Mike Ramos: Tommy Richman, Seiji Oda, Young Miko
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Overnight DJ Mike Ramos shares some songs that have been in his headphones lately, from a dirty-south-tinged track that’s an early contender for “Song of the Summer” to a chiptune jam named for an early virtual pet. Plus, KEXP Music Director Chris Sanley shares her own “Song of the Summer,” a standout release recently added to KEXP’s rotation.
Songs featured:
- Tommy Richman - "MILLION DOLLAR BABY"
- Seiji Oda - "A Gentle Gigg"
- Young Miko - "tamagotchi"
- Nia Archives - "Forbidden Feelingz"
- Fcukers - "Bon Bon"
Listen to the full songs on KEXP's "In Our Headphones 2024" playlist on Spotify, or on the KEXP website.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In Our Headphones. |
| 0:06.0 | Your chance to discover the songs KEXP DJ's don't want you to miss. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Janice Hedley and I'm Isabel Kelly Lee and this is your |
| 0:16.0 | never-ending source for new music discovery from listener-powered |
| 0:20.0 | K-E-X-P. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to In Our Headphones. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm your host Janice Hedley. |
| 0:28.0 | Every week my co-host Isabel Kalelei and I chat with a different K-E-X-P DJ and find out what's been playing in their headphones lately. |
| 0:36.5 | And this week I am delighted to be chatting with Mike Ramos. |
| 0:40.3 | Hey Mike! |
| 0:41.3 | Hey Dennis, great to be here. |
| 0:43.0 | Thanks for having me on this thing here. |
| 0:45.0 | We are so happy to have you on our show, |
| 0:47.0 | and Mike is one of our amazing overnight de-jays. |
| 0:51.0 | You can catch him on Monday night Tuesday mornings from 1 to 5 a.m. Pacific and |
| 0:58.0 | Mike you are a new dad and have you found these overnight shifts to be conducive with your son's |
| 1:07.2 | sleeping schedule? Oh absolutely not not at all you know I always wondered when I when this was my you know thing that would keep me up late and I kind of worked other jobs and had a later schedule |
| 1:19.4 | This was very much the lifestyle, you know staying up late waking up late and all that and I |
| 1:24.4 | would always wonder I'm like how do those people do that you know people that are up at |
| 1:27.8 | like 5 a.m. every day going to the gym and like doing stuff and like going to |
| 1:31.6 | bed early I'm like I just can't do that what do you what is one need to do and the answer was have a kid |
| 1:38.0 | No matter what time I'm going to bed. He's up at like six six thirty. You know so yeah, you know luckily shout out you know my wife. She is able to kind of |
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