Radio Slipstream is basically an audible demonstration of my obsessive love of music. The website primarily chronicles and archives my radio show (which started on 93.3 CFMU in 2005 and continues online as a podcast), but also features articles and tidbits concerning music in general or in specific. Now that I have a groundwork in place, I’m interested in featuring writing by others to expand the site, so if you are interested in that don’t hesitate to contact me with some ideas or writing samples.

The Show

Radio Slipstream represents the very best songs I’ve been hearing sequenced together seamlessly for maximum listening pleasure.

I love music of all sorts. I listen to a whole great lot of music and am always actively seeking out more. My digital collection is enormous, and this show is a way of distilling it down into only its best bits so I can make sense of it. Basically, whenever I hear a song that I take a shine to, it gets sent to a queue of songs to be played on the show.

You will hear music from a wide variety of genres, since I listen to a fairly wide variety of music, but there’s always some that show up more often, these are the artists or atmospheres that I most prefer. There’s a few ground rules that determine how I go about making the show:

1. Every song is really, really good (and yeah, I guess I do think there’s a fair bit of objectivity in music)
2. Every song flows into the following one smoothly, even when I stop to talk in between.
3. The same artist never appears twice in a show unless there is compelling and noted reason.
4. Likewise, the same song is never be played on the show if it has been played within the same two years, unless there is compelling and noted reason (such as use in a special theme show).

All that said, I think I probably summarized what the show is all about best here, and less well here.

I put the show together in my basement using a studio quality microphone, MixMeister Pro 6, and Adobe Audition.

On CFMU, The Slipstream occupied the following timeslots:
January-April, 2005: Wednesday mornings 6-9 am
October 2005-August 2006: Monday nights 2-4am (technically Tuesday)
September 2006-October 2007: Monday nights 12-2am

Disclaimer

A lot has been said about music and the internet. I have extensive, strong opinions that I won’t go into in detail, but given the nature of this site I feel that I need to say something on the matter. I believe the internet is a brilliant way to learn about new artists you wouldn’t otherwise that is opening up music to the masses like never before, and this is a good thing. Of course these artists still need to earn their daily bread from their recordings… as such you won’t find anything on this site that is meant as a substitute for the albums/singles of the artists in question. These songs are meant entirely as introduction and promotion. I strongly urge all users of this site to check out the artists that are highlighted here, buy the albums and support them on tour.

The Host

Damon Muma, who is responsible for very nearly everything on this site, lives in London, Ontario and is a graduate of McMaster University with an Honours BA in English and Theatre and film studies.

That’s the technical, pointless part. Really he is a massive music fan with a serious interest in all forms of artistic endeavour. His life goal is to be vibrant and creative.

He can be contacted at damon/at/radioslipstream/dot/com

The Site

The site is hosted by dreamhost. It is powered by Wordpress and the extremely helpful podPress plugin. The design is based on the shades of gray template of the sandbox theme. It has been customized very heavily, as you can probably see. All the graphic design is my work and the CSS and PHP recoding also, though with help from friends and people at various forums.