December DJ Pics - KCRW 89.9 FM (Santa Monica)

[DudeAsInCool]

dj picks (10 x 5) December '03

Every month, five of our music programmers at KCRW choose their ten favorite albums.

Our featured programmers this month are Nic Harcourt (Morning Becomes Eclectic), Anne Litt (Weekend Becomes Eclectic), Jason Bentley (Metropolis), Chris Douridas (New Ground), and Garth Trinidad (Chocolate City).

Nic Harcourt   Morning Becomes Eclectic

ARTIST ALBUM LABEL LINKS

R.E.M. In Time: Best of 1988 - 2003 Warner Bros.

Stars Heart Arts & Crafts

Elbow Cast of Thousands V2/UK

Dub Pistols Six Million Ways to Live Distinctive

Buffseeds Sparkle Me (EP) Sanctuary

Tom McRae Just Like Blood DB Records/UK

Various Artists Lost in Translation Original Soundtrack Emperor Norton

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros Streetcore Hellcat

Kinky Atlas Sonic 360/Nettwerk

The Thrills So Much for the City - Virgin

Anne Litt   Weekend Becomes Eclectic

ARTIST ALBUM LABEL LINKS

Cesaria Evora Voz D'Amor Bluebird

Belle & Sebastian Dear Castrophe Waitress Sanctuary/Rough Trade

Azure Ray Hold on Love Saddle Creek

The Thrills So Much for the City Virgin

Travis 12 Memories Epic

DJ Mark Farina Air Farina Om

Charlie Parker A Studio Chronicle (5-CD box set JSP Records

Kinky Atlas Sonic 360/Nettwerk

Rodney Crowell Fate's Right Hand Epic

Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism Barsuk

Arthur Verocai Arthur Verocai Luv 'n' Haight

Jason Bentley    Metropolis

ARTIST ALBUM LABEL LINKS

Basement Jaxx Kish Kash Astralwerks

Alex Kid Mint F Comm

Jem It All Starts Here ATO

DJ Mark Farina Air Farina Om

Bent Everlasting Blink Guidance

Chungking We Travel Fast Tummy Touch

Nobody Pacific Drift Ubiquity

Sander Kleinberg Everybody Thrive

Prefuse 73 Extinguished Outakes Warp

Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Arista

Chris Douridas    Newground

ARTIST ALBUM LABEL LINKS

The Beatles The Beatles ... Naked EMI/Apple

Martyn Bennett Grit Real World

Harold Budd La Bella Vista Shout Factory

Bird York The Velvet Hour Blissed Out

Richard Bona Munia (The Tale) Verve

Ryan Adams Love is Hell, Pt. I Lost Highway

Jet Get Born Elektra Buy Album

Wheat Per Second, Per Second, Per Second Aware/Columbia

The Thrills So Much for the City Virgin

Peter Gabriel HIT Geffen/UME

Garth Trinidad   Chocolate City

ARTIST ALBUM LABEL LINKS

Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Arista

Jean Grae The Bootleg of The Bootleg EP Baby Grande

Jaylib Champion Sound Stones Throw

Neo Muyanga The Listening Room BMG Africa

Da Lata Serious Palm Beach

Cassandra Wilson Glamoured Blue Note

DJ Spinna & Bobbito The Wonder of Stevie Harmless

Kelis Tasty Tasty

Eric Robertson The Vault, Vol. I Indy

Reel People 2nd Guess Papa

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[DudeAsInCool]

This is the best music station in LA. Some pretty progressive stuff here...

[rainbowdemon]

This is the best music station in LA. Some pretty progressive stuff here...

I was thinking that as I was looking at those lists. Not the same commercial crap over and over. That's for sure. Sounds like a great station. The only one that was similar in my area was WXXP. But they went off the air in the late 80's.

:angry: