Radioactive State » darkwave http://radioactivestate.com Power to the proletariat through superior music! Radioactive State is a 30(ish) minute eclectic mix of independent music, served up weekly by resident music fanatic, Krystalle. Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:20:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Episode #7 – A nod to noir http://radioactivestate.com/2010/05/episode-7-a-nod-to-noir/ http://radioactivestate.com/2010/05/episode-7-a-nod-to-noir/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 21:56:00 +0000 Krystalle http://radioactivestate.com/?p=270 [...]]]> Miss Lena Horne Narrates Featurette for U.N. Radio, by United Nations Photos on FlickrThis morning, news came down the wire that the hugely talented and beautiful Lena Horne passed away over the weekend at the age of 92. As an admirer of her work, this naturally meant that I couldn’t resist adding in one of her public domain recordings for this week’s show. When you couple that with having spent a good chunk of this last week looking for film noir-ish music for potential use in the production of Dead Man’s Cell Phone that I’m ASMing, you’ll understand why this week’s show leans towards the jazz/noir/swing side of the house. That said, there are still off-roads into darkwave, chaotically intriguing electrojazz, and indie/acoustic rock too. Man cannot live on bread alone, as they say.

As always, full show notes including a track listing and links to the artists/sources are after the break!

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Opening song clip: The Device Has Been Modified by Victims of Science

*NOTE: Big Butter & Egg Man is mislabeled as Fly Me To The Moon on the Archives.

Music for this week’s show has been sourced from the following sites:

Also note, new podcasting setup. I’ve tried to normalize the sound as best I could, but find the final product a bit lacking. I’ll keep working on that. Sorry for the somewhat odd levels, folks!

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For those who love what they hear and want to know more, show notes with the band info and links to where you can get this great music for your own are after the break!

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Opening song clip: The Device Has Been Modified by Victims of Science

Special thanks to JDub Records for allowing me to showcase Golem and Soulico, and Orren Merton for the use of Ember After’s music. Please note that those three songs are not available under Creative Commons licenses.

Some of the music used on this week’s podcast comes from either the artist’s own sites (linked above) or:

This podcast is released under Creative Commons: Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives.

Suggestions? Want to tell me about an awesome independent band/artist I should feature? Drop me a note to krystalle[at]radioactivestate[dot]com, or leave a comment below.

Also, don’t forget, you can pick up the show on iTunes now!

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