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old kezx music
- Thread starter rmx77
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Interesting.
That's not music I would have associated with KEZX. KNUA, maybe, but I'm not even sure about that.
Sounds like surface noise on a couple of those cuts... or what you can make out through the noise. I wasn't aware that the station played records after they dropped their background music format.
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KBBX / KEZX was one of Bill Yeend's early gigs in Seattle. As I recall, he was the PD who moved the station from live-jocked (if you could call it that) 98% instrumental music to being completely automated. From that point, progressively more emphasis was placed on the main audio channel. Prior to that, it was pretty much all about the SCA.
The early station was pretty simple... two Gates tables, a Gates stereo Yard console and two or three cart decks. It fit into one of the hotel's guest rooms fairly easily. The room was set up so that firing off a cart deck would mute the SCA subcarrier, dropping out the background music accounts during commercial breaks. they returned with an "oceans of beautiful music" liner, during which the announcer would unmute the SCA and start another set of music. It was fairly uncomplicated.
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That's not music I would have associated with KEZX. KNUA, maybe, but I'm not even sure about that.
Sounds like surface noise on a couple of those cuts... or what you can make out through the noise. I wasn't aware that the station played records after they dropped their background music format.
<ramblings of an old man alert>
KBBX / KEZX was one of Bill Yeend's early gigs in Seattle. As I recall, he was the PD who moved the station from live-jocked (if you could call it that) 98% instrumental music to being completely automated. From that point, progressively more emphasis was placed on the main audio channel. Prior to that, it was pretty much all about the SCA.
The early station was pretty simple... two Gates tables, a Gates stereo Yard console and two or three cart decks. It fit into one of the hotel's guest rooms fairly easily. The room was set up so that firing off a cart deck would mute the SCA subcarrier, dropping out the background music accounts during commercial breaks. they returned with an "oceans of beautiful music" liner, during which the announcer would unmute the SCA and start another set of music. It was fairly uncomplicated.
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Grounded Grid said:
KEZX did air a lot of "new age" instrumental music in the mid '80s (before KNUA tried to make a full blown commercial format out of it.) Until then, I think they ran something called Musical Starstreams on weekends. In fact, The KEZX Album Project covers (both editions) looked a LOT like Windham Hill album covers (and the content inside was fairly similar - but more vocal tracks than Windham Hill's output - as well.....)
When KEZX went AAA (and how they pulled it off for nearly 10 years without Roy Park knowing is still one of Seattle radio's most amazing legends), there were more instrumentals originally. But not so much the Ray Conniff/101 Strings variety than acoustic guitars and piano tracks. But little by little more soft rock vocals began to be added and the instrumentals began to disappear......
Hey RMX - I knew a lot of the contemp. instrumental music from back then, but these tracks don't sound like any that got into rotation on KKSF or other such stations. Might have been a speciality show you caught on tape. The fourth cut could be a David Arkenstone or William Aura number, or any of a number of similar quasi-electronic new age efforts that the label Higher Octave released.
As for the first cut, there were more self-released solo piano CDs released than you could shake a metronome at. Few got on the air, or were of the caliber of a George Winston (Windham Hill) or Ryuichi Sakamoto (Virgin Records etc).
There was a lot of decent material released in the 1990s in this genre, but I'm afraid these examples were pretty much album cuts that don't stand out as more than occasional album cuts for the late night hours.
If you can find any sampler CDs from labels such as Higher Octave, Windham Hill, Global Pacific, Worldly-Triloka, or Hearts of Space still floating around out there (RIP Tower Records), you'll find a lot of the better material that you probably would have heard from time to time on the air.
As for the first cut, there were more self-released solo piano CDs released than you could shake a metronome at. Few got on the air, or were of the caliber of a George Winston (Windham Hill) or Ryuichi Sakamoto (Virgin Records etc).
There was a lot of decent material released in the 1990s in this genre, but I'm afraid these examples were pretty much album cuts that don't stand out as more than occasional album cuts for the late night hours.
If you can find any sampler CDs from labels such as Higher Octave, Windham Hill, Global Pacific, Worldly-Triloka, or Hearts of Space still floating around out there (RIP Tower Records), you'll find a lot of the better material that you probably would have heard from time to time on the air.
The KEZX Album Projects are still fairly easy to find (they sold pretty good for a local music compilation back then, although the music hasn't aged particularly well.) Your better Puget Sound area Goodwill stores are an excellent source and most copies I've run into are in excellent condition and can be picked up for $2 or less.....
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rmx77 said:
Using Shazam, I was able to figure out two of the songs.
Track 1 - Wall Matthews' "The Stolen Child" from the album "Riding Horses"
Track 2 - ?
Track 3 - ?
Track 4 - Tangerine Dream's "Green Desert" from the album "Green Desert"
Hope that helps a bit.
yes that does work. also i did end up finding my butchered copy of the song i am trying to find a better copy of. the reason i want a better copy is cause of the slight bit of fm static and the fact that the song was recorded on 2 sides of a tape since one side ended and then the song had continued on the other side of the tape with some of the song missing. i will get an upload of the song soon. who i thought the song was done by was michael garrison but i couldn't totally make out what order it was in as to which song name and artist went with which since they never said a number to each song or that they would only say the songs they played after they played a long set. the only songs i would know exactly who did them was if it was going to be the next song played after a set of commercials. the song is really strange since it has something that repeats itself through the whole song and it hardly ever changes. i will get that up tonight and then let u all decide what it is
here is the final song and the main song i have been trying to find a better copy of https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31273181/11 kezx 5th song.mp3
that is one hard song to find. hope to find a better copy
that is one hard song to find. hope to find a better copy
You can always try Gemm.com ..... it's a database of records for sale from collectors all over the world. Hard-to-find good condition tend to be pricey, but you can also do a lot of cleanup with good audio tools (even Adobe Audition does a good job of restoring vinyl).
LITTLEBOYBLUE said:
well this was taken from a cassette that was recorded from the radio and at the time i had to piece it back together since the song is missing a few seconds to a minute or so since the tape ended on one side and then continued on the other side and u can tell exactly where the pieces come together easily since i had used a single side play and record cassette deck and just paused the recording side and when i restarted the play side after the one side ended i started the recording again and then u knew where the tape flip and record started again
If you don't know the song, use Shazam to find it.
If you already know it (or after the Shazam step) you go to GEMM.COM and find a NEW copy of the music you want.
If you already know it (or after the Shazam step) you go to GEMM.COM and find a NEW copy of the music you want.
LITTLEBOYBLUE said:
i had an ipod touch a while back and used shazam as my music finding program and it would find some stuff but other things it would say it was something totally different then what was being played. i did find a site called midomi and it works in the same way as shazam but even that site doesnt know the song at all. it seems like its one of those songs that are super hard to even find. i hope someone might know the song or could find some way to find out what the even is.
Bongwater said:
most of what was played on musical starstreams at the time were from recording lables such as sona gaia and narada even Umvd Labels which art of noise was on. some or most of the recordings my parents took from musical starstreams was done in 1986 and 1987 so some stuff is super hard to find. i do remember at the time you could send for a transcript of the show so that way u could find out what songs they played but i dont think there are any archived transcripts from the 86 and 87 years :-[ i wish thre was
Narada is affiliated with Universal (initially it was RCA that distributed them as an also-ran against A&Ms Windham Hill before hooking up with Capitol, I still have a free 7" Narada sampler I picked up in '86 somewhere.) In specialty genres and sub-labels, the majors only press limited runs and I don't think anything on Narada ever had a second printing, whereas Windham Hill had probably two runs of their best sellers.
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