Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

WMM’s Favorite MidCoastal Releases of 2025…So Far! (Part 3) + Bobcat Attack + Guest Producer SYLKYSAN

Mark spins more of WMM’s Favorite MidCoastal Releases of 2025…So Far! with tracks from: Anna Moss & Calvin Arsenia, The Matchsellers, Lee Walter Redding, David Luther, Lucy Gray, Boxknife, Radkey, Bobcat Attack, Maya Mikity, and T.A. Rell.

At 10:30am we talk with Bobcat Attack, the moniker of electronic music artist Nathan Reusch. Nathan is co-founder of The Record Machine an area music label celebrating 21 years! Nathan grew up hanging out at the legendary Kansas City record store, Recycled Sounds with Anne Winter & Billy Smith and influenced by emo/punk. Nathan first started making electronic music as Bobcat Attack in the early 2000s, opening for Taking Back Sunday, Coheed and Cambria, Joy Electric, Atom & His Package. In 2003, Nathan started, The Record Machine, and in 2011, he co-founded the Middle of the Map Fest. Nathan’s focus on making music came to a halt. Under Nathan’s leadership The Record Machine has been a home for: Static Phantoms, Monta at Odds, Various Blonde, Cowboy Indian Bear, LaGuerre, The Philistines, and Black Light Animals and many more. The pandemic inspired Reusch to renew his interest in making his own music again. After a few months of experimenting with patches and midi cables, he joined KC’s Synth Collective and found a group of similarly-minded electronic musicians. Bobcat Attack is releasing a new EP called Year of The Bobcat on August 1, and will play an EP release show on Thursday, July 31 at miniBar, 3810 Broadway, KCMO, with FaceFace, Hautlle and Slow Poke.

At 11:00 Mark welcomes SYLKYSAN as Guest Producer for our second hour. SYLKYSAN aka Sandra Draper has been training as a new KKFI Programmer with Wednesday MidDay Medley. SYLKYSAN is the name her Aunt gave her back in the 1980s, explaining that silk comes in a variety of textures. SYLKYSAN says that you will hear a smorgasbord of music from her that will move your mind, body and soul. Go ahead and snap your fingers, tap your feet, bob your head, because we are going to have a House Party! SYLKYSAN will spin tracks from: Traffic, Pleasure, James Ward Band, Clifford Mills, Donny Hathaway, Otis Redding & Carla Thomas, Johnny “Guitar” Wilson, Force MD’s, Alicia Keys, Steel Pulse, and Maysa.

Show #1106