Wanna be a DJ for a day?

--Updated on Thursday, September 3, 2009

If you'd like to be a DJ for the our upcoming Fall webcast, contact me at aintthatagroove@gmail.com. My goal for the webcast is for listeners to provide half of the chatter about platters for the four-hour webcast. As in the past, you can forward your remarks about a particular track by email (and I'll read them on the air), or record the intro on your home computer if you have a "professional-level" microphone.

Below is a mature draft of the show's playlist as of August 22, featuring ten sets of music and 28 tracks, some of which will not make the final cut. However, if you volunteer to provide the introductory text for a particular song on the list, I guarantee that song will be in the final mix. Songs that have been already chosen by listeners are listed as 'reserved.'

Set 1: Contemporary Pop or Rock
1. I'm Going Away, The Fiery Furnaces
2. There is No Light, Wildbirds and Peacedrums (reserved)
3. Cannibal Resources, The Dirty Projectors

Set: Slow Songs with cool drum tracks
(distributed throughout the webcast):
Instinct Blues, The White Stripes

Set 2: Jazz
1. 107 Steps, Jeff Watts (reserved)
2. Emergency Call, Dafnis Prieto Sextet
3. Awe Shocks, Brian Lynch Latin Jazz Sextet

Set: Slow Songs with cool drum tracks
Tu Y Yo, Adonis Puentes

Set: 50s Era Drumming Kitch
(distributed throughout the webcast):
Driving around the Block, Roy Haynes (reserved)

Set 3: Contemporary Pop or Rock
1. Percussion Gun, White Rabbits
2. Let Your Love Grow Tall, Passion Pit
3. Nattura, Bjork (reserved)

Set: Slow Songs with cool drum tracks
The Elephant Sleeps but still Remembers,
Jack DeJohnette featuring Bill Frisell

Set 4: Jazz
1. One Wheeler Will, Ravi Coltrane
2. Venga, Guillermo Klein
3. View From Above, Kendrick Scott

Set 5: Should-be Rock Classics
1. Thousand Days of Yesterdays, Captain Beyond (reserved)
2. Back in the U.S.A., Edgar Winter's White Trash (reserved)
3. Clean Love, Blues Image (reserved)

Set 6: World Music
1. Cinq cauris ocre, Lo 'Jo
2. Talk to Me, Third World
3. Voice of the Kudrus,
Foday Musa Suso & Jack DeJohnette

Set: Fifties Drumming Kitch:
Ya Ya, Art Blakey

Set 7: Jazz
1. Outrance, Michael Brecker and Elvin Jones (reserved)
2. Crosstown Traffic, Gil Evans Orchestra
3. Song of the Sirens,
Peter Apfelbaum & The New York Hieroglyphics

Set 8: Less is More
1. Sick and Tired, Boz Scaggs
2. TBD
3. TBD

Set: Slow Songs with cool drum tracks (concluded)
The Ballad of Easy Rider, Fairport Convention

...Sign off...
Kiddio, John Lee Hooker

Webcast Title: ATG 30, "Funk and Fusion"
Webcast Date: beginning August 2, 2009
Webcast Time: daily at 9-1 AM and 7-11:00 PM (MST)

The latest edition of Ain't That a Groove will soon be posted to live365.com.

On this Funk and Fusion edition of ATG we’ll:

• put a back-beat to the Babylonian creation myth


• discover the ghost of Miles Davis past in the Indian music of the present


• hit the gravity-free dance floor with a couple bottles of
  home-brewed anti-matter


• and give a shout out to the millions of freedom fighters in Iran who are opposing the militaristic theocrats who rule their country with a murderous zeal

This summer's webcast is the 30th installment of our periodic program, Odds and Sods, featuring recordings old and new of pressing interest to drummers and other connoisseurs of high art and the fundamental wisdom of the big beat. The webcast has a running time of approximately three and one half hours and includes 24 recordings and 32 drummers who done found the stroke. Of particular importance are sets of music that feature the high order math of funk by the numbers, sets of the phat and the fusionary that share a world view, seventies fusion that’s new and improved, and contemporary fusion bands so prescient…they’re bringing back news from the future.

Also kindly note that this new webcast is only available on the 64kb edition of ATG, which is freely available to all listeners. The 32kb, 'FM' edition of ATG contains archival editions of ATG from our first three years (2005-2008), but no webcasts for 2009. Live365.com owns the rights to the FM edition of ATG for the next year, and has chosen to offer the show as a VIP edition available only to paid subscribers. Because I've stopped paying to webcast the FM edition of ATG, I have no control over it whatsoever.

As always, I do all of the research and production for the webcast, and pay all of the fees, but derive no income or perks of any kind from the endeavor. It's just for kicks.

--Flamdaddy

ATG's Spring 2009 Webcast

Webcast Title: ATG 29, The Jazz Edition

Webcast Date: beginning February 2009

Webcast Time: daily at 9-1 AM and 7-11:00 PM (MST)

The latest edition of Ain't That a Groove has just been posted at live365.com.

On this jazz edition of ATG, we'll:

• shake our hula hips with the Copa Cat Band


• sample a rare treat from England, known to locals as Ginger Sheep


• determine once and for all if Phish can walk, at least in tie-dyed bell bottom


• witness the miraculous-makeover of a jazz classic long thought dead

This is the 29th edition of our periodic program, Odds and Sods,featuring recordings old and new of pressing interest to drummers and other connoisseurs of high art and the fundamental wisdom of the big beat.

The show was first webcast the first week of February 2009, and has a running time of approximately two hours. Other highlights of the webcast include:

• a set of fusionary magic from Bobby Previte and Charlie hunter


• a heaping helping of thinking man's funk from David Sanchez's long awaited CD


• a memorable track from Art Blakey's Big Band featuring an up-and-comer named John Coltrane


• the bruising treatment of a Burt Bacharach classic by a gang of rhythm thugs known as The Bad Plus
  

Also kindly note that this new webcast is only available on the 64kb,'CD' quality edition of ATG, which is freely available to all listeners. The 32kb, 'FM' edition of ATG contains archival editions of ATG from our first three years (2005-2008), but no new webcasts. Live365.com owns the rights to the FM edition of ATG for the next year, and has chosen to offer the show as a VIP edition available only to paid subscribers. Because I've stopped paying to webcast the FM edition of ATG, I have no control over it whatsoever.

As always, I do all of the research and production for the webcast,and pay all of the fees, but derive no income or perks of any kind from the endeavor.

--Flamdaddy

ATG's July 2008 Webcast: Rock and Roll

Webcast Title: ATG 28, The Rock and Roll Edition
Webcast Date: beginning July 2008
Webcast Time: daily at 9-1 AM and 7-11:00 PM (MST)

This month on Ain't That a Groove we'll put our right hand on our heart and pledge allegiance to the united states of pop music, digging on the nuveau funk of the New Mastersounds, getting tight with Lenny Kravitz and the Black Keys, rising down with Questlove and The Roots, and traveling on a government mule to the third stone from the sun.

This month's show is the rock and roll edition of Ain't That a Groove number 28, first webcast the week of July 4th, 2008. I'll post other, genre-based editions of the webcast in the upcoming weeks, including jazz, world grooves, and percussion ensembles.

The webcast has a running time just short of two hours, during which I spin sixteen rock-oriented songs, old and new, which I think deserve the attention of drummers and just-plain folks. As always, I aim to compile a wide ranging list of rock styles and influences, as well as tempos and moods, while mostly avoiding songs that you already know too well.

For the first time, ATG's webcast features comments by our listeners, including reviews and analysis about songs by The BlackKeys, Porcupine Tree, Ringo Starr, and many more. In fact, listeners in 15 countries submitted more then 300 comments and analysis about the tracks featured on today's show. Most of the listener responses came from the United States, France, the Netherlands, and Taiwan, but I also received firm opinions about drums, drummers, and drum tracks from countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South America.

The proposed playlist for the upcoming jazz edition of ATG will soon be posted at ainthatagroove.blogspot.com, and so there's still timeto get in the game as a analyst for ATG by submitting a comment about a recording featured on the jazz mix, or by introducing a featured artist and their catalog to our audience. As always, forward your words of wisdom to me at aintthatagroove@gmail.com

ATG's Proposed Playlist for May 08: Pop and Rock

If you want to be part of Ain't That a Groove's upcoming webcast, send your comments about any of the following songs to aintthatagroove@gmail.com. I'll read your comments 'on the air' and attribute them to you. My goal is to use between two and four listener comments per song for no less than half of the recordings featured on the show. Naturally, if you don't like a song or drum track, I'll probably not use your comment about same unless it demonstrates exceptional insight -- or humor.

There are lots of ways to discuss the artists and songs on this month's pop and rock set. You could, for example....

• Explain what you like about a featured drum track


• Analyze the technical merits of a featured drum track


• Introduce a featured artist and discuss their discography


• Explain why you think a particular artist or recording is important


• Point listeners in the direction of similar recordings

Here are several examples of comments already submitted by ATG listeners for May’s pop and rock webcast. The track they are discussing is entitled Pure, from The New Mastersounds’ CD, This is What We Do.

• From Brooklyn, Robert Z says, “This is quite the ear candy. Once you start listening to this Mastersounds’ CD, it’s almost impossible to hit the stop button.”
  
• And in the windy city, drummer and conguero Tom writes: “what a nice treat: trapdrum tracks and conga drum tracks that are very well recorded. And FYI, this is a great record to play along with. I use it to get warmed up for my Saturday night gigs.”

And finally, here's our tentative Pop and Rock playlist as of May 8. And do note that it is possible for the playlist to change before I publish the final webcast. I must meet certain time and storage requirements for the webcast, most of which cannot be precisely calibrated until the production process is almost finished.

1. Shallow, Porcupine Tree, Deadwing



2. Bring It On, Lenny Kravitz, It's Time for a Love Revolution



3. Strange Times, The Black Keys, Attack & Release



4. Aretha, Sing One for Me, Cat Power, Jukebox



5. Pure, The New Mastersounds, This is What We Do



6. Four Kicks, Kings of Leon, Aha Shake Heartbreak



7. Mission Control, The Whigs, Mission Control



8. 2 Circles, Boredoms, Vision Creation Newsun



9. Panda, Panda, Panda -- Deerhoof, Apple O'



10. Sunrise, Yeasayer, All Hour Cymbals



11. Sissyneck, Beck, Odelay (Deluxe Edition)



12. The Valentyne Suite: January's Search, Colosseum,
    The Valentyne Suite



13. Killing Floor, The Electric Flag, A Long Time Comin'



14. Third Stone from the Sun, Gov't Mule,
    Live...With a Little Help from Our Friends
    
    
15. For Love, Ringo Starr, Liverpool 8

ATG 27: Winter Solstice edition for 2007

Webcast Title: ATG 27, Our Winter Solstice Edition
Webcast Date: beginning February 2008
Webcast Time: daily at 9-1 AM and 7-11:00 PM (MST)

On the winter's solstice edition of ATG, we'll light a fire under Charles Brown's now-famous baby, issue orders for a 21-drum salute to Jeff Porcaro, climb a rope ladder to the moon, then selflessly breach the boundaries of good taste and propriety simply to save a poor, innocent drum track from the thought police.

This edition of ATG is the 27th installment of our periodic program,Odds and Sods, first webcast in February of 2008, with a running time of approximately three and one half hours. Highlights of the 'cast include the poetry and percussion of Tom Teasley and Charles Williams, a demonstration of the nine-drum tabla tarang, the triumphant return of drummer Levon Helm, and newly minted performances by drummers Mickey Hart, Dave King, Poncho Sanchez, and Craig Pilo.

The webcast will be streamed daily at 9-1 AM and 7-11 PM fromwww.live365.com/stations/flamdaddy


The Playlist

Opening Set
1. Physical Cities, The Bad Plus (Prog)
2. The Low Road, John Scofield (This Meets That)
3. Bird Flu, M.I.A. (Kala)
4. Baba, Mickey Hart & Zakir Hussain (Global Drum Project)
5. Dancer, Word-Art (Poetry, Prose, Percussion, , and Song)

Set 2: Rock and Pop
6. Revolution, Derek Trucks Band (Songlines)
7. Star Spangled, Trances Arc (XOXOX)
8. Full Grown, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (Orange)
9. False-Hearted Lover Blues, Levon Helm (Dirt Farmer)

Set 3: Electric Jazz
10. Perceptual, Brian Blade Fellowship (Perceptual)
11. Tumbleweed, Michael Brecker (Pilgrimage)

Set 4: Electronic or Esoteric
12. Drum Sketch Number Eight, Susie Ibarra (Drum Sketches)
13. If We Can Ever Find a Way, Guillermo E. Brown (Soul at the Hands of the Machine)
14. Migraine 42, Migraine (Blue Glow)
15. Raag Deen Todi, Pandit Kamalesh Matira (Tabla Tarang)

Set 5: Big Band
16. Oleo, GRP All-Star Big Band (Dave Grusin Presents GRP All-Star Big Band: Live!)
17. Joys & Desires #2, John Hollenbeck and Jazz Big Band Graz (Joys & Desires)

Set 6: Classics and Covers
18. Funky On My Back, Cold Blood (Sisyphus)
19. Rope Ladder to the Moon, Colosseum (An Introduction to Colosseum)
20. Cloud Nine, Mongo Santamaria (Mongo Santamaria's Greatest Hits)

Set 7: World Percussion
21. Injecao, Deise Tigrona (Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca)
22. Come and Check Your Head, Blue King Brown (Stand Up)

Set 8: Old Masters
23. Go Ahead, Stan; Elements (Illumination)
24. 21-drum Salute, Jeff Garfield et all (Tribute to Jeff)

Set 9: World Percussion Redux
25. Beiba, Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective (Watina)
26. El Guapo, Los Diablos Rojos (The Roots of Chicha)

Set 10: Free Jazz
27. Rug Boy, The Claudia Quintet (For)
28. Arc of the Day, Chris Potter (Song for Anyone)

Set 11: Mainstream Jazz or Thereabouts
29. Red Clay, Craig Pilo (Just Play)
30. A Few Miles from Memphis, Tim Alexander (Dead Center)
31. Tin Tin Deo, Poncho Sanchez (Do It!)
32. I'm an Old Cowhand, Joshua Redman (Back East)

ATG's Fall 2007 Show

Webcast Title: ATG 26
Webcast Date: beginning September 10, 2007
Webcast Time: daily at 9-12 AM and 7-10:00 PM (MST)

This month on ATG we’ll pay our respects to the drummer and freedom fighter Max Roach, test drive a pair of drumsticks war crafted from dinosaur tibula, sample esoteric percussion devices such as the qua-drang-u-lar-is reversum, speak in secret alphabets, then sleep all night in the soul kitchen.

This month’s webcast is the 26th installment of our periodic program, Odds and Sods, first webcast on September 10, 2007, with a running time of approximately three hours. Of particular importance on today’s webcast is a three-song tribute to Max Roach as well as the first appearance on ATG by composer Harry Partch and his unique ensemble of third-eye percussionists and microtonal keyboards. The cast also includes performances by Buddy Rich, Jack DeJohnette, Pernell Saturnino, Antonio Sanchez, Chad Wackerman, Abe Loriel Jr., and Gary Husband.


The Playlist

Set 1: Max Roach
1. The Casbah, Rich Versus Roach, The Buddy Rich Quintet
2. January V, M'Boom, Max Roach

Set 2: Pouporri
3. Soul Kitchen, Twelve, Patti Smith
4. New Blues Old Bruise, John McLaughlin, Industrial Zen
5. Misfit Love, Era Vulgaris, Queens of the Stone Age
6. Anagram, Pilgrimage, Micheal Brecker
7. Lowdown, Tribute to Jeff, David Garfield
8. Time of Fun Together, Delusion of the Fury, Harry Partch
9. A Brief Tale, In Pursuit, Donny McCaslin
10. Give It, Lose Its, Take It; Tones of Town, Field Music
11. Wait Until Tomorrow, Try!, John Mayer Trio
12. Anthony's Blues, Triangulo, Michel Camilo
13. Joyful Reunion, The Call, Alan Skidmore
14. Timeless, Scream, Chad Wackerman
15. Life Begins Again, Volume 3: Further in Time, Afro Celt Sound System
16. Mannerisms, The Relatives, Jeff Parker
17. Triptych: Prayer, Protest, Peace; We Insist: Freedom Now Suite, Max Roach