Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The mic mike microphone was invented in 1877. Since then sounds have been converted into electric signals, an essential element for making radio and recording sound. This week’s Edge radio episode offers a broad view on this topic: microphone experimentation with mixers/pedals (EBL), “ancient” preserved voice/music recordings, the insertion of a mic in your mouth (Wojciech Kosma) or in a can (Claus Haxholm), a multi-layered Tibetian soundscape (Geir Jenssen), the Human Microphone at Occupy Wall Street, beat boxing hip hop from Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh remixed more than a decade later by DJ Honda and a remix of Alan Lomax (pioneer in field recording) by Tangle Eye.
This subject, from even more angles..next week.
Playlist:
- EBL – Ambient panic
- Thomas Edison – Thomas Edison’s Voice Resurrected From 80 year old lost recording format
- Orchestra, A. Paganucci – director – 2nd record, Sept. 15, 1924. – A. Paganucci
- Wojciech Kosma – Blow Job
- Claus Haxholm – Tincan and microphone
- Geir Jenssen – Tingri: The Last Truck
- Michael Moore – Michael Moore Tonight at #OccupyWallStreet: “This Is a Historic Day” (Day 19)
- Anonymous – Mic check in Times square
- Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh – La Di Da Di
- Dj Honda – on the mic
- Tangle Eye – John Henry’s Blues
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Political troubadours from South Africa open the show. Apartheid in the sixties and in the noughties juxtaposed. Then we get the human microphone from Occupy Wall Street reported by NPR, the rapper Immortal Technique and remote NYC-based Arthur Elsenaar in skype conversation with remote Jeroen. Again they discuss about OWS which is getting more organized these days. Also songs by opportunistic and genuine musicians start appearing online, a bit like the musical reactions to “Katrina”. We close off with older American protest songs and a Russian folk song to finalize the troubadour theme. More voices coming week..
Playlist:
- Miriam Makeba – Khawuleza
- Die Antwoord – Enter The Ninja
- Zwitbert – Medieval harp troubadour (interlude)
- NPR – 21st Century Protest Music: Will There Be Another Dylan? Should There Be?
- Immortal Technique – Occupy Wall Street is America’s Awakening
- Remi – Occupy Wall Street Protest Song
- Woody Guthrie – All You Fascists Bound To Lose
- Sons Of The Pioneers – Old Man Atom
- Аквариум – Gorod Zolotoj (Golden town)
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Edge radio knows no limits when it approaches the genre of singer-songwriter music and broadens it to include throat-singing, live beat-boxing with hip hop lyrics, neo-folk, electronic folk etc. which all are part of the ancient troubadour, or even more ancient bard/rhapsode/griot tradition.
Troubadour music according to us is not just some guy playing chord on a guitar singing lyrical poetic epic lyrics, but also girls (Trobairitz – Lisa Germano, a fine example) know this string instrument – and other instruments can be added to the mix, as long as the chanteur/-euse en question is telling a self-composed melodic story..
Then the show suddenly dived into a coffee place in New York City where remote Arthur Elsenaar reported from Wall Street, these days the scene of protestors of all sorts making their voices and unamplified instruments/drums heard.
This skype/wifi/phone report sets the tone for the follow-up of our troubadour theme: more political troubadours coming up next week..
Playlist:
- Huun-Huur-Tu – Sygyt (Whistle)
- Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh – La Di Da Di
- Zwitbert – Medieval harp troubadour (interlude)
- Beck – Pink Moon
- Spiritual Front – Jesus Died In Las Vegas
- Bjork – Thunderbolt
- Lisa Germano – Red thread
- Lenny Kuhr – De troubadour (live Eurovision version)
- Gérard Lenorman – Et moi je chante (cut in half version)
- Ry Cooder – Humpty Dumpty World
- Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Dropout Boogie
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Continuing with retro-sounding bands of the oughties who got Abraham’s mustard from bygone decades gathered by local Boukor.
Technical difficulties with “copper”-wired remote Jeroen meant a partly lofi retro broadcast (Arthur mentioned this was how Negativland used to do it back in the 80s, in the pre-internet era) using the ancient telephone to listen to cinematic nostalgia from Morricone and its jazzy Naked City cover – sounds often heard when waiting on service hot lines, where nowadays robotic voices say “please hold” to start a piece of soothing muzak as long as the wait takeszzz.
Oh, where are the times when telepresence was all the rave..
Playlist:
- Fredrik Segerfalk – Blood Money
- mind.in.a.box – 8 Bits
- Interpol – Evil
- Joy Division – New Dawn Fades
- Mike Mareen – Dancing In The Dark (Galactica Remix)
- La Roux – Bulletproof (Instrumental version)
- Ennio Morricone – The Sicilian Clan The Sicilian Clan
- Naked City – The Sicilian Clan
- Brian Eno & David Byrne – America Is Waiting
- !!! (chk chk chk) – Heart of Hearts
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Music critic Simon Reynolds states in his latest book the last decade – the (n)oughties – has been the most retro ever, speculating we are approaching times with less and less musical innovation. This may be true as the current digital revolution enables lots of cross-fertilization. We at Edge decided to plunge into the history of music and fish out some examples of both “old” tunes and contemporary compositions and play them back to back, in chronological order or non-chronological order. More next week..
Playlist:
- DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist – Product placement
- propellerheads (feat. shirley bassey) – History repeating
- Simon Reynolds – Retromania-Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past – Introduction
- Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue Got Married
- Kvelertak – Blodtørst
- The Left Banke – Pretty Ballerina
- Arcade Fire – Rococo
- Raymond Scott – Cindy electronium
- DAT Politics – (untitled)
- Air – Le Soleil est Pres de Moi
- Serge Gainsbourg – Sous Le Soleil Exactement
- Robert Johnson – Come On In My Kitchen
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Last week’s connection problems were solved, maybe due to our renewed apocalyptic theme? Lots of guitars and boys noise this evening, providing the soundtrack for a rant from Remote Jeroen on the topic of copyright extension. Local Boukor put some hiphop in the mix, a genre that is relatively new to Edge. But you know: Edge eats everything.
Playlist:
- Petra Schelm – Darker
- Cerebrum Vortex – Das Ende Der Welt
- Kevin Drumm – Turning Point (Sheer Hellish Miasma)
- Wax Audio This Crusade (Mediacracy)
- Immortal Technique – The Prophecy
- Pendulum – Propane Nightmares
- Sunn O))) – Big Church (Monoliths & Dimensions)
- Wax Audio – Sad But Superstitious (Mashopolos II – The Mashening
- Turbonegro – The Age Of Pamparius
- ThundercatBoat – Boat Cruise (The Golden Age Of Apocalypse)
- Shiinya Tsukamoto – Tetsuo – How about turning the whole world into metal
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The Summer is gone and Autumn is already around the corner: the first signs of melancholic decay present themselves. We live in turbulent times in which seasons shift and show their respective icy, leafy, scorching and wet teeth when we don’t expect them. The evening of the 6th of September the first autumn storm landed in Groningen. A day later Bouke Mekel (a.k.a. DJ Boukor) did his first ever DJ session, featuring mainly dark tunes (and some light dance tracks about Lalala Pika Girls) and conversation about the APOCALYPSE with remote Jeroen, but unfortunately without his musical contributions due to cursed computer settings of some sort.
Next week part II. Stay tuned.
Playlist:
- Modem – Dial-up sound
- Modem – Dial-up sound 700% slower
- Asphyxia – Digital War
- XZhi – Herfststorm 6 september 2011
- Mobthrow – Iron Tribal
- Herman Yau – Second virus outbreak sequence in Ebola Syndrome – Yi boh lai beng duk
- Atari Teenage Riot – Sick to Death
- Paffendorf – Lalala Girl (Hardstyle Remix)
- S3RL – Pika Girl
- Tom O’Bedlam – The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
- Sara Noxx – Colder and Colder
- Current 93 – Thunder Perfect Mind I
- Current 93 – Thunder Perfect Mind II
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By lack of a better title for this week’s broadcast, then just the playlist as well. Eh no, changes ahead, starting 7 September your local host will be replaced by our infrequent contributor Bouke Mekel and your regular will reappear somewhere half way December. Remote Jeroen will stay where he is, Fryslân, but still present on Wednesday evenings. Stay tuned I would say.
Playlist:
- Rock Lobster – B-52’s
- Petit Fleur – Cor Stein
- Rolf Wank Track – Chezny Hawks – The Rolf Harris Mashup CD
- Dialogue (1963) – James Tenney
- Sid and Alex – Adam Sandler – Shhh don’t tell.
- – Koot en Bie – Hengstenbal
- Oh Doctor – Anonymous – 78RPM for adults only
- Whistle While You Work – Marty Gold
- Pingpong – Computerjockeys
- Apparat Organ Quartet – Cruise Control
- Waltz in orbit – Ray Cathode
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In response to our discussion last week on the Rob Riemen statement that we are dealing with fascist times in Dutch politics. A word of consideration, warning (?), when using a loaded word like fascism in a discussion. It usually disrupts the discussion and moves the focus away of the issue at hand towards the use of the ‘f’ word. A principle recognized by Godwin in early usenet discussions on the early internet where the ‘f’ word was used. This principle is now known at Godwin’s Law and is used frequently by politicians in The Hague and by journalists. Overton Window is referring to the sliding window of the range of acceptable issue discussed in politics. Ten years ago for example the issue of immigrants was not something that could be discussed, while now it is deemed a normal issue. This shift paradigm shift is called the Overton Window.
Now after all the talk the few pieces of music that we could play in this mostly talk radio like program of this week, but we felt should be explained a little.
Playlist
- Gronings volkslied
- International – Hannes Wader
- Maarten van Roozendaal
- Orkest de Volharding – Solidariteitslied
- Serbischen Leichenschmaus
- “Kulturgestotter” – Adolf H. – Entartete Music (10 sec. fragment)
- (We don’t need that) Fascist Groove Thing – Heaven 17
- Jimmy Swaggart –
- Hou toch op – Raggende Manne
- Margreet Dolman –
- Ja Zuster Nee Zuster
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The ultra rightwing PVV party now demands 35% of radio broadcast time on Radio 2 should consist of Dutch language music. For this reason mostly Dutch spoken music and comedy.
Playlist
- Dutch National anthem; Wilhelmus
- Koot en Bie – De Tegenpartij
- Wim Schippers – Wat Een Lul
- Theo Maassen – Van binnen zijn we allemaal blank
- Theo Maassen – Nico
- Koot en Bie – Onze god is de beste
- Arbeid Adelt! – De man die alles noteert
- Drs. P. – Knolraap en lof, schorseneren en prei
- Ton Lebbink – Geen mening ja/nee
- Ivan Heylen – De geldmachine
- Aan de Amsterdamse grachten – draaiorgel (barrel organ)
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