Ive been itching my to post the first podcast for weeks, patiently waiting for one of my turntable to be fixed.

Its heating up here in Sydney, everyone seems to be spending more time outside, days are longer and weekends are lazier. This mix really just mellows me out defiantly a great prelude to summer and the impending daylight savings, barbies and lazy weekends at the beach. If you cant make it to the east coast of Australia you can always check the vibe on this mix.

Includes tracks by Artifacts, PUTS, Sadat X, Pete Rock and CL smooth, Afu Ra, J Live and Rodney Rude among others.

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I recently aquired a massive funk collection at my local 2nd hand spot and come up with some gems that I thought id share. I managed to get my hands on a few dusties that ive been searching for…. enjoy!

In hindsight there were some cool things that came out of the 70’s,

some great industrial design

psychadelic art

and the funk

Cookies

Slippin into darkness

Wait up

enjoy.

An interesting article about the importance of innovation in electronic music at igloo magazine

What are your thoughts on the future of electronic music? Do you agree/disagree with the ideas put forth in this article?

While we are on about electronic music lets look back to the past and check out a radio event that has been uploaded on the archive.org website

from the site

“Broadcasted live from the Mills College Electronic Tape Music Center via a remote portable transmitter, Tom Zahuranec’s “Bucket-Ful Mercury Walk” invited listeners at home to drive to Mills and assist in creating sounds using various electronic equipment including Moog and Buchla synthesizers. Guests discovered and experimented with their manipulated voices while others helped turn nobs on the instruments. Charles Amirkhanian reports live from the event where over two hundred people attended, as well as Don Buchla who brought in one of his new model synthesizers of the time. The program features over 45 minutes of analog sounds for listeners to bathe themselves in. From a series of audience participation radio programs in which artists were given air time to create situations that physically involved the listening audience.”

the mp3 is located here

Also pop by disquiet.com for all things ambient. They have a nice selection of daily mp3’s to download, music reviews and other stuff.

I love finding free online gems. Have you found any online that I should know about, if so send me links.

Im really loving the production of one torah vinter from sweden. download her demo from her myspace page.

ive just been listening to a mix from 1985 by cosmic dj beppe loda there is an interview here and the mix can be downloaded from sonic sunset here

October 2006 : John Peel Day 2006 Keeping It Peel!

Today is the the anniversary of John Peel’s last live broadcast, and you can put on your own tibute gig on 12 October.

If you cant do that. Check out the archives at Radio one here