#kruxlife 2006

#kruxlife 2006

My 1st turntable & mixer...rotating the goods.

State of College Radio (Muting the airwaves)

A big part of this blog's story is my history on college radio between the years of 2000 and 2008 at New Mexico State University's student run college radio station KRUX 91.5FM. During those eight years I got the chance to work my way into administrative positions while hosting my own radio show. This included roles such as archives manager and Hip Hop program director. We're more than ten years removed from our time time spent in the radio booth which rivaled the time spent on course work and our responsibilities related to part time jobs and anything and everything else on a college student's day to day. Definitely lost a lot of sleep, often times barely sleeping at all over the course of a 48 hour period just to get in my time on air. I can't say I've heard student run college radio as we knew it back then in quite a long time. With an exception to when I've dropped in on a friend's program, its been a minute since I've actively tuned in to hear a specific time slot. It didn't occur to me how much has changed until I had an eMCee that I found out about through college radio in my day speak on it on a recent interview segment with an eMCee out of Buffalo, NY. Doing a Google search I was surprised to find out about all the changes going on nation wide when it comes to college radio. I plan on sharing articles I'm finding here under the tag State of College Radio. I can't imagine a college experience without college radio, so here's to a hope that spaces for student's to find their voice will still exist in the years ahead. Peace!

Since 2000 #repshow915 #kruxlife #radiodayz #soulsession #rawkshop

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Muting the airwaves: As colleges sell off their radio stations, student deejays grapple with their identities in the digital age Full article: click here by Jenna Spoont

“Even a student without a voice needs a microphone to be heard sometimes,” Spielmaker said. “If you want to take over a college radio station, please talk to the students. Students can make decisions on what’s best for us, our education, our future.”

#kruxlife KRUX 91.5 FM Archive / New Mexico State University

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KRUX 91.5 FM

New Mexico State University

With more than a hundred cassette tape recordings of the KRUX 91.5 FM years 2000-2008, I've decided to make the Hip Hop Alumni (HHA) Soundcloud page home for recordings and clips from the show to include interviews, freestyles, rotations of specific songs, microphone time, shout outs, playlist run downs, jokes, debuts, drops, and anything else I can find going through tapes.  We will archive the recordings on Soundcloud.  I may also create a backup online to avoid the audios being removed or blocked for any reason.  We start with the Carlos Andres Gomez recording of 'Wordsworth'... a poem that was laid down over a lanline phone conversation after poet Monte Smith connected us to the opportunity.  You can hear the 'Wordsworth' piece at the link below and above.  With each update we'll also load up the MP3 download.  You can peep updates at Hip Hop Alumni's twitter.com/hiphopalumni page by searching #kruxlife. 

We weren't the first Hip Hop show there nor the last.  If you have recordings, especially sessions from days past (as I know there was a Hip Hop radio slot in the early 90s) shoot me a note at repshowhost@gmail.com.  Would love to listen and work on adding other recordings to the archive.

For anybody familiar and those that aren't... KRUX is a special place.  The only radio station around, other than Street Beat in ABQ, New Mexico where the rules of rotation are determined by the disc jockey themselves.  Our antenna's reach wasn't very strong but once the web stream opened up a lot of folks got the chance to be heard from all around.  The station has a lot of life because of the opportunity it presents to the student body and with that it has a really cool history too, though we don't know much about it.  Perhaps that'll be something I can use this blog to document if I get the chance to dig into past archives, articles, or anything that might be on record of KRUX's beginnings. 

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KRUX 91.5 FM Archive / Soundcloud: click here

Carlos Andres Gomez Rotation 'Wordsworth': Download / MP3

The Representation Show October 29, 2004 Playlist: click here