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NO COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL (NCP)

Click on a show title to see past playlists and get a better idea of what each show sounds like!

Monday

Voidstar Productions’ High Voltage Circumcision Show

with DVJ Deftly-D

Monday 8-10pm

Since 2001, The High Voltage Circumcision show has delivered a full spectrum barrage of dark hard and experimental music from industrial to noise to idm to ebm to bizarre to audio collage often with a side of live guests, social consciousness, interviews, twisted humor, studio experiments and left turns.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Return-of-the-HIGH-VOLTAGE-CIRCUMCISION-SHOW-NCP-903FM-WZBC-Newton-MA/145058389286

Green

with Shwilly B, Selsyn, DJ Pussywillow, and Ms. DJ Lotus

Monday 10-1am

The Green Program has been a part of the WZBC schedule since 1999 and is still keeping things fresh! Founded by DJ Shwilly B of "Circle" fame, the show features a rotating team of residents with a variety of tempos and styles: techno, trance, house, minimal, drum and bass and more. Current residents are: Pussywillow, Selsyn, Dabu, and czargb, with frequent guest contributors. The Green frequency represents the positive vibrations in the world that join us together in a mystical connection that is beyond our complete comprehension. We are united in our mission to improve the local and global community, one great track at a time.

https://www.facebook.com/thegreenprogram/

Tuesday

Abstract Terrain

with Patrick

Tuesday 7-9pm

Abstract Terrain is a weekly radio program dedicated to its audience hungry for new and different sounds not typically available in abundance in any other radio format. Abstract Terrain music couples the abstract with the obscure for something which is true to what No Commercial Potential is all about. Abstract Terrain's audience questions what is considered music, going beyond the bounds of sound in all of its multi-faceted meaning.

Monks in the Club

with DJ Wolfe

Tuesday 9-10pm

Ancient chants from various places and religions mixed with techno + electronica and the like. You’ll feel like a jesuit in the club

Just Noise

with Cole, Jacob, and Liam

Tuesday 10-11pm

Music from the artists who push the boundary between music and "just noise"

 

A Foreign Affair

with Aris and Emily

Tuesday 11-12am

Wanna feel like a foreigner? Drop into our musical world of Mykonos beach clubs and Berlin warehouse raves. Close your eyes and get your dance on!

Wednesday

Escape Plan

with Ven

Wednesday 12-1am

Electronic music ranging from the originators in the Chicago and Detroit scenes to contemporary house, tech house and techno innovators

Cunningham Variety Hour

with Dan

Wednesday 12-1am

A weekly compilation of songs and genres from around the world curated by your host: Dan Cunningham

elevator days

with Aly

Wednesday 9-10pm

dance like nobody is watching, elevator days is where ncp meets techno, electric, synth dance music

Cosmic Void

with Audrey

Wednesday 11-12am

The genre of black metal typically conjures images of murder, church burnings, and production that sounds like it was recorded through a tin can in the middle of the Norwegian Woods. The Cosmic Void attempts to prove the beautiful brutality of black metal through more atmospheric and nuanced examples.

Thursday

Psychedelic Shadows and Regressions

with Jamie Cohen

Thursday 12-2am

The Psychedelic appears when the light shines in the Shadows. The music is the guide, through inner and outer space, beyond the stars, the true Light Regressions....

Lamping

with bill santoro

Thursday 2-3am

Rare Frequency

with susanna

Thursday 8-10pm

Experimental music, lovingly presented

Chrome Galleon

with The Miser

Thursday 11-12am

Upon boarding the galleon, you will listen in awe as The Miser smoothly traverses uncharted chrome waters. The Miser hoards music and plays it nonstop on his vessel. There's no seasickness to be found on the galleon as the euphoric tendencies and soothing vibrations of the music mitigate the ocean's rough current. The galleon mantra is to overstimulate the ears with a bunch of foreign, warbling, blissful, and nostalgic nonsense. All mixing is done by the Miser himself. Join the voyage.

Friday

temporary autonomous zone

with djeremy

Friday 12-2am

𝖙𝖊𝖒𝖕𝖔𝖗𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖔𝖒𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝖟𝖔𝖓𝖊 ~ 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕕
TAZ aired on ZBC for fifteen years from 1990 to 2005.

Now, fifteen years later, 𝖉𝖏𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖞 returns with a sound collage of
𝖾𝗑𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍𝖺𝗅 𝗆𝗎𝗌𝗂𝖼
𝗌𝗎𝗋𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗅 𝗌𝗂𝗍𝗎𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌
𝖼𝗎𝗍 𝗎𝗉𝗌 𝗍𝗈 𝖼𝗈𝗎𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖼𝗎𝗅𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖾
& 𝖽𝖺𝖽𝖺 𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗇𝖼𝖾-𝗆𝗂𝗌𝗌𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌 𝗂𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗐𝗂𝗋𝖾𝗅𝖾𝗌𝗌 𝗂𝗆𝖺𝗀𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗋𝗒...

ᴀᴍʙɪᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀɪᴄꜱ • qᴜɪᴇᴛ ɴᴏɪꜱᴇ • ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ʀᴇꜱɪꜱᴛᴀɴᴄᴇ • ꜱᴜʀʀᴇᴀʟɪꜱᴛ ꜱɪᴛᴜᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱ • ᴄᴜᴛ ᴜᴘꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛᴇʀ ᴄᴜʟᴛᴜʀᴇ • ᴅᴀᴅᴀ ᴛʀᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴍɪꜱꜱɪᴏɴꜱ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪʀᴇʟᴇꜱꜱ ɪᴍᴀɢɪɴᴀʀʏ • • •

Free Association

with Brian C

Friday 7-10pm

Free Association is a free-form radio show spanning across genres with occasional special guests, hosted by songwriter and composer Brian Carpenter (The Confessions, Beat Circus, Ghost Train Orchestra.) Carpenter has also produced several radio documentaries, including programs on sound design and innovative artists and songwriters.

Wintery Mix

with Dick Winter

Friday 10-1am

Drum + Bass. In your face.

Saturday

DROP T33TH

with Sam

Saturday 11-12am

Everything from ambient jazz to modern classical with a beat

Sunday

Sights and Sounds of NASCAR

with Gunnar

Sunday 12-1am

We are turning left for 500 miles of burning rubber and crumpling steel.

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