TERMINAL TRANSMISSION #44: KIDS LOVE IT!

 TERMINAL TRANSMISSION #44: 

KIDS LOVE IT!

by Chris La Vigna (@Chris_LaVigna)

TERMINAL TRANSMISSION: It's what the hip kids are boppin' too!

Today's broadcast of TERMINAL TRANSMISSION, the first one of March 2021, was... well, it was a bit of shitshow, if I'm being completely honest. The wifi kept going out in my apartment, most likely due to the crazy severe winds we've got going on in New York right now, and unfortunately I wasn't able to hold for a full hour. Early on into the show, I cut out and I spent a solid chunk of my time off the air feeling off kilter, rambling about how I was losing time and probably going to have to cut songs. 

I've grown accustomed to having a lively and active rapport with some regular listeners/fellow Kpiss DJs in the chat, and being cut off from them made me lose my groove. I suppose if this experience taught me anything, it's that I need to be more ready to riff off-the-cuff in case of technical difficulties like that. The four or five minutes where I just ramble before diving into that Andrew W.K. song must be interminable. But hey, once things got back up and running, the show resumed with its usual hijinks, and I only ended up having to cut one song from my playlist.

My "Bandcamp Pick Of The Week" was the latest joint from  Old City, "Jump Off." I'm obviously a big fan of the group, but I found myself vibing really hard with this new track in particular. It's got an "East Meets West" vibe that works on multiple levels: East coast rap over West coast punk samples, plus Eastern action cinema samples mixed with Western music genres. It's some seriously great stuff, I'm so pumped to eventually hear their full debut album. If you're sleeping on Old City, you better fix that ASAP, because you are missing out, my friend.


I mean, just look at this art for the single. How dope is this?!


If you missed today's show when it was airing live, that's okay, you can go ahead and stream the recording via the Kpiss website. You can also catch up on past shows here. Man, this is gonna be a weird month, I can feel it. Let's just do our best to hold on tight and get to it together, yeah?



TT #44 TRACKLIST:

Seatbelts - Tank! (Cowboy Bebop Opening Theme)
The Ramones - Chinese Rocks
Sick Of It All - Step Down
Old City - Jump Off
GZA - Liquid Swords
Andrew W.K. - Babalon
Quint - Meat Machine
Robert Rodriguez - Grindhouse (Main Titles)
April March - Chick Habit
Exhumed - Rot Your Brain
Gruesome - Led Into The Dark
Iggy Pop - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Iggy Pop - Break Into Your Heart



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