KCRW is the radio station for Santa Monica College (or somesuch) and Morning Becomes Eclectic is its breakfast show. The DJ, Jason Bentley, who's a bit smooth for my liking but seems to know his stuff, spends 2 or 3 hours every weekday morning playing the kind of music BBC 6 Music can only dream about. The best part of it is that you never know what you're going to get next - and most of the time the bands are obscure or new or long dead - which leads to a genuinely interesting and instructive listening experience.
Part of its joy comes from its (relative) exoticism. Adverts for LA based gigs and for courses at the college interrupt the music at fairly regular (though never irritatingly frequent) intervals, which makes a difference from adverts for DFS sofas or webuyanycar.com (the creator of which will die by my hand if I ever discover his or her identity).
I love MBE for two main reasons, however: the first is that it introduces me to music I would never normally come across, which helps with my laughably exiguous cool rating. The second is that it seems to bring sunshine with it. This is, presumably, as a result of my mind linking Santa Monica with sunshine, but on all those rainy dark cold winter mornings the tiny rays of warmth that MBE brought into the room were welcome indeed.
It's available on the interweb. Have a listen. Thanks to Mr Farringer for the tip.
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i will try, after all radio four doesn't get me very far with knowing about new bands!
ReplyDeleteNB i am finding webuyanycar more and more catchy. it is so much less offensive than a lot fo adverts and if that BT 'couple' doesn't cease soon i wil kill them all.