Shocking BlueAs of June 1, 2007, this page will no longer be updated. Please visit our new site to access newly added programs. Hosted by Delphine Blue. Delphine created "Shocking Blue" on WBAI-FM in 1986, when it provided an oasis for music lovers on FM radio. WPS1 is proud to be continuing the tradition. |
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Edition #54: Summer's Over!!!! - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 4, 2006 Shocking Blue #54 maintains the vibe for a few moments more... before you head back to school. |
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Edition #53: VINYLICIOUS - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 21, 2006 ...in which Delphine confirms that no matter how hot it gets, vinyl stays cool. Nothing digital going on here. |
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Edition #52: The Awful Mess - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 7, 2006 ...in which everything comes to a boil and needs to be extinguished. Music for love in trouble. |
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Edition #51: Sigh of Relief - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 24, 2006 ...the summer breeze sigh of relief... songs that float by lightly... aka music for perverse times, see which way the wind blows for you... |
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Edition #50: Summer in the City - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 3, 2006 Number 50, like summer in the city, is thick and funky with the sounds of Sly and the Family Stone, Nina Simone, Augustus Pablo, Horace Silver, and more sounds to move slowly to. |
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Edition #49: Live!... sort of... - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 19, 2006 Just in case you're curious about just how hot and sticky NYC gets, Shocking Blue 49 provides a run through of the many artists who'll be performing in town this summer, including Psapp, Juana Molina, Hot Chip, The Legendary Pink Dots, Michael Brook and Lisa Germano, Salif Keita, Manu Chao, Amadou and Miriam, and Delphine's current favorite, Uncle John and Whitelock. Also a little something from the soon-to-be-released Johnny Cash CD, American V: A Hundred Highways. Turn on the A.C.... |
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Edition #48: New Stuff - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 5, 2006 Just a whole bunch of new stuff. Maybe one of these songs will be your summer song. Taking bets on it being the one by Gnarls Barkley but maybe it'll be one from Juana Molina, Sound Directions, or Band of Horses... |
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Edition #47: A Near Miss or Spring Fever Gone Awry - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 15, 2006 In which Delphine indulges in angst ridden love songs... arriving at a Hollywood ending with the help of Brenda Kahn, Berntholer, Bryan Ferry, and Bjork. |
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Edition #46: Cosmic Threads - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 1, 2006 A stitch in time saves nine but what about a stitch out of time? Shocking Blue 46 attempts cosmic mending with a thread of songs from Buddy Guy, Les McCann, Dave DeCastro, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. (1 hour 58 minutes) |
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Edition #45: Splashing Around - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 17, 2006 Shocking Blue 45 splashes budding new sounds from Border Crossing, Built To Spill, Beth Orton, Uncle John and Whitelock, and Karsh Kale on the canvas along with Little Axe, Mos Def and The Passions... |
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Edition #44: Spring Fever - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 3, 2006 Although our clutter clad heroine could continue spring cleaning through summer and beyond, Shocking Blue 44 embraces the state of perennial vernal intoxication. |
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Edition #43: More Spring Cleaning - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 20, 2006 Cobwebs and clutter collecting since Christmas continue to be cleared. Shocking Blue renews spring cleaning inspired by new sounds from Cesaria Evora, Stereolab, Coldcut, The Church, Yeah Yeahs Yeahs, Belle and Sebastian, Aceyalone, and Rewhipped Herb Alpert. |
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Edition #42: Spring Cleaning - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 6, 2006 Entombed within the clutter... an archeological discovery of massive musical proportion: Delphine's missing mix created in 1999 A.D. The message is clear. Cast out clutter while listening to Orbital, Tricky, Cinematic Orchestra, Zap Mama, and Plaid. |
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Edition #41: Heart's Desire - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 13, 2006 ...in which Cupid assists Delphine in the selection of songs about where the arrow did or did not strike. |
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Edition #40: The Long View, Pt. 2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 30, 2006 The second half of the Shocking Blue review of the best of 2005, musically speaking... |
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Edition #39: The Long View, Pt. 1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 16, 2006 The first half of the Shocking Blue year end review of 2005's musical offerings. |
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Edition #38: LUV - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast December 12, 2005 As we head deep into the heart of the holiday season Shocking Blue #38 conveys that-which-fills-our-hearts-on-a-snowy-December-night... dusty, grace, donna, madonna, bjork, sinead, and more angelic sounds. |
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Edition #37: Treasures - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 21, 2005 Upon returning from the Rough Trade record shop in London, our heroine divulges the tale of no longer having two tails in her life. Treasures from traveling abroad include the groovy new Norwegian band Serena Maneesh, brits Noblesse Oblige, and the long awaited new album from Kate Bush. |
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Edition #36: Unnatural Habitat - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 7, 2005 In Shocking Blue 36 Delphine considers the Greenhornes' Unnatural Habitat as the show's permanent opening theme music. Being indecisive, listeners will have to wait to hear future shows to discover if that decision stands. In the meantime trip through new tunes in the current episode from A.R.E. Weapons, The Dandy Warhols, Turin Brakes, She Wants Revenge, Laura Veirs, the collaboration of Calexico with Iron and Wine, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and Antony and The Johnsons. |
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Edition #35: Alchemy - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 24, 2005 German electronic, Indian sitar virtuosity, new millenium Brooklyn chic, Ethiopian jazz from the 70s, and transgender threnodies are just some of the elements in the alchemy of Shocking Blue 35. |
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Edition #34: Seasonal Fruit - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 10, 2005 Shocking Blue 34 affords the listener two inspiring hours to conjure a halloween costume, time to practice carving a pumpkin, or a spell to savor a seasonal piece of fruit such as a crispy empire apple or a fig. All this whilst enjoying the multidimensional sounds of Orbital, Gabin, Iggy and the Stooges, Mos Def, Amadou and Miriam and of course some LCD Soundsystem. |
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Edition #33: x2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 26, 2005 If you're like Delphine... sometimes you want a little more. That's why Shocking Blue 33 offers second helpings of all today's artists. |
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Edition #32: Flip Flops Adieu - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 12, 2005 Music to pack-up-your-flip-flops-till-next-year to. |
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Edition #31: Pop Goes Summer - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 29, 2005 The third part of the series of long songs, songs of varying length and now... short pop songs as defined within the realm of Shocking Blue. |
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Edition #30: Out of Order - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 15, 2005 This edition is like most public telephones, oddly, out of order. We left off with long songs last time and as logic would have it we might enjoy short songs this time but that in fact will happen next time. It seems #30 is borne out of, or related at least in part to, some sort of longing. Which is the lengthening of long so perhaps we are exactly where we are meant to be today. The long and short of it includes Athlete, Gong, Gorillaz, the White Stripes and Blue Boy amongst other selections of varying length. |
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Edition #29: Long Songs - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 25, 2005 Long songs 'cause it's just too hot to get up to change the record... |
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Edition #28: iPod Dance - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 11, 2005 ...in which Delphine gets a groove on and dances wildly like in the iPod ad. You will too. |
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Edition #27: Summer Kiss - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 27, 2005 A big kiss to summer, here at last, with music from Mongo Santamaria, Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and, of course, some LCD Soundsystem. |
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Edition #26: Timely and Timeless - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 31, 2005 New sounds galore on Shocking Blue #26, from Transglobal Underground, Cyz, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, Pine and Ian Brown, plus fourteen timeless favorites from the likes of Kraftwerk, Karminsky Experience and Kasabian. |
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Edition #25: A Subliminal Suggestion - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 16, 2005 Shocking Blue asks the listener to summon a theme from within for Show #25. A subliminal suggestion, that which is on the tip of the tongue, be it ice cream or a postage stamp. Musical seduction by Love and Rockets, LCD Soundsystem, and Lamb, as well as new music from The White Stripes and Husky Revenge. |
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Edition #24: Songs for Spring - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 2, 2005 Shocking Blue #24 sprouts new songs for spring from Gorillaz, Wolfmother and LCD Soundsystem as Delphine ponders the conundrum of needing to work for a living. |
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Edition #23: Housecleaning - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 18, 2005 A trippy rhythmic mix especially good for housecleaning and organizing bills. May cause agitation to the agitated. Best dug when feeling harmonious and focused. We think. |
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Edition #22: A Field of Dreams - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 4, 2005 Delphine Blue takes us wandering through a field of dreams comprised of Canadian Indians, prosthetic Cubans, drums of passion, Afro Peruvians and Sylvan Steps. |
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Edition #21: The Vernal Equinox - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 21, 2005 Delphine takes an ambient trip into... the vernal equinox! ...music to meditate on the buds from lemon jelly, gabin and kasabian amongst others.... |
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Edition #20: The Love Show - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 28, 2005 Cupid as he lay among Roses, by a Bee was stung. Whereupon in anger flying To his Mother, said thus crying; Help! O help! your Boy's a dying. And why, my pretty Lad, said she? Then blubbering, replyed he, A winged Snake has bitten me, Which Country people call a Bee. At which she smil'd; then with her hairs And kisses drying up his tears: Alas! said she, my Wag! if this Such a pernicious torment is: Come, tell me then, how great's the smart Of those, thou woundest with thy Dart! |
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Edition #19: Welcome 2005 - listen | listen with RealPlayer A new year and new tunes, but (bless her heart) same old Delphine Blue, rocking in a brand new mood. |
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Edition #18: 2004 Year-End Roundup, Pt. 2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Delphine Blue's smart, ear-cocking music survey of notable, possibly overlooked releases from 2004 gets the new year off on the right step. continues with offerings of pop sounds from Modest Mouse, Louis XIV, The Libertines, William Shatner(!), Ozomatli, and Antibalas and fifteen others. |
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Edition #17: 2004 Year-End Roundup, Pt. 1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Delphine Blue was famous for her year-end music roundups at WBAI-FM, a ritual she revives here for the first time since 1999. Part one of two programs spotlighting 2004 releases from the likes of Air, Le Tigre, Gravenhurst, Robyn Hitchcock, Mocean Worker, Snow Patrol, PJ Harvey, The Church and so many more - what can we say? Listening is supreme. |
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Edition #16: The Christmas Special - listen | listen with RealPlayer Our genial host, Delphine Blue, indulges in the sentimentality of seasonal schmaltz, sugarplums and hard sauce, in great Shocking Blue style, bringing Tomita, James Brown, the Pretenders, and some Nutcracker (a la Ellington) to warm before her fire. |
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Edition #15 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Delphine Blue wants to make a gentle suggestion: 1-Take a trip without your passport or a psychedelic 2-Connect with humanity 3- Experience sensuality 4-Love everybody. She conveys this message, subliminally, through new music from Robyn Hitchcock and Joseph Arthur, as well as Tinariwen from the deserts of Africa, and throat singing from Tuva, near deepest Mongolia. |
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Edition #14 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Delphine Blue enters Post-Election Decompression mode with the (hopefully) distracting sounds of Spring Heel Jack, The Rachels, Legendary Pink Dots, Sofa Surfers, Clinic and so much more that the alternative music world truly has to offer the educated mind and ear. Mixed live from the WPS1 Clocktower, two beautiful hours, well spent, inside the head of Delphine Blue's musical mantras. |
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Edition #13 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Delphine Blue conjures an escapist mood to leave the disquiet caused by recent political campaigns in the dust. Join her global music adventure with the transporting sound of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Zap Mama, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Bally Sagoo, among many others - no passports or visas needed. |
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Edition #12 - listen | listen with RealPlayer In this subliminal romp through the universe of alternative music, Delphine Blue pairs some spacey selections (Karsh Kale's "Liberation," Ga Inja's "In Flight," Nitin Sawhney's "Acquired Dreams," Samko Namtchylak's "Dance of the Eagle" and Organic Grooves' "Funky not Stinky") with an impromptu set of inspired "duets" that links Willie Nelson to Shelby Lynne, Elvis Costello to Emmylou Harris and Loretta Lynn to Jack White. |
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Edition #11 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Delphine Blue unleashes a rocking melange of Electropop, No Wave, and Garage music with new tunes that are three minutes or less from Manda Diao, Bjork, ! ! ! , and Felix da Housecat. Solid Ted - 'Nuff said. |
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Edition #10 - listen | listen with RealPlayer From Delphine Blue, two hours of music to soothe those deeply troubled by current politics - or rather, an ambient vacation gift from the Orb, Love and Rockets, and the Golden Palominos, among others of primary choice. |
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Edition #9 - listen | listen with RealPlayer During these two delicious hours of music, Delphine Blue veers recklessly between the sensuous sounds of Air, Zero 7, and the Scissor Sisters to the rallying cries of the oppressed from Guy and Debbie(yes, Harry), Lillian Allen, and Bob Marley - an altogether thrill for the ear. |
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Edition #8 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Direct from a sultry summer respite on the beach at St Tropez (the village that once made Brigitte Bardot the woman that God created but has more recently been infiltrated by P-Diddy, Delphine Blue takes this opportunity to visit the music of Benin, Brazil, the UK and French Canada to glean new sounds from Angelique Kidjo, Bebel Gilberto, Martina Topley Bird and Lhasa, plus some favored-nation trax from PJ Harvey. |
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Edition #7 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Let's get lost in some jazzy interludes with the remarkable Delphine Blue, who adds hot new music around the edges from sources as cool as the Cure, Gravenhurst and Omara Portuondo. |
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Edition #6 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Direct from the Inner Ear at the WPS1 Clocktower, New York radio personality Delphine Blue weaves together a hypnotic two hours of rock rave and recitative for those who welcome a fine spell of summer heat and love, as expressed by the likes of Bjork, The Jungle Brothers, Dean Martin and the Church (the band, not the institution, which plays no part in these proceedings). |
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Edition #5 - listen | listen with RealPlayer The sultry Delphine Blue brings you unmatchable hours of music from the sky and the heavens, with Princess Superstar, Carl Hancock Rux, Oumou Sangare and Marty Willson-Piper, among many others, all lamenting the state of the world, the inner and the outer. |
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Edition #4 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Direct from the Inner Ear at the WPS1 Clocktower, the hypnotic Delphine Blue puts together two hours of listening heaven to exorcise old flames with brand new grooves, including the latest from PJ Harvey. |
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Edition #3 - listen | listen with RealPlayer From deep within The Ear at the WPS1 Clocktower studio, Delphine Blue communes with the gods and receives a message regarding the perennial nature of love, subliminally delivered by this mix. It also features brand-new music from the Beta Band, Fluke, Mocean Worker and Sonic Youth. Come in and be hypnotized. |
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Edition #2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Delphine Blue puts together music for every mood. Expect to hear everything from Orchestra Baobab to Bjork to the Cure. Live mix, with commentary by one of New York's most distinctive radio personalities. |
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Edition #1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Two wondrous hours of a live, mood-driven music mix, with commentary from New York radio personality, Delphine Blue. Expect to hear everything from PJ Harvey to the Throat Singers of Tuva, Diamanda Galas to the Drummers of Burundi to Kruder and Dorfmeister -- and beyond! |
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