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im having troubles picking up tunes to play on radio because the music i listen to is mostly real depressing (i love it though) so if i want to pick something different (something people actually listen to) it takes a lot of time, and i have hard time putting songs together - it takes me like 12 hours to pick for a 5 hours worth of music!! i don't have this sort of troubles with depressing music - whenever i start making a mix or a compilation (for myself) i can do it real quick and it sounds good. non depressing music just ain't my thing.. maybe this is going to change though :) i wonder if this is a common thing around here.. |
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not to mention it still sounds depresing, no matter how i try :) |
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oh just play depressing music if you think it's good music. we're grown-ups, we can take it. :) |
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you should hear JCB by Nizlopi |
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yes you can i suppose, but listeners of that particular radio don't :( |
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it'd be awesome if i could play the music i enjoy..i doubt anyone would listen to that tho..ahh |
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actually i'm not sure if its depressing now |
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Maybe they want a miserabilist DJ, maybe that's why they hired you? |
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what radio broadcast is this all for then? one of my dad's friends openly admits to hating 'happy music' |
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:) i wish..i'd play stuff i like but i can't. they have a policy on that. |
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that's amazing! |
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i would listen to the DJ Tolstoyed's Sunday Sadness Jam Live radio program religiously. |
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if i got famous i'd love it if someone killed themself to my music. i'd also quite like to make a really happy track that someone might have played at their funeral and everyone would cry anyway cause thats what happens |
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it's for some local radio..and music they (we) play is by all means not happy music, infact it's quite mental and kinda hard to listen to. alternative music only, but still nothing like the music i enjoy when i listen to music alone. some bands i included in list for this saturday: muslimgauze mike ladd james chance & contortions the fall durutti column mice parade boards of canada meat beat manifesto dj spooky public image limited pop group ulan bator michael gira nirvana calexico at the drive in four tet liars the kills wire gang gang dance luke vibert squarepusher triosk susumu yokota ... maybe one day i'll get a chance to make a playlist based on my taste :) |
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haha, i hope you will some day :D |
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Ulan Bator, NICE AS ICE. A lot of my favorite music is ''happy'' or ''jolly'' or ''life affirming'' or ''peppy''. Probably not the majority of it... looking at my music, it looks like a huge chunk of it is dark... but my top four artists are The Beatles/The Free Design/Harry Nilsson/Soft Boys, and all of them are delightful. |
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harry nilsson , jesus f christ |
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'fly, candy dragon, fly' is the song i picked. i picked them thanks to your recommendation, and i listened to two albums before picking that song :) |
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a lot of those are great though... you don't like all of them or something? |
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no, it isn't that i don't like them, it's mostly good music that i can enjoy here and there, but it isn't the kind of music i listen to when i um listen :) |
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Cool, man, Ulan Bator is the bee's knees and your show is going to be the cat's pajamas. What would you play if it was a ''self indulgent'' show for your ears only? |
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their station would reach a larger audience if they allowed diversity. they should really let you play whatever you like... |
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you need to get famous.. then people will let you do whatever the fuck you want and you can play whatever you want and people will excuse it 'cause you're famous... |
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yeah, there's one thing we agree on - cool group. :) |
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i don't know, that changes real quick. atm i totally dig music concrete type of music but that would probably bore the hell out of everyone. r40f, i wish they'd let us do that. there are certain rules we must follow - like playing 15-20% of old music, about 15% of domestic music (this is my bigest problem as i don't know of any cool domestic bands at all..there aren't any really) and like 20% of music that is in radios playlist (new stuff, atm; untilted, new meat beat manifesto, vibert, something new by gira,...). i played couple of avantgarde tunes a couple of weeks ago and the editor said to keep that down to the minimum :) or at least to write some remarks about it so the listeners would understand.. |
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oh, what a bastard. i don't know, man... what fun is having a radio show if you can't play anything you like? i guess it's worth it to you to just do as they say so that you can keep the job, though, eh? |
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well, i can squeeze in a few songs i really like so that helps. and you get to do that more after a while. it's the new ones that must follow the rules quite strictly. also, i want to be more involved in music, find out more stuff about it so this is really a good opportunity...also, when i'll be set to talk on air, i'll get to do an hour and two hours long shos here and there, where i'll be able to present music/artists i dig :) |
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Doesn't seem so bad... it's not that hard to craft a good radio show that doesn't totally reflect your tastes, maybe just one aspect of them. I'd do it for free even if I was really limited and not allowed to play anything ''weird'' or whatever. I assume Tol likes all those artists at least a little bit. |
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And maybe you could eventually work your way up until you were the next John Peel. Start small, end tall. |
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yes, definitely. i like all those artists, or else i wouldn't have picked them. but then again they don't have any music (or very little) that i love..but i'll burn them some of that :) and, personally i'd be much more in favour on not having those rules. there are a lot of people doing this and if we would all pick our favourite music that would mean a lot of diversity which would be awesome imo. because the way it is now, it's pretty much similar music all them time. different tunes and artists ofcourse but it kinda sounds too much alike. although you can always tell a difference whether it was guy or a girl that was doing it :) |
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yes, sure :) |
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don't worry tolstoyed. you'll get yr own show, it just takes a time. you should ask that editor if you can program late night/early morning playlists, they need to be calm and you can place all depression there. |
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computer plays random tunes in the night time..but maybe that will change one day as well :) |
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weren't you talking about this a few months ago? :) i'm exactly the same way really... sure i love happy music, but if i were to do a list of my all time favourites i'm pretty certain 2/3s or more would be pretty sombre stuff.... sad makes me feel best for some reason... and i'm not a sad person... just is how it is... |
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you mean the sad vs. happy music? i was indeed :) but this is something new now, i have quite a varied taste i'd say but still can't come up with something less depressing easilly..it takes time..too much time :) "sad makes me feel best for some reason" same here, although i would call myself a non sad person :) |
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wouldn't* jav.. |
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i just read through all of this, and it looks like you are running into the same problems i do... especially when it comes to playing domestic releases: i find this to be the greatest ass-pain in the world, and i'm complaining about Canada, whereas you are complaining about Slovenia which must be maybe a 10th as big (what is the population of Slovenia, anyway?).... fortunately for me, the program director and the music director both seem to dig people who play out-there stuff and whenever i feel like maybe i'm pushing things a bit, usually one of them is like "wow, are you going to play all of this 20 minute song?! awesome!!"... and both of them just got their contracts extended, so i should be in good for at least a few more years... i think you shouldn't be afraid to play stuff you genuinely enjoy, so long as you can come up with something brief and creative to say about it, in order to give people a point of entry into the music... this is good, not only because it helps people have an idea of what to listen for, but also it gives them more of a chance to get to know you, and eventually they will end up trusting your tastes and hurling themselves at whatever you decide to play. all the best Goran! i can think of few people who are better suited for this than you! |
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hmm, i could easily make 5 hrs worth of music with just canadian music but i can't come up with 40 decent minutes of slovenian stuff (we had some cool bands, back in the 80's but i can't keep playing same stuff over and over again). we're a country of 2 milion so there :) and my editor is an awesome guy as well, and digs music, and also trusts opinions of people he worh with as long as you can stand behind what you say about it. it seems like, these two radios are really similar - both sort of educational which is awesome. "and eventually they will end up trusting your tastes and hurling themselves at whatever you decide to play." i'll break it to them easilly :) |
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i am the same tolstoyed - whenever i make a mix tape for a friend, they always say how depressing it is, i just like the dark stuff. |
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put some happy mondays on next time you make one of those! :) if it isn't kinda darkish, or depressing i have hard time listening to it..i get kinda nervous and all..jav |
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