listen to this.

rum doings

i’ve given it a few episodes before recommending it, but rum doings is worth a go. it’s part of my sunday night wind-down.

listen to this.

robin ince

without the turd of tv i’ve been enjoying a variety of audio treats.

it’s robin ince and cohost josie long (mentioned before).

listen to this.

can’t remember why i bought the californication season 2 ost but this track is cool.

there is a live version (looks like jools holland) but this is the best sound quality of the youtube offerings.

don’t pay/pay.

listen to this.

dnb-sets.de

woke up feeling marginally better this morning and after another 10 hour day came back with a bunch of work to avoid. i was listening to an old one nation brockie mix while playing around with snagit (god damn i love that program). i realised i hadn’t heard anything new for a while and came across dnb-sets. there’s a bunch of mixes and they’re easy to dl (just right-click on ‘go to host’ and save link/target/whatever-macs-say).

i’m listening to this marky podcast.

listen to this.

charlie talks to paul krugman

i got this a while back but as it’s only 13mb i thought it would be quite short, so left it.

it’s an hour and it’s very interesting.

cheers, antipope/wiki.

listen to this.

you make me touch your hands for stupid reasons

a dramatic reading of a break up letter.

cheers, bb.

listen to this.

“fall of efrafa is a heavy atmospheric post hardcore band influenced by the mythological and political overtones in the book ‘watership down’ by richard adams, it is a concept project, a trilogy of records known collectively as ‘the warren of snares’ – owsla, elil and inlé. the narrative follows an iron age society oppressed by a theocratic rule, dying at the hands of ignorant ideology, their struggle to overcome both physical and mental hardship and to strike out against the ultimate enemy, the encroachment of man.”

i imagine at this point you will have marked, painfully, the inclusion of the ‘concept project’ definition and emitted a heavy, collective sigh, as is wholeheartedly appropriate. ‘concept art’ is, customarily as a rule, a paper-thin facade, administered by someone of questionable talent to fraudulently bestow their (knowingly) lackluster handiwork with a prestige otherwise undeserved. as yahtzee would affirm, it habitually carries with it “the stink of the auteur”. not so with fall of efrafa. everything about the ‘warren of snares’ is to be applauded, not least of all (as any ‘artist’ worth their salt would know) that they finished it at all.   

the trilogy now complete, the band are splitting. “because we have now completed the trilogy, which is cyclical, it would not make any sense to add anything else to this. we always planned to break up after ‘inle’, but we have decided to play a few more shows before we call it quits“.  

you can download the entire trilogy, three-plus albums’ worth of exemplary post-hardcore off the official efrafa website, and for free to boot. the lyrics that form the narrative are also there, with asides and additional (possibly essential) mise-en-scene.

and they fucking own live.

listen to this.

andrew collins and richard herring

i’m up to episode 30.

also inspired me download the old ‘fist of fun’ radio show and some other lee & herring stuff.

cheers, guardian’s top ten comedy podcasts.

listen to this.

radiolab

“this hour, radiolab examines stochasticity, which is just a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness.”

it’s very good.

cheers, speechification.

listen to this.

listen to this.

i assumed i had posted this ages ago, but apparently not. if you want to hear a couple of guys that used to write for pc gamer talk about games. its a regular for me, a nice sunday afternoon thing.

listen to this.

manha manha

worth it for track 4 alone.

cheers, bb.

“yeah, you’ll eat ‘em”

catchy.

cheers, bb.

listen to this.

discovery

i’ve just finished a four part documentary series from the world service called “oceans: what lies beneath”.

really interesting, worth a listen.

cheers, bbc.

listen to this.

perfume ost

was recommended by iamthedemonamon. i didn’t particularly pay much attention the first time i heard it i have to say. it was good, but not shawshank good. so i put it on again today and it felt like something i’d been listening to for ages.

pay/don’t pay.

listen to this.

that’s some nice flutin boy

cheers, bro.

listen to this

josie long

i’ve been going through some neglected mp3s and after finishing ‘state of the art‘ went onto ‘all the planets wonders’.

i like her.

ep-four:

cheers, speechification (see comments for link to all four)

listen to this.

plaid

after reading that plaid did the soundtrack to tekkon kinreet i got their catalogue and dial p has been on repeat a few times.

pay/don’t pay.

also:

eight bit hip hop

i didn’t really like this much the first time i heard it but its grown on me.

day and night – crookers remix

worth it for the drop. mmmm.

cheers, wiki/thetape/amazon/isohunt.

listen to this.

radio active

i heard this episode of radio active on a comedy controller show.

i found them all on isohunt and have been working my way through them. some are better than others, but this is the best i’ve heard so i uploaded it the internet archive.

“i’m out of my depth“

cheers, bbc/radioactiveremembered

listen to this.

cheers, bb.

listen to this

solid steel podcasts

i’m busy writing my ‘child study’ for the course and have been entertained by episodes 82 and 85 of the podcast.

its worth subscribing to, too.

cheers, ninjatune/odeo.

listen to this.

has had a few good tracks recently. currently listening to:

makkuro kurosuke – gejius

will he – busdriver feat. flying lotus.

everything in its right place – radiohead (gigamesh remix)

beach demon – wavves

listen to this

material world

i needed something informative after finishing ‘welcome to mars‘ and came across ‘material world’ on the bbc podcasts directory.

i also like ‘dr karl and the naked scientist‘ and ‘the news quiz‘.

cheers, licencefeepayers.

listen to this.

its a couple of years old and bb posted it a while back but i missed it all the same. he’s got a book out now and i’ve just finished the seventh part of the series.

very interesting, very thorough.

cheers, bb.

listen to this.

best of bootie 2008

quite a few good ones this year.

i’ve got track 18 & 20 on repeat, but also like: 5, 6 & 14.

cheers, bb.