WFMU Pledge Marathon

The upcoming week begins the 2012 pledge drive for keeping Jersey City’s own listener supported WFMU 91.1 alive. For those of you who don’t know of WFMU, it’s [in my own words] probably one of the most dynamic and free-thinking sources of radio out there. Dynamic in the way that there are not only DJs vaulting through ultra informative spans of specific genres, but also DJs blending Cambodian Funk with Surf rock 7” b-sides at half speed. Then there is super comical and entertaining chatting amongst more controlled topical conversations/debates. As you can imagine, I really can’t say I’ve ever got bored of listening to WFMU. I can also admit a ton of gems from my own personal vinyl collection were first heard on WFMU.

All that being said, one has to remind themselves why this is kind of important. Turning on an FM radio these days will reveal a pretty steady dose of clear-channel controlled playlists of the same F*n sh*te over and over and over and over again. Given the incredibly rich past, present, and future of musical creativity, stations like WFMU are refreshing, and blatantly rewarding.

I totally understand that we’ve all got this wild-west freedom to surf the internet for whichever coral reef we happen to crash into. We can also keep in touch with our favorite stuff on a hyper-attached barnacle basis. Yes, we’ve got access to anything and everything…. But…. WFMU is like the very reliable longboard of music and taste surfing: you really can’t beat a super knowledgeable group of volunteer DJs offering up an informed curation to a super wide range of music and thoughts. Now that’s enlightenment (cough cough the original concept behind supporting the notion “free will”. See 17th century western history ) Shove that up your advertisement covered pipe and smoke it? You get the point.

I don’t get paid by WFMU to say any of this (actually, I don’t think ANYONE gets paid by WFMU, right???) , so yes,  free-thinking requires special support. Therefore, if after this spiel you are interested in what WFMU is up to, check out WFMU.org

And lastly, here’s a little jingle I put together for Chris T’s premium pledge prize, the Aerial View Flip-top lighter!

Long live people thinking for themselves, and sharing their consumed knowledge with others.

WFMU Aerial View Recap

If you missed me on WFMU’s Aerial View with Chris T and would like to check it out, you can recap the show here

Turmoil remix from Juno Download

http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2012/02/02/download-yan-wagner-turmoil-pink-stallone-remix/comment-page-1/#comment-23407

Look’s like Juno Download is hosting a free limited download of the Yan Wagner Turmoil remix. Grab it while it’s free and genre-defying (hmmm, do these two have SOMETHING to do with each other?!!!)