[Show #16, #15 and #2] Quick Update, and several recordings

Hello faithful blog readers. The last update was... about three weeks ago. Ah.
Well, in my defence I've been pretty busy, exams and all (much of the all). So apologies if you've been patiently waiting for the weekly recordings, and apologies to anyone who tunes in tomorrow: I'll be in the middle of an exam at the time! The show will be back (potentially as a "special" edition of the show due to the Cambridge happiness that is known as Bumps) as usual next Wednesday, that's 11th June at the usual time which is 14:00 BST (15:00 GMT).

In the mean time to keep all music addicts satisfied, here are three show recordings.. none like any other!

There's More To Music 28/05/2008 show recording
This was a fairly standard show. I'll definitely post the track list at some point, but the basic theme was "relaxation" so there's lots of smooth music (as opposed to jarring) and a couple ambient tracks which you will hopefully enjoy if it's not usually your thing; if you don't like them keep the faith, ambient is pretty broad.


There's More To Music 21/05/2008 show recording
Ah yes.. this recording has been edited down to about half an hour. You see what happened is that the lock on the door to the studio broke (just my luck) and so I had to wait for maintenance to basically jam it open. Despite that though, let me underline what a fun it ended up being; I played random tracks from the CUR1350 CD library, and got a ton of emails, most of them concerning a certain band... Ironically one of the funnest half hours in a long time! (Don't worry though, in the show #16 I go back to trying too hard.)
Also note that the "film soundtracks" themed show has been pushed back to next term (with a different track list by then anyway).



There's More To Music 29/11/2008 show recording
A very old show here folks, second of two from back in November when I was just getting to grips with all those buttons on the big desk in front of me. I haven't listened to this recently... But as usual it's completely unedited, and I can assure there will be several mistakes in it, I just can't remember what the worst one is off the top of my head (but there's one before the first track starts, and one right after it!) The best stuff in this show is clearly the japanese track at the end (not what you might expect) and the "Scandinavian blackened death metal" requested the week before.

OK, well remember to tune in next week, there will be a guest, and I can promise you it will be a fun show, not so much seriousness.. In the mean time enjoy what little I have posted here.
Thankyou to all my readers and listeners, it's a pleasure doing the show. Enjoy!

[Show #14] There's More To Music 14/05/2008

Oh what a 'bumper' show that was! As I mention at the start of the show not enough tracks recently, so there are an amazing sixteen in this show. I honestly believe that in terms of musical selection it's one of the best shows I've ever done, many styles were covered and all the music was quality. It was a lot of work, but here it is for your enjoyment:


There's More To Music 14/05/2008 show recording

The show is completely unedited, but any mistakes were quite minor (though annoyingly still present!) Definitely the saddest thing is the low quality of the above file. I would certainly not recommend illegal downloading (directly) while on the show, but on the blog I can definitely say that an mp3 of these songs would sound much better... Then again my talking between the songs is half the fun, and while I feel I can still improve the general flow of my language, I'm not as bad as I was when I started.

Here's the tracklist (artist - title):
Hellogoodbye - All of your Love
Phish - Farmhouse
Nine Inch Nails - Lights in the Sky
Robert Johnson - Hellhound on my Trail
Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance no. 20 in E minor, poco allegreto [performed by the London Festival Orchestra]
BitBasic - Amen Break Steals the Show (listen to it for free on last.fm)
Napalm Death - Scum
J. J. Cale - Cocaine
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
Art Blakey (quintet) - Once in a While
The Flashbulb - La Tristesse Durera Toujours
Ilkae - Orange Line
Ilkae - Sink Lateral
Ochre - A Midsummer Nice Dream
Common - I Used to Love H.E.R.
Oasis - Songbird (which I forgot to mention at the time)

I received an email concerning what the 'Amen Break' was, and there is no better explanation than this thought-provoking documentary on Youtube.
A more tasty selection there is not! Enjoy it!
(Oh, and I shall endeavour to post TMTM #2 this weekend, so look out for that.)

[Show #13] There's More To Music 07/05/2008

If you're chancing upon this page before the show has aired.. I strongly reccomend you read the following page, it is one of the best articles I have ever read, explaining a subject we will be discussing tomorrow in depth.

Go to Imperfect Sound Forever.

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Well the show went really well, thanks to all who emailed in their opinions and comments: it really helps the hour flow (and keeps me happy!)
Listening back to the show I was dissapointed, but not surprised, to find that CUR1350 does strongly compress the music before sending it out; the second track I played should actually be much quiter in the quiet passages and much louder in the loud passages.
Hopefully none of you were too confused by some of the technical terms I may have (mis-)used, or by the variety of points raised. Here are some more links about the loudness war and compression. Most of these come from Wikipedia anyway, but they are all worth reading, and Wikipedia has many more good links to check out.

Honestly, the Imperfect Sound Forever article is the best, and helped inspire 'The Destruction of Small Ideals'.
A brilliant Youtube explanation of the loudness war.
Over the Limit is a bit more visual and has some numerical data to back up the facts.
More numerical data and pictures, along with a downloadable program and a hall of fame and shame from CuteStudio Ltd.
The Future of Music explains how historically the loudness war came about with the advent of CDs.
Declaring an end to the loudness wars is a slightly shorter article.
What Happened To Dynamic Range? is an article not written by a fan complaining, but by a mastering engineer himself.

Like I said, all very interesting, but borderline pointless because of the compression and low bitrates that the following recording has gone through...

There's More To Music 07/05/2008 show recording

The show is completely unedited, sadly I had to cut off the end of Parenthood. The noise track is there in full...

Here's the tracklist (artist - title):
Queens of the Stone Age - Go With The Flow
65daysofstatic - Music Is Music as Devices Are Kisses Is Everything
Iggy Pop & The Stooges - Raw Power
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Beirut - Nantes
Prurient - Apple Tree Victim
Justice - DVNO
kid606 - Parenthood
Erik Satie - Gymnopédie III [La troisième gymnopédie]

If you have any more opinions on anything discussed this show don't hesitate to leave a comment, or send me an email during the next show. Enjoy!

[Show #12] There's More To Music 30/04/2008

Sorry I took a while to upload this one guys, but here it is: a rather poppy edition of There's More To Music. Basically I didn't have a long time to plan it, and so played a bunch of stuff from this old folder in my computer. Not the most fascinating show ever I'll give you that, and maybe the poor email response was deserved..

There's More To Music 30/04/2008 show recording

The show is completely unedited, so there is a period of two minutes where I'm just waffling, mainly repeating what I've already said. In my defence it would have worked out perfectly had I had more listener input.

Here's the tracklist (artist - title):
Daft Punk - Something About Us
CKY - 96 Quite Bitter Beings
Jazzanova - Another New Day
Air - The Vagabond
Mylo - Wolves of Miami
Tom Petty - Runnin' Down A Dream
Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 [extract performed by The Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra]
blink-182 - Adam's Song
Michel Fugain - Une Belle Histoire
Galleon - So I Begin

Listening through the recording it occurs to me that the quality sounds quite poor. Hopefully you'll still enjoy the recording, and tune in on Wednesday for a hardcore show!

[Show #11] There's More To Music 23/04/2008

Cool, just finished the first There's More To Music of the term. It went pretty well, didn't make any really bad mistakes, got a couple emails.. Maybe I should have chatted less, then I wouldn't have had to play the last three tracks pretty much all one after the other, but nevermind.

There's More To Music 23/04/2008 show recording

The show is completely unedited, so apologies again for the swearing in the 'Abuse You' track, although that's only really important live. Now you know anyway; don't worry it's not too obvious.
I'm not too happy about having to interrupt the tracks once or twice, but overall it's a good effort for my first show in a while.

Here's the tracklist (artist - title):
Coldplay - Green Eyes
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Acrnym - Repeat
Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal
Arnold Schoenberg - Suite for Piano, op. 25 [track 5 on CD, ie. the end of the suite]
Christian Sinding - Frühlingsrauschen ("Rustles of Spring")
Quantic - Time is the Enemy
Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World (Check this out live!)
Sixty Six Ex - Abuse You
The Specials - Ghost Town
Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah (cut a couple seconds short)
We Are Scientists - Hoppípolla [originally by Sigur Rós]

Pretty good selection non? Enjoy!

[Older Show #1] There's More To Music 22/11/2007

This was the very first show!! My voice sounds dry, and some of the changeovers are fairly poor, and the choice of tracks clashes aswell. Please don't judge the show on this very first go! But I give you a link to it here for old time's sake.

There's More To Music 22/11/2007 show recording

The recording is completely unedited, and I completely mess up ('technical problem' haha) during one of the tracks, so leave a comment if you'd like me to edit the recording so that the sad little piano track isn't rudely interrupted.

Here's the tracklist (artist - title):
Daft Punk - Face to Face
Manau - La Poupée
Fats Waller - Honeysuckle Rose
Secede - Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic
Aphex Twin - Kesson Dalef
Alif Tree - My Soul
MONO - L'America
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Concerto In F Minor, 'Winter', RV 297: I: Allegro non molto [performed by Itzhak Perlman]
Ilkae - Elve
Dire Straits - Twisting by the Pool
Finley Quaye - Dice (feat. William Orbit & Beth Orton) (forgot to mention this at the time.)

Interestingly the news team also messed up that day, so instead of the news there is a track by Muse tacked on at the end. That'll probably get removed in the (potential) edit - to save bandwidth - but until then..

Enjoy it!

Euh.. Hi!

Hello everyone, welcome to the official site for my radio show "There's More To Music".
The title says it all really, the music most people listen to just isn't diverse enough, and so we're going to change that, together.
This blog is many so that people can comment, preview the next show, and it's an easy place to post the show every week, so that you can listen again whenever you want. Awesome isn't it!
As a bonus I will post all the recordings from previous times over the course of the next couple weeks, so you can hear how poor my radio skills were at first. Although I might edit out some of the really bad mistakes, solely for the purpose of your musical enjoyment of course.

At the moment the show is every Wednesday at 15:00 british summer time, or 14:00 GMT. Listen live if you want (please do!) at www.cur1350.co.uk

I'll probably edit this welcome post as I remember important details not yet mentioned.