The Ozcat Radio DJs

Other than the hour and a quarter’s worth of new European material, this edition of AirCheck is playtime, a chance to go back and hit some of the things that have only been played on one show and deserve more, and some that have been there so long they’ve been forgotten.

Here are some of the artists I looked up for whatever reason:

Caro Emerald – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Caroline van der Leeuw (born 26 April 1981 in Amsterdam), better known by her stagename Caro Emerald, is a Dutch jazz singer. She debuted on 6 July 2009 with her single “Back It Up”. In week 32, 3FM Radio declared “Back It Up” a 3FM Megahit.

Ellie Goulding – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ellie Goulding (born Elena Jane Goulding on 30 December 1986)[1] is an English singer–songwriter and guitarist. She rose to fame after topping the BBC Sound of 2010 poll and winning the Critics Choice Award at the 2010 BRIT Awards.

Gorillaz – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gorillaz are an English virtual band created in 1998 by Damon Albarn of Britpop band Blur, and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl. The band is composed of four animated band members: 2D (lead vocals, keyboard), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Noodle (lead guitar and occasional vocals) and Russel (drums and percussion). The band’s music is a collaboration between various musicians, Albarn being the only permanent musical contributor.

The Big Pink – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Big Pink are an electro-rock duo from London, England, comprising multi-instrumentalists Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell. The duo signed to the 4AD label in 2009, and won the prestigious NME Philip Hall Radar Award for best new act.

Young Money Entertainment – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Young Money Entertainment is an American record label founded by rapper Lil Wayne. The label is an imprint of Cash Money Records and is distributed by Universal Records.

Jurk! – Wikipedia via Google Translate

Jurk! is a Dutch music-and-comedy duo consisting of Jeroen Koningsbrugge and Dennis van de Ven. Op 8 januari 2010 verscheen de single Zou zo graag van het op 15 januari 2010 gepresenteerde debuutalbum Avondjurk .

Falco (musician) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann (Hans) Hölzel (19 February 1957 – 6 February 1998), better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian, pop and rock musician and had four #1 Hits – “Der Kommissar”, “Rock Me Amadeus”, “Jeanny”, and “Coming Home (Jeanny Part 2)”. With “Rock Me Amadeus” he is the first and so far only artist to score a #1 Hit in the U.S. with a German language song. His albums and singles have sold about 60 million copies worldwide.

After all the time devoted to the year-end EuroChart reviews, I am so ready for some new music.  It’s been three weeks since I sought out new tunes, so there’s a lot of new music.  I doubt I’ll play anything old unless it was preempted by the season.  (Read more…)

This week’s AirCheck is all Europe again.

As another year draws to a close, artists all over Europe have released their latest, hopefully CD-sales-inspiring, singles. With all of our time devoted to getting ready to go live on the FM dial, and being out of our studio while it’s remodeled, the past couple weeks things have mounted up, so there’s a ton of new music. As usual this is my worksheet, so not everything will be covered… just artists I needed to remember. The nice part of it is that WordPress has pretty good search capabilities, so as I grab these snippets, more and more of the international artists will be searchable here.

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OK, I’ll be honest here… this is more for me than you.  Every week when I prep AirCheck, my Tuesday night world hits show, I go through so many charts and wikis that I often can’t remember where I found info about an artist, or to whom it related.  Creeping CRS.    So i’m going to try it this way, using the OzBlog and ScribeFire to pull together the info behind my AirCheck show. We’ll see how it works.

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This blog is more a workspace than anything else, but if you follow the show, it should be pretty interesting. Every week when I research the show, I check multiple sources to find out about the international artists we play. I can be a bit forgetful (creeping CRS) so I often do it more than once. Now, I’ll just ScribeFire it onto this blog, which will both make it easier on my poor aching mind and provide the resources and research to the web-wide world.

So this will be clips about artists, pieces of charts, music resources, stuff like that. Enjoy it if you can.