Lava Lamp Radio

found an opening and etched a groove in the space program continuum for this installment of lava lamp radio. featuring fresh, forthcoming, forthright music. fiddled with the word "incisive" for spotting in the dizzying orbits in which we discover and destruct ourselves

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Sabroh ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ June 2023

one thing carries over into the other.. surf the clash.. 100% freestyle. what isn't? i'm feeling.. mm.. 80s quiksilver

shoutout hunter-gatherer. i encourage U to not only check them out but also buy music --> https://hunter11gatherer.bandcamp.com

shoutout ttt for the cello release. are cellos in? lol --> https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/solo-for-cello

shoutout kryptonyte. shoutout kryptonyte.. --> https://kryptonyte.bandcamp.com/album/kryptonyte

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Sabroh ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ July 2023

have recently been reminiscent of the first time i watched soylent green (1974), which was like 9 yrs ago. if that even means anything. lava lamp radio vs a movie from memory – which will prevail? 

getting there...

shoutout radio deejays of the world saying something and with something to say... highly recommend listening to 'nothing in moderation' by dj voices on the lot radio. one of my favorite shows and "trip advisors" to date. ULTRA COOL

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Sabroh ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ August 2023

inviting LA local minude to the lava lamp radio ufo in which we call on fall.. before she calls on anyone of us – music to get murdered to: a collection of records from horror's golden years. talk about hysteric glamour. look no further! 

featuring 70s / 80s / italian / japanese / korean / cosmic / americana / exploitations / the rock opera / slashers / revivers / smackers / shockers / radio on radio / shag rug sex. listen back to your favorite graveyard tramps minude and sabroh hitch-hike through it all for a transforming two hours

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Minude B2B Sabroh ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ September 2023

lov this bangers-only freestyle lifestyle b2b flo with emi so much <3 mad gratefull

09302023 this was everything

(happening right next to us for the entire stretch of the show. www.moca.org/kink-out-ephemera)

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Emi B2B Sabroh ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ September 2023

a͓̽n͓̽t͓̽s͓̽ ͓̽b͓̽o͓̽r͓̽d͓̽e͓̽r͓̽i͓̽n͓̽g͓̽ ͓̽t͓̽h͓̽e͓̽ ͓̽t͓̽o͓̽w͓̽e͓̽l͓̽ ͓̽o͓̽n͓̽ ͓̽w͓̽h͓̽i͓̽c͓̽h͓̽ ͓̽t͓̽h͓̽e͓̽ ͓̽b͓̽o͓̽d͓̽y͓̽ ͓̽b͓̽a͓̽s͓̽k͓̽s͓̽

a power radio mix in response to the latest wave of rather synchronous releases and a fresh swell of personal memories

how will the lava lamps ooze, flow and glow this smooktober? shoutout yeat

Lava Lamp Radio presents: "avec amour" ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ October 2023

milestone mood this one. grateful and pretty pleazed to have a whole year of lava lamp radio to look back on. cheers all involved & supporting the radio cause

stop the genocide in gaza – free palestine – free us all

instant los angeles/dub/techno favorites from me in hour one. on nurturing a kind of countercultural spirit... free papers

dj dovecot in the house going in and all out in hour two with "pan & feather mix" inspired by the innovative stylings and endless currents of soca and dancehall music. tangling blends, tripped out edits and then some more of that

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Sabroh & Dovecot ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ November 2023

woke up this particular thursday morning with a tote full of records and a usb due for a much needed clean. woops. and even then i had no idea where i wanted to take the show well into the final minute before airing. equally i have no idea where it ended up going. no regrets tho

"santa monica opera"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEu3UAI9OwU

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Sabroh ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ January 2024

RIP Aaron Bushnell, faithful soldier of the Palestinian people. Aaron was a 25-year-old active-duty Air Force servicemember who roared the words Free Palestine into the collective consciousness, not once but six times, on Sunday, February 25, 2024 @ 10:54am ET until he could not, collapsing and succumbing to the fumes of his own smoldering body, in uniform, in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. 

I say we have not mourned nearly enough. And if you care to disagree, the guilt will start to eat away at us, one way or another. We say: mourn harder.

For those of us still in mourning, it doesn't end, much like the ocean. But it has been a "step one" for me in killing the imperialist ego. Mourning as ego death to see through that space is made for others, dead and alive, inside and among us. Mourning as a ritual of responsibility foremost to others. It is not easy. It can get fucking choppy. So we find our rocks, our collaborators. I am grateful to you beyond words. I guess this is what is meant by community building practices. Mourning as binding agent, the kind that dually ripens our spirits for a more fortified, more fruitful resistance.

Time and again, acid cuddles in its confirmatory power. Nothing more essential than community, nothing more political than music. So we action in both and leave all trace, on the radio, in a cassette tape, on the cornice of a building somewhere downtown. Radio as vessel for the spirits of the resistance. Radio as programming of necessary truths. Radio as it was, a medium.
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Thank you for your time in advance. And big thanks to Dane for the continuous support. Love community radio.

And even if you won't be playing this back but find yourself reading this, I urge each and everyone of you to find a way to meaningfully remember Aaron Bushnell's impact. Memory is everything, and even then the ruling class will still point a gun at it, as it collapses burning to death. Remember everything. Manufactured amnesia no more.

To say RIP Aaron Bushnell is an incinerating shriek for a free Palestine. RIP Aaron Bushnell. Free Palestine. ♡
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As aired on KCHUNG PUBLIC on Thursday, March 7th, 2024, 11am-1pm PT, live from the MOCA Geffen, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California.

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Sabroh & DJ DJMars ★ RIP AARON BUSHNELL (1998-2024) ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ March 2024

poets and poetesses, rise! monthly poetry night collective 'yanny laurel' of los angeles, california organized by my fam and fave poets, dylan and sai, beaming into the lava lamp for this april's show with a transmission that is not to be missed. a very "california" one if i may...

two hours of music, friendship and poems written and/or read by the poets of yanny laurel i call new friends... featuring readings by dylan, sai, anna, ray, carlos, sabrina, robert and annakai. appreciate you all!

and ofc thank you sai and dylan for keeping the promise of community and keeping us fed too. this seems generally crucial.

mixed by dovecot
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recommended reading: "Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide" (2023) by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi as published on Protean Magazine www.proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/notes-on-craft-writing-in-the-hour-of-genocide/

Lava Lamp Radio invites: Yanny Laurel w/ Dylan & Sai ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ April 2024

stepped back into the station on a wednesday for a second run on kchung public this month, this time with the illest. st. Mozelle for the youth! ★★★★★

a school field trip gathered for lunch in the museum plaza around the hour mark when yves began her leg of the show. and when i say youth, yves quite literally had the field trip lunch in cartwheels, "biellmann" spins (had to look this one up / we were shook) and finger hearts. 🤸‍♀️🙆‍♀️🫶 learning from yves how to play (tunes) with (potential) friends all over again, publicly, privately, presently. that field trip lunch was goals. im jealous. 😾🫶

it's getting warm here in la. powering on with the station ac mode in hour 1. st. Mozelle drives the lava lamp ship in hour 2 – the field trip lunch bunch are thriving indeed. because life does not stop--

live and direct from the moca geffen in little tokyo, los angeles, california 🍙💕
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listen to st. Mozelle's latest release '15 Candles' www.saintmozelle.bandcamp.com/track/15-candles it's divine

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Sabroh & St. Mozelle ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ April 2024

many roads lead back to college radio, and i cant help but think it's really about staying connected ~ bonds. what is a radio show without some journey? i remember pitching a show to akili (eBae) for a slot at that charmed wvkr... and here we both are, reconnecting six years later, in another state, another los angeles, another station

now chug this eBae energy drink, will you? shoutout student journalists of ucla radio for live coverage on ucla's palestinian solidarity encampment. power to the student intifada. divest now!

Lava Lamp Radio w/ eBae ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ May 2024

It's A Short Way To The Frontier

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Pooja ★ Route 66 Special ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ June 2024

listen back to a good morning message from sophia, emi speaking french and more cablemaxxing.

if only you knew how much these two mean to me. and to be together in one place... bless

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Sophia Yoo & Emi ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ August 2024

ray politely swerves lava lamp radio into jazz territory for this month's show. two hours of piano, chicago, poetry and a sweet kind of wrath from the la-based musician, for lava lamps do blue~

check out @ryfrdmn's latest project 'Husht' on bandcamp -> https://rayf.bandcamp.com/album/husht
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Mal Waldron - The Stone Garden of Ryoanji
Erik Truffaz - Un souffle qui passe
Clip from Norman Finkelstein interview with 
Clip from Fred Moten interview with Millennial are Killing Capitalism
Yoshihiro Hanno, Mick Karn - Sail and Wind
Mal Waldron, Terumasa Hino - Reminiscent Suite 
Ray Freedman - ringtone #1, Stone Garden, re:turn
Lim Gong - Snow View 
Jim Jarmusch - Verdict with Guitar
Jim O’Rourke - Bad Timing
Muslimgauze - Hamas Cinema Gaza Strip
Young Fathers - Shoot Me Down, clip from I Saw (Live for Amnesty International)
Hikaru Utada - Kibunja Naino (Not In The Mood)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Zamapara (Nokia Ringtone)
Jerusha Rai - Bopung
taupe set xl - I heard you in the valley at dusk
Liyang Network - Interview with Chad Booc 
Joey Ayala - Dapithapon
Marc Merza - Apo Tudo
No Translation - Oasis 
Alistair Hulett - Dictatorship of Capital
Brendan Nagle - life was very free
Third Eye Blind - Losing a Whole Year
Julie Doiron - Can’t Make it No More
Fred Neil - The Dolphins
Songs: Ohia - Two Blue Lights
Dilettante - do. not. 
Willie Nelson - September Song
Ray Freedman - SIDD
Lightnin’ Hopkins - Los Angeles Blues

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Ray ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ September 2024

giving eye bags and not not throwbacks on kchung radio. listen back!

thumbnail is a catalog clipping of mathmos man, mascot of lava lamp company mathmos (est. 1963), c/o www.lava-library.com

as aired on october 3, 2024
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dorothy carter - autumn song
pent - fragments feat. dorothy carlos
crystal gayle - i cried the blue (right out of my eyes)
james k - drunktrack
osamu shoji - trip to the sf world
yeat - u should know
thievery corporation - lebanese blonde
bruce lee - be water my friend
donato dozzy & anna caragnano - parola (rework)
lavurn - mezzanine
jack lalanne - stepper commercial
led zeppelin - stairway to heaven
critical rhythm featuring jango thriller & vandal - it could not happen (essential trance hall mix)
cosmic cycler - waiting for your call
jessica pratt - world on a string
jesus piece - an offering to the night
container - spray
anādi - reject the spiral [looped thought survival]
ondo fudd - joyride to my inside
physical therapy & patrick holland - 7 pm drive
overmono - everything u need
beverly glenn-copeland - a song and many moons
bob dylan with johnny cash - girl from the north country
naemi - day drifter [w/ perila]
loidis - dollarama

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Sabroh ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ October 2024

dovecot takes the wheel near hour two--and trust me when i say it's just what you need rn

now where my beach goths at...

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Sabroh & Dovecot ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ November 2024

asuka's cosmic debut radio mix is now up on soundcloud 👁️ follow asuka observe a breathing earth in hour one 🦜 

the goal for year 2 of the radio residency was to get as many friends on air and in the station as possible. here to report: so far so fun 👍 and thank you ☺️ each collab has a special place in this little lava lamp-shaped heart of mine. yet each show so vastly different from the last and rest... luv. and then for the characters, the poems, the tunes to all coalesce and print on the radio of all places 🐾 what more could a lava lamp ask for? 

phone recording of birds at aeropuerto internacional de guanajuato
iyomante upopo - umeko ando
yogen - yuki saitou
LILIUM MOKA produce mixed chorus and piano - MOKA ☆
song by kei and roger
when we sleep below them pt. 1, read aloud
your home - kuniyuki takahashi
foxfires - ray freedman
when we sleep below them pt. 2, read aloud
people of the sun - rage against the machine
phone recording underneath a freeway overpass
beach waves at eigashima recorded by iona
誰も言わない - hikaru utada
down to the river to pray - bethel college choir and farmer derek in a grain silo (youtube)
miyake - KODO
LOST FOREST - MOKA ☆
starling murmurations and roosting - quagmi (youtube)
coolness, the sound of the bell - ray freedman
wisdom eye - alice coltrane
kill the one from shijiazhuang - omnipotent youth society
love is a lonely thing (cover) - ray + me

Lava Lamp Radio w/ Asuka & Sabroh ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ December 2024

𝖘𝖓𝖔𝖜𝖇𝖔𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖈
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𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔰𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔞𝔩
ssx menu song - prism (circuit license song)
loops of the land - welcome (back)
priori - moonstone ft. ben bondy
godflesh - gift from heaven (breakbeat)
hysterical love project - your laugh as my ringtone

𝔤𝔬𝔤𝔬 𝔤𝔬𝔤𝔤𝔩𝔢𝔰
cro-mags - the paths of perfection
eric b. & rakim - don't sweat the technique
headrillaz - space funk
roza terenzi - triptych

𝔞𝔳𝔞𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔠
gang starr - above the clouds
aba shanti - meditation rock
untitled (halo) - blunt subconscious
tool - hush 
lush - sweetness and light
head on - nice to meet you

𝔧𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔱 𝔧𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔢
swap meet! - m16

𝔭𝔬𝔴𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢
bugs - let go (bug remix)
bougie soliterre - got the bug 
e-z rollers - walk this land (lock stock full length mix)
afro-mystik - devious rhythms

𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔦𝔱 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔢
beta librae - late at night (w/ james k)
michael franks - nightmoves 
chaos in the cbd ft nathan haines - love language
kyuss - space cadet
jessica pratt - moon dude
ronan - body knows best

𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔣𝔭𝔦𝔭𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔷𝔢
james brown - get up i feel like being a sex machine
m boogie - patience feat. born allah & dj melo d

𝔟𝔲𝔫𝔫𝔶𝔰𝔩𝔬𝔭𝔢 𝔟𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔨𝔰
ssx1 - slayboarder
new flesh - communicate (original mix)
luscious jackson - ladyfingers 
patrick holland - blue
bored lord - girl u 2 could be down 4

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Lava Lamp Radio w/ Shelf Space ★ KCHUNG PUBLIC ★ February 2025

𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝔀𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓵𝓪 𝔀𝓪𝓿𝓮
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𝓅𝑔-13 𝓅𝒷𝓈
hieroglyphic being - color out of spaces
raven - infinite red roses
portway - wygd

𝓂𝑒𝓂𝓅𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓇𝑒𝓈𝒽
feel free hi fi - 11am dub
upsammy - worm
breaka - sub hugs

𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓃 𝓅𝓂
umfang - camber
jason in chains - sideb

𝒹𝑒𝑒𝓅 𝒷𝓁𝓊𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓃𝓉
amandra x mattheis - manekin
dovecot - mentone beach
loop lf - natural xt

𝒽𝒾𝑔𝒽 𝒸𝑒𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒸𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈
chaos in the cbd - orange blank
ebilen - iwannatry (ft. virtual echo)

𝒹𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓈𝓉𝓇𝓊𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒾𝒸𝒾𝓈𝓂
slikback x objekt - apex
mirrored fatality - invalidation
yusef lateef - soul blues

𝒾𝓃𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓊𝓂𝓃𝓈
call super - rosso dew
actress - lost
kush jones - housing around
acemo - celestial nights
machinik & kataconda - machinik 9

𝒶𝑒𝓇𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓈
raven - endless edition
bambinodj - jus' pull up
james k - blinkmoth (july mix)
dwarde, gand & tim reaper - globex corp vol. 3 a2

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