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About Me

Hi, I'm Jake...a former Radio K, REV 105 & NPR alum who spins records weekly at a club (as well as warehouse parties/art galleries/weddings/corporate events and various other venues throughout the year)
TRANSMISSION @ Clubhouse Jager every Wednesday night from 10pm - 2am. 923 Washington Ave and 10th St. North - There is never a cover charge.
Recipient of the 2005 Minnesota Music Award (MMA) in the DJ category and voted "best club DJ" by the readers of City Pages for 03,04,05,06 & 07...Thank you Twin Cities!
Bringing you the best of Indie, British, French & Swedish pop, garage, mod, psychedelic, glam, punk, post-punk, new wave, no wave, 2-tone ska, pub rock, shoegaze, power-pop, synth-pop, electro, down-tempo, space-age pop, Bossa Nova, AM 70's light-rock/yacht rock and everything in between
(a night for people who like good music)
Artists who have graced the TRANSMISSION stage include: (in no order)
Tapes n' Tapes, The Ocean Blue, Mark Mallman, The Melismastics, The Vestals, Clonial Vipers Attack, Bridge Club, The Idle Hands, The Deaths, Jeremy Messersmith, The Autumn Leaves, Chris Koza, Friends Like These, Raven, So It Goes, Coach Said Not To, The Beatifics, Jan, Mach Fox, Lollypop, Landing Gear, The Violettes, The Smarts, We Became Actors, Robotboy, The Original Mark Edwards.
Former TRANSMISSION guest DJs
Melissa Maerz (City Pages, Spin & Rolling Stone Magazine) R.T. Rybak (Minneapolis Mayor) Brian Oake (770 Radio K, Rev 105, Cities 97) Danny Sigelman (770 Radio K, 89.3 The Current) Dan Wilson (Semisonic) Ed Harcourt (Capitol Records) Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre) Josh Grier (Tapes n' Tapes) Carlos D (Interpol) DJ Pierre (France) Jonathan Ackerman (The Moon Goons) DJ SLT (KFAI Radio)
(Previous DJ venues include: First Avenue, Hexagon, The Front, Ground Zero, Turf Club, Loring Pasta Bar, Kitty Cat Klub, Imperial Room, Sursumcorda, and Jitters.
Actually, quite a few couples have hired me to DJ their weddings. So if you or someone you know needs a DJ who isn't your typical tuxedo t-shirt and chicken hat wearing cheese-ball...one who won't hog a microphone and think it's their show...a DJ who prefers not to play the "typical" wedding tunes but can if need be for the aunts, uncles and cousins who want to hear them...a DJ who has been filling up his calendar strictly by referrals for the past 8 years...send me a message and we'll chat

Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Mod



My Interests

Local bands (Minneapolis/Saint Paul) as well as - Pulp, Stereolab, Interpol, Charlatans, Zombies, Kraftwerk, Kinks, TV on the Radio, New Order, Sonic Youth, French Kicks, The Glove, Generation X, Joy Division, Sad Lovers & Giants, Shins, Radiohead, Presets, Cut Copy, Public Image Limited, Police, Berlin, Blondie, Buggles, Cars, Bow Wow Wow, Thomas Dolby, English Beat, Echo & the Bunnymen, Flock of Seagulls, Peter Gabriel, Go Go's, Human League, INXS, Nick Lowe, Spongetones, Men at Work, Plimsouls, Chills, Missing Persons, Gary Numan, Pretenders, Queen, Pete Shelley, Lily Allen, Figurines, Of Montreal, Metric, Goldfrapp, Arctic Monkeys, Rakes, Clearlake, Kings of Leon, Dirty Pretty Things, The Bees, Komeda, Spandau Ballet, Talking Heads, The Who, Flaming Lips, Nick Cave & the Badseeds, House of Love, La’s, Beatles, Ocean Blue, Camera Obscura,Velocity Girl, Ladytron, Roxy Music, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Travis, Stereophonics, Broadcast, Nick Drake, Killing Joke, Lightning Seeds, Bertrand Burgalat, Zombies, David Bowie, Who, Small Faces, Ivy, Locksley, Magazine, Wire, Gang of Four, Curve, Rapture, Manic Street Preachers, St. Etienne, Yo La Tengo, Walkmen, Scott Walker, Liars, Gang of Four, Mercury Rev, Posies, John Cale, Franz Ferdinand, Sloan, Magnetic Fields, Brian Wilson, Beach Boys, Pere Ubu, Notwist, Kings of Convenience, Ed Harcourt, Slowdive, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, AIR, Spoon, Three O'Clock, Dandy Warhols, Go-Betweens, Papas Fritas, Lou Reed, Beta Band, Rapture, Pipettes, Quasi, High llamas, Bowery Electric, Kaiser Chiefs, Cat Power, Air Miami, Verve, Teenage Fanclub, Suede, Blur, Wedding Present, Cinerama, Fall, Electronic, New Order, English Beat, Specials, Astronaut Wife, Rolling Stones, Searchers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kitchens of Distinction, Unrest, Farm, Wannadies, Strokes, Hives, Jellyfish, Ian Dury, Lene Lovich, Ultra Vivid Scene, Medicine, Lush, Altered Images, Yardbirds, World Party, Byrds, Posies, Darling Buds, Echo and the Bunnymen, Smiths, Sleeper, Gorillaz, Coldplay, Polara, Badly Drawn Boy, Longpigs, Elastica, Placebo, Wow and Flatter, Tourists, Moose, Divine Comedy, Komeda, Magnetic Fields, T.Rex, Radiohead, Supergrass, Oasis, Divorcee, Ted Fucking Nugent, Super Furry Animals, Ash, Space, Autumns, Cocteau Twins, U2, Jam, EBTG, Dubstar, Landing Gear, James, Sugarcubes, Pale Saints, My Bloody Valentine,Ride, Ride, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Artwoods, Upsetters, Greenhornes, Death in Vegas, Jacques Dutronc, Kasabian, Sugarman Three, Spacemen 3, Small Faces, Detroit Cobras, Dead Combo, Davy Jones/Lower Third, Libertines, Longwave, Mando Diao, Midnight Movies, Meters, Melismatics, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Babyshambles, The Beat Up, Buff Medways, Syd Barrett, Suicide, Sugar Pie DeSanto, St. Etienne, Shins, Sonics, Solar Flares, Stooges, Snow Patrol, Sideways, Spiritualized, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Easybeats, Saint Etienne - Elastica- The Go! Team - Freezepop - Future Bible Heroes - Stereolab - Altered Images - Figurine - Vhs Or Beta - The Arcade Fire - Of Montreal - The Tears - Pixies - Clor - Comet Gain - The Embassy - Das Pop - Blur - Killcity - Enon - Metric - Le Tigre - Maximo Park - Lali Puna - My Favorite - Beat Happening - Devo - The Jam - !!! - Libertines - Housemartins - Bluetones - The Hidden Cameras - The Rapture - Client - Cardigans - The Russian Futurists - Sonic Youth - Pipas - Ride - Revlon 9 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Tribeca - Iggy Pop - The Pipettes - English Beat - Stars - The Whip - Pastels - Black Box Recorder - Belle & Sebastian - New Young Pony Club - The Smiths - The Concretes - Air - Section 25 - A.P.B. - The Aislers Set - Blondie - Pas/Cal - OUTHUD - Kirsty Maccoll - Ladytron - The Beautiful South - The Magnetic Fields - Tiger Trap - The Organ - Suede - The Smiths - New Order - Acid House Kings - Charlatans - The Long Blondes - Bowie - Editors - Lush - Stereo Total - The Radio Dept. - House of Love - Interpol - Primitives - LCD Soundsystem - Gorillaz - Love Is All - Imperial Teen - Dandy Warhols - Hard-Fi - Futureheads - Baxendale - Doves - Wolf Parade - Broadcast - Ocean Blue - Lightning Seeds - Josef K - Sleater Kinney - Kaiser Chiefs - The Gossip - Helen Love - British Sea Power - Pulp - Bis - Rakes, Jane Birkin, Black Keys, Bar Kays, Brian Auger, Booker T, Embrooks, Can, Candyskins, Belle and Sebastian,Captain Beefheart, Plastic Bertrand, Prisoners, Telescopes, Rhinocerose, Dandy Warhols, Jam, Oasis, Oranger, Buzzcocks, Soul Brothers Six, Von Bondies, Jackie Mittoo, Ambulance LTD, Mellow, April March, Moby Grape, Mercury Rev, Clash, Pink Floyd, Primal Scream, Pretty Things, Augustus Pablo, Richard Ashcroft, The Fall, The Who, Lee Hazlewood, The Warlocks, Hank Ballard, I Like Corn, Horace Andy, France Gall, P.P. Arnold, Nic Armstrong, Noonday Underground, Birds, Byrds, Eyes, Poets, Miracles, Love, Euphoria, Gomez, Air, Faux Jean, Bis, Joy Division , Depeche Mode, White Stripes, Ok Go, Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Future Bible Heroes, Apples In Stereo, Fountains of Wayne, Psychedelic Furs, Happy Mondays, Madness, Belle and Sebastian, My Favorite, Club 8, Po!, Floraline, Human League, Bill Nelson, Birthday Party, Howard Devoto, Material Issue, Japan, Menswear, Them, Domo Sound, Kraftwerk, Clinic, Clash, Velvet Underground, Fischerspooner, Blondie, Beta Band, Ultravox, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Madness, Rialto, Jake Rudh, Modern English, Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Star, Cardigans, Catatonia, Libertines, Babybird, Kinks, Squeeze, Komeda, Kula Shaker, Gene, Peaches, Sex Pistols, Chapterhouse, Liars, Placebo, Cibo Matto, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Cure, Close Lobsters, Laptop, Beach Boys, Chills, Teardrop Explodes, LatherRinseRepeat, Robert Fripp, April March, Low, Hooverphonic, Serge Gainsbourg, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Morrissey, Le Tigre, Yo La Tango, Duran Duran, Revolver, Davey & Goliath, Spoon, John Foxx, A Certain Ratio, Wall of Voodoo, Nina Hagen, Hot Hot Heat, Gary Numan, X, XTC, Echobelly, Faint, Cornershop, Cast, Red House Painters, Talking Heads, Barry Gesmo Experience, Status Quo, Boo Radleys, Spiritualized, Paul Weller, Idle Hands, Sundays, Mercury Rev, Snowpony, His Name Is Alive, 12 Rods, International Noise Conspiracy, Shadowbox, My Vitriol, Teenage Fanclub, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Ray Wonder, Grays, Hang Ups, Magnolias, Husker Du, Matthew Jay, Wire Train, Cardigans, I Monster, Redd Kross, Linoleum, Ropers, Spongetones, Wedding Present, Lyres, April Showers, Emitt Rhodes, Felt, Helen Love, Rich King, Bertrand Burgalat, Taxi Girl, Aislers Set, Catherine Wheel, Tahiti 80, Hot, K-Fed - PopaZao!, Creation, Dandy Warhols, Doves, Donovan, Stooges, James Taylor Quartet, Panthers, Starsailor, Straglers, Jan, OMD, Magnetic Fields, Shoestrings, Pink Floyd, Free Design, Electrlane, Jacques Dutronc, Plimsouls, Primal Scream, Riverside, Shack, Embrace, Start, Talk Talk, Dodgy, Icicle Works, Barcelona, Martina, MC 5, Auteurs, Club 8, Birthday Party, Salad, Mansun, Yardbirds, Icicle Works, Von Bondies, Sahara Hotnights, Felt, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Selecter, Chameleons, Hellacopters, Runaways, Cramps, Ocean Colour Scene, Psychic TV, A Certain Ratio, Insane Clown Posse, Donnas, French Kicks, Cinnamon, Devo, Silver Sun, Tindersticks, Momochrome Set, Durutti Column, Squeeze, Clean, Adorable, Ocean Blue, Death By Chocolate, Dauerfisch, Monograph, Verve, Gentle Waves, Flamin Groovies, Gene, Datsuns, Go-Betweens, Pretenders, Built To Spill, Quasi, Ladybug Transistor, Essex Green, Falling Joys, Flatmates, Ultra Vivid Scene, Jason Faulkner, Muse, Venini, Sea and Cake, Electric Soft Parade, Spearmint, Bettie Serveert, Noonday Underground, Sloan, Four Corners, Radio 4, VHS or Beta, Monaco, France Gall, Turtles, Czerkinsky, Momus, Etienne Charry, Blue Aeroplanes, Jazz Butchers, Pale Fountains, Marine Girls, Mazzy Star, Lightning Seeds, Mellow, Lunar 9, Cranes, Aztec Camera, Adorable, Perfectly Good Gary, Mansun, B Movie, Book of Love, Brazilian Girls, Cocteau Twins, the Church, Bowery Electric, Coldplay, Idle Hands, the Hopefuls, Revolver Modele, Melismatics, Autumn Leaves, The Deaths, Shadowbox, Polara, Landing Gear, Cheap Trick, Charlatans, Thin Lizzy, Beach Boys, Kinks, Zombies, Byrds, Rasberries, Cibo Matto, Costello, Concrete Blonde, Broadcast, Stereolab, Royksopp, Koop, Monade, Komeda, Sloan, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Pitty Sing, Diamond Nights, Suprgrass, Supertramp, ELO, Death in Vegas, OK GO, Mark Mallman, Yo La Tengo, Stereolab, My Favorite, Morella's Forest, Arling and Cameron, Heavenly, Lois, Luna, Calvin Johnson, Harvey Williams, Air, Sea &; Cake, Versus, Verve, Swirlies, Adorable, Small Factory, Velocity Girl, Ivy, Ride, Bjork, Echobelly, Lush, Catherine Wheel, Pale Saints, MBV, Rainer Maria, Moving Units, Hot Hot Heat, Le Tigre, Broadcast, The Stills, Prosaics, Metric, Beauty Pill, Lali Puna, Call and Response, Say Hi To Your Mom, Mahogany, Baskervilles, Lost In Translation Soundtrack, ESL &; Colette Compilations, afro-cuban, acid jazz, electro/house/ disco/new wave. currently: Elika, Ulrich Schnauss, Film School, Metric Mile, Mew, The Vera Violets, Francoise Hardy, Auburn Lull, Relay, Freescha, BrasiliaWeezer, Longwave, Rolling Stones, Madeleine Peyroux, the Coral, Shout Out Louds, Placebo, Dears, Maximo Park, Faithless, Electrelane, Knickerbockers, Feist, Portishead, Mono, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Dead 60's, The Go Team, Faming Lips, Dylan, the Dylans, Engineers, Air, Duran Duran, Material Issue, Moose, Libertines, Orb, Orbital, Modern English, INXS, Interpol, Luna, Bryan Ferry, The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, Roxy Music, Everything but the Girl, Heavenly, Oingo Boingo, Elvis, Pretenders, Pizzicato Five, Police, Hives, Cato Salsa Experience, Esquivel, Kirsty Maccoll, Raveonettes, Moog Cookbook, Redd Kross, Jellyfish, Posies, Badfinger, Breeders, Buggles, Berlin, Big Star, Bauhaus, Altered Images, Belle and Sebastian, Cars, Chills, Cinerama, Wedding Present, Strokes, Suede, Legendary Jim Ruiz, Riverside, Papas Fritas, Ivy, Ladytron, Laika, Japan, the Jam, Grid, Peter Gabriel, Echobelly, After the Fire, Gentle People, Thrills,Upsetters, Greenhornes, Death in Vegas, Jacques Dutronc, Kasabian, Sugarman Three, Spacemen 3, Small Faces, Detroit Cobras, Dead Combo, Davy Jones/Lower Third, Libertines, Longwave, Stereolab, Mando Diao, Midnight Movies, Meters, Melismatics, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Prince Buster, James Brown, Babyshambles, The Beat Up, Buff Medways, Syd Barrett, Suicide, Sugar Pie DeSanto, St. Etienne, Shins, Sonics, Solar Flares, Stooges, Snow Patrol, Sideways, Spiritualized, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Easybeats, Jane Birkin, Black Keys, Bar Kays, Brian Auger, Can, Candyskins, Belle and Sebastian, Bo Diddley, Brave Captain, Captain Beefheart, Big Boss Man, Pulp, Plastic Bertrand, Prisoners, Telescopes, Rhinocerose, Jimmy McGriff, Junior Dread, Dandy Warhols, Jam, Oasis, Oranger, Buzzcocks, Soul Brothers Six, Von Bondies, Jackie Mittoo, Ambulance LTD, Mellow, April March, Moby Grape, Mercury Rev, Clash, Pink Floyd, Primal Scream, Pretty Things, Augustus Pablo, Bridge Club, Paul Weller, Richard Ashcroft, Billy Childish, Faux Jean, The Fall, The Who, Lee Hazlewood, The Warlocks, Hank Ballard, Horace Andy, France Gall, Arnold, P.P. Arnold, Nic Armstrong, Noonday Underground, Birds, Byrds, Eyes, Poets, Miracles, Love, Euphoria.................................................... .......We are also not above throwing sets of guilty pleasures into the mix (because to me, they are far from guilty pleasures)including: Electric Light Orchestra, 10cc, Hall & Oates, Journey, Ace, Player, Alan Parsons Project, Pilot, Boz Scaggs, Toto, Boston, Todd, Rundgren, Poco, Jefferson Starship, America, Firefall, Little River Band, Doobie Brothers, Foreigner, Styx, Three Dog Night, Starland Vocal Band, Eddie Money, Ambrosia, Michael McDonald, Chicago, Steely Dan, Rod Stewart, Nilsson, Chic, Earth, Wind & Fire...you get the point.

I'd like to meet:

Fellow music-heads, people who enjoy dancing, blokes in bands, ladies in bands, people who groove on hearing new sounds, artists, new wavers, post punks, mods, garage rockers, freak & Mersey-beaters, shoe-gazers, Brit and power poppers, glam & prog-rockers, experimentalists, indie aficionados, DIY types, DJ's, beatniks, common people, a pinch of goths, twee types, synth lovers, new romantics, and/or any band inspired by David Bowie, Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music, Kraftwerk, The Beatles, Blondie, Zeppelin, The Free Design, The Zombies, The Kinks, Velvet Underground, Burt Bacharach, Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, the list goes on and on...

To be added to the Transmission email list where you will get a weekly update of the CD release/listening parties and live performances send an email to [email protected]

Music:

Bringing you the best of Indie, British, garage, mod, punk, post-punk, new wave, electro and everything in between.

Movies:

Urgh! A Music War

Television:

"Marquee Moon" played frequently.

Books:

"Read it in Books" - Echo and the Bunnymen

Heroes:

Bowie is inspiration

My Blog

As many of you know my fiancée was a 35W Bridge collapse survivor...

Since this site is about music, I have been extremely selective on what I've posted about our current situation, but the website that Mercedes (my fiancée) helped develop just went live today, an...
Posted by Transmission on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:31:00 PST

The CD (or album) release of the year -

These lists are always tough.  I'd like to see what many of you are putting down as your number one release of 2007.  If you'd like...put down your top 10...or top 100, it's up to you.&...
Posted by Transmission on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:45:00 PST

The Synthesizer - place your requests...

This Wed. October 24th TRANSMISSION features nothing but the analog & digital synthesized sounds we so love to move to.  My very first dance night (Room 7609) at Jitters downtown many moons a...
Posted by Transmission on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:40:00 PST

Thank you

Last night's event was a HUGE success and I very much appreciate all of my friends and MySpace friends who helped to promote it.  So many folks who Mercedes and I don't even know have come to th...
Posted by Transmission on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:59:00 PST

The benefit for my fiancee Mercedes

Many of you know my fiancé Mercedes was on the I-35W bridge coming home from work on August 1st.  You also may know she sustained serious injuries that have changed both of our lives forever.&nb...
Posted by Transmission on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:59:00 PST

The band/artist that should have made it but...

didn't for one reason or another. Let's share some of the bands and performers that only had one or two releases and broke up/ran out of talent/died/etc. Of course there is Jeff Buckley as an obvious ...
Posted by Transmission on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:03:00 PST

The post-punk scene

Alright, this night has been floating around in my head for a while now but I've been hesitant to do it as I'm not sure everyone will groove to the one scene.  As many of you know however, there...
Posted by Transmission on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:21:00 PST

The 80's ... totally.

So this coming Wednesday May 23rd, TRANSMISSION will have a blast hosting an all 80's night.  We'll be playing your top 40 favorites from Howard Jones, Men at Work, and Duran Duran to the deepest...
Posted by Transmission on Fri, 18 May 2007 11:35:00 PST

Your favorite concert/s (so far at least)

You're checking out this blog and you come down to TRANSMISSION because you're a lover of music.  Not only listening to your favorite tunes recorded but also seeing them performed live.  He...
Posted by Transmission on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:31:00 PST

The music we were raised on

OK, so unless you had some hip ass parents or cool older siblings with great record collections...you were probably listening to the radio growing up.  I would guess most of you were raised in t...
Posted by Transmission on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:32:00 PST