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Thursday, 3 November 2011
BSOTS 117 - Gettin' Deep With Lady Blacktronika...
Now Playing: The Roots - "Make My"
Topic: my podcasts

This episode features a mix from the First Lady of Beatdown, the one and only Lady Blacktronika. It's a hour-long set that should speak volumes to the house heads out there. Hypnotic and deep, much like her Future Blues album. Not much more to say than that.

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Theme song produced by Cy Tru. ID drop courtesy of India from Astronauts of Antiquity. Background music selections: "Leave A Note" by Silhouette Brown.

other key info:
The Music Podcast Consortium's Facebook Fan Page
Macedonia on Mixcloud
Macedonia's Tumblr page
Full Mix from Lady Blacktronika

this episode's tracklist:
1. KZRC feat. Kemi - "Feeding (Andres Rmx)" (2011) {Beatport}
2. Poussez - "Marvin In The Disco" (2011) {Beatport}
3. Chris Mitchell - "Morning Movements"
4. Lady Blacktkronika - "Who Makes You (Danny Kyo Remix)"
5. Joi Cardwell - "Deep Lady Blacktronika (Deep Water Mix)"
6. SE62 - "Even Better" (Forthcoming on Sound Black)
7. Lady B~Noir - "Tricky Life" (Mastered)
8. Ikenga - "Ancestral Channels" (Forthcoming on Sound Kemystry)
9. Bailey Jemille - "Getting Heavy (Jordan Fields Re-Edit)" {Juno Download}
10. Bailey Jemille - "Getting Heavy (Nick Turner Lady B Vox Remix 1)" {Juno Download}
11. Lady Blacktronika / Bailey Jemille - "Gettin' Tracky"
12. Lady Blacktronika - "All God's Black Children"
13. Lady Blacktronika - "Roots Rock"
14. Chris Mitchell - "Lonely Nights"
15. Lady Blacktronika - "I'm Tryin Ta Party"
16. Brother G - "Learning Curves" (Sound Black)
17. South West Seven - "Play With Love" (2011) {Beatport}
18. DJ Cam - "Swim feat. Chris James (Blackjoy Remix)" (2011) {Beatport}

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Sunday, 11 September 2011
no words for today...
Now Playing: the news as ambient music before shower and church...
Topic: music appreciation

just a song...

 Theo Parrish - "Major Moments of Instant Insanity"

 reflect...


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Thursday, 8 September 2011
BSOTS 116 - The Priority Shift.
Now Playing: random acts of musicology...
Topic: my podcasts

 

This might sound crazy to you, but I've been having this conversation with GOD about music and my place within it for almost a year now. (First time that I would have talked about any of this was on my tumblr blog.) I believe it's had a direct effect on the amount of shows that I have released this year through the BSOTS channel. I tried talking about this while recording voiceovers for the last "buckwild" episode, but after rambling on for almost 20 minutes, I knew no one would listen and I hadn't the foggiest notion of how I was going to edit that session down. It sat on a thumb drive for about a month before I revisited it. I suppose that it was time to do so: seems as if the music chosen for the show led me to picking just the right sound bites from that voiceover session.

As a result, this show is a strange mixture of my current musical obsessions and my constant drive towards finding out what my purpose is in life. I'm not certain if people will really get this show or not; all I know was that I had to do this one. It's part cinematic instrumentals, part slow motion house, part spoken word, part left-of-center hip-hop, part unconventional hymnal, and jazz and ambient selections as well. All this and my musings on GOD, music, and my attitude towards music at the end of last year that directly influenced my approach towards releasing new BSOTS episodes in 2011.

I hope all of this is presented in such a way that it makes sense to you. If not, feel free to let me know. Here's hoping that purpose has come around your way and made itself known to you. As for me, I'm still searching...

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ID drop courtesy of EJ Flavors. Background music selections: "germinal ring" by Cyclops Joint, "ghettoblaster (marumari remix)" by Kid 606, and "Material Instrument 1" by Ezekiel Honig.

other key info:
The Music Podcast Consortium's Facebook Fan Page
Macedonia on Mixcloud
Macedonia's Tumblr page

this episode's tracklist:
1. Shadyzane - "Watersleep" (2006) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
2. Oddisee - "The Carter Barron" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Fright Night (Nevermore) (Dam-Funk Remix)" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
4. Ghostly Dust Machine - "Ode To A Baby Snowstorm" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
5. Def Sound - "(A)Gain" (2011) {Bandcamp}
6. Shabazz Palaces - "An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
7. Techniken Defunkus - "Infinity" (2009)
8. Colonel Red - "Gimme A Minute (feat. Ursula Rucker" (2011) {Amazon MP3}
9. Kool Kim - "What I Got Is Gonna Last" (1996) {Amazon.com}
10. Def Dee - "Lisa" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
11. Alias - "Wanna Let It Go" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | More On This Album}
12. Nicolas Jaar - "Keep Me There" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
13. EOTL - "Let's Walk Together" (2011) {Bandcamp}
14. Orgone - "Faith Keep Rolling" (2010) {Ubiquity Records Store}
15. Autodeep - "Crossplot" (2011) {Soundcloud}
16. Lady Blacktronika - "If Some Rain" (2011) {Beatport}
17. Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth For Christ Choir - "Ever Since" (1971) {Amazon MP3}
18. The Campbell Brothers - "What's His Name - Jesus!" (2001) {Arhoolie}
19. Cosmic Analog Ensemble - "Everything Takes Longer Than One First Expects" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
20. Gorje Hewek - "At That Cafe" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
21. Sebastian - "Human" (2011) {iTunes}
22. About 9 - "In Time Things Will Be ok" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}

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Updated: Thursday, 8 September 2011 1:11 AM EDT
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Sunday, 14 August 2011
BSOTS 115 - In The Mix With South West Seven
Now Playing: Good Times (not the song from Chic, but the sitcom...)
Topic: my podcasts

In what will probably seem like a complete and total 180-degree turn from the unbridled chaos of the last episode, this show finds Camp Lo-Fi with its dancing shoes on, grooving to the sounds of Scope, one-half of DJ/production duo South West Seven. If you want to hear these tunes in an unmixed form, almost all of them are available at Beatport. Just check the buylinks below. We really ought to play more house music around these parts; Scope absolutely killed it. Respect due to Kahua Music for sending his mix our way.

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Theme song co-produced by Macedonia and Techniken Defunkus. ID drop courtesy of TGrundy. Background music selections: "germinal ring" by Cyclops Joint and "Hot on Both Sides (instrumental)" by Techniken Defunkus.

other key info:
The Music Podcast Consortium's Facebook Fan Page
Macedonia on Mixcloud
Macedonia's Tumblr page

this episode's tracklist:
1. YSE feat. Frank H. Carter III - "Guessing Games (2011 Vocal Mix)" (2011) {Beatport}
2. Miguel Migs - "Everybody (feat. Evelyn "Champagne" King)" (2011) {iTunes | Beatport}
3. Voices Of Black - "Fridays With Her" (2011) {Beatport}
4. John Talabot - "Familes (feat. Glasser) (Club Re-Fix)" (2011) {Beatport}
5. Huxley & Jonny Cade - "20 Pounds (Of Nordle)"
6. Tigerskin - "La La La Song" (2011) {Beatport}
7. Mic Newman - "The Fidelity" (2011) {Beatport}
8. Leif - "So Long (feat. Donna Lea)" (2011) {Beatport}
9. Tanner Ross - "Goodbye, Summer" (2011) {Beatport}
10. South West Seven - "What We Do" (2011) {Beatport}
11. Huxley - "Harmless Frustration" (2011) {Beatport}
12. Mountaineer - "Always Coming Home (Tuff City Kids remix)" (2011) {Beatport}
13. Mudd - "Spielplatz"
14. Omar and Zed Bias - "Dancing (Radio Edit)" (2011) {iTunes}
15. Funk Mediterraneo - "Saturday Life" (2011) {Traxsource}

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Saturday, 23 July 2011
BSOTS 114 - BGB: Go Out Swinging...
Now Playing: the anxiety in my head that only clogged toilets can bring...
Topic: my podcasts

Can't quite believe that this makes the first BSOTS GONE (buck)WILD episode of 2011, but here we are. I speak about being a "reluctant tech" as well as a curmudgeon. Other than that, I let the music scream for me. I think the show turned out better as a result. As for the sound bites of the NYPD clashing with partygoers outside of Tammany Hall, most of them come from an eyewitness video taken by Lady Jay Diamond. More videos along with photos and background information on the case can be found at the Monumental 5 Website.

The heat(wave) is on, kids. Keep a cool head as best you can...

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Theme song courtesy of Cy Tru featuring Jonny Sonic. ID drop courtesy of Anji Bee. Background music selections are "Ghettoblaster (marumari remix)" by Kid 606, "Pop Champagne (instrumental)" by Jim Jones, "Porchside Prologue" by Ezekiel Honig, and "After The Gold Rush" by Ben Neill.

other key info:
The Music Podcast Consortium's Facebook Fan Page
Macedonia on Mixcloud
Macedonia's Tumblr page
Endless Shouting Matches With Yourself...
BSOTS 110 - Father-Daughter Dance (for Simone)
BSOTS 103 - BGB: Avoiding Explosions Within A Nuclear Summer...

this episode's tracklist:
1. MIT Concert Choir - "O Fortuna" (2006) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
2. Dobie - "The New Madness" (2009) {Juno Download}
3. Chacho Brodas - "Siente Mi Funk" (2011) {Amazon MP3}
4. DJ Solo - "Tangible Dream (feat. Jibberish, Orifice Vulgatron and Feras Ibrahim)" (2011) {7Digital}
5. Riff Raff McGriff - "Tell 'Em" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
6. Lupe Fiasco - "Words I Never Said (feat. Skylar Grey)" (2011) {iTunes}
7. The Residents - "Breath And Length" (1974) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}
8. Wade Waters - "A Post-Racial America (pt. 1)" (2011) {Bandcamp}
9. Serengeti - "Ha-Ha" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | More On This Album}
10. Signal Path - "Mahalia Is Free" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
11. Nikka Costa - "Pro*Whoa!" (2011) {iTunes}
12. Wallpaper. - "#STUPiDFACEDD (Acoustic Remix)" (2011)
13. Deathface - "Gift Of Fury" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | iTunes}
14. R.V. Aggelen - "Second Reflex (Black Belt Dub)" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
15. Skrillex - "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Noisia Remix)" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD | iTunes}
16. The Specials - "Ghost Town (DJ Enki Remix)" (2011) {Turntable Lab Digital}
17. Nickodemus - "A New York Minute (Summer of '77 Mix)" (2011) {Turntable Lab Digital}

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Updated: Saturday, 23 July 2011 8:42 PM EDT
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011
BSOTS 113 - Camp Lo-Fi's Beatporium...
Now Playing: Friday Favecast - Swirl
Topic: my podcasts

First off, I have to thank Todd Kelley a.k.a. The Big La for being the main inspiration for this mix. If you've ever heard his Background Flow episodes via flowink.com, then you can understand why. I also gotta shout out Nikki of Infinite Ink, home of the Soulrific Podcast. Her seamless blends featured in every show make us all work harder.

I've been wanting to do an episode like this for at least a year, but what I'm learning is that you can't rush the arrangement of these shows. They're going to get made when they want to get made. Within the past month, I started stringing songs together while working on episode #111 and I couldn't stop. That's when I knew it was finally gonna happen. When the music starts to connect its own dots before your eyes and ears, you're on your way to putting together the next show. Lately I've been learning to listen to the music say to me, "Now's the time. What are you waiting for?" That's what it takes these days for me to do shows. Some weeks, I would much rather kick back and stream a documentary on Netflix. On other weeks, it's like a sonic obligation to get blends done.

There's a lot to take in musically within this episode. Some beats are constructed from samples, others are more spaced-out and synth driven. Some are short sketches that may feel like unfinished works to some, but still give you a good idea of what the beatmaker is capable of. Others are full-bodied, full fledged instrumentals. There's a lot of variety here, most of it released between 2009 and 2011, but Pete Rock's cut dates back to 2001 (and STILL kicks the pants off a lot of stuff coming out right now). Letherette, Maverick, and Shlohmo are all carried over from the previous show, and there are a couple of entries from the Just Plain Sounds camp. Cats like Damu The Fudgemunk and The Custodian of Records have that gritty and grimy feel to their work, a real love for samples and vinyl. Then you've got Mux Mool, representing the second wave of producers on the Ghostly International label, constantly coming up with head nod essential works.

I have come to the recent conclusion that Oddisee is absolutely unstoppable. It makes no sense how prolific he is and continuously dope while doing so. Presto is that dude who can never fail in my eyes...great producer. Make sure to keep tabs on Daru Jones and Dotmatic; both those cats have some serious skills crafting beats. And what else can you say about Dilla that hasn't already been said? The cut I include from him is an instrumental version of a Busta Rhymes joint he produced. I still miss him, as many of us do. But I've learned not to call the present-day beat generation a "post-Dilla" movement. It puts so much focus on James Yancey that there's a tendency to forget the immensely talented producers and beatmakers that still walk the earth. And while Dilla was here, he never failed to give props to those who were making great music because that's the kind of heart and spirit that he had. The least I can do is show love to those building upon the contributions that he gave to the art of hip-hop, soul, and music as a whole.

One last point: the song "Breakfast" by The Stuyvesants comes from their Brooklyn's Finest release, which celebrates its one-year anniversary this month. Further proof that the blends come together in their own time. This one's for the head nodders out there, the beat freaks, the emcees in the freestyle cipher going off on that one beat that always get them hyped. This is for those on some chill out stuff, just looking for something to kick back to. This is for all those who love listening to beat tapes and instrumental albums as much as I do.

We'll get "buckwild" next time around, but for now, welcome to Camp Lo-Fi's Beatporium. Hope you enjoy it...

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ID drops courtesy of Jonny Sonic, EJ Flavors, and The Hired Gun.

other key info:
The Music Podcast Consortium's Facebook Fan Page
Macedonia on Mixcloud
Macedonia's Tumblr page

this episode's tracklist:
1. Brokn Englsh - "The Joy Of Beat Making" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
2. Friends Or Whatever - "Smoke Floats" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
3. Maverick - "When Speakers Spoke" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
4. Pete Rock - "Something Funky" (2001) {iTunes}
5. Onra - "Lying Besides You" (2010) {iTunes}
6. Just Plain Ant - "Light It Up" (2009) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
7. The Stuyvesants - "Breakfast" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
8. The Great Mundane - "Unicorns Have Feelings Too" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
9. Oh.Bliv - "And The Truth Shall Set You Free" (2009) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
10. Raleigh Moncrief - "Cheese Steak" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
11. Tha Silent Partner - "One Day" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
12. Tall Black Guy - "Blind Man (I Can't Help It)" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
13. Duke Hugh - "Sweet And Lowdown" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
14. Junior Wong - "Mr. Smith" (2009) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
15. Letherette - "In July Focus" (2010) {Turntable Lab Digital}
16. Oddisee - "Is That Why You're Here?" (2009) {Bandcamp}
17. Presto - "Zone Out" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}
18. Damu The Fudgemunk - "Wonka Beat 1" (2009) {Bandcamp}
19. Daru Jones - "Lift Me High (Outtake Inst.)" (2010) {Bandcamp}
20. Custodian of Records - "Lucky Stars" (2009) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
21. Mux Mool - "Wax Rose Saturday (Remux Edit)" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}
22. J Dilla - "You Can't Hold A Torch (Busta Instrumental)" (2010) {Stones Throw Store}
23. Dotmatic - "Dream, Love, Reality" (2011) {RecordBreakin.com}
24. Big La Vs. Todd - "The First Time" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
25. Shigeto - "And We Gonna (Samiyam Chopsticks Remix)" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}
26. Shlohmo - "Socks" (2009) {FREE DOWNLOAD}

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Updated: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 1:29 AM EDT
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Monday, 30 May 2011
Now when I say
Now Playing: the excitable voice of my daughter as we prepare to play together...
Topic: my podcasts

I am writing this on Memorial Day.  Just two more days and it will be the first of June.  How did five months of 2011 pass without a BSOTS GONE (buck)WILD show?  Sad, really.

That will change in the month of June.  First will be an all-instrumental edition of Radio BSOTS, focusing squarely on the beatmakers and hip-hop/electronic leaning producers.  After that, it's all about the "buckwild" experience.  For those who are unfamiliar with those shows, I set aside four shows a year where I can just go off the wall.  Musically, it's still about hip-hop, soul, funk, and electronic music, but I save the brash and freakier cuts for "buckwild" shows, as well as stuff that's more political and/or experimental in nature.  Aside from the music, you hear a lot more from me on those shows.  I tend to rant quite a bit.  The "buckwild" experience is actually a continuation of a show that I used to do called endless shouting matches with yourself.  It has long since podfaded into the sunset, but a few episodes are still up, for those that are curious.

In the meantime, if anyone feels the need to catch up on all things "buckwild" from the BSOTS channel, here are the episodes that have been released so far...

BSOTS 071 - BSOTS GONE (buck)WILD...
BSOTS 075 - BGB: rhythms and sounds from the nice part of town...
BSOTS 081 - BGB: as absurd as gourmet pork rinds...
BSOTS 086 - BGB: how i be...
BSOTS 090 - BGB: this is not a game...
BSOTS 100 - BGB: the custserv chronicles (and other tales...)
BSOTS 103 - BGB: Avoiding Explosions Within A Nuclear Summer...
BSOTS 107 - BGB: The Return of the Analog Brother...

The next BGB episode will be show #114.  Prepare yourselves...

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Updated: Monday, 30 May 2011 3:52 PM EDT
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Saturday, 28 May 2011
BSOTS 112 - Behind Us, Beside Us, Before Us... (pt. 2)
Now Playing: Brandt Brauer Frick - "Caffiene"
Topic: my podcasts

The second half of the series picks up where we left off, surveying the landscape of 2010 releases and 2011 hopefuls, and there's a lot to be excited about. There's the beat-driven productions of Shlohmo, Letherette, and Maverick. There's the understated and futuristic beauty of Saturn Never Sleeps and Akua Naru's womanifesto "The World Is Listening." There's the melancholy and poignancy of When Saints Go Machine along with the indescribable textures of "Biddies" by Mo Kolours. There's even a will.i.am cut from 2001 that is sure to make people see him in a new light (or at least wonder what could have been, musically speaking).

There's a lot of music to digest in this one, so chew slowly. Hopefully this one will keep you ears well nourished until we meet again...

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Theme music co-produced by Macedonia and Techniken Defunkus. ID drops courtesy of TGrundy, Fave, and The Hired Gun. Background music includes the following:

Cyplops Joint - "germinal ring"
Kid 606 - "ghettoblaster (marumari remix)"
Techniken Defunkus - "Hot On Both Sides (Instrumental)"

other key info:
The Music Podcast Consortium's Facebook Fan Page
Macedonia on Mixcloud
Macedonia's Tumblr page
Phuture Frequency Radio website

this episode's tracklist:
1. Shlohmo - "Places" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Turntable Lab Digital}
2. Suzi Analogue - "We Cannot Hide" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
3. Akua Naru - "The World Is Listening" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Bandcamp}
4. Eagle Nebula - "Waiting" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
5. Katalyst - "Day Into Night (feat. Stephanie McKay)" (2011) {iTunes}
6. will.i.am - "Lay Me Down (feat. Terry Dexter)" (2001) {iTunes}
7. Those Chosen - "Act Like You Know" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
8. Letherette - "Blad" (2010) {iTunes}
9. Maverick - "Down In Uptown" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
10. Lushlife - "Meridian Sound (Pt. Three)" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
11. Vikter Duplaix - "Electric Love (Nicolay Remix)" (2010) {iTunes}
12. Saturn Never Sleeps - "The Magic Hour" (2011) {Amazon MP3}
13. The Hired Gun - "You" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
14. Mo Kolours - "Biddies" (2011) {Bandcamp}
15. Illvibe Collective - "Medicine Man (feat. A.R.M.)" (2011) {Amazon MP3}
16. Rebirth Brass Band - "Do It Again" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}
17. When Saints Go Machine - "Fail Forever" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}
18. Iambic - "Ignite" (2010) {Amazon MP3}

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Updated: Saturday, 28 May 2011 1:01 PM EDT
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Thursday, 12 May 2011
Before there was BSOTS, there was ON THE VERGE...
Now Playing: Fear of Pop -
Topic: OTV1999-01 (Jan,)

 

As of late, my actual blogging has fallen off considerably.  Posts go up when there's a new podcast episode; otherwise quick bits of text and video are scattered through my Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook pages.  However, it feels like nostalgia has given me a reason to post regularly again.

Nostalgia's a funny thing.  It can cause you to remember things as more rosy than they actually were.  More often than not, there is safety to be found in nostalgia.  My wife does this with music: she could care less about new stuff.  Instead, she continues to return to what she listened to 15 or 20 years ago, sometimes further back than that.  I've been experiencing that practice myself lately, but with TV shows in my case.  I've been alternating between my Electric Company box sets and Rocky and Bullwinkle on Hulu, with the occasional Peanuts special on YouTube.  All of these things take my mind back to a simpler time, when it wasn't filled with so many impossible deadlines and convoluted ways to perform work tasks.  In some ways, the origins of Both Sides Of The Surface offer that same feeling.

Recently I've been scanning copies of my old email newsletter, ON THE VERGE.  WIthout it, there would be no website and without the website, there would be no podcast.  An earlier blurb from the BSOTS history page explains what I was trying to do with OTV:

"after graduating from college, i needed something to keep my mind occupied and out of trouble. it was after a failed attempt in the late fall of 1998 to build a Web site that the seeds were planted for OTV. the musical focus was (and still remains) predominantly electronic and lesser-known urban genres, released both independently and on major labels. the reviews within OTV's three years of existence covered a vast array of genres: techno, house, drum and bass, soul, jazz, funk, hip-hop, avant-garde, and the occasional rock release as well."

ON THE VERGE premiered in January of 1999.  Time has been flying by ever since my daughter was born, so 12 years ago doesn't seem that long ago.  The thing that strikes me most about this first newsletter is how undeniably upbeat I was in my writing and the voracious appetite that I had for writing about music.  I read it and wonder if things will ever be like that again, if I'm too angry, jaded, and bitter to return to that place in my writing.  I expressed that concern to my wife tonight after dinner and my daughter replied, "Of course you will, daddy."

"What makes you say that, little girl?"

She thought about it, shrugged her shoulders and said, "I dunno."

Perhaps I shouldn't ask such questions.  Instead I'll be grateful that my daughter continues to see something in me that I was convinced had long since left.

And so, for archive purposes and the sake of nostalgia, I present to you and re-present to others the OTV email newsletter.  This first edition was nothing more than a handful of reviews, a quick blurb on Frank Zappa (still one of my biggest musical inspirations), and my top 20 of 1998.  I have included some links to listen to selections from a few of the releases that were reviewed and I'll do my best to make that a standard practice.  You'll notice that I reviewed a Fear of Pop single.  At the time, there was speculation on who was behind it, but it was ultimately revealed as a Ben Folds side project that included William Shatner.  Check the YouTube footage for a closer look on what it was all about.

For the two or few of you that have wondered where or how BSOTS got its start, it all goes back to ON THE VERGE.  You can view or download the very first edition of the newsletter here...

Fact:  see that picture at the top of the blog post?  That was my room in the third floor attic apartment where I still aside, prior to getting married.  I dubbed it "the OTV music office."

Fear of Pop - "In Love" (Thievery Corporation Remix)

The High Llamas - "Homerun Ubershow" (Schneider TM Remix)

Abstrakt Reality Records Sampler on CDBaby

 


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Updated: Thursday, 12 May 2011 1:40 AM EDT
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011
BSOTS 111 - Behind Us, Beside Us, Before Us... (pt. 1)
Now Playing: listening to the show right now...
Topic: my podcasts

Since I didn't do any sort of recap show at the beginning of 2011, I'm sort of making up for that now. This one gets back to the regular freeform format, bouncing around and picking up cuts from here and there. A lot of my current audio obsessions as of late are present: Space Invadas, Wildcookie, Toro Y Moi, and The Stepkids. Also have some friends in the mix as well (Core Rhythm, Jonny Sonic, Lovespirals, and DJ Center). And don't forget about beatmakers B. Bravo and Apollo Brown, Kid Creole And The Coconuts alumni Coati Mundi, hip-hop duo Malcolm and Martin, and a band from Sweden known as A Bossa Electica coming through with a killer Roy Ayers cover. On top of that, we close it out with some inspiring gospel soul from 1971.

Got a lot of ground to cover, so this will be the first of a two-part series. Oh yeah, I got the name of the Apollo Brown joint wrong during the recap. It's not "Tao Se Ching," it's "Tao TE Ching." My apologies. Let's get it goin'...

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Theme music produced by Cy Tru. ID drops courtesy of Bazooka Joe, Darrenkeith, James Taylor of JTQ, EJ Flavors, and Jonny Sonic. Background music includes the following:

Cyplops Joint - "germinal ring"
Kid 606 - "ghettoblaster (marumari remix)"
Silhouette Brown - "Leave A Note (Instrumental)"

other key info:
The Music Podcast Consortium's Facebook Fan Page
Macedonia on Mixcloud
Macedonia's Tumblr page
Free Music Archive
Soulrific Podcast 100th episode
The Next Episode
The Half Show with Me-Saj and Jason
My Love For Music Episode #20
The Chillcast with Anji Bee

this episode's tracklist:
1. B. Bravo - "Orfeo (Will You Stay)" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}
2. Malcolm and Martin - "Movement Music" (2011) {iTunes}
3. Core Rhythm - "Omega Men (feat. Sum Kid, Tranquill, Hired Gun, and B-Boy Atomic)" (2010) {Bandcamp}
4. Suhov - "Love Is" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD}
5. Space Invadas - "Angel Maria" (2011) {Amazon MP3}
6. Apollo Brown - "Tao Te Ching" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | iTunes}
7. The Stepkids - "Shadows On Behalf" (2011) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Stones Throw Store}
8. Coati Mundi - "No More Blues" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}
9. Wildcookie - "Serious Drug" (2011) {Amazon MP3}
10. Jonny Sonic - "Mixtape" (2010) {Jonny Sonic Store}
11. Toro Y Moi - "Causers Of This" (2010) {FREE DOWNLOAD | Amazon MP3}
12. Lovespirals - "Try To Forget" (2011) {Bandcamp}
13. A Bossa Electrica - "Sob A Luz Do Sol (Everybody Loves The Sunshine)" (2011) {Amazon MP3}
14. DJ Center - "Center's Groove" (2010) {iTunes}
15. Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth For Christ Choir - "Like A Ship (Without A Sail)" (2010) {LITA Shop}

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Posted by macedonia at 12:02 AM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, 26 April 2011 12:19 AM EDT
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