Hey…Hope everyone is doing well… In August I quietly celebrated 10 years with KCRW…It’s not exactly how I thought the anniversary would look…I was planning this elaborate, month-long best-of on-air celebration…But alas, Covid had other plans.
Hey…Hope everyone is doing well… In August I quietly celebrated 10 years with KCRW…It’s not exactly how I thought the anniversary would look…I was planning this elaborate, month-long best-of on-air celebration…But alas, Covid had other plans.
Hey…Hope everyone is doing well…
Still, I wanted to mark this special milestone somehow…and I decided that the best way to do it, is to make a shorter mix for KCRW, keeping within the 3-hour show format…and then making two separate Spotify playlists…One that would capture my love for all things electronic…and another that would explore the indie, psych, folky sounds of Desert Nights – my weekly live music series which used to take place at The Standard Hollywood, and which coincidentally also happened to celebrate 10 Years this summer!
This show really should have been 165 songs…But that was impossible so I had to cut and cut and cut…
Here are 44 that made the most sense when placed together, in chronological, 2010-2020 order…The rest will live on Spotify.
Thank you for celebrating with me and indulging me in this throwback walk down memory lane… And thank you for listening all these years…
Take care until the next time…
Yours truly…in love and music.
John Tejada maps electronic music across time, connecting the underground’s history with the sounds shaping its future. Deep cuts and new releases move through techno, electro, house, ambient, and other corners of electronic music, with each selection building naturally into the next. The show is as much about flow as discovery, tracing the ideas, rhythms, and innovations that continue to push electronic music forward. Expect established innovators alongside emerging producers and overlooked gems from decades past. Tune in to John’s show Tuesday and Saturday nights from 10pm to midnight.
Peanut Butter Wolf goes deep into a lifetime of collecting, pulling from more than 50,000 records alongside a digital archive packed with unreleased music and overlooked discoveries. The founder of Stones Throw Records favors the underdog, moving through hip-hop, funk, soul, electronic music, oddball records, rarities, and sounds that resist easy categorization. Inspired by generations of adventurous DJs and selectors, the show treats digging as an art form and the unexpected find as the ultimate reward. Tune in every third Sunday of the month from 8 to 10pm.
A mix of all kinds, from all over and all time. Henry Rollins treats the radio as a place for serious musical exploration, bringing punk, experimental music, jazz, global sounds, independent releases, archival discoveries, and whatever else demands to be heard into the same restless orbit. The selections can travel across decades and continents in minutes, driven less by genre than an insatiable appetite for records and discovery. It’s radio for listeners willing to follow the music wherever it goes. Tune in Mondays from 10pm to midnight and Fridays from 8 to 10pm.