Pop Tart’s Mixed Bag is an impressionistic theme-based mashup of spoken word, ambient, funk, electronic, psychedelic, pop, jazz, and rock. Each week a new theme is introduced. Themes are driven by the spoken word, stories, speeches, or clips and form the common thread. Music is added to enhance, contrast, emphasize, or transition the theme as it progresses and gains deeper meaning. The show is mixed live on the air using mostly vinyl, with .wav clips mixed where needed. Topics range from racism to gun control to the occult and anywhere in between. The show has been described as "the absolute worst show I have ever heard . . . It is the most disconnected, absurd, and weirdest broadcast of babbling dribble . . . I could make more sense of a foreign language that I don't speak than that waste of broadcasting failure." Although the critique was in a negative context, it really summed up the abstract nature of the show quite nicely! Another listener wrote this: " Just wanted to express how brilliant the mixed bag by Pop Tart is. Today’s show on guns is especially moving. This is artistic radio at its highest; reminds me of many art installations I have heard in various museums and galleries all around the country. I know this subject is heavy, but it was almost cathartic to listen to...Maggot Brain by Funkadelic was the cherry on top of the social dialogue." Hide full description
Pop Tart’s Mixed Bag is an impressionistic theme-based mashup of spoken word, ambient, funk, electronic, psychedelic, pop, jazz, and rock. Each week a new theme is introduced. Themes are driven by the spoken word, stories, speeches, or clips and form the common thread. Music is added to enhance, contrast, emphasize, or transition the theme as it progresses and gains deeper meaning. The show is mixed live on the air using mostly vinyl, with .wav clips mixed where needed. Topics range from racism to gun control to the occult and anywhere in between. The show has been described as "the absolute worst show I have ever heard . . . It is the most disconnected, absurd, and weirdest broadcast of babbling dribble . . . I could make more sense of a foreign language that I don't speak... Show full description
