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Mix: 38. Fret Less

2020/02/28

Lately, it seems like I’m becoming the patron saint for lost causes. Case in point: the fretless bass. In my real line of work I see the writing on the wall. In the real music instrument market, bass guitars make up around 20 to 15 percent of all “electric” guitar sales. Of those bass guitars…
Mix: 37. L’Oro Del Mondo

2020/02/14

If it seems like this is becoming a yearly tradition here, who knows? It might be. Yes, it’s another mix of some of my favorite love songs for Valentine’s Day. If you know anything about me is that I’m a big softie at heart. And part and parcel with this comes my sincere (no pun…
Mix: 36. さすらって

2020/01/31

Sometimes I have very heady mixes to send over to my friends at LYL Radio. Seriously high-falutin stuff, that right before I hit “Send”, even I have to stop myself and rethink a bit. “You know someone’s going to have to listen to these”, I say to myself before I click the button. It’s those…
Mix: 35. Japanese Healing Music

2019/12/06

Certain things aren’t lost on me. Whenever I look at my time slot at LYL Radio I feel a sense of responsibility. Each month on Wednesday, I end their programming day. For some, it’s 11 PM Paris time. While for others (like myself) it’s 4 PM Central Standard time. While one part of the world…
Mix: 34. Akira Inoue Special II (Guest Mix by Francis Heaney)

2019/11/28

Note: Guest, Francis Heaney, rejoins us to share the second part of his mix series covering Japan’s incomparable Akira Inoue. This time around the focus is on his brilliant collaborative work with others like Aska Kaneko, David Rhodes, and many more. I’ll let Francis take it from here…
Mix: 33. Harvest Home

2019/11/08

Once again, we’re back in England for another journey. If you can entertain me just one more time, I’ll share with you some of the music I feel brings out the best colors of autumn. On this mix for LYL Radio I wanted to take you to those early Saturday mornings at home in November…
Mix: 32. No Roses (Halloween Special)

2019/10/31

Rather than belabor you with nonsense trying to rectify itself as a theme, I’d rather rectify something I didn’t do last year: share my special hour-long Halloween mix for LYL Radio. For those that tuned in, you were treated to one of my deepest loves: British Folk Rock. Today I’m taking it a bit further.
Mix: 31. Akira Inoue Special I (Guest Mix by Francis Heaney)

2019/10/25

Today we’re joined by man of good taste and many great shares, one Mr. Francis Heaney, for a guest post sharing his first of two guest mixes giving you a peek into the work of Japan’s visionary musician: Akira Inoue. A titan of ’80s Japanese Pop and underground music as well, it was his wildly…
Mix: 30. Moods For Digital Gardening (Guest Mix By Paradise Is A Frequency)

2019/10/11

Mix Cover by Huiqian Wu For the longest, I’ve badgered a record label based out of St. Louis, Missouri — Paradise Is A Frequency — to share a mix of theirs on my radio show. For me, it all started with them reaching out years ago, sending out a digital handshake into the void saying…
Mix. 29: Guerre et Pets (Nouvelle Chanson Française Special)

2019/09/13

I hate to apologize for doing this, but once again you’re hearing in a mix of mine some jettisoned-off idea I had once tried to write about. What is “nouvelle chanson française”? Simply translated, it means the new French song. Somewhere, a sorely confused Wikipedia article tries to explain it off as some genre stylistic…