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Frequency Horizon

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Episode 128 ~ LA Trip: Desi Kole's psycho thriller;...

Frequency Horizon ·

2024/02/12

In this week's episode I opine about my new fitness foray that got me lost on the side of a mountain. As the actors' strike draws to a close, we bring you a longform interview with Desi Kole, a woman who worked on Pirates of the Caribbean who is now directing her first-ever feature film. And we'll take a roadtrip from Los Angeles to San Francisco with Bengali singer and philosopher Elma Siddiqui. Listen live each week from 10-midnight on Pirate Cat Radio at kpcr.org or via the TuneIn app.

02:02:07

Episode 127 ~ Big waves hit Steamer Lane + leftfield...

Frequency Horizon ·

2024/02/12

We take a jaunt down to the lighthouse on West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz to see 10+ foot waves pummeling the Monterey Bay. And we’ve got a solid mix of #organic #dubstep, #minimal #ambient #techno and some more commercial #dance tracks, too. Listen live every week from 10-midnight at kpcr.org or via the "Pirate Cat Radio" station on the TuneIn app.

02:01:53

Episode 126 ~ Moody Halloween 2023

Frequency Horizon ·

2024/02/12

I don’t know if you saw the UCSC students in costumes out and about mid-week last night around Santa Cruz… but I have to say, I love how everyone’s getting into the Halloween spirit here across the Monterey Bay. In this week’s show we’ll head up to the Makoto show in San Francisco and play a variety of moody tunes.

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Episode 125 ~ Butterflies + Bears

Frequency Horizon ·

2024/02/12

This episode features an original composition by Dr. Jevgenij A. Raskatov, an associate professor in chemistry and biochemistry at UCSC, who can make stringed instruments sound both mysterious and incredibly moving at the same time. We take you to a “bear”-celebrating street festival in San Francisco that randomly helps us round out our coverage of global affairs. And we visit Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz for Welcome Back Monarchs Day. Due to a broadcast glitch, last week's DJ Bumbacat mix

00:57:43

Episode 124 ~ Psytrance community reels from massacre

Frequency Horizon ·

2024/02/11

We interview the relative of one of the victims of the Hamas attack on the Supernova psychedelic trance music festival in Israel. (Oct. 13, 2023 broadcast version of the episode aired on 101.9 FM Pirate Cat Radio in Santa Cruz but the originally-intended second hour was cut off due to a technical glitch. The file has been edited as a result.)

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Episode 123 ~ DJ Natty guestmix from Pachena Bay,...

Frequency Horizon ·

2024/02/11

Frequent Frequency Horizon collaborator Jamie Cowling sends in an original heartfelt song, and it turns out it mixes perfectly with hip-hop and drum n’ bass. And DJ Natty from Vancouver Island shares a guestmix from the 2023 Pachena Bay Music Festival.

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Episode 122 ~ UK Couple’s Lifechanging National Park...

Frequency Horizon ·

2023/10/05

On this week’s episode, we meet a couple from London who’ve been living in a tent for weeks and finally got the chance to hit up a sick drum n’ bass show—after an experience in Yosemite National Park that was literally life-changing. Plus, we’ve got an awesome “introductory” drum n’ bass guestmix from DJ Rambo—sent in all the way from New Zealand (after a nautical voyage from Fiji—and some computer chaos).

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Episode 121 ~ Glorious Return of the Beach Cruiser +...

Frequency Horizon ·

2023/09/28

Michael Simler returns my bicycle, which he'd rented for Burning Man 2023. And despite the hectic, rainy circumstances at this year’s event, the bike is somehow in better condition than when he left. He gives us the blow-by-blow of his first every Burn via a longform convo. And DJ Ergot—a Santa Cruz County local I met down at Steamer Lane just hours after last week’s episode—delivers a guest mix with plenty of dirty and bouncy basslines. #BurningMan #electronicmusic #storytelling #DJ

01:59:59

Episode 120 ~ Jamie Cowling poetics + Kalveronic...

Frequency Horizon ·

2023/09/21

This week's episode features some pretty genuine poetic content from eastcoaster Jamie Cowling and a guest mix from Salinas EDM DJ @kalveronic2000. Theme: Butterflywingtip "BBB" Catch our weekly radio show on KPCR.org and the TuneIn app each Friday from 10-midnight Pacific (or 101.9FM in Santa Cruz).

02:04:15

Episode 119 ~ Burning Man 2023: bike emissary,...

Frequency Horizon ·

2023/09/11

On this week’s Frequency Horizon, we’re heading to Burning Man! Well, I didn’t make it there—something I was a little bummed about at first, but then I felt much better about as time went on (as you could imagine)… But my bicycle managed to make it to the Playa without me… In the second hour, we have a special guest mix crafted specifically for the Frequency Horizon by soupANDsalad. @soup-and-salad Trust me, it's dope. Please support the artists by purchasing their songs and streaming them on

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Episode 118 ~ African rhythms, Resonant Dog DJ mix,...

Frequency Horizon ·

2023/09/04

In this week’s episode we head around the globe—and beyond~ We update you with new information about an upcoming Afrobeat show we previously told you about, and learn about the connection of one of our listeners to famous Kenyan funk musicians. Friend of the show Resonant Dog—aka Bernardo de la Torre—surprises us with an exquisite organic house and downtempo set that taps into his growing appreciation for musical traditions from around the world. Hey, guess what? Ana’s got a fantastic poem

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Episode 117 ~ Ravell interview, DJ Melisa’s 2nd-hour...

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2023/08/29

It was under a pleasant sunset at Avila Beach—and at other San Luis Obispo-area surfside haunts—that we assembled this week’s episode. It features an interview with Southern Californian DJ Ravell, who tells us about a collaboration he’s been working on with Jack Trades (a fellow Angeleno), titled "Calling." Soundcloud producer MIKELOPS drops us a line after we let him know his track’s been selected for the broadcast. And DJ Melisa takes over the second hour of the show with a cohesive mix that

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Episode 116 ~ Jimbo Phillips, Hugh Hardie & MC Fava,...

Frequency Horizon ·

2023/08/21

Here's what's on tap for our third installment for Pirate Cat Radio 101.9 FM Santa Cruz: We stop by a street festival with a skate competition on the East Side to snag an interview with talented Santa Cruz artist Jimbo Phillips—who tells me about the role of the ocean in his creative process; we rolled into downtown San Francisco for a chat with MC "all the way from Germany" Fava and Hospital Records DJ / producer extraordinaire Hugh Hardie; plus, a garage sale stop turns into an amazing original

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Episode 115 ~ 2nd for Pirate Cat: 2023 World Dog...

Frequency Horizon ·

2023/08/13

The week, we take you to the premiere dog surf comp of the year—the World Dog Surfing Championships at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica, California (Aug. 5, 2023). We interview a Swiss broadcasting team covering the event, incorporate some quality play-by-play action from OneTakeMedia.com’s Dan O’Connor, and even interview a winner who calls Santa Cruz home. Plus, we dip down to Hollywood—to a pool party at the Roosevelt Hotel—to get you the scoop on the latest upbeat house release from the EC

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Episode 114 ~ Pirate Cat Radio Inaugural: Yosemite...

Frequency Horizon ·

2023/08/09

In this week's episode we're hitting the slopes—in the middle of the summer. That's right. For our inaugural KPCR LP 101.9FM Pirate Cat radio (Santa Cruz, California) episode, we're heading out on a midnight foray through Yosemite National Park to beat the traffic to make it to Mammoth Lakes for a July snowboarding session. We've also got a sweet interview with Hospital Records DJ Fred V on his first visit to the Bay Area as a solo artist. This is all couched in a diverse array of music from

01:35:38

Episode 113 - 90.9 FM (Salinas) Mix

Frequency Horizon ·

2021/09/27

Here's a DJ set I did a few months back at Radio Bilingue in Salinas... Tracklist (please go support these artists because they're rad af): Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwickofficial - Do You Know the Way to San Jose (FH's Washout Edit) Rhyolite @rhyolite1 - EXTERNAL TRANSMISSION Serum @serum, Paul T @paul-t & Edward Oberon @edwardoberon - Take My Breath Away [V Recordings] Emperor @the_emperor - Sunder Stevebot - RCS Cruise Control https://stevebot.bandcamp.com/ Boards of Canada @boardsofcanada -

01:57:00

Episode 112 ~ Dublab Guest Session: All Gas No Brakes...

Frequency Horizon ·

2020/12/29

From connecting with the innovative All Gas No Brakes crew of YouTubers in Echo Park, to tense moments with Mexican authorities on surf and dental jaunts south of the border, to a heartfelt memorial segment to early-adopter Dylan Roberts, to a 30-minute chat with melodic techno DJ Christian Löffler, there's quite a bit on offer in our debut Dublab "Guest Session." First aired on Dublab Radio Dec. 27, 2020 from 8-10 p.m. Pacific. (Listen on dublab:

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Episode 111 ~ The Great Venice Reopening

Frequency Horizon ·

2020/06/29

In this episode we descend on Venice Beach as Los Angeles County slowly starts to open up -- after all its surf spots were closed during the coronavirus pandemic. We'll head to the sand as surfers catch their first legal waves, in the process of delivering this one-hour episode to 99.1 Venice Radio, a low-powered underground-minded radio station covering a section of West LA, as they put it, "From the Speedway to the Freeway." The music has been specifically curated for the broad spectrum of

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Episode 110 ~ Outlaw Oceanic

Frequency Horizon ·

2020/05/08

The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina's book of New York Times investigative reporting about the lawless seas, is arguably the most thorough account to date of the seedy side of ocean life. We're dedicating the entire episode to highlighting the themes behind those stories, playing tracks released as part of the Outlaw Ocean Music Project, which taps producers of house, ambient, drum n' bass, dubstep -- and beyond -- to give this oceanic reporting an additional dimension. Grab your galoshes and pirate

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Episode 109 ~ Return 2 LA - COVID-19 Radio Drama,...

Frequency Horizon ·

2020/04/29

To complete our re-launch trilogy, we have an action-packed episode ushering us back to Los Angeles just as the coronavirus forces us to rethink everything. We process the new reality with a sci-fi radio play, a neurofunk tribute, a conversation with documentarians of the Syrian conflict, and on-the-ground interviews as LA's stay-at-home order goes into effect. COVID-19 Radio Drama > Pt.1 0:00 > Pt. 2 - 36:19 > Pt. 3 - 1:28:42 Written by: Drew Penner and Jason Bowers. Performed by: Leslie Pine

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