I know I should have gone to the local student radio and do my show, but I’m just too tired, still.
I am keeping two hour radio program called lataamo. I tried to do it every week but it seems to be bit too much for me. Last spring I kept the program on every other week and I think that is more suitable frequency. And I have to change the day to wednesday because of other peoples scheludes, so maybe I’ll change the time already this week and do it on wednesday. If I would be in better shape….feel…whatever.
Now days, at least in here, radio seems to play only “hit” music. Those same songs rotating over and over again untill a new hit comes along. I really don’t listen to radio anymore, and when I do I get anxious. Even if the songs is good (what it usually is not), by playing it every hour for two or three weeks they wear it totally out. It’s horrible. I really think that radio can rot your brain same way as television. There should be some quality offered there. Well things aren’t so bad after all. At least there has been Radio helsinki, and still is, but it was bought a couple of months ago and I don’t know has it affected in anyway. Hope not. And yes, thanks to the internet it’s possible to find radiostations that play everykind of music. I think. So some good things comes along with all of this technology.
This whole topic has something to do with appriciation of music. I feel that a person who truly appriciates music cannot listen these “hit” radios. I listen to a lot of music, and maybe that’s the reason why I do not understand why every place have to be so full of “music” nowdays. If I go to a grocerystore, there’s music, if I go to buy clothes, there’s music, if I go to coffeehouse, there’s music, If I go to bar, there’s music. And way too often it’s that “hit” music again, usually it’s some radiosation actually. And for me it’s really hard to ignore that music. I wonder how the workers of those places can stand it? And now they’re invented this that when I call to someone, instead of hearing the normal waiting sound (tuut tuut tuut) they (well the person who I’m calling) can fill that up with music so I have to listen to some song until the person answers the phone. Horrible.
Back to the radio:So what am I playing? Usualy stuff from my own album collection, quite a lot of metal and pop/rock, but also a lot of this mmmm… idm stuff. I don’t really like this genre term “idm”, maybe it’s better to mention some artists: alva-noto, Mitchell Akiyama, désormais, COH, William Basinski, Deathprod and so on.
Today I was thinking of playing: désormais, Jesu, José Gonzáles, Boris, the beans, Life and Times, Tuomari Nurmio & alamaailman vasarat.
But I didn’t, maybe on wednesday.