Chillosophy Milwaukee

10/08/2026

This remix of The Gorillaz “Clint Eastwood” by the Rhythm Scholar is DOPE!

25th Anniversary Remixes!Featuring Del, Ice Cube & Da Lench MobR...

10/02/2026

There are songs you hear, and then there are songs that seem to create their own atmosphere.

Massive Attack’s “Protection” is one of those.

Released in 1994, the title track from Protection paired the Bristol collective with Everything But the Girl’s Tracey Thorn, whose restrained, intimate vocal sits perfectly inside Massive Attack’s slow-moving blend of soul, dub, hip-hop and electronics.

What makes “Protection” so powerful is how little it needs to do. The beat never rushes. The arrangement leaves room to breathe. Thorn doesn’t overpower the track; she almost floats through it. And underneath everything is that warm, heavy bassline that makes the song feel equally at home in headphones, a dark club, or coming through the radio before sunrise.

More than 30 years later, it still sounds remarkably modern.

That was part of the magic of Massive Attack. They helped define what would eventually be called trip-hop, but their best music was always harder to categorize than the label suggested. It was electronic music with soul, hip-hop without boundaries, and late-night music that could be both comforting and unsettling at the same time.

“Protection” is a perfect example.

Turn it up...but not too loud. This one deserves some space.

Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn — “Protection” (1994)

Discover more about this classic song and the Protection album here...

09/30/2026

If you missed this morning's episode of Chillosophy on WMSE 91.7FM, you can stream any of the 103 episodes of my show at https://wmse.org/program/chillosophy-with-dj-tony-myers/. Get into it! This morning's playlist is here: https://spinitron.com/WMSE/pl/23101575/Chillosophy-Episode-103

What is Chillosophy?It’s the hum of the city before it fully wakes. Streetlights fading, sunlight stretching across quiet blocks, coffee steaming while the first notes drift through the room. It’s unhurried, head-nodding, and locked into a groove that doesn’t need to raise its voice.Chillosoph...

09/17/2026

Here is my playlist from Episode #102 of Chillosophy, September 16th, 2026 on WMSE 91.7FM.

What is Chillosophy?”It’s the hum of the city before it fully wakes. Streetlights fading, sunlight stretching across quiet blocks, coffee steaming while the first notes drift through the room. It’s unhurried, head-nodding, and locked into a groove that doesn’t need to raise its voice.Chillos...

09/11/2026

Every once in a while, an album comes along that feels like it could have been hiding in your collection for 25 years.

Dissolved by Kazakhstan-based producer Oilix is one of those records.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lT05MW5BCXlz4XnKjL4bx4xcZxtHnAnhM&si=dxO91gzPhVZiAsEE

Released on Cold Busted, Dissolved taps beautifully into the golden age of ’90s downtempo, trip-hop and instrumental hip-hop; dusty beats, warm jazz textures, atmospheric samples and grooves that unfold without ever getting in the way.

There are echoes of the world that gave us Kruder & Dorfmeister, Nightmares on Wax, Thievery Corporation and the classic Ninja Tune sound, but Oilix brings his own melodic sensibility to it. He calls his approach “sunhop,” and that description fits: chilled and laid-back, but warmer and brighter than the darker side of traditional trip-hop.

The second half of the record practically announces its inspiration with titles like October 1998, Return to the Classics, Ninetyrlude and 90’s Magic.

This is headphone music. Sunday-morning music. Late-night-driving music. Put-the-album-on-and-don’t-touch-the-skip-button music.

If your idea of chill includes jazzy beats, instrumental hip-hop and that unmistakable late-’90s downtempo atmosphere, Oilix’s Dissolved deserves a listen.

Recommended Chillsophy cuts:
Surrealist • Dummy • Dissolved • October 1998 • Return to the Classics • 90’s Magic

09/02/2026

Episode #101 of Chillosophy is in the books. Here is today's playlist, if you want to know what got featured.

What is Chillosophy?It’s the hum of the city before it fully wakes. Streetlights fading, sunlight stretching across quiet blocks, coffee steaming while the first notes drift through the room. It’s unhurried, head-nodding, and locked into a groove that doesn’t need to raise its voice.Chillosoph...

08/19/2026

🎧 100 EPISODES OF CHILLOSOPHY 🎧

On August 24, 2022, I sat down behind the microphone at WMSE 91.7 FM Milwaukee and started something that I wasn't entirely sure where it would go.

Today, I completed Episode 100 of Chillosophy.

One hundred Wednesday mornings of trip-hop, downtempo, dub, funk, soul, electronica, Balearic sounds, chillout grooves and all the wonderfully difficult-to-categorize music that has found its way into the Chillosophy universe.

For Episode 100, I took a musical journey through the history and connections of Balearic Beat, Trip-Hop and Downtempo, from Ibiza to Bristol and ultimately to the sounds that have become the heart and soul of this program.

But a radio show isn't really about the person sitting behind the microphone.

It's about the people listening.

So, thank you!

Thank you to everyone who has tuned in from Milwaukee and beyond. Thank you to those who have listened every other Wednesday morning, those who discovered the show somewhere along the way, those who have shared a song, commented on a playlist, recommended an artist, or simply let Chillosophy become part of their morning.

And a huge thank you to WMSE 91.7FM for giving me a place to do this. Community radio is a special thing, and I'm grateful to be part of a station that gives musicians, DJs and music lovers the freedom to explore.

100 episodes is a milestone I never imagined when I started this journey on August 24, 2022.

And honestly? I'm just getting warmed up.

Here's the playlist from Episode 100. Put on your headphones, turn it up, and take the journey with me.
https://spinitron.com/WMSE/pl/16338599/Chillosophy

Thank you for listening. ❤️

— DJ Tony Myers
Chillosophy
WMSE 91.7 FM Milwaukee

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08/14/2026

Fatboy Slim’s “E.V.A.” is essentially a late-1990s big-beat reworking of Jean-Jacques Perrey’s much older electronic instrumental. Perrey, an early pioneer of quirky, Moog-driven electronic pop, recorded the original “E.V.A.” in 1970 for Moog Indigo; it was co-written with Angelo Badalamenti and Marie-Paule Perreault.

In 1997, Norman Cook/Fatboy Slim reconfigured it rather than writing a new song from scratch: he retained Perrey’s instantly recognizable, bubbly synth melody and built a heavier breakbeat/dance arrangement around it. The remix was released as a Jean-Jacques Perrey record featuring Fatboy Slim, helping bring Perrey’s work to a new generation of electronic-music listeners.

A key extra ingredient is the spoken opening sample, attributed to psychedelic-era figure Timothy Leary, “What do you turn on when you turn on,?” which gives the remix its trippy, collage-like character.

The original already had a strange durability: its melodic phrase had been sampled by hip-hop artists before Fatboy Slim’s version, and it had also been used in a 1996 Lucozade commercial. Fatboy Slim’s treatment fit the 1990s big-beat moment perfectly—taking a playful, futuristic 1970 Moog piece and making it hit with the louder drums, loops, and dance-floor momentum of the era.

Track from the groundbreaking album "Moog Indigo" by French electro...

08/05/2026

Hello, my friends. Did you listen to episode #99 of Chillosophy this morning on WMSE 91.7FM? If you did and want the playlist, here it is for your review.

What is Chillosophy?”It’s the hum of the city before it fully wakes. Streetlights fading, sunlight stretching across quiet blocks, coffee steaming while the first notes drift through the room. It’s unhurried, head-nodding, and locked into a groove that doesn’t need to raise its voice.Chillos...

07/26/2026

The "Amen Break" is a drum break that has been widely sampled in popular music. It comes from the 1969 track "Amen, Brother" by the American soul group The Winstons, released as the B side of the 1969 single "Color Him Father." The drum break last several seconds and was performed by Gregory Coleman.