September 11, 2009

Episode 5 – Where a naked bulb burns

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A bit more talking than usual in this episode…

December 10, 2008

Episode 4 – The Crack in the Teacup

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This Episode features…

As always, thanks to all the artists. The track start times aren’t exact, but you should be able to use them to identify which track is highest in the mix at a particular time.

Today’s title is from As I Walked Out One Evening by W H Auden.

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Next episode – 20th December

November 30, 2008

Episode 3: The Night and the Rushing Air

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The title of this episode comes from In My Dreams by Stevie Smith.

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Next episode – 10th December

November 20, 2008

Episode 2: Where Silence Deepens under Rain

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The title of this episode comes from Leaving Belfast by Andrew Motion

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Next episode 30th November

November 17, 2008

Deepspace

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Mirko Ruckels from Deepspace

Mirko Ruckels from Deepspace

The official website for Deepspace seemed to be having some troubles when I went to look at it, but from their last.fm profile I can tell you that Deepspace is Mirko Ruckels from Brisbane. I can also tell you that he makes very tasty ambient synthesiser tracks, often with the feeling of incidental music for some sci-fi epic or astronomy documentary. Read the rest of this entry »

November 16, 2008

Andrew Cauthen

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Andrew Cauthen

Andrew Cauthen

Andrew Cauthen makes cool synth/ambient/drone music. The track Raw Babe features on our first episode. Read the rest of this entry »

November 15, 2008

Akshak

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Sargon EP by Akshak

Sargon EP by Akshak

Akshak‘s track Sargon – a fine piece of post rock guitarism – appears in our first episode. Read the rest of this entry »

November 14, 2008

4th Alternative

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4th Alternative

4th Alternative

4th Alternative, whose track Mote appears in our first episode, is the musical project of Rob “Bombardier” Davies from Brentwood, England. Rob has a variety of musical styles, but what he seems to keep coming back to are slightly creepy soundscapes with lots of synth pads. Read the rest of this entry »

November 13, 2008

Creating playlists from webpages with Playr

Posted in web tools at 2:04 pm by Ben Deutsch

If you ever find yourself looking at a web page with a long list of MP3 audio files on it and not knowing which, if any of them, to download first, Alf Eaton’s Playr could be very handy for you. It offers a set of bookmarklets, which you can drag into your browser’s bookmark toolbar. Once installed there, clicking any of the bookmarklets creates a playlist in your chosen format of all the MP3 files listed on the page you’re currently looking at. You can then open that playlist in the media player of your choice and it’ll stream all the tracks in turn, giving you a chance to preview the content and decide which you want to give hard drive space to.

The choices of format are M3U, SMIL, RSS and XSPF. If you’re not sure which to go for, M3U is the most common format and the chances are that the media player on your computer will understand it.

As an added bonus, there’s also a “Flash” bookmarklet, which rather than presenting you with a playlist file, opens a Flash audio player with all the tracks from the page listed, so you never have to leave your browser.

November 12, 2008

Episode 1: High Tide and the Heron Dived

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The title of this episode comes from Poem in October by Dylan Thomas.

Tracks edited and mixed using Audacity audio editor.

Many thanks to all the artists.

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Next episode: 20th November