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Here is the setlist from last week's edition of Chilled Beats:

DJ Krush ft. Esthero - Final Home (Piano Mix) [Sony]
Ta'Raach - Keepintime (Lovelution Remix) [Up Above Records]
Nobody's Smiling - Nobody's Smiling Part One [Bully Records]
Jay Dee - Flyyyyyy [Bling47 Records]
DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World [Mo Wax]
Amon Tobin - Easy Muffin [Ninja Tune]
Unforscene - Belly Full of Lead [Tru Thoughts]
Freddie Cruger - Keep Striving [Homegrown]
El Michels Affair - Spread Your Soul [Truth & Soul]
Johnny Guitar Watson - Lovin You [Fantasy]
DJ Day - First Step [Melting Pot]
Flying Lotus - Massage Situation [Warp]
Trusme - Brown's [Stilove4music]
Jamie Lidell - All I Wanna Do [Warp]
Roy Ayers - Searchin [Urban]
Positive Flow - I See The Sun [Pulver]
Maxwell - Simply Beautiful (Live at the 2008 BET Music Awards) [Unreleased]
Mos Def - Umi Says [Rawkus]
Radiohead - Climbing Up The Walls (Zero 7 Remix) [Parlophone]
Tricky - Overcome [Fourth & Broadway]
Sample208 - Heavy [Unreleased]
Ella Fitzgerald - I Get A Kick Out Of You (Cinematic Orchestra Remix) [Verve]
Rise - Message to the Architects Pt 1 (Futuristica Music)
Take - Dusk Day [Poo-Bah]
Jose James & Flying Lotus - Visions of Violet [Brownswood]
Chin Chin - Koto Salad [Deep - Water]
Miles - Bitches Brew (Shoes Re-Edit) [Shoes]
UNKLE - Portishead Plays UNKLE [Mo Wax]

WRFU had a stand at the Market at the Square today, and we got the chance to talk to a range of community members about the station and the IMC more generally. I generated a short video of the sights and sounds at the market. Things are still warming up - there's much more vegetables to come - but as always it was a fun, lively, atmosphere.

Theme: Cover songs that fit the artist covering them!

*note* Only 2 more weeks left of 'Sonic Narcissism!'

Intro:

Gunshots by Computer - Saul Williams

The Show:

Word Up (Cameo) - Korn
London (The Smiths) - Anthrax
Gone Daddy Gone (The Violent Femmes) - Gnarls Barkley
Girl U Want (Devo) - Soundgarden
Blue Monday (New Order) - Orgy
Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen) - Concrete Blonde
Born to be Wild (Steppenwolf) - The Cult
Cars (Gary Numan) - Fear Factory
Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) - The Rolling Stones
Bring the Noise (Public Enemy) - Anthrax
You're So Vain (Carly Simon) - Faster Pussycat
Hurt (Nine Inch Nails) - Johnny Cash
American Woman (The Guess Who) - Lenny Kravitz
Angie (The Rolling Stones) - Tori Amos
Radar Love (Golden Earring) - The Ministry
Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix) - Concrete Blonde
Renegades of Funk (Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force) - Rage Against the Machine

Hello (I Love You) (The Doors) - The Cure
You're All I've got Tonight (The Cars) - The Smashing Pumpkins
Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Have a Cigar (Pink Floyd) - Primus
Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun (Beastie Boys) - Anthrax
Fame (David Bowie) - The Infectious Grooves

Outro:

Zero-Sum - Nine Inch Nails

The FCC has recently proposed changes to the rules governing LPFM stations like WRFU. Below are the comments I submitted to their "Second Notice of Proposed RuleMaking" (2NPRM):

My name is Andrew Ó Baoill, and I am station manager of WRFU-LP, a radio station in Urbana, IL, that is one of the beneficiaries and progeny of the LPFM licensing regime. I am in addition a PhD student at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, where my research focuses on the role of community radio. I write today to express my support for the actions the Commission has undertaken to facilitate the growth and development of the LPFM sector, to underscore the benefits that the LPFM service has brought to our community, and to respond to some of the questions asked in the Second Notice regarding how best to foster the stability and further growth of this valuable service as we look to the future.

THE WRFU EXPERIENCE - INVESTMENT AND REWARDS

Theme: Heavy (mostly political)

Intro:

Gunshots by Computer - Saul Williams

The Show:

Bullets, Bombs, & Bigotry - KMFDM
Syringes in the Sandbox - D.R.I.
Washington is Next! - Megadeth
Pulse of the Maggots - Slipknot

Pentagon: The Ministry

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Rio Grande Blood
N.W.O.
Death & Destruction
The Last Sucker

The Show:

The Shortest Straw - Metallica
Sehnsucht - Rammstein
Take the Power Back - Rage Against the Machine
Amerikhastan - Megadeth
In the Meantime - Helmet
Stain of Mind - Slayer
Xnoybis - Godflesh
Test - Prong
Know Your Enemy - Rage Against the Machine
Shock - Fear Factory
Black Betty - The Ministry
C11 H17 N2 O2 S Na - Anthrax

Outro:

Zero-Sum - Nine Inch Nails