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I know, I know, I know.
You think college radio is just a
bunch of freaks playing loud rock,
punk and folk music.
Right?
Well, wrong.
If that's what you think college
radio is all about, then you haven't
been listening to WUSC-FM 90.5 on
Thursday nights. Not only does.
Thursday night on WUSC feature
jazz and hip hop, but from 10 p.m.
to midnight Down Low offers
Columbia listeners a weekly dose of
R&B.
The show is divided into two parts,
and Down Low kicks thingB off with
the 'Screw Your Wig on Tight Session,'
which primarily features upbeat
R&B and mild hip hop.
Then at 11 p.m. he slows things
down with the straight slow jams of
the 'Calm Before the Storm.'
Down Low said the show fits into
the WUSC format because he
concentrates on songs or remixes
R&B stations don't play.
"A lot of the songs I play, I pick
from the full-length albums, but then
they become hits on the Big DM,"
he said. "I think R&B stations do a
good job, but I think they need to
add a bit of flavor. I think they have
a good format, but they play to an
older crowd, whereas at the university
we're playing to a younger crowd.
They need to make it a bit more
rounded."
Down Low, who is a senior at
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AMY SHANNON Staff Writer
Choreography set to music hum
the Smashing Pumpkins, Celine
Dicn, Aretha Franklin and Star Wars
are just a few of the dance pieces
presented by the USC Dance
Company for the first of their "Two
Shows in Repertory" production.
For the first performance, "The
USC Dance Company in Concert,"
ten young choreographers each
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USC with a double major in
psychology and sociology, said he
tries to keep the R&B show as wellrounded
as possible. He said he plays
funk, soul, slow jams and other styles
of R&B but that he makes a special
effort to include some older songs.
"I play a little bit of everything,"
he said. "I try to play some older
stuff, or at least remixes of older
stuff. I don't think you can really
appreciate the new music without
appreciating the old." ^
Down Low and his cohost
Dee have been doing the show for
over a year now, and he said he
thinks it has made an impression
on the station.
"It's definitely made an impact,"
he said. "I think a lot of people think
that the radio station is targeted at
one audience. Shows like mine make
the station more rounded than that.
"We still need to build on this
though," he said. "Because the station
in the past was predominately an
alternative rock station. But I think
the current rotation of the music has
brought a lot of new styles of music
in, and that is always good."
Down Low said his show is
important because it adds an element
to WUSC that the station was often
missing in the past.
He said R&B is more than just
slow jams and steady beats. He said
it is music with a strong heritage
that is extremely important.
1 think R&B is spiritual," he said.
"I comes from the soul, and it was
born from gospel and blues. Ifs not
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for the show. The music they chose
for their sections varies with modern,
classical, jazz and Gospel selections.
The contemporary works created
by the choreographers focus on several
different areas of interest including
civil unrest, the Holocaust, the
Western frontier, Judgement Day
and other events.
"If s about how I use dance as my
outlet, how I express myself,"
choreographer Jessica Graham said.
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relays a basic message of who we
are ana now we live, uut it s notjusi
music for one set of people. It's music
for everyone to listen to and enjoy.'
He said that the depth of R&E
music comes from the attitude of the
musicians. He said it is their attitude*
and their expression that makes the
music what it is.
"R&B is just real," he said. "It's
just being real; that's what it's al
about. We're not trying to hide
anything. The things they talk abou
in R&B are things you're going t<
see in everyday life. They're jusi
keeping it real, expressing things ii
the open."
Down Low said the music ii
significant for it's heritage and foi
the messages expressed in the musii
but that it isn't for everyone.
"As far as being significant," he
said. "This music is very importan
to us as listeners and as people, bu
it's not for everyone.
"All I can say is tiy to experieno
it. It's very heartfelt music with 5
message, and I think people need t
listen to it."
And if you'd like to experience it
you've got a chance every Thursda;
from 10 p.m. until midnight oi
WUSC. So when Thursday roll
around, screw your wig on tight an<
get ready for the 'Calm Before thi
Storm.'
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