Forgot to put this on the podcast - oh well - The Living Dead Girls rule! As do Zombies.

oh and love this

When spooky things come a knocking in the middle of the night, don't worry it's just some GothPop Duboriffic SpookStep, strictly rockers (with dead mothers in them)....

Ring ring! Why do they always answer? (70Mb, 91mins) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_137.mp3

Trickortreatlist:

• AK - Ghostbusters
• Noel Anthony - Zombie Jamboree (from Music for Maniacs)
• Celebrity Murder Party - The 13 Sins of Scooby Doo (from BBI/Mashuptown's Mashup Massacre)
• Luvbug Starski - Amityville
• ToTom - Feel Good Devil
• Bozilla ft Penny Polterghoost - Zombie Action Plan (from EOTMC)
• Zooming On the Zoo - Go To Hell (from La Chiesa soundtrack)
• Lupe Fiasco - The Cool (from Food & Liquor)
• Bloc Party - Hunting for Witches (Ruckus Roboticus remix)
• Gershon Kingsley - Hey Hey
• RIAA - Always Another Sucker On The Vine
• Pulsallama - The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body
• Young Punx and LBJ - Dancing with the devil
• Creasos - Give me a werewolf tonight (from BBI/Mashuptown's Mashup Massacre)
• Mehrlicht - DIES IRAE
• High Contrast - The Ghost of Jungle Past (from Tough Guys Don't Dance)
• controlfreak - Hell Hounds (remixed by Chaos Royale)
• Coil - Are you Shivering?
• Slaraffenland - Paranoid Android (from Stereogum Presents... OKX: A Tribute To OK Computer)
• Appleblim - Fear
• Skream - Tortured Soul
• controlfreak - Leap of Faith
• The Moontrekkers - Night Of The Vampire

Rob at Demonbaby (via ravery and arthole on LJ) has posted a great post about the closure of Oink and from an insider's perspective what is wrong with the record industry.

I like particularly this line:

I would have gladly paid a large monthly fee for a legal service as good as Oink - but none existed, because the music industry could never set aside their own greed and corporate bullshit to make it happen.

This sums up the problem in a nutshell; the record industry and retailers screwed music lovers (and artists) for years with CDs, they created their own hell by being greedy and expecting people to 'upgrade' their collections periodically and pay again and again for the same product, even as costs dropped, made it harder to find new music by conglomeration of media channels owned usually by the same companies, and ignored and did everything to prevent digital distribution until it was inevitable that without legal digital alternatives, politicians would not take severe action against 'pirates'.

And all that time everyone who loves music wanted something like what Rob suggests - I wasn't a fan or user of Oink but would use Audiogalaxy as an example...iTunes et al have missed the point made by Rob and in Audiogalaxy - rare tunes or customer requested tunes were given priority; and like all P2P services is user driven not driven by fairly clueless marketing departments trying to restrict you to what they want.

If the industry had allowed and co-operated with a service like that; relinquished some of it's paranoiac control to a service driven around what music people wanted (fancy that, catering to customers!) rather than ignoring that need and/or criminalising it, then there wouldn't be a situation that they are stuck between the twin devils of ITunes or P2P. What shocks me is not so much that people want music for free - the Radiohead 'In Rainbows' album intentional delivery/leak, crappy bitrate aside is proof of that as a given that some people will see digital music as lesser or free - is that there are still albums and music that is deleted and unavailable in any format.

Given that the usual argument for capitalism is that every niche is supposedly filled; why is this still the case? Why are the archives of the record labels still closed? Why are the charging the same as CDs for much lower quality and less prodution overheads? Why can't we get the album immediately from the artist without all the expensive marketing hot air to tell us how good it is when we already have these things called ears to tell us that fact?

Given these questions and the lack of co-operation and protectionism of the industry (don't get me started on DRM) I can't see how an industry beholden to not giving the consumer what it wants can survive? Constantly telling Peter to not look for the Wolf is only going to last so long...and politicians won't always give in to their extensive lobbying when mass dissent is already happening.

Artwork by Tim Baker - Original image by Superk8 - CC Some Rights Reserved

All the world's a siege; and o'er this far flung isle something is rockin' in the state of Dubstep. This above all, Billy Waggledagger gets the props, but otherwise it is all Greek to me.

2B or not 2B, that is the pencil: (73Mb, 97mins) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_136.mp3

Players:

• Lethal Bizzle - Babylon's Burning in the Ghetto (from Love Music Hate Racism CD1)
• High Contrast - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (from Tough Guys Don't Dance)
• Skream - Chest Boxing (from Love Music Hate Racism CD2)
• Benga - Music Box
• New Age Steppers - Fade Away
• Flight of the Conchords - Inner City Pressure - see video
• Akala - Electro Livin' (from Love Music Hate Racism CD2)
• Coil - Further Back & Faster
• Jean Jacques Perrey and Luke Vibert - Moog Acid (Jackson Mix - via AudioOut blog)
• Soft Cell - Monoculture (Playgroup edit)
• Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit
• Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - A Letter from God
• Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - Build You A Tower (demo - from Love Music Hate Racism CD1)
• High Contrast - Chances (from Tough Guys Don't Dance)
• Psychic TV - Just Drifting
• Psychic TV - Always is Always
• Lemon Interrupt - Minneapolis Airwaves (from AudioOut)
• Coil - Lorca not Orca
• Jeff Sconce - carry on wayward continuity actor (from Thus Sang Zarahelium)
• Psychic TV - The Orchids
• DJ Earworm - Lemon Lucy
• Hot Butter - Mah Na Mah Na
• Miss Piggy - Stereau Workout (from WFMU)
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rain / I Want a Divorce

Yup put on your disco silver moon boots, your silver wig and fake NASA crash helmet. cos it's the first Space Disco special - straight from 1977 with a rocket in it's pocket!

Liszt in Space: (67 mins, 54Mb) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_135.mp3

Tracklizst:

To Boldly Go Where No Disco Has Gone Before

• Space - Magic Fly
• Meco - Star Wars
• Jeff Wayne - Eve of the War
• Universal Robot Band - Disco Trek
• Stu Phillips - Outer Space Disco (Battlestar Galactica OST)
• Rah Band - Crunch
• Stu Phillips - The Casino on Carillon - It's Love, Love Love (Battlestar Galactica OST)

Spaced Invaders:

• Barron Knights - Space Invaders
• Hexstatic - Bass Invader
• Yellow Magic Orchestra - Theme from Space Invaders
• Jonzun Crew - Pack Jam
• Player One - Space Invaders
• Smith n Hack - Space Warrior
• Conceputol - The Space Invaders (from WFMU)
• The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy Theme (from 7")
• Kraftwerk - Neon Lights