Sonic Café from the Accelerator LP that’s the Future Sound of London. So welcome to the café. Glad you could drop by. I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 287. This time the Sonic Café takes a turn onto Ambient Ave. featuring a collection of songs from another dimension, as we present a curated mix of ambient and electronic tracks selected from over 18 years that include Robert Rich & Ian Boddy, Beef Terminal, Only Child, Fuzzmuzz, When Earth Meets Sky and many more. Woven into our mix are observations from the late poet, novelist, and short story writer Charles Bukowski with his thoughts on the American existence of life, work, money and a craving for solitude. Layered together with limited interruption, and best experienced in a comfy chair with headphones fully engaged this time at the Sonic Café, located at the corner of Ambient Ave. and Beatnik Boulevard in the foggy, misty Pacific northwest. From the Heroes album here’s David Bowie on Ambient Ave. on the Sonic Café.
Song 1: Central Industrial Artist: The Future Sound of London LP: Accelerator Yr: 1991 Song 2: Moss Garden (Digital Remaster) Artist: David Bowie LP: Heroes Yr: 1999 Song 3: People Are Pointless. Artist: Charles Bukowski LP: Charles Bukowski Yr: Song 4: State of Flux Artist: Robert Rich & Ian Boddy LP: Outpost Yr: 2002 Song 5: Oneness Artist: Supreme Beings of Leisure LP: 11i Yr: 2008 Song 6: Money is Magic Artist: Charles Bukowski LP: Charles Bukowski Year: Song 7: Time Apart Artist: Beef Terminal LP: The Grey Knowledge Yr: 2002 Song 8: When 6 Loves 9 Artist: Only Child LP: Satelites and Constellations Yr: 2000 Song 9: Death of a Scientist Artist: When Earth Meets Sky LP: Downtime on the Planet Moon Yr: 2009 Song 10: People Are Not Free! Artist: Charles Bukowski LP: Charles Bukowski Yr: Song 11: Big Nicks Artist: Boozoo Bajou LP: Grains Yr: 2009 Song 12: 4 A.M. Artist: Fuzzmuzz LP: Fuzzmuzz One Yr: 2006 Song 13: Solitude Artist: Charles Bukowski LP: Charles Bukowski Yr: Song 14: America Artist: Footsteps on Mars LP: Learn and Grow Yr: 2009 Song 15: The Far Side of I.o. Artist: Alpha Wave Movement LP: Cosmology Yr: 2007
About the Producer:
Scott Clark has always had a lot of music in his life. Growing up outside of Chicago, he was mesmerized early on by the radio of the sixties and seventies and began collecting records at a very early age. From 45’s and LP’s to cassettes and CD’s and now digital… he really never stopped. Today everything in his library is digitized because he got sick of lugging all that stuff around.
The concept for the Sonic Café is to deliver the high production values and feel of the radio he grew up listening to. But unlike the tight, repetitious playlists of those commercial stations, feature a massive range of artists, genres and tunes. The whole idea is to package it in an eclectic, engaging, no repeat format that brings both new and old together in a unique, entertaining, and most importantly fun and fast paced way. There’s really nothing on the radio today, or in the past, that compares with it.
About the Sonic Café:
The show is set in an imaginary cafe overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast. The cafe serves up eclectic, intelligent music, comedy and pop culture. The program originates from KYAQ radio located on the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, so the imagery is not a huge stretch.
Each program is 58:00 minutes in length leaving room for station ID, promos and PSAs. Each episode is .mp3 encoded at a constant rate of 256kbps and ready for broadcast.
An episode is released each Friday. All episodes are evergreen; never focusing on time of year, weather, month, holidays, events etc. so each show is timeless. All music is presented in a no repeat format. Once a song airs in an episode it never airs again. Episodes may be downloaded and grouped together to quickly create program blocks of two, three, four or more hours in length.
The Sonic Cafe has a Facebook page (facebook.com/SonicCafeRadio) where complete show notes and playlists are presented for each episode. Listeners can also reach the show producers via email (SonicCafeRadio@gmail.com)