Sonic Café, I’ve been swank and I’m lovin’ it, ahh yeah, haven’t we all. The Von Bondies from the Pawn Shoppe Heart album. So welcome to another hour of intelligent, eclectic music, comedy and pop culture. It’s a thing we call the Sonic Café, This is episode 303 and I’m your host Scott Clark. This time the Sonic Café presents an interesting mix that we really like. Pulled from 52 years we’ll spin the Thievery Corporation, Tears for Fears, David Gray, Cigarettes After Sex, TV On The Radio, Phantogram and many more. Then we jump in the Sonic Café time machine, all the way back to 1966 for Baby Please Don’t Go from Van Morrison. American Problems Sound Ridiculous to Other Countries, that’s comedian Joe Machi’s opinion and he’ll stop by to explain his theory. Then a clear-cut size welcome to our newest sponsor Logger Beer, it’s the beer that brought the forest down. Logger Beer it will bring out the Patriot in you. Pick-up the new 80-bottle trunk pack today! All that and more straight ahead from that little radio café overlooking the mighty Pacific way out here in the Pacific Northwest, Here’s World Party, we’re the Sonic Café.
Song 1: Been Swank Artist: The Von Bondies LP: Pawn Shoppe Heart Yr: 2004 Song 2: Thank You World Artist: World Party LP: Goodbye Jumbo Yr: 1990 Song 3: Unified Tribes (feat. Mr. Lif) Artist: Thievery Corporation LP: Unified Tribes Yr: 2011 Song 4: American Problems Sound Ridiculous to Other Countries Artist: Joe Machi (Radio Safe) LP: Comedy Central Yr. 2020 Song 5: I Should Watch TV Artist: David Byrne & St. Vincent LP: Love This Giant Yr: 2012 Song 6: Loser Artist: 3 Doors Down LP: The Better Life Yr: 1999 Song 7: Schrodinger's Cat Artist: Tears For Fears LP: Saturnine Martial & Lunatic Year: 1996 Song 8: Harder Artist: David Gray LP: Draw The Line Yr: 2009 Song 9: Baby Please Don't Go Artist: Van Morrison LP: Best Of Van Morrison Yr: 1966 Song 10: Crush Artist: Cigarettes After Sex LP: Crush Yr: 2018 Song 11: Logger Beer Artist: GTA San Andreas LP: GTA San Andreas Yr: 2004 Song 12: Test Pilot Artist: TV On The Radio LP: TV on The Radio-Seeds Yr: 2014 Song 13: Barking Dog Artist: Phantogram LP: Three Yr: 2016 Song 14: My Culture f/ Robbie Williams & Maxi Jazz Artist: 1 Giant Leap LP: 1 Giant Leap Yr: 1999 Song 15: You Can Leave Your Hat On (Remastered) Artist: Randy Newman LP: Sail Away Yr: 1972
About the Producer:
Scott Clark has always had a lot of music in his life. Growing up outside of Chicago, he was mesmerized early on by the radio of the sixties and seventies and began collecting records at a very early age. From 45’s and LP’s to cassettes and CD’s and now digital… he really never stopped. Today everything in his library is digitized because he got sick of lugging all that stuff around.
The concept for the Sonic Café is to deliver the high production values and feel of the radio he grew up listening to. But unlike the tight, repetitious playlists of those commercial stations, feature a massive range of artists, genres and tunes. The whole idea is to package it in an eclectic, engaging, no repeat format that brings both new and old together in a unique, entertaining, and most importantly fun and fast paced way. There’s really nothing on the radio today, or in the past, that compares with it.
About the Sonic Café:
The show is set in an imaginary cafe overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast. The cafe serves up eclectic, intelligent music, comedy and pop culture. The program originates from KYAQ radio located on the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, so the imagery is not a huge stretch.
Each program is 58:00 minutes in length leaving room for station ID, promos and PSAs. Each episode is .mp3 encoded at a constant rate of 256kbps and ready for broadcast.
An episode is released each week. All episodes are evergreen; never focusing on time of year, weather, month, holidays, events etc. so each show is timeless. All music is presented in a no repeat format. Once a song airs in an episode it never airs again. Episodes may be downloaded and grouped together to quickly create program blocks of two, three, four or more hours in length.
The Sonic Cafe has a Facebook page (facebook.com/SonicCafeRadio) where complete show notes and playlists are presented for each episode. Listeners can also reach the show producers via email (SonicCafeRadio@gmail.com)