Death To Automation
‘Death To Automation’ is the official title for “three college students who like to sit around in the studio and play records on the air,” but don't let that fool you. Despite what first impressions would have you believe, we’re actually rabid audiophiles and avid music aficionados dedicated to providing our listeners with quality tunes. We each have a strong passion for vinyl records, and prefer them over all other forms of recorded audio. The context and atmosphere that vinyl brings to our radio program is very powerful—so much so that we refuse to play anything but records. We’re dinosaurs, and damn proud. You’ll often hear us make remarks that MP3s, WAVs, and digital files in general are destroying recorded music, and the context by which it has become such a powerful influence on human culture. We live in robotic times, where the warm crackling of an analog needle can no longer be heard amidst the droning hum of computer speakers. Automated radio is a result of this “Digital Revolution.’ Compressed audio files cued up in a playlist and ready to go hours before you even hear them. It’s cold, calculated, and soulless—but it’s hard to imagine anything else. In the old days, records used to be played on the air too. Our show’s name sums it all up quite nicely. Death To Automation! We are the Analog Revolution.
Not to exaggerate, but Death To Automation is simply the greatest radio show ever. Broadcasts air every Monday night during the academic semester at Clarkson University—hosted by us—the astonishingly good-looking trio of Brien O’Keefe, Dominic Bochicchio, and Andrew Hartung. We are an explosion of good taste—music, food, movies, fashion, women, you name it. You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll lose twenty pounds!
We're on the air Monday nights from 6:00pm until 8:00pm—the best 120 minutes of your life.
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