Dystopia 07.31.05

The setlist for tonight's show is up. The show was great. Plenty of supremely excellent music as featured over @ SXSW.

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Finally, a smart decision

Rosie le Det

No Radio Dystopia this week. Instead, I headed over to Seattle to the Highway 99 Blues Club,"An exciting new venue for the blues culture and music of America. Housed in a 1909 brick building on the Seattle waterfront, the Highway 99 Blues Club is inspired by the juke joints of The South and neighborhood blues clubs of Chicago." The main attraction was Rosie de Let an amazing zydeco singer from the rural town of Church Point, Louisiana. Unfortunately, she does not have any music available for download, but I highly recommend picking up any and all of her CDs. they are great.

Follow up to 7.17.05 Dystopia

Last week's show was a fun one and the complete setlist has been up for a while. Was great to hang out with DJ Double A during his brief visit to town , up from Jackson. Big thanks to him for the use of his laptop all summer while I save up some cash to purchase a new machine of my own. Without him, it would be very difficult to bring you the mp3 love each week.

It's good to see that Open source P2P projects haven't been hurt by the recent Grokster ruling in the Supreme court. And while legal downloads are on the rise, people increasingly ignore the other, free, legal places available to them which allow downloading of music. If you are a Firefox user, you should surf over to their plugins page and pick up Download Them All, which scans a webpage for all available files and then downloads the ones you tell it to download. It has settings which let you filter for specific types of files, like the mp3. Good stuff.

Dystopia 07-17-05

Great show tonight. Started off with The Zambonis, a band that plays only hockey oriented music, a band I learned about via my boss, who is a goalie on the co-ed league in town. Then, of course, more stuff from SXSW. Topped off by some hidden tracks from Giant Drag .

I love these guys.

They are out of Orange County, CA. Hillarious "about"page. I cannot remember how I heard about them, but they were also featured @XSW. I bought their EP @ Amazon for cheap + emailed them. Learned their new album is due out in September, and that there are 2 hidden tracks on their about page -- one is a Beach Boys cover, the other is a Journey cover. Both hilarous.

Setlist available @ Spinitron

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MP3 10 Year Anniversary

Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 12:29:49 +0200
Subject: Layer3 file extension: .mp3
Hi all,
this is the overwhelming result of our poll:
everyone voted for .mp3 as extension for ISO MPEG Audio Layer 3!
As a consequence, everyone please mind that for WWW pages, shareware,
demos, and so on, the .bit extension is not to be used anymore.
There is a reason for that, believe me :-)
Jürgen Zeller (translated from German)

And so it was, ten years ago, that the MP3 was born.

Happy Birthday MP3. We love you.

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Strange Frequencies

So, after I posted on Monday, I received the following in my inbox from someone named Barbara:

Hi
Could you please do me a favour? My boyfriend listens to your station. Could
you record me this following message for me to give to him and email me it
as an mp3 or wav file? Please please?
Also mention that it is you reading it for him and your station. For
example.... (Hi Manuel this is _______ from Radio __________in _city_____
and I have a message for you.... )

Manuel, I love you with all my heart and I have changed for the better. I am
going to make you happy you have to trust me on this one. I have promised
you and promised myself. I love you and your stripey socks. I want all our
days to be happy together and to be paradise. Love you and miss you - Kris (italics and bold mine)

If you can do this for me I will be eternally grateful. Please send the mp3
or wav file to [email address suppressed].

Thank you so so much
:)

I wrote her back, saying I would carry out her request, but as I was looking at the email again this afternoon, I noticed the discrepancy in names.

Hmmmmmm. I will still execute the request. Now I am very interested to see where this "love story" ends up.

Also, picked up Giant Drag's EP over @ Amazon for cheap. I am stoked to get it, as I have been listening to the two songs I have of theirs non-stop since I downloaded them. Plus, their About page is hilarious.

Be the Media.

/Maximus

Monday's Dystopic Fallout

The show was great. had some good calls, which is always welcome. Setlist is finalized.

After the show, headed over to the Rhino to see DJ Underdog spinning records. Was fun. But because of that, this morning I am drinking a LOT of water.

Until next week...

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07.03.05 Dystopia

Tonight’s show is shaping up. I will of course continue highlighting the SXSW music I have come to love, as well as a few surprises. You can, as usual, find the setlist over at Spinitron. Click Public Playlists then KBGA, then Radio Dystopia. the setlist won't be up until the show starts tonight at 10PM, MST. You can also stream the show from the KBGA site.

I was at my locally owned independent record store yesterday, and I noticed that Son Volt has a new album due out next Sunday, Okemah And The Melody Of Riot. On their site, you can't listen to one of the tracks from the new album, but there's a link to your the media giant that thinks it runs the world of legally downloaded music. At least on Jay's site , you can download some rare tracks.

I also noticed that many musicians, including Son Volt, are utilizing Micro$oft's horrible Spaces service to host their music. I understand that struggling musicians need cheap places to put their music. But when established artists stand on the shoulders of a corporate giant I just shake my head.

When ArmyWife told me that The Doors have gotten back together and are touring, I couldn't believe it. Guess it's old news. The Doors 21st Century are even touring. There's quite a write-up of the whole process over at The Doors' official site. Ian Astbury, the former lead singer for The Cult. While I think it would be interesting to see one of these shows, as the rest of the band is left intact, I think it's a little overkill, and my bet is that it's a bunch of old guys reliving their glory days. I say, leave the past in the past, and let The Doors' music stand on its own. But I guess they aren't ready to do that, as further evidenced by their recent collaborations with many of the "hip" DJs of the mainstream electronica world. I'll feature some clips of that atrocity on tonight's Radio Dystopia.

Most importantly, however, I am proud to announce that I'll be featuring three tracks from Dextrometh, as he's sometimes known onstage and in the studio. Dex recently started his own record label in order to sell his huge body of work, as well as featuring other musicians and artists from Northeast and Southern Ohio. Many tracks are available for preview over at Scary!Records Dex's quiet guitar and meandering notes build interesting melodies complimented by his smooth voice. Recently, he's been delving into themes of exploration along the lines of Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, as well as thinking about moving into a more abstract noise-collage vein again, which he has moved away from in recent years.

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