#WUSB

[mangomybeloved]

today i feel so terrible and i can't even blame my period cause it already passed this month, so im like well now what

[ostrobothnianoccultist]

tongue piercnig?👀👀🕳️ i mean hiiii wusband🥰🥰 how are you?

Yeah I got my tongue pierced years ago 👅 i used to have a creepy anon thay asked about it every two weeks like clockwork but he’s dissapeared. I fear he found someone else to harass🥲 (why did he leave me noooo)

Also hi wusbyy🥰🥰🥰 work was really bad and i kinda wanted to kms but now I’m home and gonna eat something so I don’t commit arson

Hope your day was good, u beutiful wusb u😘

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for December 31, 2016-January 1, 2017; #129.

12/31/2016:

David Bowie “Blackstar”

Leonard Cohen “You Want It Darker”

Nine Inch Nails “She’s Gone Away”

Thurston Moore “Chelsea’s Kiss”

Kim Gordon “Murdered Out”

Fidlar “Sabotage”

Pigs “Make Sure To Forget”

UXO “Blind Suicide”

G.L.O.S.S. “Give Violence A Chance”

Kitten Forever “Freak Noise”

Bombshells, The “Crazy Boy”

JJ Doll “Dirge”

GOGGS “She’s Got Harder”

Cheena “Car”

Mannequin Pussy “Romantic”

LUH “Beneath The Concrete”

End Of The Year / Self Defense Family “In Those Dark Satanic Mills”

Japancakes “Android”

Bichkraft “Neathriver Chain”

Boss Hog “Wichita Grey”

Julie Ruin, The “I’m Done”

Nice As Fuck “Door”

Lush “Out Of Control”

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions “Isn’t It True”

Jesu & Sun Kil Moon “A Song Of Shadows”

Honeyblood “Sea Hearts”

Avalanches, The “Colours”

Bat For Lashes “In God’s House”

Cellars “Nighttime Girl”

Japanese Breakfast “Heaven”

Animal Collective “Floridada”

Tim Hecker “Castrati Stack”

1/1/2017:

D.I.T.C. “Rock Shyt”

La Coka Nostra “Waging War”

De La Soul “Nosed Up”

A Tribe Called Quest “We The People”

LNDN DRGS “Dope Sick”

clipping. “Wriggle”

Nick Klein “Do You Want To Crash?”

Ice Cream “Fired Up”

Geneva Jacuzzi “Casket”

Austra “Utopia”

Happy Meals (synthpop) “Suivez Moi”

Body-San “Shining The Money Ball”

Aphex Twin “CHEETAHT2 (Ld spectrum)”

Powell “Fuck You, Oscar”

MssingNo “Dead”

Crystal Castles “Char”

Health “L.A. Looks”

Lust For Youth “Stardom”

Girl Pusher “Best Ecver”

Princess Century “Rendezvous”

Hanin Elias f. Electrosexual “Hold Me”

IKO 93 “Drag”

Kedr Livansky “Otvechai Za Slova”

Psychic TV “Alienist”

Khost “Deathsset” (Godflesh RMX)

JK Flesh “Defector”

Uniform “Tabloid”

Crim3s “Militia”

Merzbow & Keiji Haino & Balazs Pandi “How Differ The Instructions Of The Left From The Instructions Of The Right? pt. 3″

Boris & Merzbow “Sometimes”

Burial “Nightmarket”

Airport “A World Alone”

Deluxe five-hour all-in Winners Of '16 broadcast. Final show in the original WUSB Studios.

[omegaradiowusb]

JUNE 6, 2025 (#408)

Anti-Social: "Teacher" Il Y A Volkswagens: "American Dream" Dickies, The: "Rosemary" Stiff Little Fingers: "Here We Are Nowhere" Dils, The: "Mr. Big" Mission Of Burma: "This Is Not A Photograph" Alisa: "I Love An Ape" Specials, The: "Ghost Town" Mekons, The: "Heart and Soul" Suburban Lawns: "When In The World" Wire: "106 Beats That" Pylon: "Crazy" Heaven 17: "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" Madness: "Madness" Undertones, The: "True Confessions" Annie Anxiety: "Hello Horror" Jam, The: "Art School" Castration Squad: "Blind" (live) Alice Bag & The Bags: "Gluttony" Stranglers, The: "Burnham Beeches"

It's here. Omega's 13th Summer broadcast season has finally started. It will be a busy three months for deluxe and bonus programming across WUSB's grid and we'll make sure of it. Our first Summer broadcast of the season begins by filling in for The Robin's Nest with twenty tracks over one full hour of Seventies / early Eighties classic punk and true-wave ska. Many artists return, with new ones making their first appearance on the board.

Monday morning June 9 marks our first deluxe broadcast of the Summer which we play new, current, and favorite artists everywhere. We are in the process of cycling through a huge backup of music finds to be auditioned for future airplay. Want to know what we're listening to? Visit us at @omegaremix and see for yourself.

Thanks to all followers, supporters, and listeners of Omega, The Robin's Nest, and WUSB. See you soon.

June 9, 2025 (3AM EST): first deluxe Summer Omega

June 23, 2025 (3AM EST): deluxe Omega

July 7, 2025 (3AM EST): deluxe Omega

July 21, 2025 (3AM EST): deluxe Omega

August 4, 2025 (3AM EST): deluxe Omega

August 18, 2025 (3AM EST): final deluxe Summer Omega

[br0-k3n-sch00lb01]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6zaRZyN9PlPnk6eX5lU6luHeiEwxk-kWvXu9X0NSKw/edit?usp=drivesdk

GOOGLE DOCCIE FOR ROKO BETS HUSBAND EVERRR :3333

I HOPE IT WORKSS WUSBE

YAYYAYAYAYAYY THANBYOU HUSBAND >< UUUU I'VE BEEN WAITING YAYYAYAYAY

ohhhh this feels like the rigjht time to sya im probablu going on hiatus for a lil while.. i'm strufgling rn annnn idk what to pos... ><

[omegaplus]

# FINAL POST.

Ask me if there was one moment in my life that changed everything for the better. I’ll tell you: it was discovering both Cold Cave’s “Confetti” and Prurient’s Cocaine Death. It’s the Summer of ‘11 when the worst decision of my life was still being played out. I was suffering in a place I never imagined I would be; the product of the late Oughts’ economic crash when I went broke and bounced from job to job. I had no choice but to wave the white flag and take the first thing offered to me. I lost everything a few years prior that made me: a radio show, music shopping, graphics design, writing, and more. When I heard the opening notes to “Confetti”, I felt magic. It gave me a vibe and showed me a beauty I was going to look for in the years to come. Cocaine Death was created by Brooklyn noise artist Dominick Fernow who had a vision and aesthetic that intrigued me so much that I was curious to see what other things surrounded his origins. He was the reason why I discovered Cold Cave. Months passed and despite living through a personal hell at work, “Confetti” and Cocaine Death signified a new beginning for me. I got back into the habit of burning music, resumed Photoshop, and started writing again. I had enough momentum that I decided the time was right to get back into radio. I had a show during my stay at Stony Brook University, which ended when my tenure did. I had just enough music to give it another shot. Finds from Geneva Jacuzzi, Washed Out, Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Glass Candy and Italians Do It Better made me feel something. I got in touch with the current general manager and on December 12, 2012 (12/12/12) Omega WUSB was born.

Around that time, I made friends with some of the other co-workers who were more on my side and knew a thing or two about respect, privacy, and personal space. I helped my ex- moved into a new residence, I caught up with co-workers from previous jobs who gave birth to their first-borns with their deadbeat dads nowhere in sight, and re-united with old classmates from the Brentwood era whom I haven’t seen since. If that wasn’t enough, an all-too-special interest during the Stony Brook era decided to reach out to me - by total surprise - wanting to pick up where we left off. I was finally back into it. The following Summer, that potential and I were getting closer, and I finally got myself a second job to leave the consequences of the first. It’s not even halfway into my first year back that I was going crazy with Omega WUSB, and I was already enjoying it; being back in my element of playing music over the airwaves from a tattered control room with broken antiquated equipment which none have been replaced since the late Sixties. It felt great to be back. For the next ten years, Omega WUSB took me places, taught me things about myself I never knew, and showed me what it took to keep ongoing projects running. Since I’d be constantly finding music to keep my show fresh, why not start a blog and tell my listeners how enthusiastic I was about it? On December 2013, I started Ω+. What really made Ω+? It was a literal reflection of myself; a personal music diary of radio shows I played, releases in my library, purchases, mixtapes, live experiences, random things I listened to, listening habits and more. This was the place where I had no shame telling everyone what I was into, and I did it to prove a point. I aimed to make this blog stand out over everything else here. To do that, I posted about every genre I got my ears on because I truly enjoyed everything I listened to. It’s why you saw everything from indie, hip-hop / rap, post-punk, d.i.y, noise, industrial, shoegaze, d-beat, reggae, jazz / fusion, jungle, and much more to list.

There were also other ideas I had that no other music blog had: numbered posts, seasonal mixtapes, extensive year-end lists and best-of posts, personal insights, and tons of candor - much more to my benefit. Our favorite months were our ‘second issue series’ and ‘clearance sales’ where we posted heavily about alternate covers, colored vinyl and cassettes and other rarities which drew our largest amounts of followers. Plus, plenty of receipts of years past and many from two ‘record store victory tours’ (‘18 and ‘22) covered here. Wanted to know what was on a mix cassette or CD-r my friends gave me, or what played off of my iPhone or iPod during a train ride or walk through Central Park? The song that played on the overhead as a potential, and I sat over ice cream? What I listened to during a specific point in time, or what band tees people wore at a certain show I attended? It was all here. It got off to an inconsistent start (one which I’ll never get over when you see the archives), but eventually it got rolling when I made it a point to post consistently and have a presence because that’s how you got likes and followers. And Christ did I hammer at it. But without Omega WUSB, Ω+ wouldn’t have existed, and you wouldn’t be reading this now. For 10 years it gave you something not many or no other music blog gave you. Now, after lots of consideration, I’m making the decision to finally end Ω+ once and for all. This is our final post. ********************** It started during the pandemic summer when someone I met here left a poisonous impression on me. My anxiety and depression came back and totally threw me off. I couldn’t think straight as I was too busy figuring out the hurt and pain she just created for me. I wasn’t focused and wasn’t posting as much in as I used to. The pushback was enough that I started feeling different about lots of things and seriously wondered what I was still doing here. That was when Ω+ started to suffer.

Up until this point I’ve been falling behind and that’s not good. Once you fall behind on a music blog like this, it’s almost impossible and time-consuming to come back. And to come back, you have to short-change yourself. Cheat, cut corners, and be inconsistent with what’s being posted. After posting at least (on average) 38+ times a month, coming up with new ways of saying the same things over and over and over and over and over again, and writing in a way that keeps readers attention, then after all is said and done, what was I / Ω+ getting back in return? It used to get 250 followers a year, and I had to pull teeth in order to get them. When you put in so much work to show your followers how awesome and crazy an album or single is, only to get an average of 10 likes on each post (barring some of Omega WUSB’s playlists), and see others post the same exact thing for ten times the amount, it does get rather discouraging. I always felt, with millions of readers on here and with music being a universal thing, how and why was it so hard to get more out of what I do?

Some say you don’t do it for the numbers, you do it for personal satisfaction. Getting that personal satisfaction was never an issue by simply running this page because I always loved staying in touch and finding things in common with my followers. Only then I wanted all the numbers coming to me. Not getting that consistency that I wanted, even after 10 years of Ω+, feels like a letdown. I was hoping to have exactly 22 entries per month this year. Then, this happens: instead of privately posting entries on the spot before the month was over, I ended up queuing them at the last minute and miscalculated. Only 11 entries for August were posted, with the others after the fact in September, so there’s zero chance of getting the others back. I fucked up. The final straw was when I have seen my perfect format slightly altered as the header images now became smaller and wasn’t fitting the text column width entirely. It’s bad enough having to spend hours trying to find a working theme, only to see it messed around with no rhyme or reason. I reached a point to where I felt I was throwing my time away for less-than-desired gain, and what was once one of my favorite things to do became tiring and heavy-headed. In short: I’m massively overwhelmed with no end in sight. I’m too exhausted and don’t have it in me anymore in this capacity to keep this going. ********************** I’m in a much better place than I was ten years ago, financially and ambitiously. I still have everything I took back and more. I still have the radio show, and still do graphic design, sound editing, and photography. But there are still things left on the backburner. I haven’t written or created anything in months but want to again. There’s a backlog of music I’ve yet to listen to from last year’s massive island- and city-wide record-store shopping spree that left me 560+ vinyl records, tapes, and CDs richer and $3,000 poorer - and also from another shopping spree on top of that.

There are plenty of books I bought that I need to read up on, and tons of cassettes and VHS tapes I need to digitally transfer. I just started learning Italian thanks to one of the best people ever. I purchased a coding book six months ago that I’ve yet to even open. I’m still recovering from the retail-hell climate that took a daily toll on my mental and emotional health so heavy that it was depleting me. Now, I work at home and managed to stay with the company; essentially keeping my 401K, medical, and my time-off. Total game-changer. Since my dad left, I’ve been practicing self-care in ways I wasn’t allowed to. I took the time to step back, re-assess myself, and be the person I always wanted to be, with no constant surveillance of people keeping tabs on me. I’ve enjoyed many moments - arcades, travels to New York City, holidays with my family, live industrial-music shows in New York City, and meeting specific people - when I have them. My company has changed. Though I parted ways from some of the best co-workers I had, I also did the same from separating myself from the daily cast of the undesirable public.

My vision and state of mind have changed due to anti-depressants, focusing on some specific valuable people, and not having to think about the worst as much. Different things made by different people have happened. I’m welcoming and embracing the changes I’ve made for myself, and there’s plenty more I need to do. Right now, I’m still simplifying my life and focus on what I want to do from now until the day I cash it all in for good. ********************** What Ω+ leaves behind is ten years in the life and diary of one person’s lifetime listening habits and acquisitions of music. Decades of personal mixtapes, gifts from friends, giveaways, and the evolution of listening habits. Plenty of quarterly personal seasonal playlists, playlists of the day, and past WUSB shows when they happened. A roadmap of two record store victory tours, various receipts, and almost all live experiences ever attended. How about those ‘second issue’ series focusing on rare, out of print, and mispressed releases plus alternate covers, color vinyl and cassette editions? A multitude of year-end and even end-of-the-decade best-of lists. Documents of Omega WUSB’s anniversaries and all-out Summer broadcasting seasons. Locales, venues, and what t-shirt everyone was wearing. An enthusiasm of hip-hop’s golden age, post-punk / d.i.y., hardcore / metalcore, industrial, sampling culture, and vinyl treasures. Practically almost every genre, decade, and format Ω+ got it hands on.

Every song, album, purchase, listen, experience, interaction, broadcast, mixtape, playlist, purchase, and venture has all been documented here - and with all the utmost honestly and openness. All of that stops here. We (at Ω+) say this right now to save you the uncertainty: we’re not like those other blogs who abruptly stop posting without a heads-up and leave you hanging for months (or even years) waiting for another entry or at least announcing a hiatus, then decide to pop up once more and swear that things get rolling again. Guess what? You never heard from them again after that. What a surprise. Like unreliables, most promise but don’t deliver. Not us. When we say we’re done, we mean it. We’re done. We’re not posting again after this. There’s no coming back. No false hope or waiting for a day that will never come. (I’m sure you wouldn’t like being lied to or short-changed by anyone, either.) But, I’ll still be filling in the blanks from last year for completeness, as lives up to its name with this final post - in its current form. But, here’s a catch… There’s one follower of Ω+ who happens to be as obsessed and crazy about music as I am. Imagine that. She doesn’t have a dedicated music blog like this, but instead, has loads of Spotify playlists, plenty of audio and video posts all across many different accounts and social media. Between us, we’ve given each other CDs, records, and cassettes for holiday gifts and birthdays. We’ve traded MP3’s, and mailed out entire boxes of tapes from personal collections. We’ve been turned on to other’s recommendations. Our enthusiasm with finding and sharing music is unimaginable; perhaps more than what any normal human being is capable of. We have lots of artists, bands, genres, and even specifics in common that it was almost improbable to have found each other, but we did. She started following us not too long ago, so she’s going to be disappointed to learn that this music blog has come to a full stop. But, I’m not the one to disappoint. That is a total non-negotiable. So, I decided to re-invent it. Ω+ is now dead. Long live ΩRMX.

ΩRMX is a revision of the original with all the seasonal mixtapes, Omega WUSB playlists, personal posts, record-store receipts, live experiences, and other important stuff that made it. Instead of reviews, they’ll be replaced with now- or currently-listening. Tagging will be minimal and not specific, and some other details like numbered posts have been left behind. Everyone passing through will know what I’ve been listening to in real time. It’ll be simpler and faster for me to post without having to spend too much time and be constantly under the gun to do so. Problem solved. As much as I’d love to, I can’t continue with this specific music -blr with how it’s currently done. I really don’t want to completely give up on it altogether. I’ll be doing things a little differently. I’m still curious to see who’s paying attention to what I’m listening now or did XX years ago, or if anyone had experienced what I have. I’d also like to know if what I’m doing still separates myself from the others - if those types of -blrs still even exist. ********************** At this point, Ω+ stays here for posterity’s sake and becomes a curiosity for anyone who accidentally discovers it. I only hope future visitors get what I’ve done and how I’ve done it differently than the other music -blrs found here, or anywhere. To everyone who have followed us back, liked our entries, reblogged, supported, or even messaged us to see what happened to us, I appreciate it all. As we always say, we hope you took something with you.

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Ω+: December 2013-December 2023.

[paullev]

Captain Phil interviews Paul Levinson about Tom Cooper's Wisdom Weavers

I returned to Captain Phil's Planet on WUSB (Stony Brook University) Radio the other day to talk to  Captain Phil about Tom Cooper's new book, Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, to be pubished by Connected Editions (my publishing company) on May 1.  

As we discussed in the interview, I'll be interviewing Tom about his book via Zoom on the evening of Wisdom Weavers' publication -- 8pm (New York time), May 1.  If you'd like to attend, email me at Levinson@Fordham.edu and I'll be happy to send the Zoom URL to you.

In the meantime, check out my Marshall McLuhan playlist on YouTube for 50 of my lectures, interviews, etc about McLuhan over the past 20 years.  Here are my two books about McLuhan: Digital McLuhan and McLuhan in an Age of Social Media.  You'll also find numerous essays about McLuhan on my Academia.edu page.  And, if you're a fan of audio podcasts, just search on "McLuhan" on my Light On Light Through podcast page.

Check out this episode!

[markg5984]

WUSB à Martigny (VS) | 7-8 juin 2024

[independentartistbuzz]

BDEE + The Venomous Oranges Illuminate the Neurodivergent Experience with Genre-Bending EP Ultraviolet Spectrum

Neurodivergent underground cult figure BDEE (pronounced “Bee-Dee”, a tribute to Dee Dee Ramone) has written and recorded over 2000 songs and put out nearly 200 releases in his 26 years of activity as a musician. Like outsider icons Wesley Willis and Daniel Johnston, BDEE has hovered at the margins while steadily growing a cult following drawn to his one-of-a-kind personality. In BDEE’s case, his rambunctious live shows, prolific output, and dizzying versatility have also contributed to his near-mythical stature among his followers. Over the years, the Jamaican import has encompassed punk, shoegaze, hip hop, indie, goth, and everything in between, making it next to impossible to put what he does into a single box. 

Brian Anthony Abraham Donaldson was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica and lives on Long Island, NY. After a decade of recording alone in his bedroom, BDEE slowly warmed up to the idea of playing with other musicians, forming BDEE + the venomous oranges in 2008 and eventually linking up with producer/synth player Will Forthman. Forthman helped refine some of BDEE’s best tracks into the oranges’ 2016 debut dark/ambient, which was championed by NYC-area radio tastemakers like WNYU and WUSB. 

In 2015, the group recruited bassist Nick Femister, rounding out the core trio of the project. This core, complimented by a rotating group of talented drummers and session players, recorded and released the Warpspeed EP in 2018. Like so many other musicians, BDEE focused inward when the pandemic hit — except the venomous oranges didn’t actually see him in person for nearly 2 years while they worked on what would become Ultraviolet Spectrum. 

Lyrics by Forthman feature recurring themes — coping with isolation and being gaslit, living with mental illness, and life on the autism spectrum. The Femister-penned “Daysleeper” speaks of times when BDEE would often stay up for 72 hours straight perfecting his latest release and expressing frustration that his music isn’t getting noticed as much as it deserves to be. “Shattered Glass” speaks of the desire to raise the bar so high that it goes through the roof as the glass ceiling is shattered and the fear of being out of step with ever-changing cultural shifts looms… 

“Lost In My Senses” reflects on the past and the urge to give up, while opening track “Distress Signal” sees the band posing the question “Where do we go from here?” after getting sucked into an inter-dimensional void (a continuation of the space theme from Warpspeed). Finally, the title track, tackles the pervasive sense of feeling like a square peg trying to fit-in — a universal feeling, for sure, but one that hits especially close to home for people on the spectrum, for whom fitting-in is a matter of practical survival that requires herculean effort in the face of constant adversity. 

BDEE + the venomous oranges crafted Ultraviolet Spectrum in the hopes that likeminded neurodivergents will be able to relate. All too often, people on the spectrum find themselves on the outside looking in. This new set of songs is the band’s way of speaking to that experience. Ultraviolet Spectrum goes out into the world as a beacon of support, as well as an attempt to help eliminate negative taboos surrounding autism, mental illness, and all developmental “disabilities.” BDEE + the venomous oranges want to personally let you know that acting and thinking differently than “normies” should not be considered a disability. 

As we continue to move through the 21st century, we should look ahead to a world where there’s room for everyone on this wonderful, challenging ultraviolet spectrum we call life!

[ostrobothnianoccultist]

Cocomeloning myself with my new obsession twitter does not exist to me now

Gubbinsposting again I’m sorry

[ourladyofomega]

For those who missed Omega WUSB's Summer-ending Steve Albini tribute, you can find all ten hours of it here:

Omega Steve Albini Tribute (August 5 & 19, 2024)

Both playlists are found here if you want spoilers:

Omega WUSB: August 5, 2024 (#382)

Omega WUSB: August 19, 2024 (#383)

Thanks to all followers, supporters, and listeners of ours and WUSB.

[omegaremix]

For anyone of you reading this, I’m going to say it right now to all of you here: don’t ever take up music collecting. Each and every one of you. I am not fucking around. I started collecting during the Brentwood era. Like everyone else, cassettes and CDs were given to me as birthday and Christmas gifts, then getting one or two here and there as I got into my favorite artists more. A swirl of radio airplay, word of mouth, and magazines meant there was a new music frontier to discover. It wasn’t until after I graduated that I started getting addicted to it. I'm open-minded in discovering and hearing new artists…and I'm also compulsive. I had to get my hands on everything by every artist - even if I was unemployed and didn’t have the money. Finding lower price tags on what I bought made my habit worse. Then I acquired my driver’s license. I discovered vinyl (which started way before this trendy "boom", no thank you) not just on my own but through my dad who salvaged entire collections after being thrown out. Then came the dawn of the internet which lead me to albums and releases I never knew existed. Napster amplified my tastes in music and acquisitions exponentially, and I had plenty of friends who gifted me mixtapes and mix-CDs. I managed to hold onto stable positions and made more money. And, I discovered college radio, when finding a couple of key artists that forever changed my collecting trajectory. I never looked back. I didn’t care to find a cure. Just a few years ago when I laid in bed recovering from my life-saving shoulder surgery that I had an idea of a ‘record-store victory tour’. I promised myself that when I fully healed, I would hit up each and every music store I could on Long Island and spend hours grabbing anything I missed, heard about, or interested me. Nothing was hands-off and no regrets spending.

Promise fulfilled. 275 titles and $1,500.00 later, I was a new person. I did it again four years later and went for broke. I walked out with 560 titles totaling - drumroll, please - $3,000.00. I was the happiest man I knew walking the Earth whose addiction turned into a fucking crisis mode. You wouldn’t have known it if you saw it. But, like all addictions, they eventually get you into trouble. It’s great having all this music when you’re a radio dee-jay as I am. You’d figure I’d take what I have in my music library and use it for all of my broadcasts. Not quite. It’s my constant every-day involvement of audio-editing, auditioning incoming music finds, maintaining multiple pages (this, Ω+, Ω WUSB, Our Lady Of Ω), and Real-Life Syndrome that makes it almost near-impossible to catch up on what I purchased and yet listened to.

Acquisition has outpaced listening in that sense for years. I bought so much that I had a huge backlog of what I’ve yet to hear. It wasn’t like this before. I, like everyone, had more private time and lesser obligations back then listening to albums and still be caught up. This wasn’t an issue until I posted an INXS single on Ω+. A mutual of mine asked how deep I was into them. Not much, admittedly. Just the radio singles I grew up listening to. What made it sting was that for years I had four INXS tapes as a result from two cassette collections I inherited from my dad’s former auto-insurance agent and my bro-. It was that moment where I felt I should’ve been on top of them from the beginning; like I should’ve with must-have artists like The Cure, Radiohead, and The Smiths, whom most people should know by heart according to popular opinion. The seed was planted, and would grow larger as time went by. I realized I’m throwing money away on hoarding things and not using them. I expressed my frustration in how I’d tackle this new situation. Another mutual told me to take it easy and reach back for them when I could. Sounds great and I thank her for that, but again, I was short of it. I’m always pre-occupied with posting, editing, finding music, and auditioning outside of work. I didn’t have the opportunity to stray away from my constant finds and catch up. That all changed when I found @sheisthesisterofnight. She’s a massive Depeche Mode fan. That’s another band I’ve mostly missed out on. Her obsession with Dave Gahan made me take an initiative to catch up and listen to them. And, I did. I bought Some Great Reward and enjoyed it, then made the effort to grab everything from Ultra and earlier.

If she was the catalyst, then @tewz was the reaction. I never met anyone before her who was as obsessive and eclectic with music as I was, down to specific artists and even habits. She's the one who's given me a real run for my money! Have two friends on the exact same level and watch the trade-offs skyrocket to seraphim levels. I knew acquiring music online for my radio show would go on so long as I have it, and catching up on my purchases would still be on the backburner. Then this happened: our frequency’s program director gave me a one-hour slot down from three. Yes! Now I had only a third of the work to edit a single show and have more time to do other personal projects. Time was starting to open up. Now what to do with all of it? Digitize my entire music library. My cassettes, vinyl records, and discs. All of it. I thought of doing it for a few months. I download and stream music infinitely more than I listen to it physically. So, why do I still buy physical copies? They’re so nice to have, and owning your own copy means you can digitize it for private use. You don’t worry about streaming services taking down albums or deleting your purchases with a snap of a finger over contractual rights.

You do worry, however, about disc rot before CDs become unusable and degradation of chemicals that break down and deteriorate tape. As an archivist, saving my library is a must. But, the biggest reason I’m digitizing it is to offload it and make it more convenient to listen to. I can play catch-up in-between downtime discovering sounds and artists for my show with one click of a button. It took a few weeks to decide what portable storage to buy based on capacity, speed, and reliability. That was Crucial’s 4TB X10 Pro, their best one. It reads at 2,100 MB/s and writes at 2,000 MB/s. I had to go solid state, because there’s no way I’m suffering with hard-disk drive speeds. I’m Italian, impatient like a bull, and hate waiting for anything. Plus, it’s runs through USB-C to ensure I get close to those speeds as possible. I set aside at least two hours a night and take one huge pile of titles (that's either 95 cassettes, 60 discs, or 75 vinyl records) and download everything from SLSK as MP3 at 320kbps. Sources say there’s no difference between that and 196kbps, and most people are not worried about the small quality difference with high-quality MP3s and FLACs, so MP3 wins. Albums are downloaded as folders that can easily be named, and those names are copy-pasted into Excel. There’s a portable LG DVD/CD drive I use to rip discs into 320kbps for those I can’t download at that quality. I also have a Roxio VHS-to-DVD digitizer running from my Yamaha KX-400U to digitize tapes and from the Audio Technic AT-LP60X for vinyl records, too.

All those album-folders get shoved into the solid-state drive and that’s it. I estimate I’d be using 40.00% of the Crucial’s capacity after everything gets digitized, but it’s better to have more than get caught with less. (In reality, you get 3.6TB because the manufacturer’s -byte counts are converted and translated through the operating system’s.) It’s been more than a month since I started digitizing and everything is going smoothly, but it'll still take time. I give it by the end of the year when all is said and done.

So, remember when I said I was compulsive in collecting and buying? I was so hasty in buying up everything that I found duplicates. That’s why listing everything I have became a by-product of this project and I won’t buy the same album twice again. Now, guess what I did with those duplicates? I gave them to none other than @tewz, my closest competitor and fellow music aficionado. I took whatever extras I found and sent them to her as a Christmas gift. They now have a new good home where they deserve, just as she deserves it herself. Which CDs did I send her? You’ll have to wait until next Christmas for that. When my current digitization project is over, all of you will be the first to know the final numbers. Try not to piss yourselves while you’re put on hold.

(This is a redux and update of an earlier post we made.)

[omegaradiowusb]

MAY 14, 2025 (#405)

Minority Band: "Journey To The Shore" Bobby Hutcherson: "Nocturnal" Camille Sauvage: "Declic" Herb Ellis & Remo Palmer: "Wildflower" Ian Carr's Nucleus: "Capricorn" Jim Lawless: "Lovely Ballade" Ferrante & Teicher: "Lady Love" Paz: "Time Stood Still" Jasmine: "Being Together" Jeannie Reynolds: "The Fruit Song" Marcos Resende & Index: "Nergal" Bud Shank w/ The Bob Alcivar Singers: "A Famous Myth" Roly Kovak: "Bottle Ghost" Vince Evans: "Speak Ghetto Speak" Salt: "Hung Up" Manu Dibango: "New Bell" Tony Newman: "Soul Thing" B.T. Express: "Once You Get It" Joe Tex: "I Gotcha" Lee Moses: "Got That Will" Willie Bobo: "Dindi" Windy City: "I Still Love You" Houston Person: "Pretty Please" Lesiman: "Padmina" Song To The Source: "Did You Ever Fly"

Hello to all of our followers, listeners, and supporters of Omega and WUSB. For the second time this season, we play vinyl treasures, record digs, and sampling sounds for our bonus broadcast as we fill-in for Movie News And Music. Two hours of classic jazz, soul, R&B, funk, and fusion from 8AM-10AM for all discriminating producers and collectors of wax.

One more broadcast to go before we close out Springtime and enter our Summer broadcast season. We've been saving and stockpiling music finds from all over to keep Omega running, so expect some great things from us as always. See you in two weeks.

May 26, 2025 (3AM EST): final Spring '25 Omega.

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[omegaplus]

# 4,462

Addison Groove: "Footcrab" (2010)

There was a time when my UK connect Joshua JF posted on a near-daily basis until he discovered mental breaks. We raided his numerous electronic, dance, grime, and dub finds every year without fail. Here's one of his that we at Omega WUSB still neglect to play since we found it five years ago and we have no fucking idea why we do that to ourselves. Addison Groove's 2010 juke / footwork number is straight-up drop-dead ridiculousness. Nothing I ever listened to on wax sounded like a CD constantly choking on the same soundbyte repeatedly with the bass rising to the top and pouring itself over. On a personal note, this helped count down the final, vital days of what was a wildly intense yet spiraling Summer.

[rynemeadow]

I just wanna pop on here and give a #shoutout to three awesome and kind #collegeradio stations ✨ it’s not everyday that you get your songs played on the radio, so knowing that people are hearing my music that hasn’t heard it before makes me happy. I’ve had a very hard few years as I’ve been working on #baptisms - a few times wanting to walk away from music completely - but it’s moments like these that remind me why I keep going. So, thank you to @ksuaradio @stonybrookwusb and @wuog 💖 your support means the world to me. Do me a favor, call these guys up, give them love, and request my songs. Or any college radio stations for that matter, because I’m sure I’ve sent my songs out to them too! Much love! #stonybrookuniversity #uga #universityofgeorgia #universityofalaskafairbanks #fairbanks #athensga #wuog #ksua #wusb #singersongwriter #songbird #southern #indiemusic #indieartist #lgbt #gayboy #gaymusic #spirituality #spiritualawakening #radio #newmusic #newsong #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtart #lgbtmusic https://www.instagram.com/p/CmH4sHmPnPz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=