Sun, 29 January 2012
Its Sunday and as promised, here is the 2nd portion of the Beauty and the Beat Series for your dance neccessities. I've been listening to this for most of the day, and plan on taking this to the top of Mt. Hollywood today :)I hope you enjoy! I plan on taking the next week back into the shoegazer chill out sectors of the BNB, but keeping the set a mystery for now. Enjoy BNB listeners!
Love, Tennessee |
Fri, 27 January 2012
Hey ladies and gents, Looks like the first time that I broadcasted this session was back in 2007 back in Seattle. I was trying to come up with a set where I could broadcast anything around Sally Shapiro. That was around when that wave of new wave disco romance was coming up in trend and I was just getting on the wave there. I was slightly afraid that I'd get too progressive trancey on this set, and I'm glad I really immersed myself in ... well more electro that wasn't electroclashy, and more modern dance'ish. And here we are in 2012, nearly 5 years later, and bringing you the 10th session of Beauty and the Beat.. part one. As you know, you'll be getting double dose of great dance, as edition 2 of the retrospective will post soon. So enjoy! This runs about 1 hour and 23 minutes of pure uninteruppted dance pleasure for your ears.
Stay Beautiful, Tennessee |
Sat, 21 January 2012
Hello Music Lovers, I just got back from Las Vegas this afternoon. I spent the week the week for the opening ceremony for the new Chuck Jones Gallery and Creative Center located at Circus Circus off the strip. I recently signed on with Chuck Jones/Warner Brothers to do pop art portraits of Looney Tunes. Its been a great collaboration so far and am looking towards the future. I was primarily in the casino for most of the time until I got to hang out with two friends, one being Daryl.. a resident of the city. While I loved 'The Strip', I was primarily fascinated with the run down chaos beyond that area. The area not even a block away deteriorates into this massive whirlwind of destitute people in the throes of their addictions among crumbling buildings. ... and then it just wings into endless stripmalls containing run down shops and liquor stores. Granted this is only the general area, and there are nicer areas.. however I was just so intrigued with the sketchy areas that I just became mesmerized and lost in time. Las Vegas is a mirror split into two different worlds, and the fancy lights and glittering showbiz is ... entertaining, but the real beauty is in the wreck of the sinking shiip... the other side of the looking glass. Here is to Las Vegas, ... a one I'll be back in many many times. .. not only for work.. but for more exploration of that glittering skeleton in a dress town.
Stay Beautiful, Tennessee Next Week: Beauty and the Beat Anniversary Set |
Fri, 13 January 2012
Howdy Folks, I'm sitting in my apartment which currently is an ocean of finished canvases. I'm sending these out shortly for my 2012 review at two different entertainment studios with week, which is both nerve wracking and exciting at the same time. I'm trying to get these out before a crew comes over to camera rig my apartment to do a stop motion session of how I paint for a web TV series in Los Angeles. My life is surreal, and all of this is weird, and I really don't know how this all happened... but while it seems like this is all happening overnight, its actually been a long grueling process to get to this point of surreality. Back in 2006/2007, I used to write fondly about my past. A lot of my stories were pushed to this exuberant colorful edge, because... without realizing it, I was day dreaming about the past, because my present was so awful. I've been trying to druge up stories to fondly remember about Seattle nowadays, but those years were fueled with such loveless'ness and riddled with addiction, that ... its been kind of hard to have anything to say about it, other than 'i learned my lesson'. I think thats where this session comes into play. I've been building on my dj set for a few weeks now, but only really wanting to play these Hannes Fischer and Ormatie tracks back to back.. but... for some reason Partial Arts "Trauermusk" kept on floating back into my head... which was strange because I hadn't listened to since that one day back in late 2007 in Seattle Washington. I was sitting on this wet bench at 2:00am overlooking Lake Washington and the distant city of Bellevue across the water. It was raining per usual in the city, but this low fog was also coming through... which masked the city in front of me in this murky glittering beauty.. which also reflected on the water.... I was listening to this track while the rain pattered on my umbrella and occasionally splashed on my hoodie that draped over my overly bleached head. I felt miserable and sad from all the circumstances and actions that built into this terrible state. I was confused... on how life got to be as terrible as it did (which were clear results of my own actions), and just didn't want to come back to my apartment, where much of the misery resided. But Partial Arts came on, and the track played... And I sat there listening to it, and realized how beautiful everything was. Here, I was listening to this incredible song, and there was this beautiful view... and I was sudden encased in this protective shell, ... this bubble of a beautiful moment inside a larger bubble of life's woes.. And it was incredible.
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Fri, 6 January 2012
Happy New Year Everyone! This set was compiled out to you in my recent quick stay in San Francisco this week. It was going to be the last time for a while that I would be able to visit my friends since my schedule for travel this year with the new art job is kind of hectic. Its a great way to start the year however. So looking back at 2011, I noticed a lot of the shows were incredibly mellow, and definitely heavy on the electrolust, gorgeous, and sleepyhead sets. Granted this is where I'll still be doing shows, but this show kind of sets the intentions for the BNB for the rest of the year. These intentions are: - More remixes of retrospective tracks. (Ex: Morgan Geist remixing Wham, Remix of Bjork's "Venus as a Boy") - Search for some amazing female vocalists in the chillwave, blues, and shoegaze, and dance sectors (Ex: Lana Del Ray Remix) - More dubstep, something OTHER than Burial (kind of obsessing on 'Sorrow' right now) - Not fearing to bring old tracks back up on the set from the beginning years of the BNB (ex: Tensnake RMX of Junior Boys) - More covers (ARE YOU KIDDING ME with Nancy Whang singing for Holy Ghost!'s cover of MINISTRY's "I Wanted to Tell Her" off of their epic 80's album "With Sympathy"? That was my ANTHEM in my young young youth) How does that sound? Good? Hope SO! Happy 2012 ya'll.
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Fri, 30 December 2011
Last session of 2011 is here, and its filled with mellow dance and housey chilled beats. Its a lot calmer than the most Wonderland sessions which compile the best of the year.., but then again, this focus primarily for the past 12 months has really edged on the downtempo house side of dance rather than the electro side of things.. BUT I've worked both of them into here, making it a nice eclectic groove. I hope you enjoy your new years this year, I and I'll see you in 2012 with some great new sessions!!
Stay Beautiful, |
Fri, 23 December 2011
What a crazy year it has been! I always love these sessions because they make me look back at the sessions that were played, and I get to take inventory not only of the best that was played, the also the best that was had. This year has been such a double edged sword of the best opportunies and successes, as well as the most devastating. It was a pivotal year that has got me very excited about the future, and yet very nostalgic about that past in such two great frequencies. Because this year was so turbulent and yet at the same time filled with this wonderment, my focus has primarily been focused on the calmer side of the broadcast, really honing in on the sessions that focus on drone, ambient, and shoegazer, and I'm gathering its because its the music I seek to soothe. .. Because of this I have an hour and fourty five minutes of PURE calming bliss ranging in all sectors of (insert deep sigh here). Enjoy and Happy New Year Music Lovers,
Stay Beautiful, Tennessee |
Tue, 13 December 2011
The second part of the set couldn't have come at a more opportune time. Its been raining all day this Monday, and it seems, at least for the most part, some of the best opportune times to listen to sultry downtempo in the Winter, is when its raining or snowing. It somewhat coerces you moreso to get under the sheets. This set is a nonstop set filled with some beautiful tracks that have been played over the years and the places I have lived. Great memories are attached to this set. Please enjoy this bonus set BNB lovers.
Stay Beautiful, Tennessee |
Fri, 9 December 2011
The first Hot Music For Cheap Hotels aired on 9/29/2006 in Seattle. At the time I was on my 4th episode of the broadcast on libsyn, and wasn't planning on recycling any names or creating repeating shows. Hell, I thought back then, that I was just going to do 20 episodes and call it a day. .. but look where we are at, right? 258 Episodes later, and I'm finally at the anniversary set, 5 years and 3 months later in Los Angeles. The episode name came from the photo, which I had taken when living out in San Francisco. It was one of my favorite photos in this photography series I was doing about the city. This was a photo of the run down Civic Center Hotel (hourly to weekly rentals) on Market, just next to Van Ness in the heart of the city. The neon had broken so hotel had set 'hot' instead in warm lighting, and thought it was a perfect photo somewhat indicating the business that went around that area. I used that photo for the show and decided the name then and there. Much like all anniversary sets, I'll be doing a two part session going over the episodes over the year. The 2nd set should air around Sunday. These sets are over an hour long, and ARE packed with my favorite sultry tracks, so prepare to enjoy this hot and bothered set, and please feel free to use this to get it on to (ha!) Enjoy.
Stay Beautiful, Tennessee |
Fri, 2 December 2011
This set is so completely random, but my god are there some stunning finds and some BNB classics that I love mixed in here. That Ulrich Schnauss remix of Death Cab for Cutie is making my head all blurry and combined with that swooning Tycho remix of Little Dragon and Apparat remix of Ladytron, well... I'm just really happy to get this out to you this week. I JUST got back in town from a small trip in my old home in San Francisco. I return in two weeks for 8 days to get my fill of that city. Its funny though, the minute I'm up there, I miss Los Angeles. I don't think that would have ever been the case, but man this city is gorgeous once you get settled and sift through the industry BS to get to the rough diamond friends and lovers out here. Next year the BNB is going over seas again. My work is taking me to France again for a small artist residency in Paris which I am thrilled to do. I've been in French language immersion so by March I should be up in conversational/business french, so in the meantime 'souhaite-moi bonne chance'. The one thing I love about that city is the musicians that come through in such intimate venues.. like Apparat who played in the small theatre that was connected to my apartment I was staying at on Boulevard de Sebastopol in the Marais district in Paris. WTF? When does that happen in America? Well maybe in NYC or SF, but never in LA. .. Anyways. I'm babbling, but in the meantime please take this set with you on the road or in the air, and remember... until next weeek.....
.....Stay Beautiful, Tennessee |
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BEAUTIFUL NOISE BROADCAST Filled with shoegazer, bedroom electro, ambient, chillwave, dreampop, and dance. Hosted by Tennessee Loveless in Hollywood, California and Nina Grey in Seattle Washington.
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