And you're listening to...

July 26, 2007 1:59 PM

Name my radio show, which focuses on electronic music, centered around genres like: idm/braindance or whatever we call it these days, dub, trip-hop, chip music (as in... gameboy's and C64's), aleatoric, grime, dubstep, minimal, electrofunk, deep house and so forth. I would say the primary theme of the show is music that is interesting not only for doing something creative, but for doing it with newly available technology (for it's time). I also have a bias towards music that is rooted in Jazz or other improvisational traditions. Aside from what is decidely artsy-music, there is also a smattering dancable music and mashups deemed clever enough. There is no dance music of the foor-to-the-floor variety though, and it is not primarily a dance show.

My name is Bjorn, if you can think of a witty pun involving that...

Two ideas so far...

Resonant Filter

Funkstörung ("radio interference" in german... used last semester, but too hard to spell, and already in use by a band)

posted by phrontist to Writing & Language (25 answers total)

Response by poster: (Oh, Two Hours of Hardcore Bjorn has been put forward as well, but I fear genre allusion confusion)
posted by phrontist at 2:03 PM on July 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

Bjorn Slippy, but i am a big Underworld fan.
posted by uaudio at 2:04 PM on July 26, 2007

Do you pronounce your name so the "o" sounds like the vowel sound in "corn" or "yearn"?
posted by mdonley at 2:05 PM on July 26, 2007

Response by poster: mdonley: For the purposes of the show, like "corn".
posted by phrontist at 2:07 PM on July 26, 2007

grime, dubstep, minimal, electrofunk, deep house

<snip>

There is no dance music of the foor-to-the-floor variety though, and it is not primarily a dance show.

DOES NOT COMPUTE.

If you're avoiding four-to-the-floor, you could take inspiration from this Autechre release and call your show Flutter.
posted by mkb at 2:15 PM on July 26, 2007

You could cash in on my celebrity status and call it "Music Craven Doesn't Like."
posted by craven_morhead at 2:19 PM on July 26, 2007

Response by poster: mkb: With the exception of deep house, there is plenty of music in those genres that do not go four-to-the-floor.

I don't expressly forbid anything like that, it's just less common... I mentioned it mainly to be clear that it's not a eurodance show.
posted by phrontist at 2:20 PM on July 26, 2007

Attack Decay/Sustain Release

Continuous Controller

I don't care what you call it though. I demand straming audio.
posted by lekvar at 2:22 PM on July 26, 2007

Battle of the Bjorn
posted by mdonley at 2:32 PM on July 26, 2007

Bjorn Under a Bad Sinewave
or
Electroshock Therapy
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:41 PM on July 26, 2007

Squish.
posted by Shecky at 2:53 PM on July 26, 2007

Bjornography
posted by gergtreble at 3:03 PM on July 26, 2007

MIDIMAL.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 3:06 PM on July 26, 2007

Bjorn's Bleep-Bloop Hour.
posted by adamrice at 3:23 PM on July 26, 2007

Bjorn Chorus
Top of the Bop
Transistance
Sinewave Riders
posted by infinitewindow at 3:28 PM on July 26, 2007

I was going to suggest Bjorn Slippy too.

Alternatively:

Bjorning Down the House
Bjorning up the Airwaves
Bjorning Sensations
etc.

BTW, where can I listen?
posted by googly at 3:33 PM on July 26, 2007

Bjorn Again Jazz
posted by wafaa at 3:45 PM on July 26, 2007

Brain Candy
IDM-phasis
Bring Your Headphones
Low Pass
Oscillations

imo, don't use a pun involving your name, it's kind of hacky.

also, give us links to listen or download in podcast form.
posted by knowles at 5:12 PM on July 26, 2007

bjorn under punches

but seriously:

Pulsewidth (from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92)
Techno Playtime (from Black Dog's Book of Dogma)
Aural Wallpaper (from Black Dog's Book of Dogma)
Rsdio (from Autechre's Tri Repetae)
posted by vkxmai at 5:40 PM on July 26, 2007

bjornish acid

(aphex twin)
posted by Lockeownzj00 at 10:23 PM on July 26, 2007

nthing the idea of naming the show after some bit of electronic music terminology.

Inspiration abounds and one of the 1000000 online glossaries for this type of terminology.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 2:07 AM on July 27, 2007

rather, inspiration abounds at the 1000000 online glossaries.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 2:08 AM on July 27, 2007

OK, I've got it:

Worship The Glitch

[Taken from this]
posted by googly at 8:13 AM on July 27, 2007

ps info on this radio show when you decide
posted by Lockeownzj00 at 9:30 AM on July 27, 2007

electrikos

bjornwave

ambient bjorn (or bjorn ambient)
posted by clanger at 9:58 AM on July 27, 2007