May 14, 2014

Lots of Changes and Content - Blog Updates!!!

Blog Updates

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What's up drifters!!? There have been so many changes to DJ Dark Flow and "Adrift In The Airwaves" since my last post on Airdrift Signals a year and a half ago. (:

Since slowing down posting music reviews after securing a full time job in 2012 (all my music reviews for Surviving The Golden Age can be viewed here), I have made myself a weekly 4 hour time slot on WPKN 89.5FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Every week, I feature independent and local artists, either through their music, or as live in-studio guests or callers, mixing experimental electronic music, dance music, hip-hop, and psychedelic rock infused with abstract reggae and world styles. 

September 10, 2012

The Nomad - Perilous Times Review

The Nomad - Perilous Times Review


The Nomad - Perilous Times Review

For years, Daimon Schwalger, aka The Nomad, has been producing electronic sounds, masterfully mixing elements of dubstep, reggae, drum and bass and electronic music. His unique sounds continue on his sixth LP, Perilous Times, which features a foray of electronic beats spanning many genres that all feel related, and a multitude of singers to give every song a fresh face. The Nomad proves to listeners that they should not expect to hear the same thing twice, as his tracks all bring something new to the table. The dark funky lull of the opening track, “Give Some Love,” resonates with a neo-disco soul similar to electronic dance artist TV On The Radio. The reggae melody that races through “Run Through These Streets” takes surprising twists and turns as Vida-Sunshyne sings, “These are really perilous times.”

August 22, 2012

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Seeds Review

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Seeds Review

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Seeds Review

From here on out, music reviews that I post on my blog will be a combination of reviews I have written for Surviving The Golden Age and reviews I have commissioned on my own time. For now we have Georgia Anne Muldrow.

In r&b and soul music, nothing has made a bigger splash in recent years than Georgia Anne Muldrow’s new full-length album, Seeds. Produced by hip-hop beat wizard Madlib, Muldrow channels her inner soul and life purpose for the psychedelic array of samples and textures that pass through each track.

January 2, 2012

Music reviews, and writing for Surviving The Golden Age!

Music Reviews Incoming

It's been a few months since my last review was posted for Avey Tare's melancholy, rhythm induced, watery solo debut, Down There. Since then, I have been active in my efforts to keep the music alive in the absence of my radio show, Adrift In The Airwaves. I have been producing dubstep mixes and mashups and have been trying to DJ in areas around CT where the underground electronic scene has been blossoming.
Very recently, I have been hired for a writing internship to write music reviews for Surviving The Golden Age, an eclectic music blog that specializes in DJ mixes, mashups, as well as hip-hop and electronic music.

August 24, 2011

Avey Tare - Down There Review

Avey Tare - Down There Review

Avey Tare - Down There Review

There is not a moment to spare from the beginning of Down There. Instantly Animal Collective member, Avey Tare, pulls listeners into a swampscape of blurry voices and wet beats for his debut solo effort. Animal Collective are known to craft songs that experiment with the production and style of modern music, to such a huge extent, that their music has gained a considerable cult following. This steady rise in popularity has only since exploded by the time the group released their mainstream breakout album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, in 2009.

August 22, 2011

Shabazz Palaces – Black Up Review

Shabazz Palaces – Black Up Review

Shabazz Palaces – Black Up Review

When Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler of Brooklyn, New York, worked as part of the jazz hip-hop trio, Digable Planets, their easy-going alternative rap rocked the 90’s, when hip-hop was still in its early stages and growing in popularity. Now more than a decade later, Butterfly is back with a new name, and a new group, pushing a sound that burns a new chapter into the history of hip-hop. Based out of Seattle, Butterfly, newly dubbed as Palaceer Lazaro, heads Shabazz Palaces. Many excited fans were already buzzing from the release of Shabazz’s first two self-released EPs, Of Light and a self-titled EP. If these two releases meant anything in the world of hip-hop, it was a sure sign of something else entirely.

April 12, 2011

Thank you, radio listeners (+5,000 podcast downloads!!), and goodbyes.

Thank You, Listeners

AirdriftSignals Music Magazine
First off I would like to say that my time here at UConn has been some of the best years of my life. Getting into radio programming here at WHUS happened almost by chance, as members from the station came to my Culture Of The College Media class to give a presentation on UConn’s radio station... I was hooked from my very first semester, and have been at the controls for Adrift In The Airwaves for over three years now.

December 4, 2010

Easy Star All-Stars - Dubber Side of The Moon Review

Easy Star All-Stars - Dubber Side of The Moon Review

Easy Star All-Stars - Dubber Side of The Moon Review

Another Dub Side? Easy Star All-Stars, the same guys behind the reggae cover albums for Dark Side of The Moon, Radiohead’s Ok Computer, and Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, unveil a brand new release: Dub Side of The Moon, but remixed and reworked, and inevitably redubbed; Dubber Side of The Moon. These new tracks, redone with a more atmospheric and heavy bass quality, resonate proudly through any good pair of speakers, and you can tell instantly that these songs were meant to surround you, and pull you in. From the very start of “Speak To Me / Breathe,” it is obvious that this is a re-imagining of the classic Pink Floyd album. Synth programming and sound effects add all the more tribute to the intricacies of Pink Floyd’s masterpiece.

November 24, 2010

Teebs - Ardour Review

Teebs - Ardour Review

Teebs - Ardour Review

Teebs, a popular artist on the Brainfeeder record label started by Flying Lotus, releases his debut album and blows all other producers out of the water! His multi-textured compositions come to life in Ardour, arguably one of the best beat albums of 2010. His soft beats and melodic chimes have a fulfilling presence, and I cannot stress it enough that his work bears a therapeutic, healing power for any avid headphones junkie.

MiM0SA - Silver Lining Review

MiM0SA - Silver Lining Review

MiM0SA - Silver Lining Review


Just two months after his late-night dubstep EP Your Love, MiM0SA comes out with another stunner, his super melodic, big bass release, Silver Lining. This new album, layered with bright melodies and atmospheric textures, sounds like a bright, sunny morning.

October 15, 2010

Flying Lotus – Pattern+Grid World Review

Flying Lotus – Pattern+Grid World Review

Flying Lotus – Pattern+Grid World Review

Brace yourself for a new breed of FlyLo, with a new EP just months after his third full-length space opera, videogame drama, Cosmogramma. There’s more to be heard here, as Steven Ellison, the man behind the mask, takes you somewhere completely different once again.

October 4, 2010

Bassnectar - Timestretch EP Review

Bassnectar - Timestretch Review

Bassnectar - Timestretch EP Review

For an EP with four new tracks and a presence that will dominate your sound system, Timestretch, a release by dubstep producer Bassnectar, makes no compromises. The explosive opener, “Here We Go,” a popular live track, takes you straight into the mind of Lorin Ashton, the mastermind behind Bassnectar, as the sliced up vocals and sirens build into an eruption of bass beats and roaring synthesizers.

September 19, 2010

Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Tychozorente Review

Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Tychozorente Review

Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Tychozorente Review

For one of the most experimental and explosive songwriters to appear over the past couple decades, multi-instrumentalist Omar Rodriguez Lopez has clearly made a name for himself in this generation of music. From his early start in the hardcore/alternative rock group At The Drive-In, to his departure with musical partner Cedric Bixler-Zavala to explore the musical realms of psychedelic and progressive rock with The Mars Volta and beyond, Rodriguez Lopez has made an impressive track record, which will now include, his seventeenth solo album, Tychozorente.

September 12, 2010

Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers Review

Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers Review

Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers Review

To make my blog more exciting, I decided that I am now going to start doing album reviews of music that I have enjoyed enough to feature in my radio show Adrift In The Airwaves.

For my first album review, I decided to take a look at Mount Kimbie's debut full-length, Crooks & Lovers.

April 25, 2010

Minor podcast errors, an open letter

Minor Podcast Glitch

Dark Flow here,
Since getting lucky and finding a podcast hosting site for free, there was always a chance that there would be minor issues. The site occasionally has a glitch and doesn't allow me to post my shows for a bit of time (sometimes more than a week).

February 11, 2010

New Time Slot, New Music, NEW PODCAST!

New Radio Time Slot

I found out this past Monday night that my new radio time slot for the Spring schedule is going to be Monday mornings from 8-10AM, Eastern Time, and I'm starting back up in just a few days! I am happy with the turnout, knowing that many people will be hearing my show on the road and that it would be a good slot for many listeners. However, I realized that some of my loyal fans might be unable to tune in at this early hour to keep up with my show. So I thought to myself, 'How can I still deliver my broadcast to my fans without losing anybody?'. This is the official unveiling of DJ Dark Flow's "Adrift In The Airwaves" radio podcast!

January 16, 2010

Last show for Monday, 1-3PM

Last Monday Radio Show

This coming Monday, January 18th, will be my last appearance for this time slot. After that, it will most likely be 2-3 weeks before I'll be on the air again. Be sure to tune in at 91.7FM or you can always listen online at Whus.org!

DF~

December 7, 2009

Last Show of the Semester!

Last Show Of The Semester

This coming Monday, December 14th will be the date of my last show of the academic semester. I will be coming back in the spring, but this will be the last one of the year.
Tune in from 1-3PM Eastern time to 91.7FM, or Whus.org to listen online!

October 4, 2009

New Time, Fall 2009

New Radio Time Slot

Prepare for high tide, and tune in to WHUS 91.7FM, or listen online at whus.org, to "Adrift In The Airwaves", now on Mondays 1-3PM with your host DJ Dark Flow.
Expect some noise, expect some notes, expect some bass in those headphones.
Dark Flow out ~

June 30, 2009

For Those of You That Are Interested (NIN Remix Ep)

For Those of You That Are Interested (NIN Remix Ep)

Nine Inch Nails Remix EPOver the last few years, I have made a few remixes I would like to share, specifically NIN remixes. Since their album, Year Zero came out, they had released the multitracks of every song on the album, and I decided it would be fun to create my own renditions of several of the songs.