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December 10, 2004
Podcast Review: Radio Clash
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4 stars
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Format: radio show
Content: music - mashups, bootlegs, and covers
Rating: 
What I'm going to do: listen regularly
Typical Length: 35 - 45 minutes
Before I listened to the Radio Clash podcast I knew what mashups were. I'd even heard one or two. I understood, in principle, the idea behind mashups. Now that I've heard Radio Clash, I understand a lot better what a mashup really is, and the freedom that the genre affords to artists who practice it. For this I have Tim to thank.
Not knowing much about the mashup scene, I don't know whether the information Tim had to impart was in depth or not. Neither do I know if the artists he played were well-known in mashup circles or were relatively esoteric. Many of the covers he played were by bands I recognized, and some of the other music was as well.... All in all, I'm not sure how much any of that mattered; the plain and simple fact is that Tim's playing some really great music by any definition. My personal favorite so far is C.H.A.O.S. Productions' Are You Gonna Be My Animal?, a mashup of the Muppets's "Mahna mahna" song with Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", although there have been absolutely eye-opening mashups in every show thus far. In fact, listening to this show really educated me to how much of an artform of its own a mashup can be - Tim has picked some extremely good tracks to play.
Tim's got a decent delivery; he's obviously comfortable enough with his material to get it across with a minimum of hesitation. Audio for the show is good; the volume level is decent and I didn't need to adjust my player at all. Transitions to and from music/vocals are quite well handled and the intro and outro are well produced. Tim encodes at 144kbps, which is a little on the high side, making for a slightly larger file. The filename meta-data is good - the files are easy to identify (both what podcast and what date) in both Windows and on my Rave media player. I'd love to hear Tim tell us what the track lengths of the music he's playing, however (rant).
Keep up the good work, Tim; I'll be listening.
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Posted by cori at December 10, 2004 12:37 PM