Hi! I'm DJ Gilliflower, host of Turtles Have Short Legs.

Turtles Have Short Legs is an intoxicating mix of psychedelic & experimental sounds new & old. Expect krautrock/kosmische, acid folk/weirdlore, experimental ambient, hauntological delights, popsike pipedreams, analog electronics, surreal sound collage/drone, avant-rock oddities, spiritual jazz, unusual international sounds of all stripes, and more.

Though I have been making radio for decades, the program known as Turtles Have Short Legs started its life in 2016 on another local station and made the move to XRAY in the fall of 2022. This is truly a labor of love for me--I put countless hours into creating the show and a good bit of my own money purchasing music to share with you via the amazing medium of radio. Your support truly means the world to me. Thank you for listening!

10 years ago, they said our dreams were too big, that we didn't understand how near-impossible our goals were. We understood--and a decade later we've defied the odds. 

But the media industry hasn't been so lucky:

• Local news budgets? Slashed, if they even still exist.
• Musicians? Forget album sales, streaming took over and their share of the royalty pie got even smaller.
• Local media you can trust? Only if your too-loud uncle on Facebook counts, because social media conglomerates have overtaken them. Of course coming with a side of selling your data and ads that follow you around because you once clicked on a cool pair of shoes.
• The traditional media still kicking? They’re either barely hanging on or they’ve had to switch focus to our nationwide dumpster fire just to survive.

But the need to connect to each other—to understand what’s actually happening in our community— that never went away. If anything, it’s only become more important.

So join us in making space for the people of Portland to be heard. And this time around? We're gonna make it permanent.