The Action. It shall be Sweetened.

My dear fellow freaks, much has changed since I last graced you with a heavy dollop of ear sex. I have landed men on the moon, discovered beer flavored ice cream and gotten lost in New York’s Own Chinatown. Graduated College and been banned from ever returning. Almost lost the show twice. Created mind blowing playlists and created playlists while my mind was blown. I have had consensual relations with the blogosphere, and suddenly remembered that I was a tiny part of it, so technically, I was masturbating, BUT IT HAD BEEN SO LONG IT FELT LIKE A STRANGER.

As I, Jerry Danger (aka Sandino Favero) made the rounds across this fine country, getting stoned in photo booths at Coney Island, falling drunk into a flooded lake St. Louis following a visitation of holy magnitude through a Tom Waits Concert, those most faithful of listeners have become better aquainted with Sweet Action’s Own Enrique Chavez.

A pot bellied Brazillian with a brain like a dolphin, Enrique Chavez (aka Punchie Boligero) has been promoted from the occaisional guest DJ (and omnipresent guest) to bona-fide Co-Host. Thats right. Chavez has a preternatural tendency to arrange music on the fly in such a manner that it has been known to cause ass seizures. He holds no loyalty to any genre or barometer of taste, simply a mad genius of noise set loose on the soundboard. And your ear holes are straight in his sights. Anyone seeking any sort of legal retribution on obscenity charges, feel free to contact him on his cell phone: 618-922-7292. If you are seeking proof, please give his most recent playlist a listen:

It’s a phenomenon motherfucker.

No seriously, this shit is fucking legendary like the hidden temple.

Bear witness to the impromptu inebriated sonic sceance known only as Sweet Action.

 

Playlist to follow in the comments section.

 

Love,

J. Danger

aka

Sandino Favero

aka

DJ 2 many pills

So, thursday night right…

I’m just chilling out, thinking about what I should get together for the show right-

and then I realize

OH SNAP

My cousin Alex is totally ready to swing that

AND SWING IT HE DID CHECK IT OUT CHECK IT OUT

this is what we did the other night

Oh man I am still recovering

came in to the studio with nothing prepared or thought out and only the ipod in hand and let the cards fall where they got dropped and damn

they got dropped like hot potatoes kidss and kiddoes

ALLOVERTHE DAMN PLACE

It was a bit chaotic and  all kinds of music was brought in and I was happy- and despite being completley off the cuff some tight mixes occurred, record scratching was taught and experiments and rabbits were pulled from hats.

Lucas also pulled something from his pants if I remember right-

I certainly don’t clearly, listening to the show is a bit like being guy pearce looking in a mirror in memento

YOU CLICK YOUR LITTLE CLICKER HERE THIS IS THE SPOT WHERE YOU DO THAT YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT

The clips as usual starts out with some rap for jesus, and then I talk about politics for ten minutes or so-

then we get to dancing with a few tracks dug up from a mix put together by Simian Mobile DIsco that is tight as hell-

Sebastian-Ross Ross Ross

Justice- The Fallen

Zongamin- bongo song

mystery jets- crosswords

the gossip- standing in the way of control (soulwax nite version)

Dig the swing into Golden Years by David Bowie, and the accidental bump of the record player that worked out on beat…)

Cut off a bit soon into

getting down by the kills

into vagina mine by puscifer

into some NIN on vynyl

at this point I start messing with a culture club record

Into Of Montreal where the scratching continues

Some Man Man

and then the Classic Soul Glow from Coming to America

and then we play a random record we found in the back where everyone had serious jerry curls

back into NIN

Into Fuck Buttons- Bright Tomorrow

We Keep playing with the records, I let andrew try some scratching in there at some point

Pitch bending

A John Cassavetes Clip- “I don’t wanna see something different”

I try to blow your speakers

Nick Cave- Red Right Hand, Me and Drew fading in noise

Some song with a german name that makes me terminlly joyful

Release the Bats by the Birthday Party god that kicks ass

Vampire Weekend covering exit music into radiohead’s own version

James expresses his love into the microphone

PIxies- Bone Machine (probably the weirdest accidental dedication ever)

Fear- I love living in the city (oops)

A special announcement that will never be heard-

Grant to Carbondale-

Gogol Bordello- Madagascar

I play a song lengthy track off the drone masterpiece Altar by (((sun and boris while I have a smoke and talk some shit

Scotty and Wes are invited to talk into the microphone-

about fruit snacks

swing back to the track we got cued up:

flying burrito brothers- Devil In disguise

Bobby Bare- Don’t think Twice

Alan Vega- Jukebox Baby

Some Ryan Adams grant played

Elton Morello- Jet Boy Jet Girl

Polecats covering Bowie- John I’m only Dancing

Electronicat- wop do wop

Talking while the music plays-

international noise conspiracy

the enddddddd

SOME of my SHOW

So I was back in the station for the first time long time

but we only got like half the show here to hear.

Its alright though at least its something-

and really who has a full two hours to listen these days anyways?

Besides, I have planted entertaining and edifying links throughout the blog, so you will get your moneys worth.

Oh and speaking of money’s worth, the membership drive is coming up and I need to get some donations or they will probably kick me off. Not for a couple weeks though, so no worries.

LOVE. (here is the show kiddoes)

(HIP HOP FOR JESUS FOR LIKE THE FIRST FIVE OF THE FILE, WATCH OUT YOU MAY LOSE THE ABILITY TO SENSE IRONY)

BURAKA SOM SISTEMA feat. M.I.A. - SOUNDS OF KUDURO <— CHECK THE VIDEO

The Death Set remixed by Bonde Do Role- Distressed

Does It Offend You, Yeah? feat Spank Rock and Amanda Blank (<-may offend you, yeah..)- We are Rockstars

(By the By, both Does it offend and Spank Rock Will be at Lollapalooza this year)

Daft Punk- Too Long/Steam Machine <–Short Video of the impressive pyramid set from last year

MGMT- Time To Pretend

Regina Spektor- Carbon Monoxide

(I met her @ a record store in st.louis and oh my god she is as lovely as she sounds)

The National- Fake Empire

Vampire Weekend covering Radiohead’s Exit Music (for a film) from the Stereogum Presents Series

The Dirty Projectors -No More (from their reinterpretation of the Black Flag punk milestone Damaged)

The Acorn – Flood Pt. 1 (oh my goodness neat vid)

Animal Collective- Winter Love

(The clip is from the climactic scene of the film Shortbus, it may shock you a touch)

The Dodos- Fools

Dr. Dog covering Heart It Races by Architecture In Helsinki

Colour Revolt- Naked and Red

J. Mascis and the Fog- Freedom

(One time I played this song for Matt Copeland of The Moonbuggy Kids and he threw up because “it was too awesome”. We were hammered.)

GUEST DJ BREAK

Man they played some good stuff didn’t they?

Grant played:

Ultimate by Gogol Bordello

and Allison played:

Bron-Yr-Aur by Led Zepplin

what a beaut!

Then we talk smack about Mark Ronson for a sec before the show gets cut off

you have to watch this though

Other things I played for those of you that were actually listening and wondering:

It was time to rokk, and so we did:

Gris Gris- Ecks Em Eye

Black Lips- Step Right Up

Thee Oh Sees- Visit Colonel

The Blakes- Two TImes

King Khan & The Shrines- Annabell

Velvet Underground (live at the Gymnasium)- Run Run Run

The Kills- M.E.X.I.C.O.C.U.

Pissed Jeans- Fantasy World

Evangelista- Truth is Dark Like Outer Space

Fuck Buttons- Sweet Love for Planet Earth

thats all for now…

PEACE AND CARROTS

OH NOES ITS THE GUEST DJ SHOW

I haven’t listened to it all yet, because my computer is being buggy-

but I recall some Swordfish Trombones Mashed up with GZA (the genius, the voltron head of the Wu)

and I WOULD DIE 4 U by Prince, the song that truly buried morris day and the time in the seminal classic PURPLE RAIN.

Good job Guys.

SHOWTIME!

At long last, last weeks show.

Well, the guest DJs did not show, so the show could no longer be entitled “NOT MY FAULT.”

Due to things not going quite as planned, it was not as smooth of a show as I would have liked, but no matter.

This coming Friday, oh my. My younger brother will be making up for lost time, playing some bands that he has introduced me too, or that we both have encountered simultaneously.

So without any further ado,

HERE IS LAST WEEK’S SHOW

as usual, we start out with cedric’s rap for jesus- not exactly my style.

The show then starts out Biblical, because we all have the language ingrained  in us and its a fun game to play with Cedric’s listeners-

We start out with a tiny taste of Gene Moore, the organist behind the surreal score for Carnival Of Souls.

David Axelrod (the musician/producer, not Obama’s right hand man) keeps the beat religious with The Warnings.

Justice drops some Cecil B. Demille’s Ten Commanments stlye on Genesis Pt. 1

then

Justice remixing Franz Ferdinand being remixed by Simian Mobile Disco breaks us out of the sanctimonious vibe with a finality incomparable.

Dan the Automator (famed producer the Gorillaz debut and Lovage) mixing up some classic Bollywood tracks in Ganges a Go Go

Hot Chip- Shake a Fist (we get stupid in the studio)

Handsome Furs (Members of Wolf Parade/Frog Eyes)- Handsome Furs Hate this City

I talk for a bit, and actually I am being pretty ridiculous here because Sam is putting music to my film and I am just being coy.

Sam West- Electric Chair

Then I blather on while I try to cue things up- scorpions do not commit suicide.

Bonnie Prince Billie covering Bjork’s “I’ve seen it all” frol the Lars Von Trier film Dancer in the Dark

Gutter Twins (Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli)- Idle Hands

Fuck Buttons- Sweet love for Planet Earth (I am in love with this band right now)

Some NEW TV on the Radio- the B side for Providence

Cut Copy- Going Nowhere

The Acorn- The Flood Pt. I  (Touches of late Talking Heads, an immigrant story passed down from the singers mother translated to poetry and music)

Crass- Do they Owe Us a Living?

Jeffery Lewis covering Do They Owe Us a Living? by Crass (my antifolk hero)

Crass explanations, Lies.

Best Fwends- Aaaaw-some

Mahjongg- Those Birds Are Bats

The Saints- Stranded

The Backbeat Band- Twist and Shout

Daft Punk- Steam Machine/Too Long (live at Cochella 2006)

Architecture in Helsinki- Do the Whirlwind

The Cure- Close To Me (Long Version)

Raveonettes- Dead Sound

Magnetic Fields- Please Stop Dancing

Sleater-Kinney – All Hands on the Bad One

Why?- Hollows

Audio Clip- From Carnival of Souls

Evangelista- Truth is Dark like outer space

Swans- Sex God Sex

Goodbyes- Dave X Drops some 8 bit hottness

SPECIAL GUEST DJS

Could also be titled “IT WILL NOT BE MY FAULT”

I think that my brother has come up with a playlist for the Sweet Action Radio Hour! I gave him a certificate for Christmas that entitled him to be a guest of honor on the show. I did this partially because I was hard broke, but also because I figured everyone would like to be able what is played on the radio at some point or another, and he has been the one to turn me on to more than one cool band-

Also I think my friend Scotty is bringing some vinyl to spin later in the night too.

Svelte Sweet Action Sounds Signal Springtime

So it was a departure of sorts for the Sweet Action Radio Hour, but as we turn our face to the warmth of the impending springtime, contemplate our moving on as the grass greens and the rain falls I felt like doing something reflective; tender at least compared to the avant garage electro punk we typically blare from the WDBX studio in the wee hours.

But just like Jesus rolls rocks away we rock roll away the undefined time betwixt and between Friday night’s debauchery and Saturday morning’s cartoons same as ever, get a little stupid fresh in the studio and engage in plenty of fabulous fuckups (pardonnez-moi l’francais).

DIG IT CATS AND KITTIES, DIG IT DEEP. 

Here is the playlist, which you may need as a roadmap because my shades of sleep deprived confusion cause a conflict between what is actually playing versus what I say is playing:

CEDRIC’S RAP FOR JESUS

PROMO TIME

Elliot Smith covering Because (possibly the greatest Beatles song- discuss)

Tom Waits- You can Never Hold Back Spring

Radiohead- All I Need (The best love song of 2008 goes to… Radiohead?)

MGMT- The Handshake

Vetiver- Been So Long (I am expecting more from this group, I think they are playing ATP this year)

Magnetic Fields covering Heroes by David Bowie (I play this song every other show ever. I checked.)

Sleep Deprived Pronouncement of love for Gabe Gower.

Akron- Ed is A Portal (the coolest party song about someone being a portal EVER)

Animal Collective- We Tigers

Yelling- Looking for Kimya- Scotty Likes Bananas.

Kimya Dawson- I’d Rather Go With Friends Than Go Alone (I really love this song)

Devendra Banhart- A Sight to Behold

Isobell Campbell and Mark Lanegan- Black Mountain

Andrew Bird- Armchairs

Mountain Goats- San Bernadino

First off… Scotty’s Show Idea…”Beats Wheaties”…aromatherapy… announcing the wrong song.

Cat Power covering I Believe in you by Bob Dylan

More Talk.

Destroyer- Libby’s First Sunrise (looks like we dropped a few f-bombs- keep it secret, keep it safe)

Brightblack- Oppression

Bonnie Prince Billie covering Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead

Iron & Wine and Calexico- Dead Man’s Will

Low covering Back Home Again by John Denver (out to everyone visiting family for easter)

Lisa Germano- Reptile

Tarnation covering Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Denver

Be Good Tanyas- Littlest Birds

Talky talk. Man I talk alot when it gets late. I also announce the wrong songs, but oh well.

Cold War Kids- God, Make up your Mind

Me talking to my Roomate.

Junior Parker covering Tomorrow Never Knows

The Dirty Projectors covering Rise Above by Black Flag

Childballads- They Hunt Us We Run

Goodbyes!

Let’s Get Serious for a moment.

This I feel is one of the few moments of true victory that Democracy has seen in my lifetime.

Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela.
This is the story of the attempted coup and destruction of the peoples government early in this decade. The Military High Command, The Corporate Sector, and our own CIA were involved but the people were able to take their country back.
Some Irish film makers were there when this all went down (to do a story about Chavez’s life) and they ended up capturing the entire story first hand at great personal risk.

This is important for everyone to see.
Please make some time and watch this

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
If you were affected by this, you need to check out The Battle Of Chile.
http://www.frif.com/new98/boc.html

Thanks for watching.

THIS WEEKS SHO FO YO EARHO

SXSW heat-

Ramblings and the type of beats to make yer booty go clap-

You know how we do.

DOWNLOAD THAT DISEASE INTO YOUR EQUIPMENT HERE:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2y1gzv1hbmj

First there is a couple minutes of rap for jesus.

THEN

What my spin did spun:

Blue Scholars-Solstice

Some fresh positive hip hop- this track is all about springtime coming on strong, for me anyways.

Blackalacious- Pen & Pad

Gift of Gab has to be one of the best MCs ever. I will stand by that, even if he does drop the word “hella”.

Oh and dig that outro to:

NOFX-See her pee

Pure Romance. Okay enough Jibba Jabba.

Best Fwends- Myself(Spank Rock Remix)

Shit Disco-OK (Acid Girls Remix)

These New Puritans- Chamber

Hot Chip- Wrestlers

Chromeo-Woman Friend

*talkytalk*

Does it Offend You, Yeah?- Battle Royale

The Kills- No Wow(MSTRKRFT remix)

White Denim- Let’s Get Together

Digitalism- Idealistic (radio version)

MGMT- Weekend Wars

Why?- Close To Me (Cure Cover)

Black Moth Super Rainbow-Sun Lips

talkky tok tok. Hoooo lata tok.

Stealth George Clinton.

Talky talk

Tokyo Sex Destruction- Pills to Wait for Summer

Black Mountain- Stormy High

Peel- In The City

The Kills- Getting Down

Black Lips- Veni Vedi Veci  (Diplo Remix)

Okay I have no idea what this song was originally, but I think it’s built from parts of a song by Franz Ferdinand and one by the Fallen, remixed by Simian Mobile Disco, then that remix was remixed by Justice. DAMN.

THEN MORE TALKIN. AND CONFUSION.

Akron/Family- Phenomena (oh dig it)

Emmy the Great(Works With Lightspeed Champion, the former frontman of now defunct Test Icicles who decided to go folk and sign to Saddle Creek)- Easter Parade

talk.

Handsome Furs  (Members of Wolf Parade/Frog Eyes)- What We Had

Destroyer (Best songwriter in supergroup New Pornographers)- The State

Chocolate Watchband- It’s All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan cover)

Black Angels- Sniper at the Gates of Heaven

Joseph Arthur- Invisible Hands

PJ Harvey- White Chalk

Farewells

Blues Control- Always On Time