Sonic Café, Charles Mingus Big Band there, looking high and low for ahh Devil Woman. So welcome to the café. We’re the radio program that just keeps on bringing it, as we now dive into our next 100 episodes with episode 301. I’m your host Scott Clark and this time the Sonic Café let’s loose with a music mix pulled from 45 years. From the Love This Giant album we’ll bring you David Byrne and St. Vincent. Also David Bowie from 1972, listen for The Jean Genie, also listen for the Electrique Boutique, Cold Play Daryl Hall, Danger Mouse and of course many more. Also comedian Lucas O’Neil drops by to explain why our smart phones make us sad, and last but certainly not least, a huge Sonic Café welcome to our latest sponsor, think your way to success, it’s that new self help program sweeping the nation. It’s cool, because you really don’t anything other than sit around and think about becoming successful. Sounds easy right? All that and more as we dive into the three hundreds with episode 301, from our little coastal radio café on the big blue Pacific, 1997’s Human Clay album, here’s Creed. We’re the Sonic Café.
Song 1: Devil Woman Artist: Charles Mingus Big Band LP: Tonight At Noon: Three Or Four Shades Of Love Yr: 2002 Song 2: Higher Artist: Creed LP: Human Clay Yr: 1997 Song 3: Who Artist: David Byrne & St. Vincent LP: Love This Giant Yr: 2012 Song 4: The Jean Genie Artist: David Bowie LP: Santa Monica Yr. 1972 Song 5: Why Our Phones Make Us Sad Artist: Lucas O'Neil LP: Comedy Central Yr: 2021 Song 6: Revelation [Instrumental] Artist: Electrique Boutique LP: Trance Global Nation, Vol. 2 Yr: 1999 Song 7: Amsterdam Artist: Coldplay LP: A Rush Of Blood To The Head Year: 2002 Song 8: Save Me Artist: Daryl Hall LP: Laughing Down Crying Yr: 2011 Song 9: Black Artist: Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi LP: Rome Yr: 2011 Song 10: Dead Man Runnin' Artist: Aranda LP: Not the Same Yr: 2015 Song 11: Think Your Way To Success Artist: GTA Vice City LP: GTA Vice City Yr: 2002 Song 12: Mean To Me Artist: Crowded House LP: Crowded House Yr: 1986 Song 13: Highway Tune Artist: Greta Van Fleet LP: Black Smoke Rising [EP] Yr: 2017 Song 14: Target Artist: Cordara Orchestra LP: Best of Yr: 1999
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)