Music Notes: Year of the Rabbit

Kim has put up a couple of brand new mixes on C60Crew's Mixcloud site—if you like rock you'll enjoy "Year of the Rabbit," which Kim describes a "genre-traveling, decade-jumping mix centered on guitar guitar guitar, at best songs you haven't heard, at the very least raised into a new context for you." And just as an aside for you guitar freaks, here's Kim's actual Potvin Ranchero Grande. (By "actual" I mean that's his guitar doing the modeling.)

Kim was a legendary D.C. dj on alternative radio back in the long-gone days when giants bestrode the Earth.

The Year of the Rabbit setlist is: Primal Scream, Tokyo Police Club, Eleventh Dream Day, Band of Susans, Kyuss, Vessel, Dir En Gray, Frightened Rabbit, Snaper, Arcade Fire, Jimi Hendrix, Th' Faith Healers, No Age, Biff Bang Pow!, and Tommy Keane. Unlike some of the atmospheric and electronica Kimclouds, this one goes pretty loud. Crankit.

The other new one is SLUSH, and Kim says a third new one will post soon.

Mike

Illustration: Kendra Kirkpatrick

P.S. I'm not sure, but I think you need pretty good bandwidth to stream Mixcloud. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes not so well.

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Comments

[V.I. Voltz]

Never heard of? Seems fairly mainstream to me. Clearly my tastes are unusual.

Voltz

[erlik]

Ah, right up my street. :)

[pepeye]

So Kim was an 'HFSer? I have a dim recollection of that name, but there were so many mighty DJ's on that station. Though calling Weasel "giant" would be stretching it.

[Mike Johnston]

pepeye,
Yep. Graveyard shift, new music. "If 100 people have heard of them then they don't need me" kind of thing. Ten, fifteen years after he went off the air we would be talking in public and some guy would stop short, stare at Kim listening to his voice, and exclaim, "Omif---in'god you're KIM!"

Mike

[Dean Johnston]

Kia ora.

Snaper! Them thars from my neck of the woods. Time to do some rummaging. & I’m hoping to see the Melvins soon too, which are from your neck of the woods (continentally speaking).

[Christopher Lane]

I am Rabbit and me likee the mix.

[PMC Choy]

Year of the Rabbit traditionally calls for hip-hop.

[Marty P]

Thanks Mike, there's a few tunes that really appeal to me on that playlist. Now I'll be spending my photography money on more music!