Episode #7 – A nod to noir

Krystalle — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:56:00 +0000

This 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

Careless Love by Lena Horne
At The Mall by Emerald Park, from the album For Tomorrow
I Don’t Need You by Ay-14Ice
Big Butter & Egg Man* by Louis Armstrong
Amber Haze – Maximus Productions
Out Of My Head – [dK], from the EP I’m a Visionary
Dinner For One – Amity In Fame, from the album Dinner For One
Honky Fonky – Triplexity, from the album Between Light And Shadow
Tell Me – Ay-14Ice

*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:

The Public Domain/Open Source recordings at Archive.org
Jamendo.com
The Netlabel recordings at Archive.org

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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Episode #2: All about the love

Krystalle — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:00:01 +0000

Because I’m sappy and sentimental, this episode is chock full of love just in time for Valentine’s Day. This episode skews more towards alternative rock, although there’s a bit of jazz, blues, and even a bittersweet acoustic track in the mix.

I did warn you I listen to just about everything.

I’m also playing with the format a bit – less talking, more music! As always, feedback is welcomed, so feel free to drop a comment, or drop me an email to krystalle [at] radioactivestate [dot] com.

Enjoy!

Radioactive State – Episode #2, Volume #1

As always, complete show notes behind the break.

Let Somebody In – Shawn Fisher *Warning: Music auto-plays!*
Theater, Girl – Moving Castles
My Funny Valentine – Debbie Cunningham
Melt Into You – Sara Haze
Didn’t Mean To Think About You – Galia Arad
Love Bites – Will Tang
Open Your Eyes – Shawn Fisher *Warning: Music auto-plays!*

Ending music from the video Charlie Schmidt’s Keyboard Cat, seen on any fine purrveyor of viral Internet memes.

All music used on this podcast was released under Creative Commons license for use in Podcasts through Music Alley. As such, this podcast is also released under Creative Commons: Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives.

Not all songs may be available as free downloads at the time this is released or accessed, so please support independent artists you like!

Music sourced from Mevio’s MusicAlley service at musicalley.com.

Image courtesy of ♥ellie♥ on flickr

And yes, the podcast plugin doesn’t seem to be pulling ID3 tags properly for the inline player, but they are on the source file. Working on it!

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Episode #7 – A nod to noir

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