Photo Essay: Late-Night DJ's at KBVR fm

Two students at Oregon State University, Madison Butler and Trevor Swope, run a show at KBVR.fm which is a student-run radio station located in the Student Experience Center on campus. Their show titled "Low End Hypothesis" airs on Tuesday nights from 11 p.m. to midnight. As it nears their airtime, the two select the required three public service announcements they have to announce during their set.

Butler, a sophomore at OSU, prepares a list of specific tracks he would like to play. Both he and Swope have curated their own mixes that they made on their own free time to use for their show on Tuesday, May 24. The theme of their show, "Low End Hypothesis", is EDM or "electronic dance music."

OSU sophomore and co-host Trevor Swope expresses his excitement for the mix he created. When asked what was going to be played, he says, "You'll see, I'm apologizing in advance." The two of them agree that the late-night shows are more fun because you get to use less discretion with what you play on-air.

Swope watches as Butler takes a lap around the station in between songs. The two of them love goofing off during their downtime because "There is nobody there to yell at them." One game they've created is seeing who can race around the station the fastest before the song ends.

At the end of their show two other students and fellow DJ's, Zack Barry and Glen Galant, stop by to say hi and chat before their show that begins at midnight. "It's really fun when we overlap because sometimes we walk in and interrupt their show and start cracking jokes on-air," says Galant.