Lev’s radio show airs every Sunday night at 11pm on Washington Heights Free Radio. Here’s tonight’s episode: (MPFREEE)

PLAYLIST:
Franz Ferdinand and Jane Birkin - Sorry Angel
Harry Nilsson - You’re Breakin My Heart
John Legend - Maxine
Justin Timberlake - Boutique in Heaven
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Into the Future
O Lamm - The Macguffin
Blechtum from Blechdom - Part of You
Wiley - Old School Stars (instrumental)
Missing Brazilians - Quicksand Beach Party
Missing Brazilians - Savanna Prance
DJ Hot Donna - Odelay megamix
Beck - Jackass
Westbam - It’s Not Easy (at 33 RPM, so “It’s Hard”)

Enjoy!

L to R: Brian Thunderblizzard, Sarah Dreamtigers, Roz Carter, Jimmy Carter, Hot Donna (August 2006)

SUBJECT: “I was born in the summer, in case you can’t tell.”

Dear Merran or Vern,
Please read this on the air:

Dear listeners,

In honor of this weekend, I tried to put together a wintery-mix for you. But that music’s just too drippy. So instead, I’d like to replay a show I made last year. It’s called “Summer Feelings” and it’s all music by Jonathan Richman. It reminds me of the summer.

You can find the playlist or download this show on my website, www.balldeep.tv. I’ve also posted a bonus Jonathan Richman MP3 there in honor of the other way I tried to beat the winter blues this weekend — buying very expensive jeans.

Well, enjoy! and sorry to flake out on you.

Love,
DJ Hot Donna

Thanks,
L
—

Lev’s radio show air’s every Sunday night at 11pm on WHFR.
(MPFREE), (Bonus MPFREE)

PLAYLIST:
Down in Bermuda
Sunday Afternoon
Harpo En Su Harpa
Walter Johnson
Nishi
Springtime in NY
I Love Hot Nights
New England
Parties In The USA
Walk Up the Street (demo)
Foggy Notion
Lonely Financial Zone
Monologue About Bermuda
The Beach
In Che Mondo Viviamo
Con el Merengue
Melodía Tradicional Ecuatoriana
When She Kisses Me
That Summer Feeling

Lev’s radio show airs every Sunday night at 11pm on WHFR. Tonight’s mellow and sophisticated episode was brought to you in part by Cutty Sark. (MPFree)

PLAYLIST:
Jonathan Richman - Theme from Moulin Rouge
Doctor Pablo & Dub Syndicate - Man of Mystery
Bim Sherman - Simple Life
Sly and the Family Stone - Runnin’ Away
John Legend - P.D.A. (We Just Don’t Care)
S.L.A.B. - “Late Night Hype” Track 4
Lil Wayne - Walk it Off (Chopped and Screwed by OG Ron C)
Lil Wayne - Vans Freestyle
Kid 606 - This Is Not My Statement
Touane - Pendulum (let your nerves speak)
Touane - The Clap Song
Phil Collins - Take Me Home (12″ mix)

Enjoy!

DJ Hot Donna

As you probably know if you have talked to me or Whitney in the last few months, Blondes in the Jungle will be The Film of 2007 — not just for us, but for you and thousands of other people as well.

With that in mind, this week’s Donna Juana is a first draft/brainstorm for the upcoming Blondes in the Jungle mixtape. That mixtape will in turn inspire the film’s original soundtrack, which will play from our heros’ boombox as they trek through the 1987 Honduran rain forest.

Ok — hope this helps you get as psyched as we are: (MPFreeee)

PLAYLIST:
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - In the Jungle
James White and the Blacks - (Tropical) Heatwave
Harry Nilsson and John Lennon - Mucho Mungo / Mt Elga
Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night)
Electra - Jibaro
Heaven 17 - Play To Win (Extended Version)
Prince - Partyman (remix)
Heaven 17 - Sign O’ The Times
Heaven 17 - We’re Going To Live For A Very Long Time
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - I’m Corrupt
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
Rod Stewart - Some Guys Have All The Luck / Addicted to Love (live)

SKULLLLLLLLLSS!SKUUUUUULLLLLLLLLSS!SSKKKKULLLLLLSS!

From Well of Sacrifice by Donald Ediger

For fans of sound effects, daydreaming and things that can be described as “workouts” — the On-U fONdUe: 25 years of music from the inconsistently brilliant psychedelic-dub/dance label, On-U Sound. (MPFree)

PLAYLIST
Audio Active - Start Rec
Barmy Army - Billy Bonds
African Head Charge - Cattle Herders Charge
Barmy Army - Devo
Adrian, Denise & Emily Sherwood - Ignorant Version
Audio Active - U.G.
Ghetto Priest - Boom Fire
African Head Charge - Stebani’s Theme
Sinead O’Connor - Emma’s Song (Adrian Sherwood remix)
Adrian Sherwood w Lee Scratch Perry - Animal Magic
Lee Scratch Perry w Dub Syndicate - De Devil Dead
African Head Charge - I Want Water
Little Annie - I Think of You

NOTES and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Donna Juana airs every Sunday at 11pm on WHFR. MP3s and Playlists are archived on Balldeep.tv.

Mostly because I don’t get no-wave as well as others (Hot Donna Too, for example), I shied away from On-U’s celebrated no-wave output like Mark Stewart and the Mafia. But why two of my favorites, Bim Sherman and Dub Syndicate, are pretty much missing is a mystery to me. I might have to do another one of these.

Thanks to On-U Sound in The Area’s extensive discographies and to Captnswing’s time but not labor intensive instructions on installing Soulseek in Mac OSX. Without them I couldn’t go from “having” six On-U records to more like twenty-eight in less than a week.

Initially a matter of pain and often a hinderance, it is now a matter of pride that since its origins this project has not received a penny of private, university or government funding.

DJ Hot Donna
Jerusalem 1980

Lev’s show airs every Sunday night at 11pm on WHFR . Here’s last night’s episode (Mpfreeee):

PLAYLIST:
Jesus and the Mary Chain - Down On Me
Paul Oakenfold w Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill
  Pussycat (hip hop mix)
Goodbooks - Leni (Crystal Castles remix)
Tomas Anderson - Stoli Boli
Teki Latex - Les Matin de Paris (Surkin remix)
Liasons Dangereuses - Peut être … pas
Herbie Hancock - Tell Everybody
Touane - Riveira Geeks (Original Mix)
The (Hypothetical) Prophets - Person to Person
The (Hypothetical) Prophets - Wallenberg
Cheveu - Superhero
Gloria Trevi -  Dr. Psiquiatra
Project Pat - Fuck a Bitch
Birdman, Lil Wayne & Rick Ross - Know What I’m Doing
  (Chopped and Screwed by Michael Watts)
Keisha Cole - Love (Chopped and Screwed by OG Ron C)

This was the first time in a while I’ve tried a more dance-oriented mix/show. Hope you enjoy!

L

Lev’s show airs every Sunday night at 11pm on WHFR. Here’s last night’s episode: (MPFreee!)

Male Nurse - Vestibule Song
Country Teasers - Mos Eisley
Lil Kim & Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Crime Mob - Princess and Diamond Speak
Crime Mob - Trials and Tribulations
Da Great Yola w David Banner & Smitty – Ain’t
  Gonna Let Up [remix]
Lil Wayne & Jim Jones – Weatherman
Rich Boy - D-Boyz
John Legend - Out of Sight
Brush - To Reiko
Phil Collins - I Cannot Believe It’s True
Eats Tapes - Lucky Dragons Megamix
Justin Timberlake - My Love (Paul Jackson Remix)
Vampire Weekend - Walcott (Insane Mix #2)
Kid Spatula - Shakermaker

Enjoy!

Sunset on Disko Bay, Illulisat, Greenland. (c) Len Jenshel.

First, was anyone cooler looking than The Specials/The Selecter bunch?

No, right? Anywayz, Lev’s radio show airs every Sunday at 11pm on
Washington Heights Free Radio. Here’s last night’s episode (MPfree):

PLAYLIST:
Uness - Better Days
Donna Summer - Summer Fever
Donna Summer - Autumn Changes
La Dusseldorf - Geld
Tomas Anderson - Happy Happy
Heaven 17 - Sunset Now (extended version)
Pierre Henry & Urban Sax - Paradise Lost
Ornette Coleman - Jump Street
The Selecter - Everyday Things Are Getting Worse (live)
The Clean - Thumbs Off
The Homosexuals - Astral Glamour

Enjoy!

WHFR took the weekend off for toikey. So I’ll take a holiday too — not only from my radio show, but also from this not being an indy-rock or album-blog…

I’ve always liked The Walkmen. We share a love of Christmas, a taste for the John Szarkowski canon of photographers, and maybe more basically, a similar ‘tude.*

Like, redoing an entire Harry Nillson album song for song — Pussy Cats in particular (mostly covers, recorded with friends over one drunken weekend) — is a real Ball Deep kinda move. So in lucy liu of my show, here’s…

Pussy Cats starring the Walkmen 
and
Harry Nilsson’s Pussy Cats (ZIP file)
Oh, and no effing “Bonus Tracks”. 37 minutes is
the perfect album length!

Yeah, you knew Momma Donna wouldn’t leave you hungry.

Thanksgiving,
DJ Hot Donna

P.S. I probably won’t leave the album up long, so grab it while you can.

* Our ‘tudes were more aligned when I thought the song They’re Winning was We’re Winning. “Weeeeee’re winnniiiiING. I know it’s not faiir, but what is?” just seems more honest. But whatever — I’m sure it’s a typo.