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!S!WCRTESTINPUT000002<><>%3c%3e!E! Stay tuned or join the email list. bio I host a modern synthpop radio program at KSCU, 103.3 FM, Thursdays 1-4 PM. I also DJ'ed Re/Wind and have been spinning in the front bar for 80's nights w/ DJ Dangerous Dan and Steve Masters at the Usual, as well as the former Flashback on Tuesday nights. I continute to spin at Johnny V's. I also spin at friends parties, and weddings. Over the years I have put on shows for the yearly New Dimensions VW/Audi/Mini Second Harvest Food Bank Charity Auto Show. Yr 2002 Anything Box with The Echoing Green. Yr 2003 B! Machine, Fr/action, and NuKleon Yr 2004 Cyn Project and The Protection along with DJ ing sets of synthpop and new wave in between the bands. Interviews on my show and at locations: B! Machine, Meat Beat, Erasure, Morrissey, Apoptygma, Robert Enforcen/Elegant Machinery/Hype/Redlight District, The Nine, Midi-Head/Monolithic, Echoing Green, Leiahdorus, Mark Nicholas/Cosmicity, Ladytron, Nukleon, Moonlife, Cause and Effect, Shiny Toy Guns, Subimage. In 1998 I completed an internship with San Francisco's Live 105 in programming and promotions. I grew up idolizing many of the talent I had the immense pleasure to work with and assist, including Rolland West and his afternoon 80's program, Big Rick Stuart (one of the most massive and truelly entertaining to be around people I have ever met). I also assisted with mobile DJ companies ran by King Raffi (now of 106.5 fame) and Rock Over London himself, Rob Francis. On my days working off site at concerts and what not in promotions I had the opportunity to have lunch w/ artists like The Might Be Giants, hang out w/ the keyboardist of The Ocean Blue, and gather signatures for promo items from Erasure at the Virgin Mega Store in SF for promo giveaway items. It was free work, but the best work I ever had the chance to do. : ) Pleased with the learning experience and the fabulous times I had with the station (thank you King Raffi for your referral:) but disappointed with the current music trends in alternative music brought on by the Post Nirvana Era, I began to look into research what ever happened to the spin on techno pop, and songs that provided hooks that grabbed you in some way from the late 80's and very early 90's. I had a passion for the likes of Erasure, Depeche Mode (an obsession even many would say;), New Order, Cetu javu, Kraftwerk, Book Of Love, and the industrial dance sounds of Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Sheep On Drugs, etc... Nothing on the radio with the exception of a token spin of a new Erasure song for about 3 weeks on the alternative music stations in the mid to late 90's, sadly followed by (for ex) some Offspring tune, ever has interested me on commercial radio. Period. Oh yeah!, wait!, that White Town "Your Woman" song was pretty cool. ; ) Seriously, what a SAD SAD time it was "commercially" for my most loved music,"New Wave". Alas, I was not alone. Many others in my age range also were disappointed with the current spin of alternative radio. Like myself, I would hear the words "I don't even listen to the radio anymore". Boring songs by The Verve Pipe, Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day, and cheezy tunes by Spin Doctors and Blind Melon were all that one would experience 98% of the time on commercial "so called alternative radio". I remembered when saying you listened to, or were "alternative" was a cool thing...not anymore. Unless, you were maybe 12 yrs old. I spent several years listening to my old collection of electronic artists, modern rock, industrial and bragging about "how I never needed to spend money on new cd's because there is nothing I like". Upon my departure from Live 105 I began working for another area of interest, animal welfare, at the Santa Clara's Humane Society. There I had the opportunity to work with animals, educate the public on the needs that adopted animals have both mentally and physically, work as an adoption counselor, then later as a representative on Channel 11 news Friday mornings with an adopted pet to showcase and discuss a topic as well as the supervisor of the adoption's department. Slow to accept the "internet age" I finally began in 1997 looking up "new wave" on every search engine I could, and bands I dug like "Alphaville", "Anything Box", "Red Flag" and more. I had a few additional/lucky to find commericially unreleased cd's from these artists, but had no idea "just" how much "more" they released over the last 10+ yrs! Not to mention what I discovered was not ONLY were these bands still around and continuing to make the music they were famous for (and sometimes better than anything I ever had the pleasure to hear back in late 80's through the 90's even) but that there was all kinds of underground based electronic, or more recently labeled "synthpop " bands STILL creating the music I adored. There goes the savings I had prior on cds.....; - ) I ordered new music from bands such as Apoptygma Berzerk, English band w/ a sound like a more edgy Depeche Mode. "Mesh", German band that sounded a lot like Camouflage "De/vision", Sweden's Covenant, Early analog keyboard sounding "Elegant Machinery", Beborn Beton, Neuropa, Ravenous, etc... Blown away, I continued to order the back catalog from these bands only to find out that "hey, if this WAS on the radio, EVERYONE would be grabbing this stuff, it would be HUGE"!! Much of it has some edge, but accesible at the same time, great vocals, unique in sound....etc.... kind of like the music Live 105 played in the 80's, but with a more modern edge and technoloy as well. I then began my quest, a quest to put an end to the monopolised diservice the record execs and large corporation owned radio stations and MTV were creating by not playing music from artists, artists that many old fans and new ones alike would be flocking to the record store (if they even carried them!) to buy. My first step was the radio show I began called "One Vortex Beyond" on KSCU 103.3fm Santa Clara "The Underground Sound." There I began, and have continued since the year 2000 to expose these artists to an audience sometimes completely unaware of "today's new wave" and even what they were missing the last 10 or so years. Not everyone wants to search the internet to find some decent music, some of us like to just kick back at home or listen to the radio in the car. What a concept!, huh? Nothing pleases me more than supporting the bands in the scene and pleasing that new listener with an opportunity to be introduced to that sound they miss, or they may not even have had the chance to be familiar with. Come join me in the celebration of new wave, future pop, synthpop, electro clash (I would prefer with all these sub genres to just say today's or "modern" NEW WAVE;) music at one of the clubs, or on the radio while driving your car, or sitting on the couch at home, you deserve it. Synthin Out, DJ Kenny |
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