New W♥M Podcast #19: Introducing... Derek
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Hey, check out our latest podcast! Find out all about Derek! Warning: the podcast is nearly an hour, and about thirty minutes of it ended up on the cutting room floor. If you want to subscribe to the podcast, head over to weheartmusic.mypodcast.com and click on iTunes or podcast feed.
W♥M 019: Introducing... Derek
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Derek walks us through the early days of MTV (the Buggles, Til Tuesday) to synthpop (Human Leagues, Gary Numan) to books (The Indie Band Survival Guide) to currently listening (The Faint, Lykke Li)... plus horror movies, John Landis, and other random things.
Incidentally, in case you were wondering, the person introducing the podcast is none other than WAZ. I was told that we're getting some new music from him.
Also, I have made these services a easier to access - for instance, if you need to access your calendar, it's as simple as calendar.weheartmusic.com. I'm sorry that it's not email.weheartmusic.com as that is already taken up by the mail servers.
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| jaklumen wrote: Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:40 AM |
Super podcast! My son was having teething woes and I'd like to think some of this settled him a bit.
Lots of material covered that I really, really enjoy-- I was a bit surprised, vu, that you weren't more familiar with Walter/Wendy Carlos! Ah well-- I suppose my intro was a bit happenstance, as my first into was with "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer", which contains a rendition of Handel's "Water Music". Then I found out Carlos had worked on the Tron movie soundtrack, and that more or less sealed it.
Interesting thought that New Wave would be a product of disco and punk. I'd read somewhere where someone had regarded it more as a bourgeois effete snob reaction to punk-- very cool, very distant. It doesn't surprise me, however, since I noted that some synthpop artists such as Andy Bell of Erasure got their start in punk bands.
I'm not sure I totally share the extreme enthusiasm for Swedish artists-- like everything, they have some down sides. At best, you have ones like ABBA, and at worst (well, depending on who's opinion you ask), you have Ace of Base (and they had a few tunes I thought were some doozies, so to speak). But there's no denying that they all generally have a super-solid commitment to melody, which is always a good thing.
I also wasn't too surprised to learn Bjork is so musically diverse in her training. My sister listened to the Sugarcubes when they were on the horizon, and your descriptions of her strange, inhuman sounds were spot on, I'd say. Pity she lost her temper with that reporter-- she is too talented to get bad press like that. But... she's an introvert, and I understand how that is. Well, okay, she's not as introverted as say... Enya, who rarely grants an interview and looks uncomfortable in almost all of her videos (eyes darting about), but... you get what I mean.
Yes it was long, but that's because it had lots of good stuff in it. I'm a Linux user and don't use iTunes but I seemed to figure out how to add the podcast to Rhythmbox. So now I'm subscribed :)
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Lots of material covered that I really, really enjoy-- I was a bit surprised, vu, that you weren't more familiar with Walter/Wendy Carlos! Ah well-- I suppose my intro was a bit happenstance, as my first into was with "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer", which contains a rendition of Handel's "Water Music". Then I found out Carlos had worked on the Tron movie soundtrack, and that more or less sealed it.
Interesting thought that New Wave would be a product of disco and punk. I'd read somewhere where someone had regarded it more as a bourgeois effete snob reaction to punk-- very cool, very distant. It doesn't surprise me, however, since I noted that some synthpop artists such as Andy Bell of Erasure got their start in punk bands.
I'm not sure I totally share the extreme enthusiasm for Swedish artists-- like everything, they have some down sides. At best, you have ones like ABBA, and at worst (well, depending on who's opinion you ask), you have Ace of Base (and they had a few tunes I thought were some doozies, so to speak). But there's no denying that they all generally have a super-solid commitment to melody, which is always a good thing.
I also wasn't too surprised to learn Bjork is so musically diverse in her training. My sister listened to the Sugarcubes when they were on the horizon, and your descriptions of her strange, inhuman sounds were spot on, I'd say. Pity she lost her temper with that reporter-- she is too talented to get bad press like that. But... she's an introvert, and I understand how that is. Well, okay, she's not as introverted as say... Enya, who rarely grants an interview and looks uncomfortable in almost all of her videos (eyes darting about), but... you get what I mean.
Yes it was long, but that's because it had lots of good stuff in it. I'm a Linux user and don't use iTunes but I seemed to figure out how to add the podcast to Rhythmbox. So now I'm subscribed :)
I'm already thinking about show #20 and that will definitely be under 30 minutes (you don't understand that as an editor, it's really hard to listen to 2 hour's of footage and editing - make sure there's no spike or long silence). Editing 2 hours can turn into 4 hours. Keeping it under 30 minutes should make things more bearable for myself.
In case you were wondering, I used Audacity to edit and record the podcast. Hands down, the best free audio software (every computer I own I have made sure this software and its lame_encoder.dll is on the computer)! And it's available for linux.
As for Bjork, since I did write about her earlier bands (and generally a big fan of her's), I did have to throw in that she was in all these bands prior to The Sugarcubes.
Re: Walter/Wendy Carlos, you're right, not familiar with early synth stuff - as I have previously admitted that being slightly younger (but older than most of my readers), I actually didn't really get into music in a big way until 1991 (the moment Morrissey appeared on the Johnny Carson show playing "There is a Place for Me and My Friends in Hell"). Since that podcast wasn't all-about-me, I should mention that all my new wave interests were all post-90s and obviously only casually at best.
It's really a shame that some of the more interesting things we talked about (John Carpenter and movies - especially spaghetti westerns and soundtracks) ended up being cut out because it was off-topic. I do have the recording, at least an excerpt of it, maybe I'll throw it on as a bonus on podcast #20 if we can ever get around to that.
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It mostly has to do, I think, with the very schizoid approach to sound output-- first JACK, then OSS, then ALSA, and now PulseAudio. They have yet to polish the latest, and it's installed by default (can't really uninstall it) and so I have had sound (mostly input) problems for months now.