:: Hollow Earth Radio ::

DJ Shifts are three hours long. The first hour is for organizing, and the other two hours will be Djing On Air, yo! We support free-form radio where Djs play what they want and say what they want (except, we don’t support discrimination of any kind). Remember that we are not a Professional radio station—and we don’t care to be, so feel free to be yourself. It might also be helpful to read over our mission and vision of Hollow Earth Radio to understand our basis for starting this project.

Go here to read about it!

We are looking for WEEKLY DJs, TWICE A MONTH DJs, and GUEST DJs who come once or every once in awhile. If you are interested in becoming a regular DJ, it would be rad to make a 3-month commitment. We’d of course make exceptions, but we are looking for longer-term volunteer DJs.

Organizing:
The first hour, DJs can organize a two-hour playlist of music for your shift. We encourage you to bring your own music to upload onto our database. It would be best to burn a c.d. (if possible) of specific songs from your collection before coming to your shift so the uploading process takes up less time. DJs may also choose from our database of music and from our albums not yet uploaded.

Mix Ratios:
This is a loose ratio of how we make our regular one-hour rotations when we don’t have live DJs. You DO NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW this ratio, but it may be used as a guide. The main point to this is that we’d like to focus on local and Northwest music and lesser known indie music from around the world rather than popular indie bands or mainstream music.

? 25% Seattle
ß 25% Northwest
ß 25% Smaller Indie Bands
ß 10% Larger Indie Bands
ß 5% Anything Goes: old music, new, sounds, whatever
ß 10% HER commercials, dreams, phone calls, found sound, field recordings

We’ve attempted to categorize all of our music. If you are unsure about a band’s location, genre, or category, hopefully we’ve clarified this for you.

You are welcome to create your own THEME to your DJ shift like D.C. Punk Hour, Freak Folk, Krautrock Rules, What I heard On Myspace this Week, etc. Just talk to us about what you are thinking, and we’ll support what you are putting together.

Please! Please! Please! If it fits within your theme, insert found sound, answering machine tape messages, voice mail messages, field recordings, dreams, etc!! We hope to keep this an emphasis at Hollow Earth Radio. If you have found sound or field recordings that you’d like to share with us, please bring it in and upload!! We have an entire library of this in our database for you to use if you are interested.

Using the Computer and Database to create playlists, dj and review albums during your shift

We will create the instructions for this, and thoroughly train you during your orientation. We’ll have the instructions handy at the station for you to refer to when Djing if you have questions.

Album Reviewing
Also, during your shift, we’d love to have albums reviewed. We always have a stack of ‘em ready to be reviewed and uploaded to our database.