Here is the master listing of all profile information for the faces at Radio AG. Here you can find the entire roster of our dj roster, an in-depth breakout of our recurring guests, a listing of other show hosts and of course profiles on some of the more surreal entities that crop up from time to time. After getting to know the crew, be sure to check out the shows they have on offer.
Charlize
Charlize is the queen of breezy chamber pop, bringing the deep knowldege of a true afficionado to her Le Temps Des Souvenirs show every Sunday afternoon. A crucial part of oceanside’s lush pop circuit, she’s been spinning the stuff for years in various cafés, bars and other venues associated with that scene’s movers and shakers. It wasn’t until a chance meeting with Scoops at one such event that Charlize hooked up with the heights scene, however.
A few deep chill out sessions followed, with a few of the heights djs in tow, breaking out a prime stack of records and bonding over a shared love of the music. It was quickly apparent that here was a dj who would be a perfect fit for a supremely chilled lush pop show, and after likewise showing interest was quickly plugged into the Radio AG experience, bringing a wall of exquisite sound to the proceedings.
Daglar
Our man in Ramona, Daglar is a man in the hills tuned into a frequency all his own. Mainlining on the 70′s German and Turkish sounds from a young age, he shaped a unique take on physical sonics that he brought along when he moved to the west coast. Working from his cosmic spread outside of Ramona, where his legendary record collection resides, he cooks up a strange brew of astral sonics and desert-baked grooves (often running things through vintage effects boxes in the process).
Where the rest of the Radio AG are city kids through and through, Daglar is a thoroughly country cat at heart, more at home in the rolling hills than the hectic day-to-day, preferring to spread his time between music, stargazing and auteur film. This scenic, cavernous quality can be heard in the grooves of The Ramona Show, where he journeys through the spacious climes of kosmische and anatolian rock. More improbably, he also hosts White Line Fever, a rough and tumble trip where trucker roots and biker rock are the order of the day.
Do’Shonne
Do’Shonne started as a recurring guest on Radio AG. Do’Shonne (synthesist for blacklight soul auteurs Anankhé) hooked up with Slye during the Jupiter Nile sessions, where Slye was remixing their “Solar Vixen” into a twenty minute cosmic trip. Connecting over a shared love of ARPs, MOOGs, Chicago, Detroit and spaced-out soul, they went on to record reel upon reel of deep space analogue funk in the studio.
In between these freewheeling sessions, Do’Shonne dropped some off the cuff mixes in the studio (via his shadowy history as a purveyor of electro-funk). Eventually, Slye convinced him to appear on Radio AG as a one off, which quickly turned into a series of transmissions showcasing the man’s love of smooth soul and funky electronics.
Do’Shonne now presides over his crucial Blacklight Affair programme, where he brings the Anankhé vibe to the airwaves, a place where jazz funk, hip hop, electro and soul flow freely, resembling nothing so much as his very own live mid-set atmospheric rhapsodies that go down while the rest of the group fade into the clouds of smoke at the blurred edges of consciousness…
Gazza
Morning man Gazza kicks off every day in AG with a power pop jolt, flipping between new wave, northern soul and rock ‘n roll to deliver that succinct sunrise punch to get the day off on the right foot.
Johnny Blount
Emerging from a shadowy history of post-rave turntable hijinks, the great Johnny Blount clocks in every night to tear it up with breakbeats, boogie and rock ‘n roll – a freaky little stew of anything and everything that works the floor. Boundaries mean little to the man. Rules mean less.
Nautilus Jones
The downbeat dub ruler coming out of G-Street, Nautilus rolls deep at all times. Whether coming rough with a deep blunted hip hop set or presiding over one of his cutup sessions with a stack of new wave boogie, the man has been known to build worlds from within a stack of dusty twelves.
Scoops
Scoops got her name one summer while working in an ice cream parlour, and it’s stuck with her ever since. Scoops spins a sound, the core of which came out of the very canyons of LA, just a couple hours north of San Diego, but will check in from time to time on nearly every style that strikes her fancy. Make no mistake, this girl knows her music.
In the beginning, Scoops primarily handled much of the administrative aspects of Radio AG (and continues to keep things running smoothly). Over time, however, she began to spend more and more time behind the mixing desk (this is a radio station, after all!). Scoops now hosts her own two-hour Flavours show, and her presence has increasingly been felt in the mix whenever a Live Transmission Party is going down.
Slye
Slye was one of the original champions of AG as vibe and culture, spinning out sonic narratives both in the studio and on the decks in reaction to what was going on in the world around him. Listening heavily to new wave, hip hop and alternative, it was Kevin Saunderson’s Deep Space Radio show that blew his teenage mind and exploded the boundaries of what could be done with electronic music. Music of his own followed under guises such as E-Thèque, Klytus, Shadez Of Colour and the Futureform, Percussitron and Arctic Circle projects with Snakes.
Slye started putting together the original Radio AG tapes back in 2005 (during the wilderness years), inspired by some of the pirate transmissions (Radio E… progressive internet radio broadcasts) made at the turn of the century. In small circulation at first, these mixtapes contained the spirit of those pirate broadcasts, shot through with custom edits and idents that carried the torch until Radio AG went online.
Now that Radio AG is a live broadcast phenomenon, Slye helms a number of shows, including Zion & Clara Lee, a two-hour excursion into the vibe of the Heights, and is a constant presence on both the decks and mic at any given Live Transmission Party.
Sola
Representing the sistim in the lunchtime hour is DJ Sola, pushing the groove along as the sun arcs overhead. Bridging the gap between the morning show’s power pop and the afternoon’s cosmic drift, she presides over the lunchtime show and edges things ever closer to the dancefloor with uncanny flair.
Sym
Ever since Percussitron’s much-storied stint in the Snakepit, Sym (the rotating vortextual entity), along with partner in crime Typhe, has been an essential element in the electroid atmosphere of that group’s mystique. These amorphous entities created most of the environmental links between tracks on the Percussitron eps, and shot the old Crescent transmissions through with deep space atmospherics.
Sym was always the entity that laid down sheets of sound, a bedding over which tracks could function. During the hiatus, it continued resounding waves into the future, waiting for a window in time through which to plan the return. Radio AG provided that window, with shows like The Rotating Globular Cluster Over Grantville that called out for an especially amorphous approach to sonic architecture. The return of the Crescent transmissions also provided a unique opportunity to reunite the entities with The Ocean Floor and set about recreating the composite sounds remembered from the old transmissions.
The return of Sym on Radio AG airspace is an event that’s been a long time coming, and one whose results we can all enjoy.
Typhe
Typhe, the globular amorphous entity, has been around since the days of Percussitron’s residence in the Snakepit. Often seen with partner in crime Sym, Typhe has been one of the crucial factors in maintaining that unparalleled circuitboard sound associated with the underground outfit and their Grantville incursions. These amorphous entities created most of the environmental links between tracks on the Percussitron eps, and shot the old Crescent transmissions through with deep space atmospherics.
You could always count on Typhe to be the variable, adding an element of chaos to the proceedings and making any event it was involved with that much more exciting. When the hiatus hit, it hit hard, and Typhe became the ghost in the machine, biding it’s time until the moment came to strike again. When Radio AG broke, that moment came and Typhe turned up in fine form, electric pulses gliding across Grantville wires. The newly reopened Crescent transmissions were the first place it cropped up, working phantom magic on the base grooves that The Ocean Floor were pumping out into the airwaves. The Rotating Globular Cluster Over Grantville also put Typhe back in the box with Sym, making that show the place to be from midnight ’til morning.
Typhe’s return couldn’t have come at a better moment, and Radio AG is all the better for taking onboard the music of chance.
Vidd
Vidd is the resident AI at Radio AG, handling the transmissions between the transmissions, where tracks are selected from the sapphire pool of tones and segued into a continuous programme of beats and atmospheres. Vidd was dithered down from a series of previous AIs that structured atmospheric content for studios such as the REZroom and the Snakepit during the eras of Aztek and Mettrex.
Loosely associated with the amorphous entities Typhe and Sym, Vidd has incrementally benefitted from these experiments with sonic textures, in the process being renderered ideal for the task of filling in the bits between the bits while simultaneously maintaining sentry duties in the Radio AG chat room and selecting grooves into the late hours of the night, where the ghost in the machine runs loose… on Radio AG.
