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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
Posted by W♥M at 5:45 PMDownload this episode (57 min)
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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Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:40 AM
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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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