Introducing The Early Bird Show - our radio offering for morning people, hosted by Maria Somerville (Mondays and Tuesdays), Spirit Blue (Wednesdays and Thursdays) and Jack Rollo (Fridays). Weekday mornings, 7-9am.
A bunch of quirky electronic tunes designed to lift you up, made by past and present experimenters with a common sense of humour. Featuring early synth music, cheap electronics, plunderphonics, digital blues and dubs - as well as a few trumpets… :)
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A student and admirer of all forms of music, LA-bred John Tiangco cites the sounds of various public local hip-hop radio as his formative influences. Join him one Monday a month on Rare Species - an hour of music bridging several genres from underground/ indie hip-hop, neo-soul/ RnB, jazz, electronic, rare grooves/samples and psych/alt rock--both old, new and everything in between.
A student and admirer of all forms of music, LA-bred John Tiangco cites the sounds of various public local hip-hop radio as his formative influences. Join him one Monday a month on Rare Species - an hour of music bridging several genres from underground/ indie hip-hop, neo-soul/ RnB, jazz, electronic, rare grooves/samples and psych/alt rock--both old, new and everything in between.