Well, I've been enjoying it so far, though I only subscribed last week, to the one about British Jazz in the 70s and French female pop in the 60s - already tracking down me some Clothilde and her that did Les Machines.
This weeks episode was ace too. The non-tropicallia Brazil pop from the 60s all sounded lovely, and the coverage of bert Jansch's Avocent nice too.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/freakzone/
Anyone else listening? Leave a note on this thread when the next one turns up.
Non UK listeners might have problems downloading it, it says its UK only. There are ways round this...
― Sandy Blair, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 20:36 (eighteen years ago)
I'm not computer saavy enough to podcast it, but i have 'listen-agained' a few times over the last 6 months (live stream) the whole show.
I generally have it in the background but sometimes things filter through - the latest from the show with the Brazillian pop (which wasn't rally my thing) being the amazing jazz trumpeting tracks of Philip Cohran and the Artistic Ensemble, and I am looking around for a CD copy of the album they were taken from.
Avocet was nice too, I agree.
― fantasimundo, Sunday, 2 March 2008 01:56 (eighteen years ago)
oh yeah - btw I don't know if that was in the podcast or not - would be interested to know what was though. THe show is three hours long - what about the podcast?
― fantasimundo, Sunday, 2 March 2008 01:59 (eighteen years ago)
The podcast only plays the intro and outro of the tracks so its about 30 odd minutes - I can't recall the Philip Cohan bit at all, was it during the talk about an Ian Carr (?) book on the 1970s?.
The BBC only keeps one episode up and the new one has just been added so I can't check again, though I think I have a copy.
If you can't use itunes to index and download your podcast, you can just download it, here's the URL of the new episode (Shirley Collins and DIY Wales apparently)
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/6music/freakzone/freakzone_20080302-2000.mp3
Could some non-UK folks try this and if it doesn't allow a download I can explain how to use a proxy (so the BBC site thinks you are in the UK). I have to do the same for the HBO podcasts from Bill Maher.
― Sandy Blair, Sunday, 2 March 2008 21:09 (eighteen years ago)
Not available unfortunately.
― everything, Sunday, 2 March 2008 23:44 (eighteen years ago)
Didn't hear the French Pop one...did they play 'Saperlipopette' by Clothilde? That's such an amazing song.
Loved the KPM Jazz/Italian prog one the other week too. I should actually make an effort to hear the whole damn show sometime.
― Mister Craig, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:07 (eighteen years ago)
Well the welsh post punk bit was great, though I was a YMG fan at the time I didn't know anything about that z block scene...
And wasn't Shirley Collins lovely? The last track she played sounded sublime, what specific album was it from?
Since I just hooked into this show I missed the Scottish Messthetics one they mentioned, would have liked to have heard it, anyone still have it?
Non UK folks.. You'll need to find an 'open transparent uk proxy' just google that phrase and you'll find a load of them.
Next you'll have to tell your PC to use it. Easiest way is to have a separate download manager to use for this, it'll save you fiddling with your browser's settings. Again google can find a few but 'freedownloadmanager' (FDM) seems to get good ratings. In FDM click 'options' download options and then the "advanced" button, put in the ip address of the UK proxy you found and the file will download.
Not tried proxies with the BBC listen again service which is just streaming, so will have to be browser based. Proxys seem to be very slow though.
― Sandy Blair, Monday, 3 March 2008 18:03 (eighteen years ago)
for some reason next weeks show has popped into the rss feed early, I thought it was Sunday it was broadcast, it's now disappeared again but my itunes downloaded it.
Anyway - cracking show, they do the Midlands messthetics and then a lot of stuff about Ghost Box. I didn't know anything about Ghost Box but they sound ace, I liked the Boards of Canada sounding ones but didn't like the one with singing, it sounded like something from 'playaway'.
Is there a Ghost Box thread on ILM?
― Sandy Blair, Thursday, 6 March 2008 18:01 (eighteen years ago)
There was, but it was narrowly focused and didn't go anywhere: Where can I buy GHOST BOX stuff in the US?
Did you read the Simon Reynolds piece on 'hauntology' (ugh) in The Wire last year? Included quite a lot on Ghost Box artists. The text is not yet online, only Julian House's visuals: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/58/
― Jeff W, Friday, 7 March 2008 13:07 (eighteen years ago)