here: http://supersmashbrosgeneral.wikia.com/wiki/Chazo). He'll tell me how anime is a community based on much more than overly sexualized imagery and hilarious theme songs -- and he'll try to kick my ass at the arcade. Check him out on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/chazostatue 33:54 - After...

Straight from my new lab on the Silverlake hillside, to the world beyond, we've got "heroic" connex, heatwave #vibes, and face-to-face moments with some of the most respected names in the game... 1:15:54 - *Interview with K-Town Oddity: We head to the Line (boutique) Hotel in Koreatown for the Stones Throw records pool party. Here we even shout-out Anthony Bourdain RIP in our own way right quick....

Let's start with a quick surf story, Cali-style. And then an epic "Calypso" dancer intro... -We shout-out Greg Reveret, the composer who worked with Deadmau5 (@deadmau5) on the Where’s the Drop? album, after he connects with us on the Twitter machine. Thanks for the social love Greg. Such inspirational work dude btw! Follow him here: https://twitter.com/GregReveret 39:10 - Rad Reviews: Gideon King...

We enjoy moving into the triple podcast digits with an episode that's full #fire from beginning to end !!! Cold Open: We hit up a celebration of Los Angeles drum n' bass promoters reaching their own milestone > 1,000 editions of the weekly Respect night. In the downtown LA warehouse they had LTJ Bukem, the man known for invigorating atmospheric and liquid drum n' bass genres at the point of incept...

In this episode I reflect on the significance of “Number 99” as it relates to the Great One and my own journey from Canada to the U.S. We’ll take you past Venice Beach buskers to the mountains of Big Bear for a comical-but-legit modern rap parody and into the heart of Hollywood, following the delivery of an antique chair from Orange County. Cold Open: Shots fired — I tried to go to a burlesque sho...