Radial Blur is a weekly deep and underground house program on MyHouse-YourHouse Radio. Bay Area native Ornette is your host and selector for the show.

This podcast is a distilled version of the program and features his personal favorite picks and guest spots from the show's run of almost 2 years. It is updated twice a month on Fridays.

To hear the show live, you can tune in at www.myhouse-yourhouse.net every Thursday night at 8pm PST or 0400 GMT (early Friday mornings in the U.K.) There is a shoutbox where you can chat with other listeners and an extensive forum and interactive schedule featuring deep house and ecletic dj's from around the world.

Ornette

Ornette was drawn into electronic music and house parties in 1993 when he went to his first underground warehouse party in San Francisco. The idea of large groups of people getting together and staying up all night socializing, listening to music, and dancing was very appealing to a kid who had spend his whole life in a household with a father who was a hi-fi nut and record collector of the highest order. Throughout his childhood his parents had exposed him to everything from the avant garde jazz music of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane to the raw sounds of punkers Iggy Pop and theRamones, early electronic groups like Devo, Kraftwork, and Gary Numan, even the operatic masterworks of Wagner, Puccini, and Strauss. In his middle and high school years he used to make mixtapes of R&B and Rap music and even secretly bought a radio shack dj mixer which his folks made him immediately take back to the store.

Out of high school and on his own, Ornette was drawn to commercial cd's of DJ's like Danny Teneglia, Dj EFX, and Mark Lewis and knew immediately he had to be a part of this new music that was exploding in underground parties around the world. Taking every opportunity to go to raves in Sacramento, Santa Cruz, San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area, sometimes going by himself or taking anyone that would with him go he delved headfirst into the nightlife and met people of all colors and backgrounds getting along under laser lights and jumping around with the tribal spirit that only comes through true freedom and self-expression.

At 21 he took what money he had and bought a pair of Technics, a crate of records and never looked back on wanting to do anything else. He hooked up with some of his raving friends and together the group started throwing house parties, playing beats and partying into the wee hours of the morning. After a few years the parties got bigger, the music got better, and he was finding himself residencies with respected rave crews, working at a record store and playing in large and small warehouse parties and on the bill with heavy hitters like Gavin Hardkiss, Garth, Jeno, Fishbone, Johnny Fiasco, Angel Alanis, Sandra Collins, Slacker, Christian Smith, Adam Beyer, Christopher Lawrence, Miguel Migs, and many others from all over the wide spectrum of house and techno talents. He has played in the cities and forests, on the beaches and rivers up and down the western coast of the United States.

From his earliest days Ornette had an appreciation for all forms of music and continues to this day to refuse to have a typical or typecast sound by staying interested and engaged in the varying cultures and musical trends of house, techno, and even the emerging sound of dubstep. It doesn't always work out but most of the time it can be damned interesting. One thing is certain, if it is underground Ornette is listening to it. Getting people together and cherishing open-heartedness with friends and new people has always been as big of a part of his life as the music, he feels felt strongly that there can be no true culture without community, expression, and encouraging people to get excited, get creative, and get involved in music, in parties, and in life. With more than a decade of experimenting, collecting, promoting, throwing parties, and playing records under his belt Ornette continues to participate in the electronic music culture in the Bay Area and beyond.