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ELECTRIC RUBBER DRUM

July 24, 2010 – 10:58
 
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Episode 116. mp3. cue. Released July 24, 2010.

Ok. A few bits of news: First! New Radioslipstream finally after more than a year. Good. Second! No narration on this puppy, just music. Having some sound issues with the PC right now and not bothering with hooking up a mic. Would rather just get you the music. Because there’s no talking, I made this episode perfect length for a CD, so I guess it’s also a mix CD. Third! This is not the history of hip hop episode. Don’t worry about that. It’ll come when I feel like it and is dependent on resolving some issues with my hard drive. In the meantime we pick up right were we left off.

The last episode ended with a feeble attempt at playing some dubstep. At the time, I had some tracks but didn’t know which ones I loved enough to represent the genre so I played a few tracks that sounded kinda like it. A year later, I’ve got a much more of a handle on the genre. We start with general murky electronics with a pretty ominous bent, then move into a variety of dubstep sounds where we stay for a time. The run of Pangaea through to Scuba is the dubstep bit: I guess it’s something like the dawn of land through to a post-human Waterworld. Very epic indeed. After that it’s a bit of epic artpop at its most oddly delicate, then some poetry and a dash of ambient.

Ben Frost / Killshot / By The Throat (2009)
Redshape / Man out of Time / The Dance Paradox (2009)
Actress / Maze / Splazsh (2010)
Laurent Garnier / The Man With The Red Face / Unreasonable Behaviour (2000)
Pangaea / Why / Pangaea EP (2010)
Débruit / Nigeria What? / Spatio-Temporel EP (2009)
Ramadanman / Work Them (2010)
LD / Shake It / 5 : 5 years of Hyperdub (2009)
Toasty / The Knowledge (2004)
Adele / Cold Shoulder (Rusko Remix) (2008)
Zomby / Euphoria / Where Were U in ‘92? (2008)
Kingdom / You (2010)
James Blake / CMYK / CMYK EP (2010)
Mount Kimbie / Maybes / Maybes EP (2009)
Scuba / So You Think You’re Special / Triangulation (2010)
The Knife / Colouring of Pigeons / Tomorrow, In A Year (2010)
Laurie Anderson / Transitory Life / Homeland (2010)
Leonard Cohen / Recitation w/N.L. / Live in London (2009)
Biosphere / Poa Alpina / Substrata (1997)

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100 Songs from 2009!

January 10, 2010 – 2:47

Like the last couple of years, I’ve put together my favourite songs from the year. Unlike previous years, more than half of these haven’t been on the podcast, so there will be some cool things I’ve not shared yet. I haven’t listened to as much new music this year as previously, so that may effect the results somehow. For now they are hosted on sendspace. A torrent may follow. If you have any distribution or content questions, comments or concerns, do voice them! And read on for the tracklist…

(Edit: Looks like the links did their expiring thing, so no dice. If you disagree with this situation lemme know and maybe we’ll see if we can provide an alternate solution)

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RS Hip Hop Episode = Vaporware?

September 17, 2009 – 12:56

It’s been almost two and a half months since the last episode of inconsequential music podcast Radio Slipstream, and fan(s?) is wondering if the next one is ever going to see the light of day. Host/producer Damon Muma announced on the show’s facebook page that the next show would be a special one featuring old school hip hop. But that was several months ago, and the show’s unpopular website has remained devoid of any updates since Hebridus Scrotely’s Untenable Mentions were released on July 9th. We reached Damon in his dirty basement for comment:

“Basically, it turns out that I don’t actually like hip hop at all,” he confesses. “I’ve been listening to a lot of it to put this show together and I basically just feel like killing myself now. It’s not really music. It’s just crap.” He slumps forward slightly and wheezes. “But I’ve been promising this episode for a while now, and since my fans are truly important to me, instead of releasing a new episode that isn’t the hip hop one… I’m just going to cancel the whole show.”

“Really?”

“No.” He laughs cruelly but goes on to assure us that he is working on the show, albeit sporadically. He claims that school, a few web design clients, part-time soulcrushing call centre work, biweekly social activities and internet addiction have been taking most of his time.

The show itself has also been taking up more time than the norm. “There’s been a lot of research goin on here. Just look at my last.fm!” Damon reports that as of now plans are to break the show up into several releases to get it into fan’s ear quicker, but also for practical reasons. “It’s at like 70 songs and 5.5 hours right now and I haven’t even started rambling about why the songs are important and how hip hop came together and all that… which is going to be a pretty important part of this show.”

To add insult to injury, those 70 songs are all from 1993 and earlier. “Old school is a pretty nebulous term, but I’ve decided to cut it off at 1993… I wanted the last song to be ‘93 til Infinity’ by Souls of Mischief. I wanted to make a bold statement.” He sits back proudly, then adds, “I might do another episode sometime to cover like 93-99 or something.” Maybe. If he ever gets through this one.

Research won’t only consist of listening to ridiculous amounts of old school hip hop and reading the inane opinions of online music nerds, either. He reports that he will be watching hip hop related movies such as Wildstyle and incorporating lame ‘ghetto-isms’ into his everyday speech. Moreover, he hopes to really “get to the source”. He has booked a week off of work and hopes to travel to New York, rob a few liquor stores, and use cocaine.

It sounds like he’s pretty passionate about this stupid little podcast, but as he starts running some raps he’s been working on by me I can’t help but worry. He’s a perfectionist working on this podcast in his his limited spare time. As the scope inevitably widens, the possibility of the project holding his interest long enough for it to actually be completed shrinks.

Damon insists that it’s coming, though, even if he can’t say exactly when, and he assures us that when it’s online it will be “the hot butter on the popcorn, rockin’ you on and on until the early morn.”

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Bertrand Imapretentiousasshole

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HEBRIDUS SCROTELY AND HIS UNTENABLE MENTIONS

July 9, 2009 – 22:34
 
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Episode 115. mp3. cue. Released July 9, 2009.

Starting out about as mainstream as obscure music can get, moving into a dreamy synthpop throwback place, a right turn through some right twisted electronic sounds and then some raggadubbadancehall business, and a sinister coda. (feat. the 2500th unique radio slipstream approved tune)

Bat For Lashes / Daniel / Two Suns (2009)
Animal Collective / My Girls / Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)
Grizzly Bear / Two Weeks / Veckatimest (2009)

Phoenix / Rome / Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
M83 / We Own The Sky / Saturdays = Youth (2008)
David Holmes / I Heard Wonders / The Holy Pictures (2008)
Barry Adamson / The Swinging Detective / Moss Side Story (1988)
Major Lazer / Hold the line (feat. Mr. Lexx & Santigold) / Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do (2009)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Zero / It’s Blitz! (2009)
Pan Sonic / Mayhem I / Kesto (2004)
Clark / Growls Garden / Totems Flare (2009)
Mouse on Mars / Subsequence / Idiology (2001)
South Rakkas Crew / Mad Again (Boy 8-Bit Remix) / Mad Again 12″ (2008)

The Bug / Skeng (feat. Killa P & Flowdan) / London Zoo (2008)
Two Fingers / Whatuknowabout (feat. Sway) / Two Fingers (2009)
Dälek / No Question / Gutter Tactics (2009)

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THE BURNING MEANS IT’S WORKING

June 20, 2009 – 18:39
 
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Episode 114. mp3. cue. Released June 20, 2009.

It’s time to rock. A lot of the time on deh sleepstreeeaaammm you’re hearing all this whispy melodic minimal ambient stuff, or funky grooves, or whatever. This time it’s all about the dirty guitars, pounding drums and err… machismo? (though not much screaming, not really my bag). After some of the last 5 years rockingest offerings, I have a sex change (ah modern technology) and travel back to the 90s and get to know some of the mainstays of the riot grrrl movement. I’ll explore my feminine side even deeper by travelling back to the end of the 70s for some original woman-at-the-helm proto-punk, punk and post-punk etc. Remember like 3 or 4 episodes when I said I should play more non-current music? This is where I finally take my own advice. Hope you like it! (Note: This episode has some cussin’ so you might not want to blast it at work. or by that same token, you might!)

Manic Street Preachers / Marlon J.D. / Journal For Plague Lovers (2009)
Boris / Pink / Pink (2005)
Future Of The Left / Arming Eritrea / Travels With Myself And Another (2009)

Art Brut / The Passenger / Art Brut Vs. Satan (2009)
Dinosaur Jr / Pieces / Farm (2009)
The Drones / Baby² / Wait Long By the River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By (2005)

PJ Harvey / Rid Of Me / Rid Of Me (1993)
Sleater-Kinney / Words And Guitar / Dig Me Out (1997)
The Gits / Another Shot Of Whiskey / Frenching The Bully (1992)
Bikini Kill / Rebel Girl / Pussy Whipped (1993)

Patti Smith Group / Rock n Roll Nigger / Easter (1978)
The Slits / Typical Girls / Cut (1979)
Au Pairs / Headache for Michelle / Playing With a Different Sex (1981)
Pylon / Cool / Pylon!! (1980)
Black Tambourine / For Ex-Lovers Only / Throw Aggi Off the Bridge (1992)
Siouxsie and the Banshees / Happy House / Kaleidoscope (1980)

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OUT OF AARDVARK HEARTS

June 3, 2009 – 2:00
 
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Episode 113. mp3. cue. Released June 3, 2009.

Witness! The fastest turnaround since going off the air of CFMU on 10/27/07. Some stranger sounds kicking things off. Dense, odd and awesome, then some slightly experimental folky sort of things, moving toward some general pop rocking. A bit of an eclectic beast for you this time, but if you keep it fed it will give you years of joy.

Sunset Rubdown / Nightingale / December Song / Dragonslayer (2009)
Dirty Projectors / Stillness is the Move / Bitte Orca (2009)

Passion Pit / Sleepyhead / Manners (2009)
Gang Gang Dance / Blue Nile / Saint Dymphna (2008)
Yppah / Gumball Machine Weekend / They Know What Ghost Know (2009)
J Dilla / Mythsysizer / Jay Stay Paid (2009)
Flying Lotus / Camel / Los Angeles (2008)

Juana Molina / Un Día / Un Dia (2008)
Lhasa / Rising / Lhasa (2009)
Bill Callahan / The Wind and the Dove / Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle (2009)
Grizzly Bear / Foreground / Veckatimest (2009)
St. Vincent / The Strangers / Actor (2009)

Camille / Home Is Where It Hurts / Music Hole (2008)
Plaid / Eyen / Double Figure (2001)
Phoenix / 1901 / Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
Handsome Furs / I’m Confused / Face Control (2009)

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the great aughtnine part threemix

May 29, 2009 – 23:52
 
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For those of you who love music (who doesn’t?) but hate the sound of my voice and/or what I have to say (see previous parantheses please!).. here’s the most recent 3 episodes of the slipstream with only the sweetness of the music intact. And how sweetly intact it is!
This is perfect for those times when it’s preferable not to hear me blathering (including, but not limited to: dinner parties, romantic evenings at home, anywhere I currently am, romantic dinner parties at my house, all the time). Srsly guys, this is 3 hours of uncut musical bliss! You know you want it, even if you’ve had it before! Experts agree your first time’s never the best! Listen to those awesome transitions! That sweet flow of mood! Just do it! Hit that play button and go clean the house or write your genrebusting screenplay or move to Chicago to fall in love! I know you got it in you, baby!

…

YES!

(here’s a cue file, and an mp3)

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SIPPING SMOOTHWELLS

May 22, 2009 – 16:24
 
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Episode 112. mp3. cue. Released May 22, 2009.

We’ve been mostly steering away from the synthesizers for a while, so this time I’m going to unbridle a whole mess of smooth/tasty/euro/banging/sexy beats on you fools. The music starts off like a celebration of the edge between cool and hot on a sultry summer night perfect for top down cruising. Then it explores the territory and comes back with some pounding classics, noodly newness and generally steady beatings. I apologize I am definitely getting behind on the show. So so many awesome tracks lounging around in the queue waiting to be heard. I will try to get these gems out to you at a better rate. The slipstream is supposed to be new and great and it’s struggling with the former (but at least the great bit is what’ll count in the long run and it’s looking tip top in that respect).

Moloko / Pure Pleasure Seeker / Things To Make And Do (2000)
DJ Paleface / Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Mix) (feat. Kayla) / Do You Mind (2008)
Crystal Castles / Untrust Us / Crystal Castles (2008)

Annie / Anthonio (Fred Falke Remix) / Anthonio (2009)
Junior Boys / Work / Begone Dull Care (2009)
Fever Ray / Triangle Walks / Fever Ray (2009)

The Field / The More That I Do / Yesterday and Today (2009)
Dan Deacon / Snookered / Bromst (2009)

Underworld / Rez/Cowgirl / Everything, Everything (2000)
Zazen Boys / Asobi / Zazen Boys 4 (2008)

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cross promotion: Rebicycle PSA

May 4, 2009 – 13:23

here’s a little something from my other life as a multimedia student:

To make it a little more relevant to Radio Slipstream, the song in the first part of the video is Motiivi Tuntematon - Mankind Failed, which was featured in a rather more silly than usual episode of the slipstream (which is to say you should probably check this one out if you haven’t before).

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LEAPFROG DAZE.

May 4, 2009 – 13:06
 
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Episode 111. mp3. cue. Released May 4, 2009.

Thought we missed it, but Spring is in the air. Chartreuse is gradually taking over the palette outside my window. So today the sounds are light (as in lumens) and wispy and/or buoyant. Some great glittering oldies, a few delicate shimmery numbers in the vein of folk, and then some positive, gleeful hip hop (not two words normally associated with the genre, huh). So do please grab a hammock, a pencil and a book of blank pages, and an earful of blooming… Radio Slipstream style.

The Free Design / Kites Are Fun / Kites Are Fun (1967)
The Kinks / The Village Green Preservation Society / The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
Disco Inferno / The Last Dance / The Last Dance (1993)

Erik Enocksson / The Joy of D.H. Lawrence / Farväl Falkenberg (2006)
1900 / Den Minsta Av Segrar (1900 (2008)
Pram / Mother Of Pearl / The Museum of Imaginary Animals (2000)

Andrew Bird / Not A Robot, But A Ghost / Noble Beast (2009)
Patrick Watson / Big Bird In A Small Cage / Wooden Arms (2009)
Emiliana Torrini / Birds / Me And Armini (2008)

CunninLynguists / Thugged Out Since Cubscouts (feat. Jugga the Bully & Mr Raw) / Will Rap for Food (2001)
Brother Ali / The Believers (feat. Slug) / The Truth Is Here (2009)
P.O.S. / Goodbye / Never Better (2009)
Mr. Lif / The Sun / I Heard It Today (2009)

Röyksopp / True To Life (feat. Anneli Drecker) / Junior (2009)

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