Wednesday, February 4, 2009

WHAT'S IN ROTATION AT WTBU?

Every week, the WTBU Music Directors add 5-10 new albums to WTBU's rotation library. These are mostly local, underground, and/or independently released records. (Very few of these adds are from major labels or maintain a sound with mainstream potential, though there are some exceptions.) We also add many self-released albums and occasionally reissues. Usually, after three months, albums are moved from the rotation library to the back library.

At WTBU, we have two types of shows: rotation shows (which are required to play 4 songs per hour from the rotation library) and specialty shows (such as world, hip-hop, and RPM, which are not required to play from the rotation, as the rotation is mostly comprised of various interpretations/formations of "rock" and "pop" sounds.)

Left of the Dial is special in that we play almost entirely from the rotation library, ensuring 2 full hours of almost all new, independent or self-released, local, underground, and/or otherwise incredible music.

Here are some examples of what was in rotation during the SPRING2010 semester:


VARIOUS ARTISTS Whitehaus Family Record Family Record Whitehaus Family Record

MANNERS Look Into Look Unto Whitehaus Family Record

DOOMSTAR! Rainbow Bloodsucker Self-released

BIG BIG BUCKS Crucial Schmooze Self-Released

QUILT March Appropriation

HARLEM Hippies Matador

AWESOME COLOR Massa Hypnos Ecstatic Peace

SHELLSHAG Rumors In Disguise Don Giovanni

LAURA MARLING I Speak Because I Can Astralwerks


VARIOUS ARTISTS MtyMx: A Pitchfork Mix For DIY Mexico (Compilation)

VARIOUS ARTIST Don Giovanni Records Sampler (Don Giovanni)

WILD ASSUMPTIONS Wild Assumptions (Self release)

EVELYN EVELYN Evelyn Evelyn (Eleven)

JOSIAH WOLF Jet Lag (Anticon)

SLOW CLUB Yeah, So (MOSHI MOSHI)

BLUNT MECHANIC World Record Barsuk

TORO Y MOI Causers Of This Carpark

GIGI Maintenant Tomlab

GIRLFRIENDS Girlfriends Self-Released

FUCKED UP Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009 Matador

LOS CAMPESINOS! Romance Is Boring Arts And Crafts

COMPILATION Mozart Park All-Stars Breakfast Of Champs

EELS End Times Vagrant

SPOON Transference Merge

Quilt - s/t (self-release)

Golden Girls - Amateur Teen Sex Attics (self-release)

Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

Magnetic Fields - Realism

Various Artists - The Underwater Peoples Winter Review (Underwater Peoples)

Kal Marks - Recovering After the Storm (self-release)

Various Artists - Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 (Matador)

NANA GRIZOL Ruth (Orange Twin)

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Heavy Days

BEACH HOUSE Teen Dream SUB POP

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Campfire Songs Pawtracks

Yawn - Yawn EP (self-release)