KMTN archives
Saturday Morning with DJ Christafari * KMTN 96.9 FM *
1998
24/Jan/2010 |
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Just for fun, here's another recording from way back when I was the Saturday morning DJ for KMTN 96.9 FM in Jackson Hole, and had the special job of coaxing the town awake and out in to the day -- whether that meant using my music to get people out of bed and to the slopes or to their jobs, proper song selection and pacing was essential. I always loved the notion that I was spinning the soundtrack for thousands of people as they began another day in the Hole. I also had to handle the morning snow and weather reports, lost dog announcements, a 1-hour world beat show and an on-air garage sale-type-thing called Trash & Treasure.
The region reached by these radio waves is home to ski bums, cowboys, billionaires, spud farmers and movie stars. DJ'ing to the local musical tastes required reaching a careful blend of bluegrass, reggae, funk, folk, classic rock, jam band and other genres that don't typically sit next to each other. This episode shows me attempting to find the balance with the Allman Brothers, Allison Krauss, Blue Traveler, Morphine, Ani Difranco and Bob Marley. One other note -- I tried to talk and play commercials as little as possible, especially in the early hours, and tried to spin as many consecutive songs as I could.
This set appears to be from the springtime shortly before I moved on to other work -- I could take working every Saturday morning at 5 am for only so long-- and some of the song selections are now cringe-worthy to my ears, but still, it serves as a fun time capsule recording from my stint as a small town disk jockey in Wyoming in 1998.
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Africa Unite! : Jazz Sessions on 96.9 KMTN FM
07/Dec/2009 |
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A recording
from my archive collection of radio shows I did on
KMTN 96.9 FM in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in the
mid-Nineties. Every Sunday night, I'd hunker down in
the studio, a short bike ride from my log cabin on
the compound, to host the long-running 6-hour Jazz
Sessions show. As this mix shows, my definition of
"jazz" was pretty loose. For this hour, I started out
playing Africa-inspired jazz music, and then branched
out from there. Lots of people liked the freshness
and creativity I was bringing to the air waves, but I
always remember one phone call from a listener very
upset that I had deviated from the traditional jazz
format and I was ruining his Sunday nights. Ah well.
Had to keep myself entertained too.
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
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Planet Soup : Women's Voices
01/May/2009 |
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From the vaults comes
another classic late-90's episode of Planet Soup, a
Saturday morning radio show on KMTN 96.9 FM in
Jackson Hole, Wyoming that was once hosted by DJ
Christafari, a good friend of the Podcast Cafe.
"Women's Voices" features a wide variety of music
stylings from some of the best female singers and
musicians in the world...
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Feedback: djfundi@podcastcafe.org
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Jazz Gangstaz III
06/Jun/2008 |
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In a former reincarnation of my current life, I was a DJ on a radio station in Wyoming -- KMTN 96.9 FM in Jackson Hole...
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I started out
hosting the saturday morning reggae/world beat show
"Planet Soup" and adopted the appropriate moniker
Christafari (you can find sets from that show at
http://www.podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi).
I soon inherited the sunday night jazz show too, and occasionally invited my friend Edubious to co-host a few hours with me. Calling ourselves the "Jazz Gangstaz," we took the genre jazz and stretched it beyond recognition to include hip-hop, funk, acid jazz, jamband and other subgenres.
This here is one of my favorite sessions we did, with a broad and inclusive diversity of good music that, in some way or another, speaks one of the many dialects that makes up the language of jazz. It is rough around the edges, having been digitized and podcastulated from a 10-year old audio tape, with hiss and miscues and such all kept intact for historical purposes.
I'll be posting more Gangstaz sets in the future...
I soon inherited the sunday night jazz show too, and occasionally invited my friend Edubious to co-host a few hours with me. Calling ourselves the "Jazz Gangstaz," we took the genre jazz and stretched it beyond recognition to include hip-hop, funk, acid jazz, jamband and other subgenres.
This here is one of my favorite sessions we did, with a broad and inclusive diversity of good music that, in some way or another, speaks one of the many dialects that makes up the language of jazz. It is rough around the edges, having been digitized and podcastulated from a 10-year old audio tape, with hiss and miscues and such all kept intact for historical purposes.
I'll be posting more Gangstaz sets in the future...
Planet Soup : Second Servings
26/Nov/2007 |
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From the vaults comes this classic episode of Planet Soup, a Saturday morning radio show in Jackson Hole that was once hosted by my DJ compadre Christafari....
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A smooth rubadub mix of
roots reggae, world beat, dub and other irie flavors,
spun on a random morning in the spring of, oh, maybe
1997 or so.