Jason Bentley
With a passion for music and culture, host Jason Bentley diligently serves up the hypnotic pulse of modern city life and club culture.
As of Monday, December 1st, Jason Bentley took over as KCRW Music Director and Host of Morning Becomes Eclectic. Please visit here for show archives and upcoming performances and interviews from Jason on MBE.Photo credit: Marc Goldstein
10/11/08: Slow Dancing at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
(click here to listen to the set and view the full playlist)
04/08/08: Opening Set for Groove Armada
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02/25/08: Jason Bentley's Oscar mix
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Jason Bentley featured in Drowned in Sound
RECENT SHOWS
Latest Show
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As of December 1st, 2008, Jason Bentley took over as KCRW Music Director and Host of Morning Becomes Eclectic. Check out his previous shows On-Demand here.
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Jeff Castelaz
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Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz drops by KCRW to chat about the new Pablove Foundation Benefit CD, produced in honor if his son.
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Mark Farina
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World renowned DJ/Producer Mark Farina stops by KCRW to play selections from his latest Mushroom Jazz
collection. (8:30pm)
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Slow Dancing - Orange County Performing Arts Center
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On Saturday, October 11th KCRW headed south to Orange County for Uptown Underground OC - a special night of music, art and dance on the plaza at the Orange County Performing …
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David Michalek
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Slow
Dancing creator David Michalek drops by to chat with Jason in the 8 o'clock hour.
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Jason Bentley's Labor Day Music Special
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Jason Bentley kicks off our nine-hour Labor Day music special. Jason is one of three popular KCRW hosts who have changed
the musical landscape worldwide with their unique …
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Paul Oakenfold
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Paul Oakenfold stops by KCRW for an interview with Jason Bentley.
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Music Library is Reborn
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KCRW DJs delve into the newly digitized music archive. With this new
system, it is now as easy for DJs to play rare and obscure pieces as
the latest releases. Listen …
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Program Details
Host
Jason Bentley is KCRW's Music Director and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic. Jason began as a phone volunteer in the main office of KCRW in July of 1988 before heading off to college on the East Coast for a few years and then returning to attend Loyola Marymount University and DJ at the college station KXLU. He was recruited by former KCRW Music Director Chris Douridas after a softball game between the two stations in 1991 and he took to the airwaves starting in the summer of 1992.
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