Cholula & Sri Racha Playlists

LAST EPISODE EVER (or until July anyway). GREATEST HITS ISSUE! Filling in for Austin Rich, who's partying in Austin Texas with Iggy Pop. If you can't download it here, then it's hidden under the title "Church of Blasphumus not Jesus" on the Wednesday 10:00 slot for March 14th.

XO

It's a religious day here in the subbasement...The Creator's Master Plan, Prince Far I chanting (toasting?) psalms in the toughest tone you've probably ever heard applied to Scripture, some Qawwali lovin' from Mehr and Sher Ali, and a bunch of other stuff that makes me feel mysterious.

emotional snow day

I'm in an Afropop state of mind...

My favorite songs of 2006, part one. These aren't songs which were MADE in 2006, but songs which I first heard last year. Weird French hip-hop, Cambodian and Burmese love songs, Punjabi and Nubian dance music, Ethiopian funk, African hip hop, Catalan indie, Croatian mood music, Algerian crooners, and more!

Ricardo Wang sitting in for an Internet and FM only Cholula & Sri Racha, while Sascha enjoys Christmas with her family. For those facing holiday theme burnout, fear not, I am trying to do this program without that influence!

A little groovy and a little creepy, this week we've got Catalan space-rock, Thai country groove, more of my new favorite band (Morocco's Nass el Ghiwane), Brazilian psych, Ethiopian saxophone, multiple Congolese songs of different styles and flavors, and more...

Party music -- some dub w/melodicas (!), a Bollywood/dub mashup by wayne+wax which's TOTALLY RAD, the Orchestra Baobab (described by my friend Mario Lostcosmonaut as "the music they'll probably be playing when you arrive in heaven"), some recent Moroccan tracks that I really like, Fun-Da-Mental (how do you describe that? Brit-Asian hiphop? I'm sure there's a more precise term), salsabeat, afrobeat (INDICTMENT!) and lilting old-time African guitar jaunts, metallic Congolese "junkyard beats," and more.

Damn, another rerun. I put together a cool show but then was defeated by technology. Maybe we'll hear the cool show next week: this week we heard a rerun of a very early episode of Cholula and Sriracha -- a Balkan hour.

Filling in for a fallen Eva Lake (your healthy thoughts her way are appreciated).

A special two-hour semi-domestic Cholula and Sri Racha with the secret, hidden theme of ELECTIONS. Don't tell anyone! Some political thoughts from American friends such as The Coup, Crackerbash ("Song for Lon Mabon" -- still salient today and look out for Lon's resurgence in 2008! Talk about persistence! The screaming in this song explains almost precisely how I feel about the topic, as well as a bunch of other current political issues), the Minutemen, TV on the Radio, The Clash, Bill Withers, and the Ex. Some of these songs once contained impure utterances which cannot be brooked by the FCC: for your education and listening pleasure I went through and hacked these bad words out. LET THE REMAINING WORDS ROCK YOU!

Half a rerun, half an apprenticeship.

Normal stuff plus a half hour of new DJ Clay!!!

A hodgepodge from Congolese to Croatian, Brazilian to Sierra Leone(an)...

Ethiopian variations on a theme; a sultry French hip-hop cruise; reggaeton and loud songs about immigration; south Asian hip hop; sufi devotionals; and a dub cover of a radiohead song.

A live concert by local analog-electronica field recorder BACONLAD FROM THE BORDERLAND.

A fabulous, archival hour's worth of the blasting, mysterious stylings of guest DJ Master Ri Ri; then some Libyan and Congolese dream-songs; some of the enchanted tracks from Radio Algeria; then Japanese women from the Planet Frog, Argentine spook-songs, Burmese classics, and Italian hip hop and noise.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Guest DJ Master Ri Ri (with assistance from Mistress Ri Ri) playing a special two-hour Labor Day set. Egyptian hardrock, the Residents, Oslo, the Hotel Titanic Presents, and much more.

Beautiful music from 1940s and 50s Congo; Indian film music and emphatic Punjabi songs; Nubian and Ethiopian rockers; French myspace hip-hop; Moroccan and Algerian radio mash-ups; GOOD TIMES

whee-ooooo!