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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.

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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

Jason Bentley

Latest Show

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.

Jeff Castelaz

Jeff Castelaz

Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz drops by KCRW to chat about the new Pablove Foundation Benefit CD, produced in honor if his son.

Sasha

Sasha

DJ Sasha drops by to visit with Jason Bentley at 8:15 tonight.

Mark Farina

Mark Farina

World renowned DJ/Producer Mark Farina stops by KCRW to play selections from his latest Mushroom Jazz

collection. (8:30pm)

Jason Bentley

Boys Noize

Slow Dancing - Orange County Performing Arts Center

Slow Dancing - Orange County Performing Arts Center

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 Arts Center...

David Michalek

David Michalek

Slow Dancing creator David Michalek drops by to chat with Jason in the 8 o'clock hour.

Jason Bentley

Jason Bentley's Labor Day Music Special

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 styles and music tastes. Like Garth Trinidad (1-4pm) and Anne Litt (9pm-midnight), Jason will cull from the archives, spotlight artists she's discovered and championed, and share memorable moments. (Airs 9am to noon)

Paul Oakenfold

Paul Oakenfold

Paul Oakenfold stops by KCRW for an interview with Jason Bentley.

Jason Bentley

Music Library is Reborn

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 as they explore the old and the new in this KCRW music special.

Jason Bentley

Music Library is Reborn

Jason Bentley

Music Library is Reborn

Jason Bentley

Jason Bentley

Jason Bentley

Music Library is Reborn

Jason Bentley

Music Library is Reborn

 
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Host

Jason Bentley

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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