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Habitat Enrichment

Feb 29, 2024 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

With Krista

Habitat Enrichment is the concept of introducing novelty to an animal's enclosure to keep it from getting bored or sad. Let me play you something fun. Genres span world and time, just like a cat with a box to play in.

Some specialties you can usually hear a little on my show: Luk Thuong, 60s crooners, cow punk, and synthwave. If you don't like the song currently playing, wait approximately 2 minutes for something else!

Happy Black History Month!

Habitat Enrichment
7:02 AM
Soul of the City - Diagonal Street Blues
Soul of the City Diagonal Street Blues
Diagonal Street As-Shams/The Sun 1975
7:03 AM
Dai Burger - Big Boob Bitch
Dai Burger Big Boob Bitch
Big Boob Bitch - Single First One Up 2021
7:06 AM
SugarPie DeSantis - Super Fool
SugarPie DeSantis Super Fool
7:10 AM
Carmy Love - I Just Came to Dance
Carmy Love I Just Came to Dance N
I Just Came to Dance - Single Big AC Records 2023
7:13 AM
The Superbs - Love's Unpredictable
The Superbs Love's Unpredictable
Love's Unpredictable / Happiest Girl In the World - Single Essential Media Group 1968
7:17 AM
Fort Smith Symphony - Symphony No 1 in E Minor
Fort Smith Symphony Symphony No 1 in E Minor Florence Beatrice Price
7:21 AM
June McDoom - On My Way
June McDoom On My Way N
With Strings - EP Temporary Residence Ltd. 2023
7:26 AM
Chemutoi Ketienya and Kipsigis Girls - Chemirocha III
Chemutoi Ketienya and Kipsigis Girls Chemirocha III
Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central and East African Music Dust-to-Digital 2018
7:26 AM
Yola - Orphan Country
Yola Orphan Country
Orphan Offering - EP Ear Trumpet Music 2016
7:32 AM
Margeeah - I Ask the Question
Margeeah I Ask the Question
7:37 AM
Kaia Kater - The Internet
Kaia Kater The Internet N
The Internet - Single Free Dirt Records 2024
7:40 AM
Kolinga - Mama (Don't Let Me)
Kolinga Mama (Don't Let Me)
Mama (Don't Let Me) - Single Underdog records 2021
7:45 AM
Essie Moss and Rev. Robert Grant - The Detroit Riot
Essie Moss and Rev. Robert Grant The Detroit Riot
7:50 AM
Leyla McCalla - Tree
Leyla McCalla Tree N
Sun Without the Heat Anti/Epitaph 2024
7:55 AM
Lotic - Resilience
Lotic Resilience
Power Tri Angle Records 2018
8:00 AM
Erykah Badu - Orange Moon
Erykah Badu Orange Moon
Mama's Gun Motown (Kedar) 2000
8:07 AM
Dorothy Ashby - Joyful Grass And Grape
Dorothy Ashby Joyful Grass And Grape
The Rubáiyát Of Dorothy Ashby Verve Reissues 1970
I harp on this (pun intended) all the time, but LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM
8:17 AM
Mary J. Blige - When I Can’t Do Better
Mary J. Blige When I Can’t Do Better N
The Color Purple (Music From and Inspired By) WaterTowerMusic/gamma. 2023
8:17 AM
TT The Artist - Do Dat Dance
TT The Artist Do Dat Dance N
Queen of the Beat Reloaded Club Queen Records 2023
8:20 AM
MC Lyte - Ruffneck
MC Lyte Ruffneck
Ain't No Other Rhino/Elektra 1993
first part of song
8:21 AM
Louisiana Tilda - You'll Come Back
Louisiana Tilda You'll Come Back
I'm Saved
fantastic lyric "when you loved me last night until I was just like liquid"
8:25 AM
Nicole Bus - You (feat. Ghostface Killah)
Nicole Bus You (feat. Ghostface Killah)
Kairos Roc Nation 2019
8:29 AM
Etta James - Born On the Bayou
Etta James Born On the Bayou
Matriarch of the Blues Private Music 2000
8:50 AM
Phyllis Dillon - Love The One You're With
Phyllis Dillon Love The One You're With
One Life to Live (Expanded Version) Trojan Records 1972
8:57 AM
Martha Ulaeto - Music Alone
Martha Ulaeto Music Alone
9:02 AM
Liv.e - She’s My Brand New Crush (feat. C.S. Armstrong)
Liv.e She’s My Brand New Crush (feat. C.S. Armstrong)
Couldn't Wait to Tell You... In Real Life Music 2020
9:04 AM
Bertha Tillman - Oh My Angel (with Bertha Tilman)
Bertha Tillman Oh My Angel (with Bertha Tilman)
Presenting Bertha Tillman - EP Universal Digital Enterprises 1962
9:07 AM
Lauryn Hill - Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Lauryn Hill Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Nina Revisited… A Tribute to Nina Simone Revive/RCA Records 2015
9:14 AM
KeiyaA - Do Yourself a Favor
KeiyaA Do Yourself a Favor
Forever, Ya Girl KEIYA 2020
9:18 AM
Aaliyah - Never Comin' Back
Aaliyah Never Comin' Back
One In A Million Blackground Records, LLC 1996
9:23 AM
Doris Duke - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
Doris Duke Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
Woman Cherry Red Records 2008
my favorite musician of all time.
9:29 AM
Malcolm J. Merriweather - Three Dream Portraits: III. I, Too
Malcolm J. Merriweather Three Dream Portraits: III. I, Too
Margaret Bonds: The Ballad of the Brown King & Selected Songs AVIE Records 2019
9:41 AM
TamaRadah - אבבה אייהויי
TamaRadah אבבה אייהויי
.תמרדה Helicon Music 2018
9:44 AM
Nina Simone - Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
Nina Simone Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
It Is Finished (Live 1974) RCA/Legacy 2011
9:49 AM
Cyndee Peters - Save the Whales (feat. Eric Bibb)
Cyndee Peters Save the Whales (feat. Eric Bibb)
Save the Whales - Single Västfront Produktion 2016
9:55 AM
Alsarah & The Nubatones - Nuba Noutou
Alsarah & The Nubatones Nuba Noutou
Silt Wonderwheel Recordings 2014
9:57 AM
Tia Fuller - Angelic Warrior
Tia Fuller Angelic Warrior
Angelic Warrior Mack Avenue Records 2012
Chat is archived.
Krista (host) 7:02:34 AM
good morning
TAndy 7:04:21 AM
Good morning! Big love to the FCC with this one
Krista (host) 7:05:55 AM
FCC compliant, TAndy, surprisingly
TAndy 7:09:02 AM
Yep! It's well within criteria. The Boob is such a wonderful bird :^)
Krista (host) 7:09:33 AM
liquids above the waist - allowed. Liquids below the waist- NO
TAndy 7:10:57 AM
No wet feet allowed in the studio.
Dale Hazelton 7:17:21 AM
morning. did everyone survive the wind? sounded like a jet engine out there a few times in the night.
Krista (host) 7:18:11 AM
I haven't gone out in the woods yet, I'm sure I have trees down. Hopefully none fell on the road. House is okay
Dale Hazelton 7:21:43 AM
small tree branch just missed our car. i have to go check my sap buckets to make sure they're still standing upright.
Dale Hazelton 7:22:14 AM
june mcdoom is lovely. the song anyway. and i'm sure she is too.
Amy Lee 7:23:34 AM
Good morning all.
Krista (host) 7:27:43 AM
good morning, Amy! I agree, Dale, she released a top 5 EP for me last year
Dale Hazelton 7:30:15 AM
man, this yola carter - haunting.
Krista (host) 7:38:14 AM
"I spilled my drink on the internet" - imagining the scene from IT Crowd where everyone panics when the "internet" breaks
TAndy 7:38:37 AM
June McDoom is growing to be one of my favorite musicians of this generation. Nu Folk? Neo Folk? Just plain ol Folk? The difference between nu and neo was never really explained to me
Krista (host) 7:39:08 AM
every decade needs an avant-garde harpist
Krista (host) 7:39:25 AM
her predecessor Dorothy Ashby makes an appearance later this morning
TAndy 7:41:02 AM
NTS calls her a neo-folk artist so I guess that's that!
Krista (host) 7:42:08 AM
the breakdown catches me every time with this song
Krista (host) 7:45:55 AM
Police started the Detroit Riots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot
Dale Hazelton 7:46:59 AM
thank you for this moment of analog crackle and hiss.
Krista (host) 7:47:40 AM
Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song about it and it was banned from radio play in 30 states.
David Shortell 7:47:47 AM
I saw "The IT Crowd"'s Richard Ayode in Wes Anderson’s latest Roald Dahl adaptation–one of the 2024 Oscar Nominated Live-Action Short Films screening at the Princeton Garden Theatre on Sunday evening (or you can see it for the next few days in Red Bank).
Krista (host) 7:48:05 AM
which Roald DAhl
David Shortell 7:48:40 AM
There's more than one?
Krista (host) 7:50:29 AM
lol which of Roald Dahl's works
TAndy 7:52:07 AM
@Krista just like some riots that happened in recent years..... History repeats itself, public ignorance, etc etc
Krista (host) 7:52:38 AM
and the MOVE bombings in Philadelphia
TAndy 7:54:18 AM
And the black wall street massacre
TAndy 7:56:42 AM
Gotta love the ruling authority in the country :)
Krista (host) 7:57:59 AM
in the face of unimaginable odds, still rising and producing masterpieces, still experiencing joy
Krista (host) 8:00:05 AM
the first time I heard "Resilience" by Lotic I was blown away, same goes for "Orange Moon" by Erykah Badu
Dale Hazelton 8:01:40 AM
krista - black day in july wasn't really the feel good hit that the edmund fitzgerald was.
David Shortell 8:02:32 AM
Oh! “The World of Henry Sugar”. Wes made shorts of 3 other Dahl stories this past year, but that longest of them got the nomination. All are on Netflix, I think. (In 2009, Wes adopted Dahl’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” into a feature film.)
Krista (host) 8:04:13 AM
Roald Dahl was a huge influence on me as a kid, I read it all except James and the Giant Peach. The Twits is getting adapted, will be released in 2025
Krista (host) 8:04:40 AM
It forever made long beards disgusting to me and glue traps, too
David Shortell 8:07:22 AM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zGxSM5y7Pfs
Amy Lee 8:08:15 AM
I love the chat for the info sharing. Thank you David Shortell for keeping my have to see list updated. And Dale..I chortled.
Stitching Pink 8:15:20 AM
Yay! You’re back. All good. Xo
Krista (host) 8:27:24 AM
ghostface can't resist a fluoride conspiracy
Dale Hazelton 8:30:08 AM
amy, a chortle is almost a guffaw so my work here is done.
Mike Lupica 8:32:34 AM
Drums again.
Zach 8:33:41 AM
Ghost song working overtime today.
Mike Lupica 8:33:50 AM
Stand by, gang. Working on the problem.
Zach 8:38:01 AM
I think if you make the ghost song say it’s own name backwards it will be trapped in the 5th dimension forever.
Soul Mokossa 8:38:58 AM
bazinga
iamthelabhras 8:49:07 AM
Mornin' everyone.
Mike Lupica 8:50:17 AM
Should be switching back to Krista now. Stand by.
Mike Lupica 8:50:36 AM
And she's back!
Krista (host) 8:50:57 AM
thanks, Mike
Mike Lupica 8:51:01 AM
Widespread internet outages this morning are to blame. Hopefully out of the woods now.
iamthelabhras 8:52:06 AM
I wonder if the internet outages are linked to the current craziness in the crypto markets?
Soul Mokossa 8:52:11 AM
I'll tell you who it was, it was that damned Sasquatch
iamthelabhras 8:52:38 AM
Bigfoot hates music. This is a fact.
Christine 8:54:55 AM
R.I.P. Flaco 🦉 💔
Christine 8:56:28 AM
Good morning, Krista and all ☕️
iamthelabhras 8:57:01 AM
Hello @Christine! Happy Thursday. Sipping coffee over here too!
Krista (host) 8:58:07 AM
good morning, Christine! Could be from crypto, iamthelabhras, but we also got a huge windstorm last night and Jersey is terrible about tree maintenance
Krista (host) 9:04:05 AM
"i'm a little flirty bird" - Flaco
iamthelabhras 9:08:33 AM
This is an interesting cover of "Black Is The Color".
Krista (host) 9:09:59 AM
this album is amazing, Ms. Lauryn Hill does many of the songs and she has stepped with aplomb up to the difficult task of covering Nina Simone
iamthelabhras 9:10:13 AM
I had no idea Lauryn Hill covered this via Nina Simone. I'd pay good money to see a double-bill with Lauryn Hill & Christy Moore.
Krista (host) 9:11:37 AM
She performs "Wild is the Wind" and sheesh, perfection
Dale Hazelton 9:14:44 AM
i know that's a scottish traditional song, but in her hands it seems like a lot more.
iamthelabhras 9:39:47 AM
Whenever you talk about a bird, people wanna know what those eggs taste like.
Krista (host) 9:40:49 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_eagle-owl#/media/File:Baby_Siberian_eagle-owls,_Screech_Owl_Sanctuary.jpg
Christine 9:41:11 AM
I enjoy a good MST3K reference
Christine 9:43:49 AM
The owlets are disarmingly fluffy 💕
Krista (host) 9:49:00 AM
Right, Christine?? I'd risk that razor sharp beak
Krista (host) 9:49:22 AM
I mean, I wouldn't, I'd never touch wildlife but omgggggg
Christine 9:49:32 AM
Forbidden Fluff
Krista (host) 9:50:21 AM
love a gorgeous song about whales
Krista (host) 9:51:00 AM
"we gotta save the whales. and we can save ourselves"
Christine 9:56:07 AM
Thank you for the fantastic show today, Krista!
Amy Lee 9:56:38 AM
Thanks for a great show Krista!
Krista (host) 9:58:10 AM
you're welcome, I have about 10 hours I didn't get through haha, delusional about the function of time yet again
Krista (host) 9:58:33 AM
but let Tia Fuller's sax take you away to another dimension
Dá Bəng Gôu 9:59:09 AM
Thanks you for the musics today and your services. Again we ate every crunchy in the bowl.