Some Assembly Required (radio program)

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Some Assembly Required is a sound collage radio program in the United States, produced in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the first radio show known to focus exclusively on works of sample based music, and appropriation in audio art. The nationally syndicated program features work by artists from a variety of genres, including plunderphonics, hip hop turntablism, musique concrète, noise, bastard pop, sound art and more. The program celebrated its tenth anniversary on January 27, 2009.[https://www.avclub.com/twincities/articles/jon-nelson-of-escape-mechanism,23007/ Jon Nelson of Escape Mechanism] by Katya Tylevich A.V. Club Twin Cities, January 28, 2009 The final episode originally aired in 2011.

Since 2021, new episodes are being produced, monthly, via the website and for radio stations, such as KBOO, in Portland, OR. Additional monthly episodes are also produced for The Wiggle Room, on The Sheena's Jungle Room stream, at wfmu.org.

Some Assembly Required has featured interviews with a number of influential sound collage artists including The Bran Flakes, Emergency Broadcast Network, The Evolution Control Committee, Omer Fast, DJ Food, The Freelance Hellraiser, Girl Talk, Go Home Productions, Christian Marclay, Negativland, John Oswald, People Like Us, DJ Qbert, DJ Spooky, Steinski, The Tape-beatles, Wayne Butane and many more.[http://www.some-assembly-required.net/interviews.html Some Assembly Required Interviews]

The program began as a streaming online radio show in 1999, at the University of Minnesota's college radio station (KUOM),[http://radiok.cce.umn.edu/programming/ KUOM Programming][http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MN&p_theme=mn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FACB90EC39C8752&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM RADIO SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED]. {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023222938/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MN&p_theme=mn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FACB90EC39C8752&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|date=2012-10-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.escape-mechanism.com/reviews/2008/12/wired-magazine.html|title = Escape Mechanism}} and quickly became a feature on the station's broadcast schedule. The radio program has aired on dozens of college, community and public radio stations across the United States and Canada[http://www.some-assembly-required.net/whosyndicating.html Some Assembly Required Syndications] and is heard online via its podcast. Some Assembly Required is hosted by Jon Nelson{{cite magazine |title=Some Assembly Required: Mash-Up Pioneer Dreams in Soundbites |date=2008-12-22 |magazine=Wired |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105222732/https://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/17-01/pl_music |archive-date=2012-11-05 |url-status=live |url=https://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/17-01/pl_music}}[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MN&p_theme=mn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11CC891C899644F8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Festival of Appropriation]. {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602090020/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MN&p_theme=mn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11CC891C899644F8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|date=2016-06-02}} and produced at Post Consumer Productions.