SOUNDWAVE : 84 : protoU

SOUNDWAVE : 84 : protoU

Today’s guest deejay is Sasha Puzan, AKA protoU.

Oleg Puzan of Line Spectrum, AKA Dronny Darko (listen to Dronny’s mix here and his Line Spectrum mix here), recommended his partner guest deejay on the show last year, and Sasha’s mix was beautiful and sublime. I invited Sasha back on Soundwave, and she’s delivered another fantastic mix.

 

Sasha, AKA protoU
Sasha, AKA protoU

While Sasha’s first mix for Soundwave was elemental and cosmic, today’s mix feels cozy and intimate. I’m listening to it as I write today’s show notes, and I wish San Diego would not be so characteristically warm and sunny, and a chilly and overcast day seems more appropriate for Sasha’s mix.

I’ve also been listening to Sasha’s mix while I work at the office. It has been an interesting experience because I launched Soundwave to cope with the stress and isolation of the early days of the pandemic. I’ve been working remotely and listening to Soundwave mixes for nearly two years, and it feels unsettling to listen to the mixes at my office. I’m sure I’ll adjust, but presently it feels out of context.

Where do you listen to Soundwave?

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be José Sobranes.

See you then!

  • 12k “march 10, 2015 (march 3 ice rain)”
  • Connect.Ohm “Fossil”
  • Purl & protoU “Morning Light”
  • Sustainer “Prisma”
  • Miyuki “Ghostly Vibes”
  • protoU “Believe”
  • Dronny Darko “Circuits”
  • Dirk Serries “The Sleep Of Reason”
  • Venture “Autumn Sun”
  • loscil “Gymnote”
  • Shuttle358 “Models of Life”
  • Dronny Darko & protoU “Riparian Forest 300 million years ago ”
  • Fingers in the Noise “Drone Break”
  • protoU “Lucid Sequences”
  • Taylor Deupree “A Little Ecosystem”
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    SOUNDWAVE : 40 : FITZ GITLER

    SOUNDWAVE : 40 : FITZ GITLER

    Today’s guest deejay is Fitz Gitler, and he has a beautiful mix to ease us into 2021.

    I met Fitz when I asked Jason Randall Smith (listen to Jason’s mix here) who he knew would be interested in sharing a mix on SOUNDWAVE. Jason did not steer me wrong. Fitz is a musician, deejay, and designs sounds for theatrical productions, many of those in collaboration with director Tim Lee. He also creates under the name Techniken Defunkus or Techdef.

    I’m particularly fond of this mix because it was the perfect soundtrack for an eight-hour wintery drive to Sacramento last week. Fitz’s mix had my tapping out rhythms on my steering wheel and grooving in my seat. Don’t be lulled by some of the jazz standards because there are plenty of surprises. More than once, I found myself scrambling to purchase albums featured on Fitz’s mix. As I write this I’m listening to Dan Tepfer’s album, Goldberg Variations​/​Variations, which is a delight.

    If you love Fitz’s mix, and you will, check out his music on Bandcamp or his sets on Mixcloud.

    Fitz has some words about his mix below.

    Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Pavlo Storonsky AKA Tineidae.

    See you then!

    Fitz Gitler
    Fitz Gitler
    Photo credit: Cyndi Shattuck

    Twenty years ago, I met Jason Randall Smith behind the decks in a tiny bar in New York’s East Village, and music forged our friendship. I’m honored to be in his company and the full cast of mixes that Joseph has artfully assembled.

    Jason and I were thrown together by our friend, EL Soundscraper, who I’ve known since junior high, but fortuitously reconnected with because of our shared love of music. Enrique (Soundscraper) called my tracks meditation music—not the sound, but because of how it functioned for me. This mix I created for SOUNDWAVE does that; it’s a sort of spirit guide through the insomniac thoughts of the small hours, and a kind of requiem too. This year has had no shortage of tragedy; there’s enough to go around.

    I already loved music in college, but then I met Bill Hileman, aka Ronin Tengu, aka DJ Payce, aka Gandalf Punk. He gave me his world: hip hop, techno, ambient, jungle, acid jazz, funk, plenty of mischief, and more. He passed last month, too young, taken by cancer, not COVID. Bill is with me in every mix, laughing and needling me to keep searching. Too few experienced his true wealth of knowledge and love, but he influenced many, and his spirit lives on in his musical descendants.

    It falls somewhere among the worlds of jazz and electronic music, but really it’s a sound design of sorts. I’m still exploring the loose idea “free-format” that I first witnessed in the middle of the night on college radio in the early ‘90s.

    1. Techniken Defunkus “Pre-show for That Time”
    2. Teebs “The Endless”
    3. Colin Alexander “Bells and Strings”
    4. Tom Richards “Minor Breach”
    5. LV feat. Tigran Hamasyan “Hammers and Roses”
    6. Techniken Defunkus  “Ash Girl Post & Almost Nothing”
    7. The Art Of Noise “Robinson Crusoe (downshift)”
    8. Gabriella Swallow “Linear Construction (No. 5)”
    9. Johnny Mbizo Dyani “Afrikan blues (excerpt)”
    10. Aaron Novik  “Ballroom of Lost Faith-Lost Dignity-LostSoul”
    11. Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Haunted Feelings”
    12. David Boykin Reads Sun Ra “The Space Age Cannot Be Avoided”
    13. Buddy Peace “Day 138 – Been Glorious”
    14. Jean Grae “BITS part 2 – The Fear”
    15. Angel Bat Dawid “Transition East”
    16. Daniel Carter, Brad Farberman, Billy Martin “I Guess Everything Is Happening As It Should”
    17. Ill Considered “Retreat”
    18. Coleman Hawkins “Hawk’s Variations, Part 1”
    19. Dodo Marmarosa “Bopmatism”
    20. Ahmad Jamal “Ahmad’s Blues”
    21. Roy Eldridge “Echoes of Harlem”
    22. Dan Tepfer “Improvisation 12 / obsessive”

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    SOUNDWAVE : 25 : ADRIAN UTLEY

    SOUNDWAVE : 25

    I’m very excited about today’s show because our guest deejay is Adrian Utley!

    Most likely you know Adrian from Portishead, the band that put trip hop on the map late last century. Or you many know Adrian more recently for the work he did with Will Gregory for the soundtrack to the motion picture Arcadia, which I featured on the first episode of SOUNDWAVE. Adrian is a man who cares deeply about his craft and his love of sound and music is expressed in any project he is involved with.

    I want to give special thanks to Charles Hazelwood for putting me in contact with Adrian. After Charles’s mix for SOUNDWAVE went live I asked him who he knew personally who might be interested in participating in the show and he suggested Adrian and Hannah Peel (who will be our guest deejay on next week’s show). It’s little things like that that make this show feel special and more intimate. At least to me, anyway.

    Okay, time for me to wrap this up. My family and I are going to take a little but much needed vacation and get away from the wildfires and earthquakes that have wracked California.

    I hope you are safe and well. See you next week.

     

    Adrian Utley
    Adrian Utley

    1. Pulled by Magnets “Nowhere Nothing”
    2. Philip Glass “Music in Similar Motion”
    3. Townes Van Zandt “Sky Blue”
    4. Asher Gamedze “Movement Three: Synthesis”
    5. Robert Fripp & Brian Eno “Evening Star”
    6. Sonic Youth “Dirty Boots”
    7. Lee Morgan “Search for a New Land”
    8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Into My Arms”

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