Time Machine, 2002

March 29 2021

About 20 years ago, your fresh-faced guy hosted his first radio show on the Goucher College student station. My show didn’t even have a name, but I had it in my mind to play all punk and hardcore (hence the very to the point flier I taped around campus) but after doing that a few times, I found that - although I was really into that music - I was getting bored. There was all of this other music that I was psyched about and wanted to share.  So it ended up being how I like to build my mix tapes and sort of how Random Rules operates: a little bit of everything.

This past summer, while cleaning out desk drawers at my parent’s house, I found a notebook from that time with a playlist that I was clearly tinkering with during class. I’m not sure if I turned the ideas into a show, but Random Rules will whisk you back to the early aughts in Towson, Maryland with a recreation of that show, complete with 2002 requests. 

Highlights include:
DJ Shadow, Owls, and Aesop Rock

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