podcast no 54 - the end of the year show

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As it's the last podcast of the year, this is a retrospective of sorts, featuring some excellent music -

Kosmika - We Believe

46Bliss - In A Long Time

Ben Blance - Ten Butterflies

Venture Electric - Realise and Heather Nova vs Johnny Cash

Congratulations to Raymond Weir for winning the competition I set in podcast no 51.

Link to AMPed: I have just recorded nos 54 and 55, which between them feature 14 excellent songs submitted by 13 excellent podcasters, and the electrical language podcast.

Soundbed music for today's podcast was provided by Kosmika, Cagey House and nick+gerald. The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

Happy New Year!

podcast no 53 - just add mistletoe

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Richard co-hosted this podcast.



The music:

Sleepthief ft Kyoko Baertsoen - Just Say It

The New Black - Karenin's Smile

Smash Palace - My New Sensation

Vanessa & The O's - I Must Be Dreaming and Plus Rien

Richard's featured website - Weebls advent calendar

Soundbed music was Away In A Manger by Mario Ajero, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network. The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

Merry Christmas!

Petition the Prime Minister

Tony Blair has set up an "e-petition" site. Any British citizen can start an electronic petition, and many have. For example Tony is being petitioned to release a Christmas single and to stand on his head and juggle ice cream.

I have started a petition:

We the undersigned petitition the Prime Minister to pay fulsome tribute to independent British podcasters in his Christmas message

You can sign it here.

NB - if you are thinking of starting your own petition (and why not?) the "No. 10 team" takes about a week to vet new petitions and post them to the site.

podcast no 52 - the anniversary podcast

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I recorded podcast no 1 on 18 December 2005. For this anniversary edition, all the music is chosen by listeners:

1. Mr & Mrs Frankenstein by The Eisenhowers - chosen by Mark Johnson

2. Arva Az A Madar by Andrea Gerak - chosen by Mike Holubinka

3. Interference by Electrum - chosen by Mark Hunter (tartanpodcast)

4. Weatherman by Boo Hewerdine - chosen by Bruce McKinnon (the dogbox podcast)

5. Hurricane by K-Gari - chosen by Raymond Weir (Gum, The Eisenhowers)

6. Clear Air Turbulence by Nick+Gerald - chosen by Neil (Well Made Music podcast)

7. Inside Out by Mellow Dramas - chosen by Gerald Berliner (Nick+Gerald)

8. Loveleigh by 3D - chosen by Graham Holland (It's A Frog's Life acoustic podcast)

9. You (Always On My Mind) by Brackenridge - chosen by Caroline Kovacs

10. Never See by Kasino - chosen by Benjamin Somerville (Venture Electric)

11. Rising River by Id Guinness - Chosen by Grant Mason (Three From Leith podcast)

Additional audio by Jessica Kovacs and bumpers by John Newton, "the radio guy". Soundbed music was clips from tracks by Green Eyes, Map, Nick+Gerald and Torchomatic. The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

Normal service resumes next week. I hope to give you some great songs for Christmas.

podcast no 51 - party time wasting is too much fun

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I've set a little competition - e-mail me if you know which song the title of this podcast is from. Artist and song title please. I've just tried it in google and that won't help you! All will be revealed in 2 weeks time.

We start off in the mood of that mystery song, relaxed and tired in the small hours after a party. The music is -

Miranda Barber - Eggshells

The State Broadcasters - Takeshi and South Pole Stag Night

Recliner - Leaving Hollywood

Love Is Chemicals - A Portrait Of Your Post-Apocalyptic Son

Honourable mention: The Bay Bridged, a great podcast in which Christian and Ben interview artists from the San Francisco Bay area and play their music. That's where I found Love Is Chemicals.

Today's soundbed music was provided by Torchomatic and Map. The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

Tune in next week for the anniversary podcast - all songs selected by you.

podcast no 49 - all at sea

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First, the music:

Mellow Dramas - Inside Out. A fantastic track by Jen from DC, who performs poetry set to great electronic music. Watch the video for Inside Out.

Techno Squirrels - Mute. An electronica project based in LA, this is great techno / dance music.

When I was a novice podcaster, I was contacted by Todd Stadtman from San Francisco. 9 or 10 months later, I finally got round to listening to his music. I said in the podcast that he reminds me of Elvis Costello. Listen to Anna-Li and Expert and see if you agree.

Finally, as promised last week, a very catchy song. Shipwrecked Man by Danish singer-songwriter Patrick Alexander.

Other mentions:

The Dogbox Podcast - music and motorsport. Bruce McKinnon submitted Shipwrecked Man to AMPed 48, which I presented a couple of weeks back.

Shane Carey's music min-festo - featured on the gaping void, an excellent blog by Hugh McLeod.

Clock by Nick Hemsley - a fine novel by an interesting writer.

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Soundbed music by nick+gerald, Map and Torchomatic.

The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

podcast no 48 - girls with guitars

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Yes indeed, this podcast is about girls with guitars:

Spearmint - Girls With Guitars - from the Intercontinental Pop Exchange by Endearing Records

Gina Cutillo - Change My Mind

The SlimP - Gloria

Ragz - Restless Lullaby and Breathe

I strongly recommend you to check out It's A Frog's Life acoustic podcast.

Soundbed music by a girl with a piano, Green Eyes. The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

AMPed 48

I did another AMPed at the weekend - AMPed is the weekly round-up podcast of the Association of Music Podcasting. 9 songs submitted by 8 other AMP podcasters plus me. Some of these songs were really good, and I've obtained permission to play a couple of them on electrical language soon.

Link to AMPed 48 - or click here to listen.

Your podcaster needs YOU!

Please listen to this message. It's less than a minute long.

Then grab a microphone and please record something. E-mail the finished item to lectriclingo@gmail.com. E-mail me if you want any help or guidance.

If for any reason you are unable to record an mp3 file, then send me an e-mail in which you have writtenwhat you would otherwise say in a recorded piece, and let me know the song you would like to hear again. I would like to be able to say your name and where you come from, so please give me those details.

podcast no 47 - modern music on my radio

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Today's music is all by bands within a short distance of the electrical language studio:

Civilized Tears - Flying Over America

Kosmonaut - Cold Kiss and Pill

Scarlet Soho - Modern Radio

Autons - Snakes and Ice Major

Soundbed music provided by Torchomatic, Erotix (courtesy of the podsafe music network) and Nick+Gerald. The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

podcast no 46 - all because the podcaster loves milk tray

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Music played:

Kesseny - Simogenjo. Kesseny are from Cornwall (the name means harmony). They make excellent ambient music, and will accept commissions ...

Stereomovers - Ozean (buy their excellent ep from iTunes). Stereomovers are from Montreal. Great band!

The Twisted Melons - Panic.

Jette-Ives - In The Presence Of ... and Ultimately, Darling. Dark, brooding but melodic music. Jette-Ives are not far off fitting a composite of the perfect electrical language band. It's the combination of electronica, alluring female vocal, intelligience in vocals, lyrics and music ... Anyway, they've got an album out in January. I want a copy.

Milk Tray - nice, but not as nice as Neuhaus cinnamon-pear truffles!

Soundbed music by Erotix courtesy of the podsafe music network; the title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

podcast no 45 - Hungary Calling

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This podcast is for my parents, Almos and Maria Kovacs.

The Hungarian Revolution took place 50 years ago, starting on 23 October 1956. On 4 November the Soviet army moved in to suppress it brutally. My parents left their native country, amongst more than 200,000 refugees. Read the history in the excellent Wikipedia entry. All the music is by Hungarian artists:

Ethnosonic - White Dressed Tears

Eszter Bartok - Felhomalybol

Virag Keszthelyi - The Call (Zoohacker mix) - also visit lushlife project, click on downloads then dj sets

East - 56 - I can't find a website for East, but thanks to Peter from tomtom records for permission to play this song, around which the podcast is built.

Ethnosonic - Traveller

Soundbed music by the excellently named Gabor 13 (or try his myspace page)who is from the beautiful city of Pecs in Hungary and by Vayder X (as an update on what I had previously said in this post, although American,Vayder X have strong Hungarian connections. I'll post an extract from an e-mail on the comments board.)

The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

Let the electrical language podcast begin

I found a slogan generator and played a bit. I also liked:


Stop. Go. The electrical language podcast.

podcast no 44 - the random shuffle

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All today's songs were chosen by my mp3 player on random shuffle.

Mellow Drunk - Free

Paula Toledo - Break It Down

Douglas Kay - Moving Target

Rich Price - Faultline

Svelte - Cat's Paw

Cargo Cult provided all today's soundbed music, courtesy of Magnatune.com. The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

podcast no 43 - stumble and fall

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Today's music:

From Iceland:

• Ruddinn - General

from New Zealand:

• Edwin Derricutt - Symmetry
• The Bads - Bit By Bit

from Bristol, UK:

• Zoot - Homecoming and Plastic Fontaine

Soundbed music provided by Torchomatic, The Midnight Foundation and Nick+Gerald. The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

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This podcast was recorded on 12 October 2006, John Peel Day. This is the second anniversary of John Peel's last broadcast.

In memory of John Peel, 1939-2004.

New banner

I was tidying up redundant files on the host server, and cleverly deleted by accident the banner graphic at the top of this page. I couldn't find a backup, so I had to create a new one. The image is a detail of a photograph taken at "At Bristol" on 23 August 2006.

[Later] Yikes - I have just discovered that I deleted most of the photos on my photo-blog, and so I will have to spend a couple of hours uploading them again.

Links page updated

I have updated the links page, which now lists all the podcasts I subscribe to.

podcast no 42 - life ... the universe ... and everything!

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Ok, so the title is rather obvious. I was going to give this title to no 24, which I ended up calling questions and answers but decided to keep it for no 42.

The music:

nick+gerald - Clear Air Turbulence

Squander Pilots - Condiment (Gum / Invocations remix). Link to mp3 download page.

Spooncurve - Hurt Me, I'm Yours

Paul Aiden - Drag & It's Over Now

Recommended podcast - Well Made Music, playing excellent ambient, electronic and lounge music. Give it your support!

All today's soundbed music is by nick+gerald. the title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

podcast no 41 - a string of blinking songs

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Today's music is all from North America, starting in New York and heading west ending up in Vancouver:

Ivy - This Is The Day

Brookville - Nothing's Meant To Last

Paper Moon - Volcano and Turning Colours Into Greys

Id Guinness - Beautiful Goodbye

Check out Endearing Records for the intercontinental pop exchange.

Today's soundbed music was by Green Eyes, nick+gerald and Map (Oops: in the podcast I said I'd play Torchomatic - sorry). The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

podcast no 40 - after the fall

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6 songs for you today:

Tic Toc Tokyo - Action Time

The Des Moines Riot - Throw Your Hand

Tragic Shell Suit Disaster - Click Of Her Finger

The Crush - Ready To Fire

The New Black - Candy Love and Karenin's Smile

If you enjoyed the 2 Tragic Shell Suit Disaster songs that I played last week, read Dave Kenny's post in the comments on podcast no 39. He also gives some insight into the song played today.

Soundbed music was by Cagey House and Williamson. The title music is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.

podcast no 39 - not a piece of cake

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Today's music:

The Movie Colony - Flange

Headlights - TV

Kate Miller-Heidke - Blah Blah Blah

Tragic Shell Suit Disaster - Written in Stone and Exhaled. Dave Kenny, for TSSD is he, is a good friend of the electrical language podcast. He composed and recorded the title music that I have been using since show no 11. His website deadmansclick.com is well worth visiting.

Soundbed music for today's podcast was provided by Torchomatic and The Electric Mainline.

podcast no 38 - trompe l'oreille

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Today's music:

Planet of Women - Jimmy Page

Lizette & - This Is

The Shadow Doctors ft Grace - Why

46Bliss - The Way You Are and Desire Give Way

2 recommended podcasts: Eclectic Mix and Three From Leith. Congratulations to Grant Mason for completing an excellent first year presenting TFL.

Today's soundbed tracks were all by Cagey House. The title music was composed and performed by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

podcast no 37 - fishing for peas

fish for peas here (ie play the podcast)
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If fishing for fish is fishing, then fishing for peas is ... ? Answers by comment below, please.

Today's cracking tunes are by:

Trouble Over Tokyo - Is He Alive

Monkey Business - The Beat Goes On

Luge - Brother

Santa Dog - Rosa and Belle de Jour

George W Bush - Sunday Bloody Sunday (click to view a hilarious video).

Today's soundbed music was by The Midnight Foundation, Dave Rave and Torchomatic. The title music was composed and recorded exclusively for the electrical language podcast by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

podcast no 36 - the conjuror's apprentice

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The music in today's podcast is -

Cling - Slipping Away

Sandbox - Thin Ice

Brookhaven - Tell You In Verse

ghijk - Starting Fires

Mobius Band - The Loving Sounds Of Static

The conjuror and his apprentice - Richard as part of this excellent street entertainer's show on London's South Bank.

And check out London Duck Tours - what a great way to see part of London.

Today's soundbed music was by Torchomatic, Map, Williamson and The Midnight Foundation.

The title music was composed and performed exclusively for the electrical language podcast by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

AMPed 37

AMPed is the "house podcast" of the Association of Music Podcasting. Each week it is hosted by a different member of AMP, who plays music submitted by other AMP members.

I have just recorded my first AMPed. There are 8 songs, some of which are in styles or genres I would not normally play on the electrical language podcast. You can listen to it / download it here: AMPed 37. The podcast is 40 minutes long.

Once it has been officially posted on the AMPed site, I will post that link.

podcast no 35 - lost for words

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Excellent music today:

Cecilia from Rome, Italy, with Piove.

The December Sound from Boston, Massachussets, USA with Kill Me Before I Kill You (and thanks to Northern Star Records).

Beneva from Coventry, England with Life's Like That.

The Free Press from Toronto, Ontario, Canada with All The Beautiful People and Storms.

Today's soundbed music was by The Electric Mainline, Map and Cagey House.

The title music was exclusively composed and performed for the electrical language podcast by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

podcast no 34 - cross-infection

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This is a podcast about connections. I satrted off with a fantastic infectious groove, Infection Groove by The Invisible Republic - who as far as I know are not connected to anything else on the podcast. This band are not keen to tell us much about themselves. I know they are from the UK, I believe Scotland but could be wrong.

A connection is something that happens when you change trains, say at Oxford Circus. The Metro by Sleepthief is the second song I've played from the excellent Dawnseeker cd (buy it here), the vocals this time by Jerry Eckert. Last time I played a Sleepthief song it was Just say it with vocals by Kyoko Baertson.

Kyoko Baertson and Walter Hilhorst are Lunascape. They contacted me after podcast no 26 and kindly gave me permission to play Mindstalking. I need to get the new Lunascape cd Reminiscence, so if anyone reading this is wondering what to get me for Christmas ...

The last two songs are by English artists who do a lot of their work abroad, collaborating with various excellent musicians. Both Tim Bowness and Jan Linton have worked with Richard Barbieri, formerly keyboards man with Japan. Tim Bowness works in New York, and sings with No-Man. He also performs excellent mellow ambient songs such as Another World.

I was thrilled to exchange e-mails this week with Jan Linton who is based in Tokyo. Even more thrilled to be given permission to play Lose Yourself With Me, which features Bill Nelson on guitars. And Jan has just told me Tim Bowness has written lyrics for a couple of his new songs. You can buy Jan's music here and here.

Bill Nelson was in 70's band Be Bop Deluxe, whose song Electrical Language gave its name to this podcast, and provides the 2 lines used in audio bumpers in the podcast, "sometimes you hear me when our frequencies meet" and "turn up the rhythm and you'll pick up the beat".

Soundbed music in this podcast is by The Midnight Foundation, Williamson and Torchomatic.

As always, thanks to Dave Kenny aka Tragic Shellsuit Disaster who wrote and performed the title music. There'll be more from TSD in a few weeks' time.

podcast no 33 - do you know Mr Cairo?

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The title of this podcast was suggested by the fact that todays first band Beangrowers are from Malta, an island that has no snakes. Maybe the falcons got them. Enjoy Beangrowers' song You Are You Are.

The Voyeurs are from Leeds. I played Pretty Young Thing in podcast no 2. I enjoyed playing that song again, followed by their latest release Under New Management.

Across the water in France you will find Mayday. The obvious influence behind Arena is The Cure. Check out Mayday's excellent music.

This morning I received an e-mail asking me to consider playing Shoes of a Beast by Peter Toh. Glad to!

Congratulations to 2 excellent podcasters who have recently reached 50 podcasts and are about to put out their first anniversary podcasts:

• Grant Mason of Three From Leith
• George Smyth of Eclectic Mix

Soundbed music is by Williamson, The Midnight Foundation and Torchomatic. The title music was composed and performed exclusively for the electrical language podcast by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

problem with the feed

I don't know what happened. I posted podcast no 32 yesterday morning, and this evening, 36 hours later, it still wasn't showing in the feed. For example it could not be seen in the feedplayer on the right. I re-published it on the libsyn hosting site this evening, and all now seems ok.

If you read this and everything's not ok, please leave a comment or e-mail me (link on the right of this page). Thanks.

podcast no 32 - the boy/girl podcast

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This podcast is all about duos, bands comprising a boy and a girl. They are:

bloodWIRE - Relinquish (Nemo mix). bloodWIRE are I-Li Chang and Shawn Brice from California. I played 2 of their songs on podcast no 7. This version of Relinquish is from the Multipass ep that I-Li and shawn sent me, containing special remixes of some of their songs for the Nemo Festival in Boston in October 2005. If you liked this, try their album Transformation.

Scottish brother and sister Steven Finnie and Jolene Crawford are Finniston. The second song in today's podcast is Listen To Your Mother from their album Popular Music That Will Live Forever. Finniston are founder members of the Wendy House collective, and the fifth song played, It Angers Me So is from Welcome To The Wendy House.

I played You (Always On My Mind) by Brackenridge in the now-deleted podcast no 1. Brackenridge were (they no longer exist as a unit) Shelley Brackenridge and Bill Matthews. I also played the version of this song by Evangeline, another Bill Matthews band, in podcast no 8, but as soon as I did that I got the news that Evangeline had ceased to be!

The Bads are from New Zealand. They are Dianne Swann and Brett Andrews. For a while they played in various bands in the UK and Dianne even performed with Radiohead. Earth From Space is the title track of their album, which is well worth getting: listen to Bit By Bit, which I played in podcast no 23.

For that "like I said" moment, the last song on the podcast is Interference by Electrum. A classic! Electrum used to be mysterious, electrumboy and electrumgirl, but they have since revealed themselves to be Caireen Harrison and Jamie Thompson. They say they used to be in Slow Loris and Angulus, but that you won't have heard of either.

So that's it, 6 songs for you. I talked over soundbed music by Williamson, Green Eyes and Map. I'm not quite happy with the sound of my bits - something changed when I put the computer set up back together after last week's furniture shifting. Let me know what you think.

The opening and closing music was written and performed by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

podcast no 31 - wearing two hats

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[Saturday evening] I posted the podcast this morning, having recorded it on Tuesday. I've spent the day assembling furniture, as I explained when I recorded the podcast. The delivery van came nice and early - excellent service for an order placed on the net last Sunday (we specified a Saturday delivery). Also the self-assembly furniture was well-made and the assembly instructions easy to follow. But enough of that, let's get to the music:

Winston and The Telescreen - Let's Pretend We're Lovers. These guys are from Riverside, California, and when two members of the band aren't wearing their Winston and the Telescreen hats, they play in the next band.

Map - Strange Girl. I played another Map song a few weeks ago. I heard Strange Girl a few days ago and just had to ask Josh Dooley from the band for permission to play it, which was kindly given. When I sorted out the running order for this podcast I didn't realise the connection between the first two bands. I only discovered that when I came to check what I was going to say.

Caroline Vinciguerra - Bella's Song. And what a fantastic song. I'm going to submit this one to AMP'ed, the "house podcast" of the Association of Music Podcasting.

Circlesound - Feel The Energy and Seven Days. These guys are from Chester in the UK, and make an excellent sound. They also tell an excellent story about how they got together.

Today's soundbed music is by Map, Torchomatic and Cagey House. Many thanks to Tragic Shellsuit Disaster for the opening and closing music, composed and recorded especially for the electrical language podcast.

podcast no 30 - filling in the gaps

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This one's a bit of a mish-mash, a gentle start with a louder ending.

To begin with, two Kates, both from Australia. Kate Miller-Heidke with Space They Cannot Touch, then Kate Winchester with Tightrope.

The remaining artists are all from the UK as we step up the tempo:

Anemo, from Brighton, with Fallout Renegade.

Syrus, from Windsor, and Damaged Goods.

Finally Caplyn from Newcastle upon Tyne in the North-East, and Shadowesque.

I filled in the gaps, talking over soundbed music by Green Eyes and Torchomatic.

The title music for the electrical language podcast was composed and performed by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

Three From Leith for the Podcast Awards!

This is my one man campaign. Please nominate Three From Leith in the "podsafe music" category of the Podcast Awards.

It shouldn't take much time: please click on the following link: Podcast Awards and then scroll down to the podsafe category, where you enter "Three From Leith" and the url http://www.threefromleith.com. Lower down you enter your name and e-mail address. Please, no multiple entries as the organisers say they are vigilant to spot these and cancel the nomination of the podcast in question.

Nominations close Saturday 15 July.

podcast no 29 - Beauty and the Beast?

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I've had all the music in today's podcast on my mp3 player for a few months, and I really had to get round to playing these tracks. Apologies to all the artists. Also, there's a more vigorous rock edge to all today's music.

Forza Italia! Today's first track is Mystical Elysian Love by Belladonna, from Rome. Belladonna have just completed a few gigs in the UK, so I really should have played them earlier.

Then Echograph from Scotland, with Break Me Down. Echograph say that they play guitars and drums and sing. They do indeed!

After that I played Moving To The Movement, by Jane Air from London. I played 2 Jane Air songs in podcast no 13. Moving to the Movement is from a new ep the band are presently working on, called Us:Them, to be released in the autumn.

Allez les Bleus! I finished with 2 tracks by the excellent (even if they number Yes amongst their influences) Hauteville from Paris. From Adam to Atom is followed by Monster.

In the podcast I talked about my very basic Heath Robinson type podcasting set up. Here are a couple of photos. The first is of the mic and the pc monitor with audacity up (note the desk lamp as microphone stand, with plastic g-clamp and pencil to hold the mic in place.) The second shows the kit.

Soundbed music for today's show was by Cagey House, Torchomatic and Map. The title music is by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

podcast no. 28 - music for missed penalties

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Today's podcast is a day late after Caroline and I went to Rutland on Friday for the wedding of our friends Piers and Diana. Piers is Richard's godfather. They've gone on a walking holiday in Slovenia for their honeymoon. The food at the reception was fabulous: just look.

Yesterday we drove back, about 160 miles, looking at Rutland Water on the way, then deciding not to stop in Stamford given the hordes of people there in the heat of the day. So we got home in time to see it become 40 years of hurt.

And with that, to the music. Today's show starts with Cry No More by Graystar. Graystar are from Edinburgh, Scotland, and their Album "A Million Pieces" is due to be released in August 2006.

I played Never Never Land by Brown Bag Special in podcast no 1. I've taken that podcast down, so it's now a collectors' item, exchanging hands for large amounts of cash on eBay (I wish!). I digress: this is an excellent song by a four piece from Tucson, Arizona.

I first heard the Hotrod Cadets on the tartanpodcast more than a year ago. My Heart Sinks is a great pop song from their album Breaking Up. The Cadets have another album out any time now. I'll bring news when I have some.

The last 2 songs were by Id Guinness, from Vancouver, Canada. Id Guinness is a fan of Roxy Music. He is also an excellent songwriter. The songs I played are The One That Got Away and Rising River. Id Guiness also has an album out later this year, Cure For The Common Crush, so if you liked these songs keep an eye on his website.

The soundbed music today was by Map and Torchomatic. The title music is by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

podcast no 28 may be late

Caroline and I are going to a wedding in Rutland on Friday, returning some time Saturday. This weekend is looking hectic, but I hope to be able to do a podcast at some point.

podcast no 27 - music from Middle Earth!

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Sorry about the delay in getting these show notes up. I posted the podcast yesterday, but didn't have the time to do these notes.

This week's podcast once again features bands from New Zealand, where Peter Jackson filmed The Lord Of The Rings. Again, many thanks to Benjamin Somerville from Venture Electric for his help. Benjamin let me know that while I was enjoying glorious weather in the UK as mentioned in podcasts 25 and 26, it is winter in NZ. And he sent me a photo to prove it (click on the photo to enlarge it).

The 5 tracks played in today's podcast are:

First of all, a track with a harder edge than I've played in a while. Under a Dying Sky, by Alpine Fault, an Auckland based "melodic metal" band. They kindly e-mailed me the latest mix of the song - they are presently in the studio.

Enough, by Amperzahn, also from Auckland. Amperzahn are also in the studio, and again Enough is a demo. Sounded good to me!

I Know What I'd Do, by The Madison Press, another Auckland band. I know what I'd do is their first single, and I predict big things for this band.

F*** All To Do, by The Shrugs. I may be slightly prudish, but I had to think about playing this one purely because of that word in the title. In the end I decide that the song was so good, and the phrase is one that people use, and was not contrived in its context in a song about being at home by yourself in the suburbs, all day, every day.

Benjamin Somerville himself introduced the last song, Cash (or Heather Nova vs Johnny Cash), by Venture Electric. This is one of my favourite songs that I've played on the podcast - it has previously featured in no.s 12 and 13.

Jessica talked to me about Age of Mythology (Gold Edition), a pc game by Ensemble Studios

Soundbed music played today was by Cagey House and Torchomatic. The title music is by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

Other news: The Eisenhowers' cd Almost Half Undressed arrived this week. I was able to meet the competition winner Mark Johnson to give him his prize in person.

podcast no 26 - adrift on a sea of tranquility

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Once more, it's a glorious summer morning here in Hampshire. England have six points, and are through to the second round, so life's not bad. Yes, I'm adrift on a sea of tranquility.

So, on a day like this, how can I resist the temptation to play a song called Weatherman? This is by Boo Hewerdine, a hugely talented songwriter. I guarantee that you will have heard one of Boo's songs, but probably sung by someone else. Many thanks to MVine Records for kind permission to play 2 songs from Boo Hewerdine's recent album Harmonograph, a collection of songs written by Boo but previously recorded by others (e.g. Patience of Angels, a hit for Eddi Reader in the early 1990s).

Sleepthief is the musical project of Justin Elswick. Justin's day job is as a music attorney; at night he transforms into a talented musician, writing and performing mellow electronica featuring guest vocalists. Just Say It is by Sleepthief featuring Kyoko Baertsoen.

Jen from Washington DC performs lyrical poetry to electronic music provided by others, under the name Mellow Dramas. Jen has kindly permitted me to play Inside Out, featuring music by Solar Moon.

Paul Aiden is a singer-songwriter from London. He is acquiring a reputation All Over The World, and it won't be long before we're all hearing more from Paul.

The podcast closes with another Boo Hewerdine song, The Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon ... leaving us adrift on a sea of tranquility.

Many thanks to: the radio guy for the audio between the first 2 songs; to Torchomatic, Cagey House and Map for the soundbed music; and to Tragic Shellsuit Disaster for the title music.

podcast no 25 - the sunny saturday show

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It's a glorious day; it's been a glorious week. So I have some mellow songs for that mellow weekend mood. And England have 3 points in the bag!

So, to the music. Today's show started with another song by Junk, who I played in podcast no 20. This time I played Rumour. You can buy Junk's excellent album The Last Stand Of The Conspiracy Cowboy via their website and you can hear and purchase 3 songs via MVine records.

Then I played Hopelessly Helplessly by Simon Andrews, a 22 year old singer-songwriter from Derby.

Katey Brooks is a 21 year old from Bristol with a rich deep voice. If the rest of her songs are as good as Willing she should be one to watch out for.

To London - Ontario - for Lori Girard aka Askher, and an excellent song called Karma.

Last up, T-Spoon, who tells us little about himself, but played an excellent song called Weary Bones.

Honourable mention for help with the html code for this relocated page to Grant from Three From Leith, an excellent music podcast.


Soundbed music today was by Dave Rave and Map. The title music is by Tragic Shellsuit Disaster.

welcome to the new home of the electrical language podcast

I have moved the podcast to my website www.electricallanguage.co.uk.

Fear not, podcasts 6 to 24 are still at the old site: click here.

Do you want to submit music to electrical language?

(Updated 15July 2008)

Would you like to submit a song or two to be considered for play on this podcast? There are just a few guidelines.

1. My only selection criterion is that I have to like the music. Why not listen to a podcast or two to find the kind of thing I like? My tastes range from acoustic to electronica to catchy pop to indie rock, but it's by no means a closed list. I'm not that keen on heavy stuff. If I don't like your music, it doesn't mean that your music isn't good. It's a matter of my taste, and I suggest you try a few of the podcasts at the Association of Music Podcasting (I'm a member).

2. I only play podsafe music (Wikipedia article). So if you do not have the right to permit me to play the song, please do not submit it.

3. To submit a song, please e-mail mp3 files or a link to where I can download them to lectriclingo@gmail.com. Please include in the e-mail itself the obvious details like who you are (ie name of artist / band) and name of song. It also helps if you can add some information, where you're from, any albums etc, website url, and any stories behind the songs. If you can give me links to a site where people can buy your music, I'll post that. Also please give me links to any site eg YouTube where there may be a video of the song you have submitted and I'll post that as well. You can also upload files to drop.io/telp123

4. I publish the podcast as a 160 kbps mp3 file. Please encode mp3s at a bitrate of 160 kbps or higher if at all possible before sending them to me. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE include in the song's ID tags the song name and the band/artist name. To get a file called "track 4"with no information to help me identify the artist is really frustrating!

5. Please note that I may also submit your music to other podcasts or feeds including AMPed (the weekly update of the Association of Music Podcasting) Made in the UK (for British bands and artists!) and other podcasts I contribute to. None of these are commercial and I make no money at all. The purpose is to increase exposure for your music and my podcasting. Please let me know if you would prefer me not to do this.

6. If you can do this, please also record and send me a "station ident". I use one of these at the start of each podcast. The basic script is:

I'm [name][from band] and when I'm not [you make this bit up - please be as silly or surreal as you want!] I like to listen to electrical language

(Please say something more original than " ... when I'm not listening to electrical language ... " I have had quite a few of those. I enjoy the wacky ones, and I know listeners do.)

7. That's it! any questions: lectriclingo@gmail.com