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ECC & guests on Over The Edge radio show tonight! (04/22)

General ECC News

Thursday, 22 April 2010 17:25

The Evolution Control Committee drops in to Negativland's legendary radio show Over The Edge tonight!  Wobbly and Phineas Narco will also guest.  Here's how Phineas bills the show (slightly edited):

Phineas Narco of The National Cynical Network will be on KPFA tonight 4/22/10 (Thursday Night / Friday Morning) from 12am - 3am (PST) mashing up Beatles samples from 12am - 3am on Negativland's Radio Show 'Over the Edge' with Don Joyce of Negativland, TradeMark G. from The Evolution Control Committee and Wobbly (Jon Leidecker)  [...]  Tune in to hear radio history being made by going to kpfa.org and listening to the live feed at that time. We will probably play an edit of this on the Sunday Plundercast Show streaming this coming Sunday 4/25/10 at 10pm EST and simulstreamed (Sunday) as well on DFM radio out of Amsterdam. The Beatle mix we will be performing live on "Over the Edge" is based on the album 'Beatlerape' by Big City Orchestra, a version of which was performed live at the Big City Orchestra 30th Anniversary Show at the Cafe DuNord. This is a further developed version of that performance. If you are in the SF Bay Area you can tune in through regular radio at 94.1 FM. Call in during that time by dialing 510-848-4425, in the states, and listening through the telephone (as KPFA has a broadcast delay).

This Week's Radio Guests: Sam Green & Dave Cerf

General ECC News

Monday, 12 April 2010 15:25

This week's guests are Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker SAM GREEN, accompanied by musician DAVE CERF (alas, Dave has canceled). Not that we'll be talking about award nominations -- instead, both of them bring an obsession shared by your radio host TradeMark G.: The Voyager Golden Record, the ultimate crate-digger dream and the subject of The ECC's performance, Space: The Vinyl Frontier.  It's also an appropriate subject on the recent 49th anniversary of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.

Many chances to hear the show, and if you can't make the times below, you can hear it at The Sound Of Plaid Archives later in the week.

The Sound Of Plaid Goes To The Movies

General ECC News

Monday, 05 April 2010 13:14

What with the success of ECC's Reels Of Steel soundtrack for Nosferatu last weekend, this week's episode of The Sound Of Plaid will go to the movies!  Soundtracks for movies big and small will be our theme, sharing music and dialogue from movies including better known ones like Casino Royale and Barbarella, alongside lesser-known classics like American Astronaut, What Do You Say To A Naked Lady? (by Allen Funt of Candid Camera fame), the blaxploitation classic Sweet Sweetback's Badaaaaaaas Song, and many many more.  We'll also talk about the recent Reels Of Steel show and how we came to mix up 50 albums for the soundtrack of a 64 minute movie.

Many chances to hear the show, and if you can't make the times below, you can hear it at The Sound Of Plaid Archives (new & improved!) later in the week.

This week's guest: ERIC KLEPTONE

General ECC News

Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:04

The special guest of our next episode: from the UK, the Bootie mashup night's recent headliner Eric Kleptone, aka The Kleptones! 

His hefty oeuvre of mashups easily trumps others in one important category: concept.  From the Kleptones bio on last.fm:

Later that year [2004] they released what has now become their landmark release, “A Night At The Hip-Hopera”. Again using hip-hop vocals, this time The Kleptones mixed them with the music of Queen, and peppered the combination with a mix of film and spoken-word samples, critiquing the current state of the music industry. The album won the band legions of fans, a flurry of press activity and a legal threat from Disney, who, through Hollywood Records, own Queen’s catalogue in the USA.

The band entered 2005 by releasing “From Detroit To J.A.”, an album length mix created for James Hyman’s “The Rinse” show on XFM in London. Soon after, it was announced they were to be awarded the 2005 Webby Award as “Artist of the Year”, by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, who declared the band to have “achieved new critical heights” and to be “true internet renegades”.

Many chances to hear the show, and if you can't make the times below, you can hear it at The Sound Of Plaid Archives (new & improved!) later in the week.