This Weekend on SpiritPlants Radio (January 31-February 1, 2026)

Turn on . . . tune in! SpiritPlants Radio is on the air 24/7! And now for 22 years!

SpiritPlants Radio's website can be found at www.spiritplantsradio.com. On this site is the current weekday & weekend schedule & links to listen live, as well as links to the station's archives, blog, forum, chat, playlists, & song history.

During the weekdays you are invited to enter the (M)ystery-(F)low, because you never know . . . what's down below . . .

This weekend on SpiritPlants Radio features 3 DJs, including Commander Q, Soulard, & Veronica! This weekend (January 31-February 1, 2026)'s scheduled programming includes:

Featured SpiritPlants Radio DJs:
*** Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution with DJ Soulard #906 | Show information: https://www.scriptorpress.com/withinswithin.html
*** Electronica with DJ Veronica #354 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJVeronica
*** 36x with Commander Q #168 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJCommanderQ

Featured Programs:
*** Long Live Rock!: Rush - 17 & 19.June.2015 - Toronto, Canada | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band)
*** Psychedelic Lectures: Jeff VanderMeer - "Shriek: An Afterword" (2006) | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_VanderMeer
*** Jazz Cafe: Jaki Byard - "Solo Piano" (1969) | Jaki Byard Trio - "Live at the Jazz'Inn" (1971) | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaki_Byard
*** Comedy Hour: "Animation Radio: Rick and Morty Fifteenth Super Marathon!" | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_and_Morty
*** News Hour: "World Week in Review" | Show information: https://scriptorpress.com/world_week_in_review.pdf
*** Storybook Time: "Jellicle Literary Guild Highlights" | Show information: https://scriptorpress.com/jellicleguildhighlights.pdf

This weekend's programming commences the 2026 SpiritPlants Radio weekend schedule of new shows and featured programs. Your feedback (spiritplantsradios@gmail.com) will be greatly appreciated in helping to improve our station! And check out Dose One: A SpiritPlants Radio Psychedelic Sampler (http://soundcloud.com/spiri/spiritplantsradio_dose_one)!

We are always looking for new DJs to join our station (email us at spiritplantsradio@gmail.com).

Peace,
Raymond

#radio #psychedelic #rushband #jakibyard #rickandmorty

Encore Weekends on SpiritPlants Radio (January 3-4, January 10-11, January 17-18, & January 24-25, 2026)!

Turn on . . . tune in! SpiritPlants Radio is on the air 24/7!
Welcome to Encore Weekends on SpiritPlants Radio! (January 3-4, January 10-11, January 17-18, & January 24-25, 2026). Featured are the 8 new DJ'd shows that were on SPR in 2025. These shows & their DJs include:

*** Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution with DJ Soulard | Show information: http://www.scriptorpress.com/withinswithin.html
*** Electronica By DJ Veronica | Show information: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJVeronica
*** 36x with Commander Q | Show information: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJCommanderQ
*** AlcheMinistry Labs with DJ Orpheus Stain | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#Orpheusstain
*** In the Window with DJ Frogs | Show information: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJFrogsWindow
*** Spirit World Restless with DJ Judih | Show information: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJJudih
*** White Walls with DJ Blue | Show information: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJBlue
*** Nighttime Daydreams with DJ Toanké| Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJToanke

SpiritPlants Radio's website can be found at http://www.spiritplantsradio.com. On this site is the current weekend schedule & links to listen live, as well as links to the station's archives, blog, forum, chat, playlists, & song history. During the weekdays you are invited to enter the (M)ystery-(F)low . . .

Your feedback (spiritplantsradio@gmail.com) will be greatly appreciated in helping to improve our station! And check out Dose One: A SpiritPlants Radio Psychedelic Sampler (http://soundcloud.com/spiri/spiritplantsradio_dose_one)!

We are always looking for new DJs to join our station (email us at spiritplantsradio@gmail.com).

Happy Season of Lights! :)

Peace,
Raymond
Station Manager

This Special Season of Lights Weekend on SpiritPlants Radio (December 27-28, 2025)!

Turn on . . . tune in! SpiritPlants Radio is on the air 24/7! And now for 22 years! SpiritPlants Radio's website can be found at www.spiritplantsradio.com. 

On this site is the current weekday & weekend schedule & links to listen live, as well as links to the station's archives, blog, forum, chat, playlists, & song history.

During the weekdays you are invited to enter the (M)ystery-(F)low, because you never know . . . what's down below . . .

This special of Season of Lights weekend on SpiritPlants Radio features 5 DJs, including Blue, Commander Q, Soulard, & the return of Frogs & Judih! This weekend (December 27-28, 2025)'s scheduled programming includes:

Featured SpiritPlants Radio DJs:
*** Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution with DJ Soulard #905 | Show information: https://www.scriptorpress.com/withinswithin.html
*** In the Window with DJ Frogs #298 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJFrogsWindow
*** 36x with Commander Q #167 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJCommanderQ
*** White Walls with DJ Blue #59 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJBlue
*** Spirit World Restless with DJ Judih #16 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJJudih

Featured Programs:
*** Long Live Rock!: Rush - Clockwork Angels Tour - November 2013 | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band)
*** Psychedelic Lectures: Jeff VanderMeer - "Shriek: An Afterword" (2006) | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Vandermeer
*** Jazz Cafe: Jaki Byard - "The Jaki Byard Experience" (1969) | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaki_Byard
*** Comedy Hour: "Season's Greetings from SpiritPlants Radio! 2024" | Show information: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/seasonsgreetings.pdf
*** News Hour: "World Week in Review" | Show information: https://scriptorpress.com/world_week_in_review.pdf
*** Classics Time: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - "The Nutcracker" | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutcracker

This weekend's programming concludes the 2025 SpiritPlants Radio weekend schedule of new shows and featured programs. Your feedback (spiritplantsradios@gmail.com) will be greatly appreciated in helping to improve our station! And check out Dose One: A SpiritPlants Radio Psychedelic Sampler (http://soundcloud.com/spiri/spiritplantsradio_dose_one)!

We are always looking for new DJs to join our station (email us at spiritplantsradio@gmail.com).

Peace,
Raymond
Station Manager

BrainSong by DJ Frogs - Fourteenth Annual Marathon on SpiritPlants Radio! (25-26.Dec.2025)!

Hello everyone,

The late, great DJ Frogs' epic work "BrainSong" ran weekly on SpiritPlants Radio originally in 2012. Then we ran it 24 hours straight on UK Boxing Day (December 26) in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, & 2024. 

So here we go again, on December 26, 2025, 12 am, Boxing Day UK (Dec 25, 7 pm, East Coast US  time), "BrainSong" comes again!

    •    You can tune in the "BrainSong" at: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com

    •    You find more "BrainSong" information at: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJFrogs

    •    You can learn when the "BrainSong" marathon begins in your time zone by going to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html and putting in 12/26/2025 12 am (UK time), and your own zone, to find out.

Here is Frogs' explanation about his show:

When I was around 13 my 3 year old sister was given some story records these came on coloured vinyl and played at 78 rpm, I would spend hours listening to them at 16 rpm. In the mid 70's I acquired a copy-cat machine (a looped tape with several playback heads), I would plug it into the radio and feed in the speech and with the use of nitrous oxide listen to the resulting echo's and auditory hallucinations. I think these were the original inspiration for the "BrainSong."

The "BrainSong" was started in 2004 on an old 486 machine with a hard disk measured in mega bytes - 80 I think but it may have been 40 but I now can't quite believe I could have worked on a disk that small even though I can remember a time when all we had were floppy disks and not those 3 inch ones but the 5 inch really floppy floppys. I do know that the drive was not big enough for me to be able to record a full 30 minute radio programme so I would record to cassette tape and then take the samples from there, sometimes just half a sentence. The samples were then grouped by theme until there was enough to fill a 3 inch floppy – so I guess it must have been a 40 Meg hard drive. The samples could sit on the floppy for months before being used which is why I now can't remember which radio programmes most of them came from; the sources I can remember are listed lower down.

I would create around 10 to 15 minutes of audio and then back it up on to a pile of floppys as a multi disk zip, then remove the original files and start on the next 10 to 15 minutes. If you have not tried using floppies for storing audio then DON'T! You can get about 90 seconds per disk.

I eventually got a machine with a 40 Gig hard drive and assembled the 8 hour piece from the 300 plus floppy disks into 8 or 9 files and it was about 12 minutes too long as this was 2 or 3 days' work I just could not bring myself to edit that much out – now remember I had been working on this for a couple of years and I'm not the most mentally stable person at the best of times – so my solution – make it a 24 hour long piece!

And I made bloody sure that when the 24 hour piece was assembled it was 24 hours :-}  I have tried to give the sounds the same type of texture that you get visualy with acid.  I like the way repeated words can morph into another word - there is a section of Ginsberg saying LSD which begins very slow and speeds up - about a third of the way in I hear iot as "halo paul" for a while before it changes again.

Some Sources Of The Samples Used In the "BrainSong"

BBC Radio's 4 & 7

    •    In Our Time

    •    Something Understood

    •    The Mighty Boosh

    •    Sherlock Holmes

    •    Material World

    •    Frontiers

    •    Quote Unquote

    •    Unseen Britain

    •    The Archers

    •    The Chemistry Of Addiction

    •    The Reith Lectures 2005

    •    Beyond Our Ken

    •    The British X-Files

    •    Case Notes

    •    Thinking Allowed

    •    The Write Stuff

    •    The Archers

    •    3 Doors Down

TV Shows

    •    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    •    The Power Puff Girls

    •    The Simpsons

Records

    •    Moondog

    •    Timothy Leary - The Psychedelic Experience

    •    Quinton Crisp - An Evening With

    •    Frank Zappa - ?

    •    Neil - Hurdy Gurdy Mushroom Man

    •    Ron Geesin – As He Stands

    •    Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies

Enjoy!

Raymond

Station Manager

This Weekend on SpiritPlants Radio (December 13-14, 2025)

Turn on . . . tune in! SpiritPlants Radio is on the air 24/7! And now for 22 years!

SpiritPlants Radio's website can be found at www.spiritplantsradio.com. On this site is the current weekday & weekend schedule & links to listen live, as well as links to the station's archives, blog, forum, chat, playlists, & song history.

During the weekdays you are invited to enter the (M)ystery-(F)low, because you never know . . . what's down below . . .

This weekend on SpiritPlants Radio features 4 DJs, including Orpheus Stain, Commander Q, Soulard, & Veronica! This weekend (December 13-14, 2025)'s scheduled programming includes:

Featured SpiritPlants Radio DJs:
*** Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution with DJ Soulard #904 | Show information: https://www.scriptorpress.com/withinswithin.html
*** Electronica with DJ Veronica #353 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJVeronica
*** 36x with Commander Q #166 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJCommanderQ
*** AlcheMinstry Labs with DJ Orpheus Labs #87 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJOrpheusStain

Featured Programs:
*** Long Live Rock!: Rush - 15.April.2011 - Cleveland, Ohio | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band)
*** Psychedelic Lectures: Jeff VanderMeer - "Shriek: An Afterword" (2006) | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_VanderMeer
*** Jazz Cafe: Jaki Byard Quartet - "On the Spot!" (1967) | Jaki Byard Trio - "Sunshine of My Soul" (1967) | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaki_Byard
*** Comedy Hour: "Animation Radio: Rick and Morty Fourteenth Super Marathon!" | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_and_Morty
*** News Hour: "World Week in Review" | Show information: https://scriptorpress.com/world_week_in_review.pdf
*** Storybook Time: "Jellicle Literary Guild Highlights" | Show information: https://scriptorpress.com/jellicleguildhighlights.pdf

This weekend's programming continues the 2025 SpiritPlants Radio weekend schedule of new shows and featured programs. Your feedback (spiritplantsradios@gmail.com) will be greatly appreciated in helping to improve our station! And check out Dose One: A SpiritPlants Radio Psychedelic Sampler (http://soundcloud.com/spiri/spiritplantsradio_dose_one)!

We are always looking for new DJs to join our station (email us at spiritplantsradio@gmail.com).

Peace,
Raymond
Station Manager

This Weekend on SpiritPlants Radio (December 6-7, 2025)

Turn on . . . tune in! SpiritPlants Radio is on the air 24/7! And now for 22 years!

SpiritPlants Radio's website can be found at www.spiritplantsradio.com. On this site is the current weekday & weekend schedule & links to listen live, as well as links to the station's archives, blog, forum, chat, playlists, & song history.

During the weekdays you are invited to enter the (M)ystery-(F)low, because you never know . . . what's down below . . .

This weekend on SpiritPlants Radio features 3 DJs, including Commander Q, Soulard, & Veronica! This weekend (December 6-7, 2025)'s scheduled programming includes:

Featured SpiritPlants Radio DJs:
*** Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution with DJ Soulard #903 | Show information: https://www.scriptorpress.com/withinswithin.html
*** Electronica with DJ Veronica #352 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJVeronica
*** 36x with Commander Q #165 | Show information: https://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJCommanderQ

Featured Programs:
*** Long Live Rock!: The Who - 04.December.1973 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 01.October.2025 - Palm Desert, California | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who
*** Psychedelic Lectures: Jeff VanderMeer - "Shriek: An Afterword" (2006) | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_VanderMeer
*** Jazz Cafe: Jazz is Dead - "Laughing Water" (1999) | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Is_Dead_(band)
*** Comedy Hour: "Animation Radio: Rick and Morty Thirteenth Super Marathon!" | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_and_Morty
*** News Hour: "World Week in Review" | Show information: https://scriptorpress.com/world_week_in_review.pdf
*** Storybook Time: "Jellicle Literary Guild Highlights" | Show information: https://scriptorpress.com/jellicleguildhighlights.pdf

This weekend's programming continues the 2025 SpiritPlants Radio weekend schedule of new shows and featured programs. Your feedback (spiritplantsradios@gmail.com) will be greatly appreciated in helping to improve our station! And check out Dose One: A SpiritPlants Radio Psychedelic Sampler (http://soundcloud.com/spiri/spiritplantsradio_dose_one)!

We are always looking for new DJs to join our station (email us at spiritplantsradio@gmail.com).

Peace,
Raymond
Station Manager

This 22nd Anniversary Weekend on SpiritPlants Radio (November 29-30, 2025)

Turn on . . . tune in! SpiritPlants Radio is on the air 24/7! And now for 22 years!

SpiritPlants Radio's website can be found at www.spiritplantsradio.com. On this site is the current weekday & weekend schedule & links to listen live, as well as links to the station's archives, blog, forum, chat, playlists, & song history.

During the weekdays you are invited to enter the (M)ystery-(F)low, because you never know . . . what's down below . . .

This 22nd Anniversary weekend on SpiritPlants Radio features 5 DJs, including Commander Q, Soulard, Orpheus Stain, Blue, & Veronica! This weekend (November 29-30, 2025)'s scheduled programming includes:

Featured SpiritPlants Radio DJs:
*** Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution with DJ Soulard #902 | Show information: www.scriptorpress.com/withinswithin.html
*** Electronica with DJ Veronica #351 | Show information: www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJVeronica
*** 36x with Commander Q #164 | Show information: www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJCommanderQ
*** AlcheMinistry Labs with DJ Orpheus Stain #86 | Show information: www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJOrpheusstain
*** White Walls with DJ Blue #58 | Show information: www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJBlue

Featured Programs:
*** Long Live Rock!: Pink Floyd – October 1971 - Pompeii, Italy | Show information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd
*** Psychedelic Lectures: Space Time Continuum with Terence McKenna – "Alien Dreamtime" (1993) | Show information: kntn.ly/ec392bdc
*** Jazz Cafe: Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - "Duke Ellington & John Coltrane" (1962) | John Coltrane - "Ballads" (1963) | Show information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington_%26_John_Coltrane
*** Comedy Hour: Bill Hicks - 20.March.1991 - San Francisco, California | Show information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks
*** News Hour: "World Week in Review" | Show information: scriptorpress.com/world_week_in_review.pdf
*** Conspiracy Theory Radio: "Paul McCartney is Alive and Well, Maybe" - WKBW-AM Buffalo - 31.August.1969 | Show information: www.reelradio.com/gifts/pmwkbw69.html

This weekend's programming continues the 2025 SpiritPlants Radio weekend schedule of new shows and featured programs. Your feedback (spiritplantsradios@gmail.com) will be greatly appreciated in helping to improve our station! And check out Dose One: A SpiritPlants Radio Psychedelic Sampler (http://soundcloud.com/spiri/spiritplantsradio_dose_one)!

We are always looking for new DJs to join our station (email us at spiritplantsradio@gmail.com).

Peace,
Raymond
Station Manager

#radio #psychedelic #billhicks #johncoltrane #pinkfloyd #terencemckenna #paulisdead