Interview with DJ MoKitty and DJ Duncecat
What is your show about?
MoKitty: Phenomenonon. We wanted lots of creative license with what we can talk about. Combining it with the music, which we wanted to continue from last year. Any phenomenon, we put in our application: conspiracy theories, social constructs
Duncecat: cults, social movements. I don’t know if this is a good description but ancient aliens. Except for the radio form.
Is there a story behind the formation of your show?
MoKitty: We make sure include five new releases and extra songs
Duncecat: We’ve had a show together before called Today’s Special, which was a similar idea. But it’s our second semester doing WESU so we wanted a change. We began brainstorming new ideas. At the time, we were talking about conspiracies in our life and simulation theory, it inspired what we wanted to put out.
Mokitty: We both knew it would always be a music show.
What made you two join WESU?
MoKitty: We met last year during WESU. It was the first thing we did together. It was really sweet. We just teamed up. That spurred our friendship.
Duncecat: I did see you around Bennett (Wesleyan Freshmen Housing).
Mokitty: We both didn’t want to do a show alone. We both liked music. Even before I got to school, the radio was something I wanted to do. I thought it’d be a cool and physical skill. I’m not a talented musician so its nice to engage with music in this way.
Duncecat: Radio is the activity I do outside of class. I had this idea in mind before I came that I wanted to do radio. It’s the coolest space on campus in my opinion
Is there anyone or anything that inspires you both?
Mokitty: I have a specific DJ I would listen to in high school WEFMU, a station in New York. His name is Clay Pigeon. The show is called wake and bake, it’s the only thing that can wake me up in the morning to get to school. He’s funny.
Are there any podcasts and or radio shows that you recommend?
Duncecat: uhhh. The only podcast I listen to is The Daily. I shower to it and get ready for the day while listening. It’s nice because each episode is around thirty minutes. It is a good gauge as to what’s time it is and get updated on the world. This is corny but Oprah’s podcast hits. Perfect beach podcast.
MoKitty: If you speak spanish. Radio Ambulanite. I don’t speak spanish fluently but it helps me. It’s interesting, it talks about Latino life from an American perspective.
How would you describe your taste in music?
Mokitty: Honestly, not too different from the average Wesleyan student. I like a lot of older new wave and post punk, more modern. I lean towards indie rock and indie rap.
Duncecat: I have some old man in me. I listen to a lot of classic rock but chill, like Neil Young. There’s a part of me since I attended high school in New York that I loves New York rap. Like Flatbush Zombies and Underachievers. A$AP mob. Just gets me through the day.
What music are you excited about right now?
MoKitty: I really like the new Kenny Beats and Denzel Curry album.
Duncecat: I’ve been listening to a lot of chill stuff, like homesake.
Who are your all time favorite artists?
MoKitty: The Cure. The Strokes. The Smiths.
Duncecat: We both have a thing for the Strokes. We bonded over our mutual love for the Strokes. A song hasn’t come on that both don’t know the words to.
MoKitty: IF you hate, cover your ears.
Duncecat: I get if you think they’re corny but I will forever love the strokes.
What is your dream concert line up?
MoKitty: New order. Pet shop boys. You know what? Throws the Cure in there. Kate Bush.
Duncecat: Ok. I would start with more Strokes, I say more cause I’ve seen them live already… Or The Smiths. I would wanna hear Janis Joplin. Jimi ends it all.
MoKitty: I didn’t know we were allowed to pick dead people!?
If you could have anyone on your show, who would you interview?
Mokitty: A$AP Rocky! Or Elon Musk? And Grimes together?!
Duncecat: Woah you’re being very liberal with the prompt right now.
What do you do in your free time outside of WESU?
MoKitty: I play bass guitar badly.
Duncecat: I art but not art for class. Only outside of class. Class takes up a lot of my creative time. I play the violin.
If you had to eat a worm, how would you consume it?
MoKitty: I’d cut it into tiny pieces and put it inside a sandwich.
Duncecat: Blend into smoothie or soup.
What is your favorite noise?
Duncecat: Rain in the car.
MoKitty: Wow I was just about to say water running in the shower.
How would you commit what in your mind is “the perfect crime?”
MoKitty: I’d hide in plain sight.
Duncecat: The perfect crime is beneficial to everyone and not a crime. Like an assassination or a protest… I have a few ideas.
Do you have a favorite word?
Duncecat: This is random but dichotomy just popped in my head after you asked
MoKitty: Kitten.
Do you do any other events and or activities at Wesleyan that’d you like to share now ?
MoKitty: Come to Espwesso!
Duncecat: No! Don’t come.
MoKitty: Stop… She’s just kidding.
