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Several Mix-Shows for breaking in and testing equipment: Wednesday Nights/Thursday Mornings, Midnight - 2:00 A.M.
In Southern New England, Tune In To 90.7 FM WTCC
Keep in mind, while listening to the mastery and artistry of the 2-hour-long mix-shows:
- No pre-production work of any kind: All mixing done LIVE On-air
- No practicing the mixes beforehand: All music choices and mixes accomplished through memory of beats-per-minute and composition/structure
of each song
- Some old/aged equipment, and some new equipment never practiced on or used before (Some issues: turntables' skating tonearms,
stubborn/runaway CD-players, online-streaming glitches,...)
- Performed at Midnight!
And, still, my characteristic infallible superior academic prowess, mastery, artistry, and taste.
October 1, 2026 (Begins about 12:04)
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September 24, 2026 (Begins about 12:01)
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September 17, 2026 (Begins about 12:05)
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September 3, 2026 (Begins about 12:04:35)
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August 27, 2026 (Begins about 12:06)
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August 20, 2026 (Begins about 12:06)
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August 13, 2026 (Begins about 12:05)
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August 6, 2026 (Begins about 12:03)
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[Notes added October 5, 2026]
General information on the process of constructing The World's Most Sophisticated Radio Show
First: To answer the many questions received through e-mail: Because the presentations are performed at Midnight, it is a bit difficult to present my full format,
as was done years ago. Efforts are being exercised to acquire my Prime-Time timeslot once again, at which time I can unveil my strict format stylings
of my earlier presentations. Please be patient during this process of testing equipment, performing an archeological expedition of the THOUSANDS of
masterpieces in my repository, and working toward fulfilling my mission - "Education Through Entertainment."
Second: one must recognize and understand the magnanimity of what is being done through my presentations: NO-ONE in the entire world, during the DISCO Era
or since has even attempted to accomplish such a task; that is, two-hour-long mixing live on the air of a 4,000-watt radio station without ANY
preproduction work of any kind, as a matter of fact without ANY practicing of the mixes on multiple turntables with a mixer-board!
One's listening to recordings of radio shows and mixes on airchexx.com, soundcloud, mixcloud, youtube, etc. from the 1970s through today will verify that
not only are the mixes completely preproduced, with, maybe, an occasional overdub, but most are simple, straight mixes, from one song to another.
Third: there is not one song during the entire 2 hours of The World's Most Sophisticated Radio Show that is not remixed in some way.
Unfortunate it is that I was not in the
industry during the DISCO Era to have access to the original tracks of History's Most Beautiful Melodies and Elaborate Orchestrations to perform my own mixes
on these masterpieces. My remixes are for the purpose of enhancing the beauty and magnificence of the original compositions, NOT - as do most online
ego-driven creatures - desecrating and destroying the magnificence of the original compositions. Over 80% of the time, it is directly
because the so-called Disco Mixer ended a song too soon, that is the verses, maybe
only two, and bridges are completed within the first 2 or 3 minutes, and the rest of the song is what I call "orchestral filler." Many people inquire
on what "mix" or "version" I am playing on a certain song, because they do not have it and cannot find it. It is because I might bring a song into
a mix by the middle-break, allow some of the orchestral build to occur, which enables me to bring in the instrumental introduction, and then allow
the first verse to occur, and then, on the bridge after the first verse, mix in the bridge AFTER the second verse, whereby I can mix in the concluding
"orchestral filler," and allow that
for a while, as we anticipate the arrival of the second verse and bridge complex. The shame of it all is that THIS IS WHAT A DISCO MIX SHOULD BE,
in the first
place, AND WITH THE ORIGINAL TRACKS. And, how about this: Have a third verse and instrumental interlude of the verse, bridge, and refrain.
And how about this, too: END THE SONG WITH THE "HOOK," THAT IS THE REFRAIN!
I cannot define how many times during the course of a presentation I am forced
to construct MY OWN ENDING OF A SONG, because the "mixer" didn't have the mental acuity to fulfill this basic principle. That is, I remix the ending
to bring in
the "hook" of the song again, making it the anticipated conclusion, during which I mix in the next song, wherein the previous song exits the mix with the
"hook" on the mind of the listener.
A crying shame it is, and a loudspeaker on the value, intellect, and creativity of the Disco Mixer in his/her ability in taking, sometimes, 64 - at least - tracks
of orchestral and vocal elements and mixing them into a cohesive composition that, with multiple breaks and builds, excites fully the listener and dancer onto
a higher plane of existence.
This is one of the many reasons for, before and now, the existence and purpose of The World's Most Sophisticated Radio Show.
The other, near-20% of the mixes involve my unique "disappearing-vocals" mixes, double-beat "echo" mixes, phasing, and others.
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[Notes added September 17, 2026]
Another masterpiece of a presentation comprising individual masterpieces of melody, orchestral arrangements and productions, and recording and engineering to
illustrate the absolute zenith of this "civilization."
One in particular - and only one of the many - is Earth, Wind & Fire's Boogie Wonderland. All crossover groups, of course,
couldn't accomplish Disco to save their lives, and, so, required masterful producers, arrangers, and orchestra conductors to take charge of the entire project
in order to elevate the bands' mediocre status to their artistic pinnacle achievement. Another incomparable production master, arranger, and
orchestra conductor - Benjamin Wright, commanding the 100-piece Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, with Janice Gower, concertmaster
(See the gargantuan orchestra here) - took charge of the
monumental feat of elevating this mediocre "jazz-funk" band to the one monumental moment in
its entire history that exclaims its insurmountable height of artistic achievement. One must listen to Boogie Wonderland hundreds of times in order to
decipher the uncountable orchestral elements woven with excitement and yet elegance into this philharmonic fabric, and, on the bridge, culminating
with the wild tenuto and pizzicato treatments of 50+ violins, 20+ violas, and over a dozen cellos, with blasting brass, wailing French horns, and an Earth-shattering slam
of the high-hat on the drum-rolls.... A testament to what humanity can accomplish when tapping into the highest-frequency energies of one's internal divinity.
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[Notes added September 3, 2026]
In listening to the Miracle-Wonders of greatest melodic, arrangement, orchestral, and production masterpieces in all of music history,
via the artistic and intellectual superiority of The World's Most Sophisticated Radio Show, one will immediately realize and understand that
the revolution known as Disco was derived of a higher plane not of this realm. It was the last bastion of class and sophistication, with many
of the orchestra members direct from the big bands and orchestras of the 1930s and '40s, whose names one might recognize in reviewing the links
of the major orchestras of the world, listed below, with a whole new generation of producers, arrangers, orchestra conductors, and concertmasters
in their 20s and 30s, no less! It is as if the army comprising thousands of orchestra conductors, concertmasters, and players, and the thousands
of sound, recording, and mixing engineers, and Disco consultants knew that this would be history's - this entire civilization's - Last Hoorah.
At the end of 1979, ALL the major record companies dissolved their Disco departments; and, as a result, disintegrated as if never happened was
the luxurious extravagance of symphony-orchestra sound; destroyed forever was the talent in creating the most beautiful and harmonious melodies,
as an extension of the harmony of Nature; disappeared immediately and forever was the deep real Disco drums replicating the human heartbeat that
cannot - no matter how hard one tries - be replicated today; and eliminated forever not only the immensity and complexity of the magniloquent
orchestral arrangements but also the intricate and irreplicable methods of playing the various instruments themselves: bass, violins, violas, cellos,
trombones, French horns, trumpets, rhythm guitars, orchestra drums, all concurrent with the destruction forever of the palatial paradises known
as the discotheque, where fantasy became reality, and reality dissolved into fantasy. The reason why we find ourselves listening to the insurmountable
beauty of these songs hundreds of times is not only because one song is so complex in its structure and composition that it is actually a dozen songs
in one, but also because there are so many tracks of instruments woven into this elegant fabric that, at one time we find ourselves paying attention
to the masterful bass-playing; another time we are following the screaming-in-ecstasy of the violins; another time it's the liquid voice of the primary
vocalist, and then the harmonies of the background vocalists that demand attention; another time we notice how the dialogue between the horns and strings
actually replicates humans in conversation; and then the countless times we are caught completely off-guard by hearing something for the very first time,
for example how a rhythm guitar is scratching in the left channel while an acoustic guitar is playing a counter-melody in the right channel, all the
while hearing, through such ornamental orchestration, the snap of the snare-drum, reverberation of the deep bass-drum, and the echo of the handclaps!
And, then, out of nowhere, "I just heard what the cellos are doing during the bridge," one might exclaim. It's as if, each time we hear a song,
it's the first time we're hearing it... UNIQUE TO THIS MONUMENTAL ARTFORM.
Just one example: This morning's Les McCann's Just the Way You Are, a mediocre old tune elevated to embody the pinnacle of
superhuman accomplishment, begins as a composition of delicate vocals, bass-playing, drumming, and orchestration from introduction into the first verse;
transformed is the second verse with flaming bass-playing, orchestration, and drumming, with an adjustment, even, of the skin of the snare-drum to
effectuate a plosive percussive on the downbeat; and, by the third verse, after an elegant orchestral interlude highlighting the multifarious
arrangements, with the incomparable Paul Riser as not only the producer and arranger, but also the conductor of the 100-piece Los Angeles Symphony
Orchestra - with Harry Bluestone, concermaster - the production crescendos into an orchestral inferno, with Les's impassioned vocals his supreme
career-best, that only one with no soul could not be in tears and wearing goosebumps. And, yet again, my perfect mix and choice of previous
song - Martinez/Hernandez's If There's Love - to introduce this masterpiece could not have honored better both these representations of the
absolute artistic apex of this former-civilization. My choosing to conclude this half-hour mix at the bottom of the hour is because
nothing could follow.
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[Notes added August 30, 2026]
In the face of the most BEAUTIFUL melodies and vocals,
most EXTRAVAGANT arrangements and productions, and most MONUMENTAL orchestrations and productions in ALL of Music History,
one will notice IMMEDIATELY the complete decomposition of this "civilization" since 1979!
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One will also hear very clearly that today's "orchestras" cannot hold a candle to the monstrous Disco Orchestras of 1974 - 1979,
whose players of violins, violas, cellos, trumpets, trombones, French horns, tubas, and harps accomplished feats to which today's orchestra players
could only wish to aspire. Although many names of the numerous players are yet to be added, the incomplete lists illustrate the luxury
of the melodic, orchestral, and production masterpieces of which they were a part. And this does not even take into consideration the thousands of
studio and individual rhythm players, recording engineers, mixing engineers, and Disco consultants, which were respective to the producers and
arrangers of the individual productions:
New York
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Detroit
Miami
Chicago
Nashville
San Francisco
Atlanta
Memphis
Toronto
Montreal
Quebec
London
Paris
Munich
Berlin
Milano.
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