Waves from the Slipstream or 'How My Search for a Beck Song from 'Eternal Sunshine' Was a Value-Added Experience
You have found yourself at the internet home of my humble radio show.
The Slipstream: Wednesdays, 6-9am on 93.3 CFMU
"What's all this then?
The slipstream lies under, above and within the mainstream. It's a safe zone in the wild currents where nothing is anything but what it is.
The slipstream is about music first and foremost, and it tries to be fairly all-encompassing about it. I can't (and won't try to) say that I provide an equal representation of all genres, but I can say that there's hopefully a pretty varied array of music to hear. There is an emphasis on that which would fall under the very broad umbrella of 'rock/pop' or 'electronica' but there's no limitation on what gets played. You might hear indie rock, hip hop, oldies, classic rock, IDM, trance, symphonic, electro, pop, folk or anything else that happens to pop up. The criteria for selecting songs is fairly simple: quality, interest, newness (in that order). Every week I'll highlight new music of note, play some old favourites, and the maybe one or two rare, random or off-the-wall cuts, and likely spend a fair amount of time yammering about this, that, or the neighbour's pudding. I also throw in a themed bunch of songs to fill the middle hour, just to make things a bit more fun.
Which is all a fancy way of saying that I play the music that moves me to want to share it with anyone who will spare some part of their hearing for 3 or 1 or .0005 hours on an early Wednesday morning. And I can only hope that every now and then you'll hear a song that does something to you, triggers a thought or a feeling or a smile, rings with truth or hammers and grinds with affecting intensity... and if you hear such a song on my little radio show, then together we have won a small victory."
I watched 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' again last night, never ceases to amaze me how nicely the Beck rendition of 'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes' pluses out the beginning/end of the movie.
So, in my neverending quest to thumb my nose at the RIAA, I hit the mean streets of Google searching for it. After many false leads, I found the aboved mentioned archive of the Slipstream radio show. Downloaded the full 3 hour show (January 19, 2005 - Inverted Hopscotch, about 46M, no sweat in these sweet days of broadband, natch) to get the Beck track (1:14:46 into the show, right after Gary Jules/Mad World/Donnie Darko/Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets track.
See, this is where the Internet gave me a huge bonus. Not only did I get the song I was looking for, I also found a new slab of radio programming that introduced me to some new music I wouldn't have rolled across on my own.
Here is the programming track for the MP3 of the radio show I mention, some good stuff:
January 19, 2005 - Inverted Hopscotch (MP3)
6 am
7 am - Songs from Movies
8 am
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The Slipstream: Wednesdays, 6-9am on 93.3 CFMU
"What's all this then?
The slipstream lies under, above and within the mainstream. It's a safe zone in the wild currents where nothing is anything but what it is.
The slipstream is about music first and foremost, and it tries to be fairly all-encompassing about it. I can't (and won't try to) say that I provide an equal representation of all genres, but I can say that there's hopefully a pretty varied array of music to hear. There is an emphasis on that which would fall under the very broad umbrella of 'rock/pop' or 'electronica' but there's no limitation on what gets played. You might hear indie rock, hip hop, oldies, classic rock, IDM, trance, symphonic, electro, pop, folk or anything else that happens to pop up. The criteria for selecting songs is fairly simple: quality, interest, newness (in that order). Every week I'll highlight new music of note, play some old favourites, and the maybe one or two rare, random or off-the-wall cuts, and likely spend a fair amount of time yammering about this, that, or the neighbour's pudding. I also throw in a themed bunch of songs to fill the middle hour, just to make things a bit more fun.
Which is all a fancy way of saying that I play the music that moves me to want to share it with anyone who will spare some part of their hearing for 3 or 1 or .0005 hours on an early Wednesday morning. And I can only hope that every now and then you'll hear a song that does something to you, triggers a thought or a feeling or a smile, rings with truth or hammers and grinds with affecting intensity... and if you hear such a song on my little radio show, then together we have won a small victory."
I watched 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' again last night, never ceases to amaze me how nicely the Beck rendition of 'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes' pluses out the beginning/end of the movie.
So, in my neverending quest to thumb my nose at the RIAA, I hit the mean streets of Google searching for it. After many false leads, I found the aboved mentioned archive of the Slipstream radio show. Downloaded the full 3 hour show (January 19, 2005 - Inverted Hopscotch, about 46M, no sweat in these sweet days of broadband, natch) to get the Beck track (1:14:46 into the show, right after Gary Jules/Mad World/Donnie Darko/Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets track.
See, this is where the Internet gave me a huge bonus. Not only did I get the song I was looking for, I also found a new slab of radio programming that introduced me to some new music I wouldn't have rolled across on my own.
Here is the programming track for the MP3 of the radio show I mention, some good stuff:
January 19, 2005 - Inverted Hopscotch (MP3)
6 am
| Dick Dale and his Del Tones | Misirlou | Pulp Fiction |
| Cinematic Orchestra feat. Roots Manuva | All Things to All Men | Every Day |
| Spiritualized | Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| The Constantines | Nighttime Anytime (It's All Right) | Shine a Light |
| Sonic Youth | Pattern Recognition | Sonic Nurse |
| Clann Zú | One Bedroom Apartment | Black Coats and Bandages |
| Ulrich Schnauss | Passing By | Far Away Trains Passing By |
| Four Tet | As Serious As Your Life | Rounds |
| Interpol | Slow Hands | Antics |
| The Von Bondies | No Regrets | Pawn Shoppe Heart |
7 am - Songs from Movies
| Nancy Sinatra | Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) | Kill Bill |
| Bruce Springsteen | Streets of Philadelphia | Philadelphia |
| Pixies | Where is My Mind? | Fight Club/Surfer Rosa |
| Gary Jules | Mad World | Donnie Darko/Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets |
| Beck | Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| Elliot Smith | Needle in the Hay | The Royal Tenenbaums/Elliot Smith |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | (I'll Love You) Until The End of the World | Until The End of the World |
| Bono and Gavin Friday | In The Name of the Father | In The Name of the Father |
| Ash | A Life Less Ordinary | A Life Less Ordinary |
| Massive Attack | Angel | Snatch/Pi/Mezzanine |
| The Soggy Bottom Boys | I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow | O Brother, Where Art Thou |
| Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard | Now We Are Free | Gladiator |
8 am
| Lamb | Gorecki | Lamb |
| Sigur Ros | Staralfur | Agaetis Byrjun |
| Mclusky | Flysmoke | My Pain and Sadness Is More Sad and Painful Than Yours |
| The Faint | Desperate Guys | Wet From Birth |
| Joseph Arthur | Stumble and Pain | Our Shadows |
| Augie March | There Is No Such Place | Sunset Studies |
| M Ward | Vincent O'Brien | The Transfiguration of Vincent |
| A Camp | Song For The Leftovers | A Camp |
| Spoon | Don't Let It Get You Down | Kill the Moonlight |
| Fiery Furnaces | Here Comes the Summer | EP |
| Primal Scream | Higher Than The Sun | Screamadelica |
| Sub Sub | Jaggernath | Delta Tapes |
| Doves | Black and White Town | Some Cities |
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