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Uneasy listening

You are listening to
WARNING: You are listening to is quite addictive.

Due to work commitments (The Herb Whisperer) and general faineancy (Fraserhead) there was no action packed instalment of The Joint on RDU yesterday.

If you need some way of filling this void in your life please allow us to recommend some uneasy listening to get you through today, Christmas, and the New Year.

You are listening to combines real time police and emergency services scanner audio from various US cities with ambient and drone tracks from Soundcloud. More comforting and soothing than voyeuristic it’s the brainchild of Eric Eberhardt (read the IndieShuffle interview here). For me it’s the aural equivalent of a movie scene showing the city at night from a helicopter. Very nice to fall asleep to, whether in a sunny backyard or late at night in bed.

And if that’s right up your alley my workmate Tim recommends the following SomaFM channels:

  • SF 10-33 – Ambient music mixed with the sounds of San Francisco public safety radio traffic.
  • Mission Control – Celebrating NASA and space explorers everywhere. A mix of ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.

xox

Fraserhead

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The Show: Christchurch Thaws. We Break Out The Pop.

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

+ Download 12pm – 1pm – 84MB

1pm – 2pm

+ Download 1pm – 2pm– 76MB

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The (no) show: 20 years ago today

 

John Peel
Merry Christmas From Peel Acres

It was supposed to be Fraserhead’s turn to be the one out of town this week but a combination of overrunning work projects, North Island tropical downpours and Air New Zealand engineering problems prevented The Herb Whisperer from managing to do even one hour of the show today.

The plan had been to spread some Christmas cheer by rebroadcasting John Peel’s Festive Fifty from 1990 in some sort of Joint / Vintage Cuts hybrid model. However to fit it all into our 3 hour show, Peel voice breaks and all, would have meant chopping it down to the top 35 songs. Instead we are able to post almost the entire show here instead.

We say almost, because Festive Fifties from this long ago only survive because they were recorded on cassettes. Inevitably the quality is variable and at points the tape would run out so, if you weren’t on hand to quickly flip over the cassette or replace it with a fresh one, parts of the broadcast would be lost (i.e. #’s 41 – 39 in this case)

Also, many thanks to Matt Hemens from Hauswerk, who was able to cover the first hour of The Joint with his Summer 2010 Trance Mix

+ Download John Peel’s 1990 Festive Fifty – 50-32 93MB

+Download John Peel’s 1990 Festive Fifty – 31-14 92MB

+Download John Peel’s 1990 Festive Fifty – 13-01 91MB

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John Safran vs Chris Morris

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Sunday Night Safran

This one almost slipped below The Joint radar. It’s the match-up we’ve all been waiting for as Australia’s answer to Chris Morris takes on John Safran’s British mentor.

By match-up I mean invites on Sunday Night Safran as a guest, and by takes on I mean cordially interviews about his film Four Lions.

The head to head starts at about the 31 minute mark.

Download mp3

Never quite understood the appeal of Father Bob though…