Surprise! It’s your past!

So I there I was, looking for some esoteric track for a mix I’m kind of puttering with, when I came across a blast from the past. Buried in a tarball in a directory in the dark corners of my filesystem was a soundboard recording I made back when I was a DJ at WFHB. It’s not entirely unheard of as I have several different recordings. This one isn’t one I’ve heard in years.

Back in October of 2006 I had an external drive crash. My media drive. Nearly 500GB of audio files including all of my old soundboard recordings. I was able to resurrect a few from other devices but the bulk of them were disappeared that fateful day.

Needless to say I spent the last two hours–give or take a few minutes–reliving a Saturday/Sunday overnight from early February 2006. Now you can too. Presenting The Millionaire’s Holiday–One Year of Crap. Roughly 117MB of mp3 silliness.

International radio

Because I lack a good bookmarking system, here’s a few Internet broadcasts I want to remember. Perhaps you will as well.

[1] http://www.fipradio.fr/
[2] http://www.novaplanet.com/
[3] http://ask.metafilter.com/225547/NonUS-radio-please
[4] http://ask.metafilter.com/248260/Eclectic-music-Radio-recommendations-please

Our Cornucopia Overfloweth

Another entry in the Millionaire’s Holiday rebroadcast series. This one come from November 20, 2005. The good? There’s music. The bad? There’s no voice over. Or did I get the good/bad mixed up?

At any rate, here’s what I had to say about this broadcast back then:

Gal Friday joins me in studio for the second consecutive week. Many interesting finds are played. Gal Friday runs the board for half an hour or so. Oh, and someone turned off the tuner that was hooked in to my soundcard before we left for the show, so no live podcast. As a supplicatory gift, I did convert most of the raw files to mp3 and created a pseudo podcast for you enjoyment [ Podcast | Direct MP3 Link ]. You get to miss my velvet fog voice and the brilliant weather analysis of Gal Friday, but, on the other hand, you will get to hear the Erotic Aerobics track.

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Wendy Comes To Visit

It’s and oldie, but at least it is something, right? Here’s a rebroadcast of the holiday from November 6, 2005. The show marks my one and only encounter with the National Emergency Broadcast System. Some freak storm came barreling up from Kentucky way and blew the heck out of an otherwise normally freaky Saturday night in Flowertown.

But that’s enough for me. Grab it via the podcast or download the file directly off the Holiday desk-side server. Either way, enjoy yourself and the others with whom you elect to bring in to your proximity.

Holiday Sucktacular

Certainly ranking in the top five shows ever, the Holiday Sucktacular was a really fun one for me. I’m not the biggest fan of Christmas and especially Christmas with the families. Everyone expects you to be at their celebration and if you travel home for the holidays you end up running yourself ragged just to say hi to everyone. Add in the heavy consumerist tones that reverberate through every single media vector and it the holidays become one giant suck.

So taking the piss, as it were, I tried to get a slight handle on things. The show is completely silly and irreverent. There’s a noticeable lack of technical glitches and I was able to drag out some tunes I’d been sitting on for nearly a year.

Here’s what I had to say about things at the time:

Fezboy! is on a mission to take the holiday season back from the commercial interests and bring it home to the silly, goofy, festive folks who make the season bright. To that end I bring you intriguing recorded oddities for your holiday listening pleasure. I hesitate to call it good, but I will call it interesting tossed in with a bit of fun.

As most of this was procurred from on-line sources, I offer links with this playlist. You can download your own copies, download the audio file of this show, or load up the podcast in your favorite podcasting application.

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The Radio Kitchen

I’ve always wanted to get a decent radio rig and surf the air. In light of my financial priorities, I settle for The Radio Kitchen instead. If nothing else, the attached .mp3s make for great mix fodder. And as if the guy wasn’t already pumping out quality material, he also has a blog The Audio Kitchen that showcases found audio.

I’m a sucker for found audio…

Devastating Shortcake

Another in what promises to be a long line of repurposed entries from the old Millionaire’s Holiday page. This one originally aired on October 23, 2005. Here’s what I had to say about this show:

A really fun show this week where we hear all sorts of novelty oddities with just enough beats to tie it all together. Particularly rare gems include rap from Strawberry Shortcake, an excerpt from Devastating Dave the Turntable Slave, and a few thrift store home-made cassette finds. Oh, you better believe this is goodbad stuff. You’ll also notice either:

  1. A lack of announcing and PSAs in the first half of the program; or
  2. A sudden loss of audio quality in the second half of the show.

Again the stream capture gremlins were out in force and I dropped the first half of the program. However, this time I was able to recreate it from the audio master files on the laptop thus you get the full show this week. Lucky you. . . Speaking of the show, you can either nab it using the podcast link on the right or grab the direct link to the audio file.

Playlist after the jump

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Ballads, Beats, and Bawdy

In an effort to boost production here on the ol’ blog, move my old content into this implementation, show some solidarity with the writers who are on strike, and bask in my faded glory as an overnight community radio DJ I’ve decided to repost my old radio shows. Ballads, Beats, and Bawdy originally aired on October 16, 2005. Here’s what I had to say at the time:

Podcasting too hep for an anti-hipster like you? Go ahead and use this direct link to download the audio file.

Got yer tunes lined up now? Good. Here’s what’s on tap for you this week:

Playlist after the break…

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