NOSTEEL has been on the air at WPTS in Pittsburgh since the Fall of 2005. Formerly a DJ at WMCNin St. Paul, Minnesota from 1995-1999, and part of the DJ partnership known as Paris '68, based in Detroit, since 2002, NOSTEEL has been reengaging the potentialities of the radio form... before it's too late. To do that NOSTEEL has invited a number of guests on to the air to explore topics from biking in Critical Mass, Mod, Northern Soul, Ralph Ellison, the state of techno and hip-hop, and many aspects of Pittsburgh's unique cultural scene. Guests have included: Edgar Um, Tom Cox, Jwan Allen, Anthony Susan, Christine Feldman, Richard Purcell, Justin Hopper, E-Z Lou, Kelly Carter, Ray Lugo, DJ Angelus, Shawn Rudiman, and Zack Furness.

The future sounds bright.

NOSTEEL and NOTOASTER: October 14, 2007

Johan Skugge - CSB - Volume - Mitek
Rahim Alhaj - Taqsim Maqam Ajam - When the Soul is Settled: Music of Iraq - Smithsonian
Matthew Herbert - The Audience - Bodily Functions - Soundslike
Moebius Band - Loving Sounds.... - Idol Tryouts - Ghostly International
Fennesz - Traxdata - Hotel Paral.lel - Editions Mego
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Art Star - S/T - Touch and Go
Rainer Maria - Ears Ring - Long Knives Drawn - Polyvinyl
Private Dirty Projectors - I Will Truck - WIRE Tapper 14 - The Wire
Electronicat - seventies - Chez Toi - GEMA
Talking Heads - Memories Can Wait - Sand in the Vaseline - Sire
Mu-siq - Within a Sound - In Pine Effect - Astralwerks
Wilco - Misunderstood - Live in Chicago - Nonesuch
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence - Best of - Sire
David Bowie - The Moon - Reality - ISO / Columbia
Morphine - Thursday - Cure For Pain - Ryko
David Holmes - Diamond Location - Oceans Thirteen - Warner
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Sandwiches - Funk All Y'all - jive
Ron Trent and Chez Damier - Space Ridims - Shinedoe Mix - Fuse
Metric - Combat Baby - S/T - Elgonix
Mekons - hope and the anchor - Natural - Quarterstick
Brad - Screen - Shame - Loosegroove
Duke Ellington - Jeep's Blues - Newport - Columbia
Duke Ellington - Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue - Newport - Columbia
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower - Kiss the Sky - Reprise

NOSTEEL SOLO: October 7, 2007

Cowboy Junkies - Powderfinger - The Caution Horses - RCA
Herbie Hancock - Spiraling Prism - Mr. Hands - Columbia
Matthew Shipp - The "C" Jam Blues - Mulitplication Table - Ology
Major Force West - May the Force Be With You - 93-97 - Mo Wax
Matthew Shipp - Quivering with Speed - Piano Vortex - Thirsty Ear
Matthew Shipp - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Duo with William Parker - Thirsty Ear
Yo La Tengo - Alyda - President Yo La Tengo - Coyote
Mekons - Dickie Chalkie and Nobby - Natural - Quarterstick
Yo La Tengo - The Story of Jazz - New Wave Hot Dog - Coyote
Echospace - First Point of Aries - The Coldest Season - Modern Love
Sean Deason - Hip Hop Jazz - Eleven Phases - Sublime Recordings
Private Hudson - The Singularity - Hudson - Lost Nation Sound
Frederico Aubele - Maria Jose - Panamericana - Eighteenth Street Lounge
Nick Drake - River Man - Sampler - Bryter Music
Markus Guentner & La Grande Illusion - Baghira - Pop Ambient 2006 - Kompakt
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto - 3 - insen - rastser-noton
Burnt Friedman - Western Smoke - First Night Forever - nonplace
Unai - Lucky Bastard - A Love Moderne - Force Tracks

ALEX BURKAT GUEST SHOW September 30, 2007

Simian Mobile Disco - It's The Beat - Attack Decay Sustain Release - Int
Justice - Genesis - Cross - Vice
Digitalism - Pogo - Idealism - Astralwerks
Air - Don't Be Light - 10000Hz Legend -
El-P - Up All Night - I'll Sleep When Your Dead - Def Jux
Spank Rock - Rick Rubin - YoYoYoYoYo -
Machine Go Boom - M.I.A. - Music For Parents - Collectible Es
J Dilla - Crushin' (Yeeeeaah) - Ruff Draft - Stones Throw Records
K-Os - Crabbuckit - Joyful Rebellion -
Soul Position - Keep It Hot For Daddy - Things Go Better With RJ and AL -
Kid Koala - Drunk Trumpet - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome -
Prefuse 73 - Styles that fade away with a - One Word Extinguisher - Warp
Cut Chemist - Spoon - The Audience's Listening -
Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80s - I Created Disco - Almost Gold
Jamie Lidell - When I Come Back Around - Multiply -
Prince - A Case of You - A Tribute to Joni Mitchell - Nones
CSS - Alcohol - Cansei De Ser Sexy -
Liars - Mr You're on Fire Mr - Ther Threw Us All in a Trench and -
Girl Talk - Warm it Up - Night Ripper -
Simian Mobile Disco - I Got This Down - Attack Decay Sustain Release - Int
Grand Buffet - Pink Deadly - Five Years of Fireworks -
Squarepusher - Modern Bass Guitar - Hello Everything -
Drop the Lime - Butterscotch - We Never Sleep -
Claude VonStroke - Deep Throat - Beware of the Bird - Dirtybird Rec
Richie Hawtin - The Hole - DE9 / Transitions -
Matthew Dear - Send You Back - Idol Tryouts 2 -
!!! - Bend Over Beethoven - Myth Takes - Warp
The Chemical Brothers - Das Spiegel - We Are the Night - Virgin
Out Hud - Dad, There's a Little Phrase - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. -

NOSTEEL SOLO:
Dedicated to Sean who is on his way home from Iraq.
September 24, 2007

Dr. Octagon "Moosebumps" Instrumentalist Dreamworks
Low "Pretty People" Drums and Guns Sub Pop
Oval "Szenario" Szenario Thrill Jockey
Tangerine Dream "3 am at the border" Stratosfear Virgin
Kinski "Passwords and Alcohol Down Below Its Chaos" Sub Pop
Pyschadelic Furs "India" S/T Columbia
Thurston Moore "Fri/End Trees Outside The Academy" Ecstatic Peace
My Bloody Valentine "Soon" Soon EP Creation
Fennesz "Nebenraum Hotel Paral.lel" Editions Mego
Basteroid "Backstage Ass" Upsets Ducks Arial
Modeselektor "Godspeed" Happy Birthday Bpitch Control
Echo and the Bunnymen "Heads Will Roll" Porcupine Sire
Richard Strauss "Death and Transfiguration" Blood and Thunder Sine Qua Non
King Crimson "Elephant Talk" Discipline WB
Nico "The End" Live Heroes Performance

NOSTEEL SOLO: September 16, 2007

Uli Teichmann - Piano Tec - Kompakt Ambient - Kompakt
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - insen - insen - Rune Gramaphone
oval - episonik - szenariodisk - thrill jockey
markys guentner - baghaira - pop ambient - kompakt
tindersticks - she's gone - s/t - london
spiritulized - cop shoot cop - ladies and gentleman - arista
The Velvet Underground - Jesus - -
stars of the lid - part three - per aspera ad astra - kranky
kraftwerk - numbers - computer world - elektra
the tuss - last rushup - rushup edge - rephlex
adult. - human wreck - resuscitation - ersatz audio
eurythmics - jennifer - sweet dreams - RCA
my bloody valentine - don't ask why - glider ep - creation
air - le femme d'argent - moon safari - caroline
tangerine dream - invisible limits - stratosfear - virgin
Can - Yoo Doo Right - Monster Movie - Spoon

DJ Thom Cox and Orlando Marshall: September 9, 2007

Yes, "Owner of a Lonely Heart (Red & Blue Mix)" (ATCO)
Paul Hardcastle, "Rain Forest" (Profile)
Loosefingers, "Acid Bounce" (Alleviated)
Marcus Mixx, "Without Makeup (Ron Hardy Mix)" (Let's Pet Puppies)
Deep Chord, "Electromagnetic Dowsing (The Final Step)[Mike huckaby Remix]" (Synth)
Tony Allen, "Ole (Moritz Von Oswald Remix)" (Honest Johns)
Sun, "I Want Your Love" (Capital)
Underground, "Doin' It" (SAM)
Jermaine Jackson, "Erucu" (Motown)
Love Unlimited Orchestra, "My Sweet Summer Suite" (20th Century)
Manfredo Fest, "Jungle Kitten" (Tabu)
Lonnie Liston Smith and The Cosmic Echoes, "Visions of a New World
Phase II" (Flying Dutchman)
Con funk shun, "F-fun" (Mercury)
Blackbyrds, "Blackbyrds Theme" (Fantasy)
Juan Pablo Torres, "Son Riendo" (Areito)
Ashford & Simpson, "It Seems to Hang On" (Warner Bros.)
Dexter Wansel, "Solutions" (Philadelphia International)
One Way, "Push" (MCA)
Chocolate Milk, "Say Wontcha" (RCA)
The Sunshine Band, "Blackwater Gold" (TK)
Herbie Hancock with Sylvester, "Magic Number" (Columbia)
Melba Moore, "You Stepped Into My Life" (Epic)
Supremes, "Come Into My Life" (Motown)
Sly and the Family Stone, "Family Affair" (Epic)
Ju-Par Universal Orchestra, "Time" (Ju-Par)
Marvin Gaye, "Funky Space Reincarnation" (Motown)
Montana, "Warp Factor II" (Atlantic)

NOSTEEL SOLO: September 2, 2007

Electrifying Mojo - Midnight Funk Association - WJLB - Mojo Yello Magic Orchestra - Computer Game - 12" - Horizon
Kevin Reynolds - Afrik - 12" - Todchai
Deep Chord - First Point of Aries - The Coldest Season - Deep Chord
Kevin Reynolds - Anonymous Room - 12" - Todchai
Superpitcher - Rainy Nights in Georgia - Kompakt Total 8 - Kompakt
Colin Zyskowski - Adrift - 12" - Add On
Aril Brikha - Berghain - Kompakt Total 8 - Kompakt
Docile - 12 - 12" - Docile Recordings
Stretch Armstrong Show - Who's Gonna Carry the Whole Wheat? - History of HIp-Hop Radio Vol. 1 - Historic New York Hip-Hop Radio
Dabrye - Encoded Flow - Two Three - Ghostly
Matthew Shipp - Slips Through The Fingers - Piano Vortex - Thirsty Ear
Carl Craig - At Les - Paris Live - Planet E
William Parker Quartet - Wood Flute Song - Sound Unity - AUM Fidelity
The Tuss - Synthacon 9 - Rushup Edge - Rephlex
World 2 World - Jupiter Jazz - 12" - Underground Resistance
Paul Hardcastle - Rain Forest - Dance 2 - Profile
Brian Eno and David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit - 12" - Sire
Ryuichi Sakamoto - War and Peace Remix - Bricolages - KAB America
Lark Daddy - Flip Flop - Eleven Phases - Sublime Records
Jimi Hendrix - EXP / Up From the Skies - Axis Bold As Love - Reprise Records
New Order - Dreams Never End - Movement - Factory

Selected Previous Shows

Realmz (Sonic Groove): March 25, 2007

Realmz is a project sound designed and beat constructed by Pittsburgher Robert D'atri that crosses boundaries of industrial, machine made rhythms and experimental atmospherics, as well as underground techno/electro. During the 1990's D'atri discovered the burgeoning underground dance music culture of the east coast, midwest and Canada, encouraging him to begin working on musical projects in friends studios and eventually leading to the purchasing of his own equipment. After living in Seattle for a few years, D'atri moved back to Pittsburgh in 2005, continuing his musical explorations. In the summer of 2006, D'atri attended the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and gave out demos. Responses were positive with a key nod from the well-known techno producer and label chief Adam X, who soon after began playing D'atri's tracks in his DJ sets. This last February, Adam X's label, Sonic Groove, released "Individuation" by Realmz.

The set...

1. joris voorn - fever
2. realmz - pathways2
3. realmz - fossil fuel
4. realmz - abduction
5. robert hood - tactel
6. realmz - flashback
7. d'wachman & hd substance - move my body
8. elektrabel - heli 29
9. robert hood - mind detergent
10. jeff mills - untitled
11. steve rachmad - and thats 2
12. steve rachmad - b.energetix
13. untitled (steve bicknell?)
14. static drum - last story
15. robert hood - population
16. luke slater - i can complete you(silicon scally mix)
17. drexciya - species of the pod
18. arpanet - information quanta
19. arpanet - ergosphere (edit)
20. arpanet - chandrasekhars limit
21. der zyklus - biometric systems
22. der zyklus - biometric id
23. suburban knight - collaboration a
24. japanese telecom - japanese animation
25. drexciya - depressurization
26. robert hood - razr
27. ultradyne & redshift - b1
28. mandy vs. booka shade - body language (sterac remix)

NOSTEEL rocked some Lusine remixes from Ghostly International and a Metroplex track by Gerald Mitchell that he misidentified during the broadcast. Mea culpa.

NOSTEEL'S TOP TWELVE TRACKS OF 2006
(R.I.P.: J. Dilla and J. Brown)

Ray Lugo: November 12, 2006

DJ Angelus: November 5, 2006

Shawn Rudiman (Technoir Audio): October 8, 2006

Shawn Rudiman has been producing since 1989, working with artists and labels from Total Harmonic Distortion and Anthony "Shake" Shakir to 7th City and his own Technoir Audio, which has become a stable for young DJs and producers in the Steel City.

Ian Reyes: September 17

Electronic music programmer and academic Ian Reyes, from the electro-goth collaboration Collapse Into Reason, joins NOSTEEL to talk about his theoretical work on sound technology and the aesthetics of heaviness, covering Harsh Noise, Satanic Metal, and other extreme music.

Brother Mike: September 10

The resident DJ on Saturday nights at Club Havana.

Sunday, September 3, 2006
Weather 61 degrees and cloudy

Outputmessage - Glintz - Nebulae - Melodic
Herbert - The Movers and the Shakers - Scale - K7
Carl Craig - Poor People Must Work - Rhythm and Sound See Mi Yah Remixes
Arthur Russell - Springfield - Spring Field - Audika Records
Richard Devine - Seven Samurai - Ryuichi Sakamoto Remixes - KAB
Trentmoller - Evil Dub - The Last Resort - Poker Flat
New York Dolls - Babylon - Night of the Living Dolls - Polygram
Richard Hawtin - Welcomm (In) - DE9 / Transitions - M_nus
Aphex Twin - Cliffs - Ambient 2 - Sire
Dabrye - Pressure - Two Three - Ghostly International
Kid 606 - TYTR - Pretty Girls Make Raves - Tigerbeat 6
Venetian Snares - Tache - Cavalcade of Glee - Planet Mu
Prince - I Would Die 4 U - Single - WB
Junior Boys - The Equalizer (Morgan Geist Remix) - In The Morning - Domino
Tiga - Burning Down the House - Sexor - Last Gang
Jarvis Cocker and Kid Loco - I Just Came to Tell You I'm Going - Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited - Verve
Candi Stanton - The Source - Softcore Jukebox - Emperor Norton
This Mortal Coiil - Kangaroo - It'll End In Tears - 4AD
Kiln - Isthmus - Idol Tryouts 2 - Ghostly International
Transient Waves - Peaceful Madman - Wading and Waiting v. 8 - Darla

06/08/2006 10:00 PM: Paris '68 wsg Outputmessage @ Club Havana, Shadyside, Pittsburgh, PA 15201,US

Paris '68 and Jason C @ Club Havana present Outputmessage. Born in Queens, New York, in 1983, spending his formative middle-school years in New Jersey, and finally ending up in Richmond, VA, Bernard Farley (aka Outputmessage) can be given that rare title of "young musical prodigy." During his time in New Jersey, he first became fascinated with a broad range of music, eventually keying in on electronic; and when his family got its first computer in the summer of 1998, he began making music on his own. Now, while a mathematics graduate student at Virginia Tech, he spends his off time writing tight, hook-laden tracks. Outputmessage debuted with a remix of Dabrye on the Payback 12", alongside the esteemed Prefuse 73, and a track ("Bernards Song") on Ghostly's Idol Tryouts compilation before even turning 20. Later the Oneiros EP was released on Echelon Productions. This year "Sommeil" was released on the Ghostly's Idol Tryouts Two compilation and Outputmessage's debut LP, Nebulae, is set to drop this June on Melodic. Outputmessage was also recently selected to be in URB's Next 100.

04/25/2006 09:00 PM - Feldman vs. NOSTEEL: Rustbelt Mod!

Tune in as Christine "Gravity Flower" Feldman brings mod-culture to "Rustbelt Soul," analyzing the '60s cultural movement and its world-wide dissemination. NOSTEEL presides in his final show of the semester.

04/18/2006 09:00 PM - 4/18/06: Rich

Ralph Ellison, famed novelist and mecurial American critic, died in 1994. He knew about hip-hop. But what did he think about it? He didn't explicitly tell us but he gave us some clues. Richard Purcell, graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh's English Department, helps NOSTEEL read the signifiers.

04/11/2006 09:00 PM - Kelly Carter vs. NOSTEEL on WPTS 92.1 FM

This week featuring Kelly Carter, Milk Records, Pittsburgh. Her All-Time Top 10: chuck womack & the sweet souls - ham hocks & beans (dis-joint) cymande - brothers on the slide (big hit music) eddie kendricks - girl you need a change of mind (tamla) lou pride - we are only foolin ourselves (jazzman) peven everett - one more time (abb soul) kaleb brown - strange dreams (organik) soulive feat chaka kahn - back again (freestyle) 3d - rockin you eternally (choonz) tosca - wonderful (studio k7) radiohead - everything in it's right place - def beat remixes 5 (def beat)

04/04/2006 09:00 PM - Cocaine Legalization? vs. NOSTEEL on WPTS 92.1 FM

The University of Pittsburgh Communication Department brings a debate on cocaine production to the studio's of WPTS. Debate, politics, music, and drugs -- Rustbelt Soul gets heavy this week!

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