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Program Information
The Sonic Cafe
The Totally Random Improbability Drive
Weekly Program
Scott Clark
 Scott Clark  Contact Contributor
March 15, 2018, 10:26 a.m.
It’s the Sonic Café. Welcome to episode 78. I’m Scott Clark. AI… artificial intelligence… It’s promise? Make life easier for all of us. In the not too distant future we’re told that you’ll be able to get anything you need simply by asking Alexa. In fact right now powerful algorithms from somewhere in the cloud are already picking our music on services like Pandora and Spotify. Not to be outdone… the Sonic Café has developed a powerful algorithm of our own. We call it the Totally Random Improbability Drive… and we’ve turned it loose for this episode. Listen for randomly selected tunes from Bill Bruford and Tony Levin from their Upper Extremities release, plus other random cuts from Underworld, Kelley Polar, Brand X and more. And later on listen as comedian Kevin Pollock gives us his impression of the great Christopher Walken, one of the most non sequitur personalities of our modern era. All that and more brought to you by the Sonic Café’s very own Totally Random Improbability Drive. It’s not exactly a powerful algorithm… actually, it’s more like throwing darts against a wall to see what sticks, but we think you’ll like the results as we present The Totally Random show, powered by the Totally Random Improbability drive… this time at the Sonic Café.
Song 1: Everything Falls Apart
Artist: Dogs Eye View
LP: Happy Nowhere
Yr: 1995
Song 2: Everybody in the Place (155 and Rising)
Artist: Prodigy
LP: The Rest, The Unreleased! The Last
Yr: 1995
Song 3: Original Sin
Artist: Bruford Levin Upper Extremities
LP: Bruford Levin Upper Extremities
Yr: 1998
Song 4: So Far Away
Artist: Dire Straits
LP: Brothers In Arms
Yr: 1985
Song 5: Jumbo
Artist: Underworld
LP: Everything,Everything
Yr: 2003
Song 6: Born Pretty In A Disco
Artist: Brand X
LP: The X-Files: A 20 Year Retrospective
Yr: 1999
Song 7: Chacka Dance
Artist: Beenie Man
LP: Undisputed
Yr: 2006
Song 8: False Alarms
Artist: Bill Nelson
LP: Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam
Yr: 1981
Song 9: Matter into Energy
Artist: Kelley Polar
LP: Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
Yr: 2005
Song 10: Started Out With Nothin
Artist: Seasick Steve
LP: Walkin Man: The Best Of Seasick Steve
Yr: 2011
Song 11: Christopher Walken
Artist: Kevin Pollak
LP: Bob & Tom Show
Yr:
Song 12: Rickys Hat
Artist: Liquid Soul
LP: Make Some Noise
Yr: 1998
Song 13: Diamond Blues
Artist: Francesco De Masi
LP: Troppo Per Vivere... Poco Per Morire
Yr: 1967
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE PLAYING THE SONIC CAFÉ ON YOUR STATION, WE’D LOVE TO ASSIST IN PROMOTION.

The Sonic Cafe features an intelligent, eclectic mix of music, comedy and pop culture showcasing 30 to 60 years of content within each episode.

The show is set in an imaginary cafe overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast. The cafe serves music, comedy and pop culture rather than breakfast, lunch and dinner. All announcer voiceovers are presented over the background noise of a busy cafe with references made to the café environment to create a theatre of the mind experience for listeners.

The program actually does originate from KYAQ radio located on the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, so the imagery is not a huge stretch.

Each program is 58:00 minutes in length leaving room for station ID, promos and PSAs. Each episode is .mp3 encoded at a constant rate of 256kbps and ready for broadcast.

All episodes are evergreen; never focusing on time of year, weather, month, holidays, events etc. so each show is timeless. All music is presented in a no repeat format. Once a song airs in an episode it never airs again. Episodes may be downloaded and grouped together to quickly create program blocks of two, three, four or more hours in length.

Original syndication date was 7/22/2016. At that time 31 shows had already been produced (over six months of content) with new episodes produced weekly. A new episode is released each week. You can confidently add The Sonic Cafe to your schedule knowing that a backlog of shows is already produced awaiting weekly release.

The Sonic Cafe has a Facebook page (facebook.com/SonicCafeRadio) where complete show notes and playlists are presented for each episode. The Sonic Café can also be streamed from MixCloud (mixcloud.com/SonicCafe1)

Listeners can also reach the show producers via email (SonicCafeRadio@gmail.com)

Pre-recorded Sonic Cafe promos are available to promote the show on your station. Each is roughly :24 seconds in length with time left to tag local broadcast day and time. We are also happy to produce custom promos, station IDs, etc. Contact us via email to request promo files. Also please let us know if you pick-up the program on your station so we can announce it on our Facebook page.

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