http://www.magicjunk.com/radio An eclectic maelstrom of sounds, voices, and samples. Submit. Submit. Obey. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:00:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was all supposed to be much different. This tenth podcast was supposed to be released in February 2007 in full surround sound. This podcast was supposed to have a loyal following of a few hundred listeners. This podcast was supposed to be filled with guest vocalists, a smattering of ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/33 With Magic Junk Radio 10 just a black lion short of a Voltron, we decided to release a B-Side remix to start the fires going a bit on the Magic Junk campgrounds. Hell, this remix is so crazy, it's causing me to overuse the metaphor. Anyway, this remix missed getting on ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/31 About two weeks ago, Radiohead released individual instrument stems for their song "Nude" from the album "In Rainbows" that anyone could use to remix in GarageBand, ProTools, Logic, etc. The rules were to re-interpret the song, using any means necessary, but the song had to stay copyrighted sample free, no ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/27 We just hunted down and killed that fifteen month old cold turkey. After all, it's not easy to describe podcast withdrawal, especially since few are suffering from it. While you might call it 'audiosexual frustration', I'd prefer to just paraphrase Robert Plant: It's been a long time since we did ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/20 The podcast lessons that pass for knowledge, we can't understand. So it goes. Here we are, nearly a year removed from the last MJR podcast, and at a loss how it has been so long since we were here. Worse yet, all of the upgrades we planned on making ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/19 Oscar Wilde once said, "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." It's a rather omnious quote for any creative person still trying to find their big break. Nevertheless, since the first 7 episodes of Magic Junk Radio were consistent on a level of composition, it was only natural that ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/18 If this post was a comic book, this would be what collectors call the "origin" issue. The first episode of Magic Junk Radio launched on August 30, 2005. Now a year later, I'm taking a look back at how it all came to be, as well as the new direction that ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/16 Never let it be said that I cannot share my creative process. After doing 99% of the work on the first six episodes of Magic Junk Radio, I decided to take in a group of refugees last month. I promptly gave them each a laptop and some headphones, and put ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/15 Four months of podcast silence felt like an eternity for me, but no longer. The time to take cherished samples and theme songs and make them into electronic madness is now. Of course, four months ago, the belief was to confine myself to a dark room with the goal of finding ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/14 If spending your lunches, nights, and weekends sitting in front of a laptop writing a work of fiction could be considered a vacation — then metaphorically, we're in the middle of the Hawaiian Islands, baby. You remember us! Magic, Junk, and Radio! Here we are! At this very moment, we're ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/12 Even in the midst of concentrating on a huge project, one might hear the voice of a smaller project calling, begging to be finished before it gets lost in the shuffle. While such an instance happened to me this month, I will not confess to hearing voices. No sir, not ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/11 Outside of the obvious monotony of the season, I have my reasons to hate the holidays. I call it the curse of being born on the day after Christmas. Thus, celebrating my introduction to the world was always overshadowed by traveling hangovers and shopping binges. Luckily, over the years, I've ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/10 By making a 3rd installment of Magic Junk Radio, I've now officially committed myself to podcasting. After all, one or two episodes could be explained as a happy accident or a fluke. But with three, I'm out of excuses until I reach at least seven or so. Oh my ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/9 Okay, okay. I know I said Magic Junk Radio was an experiment, just a one-time creative crossover from a non-musician. But in pushing my limited skills to make the first MJR, I found I really enjoyed the process. The beauty of being creative, for me, is that I find ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/4 While all of my tracks are really B-sides in a way, I designated a specific track for a multi-person podcast created by Temple Stark from Blogcritics.org. Since the track fell between MJR 1 and 2, it subsequently became a B-side. Go to blogcritics.org to check out the inaugural Blogcritics podcast. The ... http://www.magicjunk.com/radio/archives/5