Archive for September, 2007

RC 133 1/3rd: Vinyl Frontier

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Vinyl agogo!
Can you identify all the records?

See 33, see 45, see 78 GO! Tim gets  a new USB record deck and goes crazy! goes crazy! Sees jungle!

And plays 80's tacky disco cheese instead.

Oh and a few other rekkids too from reggae to mashups to  kids songs and rave - but all from vinyl at some point.

Needle A Leedle Love: (96Mb, 2hours) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_133.mp3

Tacklisting: 

  • Deutsche Gramophone test 7"
  • Steinski - We'll Be Right Back (12")
  • Modern Romance - The Queen of the Rapping Scene (Nothing Ever Goes the Way You Plan - 7")
  • Kid Creole & The Coconuts - I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby (from Greatest Hits LP)
  • JAMMS - Hey Hey We're Not the Monkees (from rare 1987 LP)
  • Coldcut - Doctorin' the House (Say R mix - from What's That Noise?)
  • 45 or 33? Hit or miss?
  • J.A.L.N. Band - Disco Music / I Like It (7")
  • Splodgenessabounds - Simon Templer (7")
  • RAH Band - Hunger for Your Jungle Love '83 (from Going Up LP)
  • Sonz of a Loop da Loop Era - Far Out (from RAVE II! LP)
  • Mark Summers - Party People (Remix, B side of 7")
  • Nino Tempo and April Stevens - Deep Purple (from Pickwick's Monster Hits!)
  • Rebutz presents - MV vs RM Witness Heads (N Edit - Whitelabel 12")
  • Accidental D.I.S.C.O.
  • Black Slate - Amigo (from RadioActive Ronco LP)
  • Sue Wilkinson - You've Got to be a Hustler (from RadioActive Ronco LP)
  • Rowlf - Cottleston Pie (from Muppet Show LP)
  • Lene Lovich - I Think We're Alone Now (from Stateless LP)
  • The Five Satins - In the Still of the Night (from Dirty Dancing LP)
  • Clannad - Lady Marian (from Legend LP)
  • Kraftwerk - Ohm Sweet Ohm (from RadioActivity LP)
  • OMD - Stanlow (from Organisation LP)
  • Mary Poppins - Let's Go Fly A Kite

Radio Clash 131: Can’t Stop the Pop!!!!

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Pop thats Shit

It's Poptastic Funtastic Radiooo Claaaaaaaaaash! Coming today from the Beachy Head Roadshow, where we'll show Noel Edmunds really how to bungy jump, and Popplasticfantastic Tony Blackburn shows us the danger of standing too close to fires.

It's the Northern Rock Favourite! (93mins, 76Mb) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_131.mp3

Philosophy

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

via the beautiful bonehound

Religion…

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

via tim_e_bear on LJ (yup it takes a Canadian to show me something that's on terrestrial radio in the UK!)

Trevor Dann and Do It Yourself

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Trevor Dann @ PodCampUK
Uploaded by deanwhitbread

This Trevor Dann (yes that one, formerly Radio 1 and now Radio Academy) session from PodCampUK taken by Dean is very good...interesting analogy with the fanzines, and pirates.

I wish I'd gotten out of bed to see that (this was the first session around 9)...I agree with what he's saying about radio changing and different media, but I don't totally agree with what he said about the softly softly approach - history will bear me out on the fact that both softly softly and disobedience are needed; the pirates had to go and do their thing first - I'm sure the people doing the pirates tried the established approach and got pissed off.

Fanzines are closest to that spirit cos they also ignored most of the legal and design red tape, and the 6 months+ before an article about a long-dead scene even appears, and proved very popular. I'm reading 'Rip it Up and Start Again' by Simon Reynolds atm, which talks about Sniffin' Glue and the importance of other alternative media to get the punk and post punk message across -which was mostly 'Do It Yourself!'

I have a sense that all of what Trevor calls 'radio' will become less and less about frequencies and analog broadcast and more about niches and DAB and online streaming and satellite, and the digital explosion will bring more 'podcast' style shows, like Chris Vallance's PodsAndBlogs whereas unlike now where form is aping the media it'll be about everything and specific niches, yup nichecasting. And targetted niches will become more valuable; rather than this current scattergun approach.

Remains to be seen if the Podcasters Will Inherit the Earth though. What I do know is that it won't happen if we all play by their (old media) rules.

Podcasters totally pwn social media, the online space, the blogosphere, etc. compared to old media broadcast entities, we are from around here and mostly they are the slightly suspicious weekend punks sniffing around for some cool. Don't let them steal it.