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Schedule  July 19th theXplodingboys and DJ Kenny Portland's Ultimate Cure Tribute Band theXplodingboys and DJ Tunes from Your's Truelly The Fez Ballroom www.thefezballroom.com |
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As One Vortex Beyond begins a new lifeform, and I am exploring options of its new location, I wanted to post to the music lovers out there that might have an interest in hosting this program with bandwidth, or providing other channels of interest that might really be a winner... please contact me to discuss. My email is onevortexbeyond@yahoo.com I have been actively playing some excellent venues in Portland Near my neighborhood at the Tabor Legacy for New Wave (Decadent 80's) and Goth Industrial nights (Oubliette). Some may not know, but I am an advid bicycle commuter, and just enjoy biking around my town in general. On June 21st there is a New Wave Night Ride planned right in my neighborhood. The meet will be at The BIke Gallery on Woodstock in SE Portland. At 7pm there will be a nice ride with the community from the shop to Glisan, then back to the tent at the shop for 80's New Wave dancing until 9pm+! I love being able to intertwine two of my biggest passions. This should be so much fun! Join the myspace group and send your requests for songs in the tent. http://www.myspace.com/newwavenightride Lots of DJ tours to the bay area since my move in October 2007. Please come say hi at one of the gigs. For the time being I am doing the club circuit, but a show will take place. Might not be for a few months, but it WILL happen sometime in early to mid 08'! One Vortex Beyond is no longer broadcasted on KSCU 103.3fm. Soon, I will present the show on a new station or on the net. Please send me your email in the box to the right of the page marked "Requests". I can put you on my email list for updates on how to webstream the show no matter where I end end doing the program. A Thank You I was working on... Hey Everyone, I am writing this Thank You to inform all of my friends that I am now in Portland Oregon. I never got a chance to send out an official thank you that pinpointed areas relating to my musical journey and radio program. I will be returning to play tunes at clubs in the bay area. Visits are in order and DJ oppotunities will come up. I have too many places in my heart filled with memories living in San Jose my entire life. Starting my show on KSCU in 2000, I had a vision, and KSCU gave me a place to program the show of my dreams. Adrenochrome at King of Clubs for inviting me to play underground synth pop, ebm, electro, and new wave to a crowd of incredible people. Blank Club is the heartland of San Jose when it comes to The place to be when it comes to alternative music nightlife. Atomic, Fascination, etc. Great bands like the Lovemakers, This Charming Band, etc. Thanks for the DJ guest nights and to Craig for making mean gin and tonics! SF New Wave City nights. What can I say? The DJs at New Wave City are true new wave fans. Skip and Shin Dog had the right recipe and have been going strong for over 15 years. John and Lowlife play some of the best new wave music sets I have ever danced to. Melting Girl (her sets are pretty dam amazing) is a great new contribution to the club and I look forward to attending in the future when I visit the bay area. Gossip at Cat Club. This is the new wave haven of SF on a Saturday night, no doubt. Videos, DJs and VJs that know their shit. Many concerts, & parties with friends. I wanted to begin some thank yous, without sounding too much like I am totally gone forever, because I will visit, and may even (likely) be doing some killer club dates in the SF and S. bay area. Not to mention there will be a cyber show soon. No matter what, without you...I couldnt have had the musical experiences. King Raffi and Live 105 for an internship that offered me a enriching experience. Adrenochrome...Apex & Lynx, and KOC...I had a great time and appreciate all your support. The Bluefield Crew at Johnny V's and Carlos KSCU, for being KSCU. The best college station ever in the world that provided a outlet for my musical painting and vision. My girlfriend Deb for her support. Charles aka DJ Nosferatu for all the kind words, support, & putting on the final hurrah at Terraform Jason for putting up with my being to busy to hit up as many clubs as I would have liked with him. Terence for his continual support, and really helping with giving a look and feel to the nights I have done. Subculture at SPY and the Usual was really the beginnings and Terence was the vision making man (this website included)! Also Rose & Dan Furtado for being instrumental in getting The Usual to start a night with me up front playing synthpop and underground & new wave. Subculture is one of my fondest memories. Nik and the Counterstrike team, Jeff & Brian, Jeff for helping make Travelogue a great night at Johnny's while it lasted. Error for doing Re/wind at the SPY with I Damon for having me at Gossip! for Depeche night recently. You couldnt have picked a night I would have wanted to DJ for more! Thanks!! Other people I have played with at various places...Julian Destrukt (not only a fab DJ, but a VW superfan!), my very good friend Tim/DJ Lowlife for much New Wave sharing and playing some nights for me that were just a absolute blast. Bands: Fr/Action & Ganymede as well as the Copenhagen label, b! machine (for all the gigs you were so willing to play so that you could hear your music LOUD), NukleoN and the fun interview/VW car show gig (his 1st EVER!)...same with Subvision (hope I didnt scare you too much with the story about the yeast infection cream!). Anything Box and The Echoing Green for making my dream come true...being able to actually see you guys all on one stage, something I can never forget and cherish. I would also like the thank Steve and Alisha for your support in making that event happen. Breye and Provision. Thanks for coming out to play in SF with b! machine. Apex worked really hard to make that happen, and you guys were great on stage! rEd Ox and Ladydev. Such great vibes and positivity from you 2. Amazing couple. So passionate. I am really lucky to have met you and appreciate your support. Your help as I trasition to the world of on line radio is something I appreciate beyond words... Kind words and support from Dora, Chris, Sam, Dan, and many others. Gobo for gigs at one of my fave places ever...The legendary "Box" in Santa Cruz. He plays a fab song selection and runs a great set of nights at Blue Lagoon. Sara The Waffle Princess for the P/R, helping so many clubs and DJs in the bay area, and her cool attitude. Labels...oh my where to begin?? Well not too hard to figure out who is #1. A Different Drum. OVB was hard pressed to go one week without playing many of the quality acts on that label. Alpha Matrix, Tommy T at DBSP, Cohaagen, Metropolis, Plastiq Musique, Emperor Norton, and many other independents that helped make the show a vibrant and unique blend or synthetic music. New Dimensions Charity VW car shows and the amazing acts that played yearly. Cyn Project, Protection, b! machine, Anything Box, The Echoing Green, Fr/Action, NukleoN, and more. Thank you to Mark W. for coordinating all the sound and PA equipment. All my friends and talented DJs at KSCU, the supportive listeners, and dedicated people who have been with the station for years - Modern Mark, EO, Jeff, Chaos, Lulu, Tyler, Scrawny, Bardot, Naked Rob, and many others you know who you are. KSCU is the best college station, hands down. We all made it that way! Yve, for helping with this move when I was having some anxiety. This is a growing experience! Change comes growth, and that's always a good thing. KSCU and OVB listener supporters such as Eric and Jeremy. I appreciated your requests and support! One Vortex Beyond will be airing as a Podcast, weekly in time. Please check my myspace page http://www.myspace.com/_djkenny and this web page for further information. I will be supporting the bay areas music scene, and my new home, that has been my 2nd home with Debs family for over 6 years now... Portland Oregons music scene and DJs as well. I am sure there will be some wonderful new people to meet and share my synth pop and new wave love with. A Visit and DJ night just around the corner... Take Care, and Thank you for all your support and friendship. I will miss everyone dearly. Although it isnt really goodbye...I will be coming back to support the music scene and spin music I love. Until the new program... Keep in touch! DJ Kenny 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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