05/24/09 Wizard Radio setlist

last night i had an epic birthday party where i got thoroughly crunk at a vampire dance club with frosting all over my face and a kitty shirt on. it was intense. you know i had fun when i wake up with extremely sore legs and a mix of sweat and frosting and glitter pouring down my face.

considering that was what preceded my set, you can guess i was in a pretty euphoric mood, and i think the set was really pleasant:

Roy Ayers Ubiquity - "Everybody Loves The Sunshine"
Del Rey & The Sun Kings - "One Small Step (Neil Armstrong Version)"
Eddie Kendricks - "Skippin' Work Today"
Christine Kane - "She Don't Like Roses"
Stevie Wonder - "Happy Birthday"
Ariane Lydon - "Come Clean My Chimney"
Grooove & The Gang - "In The Mood To Party (Crazy Jam)"
Natural Bob Holdsworth - "A Rucksack Full Of Love"
Janelle Monae - "Lettin' Go"
Super Mini Trio - "Pecan Pie"
The Coasters - "Charlie Brown", "Three Cool Cats", & "Dance"
Flora Purim - "Las Olas"
The Kentucky Colonels - "Sunny Side Of The Mountain", "Jimmy's Barnyard Shuffle", & "You Won't Be Satisfied That Way"
Pat Metheny - "A Map Of The World"
Lou Rawls - "Whispering Grass"
Ani Kyd - "Left Right Left"
The Statler Brothers - "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine?"
Dan Deacon - "Build Voice", "Red F", & "Paddling Ghost"
Gilberto Gil - "Aquele Abraco", "Vida", & "Mamma"
Warsaw Village Band - "Wise Kid Song", "Over The Forest", & "Skip Funk" (feat. DJ Feel-X)
DJAIMIN - "Give You (Remix 92 Dream Sequence Mix)"
Super Mini Trio - "Y'all Come"
Jack With One Eye - "The Burden Of Being Liked"
Boris with Michio Kurihara - "Rainbow"
The Arch Cupcake - "El Gato Attacks"
Eddie Kendricks - "Happy"
Bill Calahan - "Honeymoon Child"
Sleepy Brown - "Me My Baby And My Cadillac"

here's some more Dan Deacon, since i've only just discovered how dope this guy's music is.


also, TOMORROW *memorial day/my actual birthday* tune in to WNUR.org or 89.3fm 10pm-230am for the all-star Chicago jukefest! Djs Rashad, Traxman, Bobby Skillz, Spinn, & Gantman will all be spinning... Chicago Legends for real!!! dont miss it.

special Wednesday Wizard Set 5/20/09 setlist

so here i thought i was filling in for fellow Wizard Peter. he thought i was coming next wednesday. guess i'll do that one too. so tune in wednesday 5/27 130ish-3ish.

this was a super fun set though... got to play a lot of great songs as well as a lot of silly ones. my friend Miriam was in the studio with me. Wizard Peter popped in and out. some other Wizards and school pals dropped by. and my great friend Neema came through to check out our studio (he'll be hosting a massive juke-fest on WNUR 89.3 this coming monday 10pm-230am featuring your favorite juke djs, Traxman, Spinn, Gantman, and other Chicago superstars.. dont miss that).

anyhow, here's the setlist:

Giorgio Moroder - "Leopard Tree Dream" (from the Cat People sndtrk)
Castle Oldchair - "Backwards (running river)" & "Sad Pants"
Prostitute Karaoke - "Prostitute Karaoke"
Dr. Balamurli Krishna - "Valshnav Jan To Tene Kahiye"
Eddie Murphy - "Party All The Time 12' version"
Savath & Savalas - "Colores Sin Nombre" & "Balcon Sin Flores"
Aquarian Dream - "Do You Realize"
Handsome Family - "The Loneliness Of Magnets"
Steve Zaldin - "Sybil" (i literally grew up listening to this.. awesome rock for kids album)
Ride - "Birdman"
Mr. T - "Treat Your Mother Right"
Birdnames - "Scandanaivia"
Roger - "So Ruff, So Tuff"
Earlimart - "Susan's Husband's Gunshop"
The 69 Girlz - "Tootzee Pop" (a rip-off response record to 69 Boyz "Tootzee Roll")
Deerhunter - "Green Jacket"
Cabbage Patch Kids - "Villains Three"
Volcano! - "Slow Jam"
Tom Jones - "What's New Pussycat?"
Daedelus - "Fair Weather Friends"
Animal Collective - "Summertime Clothes (Dam-Funk remix)" (follow after the jump for audio)
Prince - "1999 house mix (Purple People Paisley Punk Promo)"
Error - "Nothing's Working"
MF Doom - "I Hear Voices"
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Strange Form Of Life"
Buck 65 - "Roses & Bluejays (live w/ orchestra)"
Michael Jackson - "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin" & "Baby Be Mine"
Bela Fleck - "Tulinesangala"
New Edition - "A Little Bit Of Love"
Bill Calahan - "A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man" (award for best song title)
Nouveaux Nation - "Colours Of Passion"
John Debello - "Main Theme from 'Attack Of The Killer Tomatos'"
Mattress - "Take Me To Your Leader"
Weird Al - "Pretty Fly For A Rabbi"
Barry White - "Honey Please, Can't Ya See"
Thievery Corporation - 2 tracks.. not sure of titles..
Shabba Ranks - "Roots & Culture" (from Marked For Death sndtrk record!)
Holger Hiller - a few tracks.. also unsure of titles..

heres that great Dam-Funk remix of Animal Collective's new song:

Wiki me.

apparently I'm a stuntman. Or at least I do know some stuntmen...

Check Me Out

also... tune in tomorrow (Wednesday 5/20) for a special mid-week radio set. 12-4pm.

05/17/09 Wizard Radio Setlist

well.. after a week in the forest with my mom, my cat and dogs and a lumberjack.. i made my triumphant return to the big city in time to do my usual sunday set.

pretty laid back today, but got some nice tunes on the air:

Kermit The Frog - "Bein' Green"
Young Marble Giants - "Wurlitzer Jukebox" (follow after the jump to hear this)
Spyro Gyra - "Pygmy Funk"
The Kentucky Colonels - "How Mountain Girls Can Love"
White Rainbow - "Waves"
James Brown - "I Can't Stand It '76'"
Out Out - "Techno Is Alive And Well, Techno Has Left The Building"
The Statler Brothers - "Ruthless"
The Orient Express - "Train To Bombay" & "Caravan Of Silk" (this record NEEDS to be in my collection soon... totally amazing)
The Warlocks - "Zombie Like Lovers"
Billy Paul - "Black Wonders Of The World" (JUICE sampled this for "black" on All Bets Off)
Richard Leo Johnson & Gregg Bendian - "Jesus On A Tire Swing"
Richard Harris - "What A Lot Of Flowers" (awesome song for this season)
Mouthus - "The Driftless"
Fleetwood Mac - "The Sun Is Shining" (this is early stuff Peter showed me, when they were pretty much a straight blues jam band)
Steve Miller - "Chocolate Field" & "One For You"
Instant Funk - "Slap, Slap Lickedy Lap" (I need to stop playing this one so often)
Small Faces - "Song Of A Baker" (by request! how exciting..)
Brooklyn Friends - "Play" (pretty awesome latin house music.. glad to have this in my collection)
Environmental Sound Collapse - "My Robot Beat Up Your Honor Roll Robot"
Leon Redbone - "Big Time Woman"
Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores - "The Perforated Veil"
The Heavenly Five - "Do All I Can (part 1)"
Barry White - "Never Gonna Give Ya Up"

nuthin'

no show this week, 5/10/09.

i will be in a car with my mom, on the way back to her house in rural Wisconsin. I will be spending the next week in the forest with her, my dog, my cat, the new puppy, and her lumberjack boyfriend.

I will be recording new music as often as possible (its amazing what i can accomplish without the internet), also I will be reading a book for pleasure.. this time one lended to me about carnies and sideshow folks, and I will be eatin lots of home-cooked meals.

I will be back on the air next sunday the 17th.. and maybe another show mid-week depending on work schedule.

CHEERS!

for now, enjoy this on the many levels it should be enjoyed:

first 80 min of 4/26/09 Wizard Radio MP3!

here's the first 80 min of last week's set...

fuck-ups, psa's, corny jokes and bad mixing are all in-tact.

its RAW but it is what it is. enjoy:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/reuf8o

look for more (hopefully better) sets in the future now that i know the cdr thing works.

5/3/09 Wizard Radio Setlist

This was a pretty good show. i'm gonna have to bring blank cd's with me from now on, because that cd from last week worked, as you'll see in the next post. would love to show you examples of actual good shows, like today's was...

here's the setlist:

Cesaria Evora - "Miss Perfumado (4 Hero Remix)"
Roger (Troutman) - "I Want To Be Your Man"
The World Provider - "Rear Projection"
Johnnie Wilder Jr. - "Thank You, Jesus"
Battles - "Hi/Lo"
The Trammps - "Mellow Out"
Animal Collective - "Winter's Love"
Ray Charles - "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry"
Detachment Kit - "Music For Strobelights"
Unknown 'Nervous Records' Test Press - "I Like It (Drum 'n' Bass mix)"
Dave Burnell Full-Blown Trio - "Double Heart Beat"
The New Christy Minstrels - "The Cotton Pickers' Song"
Volcano! - "Fire Fire"
Ready For The World - "Digital Display"
Y.A.C.H.T. - "Remember What This Feels Like"
The Mary Jane Girls - "All Night Long"
Hot Cross - "Throw Collars To The Wind"
Isaac Hayes - "I Stand Accused"
Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores - "Heartpunch"
Viola - "Little Girl"
Breaker! Breaker! - "Way Up, Way Up"
The Three Degrees - "When Will I See You Again"
Ma$e - "What You Want" feat. Total (classic!!)
Wavves - "California Goths"
House Under The Moon - "Direct Hit"
Hall & Oates - "I Can't Go For That"

there you have it. Cheers!
stay tuned next entry for the mp3 of the first 80 min of last week's show.