I had been hosting/programming jazz and creative music shows
on WAIF since 1997, and in 2001, I was hosting the Dark Radio
program on Tuesday Afternoons as well as covering for
Ras Dagga on his infamous Dub-O-Rama show on Friday
mid-nights (sometimes teamed with Chris Comer). Presented
here are cleaned-up airchecks from my live mix shows on those
hot Tuesdays during the Summer of 2001, which was also my
last few months in Cincinnati.

The show was a live mega-mix version of what I was doing with
the band Dark Audio Project, but this was composing with existing
records, not instruments, and alone in the studio, not in a group.

The Dark Radio Mixes were about spontaneously composing a new
piece of music with interlaced bits of records and manipulated
CDs cut together. It was not a new concept at the time, but the
approach and result was very much my own (for better or worse),
based on the selections. Given the amount of gear available in
2001, I was using a very minimal set-up, without effects or
gadgets--only 2 turntables, 2 CD players, and a cassette deck.
For me, this was "unplugged."

That was the end of a very creative time in music history, and
I hope these mixes now serve as a small document of what
was happening and how I saw it as a soundtrack in progress.

-A-