Episode 01: Love is a Paradox
Broadcasted in Los Angeles, CA on February 14, 2023
from The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Little Tokyo
on KCHUNG / kchungradio.org / 1630 AM

Portals is broadcasted every second Tuesday 
3-5p PST
Follow @ portals.la on IG for updates

Valentine’s Day is a day that can be alienating for a lot of people. While we celebrate love, we also acknowledge the ways that love doesn’t make sense: the mystery, beauty, complexity, and contradictions. The true story of St. Valentine, unlocking within through the mirror of another, and June’s good deed gone wrong.

Tracklist:

Fly Away - Abraham Battat
Nami - Meitai
Sweet Earth Flying - Pt. 1 - Marion Brown
Love Misunderstood - Muchos Plus
Glowin’ - The Rationals
Loving You the Way That I Do - Voices of East Harlem
Sunshine - HNNY
Storm - Rare Silk
Brown Sugar - Akasha
Shinzo No Tobira - Mariah
Ode to Love - Tour-Maubourg
The Sayers - Klein Zage
Open Chakras - Reuben Vaun Smith
Junie - Solange
Liv.e - Heart Break Escape
Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing - 12” - Gloria Ann Taylor
Got Me Coming Back Rite Now - Moodymann, Amp Fiddler
Saw You for the First Time - Laurence Guy
Night Rise - Mixed - System Olympia
Such a Bad Way - Against All Logic
I Choose You - Chicago Gansters
I Can’t Help but Love - David R. Trask
Hush Money - Blue Iverson
Treat yourself like a friend - Lionmilk
Love is Everywhere - Pharoah Sanders
Guess I Always Knew - Love Apple
Express Your Love Theme - The Memphis Mustangs
The Makings of You (Live) - Curtis Mayfield
Nothing Even Matters - Lauryn Hill (Ft. D'Angelo)

PORTALS 01: Love is a Paradox

Episode 02: Space Frequencies
Broadcasted in Los Angeles, CA on March 14, 2023
from The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Little Tokyo
on KCHUNG / kchungradio.org / 1630 AM

Portals is broadcasted every second Tuesday 
3-5p PST
Follow @ portals.la on IG for updates

This month's episode focuses on our relationship with space through vibration and vibration through space. If matter is simply molecules vibrating at varying velocities, is there really any difference?

With Portals’ mission of exchange & empowerment, we seek to highlight the intersections, and bridge voices and disciplines. Throughout today’s episode, you will hear reflections from musicians, designers, community organizers, shape shifters, and visual artists - friends and collaborators who we admire dearly. They will share thoughts on their inspirations, processes of creation, the role of agency in both their work and life at large.

How do we balance thinking and being? Do we design space or does space design us?

TRACKLIST

Ras G & the Afrikan Space Program - The Arrival (with The Koreatown Oddity)
Colloboh - Mystic You 
The Koreatown Oddity - Existential Landlord
DJ Harrison - Civil Right (with Michael Walker)
Kraftwerk - Ananas Symphonie (with Matthew James-Wilson)
Karen Dalton - Green Rocky Road
Stereolab - Come and Play in the Milky Night (demo)
Fievel is Glauque - Go Down Softly
Nico Georis - Soft Purple Gazers (with Mndsgn)
Maylee Todd - Absolute Time & Space
Ana Roxanne - I Am Every Sparkly Woman (with Liv Stofko)
Cybe - Muzak Paintings Positive Movement, Pt. 2, No.3
Leon Vynehall - Movements (Chapter III) (with Keena Maya)
Fatima, Floating Points - Cinnamon 
Aphex Twin - Bbydhyonchord (with Cami Arboles)
Actress, London Contemporary Orchestra - Hubble (with Emma Baiada and passages from “The Poetics of Space” by Gaston Bachelard)
Roberto Musci - Water Music
Cucina Povera - Demetra
Nala Sinephro - Space 5
Lonnie Liston Smith, The Cosmic Echoes - Sais (Egypt)
Sun Ra - Intergalactic Research (with poetry from “The Immeasurable Equation” and words from Kahil El’Zabar)
Collettivo Immaginario - Oltreoceano
Africa HiTech - Light The Way
Youandewan - Be Good To Me Poly
Arp - New Pleasures (with DRĖĖĖMY)
Benedek - Earlyman Dance
RAMZi - nos enfants
D.Tiffany, Roza Terenzi - Spiritual Delusion
Claro Intelecto - Peace of Mind (Electrosoul)
Moderat, Logic1000, Big Ever - Copy 
Machinedrum - Center Your Love
Seb Wildblood, Kareem Ali - Jobi - Kareem Ali Remix [Mixed]
Nala Sinephro, Lyle Barton - Ada
Laurence Guy - Claudi

Special Thanks to Contributors: The Koreatown Oddity, Michael Walker, Matthew James-Wilson, Ringgo Ancheta, Liv Stofko, Kahil El’Zabar, Cami Arboles, Emma Baiada, Keena Maya and DRĖĖĖMY

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