Over at my Multiply site I’ve released a lot of bootlegs from last year…kind of a new year’s cleanout!

Highlights include:

Ambient bootlegs from my tbc monicker including ‘Saturday Sunshine’ (Roy Ayers vs Boards of Canada) and a few demos I’ll probably never finish – Cowboy Mary being one (Scissor Sisters vs BOC)
Instamatic ‘Electric Loop’ – Pendulum meets Judas Priest…hear the bootleg that scared them so at Bootie! Run in terror from th dancefloor! Howl in laughter at the Ulysses samples (FACT: Ulysses 31 ripped off Electric Eye’s riff for the ‘action’ theme)

Juicy Clare – B52′s vs Strokes - always throught the bassline was a rip of Planet Clare. Spooky.

DJNoNo – Chitty Chitty Gang Bang (Julie Andrews vs Pendulum vs Capone) FINALLY gets released…still not 100% happy with it but it’s time to let it go and move on to something else.

DJNoNo’s JetBoy Flashback – Cyantific’s Flashback vs Elton Motello, still more of a playout boot than a listening boot, will probably never finish this…and there are a few more ‘No rarities there!

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Second part of the Scottish podcasts from the Outer Hebrides – where we free the enslaved swings, explore the Butt of Lewis, meet a lot of wind and rain in Harris.

Do the Highland Fling (38Mb, 66min): http://www.radioclashblog.com/show-archive/rc_91.mp3

Sunset on Harris

OK so I was working quietly at the Radio Clash Towers, my top-secret HQ hidden in the dangerous mountainous regions of North London, when suddenly I heard a noise and a hissing sound at the door keyhole and everything went black.

When I awoke I saw I note on my iKea desk-come-piranha pool which said:

“hA Ha HA ha HA YoU’vE bEen hiJAckEd!!!

The World Cup ‘O Rock
Radio Clash HiJaCkEd by:

• Jeb from 50 Pound Note Podcast
• Lee from i Motor Away Podcast“

And my death-ray-cum-podcasting computer George was counting down to a release (in slow red LED numbers no less)!

Could I stop it in time?

• Turn to page 10 to cut the blue wire (what do you mean, what wire?)
• Turn to page 56 to unplug countdown device (they never do that do they?)
• To to page 4631 to go to Chicken Cottage for some ribs (choice of every podcasting evil nemesis – yum)
• Turn to show #83 to download podcast (42Mb, 72mins): http://www.radioclashblog.com/show-archive/rc_83.mp3

Don’t forget to comment below to choose a winning track…otherwise the golden shower fisting-handball trophy will go to waste…

Notes:

• USA vs American Idiot
• England Vs Italy – Pop Will Eat Itself – “Cicciolina” YouTube
• Sweden vs Sweden – Jenny Wilson – “Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward” (The Knife Remix) YouTube
• France Vs England – La Fin De Tout – “586″ YouTube
• India – Mohammed Rafi -”Jan Pehechaan Ho”
• Opening scene of Ghostworld originally from the 1965 Bollywood film “Gumnaam” YouTube
• Japan vs. Germany – Delaware – “Boing Boom Tschak” YouTube
• Brazil – Cansei de Ser Sexy – “Art Bitch” YouTube
• Israel – Ofra Haza – “Galbi” YouTube
• Africa vs France/England – Salif Keita/the Boldz (aka Tim Paris and Jogi) – “Madan” (No Traitorz remix) YouTube
• Yugosalvia – Laibach – “Tanz Mit Laibach” YouTube Kitties
• Iceland vs England – Bjork – “The Fool On the Hill” YouTube
• Australia – The Presets – “Are You The One” YouTube
• Canada Vs Gemany – Peaches – “Technologic” (Peaches Remix) YouTube

Ok as any fule knowz, the biggest podcaster’s friend is (and was) the iRiver iFP series. Why?

Well they were cheap, portable, you can record on them via external microphones and do the sort of outside broadcasting/interviews you’ve heard here on Radio Clash and the likes of Bicyclemark, amongst many others.

Problem is that apart from the 790 (which is only 256Mb) the rest of the range has been discontinued…but you can still get refurbished models cheaply. I’ve just bought an iFP 895 512Mb as a replacement for iVer – the iFP890 256Mb I dropped in Canada. It’s arrived, looks good as new and all tests so far seem to indicate it’s working alright.

I only paid £39.99 from Electrobytes, and it arrived within 2 days so I think they are kosher. I’m not being paid by them, but spent ages looking through dead links. I too initially wanted to get a new not refurbished player – for those of you that still do, check out iRiver’s site where they will sell you the iFP 790 256Mb for 30 Euros + shipping (dunno if this is Europe only, looking at the US site it seems so) which came out at around the same as the refurbished one (and I wasn’t sure if custom duty was included?).

And anyway I blog so much here and on my LJ about bad service, it’s nice to talk about good service – like where I bought Charles II the video iPod from, the unlikely place of FonePlanet – but they were extremely quick, got it within 1 day of sorting out the payment, like this one was. I’m so used to shit service online, or being defrauded/abused that it literally has been a shock to find a few extremely good places. Restored my much battered faith in ecommerce.

So maybe some of you who need a replacement will find this info useful. Certainly I think the iFP’s are soon to be totally consigned to the second hand market – and the new iRivers don’t have the pre-amp or external mic facilites (I have a T30, little iVer, and it’s a nice little player but it’s recording features are close to useless). Personally though I’d not touch iRiver’s HD players after my bad experience with Gerald.

I was and am a little still nervous of buying a refurb model (but it is a Flash memory MP3 player/recorder, not like a HD player with moving parts inside) but everything seems OK so far.

So welcome Long John iVer (aka Big or Large iVer), who’ll probably be what I’m recording shows on from now on.

If bootlegs are dead, then they are the undead party zombies of the world…last Bastard gets the ‘best funeral ever’; GYBO gets a C&D and remains unrepentant and keeps going, and Tim gets on (down with) the mashup/download offensive armed with a shotgun and a cricket bat…

They’re coming to get you, bootlegs: http://www.radioclashblog.com/show-archive/rc_63.mp3

Notes:

• Voicemails from Ross from Mashup Podcast / bw ‘The Gonk’ from Dawn of the Dead
• MC Lars – Download this Song (more about Elisa and Nettwerk at the Future of Music blog)
• totom - John the TV Eye (that Feeds)
• Rant about GYBO’s Cease and Desist and The Last Bastard Picture Show
• Irn Mnky – Ordinary Trousers
• Cut Copy – Saturdays
• Voicemail from Tony Valenzuela
• Report about the Last Bastard – see pics at link above!
• Lenlow – My Shiny Gun Mosey
• Loo & Placido – Black Beatles
• Instamatic - Alison She’s So Horsey (White Powder mix – exclusive demo)
• The Knife – Heartbeats
• Jose Gonzalez – Hand on your Heart (Kylie cover - his Myspace blog)
• tbc - Mary Was a Cowboy (Scissor Sisters vs Boards of Canada – exclusive demo)
• Popchor Berlin – How Soon Is Now? (from copy,right blog)

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