One Vortex Beyond

Friday, January 20, 2012

Modern and Underground Classic Synth Pop Tonight

Tune in for a dose of new and a dose of classic Synth Pop, bringing you back and forward at the same time.

7-9pm www.kmhd2.org

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Happy New Year!

Some cool new synth music is being released this year, music that I am sure will be in my top 10 for 2012. OMD, Depeche Mode, & Daybehavior.

This week I wanted to give a shoot out to the finest synth pop records of 2011.

Tune in on Friday January 6th to hear some tunes from the following:

1. VNV Nation -AUTOMATIC
2. Mirrors -Lights and Offerings
3. Duran Duran - All You Need is Now
4. Erasure - Tomorrow's World
5. Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer
6. The Cars - Move Like This
7. Vanbot - Vanbot
8. Distain! - Monokultur
9. The Sound of Arrows - Wonders
10. The Echoing Green - In Scarlet and Vile

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Holiday Special Synth Pop Interview: The Echoing Green

This Friday night the 23rd please join us for a very special Holiday Rendition of One Vortex Beyond. TEG has been a staple on the show since it aired in Santa Clara CA on KSCU.

The last time Joey called into the show was my last broadcast at KSCU with Shiny Toy Guns and Nukleon back in 2006. Very cool to be able to catch up after rebroadcasting the program this year, way cool way to kick off the 2nd one at KMHD2!

Some staples include: Heart with a View, Defend Your Joy, the heart warming cover of Depeche Mode's Here is The House, my personal favorite "Beautiful", as well as the OVB call-in-line faves "The Story of Our Lives" and "Fall Awake"

Joey B. of The Echoing Green will be on the air sharing some of the latest material from "In Scarlet and Vile" (Special Edition), some classic material, and the latest haps with the band.

As always, if you have any questions for the artist... please send me a message and I will try to work them in.

The show takes place Friday 7-9pm on www.kmhd2.org

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year,

DJ Kenny

Friday, December 16, 2011

A's, B's, and C's or Synth Rock Blocks Tonight 7-9pm

7-9pm synth rock blocks a's, b's and c's. assemblage 23, beborn beton, cosmicity and more. www.kmhd2.org to live stream

ABOUT DJ KENNY

DJ Kenny has been a Major player in Pushing Synth Pop Music since he was born. Well, in High School he was the dude always going to concerts (different new wave and industrial act almost everyday on his chest as well as about 40 Depeche Mode shirts), buying import 12 inch singles in SF, and making mix tapes (yes, Cassettes) for his friends.

During the 90's Kenny was concerned with the Post Nirvana crash of guitar rock era infused alternative radio. He felt it was his duty to expose the radio listeners to alternative synth pop, from the early days as well as the modern interpretation of the genre that has been all but ignored by radio trying to find "the next big thing".

DJ Kenny noticed the disservice these alternative stations were doing by not exposing melancholic intelligent synth based music still being produced by artists that had more exposure in the 80's such as Pet Shop Boys, Human League and Erasure, as well as the new breed from the likes of Mesh and VNV Nation.

For 6 years he hosted One Vortex Beyond on KSCU 103.3 FM "The Underground Sound" in Santa Clara CA to a cult following of hungry music lovers.

DJ Kenny also ventured into famous bay area clubs to spin his recipe of underground synth such as The Blank Club for Atomic and Satori, New Wave City in San Francisco, and many others.

The final show at the university station commenced with a farewell KSCU program including interviews with band he had exposed to the synth lovin world before they hit it big...such as Nukleon, The Echoing Green, and Shiny Toy Guns.

This was the final show for one station to feature One Vortex Beyond, but the legacy continues on a new station, every Friday night from 7-9pm on www.kmhd2.org and 107.1fm in Portland, OR.

...stay tuned.