Lev’s show airs every Sunday at 10 p.m. on WHFR. Tonight’s episode is the series finale of Donna Juana (Or if Don Juan Was a Woman). Its been real! (MpFReeeEEe)

PLAYLIST
Neil Diamond - Clouds
Enigma - Sounds of Nature (Ocean Surf)
The Specials - You’re Wondering Now
Dotty and Bonny - Sun Rises
T-Pain - Suicide
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony feat. Phil Collins - Home
John Cale - Caribbean Sunset
African Head Charge - Mr. Whippy Does Djibouti
Fellini - Teu Ingles
Phil Collins - Can’t Turn Back the Years
Donovan - Atlantis
Kasabian - Sun Rise Light Flies
Les Thugs - As Happy As Possible
Kelley Stoltz - Underwater’s Where the Action Is
Sly and the Family Stone - If It Were Left Up to Me
Lil’ Wayne feat. Reel - Everything Will Be Fine

Um. The New Gaze or Shoe Age —-> No Gaze —-> NO SHOOZ forecast is not not on my mind. Not with what’s on TV these days.

Dead before 30,
DJ Hot Donna

Sorry guys. I’ve got no excuse for not doing my WHFR radio show tonight. Some days just get away from you (y’know, Rog?).

BUT FOR GOOD MUSIC:
1) Please be aware that DJ/Rupture now has a regular show on WFMU. I’m really glad about this. First cuz though I’m very in favor of WFMU theoretically, since Donna Summer and Mosurak stopped doing shows I feel like everytime I turn it on, they’re just playing some goofy shit.

Second, because Didn’t breakcore in NYC seem a lot more relevant when Donna Summer was doing his show? Even from Berlin? Obviously breakcore declined for all sorts of reasons. But I think was MADE RELEVANT to me by having a weekly home on Summer’s show.

Well, FUN-nily enough DJ/Rupture’s first guest is ex-breakcore dude Drop the Lime, who I think I first heard on Donna Summer. Based on this episode, and based on my following his music&blog for a few years, I suspect Rupture is going to be building a home for some very exciting music (& such) on this new show.

(And if Ball Deep has a 5 year plan, its for us to build something like that for movies. Natch, I don’t really know what that means yet.)

2) And whoa, Very Thematically Related MP3 - Laid Back “Sunshine Reggae”.

Yrs,
DJ Hot Donna

P.S. More good vibes via duh

P.P.S. You know what’s a really good idea? Searching yr itunes for ‘Sunshine’.

Lev’s radio show airs every Sunday night on 10pm on WHFR. Episodes are archived online.

First download/stream tonight’s episode. And while you listen, read on…

After seeing Altman’s The Long Goodbye at FiFo, I’m now reading the Chandler original. For those of who haven’t seen the movie, its big joke is that it resets a 1940s detective story in 1970s Hollywood. And of course now the movie’s appeal is largely nostalgia for freewheeling 1970s Hollywood, when Altman could do what he wanted and Elliot Gould and Nina Van Pallandt were sex symbols.

FUN-nilly enough, lots of parts of the movie that seem most 70s to me are from the book. Like remember when the gangster says “I make lots of dough. I got to make lots of dough to juice the guys I gotta juice in order to make lots of dough to juice the guys I gotta juice.” ? Or when Marlowe aks “Is this the where I’m supposed to say ‘What’s this all about?’ and he says ‘Shut up! I ask the questions’?” Doesn’t that seem like pure Altman improv in the movie? It’s in the book!

Similarly, the two records that make up tonight’s radio show, Nilsson’s A Little Touch of Shmilsson in the Night (1973) and Diana Ross’s Blue (recorded 1972) sound more like what I think of when I think “jazzy” than actual old time jazz.

And here’s something. Altman’s Long Goodbye came out only nineteen years after the book. And Casablanca, the heart of Nilsson’s 1973 nostalgia, was released in 1942. It was less distant in time to Nilsson than Nilsson is to us.

Oh wait…weird.

DJ Hot Donna

No show for the holiday. But to not leave you totally hanging, I offer this MPFree of Avril and Lil’ Mama on some Hey Ya warm-weather UNDeniability:
“Girlfriend (remix)”

Breast,
DJ Hot Donna

I’ve been called a poseur once or twice and, well, I am often ardently enthusiastically about things - for years - that I basically know nothing about. But its really only through demonstrating my love for things that I figure our why I love them.

So I can’t really tell you anything about Balearic House. I’m only assuming this music is Balearic cuz it all comes from compilations with “Balearic” in the name. Still, I am ALL about it. Most of the dance music I like is of the ecstatic variety - french house, electro. This is different; its like instatic. (MPFreee)

Art of Noise - Moments In Love
William Pitt - City Lights
The Knife - Pass This On
A Guy Called Gerald - Emotions Electric
Axe Corner - Tortuga
The Thrashing Doves - Jesus on the Payroll
The Residents - Kaw-Liga (Prairie Mix)
Beautiful Ballet - Energy (Rudy’s Mix)
Mandy Smith - I Just Can’t Wait (The Cool and
  Breezy Jazz Version)
Chicco Secci - New York
Electra - The Future
Bat-Interlude
Laid Back - Sunshine Reggae 

Next year in Ibiza,
DJ Hot Donna

Lev’s show airs every Sunday night at 10pm on Washington Heights Free Radio. Tonight’s episode is short on length (35 minutes) but long on sunbleached vibes and fucking sweeeyyt transitions: (MP3)

PLAYLIST:
Towa Tei - Everything We Do Is Music
Len - Steal My Sunshine
My Bloody Valentine - Soon (Andrew Weatherall Mix)
The Avalanches - Ray of Zdarlight
Superpitcher - Baby’s on Fire
Cerrone - Je Suis Music (Armand Van Helden Remix)

L - A - T - E - R
DJ Hot Donna

P.S. WHFR jefe Vern pointed out to me tonight that 26 episodes means Hot Donna’s been on the air more than half a year. NICE.

Lev’s show airs every Sunday at 10pm on Washington Heights Free Radio. Episodes and playlists are archived here.

SUBTITLE: How do you think Kool Keith feels?

Long times with old friends this episode. Plus some new blood to keep the scene from getting too incestuous…

(MPFREE)

PLAYLIST:
Donovan - Stromberg Twins
Les Rallizes Denudes - Strong Out Deeper Than the Night
Country Teasers - Panic Holiday
DJ/Rupture - Secret Google Cheat Codes X - XI
The Specials - Stereotypes-Stereotypes, Pt. 2
King Sunny Ade & His African Beats - 365 Is My Number/The Message
The Avalanches - Brains Teazer excerpt )for serial! New Avalanches shit!!!(
The Unicorns - Ghost Mountain
Country Teasers - White Patches

Enjoy!

Lisssen - We are the transformers.

MPFREEEE

PLAYLIST:
Slepcy - Tracon Theme
Audio Active - U.G.
Beyonce - Freakum Dress
Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
Deee-Lite - Runaway (remix)
Paul Oakenfold feat Pharell Williams -
    Sex N Money (Benny Benassi remix)
The Knife - Pass This On
Tangerine Dream - Tharsis Maneuver
Dr. Dre feat Snoop Dogg and
    Devin tha Dude - Fuck You (DJ Screw remix)
T.I. - Big Shit Poppin’
The Clean - Whatever I Do It’s Right
Tangerine Dream - Deep Space Cruiser

Lev’s show airs Sunday nights at 10 p.m. on Washington Heights Free Radio. Playlists and MP3s of each episode are archived here.

Enjoy,
DJ ‘Hot Donna’ Turturro

P.S. WHFR is off air this week but since I was on vaycay last week, I thought I’d still post an episode. It’ll air on the radio next Sunday 4/29. Got it?

Lev’s radio show airs every Sunday at 10pm on Washington Heights Free Radio. Episodes and playlists are archived here.

Enjoy! (MPFREE)

PLAYLIST:

Max Berlin - Elle Est Moi
White Town - Your Woman
Capitol K - Frankenstein
Ryan Crosson - Painter’s Day
Heaven 17 - I’m Your Money
Ivan Roudyk - The Biggest Night (track 11)
Luther Vandross - Shine (Freemasons Mix)
The Specials AKA - Free Nelson Mandela
Donna Summer - Melanie
Soel Party - Manicomio
The Bitch Hotel - The Bitch Hotel
Beats Workin’ - Sure Beats Workin’