Saturday's show is dedicated to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who passed 4 years ago Sunday, February 5th. In my life: he is the reason we have this vortex in southeast Iowa. He is the reason KRUU radio exists. He is the reason I'm here. He Is. We'll feature songs from the CD Beauty by Vargo. Vargo is Ansgar Uffink and Stephanie Hundertmark. Vargo believes "that inner peace- serenity- in every single human being is an important requirement for peace in the world." Song titles from Beauty include "Get Back To Serenity", "Relax", "Pure Consciousness", "Happiness", "The Flow", "Intuition" and "Silence"- which "has been inspired by a poem of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi". "Flowing silence is love / shared silence is friendship / silence seen is infinity / vibrating silence is creation / expressed silence is beauty / maintained silence is strength / allowed silence is rest / received silence is joy / perceived silence is knowledge / silence alone is Being..."

Jai Guru Dev.

Greetings and holiday salutations from Pirate Satellite!

We play ambient electronic music, heard every Saturday morning, from 9:00 - 10:00 A.M. Central. It's a fave time of the year- holiday music time.

Much of it will be remixed holiday classics, plus original holiday songs. During the holidays we include other genres of the music world, all in celebration of a cool yule! We'll post the playlist afterward. Yo-Ho-Ho Enjoy!

This edition of Pirate Satellite sponsored by Manger 6   We'll leave the Star out for Ya.

"Hi, this is Shane Miller, I love you guys!"

Inspired by Wednesday night's Best Obscure Electronic Music show on Fringe Toast (which can be heard again this Tuesday 11/22 at Midnight) we'll roll out some obscure electronic music of our own. It won't be a best-of, but will include some of our recent faves, and have two similarities to Wednesday's Fringe Toast playlist- a different song by one of the same groups and a different mix of a same song DJ UndergroundMan played.

Also hear music from Bent, Language Lab remixed by Groove Armada, G-Spliff from an album where "Tango Meets Chillout". Plus Les Hommes, a trio from London who "work a clean '60s jazz prototype, using organ, drums, and vibraphone". Get "Lost In A Moment", a beautiful electronic soundscape from the duo Shrift- a classic he plays electronics, she sings vocals (Yaz, Eurythmics).

Evan Bartholomew drops his Bluetech moniker to get "Between Mastery and Mystery" and MNO does the best cover of the Beatles "Julia" in recent memory- even if Beatles expert extraordinaire Andy MacKenzie begs to differ. That and more.

Ambient electronica, Saturday morning at 9 Central. Live stream @kruufm.com We'll post the playlist afterward.

"Mystically speaking there's no difference between you and another person." - Pirate Satellite Wayne Dyer Unity mix

Perhaps a mystical Hallowed Ween morning with Pirate Satellite. Begin On The Rocks, then Paul Takes the Water Of Life. Mark Dwane flows the Halloween Oracle. "Inner space. Absolute, Unbounded final frontier." There's Mysteries Of Science flowing Chaos Pleasures. "Everything Zen? I don't think so." Hear a Basic Instinct. Daniel Ash down slow conjures a ghostly Casablanca. Procol Harum dazzles in hallowed gothic rock. Zamfir flows Hallowed Ween Fantasy.

Live stream kruufm.com Playlist posted afterward

Saturday morning we'll hear Mingo's title cut from Guide To Invisibility; DJ Sheb I Sabbah; DNA; Martin Gore's spiritually inspired "Peace" from Depeche Mode's latest album Sounds Of the Universe. Also music from Vargo, Digitonal and the title cut to Terra Ambient's album Wanderlust. Hear Nina Simone double remixed; Mychael Danna and more.

"Just look at me. I'm a living act of holiness. Giving all the positivity that I possess. I'm going to light up the world." ~ Depeche Mode

Live stream @kruufm.com. Playlist posted afterward. Saturday morning 9:00 AM

This mix from Pirate Satellite was greatly inspired by Canadian Peter Beamish, who went in to a movie theater in 1999 to see The Matrix. "I stepped outside the theater after seeing The Matrix and the world was somehow slighted tilted. It never did straighten-out for me again." What does that mean? "It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas is goin' bye-bye." -Cypher

Hear music from the compilation albums Artificial Intelligence 2; Dance: Dream: Dance; and From Here To Tranquility, Ambient Compilation Volume 3.

Hear "Perfect" music from Depeche Mode; Kid Loco's Once Upon a Time In The East remix of Talvin Singh's ambient classic Traveller and music from the films Ink and The Damned United.

Ambient electronica, Saturday morning at 9:00 AM Central. Live stream @kruufm.com.

"The name of the Game is to feel... real... good."

We're delighted to be featuring the music of Honeyroot and other artists from London's Just Music label Saturday morning. Honeyroot is Glenn Gregory (ex. Heaven 17 frontman) and Keith Lowndes (ex. ABC member).

Hear music from Future Loop Foundation, who is Mark Barrott, creating ‘Aural History’ - and reinterpretations of his tracks by cutting edge downtempo producers, including Rob Da Bank, Chris Coco, Jon Kennedy and Pete Lawrence.

Also, music from Digitonal. "Digitonal have been going in one form or another since 1997, although the band's fusion of cinematic strings and electronica beats wasn't fully realized until 2002."

Also hear from Pirate Satellite fave Jon Hopkins. He "makes big, bold electronic music using walls of synths, twinkling melodies and amorphous bass rumbles."

Enjoy laid back electronic grooves and chill, Saturday morning at 9:00 Central. Live stream @kruufm.com. We'll post the playlist afterward.

"Welcome to my luxurious Hollywood home. Let's go sit outside by the pool"

Saturday hear the latest Depeche Mode release, Sounds Of The Universe. "Recorded in Santa Barbara and New York, Depeche Mode returned to using a lot of vintage gear, from analogue synthesizers to drum machines, in order to conjure up the retro-futuristic arrangements featured on the album. It bleeps and thumps and hisses with a seemingly primitive array of manufactured noises in a way that only fans of, say, Orbital, Autechre, or Kraftwerk can really appreciate."

Also hear from Interval's The Edge Of A Fairytale; A.R. Rahman & BlaaZe from the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack and more.

Just fooling around on Pirate Satellite. "Cliff get that girl off your arm. I mean it. I know she's there, get-her-off-your-arm. Stop it. Bye. Look at me when I'm talking to you. I'm tellin' you! Ha huh! huh huh huh!" - Big C from St Louie

Also hear music from Nicola Conte; Tosca; Aes Dana; a cut from the compilation Saint Tropez Cote Plage and more. (Click on "Read More" to continue)

Saturday morning enjoy "Musical Medicine for the Soul". "Ambient electronic, Shamanic, Intergalactic Space Music" by Dan Pound. "Fusing indigenous, ethnic instruments, voice & percussion with guitars & space synth sound worlds, this music is at once other worldly & evocative. Hear sounds meant for creating a sacred space, as well as invoking a primal & dark inversion of introspection. Dan Pound's music is used for meditation, yoga, massage and deep zone transportation to another time & place. Enjoy atmospheric soundworlds unlike any other, moving and soothing the inner senses to the core." Music from Dan Pound, Saturday morning at 9:00 AM Central. Live stream @kruufm.com. We'll post the playlist after the show. Learn more @DanPound.com

"It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful."

Saturday Pirate Satellite will groove songs from Rasa Music: "Where Sensuality, Spirituality, and Style Converge." Rasa specializes in music for lounging, dancing, relaxation, and meditation. Like Pirate Satellite, Rasa dares you to think and live differently and embrace a new paradigm where ones inner Buddha can chillout, do yoga and continue to work, play and flourish in present world. Hear music from Slow Train Soul; Armen Ra; (on the Theremin!) Amar; Smadj; Benet; Visti & Meyland; a Gotan Project remix of Sarah Vaughn's Whatever Lola Wants and more. We'll post the playlist afterward.

Flourish in the present, with Pirate Satellite.