Radio Discordia 035: N.A.S.A.

While N.A.S.A. stands for North America/South America and contains a number of superstar artists from both coasts of the U.S., it is about as far from a tension-building geographical showdown as a record can get. Rather, The Spirit of Apollo was born with the righteous goal of bringing people together through music and art, and that is exactly what masterminds Sam Spiegel (Squeak E. Clean) and Ze Gonzales (DJ Zegon) have done.

01 Intro
02 The People Tree
03 Money
04 Way Down
05 Four Rooms, Earth View
06 Spacious Thoughts
07 Gifted
08 N.A.S.A. Anthem

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Radio Discordia 034: DJ Food - Raiding the 20th Century

DJ Food - Raiding the 20th Century - Words & Music Expansion
(starring Paul Morley and a cast of thousands)

'Everything Has To End...'

"On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalog the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups. It rapidly spread throughout the web and managed to cause a full scale server crash on boomselection.info when they hosted it due to the volume of net traffic.

Shortly afterwards he read Paul Morley's recently published book 'Words & Music' and was amazed that certain chapters mirrored parts of his mix. Apart from the fact that the title, 'Raiding the 20th Century' was coined by Morley 20 years before for a future Art of Noise project, he also featured Alvin Lucier, who - purely by chance - was sampled on the opening track of the mix.

Kev decided to expand his idea to make the defnitive document on cut up music including many other parts, omitted by the constraints of the original radio session. After months of further research he tracked Morley down and they recorded passages from 'Words & Music' specially for this mix in an attempt tomarry the two and finish something that neither of them actually started. A year to the day of the original airing, the newly expanded version is ready."

DJ Food - Raiding the 20th Century.mp3

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Radio Discordia Guest Podcast: Dj Spooky - on Radio Radio

RADIO RADIO is a sixteen-part series of forty-five minute broadcasts which asks an honest question: Is there really a place on radio for experimentation? Twenty people immersed in radio, sound and performance offer, in their own ways, answers to this question through conversation and the presentation of their work. The series was produced, researched and edited by Martin Spinelli, a radio producer and media critic.

This Episode [#12]:
Paul D. Miller, A.K.A. DJ Spooky, is a writer, visual artist and platinum-selling recording artist. His mixes blend black radio and cartoon soundtracks with vintage recordings of Thomas Edison and manage a rare combination of street credibility and critical sensibility. In this program he discusses "the mix" as culture and as metaphor.

Dj Spooky - on Radio Radio.mp3

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Radio Discordia podcast 013: TRYAD - Public Domain

TRYAD Cultural Revolution Through Copyright Reform

Tryad: Four members; Vavrek and Arna in Seattle, John Holowach in Ohio, and RJ Marshall in Japan — combined musical talents through the open copyright licensing options at Creative Commons.

Creative Commons, a non-profit organization, allows owners of intellectual property to license, for free, their work so that others may build upon it. Tryad plans on continuing the generosity they have built themselves upon by licensing their content in the same fashion, hoping to be the first successful musical group to do so.

"What we have here is the dawning of a modern day renaissance. Much like how the advent of the printing press brought about drastic scientific and social revolutions, we are experiencing a creative explosion brought about using internet technologies and open licensing. This cultural revolution is happening on a global scale." -Vavrek.

The group, which had its origins through the open source music site Opsound.org, says they plan on offering all their music under a license that allows alterations to be made to the music, even for commercial purposes, as long as other artists will use the same license on the new works.

"Starting a revolution isn't easy. "However, I do hope that we will be the first step in a long line of more allowances for shared creativity and cultural openness." - Holowach

Tryad - Public Domain.mp3

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