The Future of Pirate Radio
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craner
Beast of Burden
I don't have the technology. If I did, I would. They aren't exactly 'classic sets' or anything, but they are lovely time capsules.
craner
Beast of Burden
I'm serious!
sufi
lala
you could use this free thing https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
& if necessary i can put an old fashioned male to male cable in the post to connect the tape deck to yr computer
& you could maybe do a selection for us?
craner
Beast of Burden
you could use this free thing https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
& if necessary i can put an old fashioned male to male cable in the post to connect the tape deck to yr computer
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& you could maybe do a selection for us?
Ok, I'll give it a go. I can't promise miracles and it might take me a while because I'm a bodger, but if some of you want me to try, I will.
(DB plays with radio for a while - horrible noise drowns out our voices on the tape) "The station's not there now - usually they've started by 5.30... They've no announcements - when they go off it just stops, when they come on it just blasts in... It's enormously loud - I get it accidentally sometimes when I'm just fucking about.
So I've been listening to it, and I really like the way they do it on the radio - I have to say that in recent times it seems to have got softer, a lot less abrasive in some ways. There are more vocal samples, for example... But what I like about the radio is the live quality - although the stuff is records, they don't leave them alone - they'll talk over them, advertise gigs, order a pizza - the music's constant but with interruptions. It's very live - and with that sustained pace, which of course is inhuman... And it's nice to play along with, particularly as opposed to free jazz situations where the pace is often very slow.
I've found it fantastic to practice with. So for a long time I've been doing that...
I've always liked the parts where the music stops and drifts along - you get some ridiculous string orchestra, then it just slips a bit, the pitch goes or they slow it down or something. Then the drums come back - it's completely meaningless! I like that...
What is a pain and can sometimes dilute it is the repetitive - looped or sampled - vocals... The funny thing is, I've never heard a jungle record, all I've heard has been off the radio..." Derek Bailey [talking to Stefan Jaworzyn]
Derek Bailey interview by Stefan Jaworzyn
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The bend in that bassline sounds even pervier than the samples.