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Greetings You!
Never before! NEVER BEFORE I TELL YOU! ...has so much been offered online for so little! Yes, Plasmatron Laboratories is pleased to announce that following our acquisition of the Product Of Neglect Art Collective Ltd. audio archive, much restoration and cataloguing has taken place, and soon the entire W(ith) program radio series will be available for free download. At all hours of the day, anywhere on the planet OR within geosynchronous orbit, YOU could be listening to a mystery music journey of unexpected proportions! Many of the W(ith) Program netcasts have already been brought out of mothballs, and archives are slowly making their way online.
Are you one of the 5000 (five thousand) or so to have received a W(ith) CDR handed off by a grinning idiot at some social crossroads? Curious what the other 145 mixes sounded like? Soon you will have on-demand access to EVERY FULL EIGHTY MINUTE MIX IN THE ENTIRE SERIES!
Eight (8) DAYS of music, 24 (twenty four) hours a day, recombined, blended, balanced, and broadcast to the micro-networks of tomorrow in a modern throwback to yesteryear. Even if you just listened to ONE mix every day, it would be almost FIVE (5) months of daily musical onslaughts to journeys unexpected.
Four thousand two hundred and thirty three (4233) songs. Repetition? Not so! dJ Bake-n-Phat kept meticulous records of his playlists in a macro-heavy spreadsheet, the likes of which would cause an economist to cram their hand so far down their 17th Chakra, the beans would never need counting again! AND THEN SOME! Rest assured, there ARE a few songs which show up in more than one program purposely, to showcase the drastic recombinations between their use, otherwise each show avoided playing anything mixed in previous programs.
After following the link below, click a show's individual link to stream the 80 minutes, or right click to download for portability:
It's remarkable to think that when dJ Bake-n-Phat began netcasting this series, it was live streamed once a week, wednesday evenings through Live365 at 56kbit, and by its end it was downloadable at all times, at 196kbit, from the PONACL website. Most people only heard the CDR that got handed to them, I know as I got to watch the download stats of the semi-weekly program between 2001 and 2009, and very few people ever discovered the content online. How times change, fast; some of the recent Killer Wails archives have been listened to upwards of 10,000 times over the net.
Following the completion of the W(ith) programs, dJ Bake-n-Phat had an itch to start a new netstream series, more in line with the format-free pirate radio days of his youth. RadioReformat was a pilot episode slapped together to gage financial interest in the series, but none could be found. We blame the Economic Downturn™. Nonetheless, the program exists in our archives and is available to stream.
It gives a sense of where dJ Bake-n-Phat may have taken his thick blends, in the show that never happened:
However, though Radio Reformat did not take flight, dJ Bake-n-Phat decided to use the latest incarnation of The Dribbler™ to revisit the less-produced approach to pirate radio. The most recent program in The Dribbler™ series can be found at the link below, and to be subscribed to the mailing list and be notified when a new program is available, get in contact with Plasmatron Laboratories by mailing 'olo' at the plasmatron laboratories domain:
Plasmatron Laboratories have also expanded their online audio archives to house the detritus of various associated creative experiments. We endeavour to make it easier than ever to access our white papers and research results for your own experimentation, or reference. Most major musical projects have their own index page, though the archives for Olo T. Schickelleghrougheverre and the Happy Philanthropist Orchestra are incomplete. That historic project produced such a deluge of material, resources to get all of the content catalogued, digitized, and online, is proving harder to arrange. Nonetheless, we persevere, and as cloud computing becomes the new "we gotta have it", eventually everything will be online somewhere, in at least three places, surrounded by ads, and tracked by bots.
Various historic and current projects:
But what of the future of the archive? Well, we have some big plans. Not only do we still intend to get all 5 (five) of OTSATHPO's noise/media barrage multi-hour tape pieces on the net, but also the "Requiem Mass 100kg/hr" and other remaining more abstract recordings by the shadowy band no one wanted to remember, but failed to forget!
If all that weren't enough, we are also expanding our Outreach Program, and will offer our library of audiobook Bedtime Tales online. That's over 1000 (one thousand) stories to access next time you need a bedtime tale. Old timey favourites like "Peggy the carbon emissions control inspector", "Dan the dapper dan", "The voodoo drum rhythm which drove chickens crazy", "The mutant cat from Bandon, Manitoba", and "The juice bar on the wrong side of town". All of the tales together clock in at over 115 (one hundred and fifteen) hours of narrative meandering, almost THREE (3) YEARS of nightly stories ranging from 4 (four) to twenty (20) minutes long. All are soon to find their way into your REM sleep replacement toolkit.
Currently the bedtime tales are being offered as an on-demand email service, so if there is something you really have to hear, send me the title and I'll send you the file.
You may also notice a new button on the web pages, something to donate funds to Plasmatron Laboratories' archival efforts. These funds go directly to paying for the staff, bandwidth, and web space of hosting these files. We do not hope that each of you will personally feel compelled to offer financial support, but rather this button is here in case The Blogosphere© discovers the archive and comes crashing through our servers in a +1 "like" frenzy of boinged up diggable dangerous minds. If the world is going to find some amusement in all of this, they may as well have an opportunity to 'trickle down' as the money hucksters call it. If the archive proves to make some coin, we'll offer downloads as opposed to just streams, but we can cross that bridge when people show they want them.
Nonetheless, if you feel like philanthropising us with a foundation grant, no one at our laboratory is going to stop you. Especially if you have 50 or 60gigs of digicloud space to offer up.
Thank you for your time. You may now continue with your day as if NOTHING IS WRONG. |
