Microtone

Microtone Arranger of music and music-like audio on KALX 90.7 FM Berkeley since 2010

Microtone on KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM again this Tuesday morning, 9:30 a.m. to noon!📻 KALX 90.7 FM Berkeley🔊 KALX.Berkeley....
09/01/2026

Microtone on KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM again this Tuesday morning, 9:30 a.m. to noon!

📻 KALX 90.7 FM Berkeley
🔊 KALX.Berkeley.edu

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I’m stepping in on short notice to do a KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM show this Wednesday 8/26 from about 12:30 to 3 p.m.This wa...
08/26/2026

I’m stepping in on short notice to do a KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM show this Wednesday 8/26 from about 12:30 to 3 p.m.

This was mainly an excuse to post this cute pic of my current foster kitten, Scooter 🛵😸

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Got here nice and early to slip past the Cal move-in blockades. WELCOME BACK, STUDENTS! 🐻🙋🏻‍♀️Let your campus and commun...
08/18/2026

Got here nice and early to slip past the Cal move-in blockades. WELCOME BACK, STUDENTS! 🐻🙋🏻‍♀️
Let your campus and community radio station and your friendly freeform DJs soundtrack your day as you get settled in.

I’m on this Tuesday morning 9:30 a.m. to noon Pacific Time.

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🔊 KALX.Berkeley.edu

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The most difficult thing about doing one hour specialty shows is figuring out how to focus your playlist when you have t...
08/12/2026

The most difficult thing about doing one hour specialty shows is figuring out how to focus your playlist when you have tooooo many options 😵‍💫. Not that I’m complaining about bounty! Pulling mostly from my collection of contemporary Taiwanese indie acts from the 2000s and later, including some gifts from a dear friend once known as Durian Dave.

Cramming what I can into this Wednesday edition of RADIO DUNYA, KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM ‘s weekly world music show, happening today 8/12, from 5-6 PM Pacific Time

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08/04/2026

KALX Radio show no. 648 tomorrow.

Tuesday, August 4th, 9:30 AM to noon Pacific Time

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🔊 KALX.Berkeley.edu

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You know when you unbox a new record and can just FEEL the human touch that went into creating and designing and packagi...
07/28/2026

You know when you unbox a new record and can just FEEL the human touch that went into creating and designing and packaging and mailing out each album? 💌🎶

The pleasures of are truly irreplaceable, even when shared out on intangible radio waves. These records are going to sound as amazing as they look on tomorrow morning’s EARLY radio show, Tuesday 7/28 from 7 AM to 9 AM California time 🌅

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07/21/2026

Another Tuesday radio show coming up, 7/21 from 9:30 AM to noon California time ☀️

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This is the first mixtape I ever received in the mail, c. ~1995 from Jimmy Callaway of Apple Pie Hubbub zine (Track list...
07/17/2026

This is the first mixtape I ever received in the mail, c. ~1995 from Jimmy Callaway of Apple Pie Hubbub zine (Track list in 3rd panel and comments below ⬇️). I wrote to Marc Masters about this wondrous audio adventure for his book, High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette — please check out his book for context. This tape basically changed my life. Had it not been for mixtapes, and later, mix CDs shared via postal mail with soooo many friends near and far, I probably wouldn’t have thought to join my undergrad station and be the DJ and person that I am now. Would I have found another route to connect to others through music? Probably, as music is such a universal human experience. But different media/modes might have led to communities that would have shaped me into a different person altogether.

At the time I shared my personal mixtape story with Marc, I didn’t have the tape in hand, just the indelible memories. Recently, I was delighted to rediscover this tape and others in storage at my parents’ home.

Such a treasure trove of to excavate and reflect on… And opportunities to reconnect. I lost contact with JIMMY CALLAWAY, so if you know someone with this name who was of the generation of 1990s disaffected youth from the area of Alpine/La Mesa/El Cajon/San Diego, please let him know I’m looking for him and want to say thank you for changing my life!

Here’s one more of me and Gamma Knife | KALX ☢️ from last Saturday’s event at Berkeley Public Library (thanks 📸 Prisha)!...
07/14/2026

Here’s one more of me and Gamma Knife | KALX ☢️ from last Saturday’s event at Berkeley Public Library (thanks 📸 Prisha)!

It’s been such a busy weekend I haven’t even unpacked so I might as well roll my trolley of vinyl over to KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM tomorrow, Tuesday 7/14 where I’m popping up for an early 7-9 AM radio show. Wake up with me 🌅

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Had such a fun time setting Saturday afternoon vibes at Berkeley Public Library with this KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM DJ micro...
07/12/2026

Had such a fun time setting Saturday afternoon vibes at Berkeley Public Library with this KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM DJ microcrew — JJ Cool L and Gamma Knife | KALX ☢️ 🎶🪩 Thanks also to electrophonicz for the sound support!

If you think a public library is a weird place for KALX DJs to show up, think again! Being weird and unpredictable is exactly how we shine🤩. Just as freeform radio breaks down genre divisions, music in unexpected venues helps to reconceptualize shared community space.

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