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| grant | Posted: Apr 18, 2013 - 17:40 Huge fan of these guys. Going to see them at this year's Lollapalooza. | |||||
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Dec 14, 2012 - 04:49 richlister wrote: Gunjan style. This One ????? http://www.ishqrecords.com/gunjanBiog.htm | |||||
| richlister (Here, there, pretty much everywhere.) | Posted: Dec 14, 2012 - 04:44 Gunjan style. | |||||
| k1j2cat | Posted: Nov 24, 2012 - 00:34 Seamless segue from Harry Manx's Afghani Raga - nice job, Bill! Keep bringing us these great songs, one after another! | |||||
| coloradojohn (A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 16:15 Awesome! Great tunes to prepare and stuff a bird for roasting and veggies to go in the oven with it...Harry Manx and this...fabulous for some Last-Minute Kitchen Zen! and thanks to RP for this whole groovy Soundtrack of Today, when my dinner guest gets here, I'm well in the BEST of all moods to welcome her... | |||||
| SanFranGayMan (San Francisco) | Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 21:44 Bobert_ParkCity wrote: Aldous Huxley would be proud... I am sure he would have enjoyed this on his trips... | |||||
| ThePoose (Ottawa, capital of Canada) | Posted: May 07, 2012 - 12:12 The ''doors of perception'' comes from William Blake, and is where the Doors got their name. Just FYI. | |||||
| cinziacursio (Holland) | Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 05:36 and thsi one too ! very good sequence today guys ! I'm really enjoing the afternoon with your music ! kiss kiss and thanks for playing like this ! | |||||
| Bobert_ParkCity (Park City Utah) | Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 19:27 Aldous Huxley would be proud... | |||||
| Lilygirl (Fairfax, CA) | Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 09:57 I totally agree. One of the best shows I have been to. Saw them at The Fox in Oakland. Glad they still play these medium size venues, because there was a love-fest in the crowd with that kind of music! foothillfreak wrote: Just saw these guys in concert last week here in Utah and I was completely blown away. They are sooo good live, playing such a huge array of instruments with a great/diverse cast of artist. The whole crowd danced hard from start to finish like I've never seen before. See these guys if you can. Thanks for reminding me of the killer show RP. | |||||
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 00:03 Very nice! | |||||
| foothillfreak (Salt Lake City) | Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 13:32 Just saw these guys in concert last week here in Utah and I was completely blown away. They are sooo good live, playing such a huge array of instruments with a great/diverse cast of artist. The whole crowd danced hard from start to finish like I've never seen before. See these guys if you can. Thanks for reminding me of the killer show RP. | |||||
| jhorton | Posted: Jul 07, 2011 - 19:47 Two songs in a row in D Phrygian? That can't be a coincidence, can it? | |||||
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Dec 30, 2010 - 20:26 fredriley wrote: Very smooth segue from Harry Manx's Afghani Raga, absolutely seamless from one sitar to the next - I couldn't spot the join. Another fine number from the eclectic Thievery Corp - 8 from the Nottingham jury. Dear Fred, it's actually the tabla segue you're hearing there  | |||||
| contractor07 (Ann Arbor Michigan) | Posted: Nov 17, 2010 - 17:48 DITTO! ckcotton wrote: Hard to find any Thievery that's not enjoyable. Their live shows often feature 10+ musicians with 3-4 different vocalists and numerous instruments to compliment the spinners. They are great and I encourage anyone to check them out. | |||||
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Sep 15, 2010 - 07:15 INCREDIBLE COVER-ART Great MUSIC! | |||||
| ThePoose | Posted: Jun 11, 2010 - 12:30 The Doors (RIP Jimbo Morrison) got their name from this William Blake quote: If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite". | |||||
| ckcotton | Posted: Apr 20, 2010 - 08:58 Hard to find any Thievery that's not enjoyable. Their live shows often feature 10+ musicians with 3-4 different vocalists and numerous instruments to compliment the spinners. They are great and I encourage anyone to check them out. | |||||
| Blasserman (Banning, CA - 553 Miles S-SE of Paradise) | Posted: Apr 20, 2010 - 08:52 fredriley wrote: Very smooth segue from Harry Manx's Afghani Raga, absolutely seamless from one sitar to the next - I couldn't spot the join. Another fine number from the eclectic Thievery Corp - 8 from the Nottingham jury. I agree all around. And 8 was my score too... | |||||
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Apr 20, 2010 - 08:48 TerryS wrote: InspiredsetBill! Very smooth segue from Harry Manx's Afghani Raga, absolutely seamless from one sitar to the next - I couldn't spot the join. Another fine number from the eclectic Thievery Corp - 8 from the Nottingham jury. | |||||
| RC_in_Bezerkeley (People's Republic of Berkeley) | Posted: Mar 08, 2010 - 10:31 Hey S-curvy, Totally agree on the problems with KFOG. They used to be quite good in the variety of music that they played but now they really pretty much suck. RP is what KFOG should aspire to be. Go deep into an artist's catalog and play something different. Roxanne is not the only track by The Police and the Clash recorded more than Train in Vain... This song is very cool by the way and Bill and Rebecca do a great job of setting up the programming. I've discovered many new artists by listening and have ended up starting to buy music again... | |||||
| S-curvy (Lovely Alameda, the Isle of Style) | Posted: Jan 15, 2010 - 19:06 Hey pdj and jagdriver, Thanks for your replies. It's nice to learn a bit more of the workings of a raydidio station. To the perpetual whiners out there, I have a question: Speaking of programming nonsense, have you ever noticed how your favorite broadcast radio station that promises to have great variety (KFOG is one of 'em here in the Bay Area) will get a wild hare one day, after a 6 or 7 month absolute absence of someone like, say the little-known Eric Clapton or any other artist of your choice, and suddenly you find there isn't a day for about 6 weeks that Eric Clapton doesn't get played a good 6 or 7 times a day? Yep, it happens, and the funny 6 week run coincidentally precedes that artist's next major release or more commonly, his/her next concert here. It's a remarkably efficient method for making an artist that I really enjoy become unbearable to listen to for a really long time, and that sucks. In fact, they also beat the snot out of all kinds of other music that the record label dip-shits have decided need to be the "Next Big Thing." Ugh, after so much daily repetition, not to mention the highly repetitive and unclever commercials, I just turn that raydidio right off, CLICK. Enter RP, and we have an aural paradise. It may not be perfect for everyone, but after we become grownups, we figure out that there really isn't true perfection anywhere in the universe, and we allow Radio Paradise into our hearts — Ohhhmmmmm. YO Bill & Rebecca, you two ROCK! pdjpirate wrote: If you think Bill is sitting there on the other end of that little wire coming into your computer system, picking out the songs for your mind expansion trip...sorry not happening! Your going to have to donate more money for that happen. Now, this is not to say that your mind expansion cannot continue. The technique of rotating sets has long been used in radio by selecting sets and rotating them through different day parts (or different times of the day). As the rotations progresses, you either have it rotate sooner or later based on your listeners retention characteristics and the depth of your play list in the form of an ever expanding list of sets. Some better than others in creating a wall of sound and you paint a mood and a tempo with the sets. It is an extension of the old free form radio that is long gone in the USA. ....BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE DIGGING IT AND IT ROCKS!!!! !  AND SO DOES RADIO PARADISE! | |||||
| TerryS (The other SW) | Posted: Jan 15, 2010 - 18:31 InspiredsetBill! | |||||
| hahindy | Posted: Dec 15, 2009 - 08:37 funky ending....love it | |||||
| EssexTex (Gitche Gumee) | Posted: Dec 04, 2009 - 03:00 Chase music...through the streets of Paris | |||||
| AdyMiles (Wolverhampton, UK) | Posted: Oct 02, 2009 - 03:43 I don't like this at all. Far too percussive | |||||
| fingerpin (OhiO) | Posted: Jun 29, 2009 - 08:48 Gednabb wrote: judging by posts below, it seems like the same set is being played here. Is this station largely just a huge loop?  Quit 'cher bitchin' and say a big fat "Thank You!" to Bill and Rebecca for all their efforts. | |||||
| abulaabula | Posted: Jun 29, 2009 - 08:47 Sweet line-up bill leading up to this song. You should play "Tomorrow" by Thievery sometime,,,,it's off da chain | |||||
| nimesay (los angeles) | Posted: Apr 06, 2009 - 17:02 jagdriver wrote: Harry Manx - Afghani Raga Thievery Corporation - Doors Of Perception (Feat Gunjan) I'm getting drowsy... | |||||
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Feb 02, 2009 - 14:55 Nice! Thievery Corporation - Doors Of Perception (Feat Gunjan) Harry Manx - Afghani Raga | |||||
| bruud (Running to Stand Still) | Posted: Feb 02, 2009 - 14:54 Excellent segue, Bill! | |||||
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Dec 01, 2008 - 09:13
As for automation, Bill and I both worked at stations that were automated. In my case, the station had three 10-1/2" reel-to-reel tape recorders, along with two carousels of advertising cartridges (similar to the old 8-track tapes). The "carts" would be programmed using a pegboard laid out in an alphanumeric scheme, as I recall, so that cart B4, say, would play at 4:15 am (ah, the graveyard shift!). As one reel came near its end, the operator (me) would have to rewind it, thread up a fresh reel, and get it back online. With three reels from which to pick the next selection, the repetition of playback order was very small. At RP, Bill puts together themed sets that do get repeated. With just Bill and Rebecca running things, would you expect one of them to be manually picking tracks 24 x 7? Even with the themed sets, nowhere else do we get exposed to such a W-I-D-E variety of great (and sometimes not-so-great) music. | |||||
| pdjpirate (Near the Graveyard of the Atlantic!) | Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 17:53 Gednabb wrote: judging by posts below, it seems like the same set is being played here. Is this station largely just a huge loop?
If you think Bill is sitting there on the other end of that little wire coming into your computer system, picking out the songs for your mind expansion trip...sorry not happening! Your going to have to donate more money for that happen. Now, this is not to say that your mind expansion cannot continue. The technique of rotating sets has long been used in radio by selecting sets and rotating them through different day parts (or different times of the day). As the rotations progresses, you either have it rotate sooner or later based on your listeners retention characteristics and the depth of your play list in the form of an ever expanding list of sets. Some better than others in creating a wall of sound and you paint a mood and a tempo with the sets. It is an extension of the old free form radio that is long gone in the USA. Even before the day of the Mega Companies owning and controlling radio, radio was programmed in a similar fashion. Software called "Selector"was used to manage the music database and create sets and rotate sets and songs within sets through out the day. The Music Directors would spend half there day in front of their computers with the tunes cranked up in their office and picking out music for the next days log of for a three day run. Then print it out and submit it to the Program Director or if he or she had been anointed, they could place the music log into the control room day boxes for the upcoming days. Bill's music list is one of the most extensive for the format and wide a field in the types of music that you will ever hear on a radio station. So even the steady listeners of Radio Paradise may not hit a fatigue factor in music set repeatition. Even with the all the years of rock radio in the USA, it was programmed with the same mentality with the DJ's executing the game plan with the obvious "breaking format" moments!  I remember it well...
 "What the fuck are you playing that shit for?"
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE DIGGING IT AND IT ROCKS!!!! ! AND SO DOES RADIO PARADISE!
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| Gednabb (New York City) | Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 14:08 judging by posts below, it seems like the same set is being played here. Is this station largely just a huge loop? | |||||
| musikalia (Somewhere (over the rainbow)) | Posted: Mar 24, 2008 - 03:18 3:14 am - Thievery Corporation - Doors Of Perception (Feat Gunjan) 3:11 am - Harry Manx - Afghani Raga 3:06 am - Grateful Dead - Jack-A-Roe 3:03 am - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Where The Wild Roses Grow (w/Kylie Minogue) I am loving this set.  Thanks Bill! | |||||
| a_genuine_find (III Stone Sol, Gould Belt, Orion Arm, Galaxy of Milk and Honey) | Posted: Feb 10, 2008 - 06:50 This has got to be some kind of new world record.... 6:42 am - God is an Astronaut - A Deafening Distance 6:40 am - Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing 6:36 am - Neko Case - Deep Red Bells (Live) 6:33 am - Calexico - Minas de Cobre (live) 6:26 am - Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadic - Dafino, Vino Crveno 6:20 am - Ayub Ogada - Kothbiro 6:17 am - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights 6:12 am - The Audreys - Oh Honey 6:09 am - Harry Manx - Forgive & Remember 6:05 am - VAST - Dead Angels 
6:03 am - Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done 5:59 am - Christians and Lions - Skinny Fists 5:54 am - Morphine - Take Me With You 5:52 am - Beatles - Because 5:46 am - Peter Gabriel - Lovetown | |||||
| alanthecowboy (Lakefield) | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 18:25 ThePoose wrote: The Doors took their name from Blake's work: The Doors of Perception.
Actually, I think Aldous Huxley wrote The Doors of Perception. Blake's work inspired the title, though. | |||||
| ThePoose | Posted: Nov 23, 2007 - 11:59 The Doors took their name from Blake's work: The Doors of Perception. | |||||
| wally42 (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) | Posted: Nov 19, 2007 - 08:23 Nice segue Bill!!! Smooth and spooky. | |||||
| chyk5 | Posted: Nov 19, 2007 - 08:22 I need a spliff! | |||||
| aquadonia (Green Bay, WI) | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 23:48 | |||||
| robco1 (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Jul 16, 2007 - 15:25 My DC homeboys rule! See them live, it is a totally different experience from the mellow grooviness of the studio versions.  | |||||
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Jun 19, 2007 - 09:32 celadonstone wrote: At last, a corporation I like to hear more of with each day. That's no easy task in the US of A...
 Yep, the Heinz 57 varieties of groove. | |||||
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Jun 19, 2007 - 09:32 celadonstone wrote: At last, a corporation I like to hear more of with each day. That's no easy task in the US of A...
Yep, the Heinz 57 varieties of groove. | |||||
| petercroob (Houston, Texas) | Posted: Jun 19, 2007 - 09:32 MtnGoat wrote: When I finally have my breakdown, and strip down to my underwear and run in circles around my office screaming and waving my arms...
This is the music I want to be playing. I can relate, if it were a scene in a movie my eyes would be blurred and red and it would be in fantastic slowmotion | |||||
| prickelpit96 (Hannover, Germany) | Posted: Jun 15, 2007 - 05:25 ...and a pretty enjoyable album too...  | |||||
| RongoTBurg (Lost Wages, NV) | Posted: May 03, 2007 - 12:01 Baby_M wrote: Show music for the Bangalore Planetarium.
sign me up! | |||||
| Alana16 | Posted: Jan 30, 2007 - 07:28 MtnGoat wrote: When I finally have my breakdown, and strip down to my underwear and run in circles around my office screaming and waving my arms...
To help with your breakdown, you can conjure one of my favorite images: DC's own Rob Garza walking the smallest, rat-like looking dog you've ever seen at 8 in the morning. Can you really handle your DJs awake at that hour? And with such silly animals? That's enough to send you over the edge...This is the music I want to be playing. | |||||
| MtnGoat (Kill your radio!) | Posted: Jan 30, 2007 - 07:15 When I finally have my breakdown, and strip down to my underwear and run in circles around my office screaming and waving my arms... This is the music I want to be playing. | |||||
| celadonstone (the Lowcountry of SC (2858.50 mi East of Paradise)) | Posted: Jan 26, 2007 - 07:06 At last, a corporation I like to hear more of with each day. That's no easy task in the US of A... |