Filed under: Uncategorized — Garrett Kelly @ 3:41 pm
Only! Only! Only! Tonight on Hollow Earth Radio Amber & I will share new music picks from Wall of Sound,
including Sublime Frequencies recordings from Burma and Thai Pop! We’ll also be debuting musics by Doug Haire who
recently recorded our found sound set for an upcoming episode of Sonarchy! Plans also include live snippets from a noisy
show last night at the Bikery with Talbot Tagora, Climax Golden Twin and Shearing Pinx, && music just recently imported in our
library submitted by peeps all over the world. The plan is also to do an homage to the animist orchestra (who we just heard about
this weekend) - read more about that here: http://www.jerman.littleenjoyer.com/animist.html
Also, I just picked up a rerelease of Penetration - An Aquarian Symphony by the YaHoWha 13. Check this out! It’s basically a bunch of psychadelic jams done at 5 a.m. in the morning by a former religious group based in L.A. Apparently they would wake up and pray and then go in the garage and rock the hell out improvised style! I’ll be playing the entire record tonight. But be warned - the insert claims that listening to the record three times with full attention will cause you to never want to listen to another type of music ever again. Personally, spinning this record tonight will be my round two and I believe I will have to keep it safely on the shelf from here on out … it’s like saying BeetleJuice too many times.
just another chance to blame things on seattle metro transit (boy, those busses are packed these days, aren’t they?):
So, todays Corner Pocket Program was intended to be another typical broadcast from Hollow Earth Radio Headquarters. I was excited, too, because I have been out of town (went to Minnesota to visit the grandma and attend the National Conference On Media Reform) and unable to do the show for the last couple of weeks. But then, I wasnt able to get a ride to the Kent Station to catch my bus to Seattle and the station. I got super bummed for a few minutes but then excited as it seemed like another good opportunity to try this remote broadcast idea that we here at Hollow Earth are so fond of. The Corner Pocket has been doing several remote live performances from Bellingham at Murder Mountain Records, but always from Mac computers. Garrett and I were having a hard time figuring out how to do it with a PC and pc-oriented programs. but i fiddled around today a bit and was finally able to unlock the secret code! So I am currently broadcasting from my families home here in Kent. This shit is so easy. You really need to start your own station soon! Maybe it will look something like this TOTALLY GLAMOROUS POSH “studio”: A Sky View of The Kent “Station” (my summer house):
A Skyde View of The Kent “Station”:
Set-Up Part One: WAY PAST DUE Media Loan Equipment from Evergreen (here acting as the studio mixing board and microphone):
Set-Up Part Two: WAY BANGED UP Toshiba Laptop, running the free programs Audacity and Win-Amp in order to create the playlist and record the airbreaks and broadcast via the houses WiFi connection:
Set-Up Part Three: The house computer, used here only to monitor the signal and make sure it was working properly:
The outside view of the Hollow Earth Radio Kent Substation:
Hopefully soon Garrett, Amber and I will wrap up and make available our Hollow Earth “Guide To Creating Your Own Internet Radio Station” which will also cover how you can be a part of our coming network of substations, where hopefully you can broadcast house shows and radio dj sets from your town on our “frequency.” Holla!
Jeffrey Taylor and Robert Millis or the local experimental music group Climax Golden Twins are also great compilers of music of a bygone era and far away places. They collect REALLY GREAT 78 rpm shellac records. This is world music (including america) from the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s. They previously released these on cassette and now have made a ‘best of’ two CD set called “Victrola Favorites”, that comes in an extremely handsome 144 page hard cover book full of 78 curio, covers, and needle box pictures.
I like this record so much I am playing the whole thing this wednesday at 9 pm (again thursday at 10am) and have managed to talk Jeffrey Taylor into coming and talking about the process of putting this together.
Not to be missed. Must be pretty good If I am willing to make basically a 2-hour long advertisement for it.
DJ Dearbornagain will be broadcasting live from the Sunset this wednesday just after 11pm, speaking with Levi Fuller about his (wonderful) Quarterly Audio Magazine and giving you the live music straight from the stage..
Ball of Wax 12 Release Show! Wednesday, May 28th! (Where else but) The Sunset Tavern! with Jeremy Burk, The Crying Shame, Origami Ghosts, Poland, Ryan Dolliver, Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden, Peter Verdoes, Jack Shriner and Devoirs! see also the BoW myspace page to listen, and for additional info.
Well, it’s Saturday evening, and we’ve experienced a lot of interesting performances and exchanges. The Jesus people were handing out business cards that said “HELL” on them, teens were french kissing in the big fountain, folk punk groups are out in droves on the streets of the Seattle Center grounds, and the Vera Stage has hosted a variety of amazing shows from black metal to sengalese hip hop to Oregan bluegrass. Tune in this weekend! We are broadcasting live from the Vera Stage at Folklife. Better yet, get out of the house, and come say hi to us!
More Field Recordings and Performances (Unedited & Raw):
We’ve continued to collect field recordings and interviews at Folklife today, and here are a few more. It’s so exciting to see so many young people busking. The Riley Johnston Folk Stompers are comprised of Riley, a 9 year old fiddle player, and his dad. He was busking so he could buy some legos. I saw this woman with this big hula hoop, and I asked her where she got it, and she said she made it. They just don’t make good hula hoops anymore, so I am also going to totally make a homemade hula hoop. You should too. Hula Hoop Construction HOW-TO below - - along with other field recordings!
Hollow Earth Radio is broadcasting live all weekend at the Vera Stage at Folklife, but we are also takin’ a listen around the whole grounds. This morning, we were particularly interested in youth performers and buskers. Here are some yummy samples of what we heard when we walked around. Come check it out! Folklife is awesome!
Filed under: Uncategorized — dj prismatic @ 12:09 pm
Today at Folklife:
Grace and Savage LIVE NOW!
Coming up next:
The Pasties at 12:20pm
You just heard:
The Heard - from Boise!
The Bigass Jesus Sign guys (not a band) are near the fountain, hippies and hipsters are streaming in… if you can’t take it in person, stay tuned to HER all weekend for the live VERA stage feed!
But seriously, I can’t wait to take my pants off and jump in the fountain.
DJ Dearbornagain will be broadcasting live from the Sunset this wednesday just after 11pm, speaking with Levi Fuller about his (wonderful) 
