Campus/Area University Daily Kansan Thursday, Oct. 31, 1985 11 Progressive tunes resound on KJHK By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff KJHK-FM moves to the beat of a different drum, says the student radio station's program director. From the English band Cabaret Voltaire to the Micronotz, a Lawrence band, the station provides an alternative sound for listeners as well. The program is pressive music groups, says Alan Kloster, the program director. "Have you ever heard ZZ-99 or Q-104 play the music like ours?" Kloster said yesterday. "They only play music from the major labels. That 'where the money is.'" Kloder said the larger stations didn't play music from small record companies because it wasn't profitable. The independent companies rely on college radio stations such as JJIK to play their music. KJHK plays progressive groups such as the Micronotz, Huskertz, Otto's Chemical Lounge and Morally Bankrupt. Not only American labels get help from college radio stations. KJHK also plays foreign imports, Kloster said. Some of the foreign groups featured by KJHK are the English groups Mikons, The Jazz Butcher and A Certain Ratio, and a West German group called Upright Citizens. The station seldom turns down a request because it doesn't have the record, said Vicky Sloan, a KJHK disc jockey. When a student calls the station with a request, he probably has heard the record played at the station before, Sloan said. If KJHK doesn't have it and it fits the format, the station will try to get it. KJHK acquires most of its music in promotional deals from record companies, said Blake Norris, jazz program director. "College radio stations are currently geared toward playing new acts," he said. About 90 newly released songs, 5 percent foreign, are named on the play list, which is ranked by how many times a song is played. Kloster said. The list is sent to record companies and to other radio stations. The companies usually send free copies of their newest promotional records to the station, Kloster said. The records are screened, and the ones that fit the play list are added He said the lists showed the station and the company what songs appealed to them. Exchanging play lists allows radio stations to watch the current trends in progressive music. Kloster said. The radio station receives boxes of duplicate records and posters from the recording labels for promotional gifts and prizes. Norris said. Some of the records that KJHK gets don't pass the screening process. These records become permanent members of the station's music library until the library overflows. About every three years the library is cleaned and KJHK has a record sale where the records sell for a dollar apiece. Norris said. Some records nobody wants, Norris said. Some of the groups gain recognition from the play received from college radio stations. Norris said. "I've been working at KJHK for four years," he said. 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