Saturday morning we'll feature the music of one of my fave musicians: Patrick O'Hearn. "His latest inspiration was a chance encounter with a vintage 1937 electric Hawaiian guitar that shaped his new solo album, Glaciation. Glaciation continues O’Hearn’s path of evoking the sensations of different atmospheres through beautifully textured sounds. Glaciation is the ninth release on O’Hearn’s
eponymous label."

We'll also hear songs from Slow Time; Beautiful World; The Private Music of Patrick O'Hearn; Between Two Worlds and more. It's all music from Patrick O'Hearn, Saturday morning at 9:00.

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Join Pirate Satellite Saturday morning for spiritually expansive, ambient downtempo electronic grooves. We'll hear from Adham Shaikh's Journey To The Sun, incorporating ambient sounds from his trip to India; Biosphere's classic '97 ambient recording Substrata, recorded some 350 miles north of the arctic circle in Norway and it sounds like it. Also from Norway, Green Isac, from Etnotronica. From Craig Padilla's new CD Below The Mountain, a song reminiscent of Tangerine Dream. England's Jon Hopkins with the title cut to Contact Note; Patrick O'Hearn playing the title cut from Slow Time. A song from Thierry David's Zen Pause, a "trip-hop and downtempo journey toward inner peace." Brian Eno with "Blissed" from The Drop. And perhaps more.  read more »

Moby plays live in Fairfield Saturday night! My youngest son Shane (9) and I are very excited. I sent Moby a Pirate Satellite compilation 10+ years ago. I've never done that before or since. I don't even know if he got it.

Moby was my favorite musician in the 90's and I still enjoy him very much today. Moby's 1999 release Play remains a seminal electronic recording. His integration of organic, emotional soul into the electronic sound was then- and perhaps now- unmatched.

I'm thrilled that Moby is my son Shane's fave musician. Moby often writes long, spiritually-inspired essays on his liner notes. Check it out.  read more »

Pirate Satellite has been working on Saturday's show over the last 2 weeks. It includes soundtrack music from the film Blade Runner: The Final Cut. The electronic music Vangelis
created for this 1982 seminal film is as good as anything I've ever heard- even 25 years later.

We'll also hear 2 songs from the brand new compilation "Future Memories"; 2 songs from Depeche Mode: Tanghetto's electro-tango (!) cover of "Enjoy The Silence" and William Orbit's "Random Carpet mix" of "Walking In My Shoes". Also featured, a song from Two Loons For Tea, who recently played in Fairfield. We'll hear a cut from the 1981 electronic classic "BGM", by YMO. YMO (orignially Yellow Magic Orchestra) were 3 gentlemen from Japan, including Ryuichi Sakamoto. Among other projects, Sakamoto went on the do the soundtrack with David Byrne to the film "The Last Emperior". I'll post the complete playlist at kruufm.com/pirate-satellite. ENJOY  read more »

I am That. Thou art That. All This is Pirate Satellite. Saturday we'll hear songs from the CDs Sutra Spin; Freedom Star; Beautiful World; Wolf Song Night (mixed with an account of a near death experience); Opalescent; From Here to Tranquility and more. Magic Sound Fabric will remind us We Are All Connected. The Spice Barons will opine "the spice expands consciousness... expands consciousness".

Colonel Kurtz will tell us the Truth about judgement.

Have you ever thought about any real freedoms? Freedom from the opinions of others...even from the opinions of yourself? - Colonel Walter E. Kurtz

"Freedom" - my final sutra

Saturday Pirate Satellite will groove songs from Rasa Music: "Where Sensuality, Spirituality, and Style Converge." Rasa specializes in music for lounging, dancing, relaxation, and meditation. Like Pirate Satellite, Rasa dares you to think and live differently and embrace a new paradigm where one´s inner Buddha can chillout, do yoga and continue to work, play and flourish in present world. Hear music from Slow Train Soul; Armen Ra; (on the Theremin!) Amar; Smadj; Benet; Visti & Meyland; a Gotan Project remix of Sarah Vaughn's Whatever Lola Wants and more.

Flourish in the present, with Pirate Satellite

Saturday morning hear electronic music from Pirate Satellite's 1994 compilation Kiss The Future. Music by Patrick O'Hearn; Saint Etienne; Siouxsie & The Banshees; Jimi Hendrix; Depeche Mode and more.

"The music's encompassing atmosphere and entrancing groove is at once hypnotic and soothing, as the possibility of spirituality through technology is explored."

- Your own Personal Jesus -

Saturday morning Pirate Satellite grooves ambient electronic music from one of our fave labels- Interchill Records. Hear music from Human Blue; Chaos By Design; Pushmipulyu; Gaudi; Kaya Project; Eat Static; Flowers of Wraith and Adham Shaikh. We'll also hear one of Pirate Satellite's current favorites: Ember (Re-Ember mix) by Drift.

"Music is moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness and a gaiety in life to everything. It is the essence of Order and leads to all that is good, True and beautiful. Music is...........

"Pirate Satellite"

Saturday's show is dedicated to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He is the reason we have this vortex in southeast Iowa. He is the reason KRUU radio exists. He is the reason I'm here. He Is. We'll feature songs from the CD Beauty by Vargo. Vargo is Ansgar Uffink and Stephanie Hundertmark. Vargo believes "that inner peace- serenity- in every single human being is an important requirement for peace in the world." Song titles from Beauty include "Get Back To Serenity", "Relax", "Pure Consciousness", "Happiness", "The Flow", "Intuition" and "Silence"- which "has been inspired by a poem of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi". "Flowing silence is love / shared silence is friendship / silence seen is infinity / vibrating silence is creation / expressed silence is beauty / maintained silence is strength / allowed silence is rest / received silence is joy / perceived silence is knowledge / silence alone is Being..."

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February 2nd- Happy Birthday Texas Ted Burghoff! Ted and I met in a Science of Creative Intelligence class at MIU in January 1975. Since then he has been one of Pirate Satellite's biggest supporters. Ted recently asked for another copy of the 1995 Pirate Satellite compilation "Very Blue Light-ish". We'll honor Teddy today by playing songs from that compilation. It features music by Roger Eno, Higher Intelligence Agency, William Orbit, Deep Forest, Moby, Banco De Gaia and more. It's music from the mid-90's electronic ambient pioneers, dedicated to a Beloved friend. Enjoy!

"Blue Light is on

For entrance into Heaven!"