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Monday, April 17, 2006

Altrok Music Update #113: The WLIR Infiltration Continues...

by Altrok Radio

For those tuned into Eastern L.I.'s 107.1 (a.k.a. The World Famous WLIR) Sunday night, you won't need any further description from me about the fun I had with Cody, Danielle and Steve (not to mention their mysterious engineer) on Subculture Live. Cody asked me to bring a bit of the classic FM106.3 flavor I keep fresh here at Altrok, and I was more than happy to oblige - after two snow-aborted attempts earlier this year, that is. (This one almost didn't get off the launch pad, either, since it took me almost four hours to get to WLIR Broadcast Central. I don't believe I've ever spent that much time in Staten Island before...)

For those keeping score, I was able to cajole Cody into playing APB (a track recorded live at Malibu!) as well as Gang Of Four, Sexbeat, a newer track from The Fall, a much newer track from The Knife and A Bigger Splash (specifically, August 1984 Screamer Of The Week "I Don't Believe A Word".)

Again, many thanks to Cody, Danielle, Steve and Engineer X (anonymous only because I have a memory like a steel sieve - my apologies!) for making me feel so welcome - and here's wishing that if there is a next time, the traffic somehow magically disappears.

Of course, all fun and games aside, there's the constant flow of new adds to the Altrok playlist, and attention must be paid...

This week, our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from:
  • Mylo
  • The Flaming Lips
  • Protokoll
  • Autons
  • Tommy Keene
  • Morrissey

Plus we've got newly-added music:
  • APB - Shoot You Down (Live at Malibu 1989)
  • Arctic Monkeys - Still Take You Home
  • The Crimea - White Russian Galaxy
  • Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead
  • Elle Rae - Six Months In A Leaky Boat
  • The Hyphens - Turn It Up
  • Islands - Rough Gem
  • Klaxons - Gravitys Rainbow
  • The Knife - Neverland
  • Letters & Colours - Chase The Bull
  • Little Man Tate - What? What You Got?
  • Oh No! Oh My! - I Have No Sister
  • SOUND team - Your Eyes Are Liars
  • Spinto Band, The - Oh Mandy

Our Newly-Added Classics:
  • Age Of Chance - Kiss
  • Blue In Heaven - Julie Cries
  • Joy Division - Warsaw
  • Lords Of The New Church - Dance with Me
  • Peter Murphy - All Night Long
  • The Selecter - On My Radio
  • Simple Minds - Changeling
  • Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Hero
  • Sting - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Torch Song Version)
  • The Truth - Exception Of Love

There's about 4000 songs rattling around our library now (your average rock station has about 500) and every day brings a new selection.

Want a piece o' that? Tune in!

posted 4/17/2006 09:00:00 AM

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