Another bit of nostalgia this week with all the tracks by artists who have previously appeared on the show.

The main reasoning behind this is all the lovely CD's I've been receiving through the post to review. Those lovely blokes at The Haiku not only sent me their debut CD but they also put me down as one of only 8 people given an acknowledgement in their sleeve notes. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

One of my favourite bands, The Madisons, have split up but Aaron their lead singer is back with a new solo project. It's great to see that even when bands come to an end the music continues. What's even better is that it's some bloody good music.

Also remember to look at the Noize Makes Enemies webzine where all the reviews I've been writing are located.

Only one video this week. Sometimes it just happens that way.

The Bastard Fairies - A Venomous Tale

See you next week and remember, it's almost like I'm a real journalist.

TRACK LIST

1: The Haiku - Sleazy Pop Song

2: Echo Helstrom - Where I Sleep

3: Venus Verse - Dreaming Again

4: Of The I - Single Units

5: The Bastard Fairies - A Venomous Tale

6: The Stand Alone Empire - The Same Mistakes

7: Self Destructing Messengers - Seven Cigarettes

8: ddd - Drown

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

Sorry for the slightly late release this week. It's been a frustrating day of trying to get the damn show uploaded. It should be OK now and be available for your listening pleasure.

Despite my 10 minute rant at the beginning of the show I still came out at under the hour mark. I'm a little bit surprised at that.

Since I mentioned the excellent cover art for the Karmella's Game album 'The Art Of Distraction' I thought I may as well add it to this blog.

Remember to look for the reviews I did for Of The I, Venus Verse and O Titus! on the Noize Makes Enemies webzine. Hopefully more reviews coming this week.

Another case of quality over quantity this week. The Nada Surf and Mexicolas videos are both excellent. The Karmella's Game video I found is a live performance that contains a short interview at the start.

Nada Surf - I Like What You Say 

My Captive Audience - The Butterfly Effects [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

Karmella's Game - One Phone Call [Live Performance]

Mexicolas - Come Clean

Steriogram - Own Way Home

See you next time and remember, it's called a podcast now and it's far too late to change it.

TRACK LIST

1: Yes Means Yes - Leave The Earth Behind

2: Nada Surf - I Like What You Say

3: My Captive Audience - The Butterfly Effects

4: The Heavycoats - The First Time

5: Karmella's Game - One Phone Call

6: Mexicolas - Come Clean

7: Steriogram - Own Way Home

8: Novastorm - Painmarch

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

10 tracks on this special episode, but I deliberately tried to cut down on the talk so I rather surprisingly brought it in under the hour mark.

50 Episodes isn't that big a deal, but it is a deal and I felt like celebrating. I hope you appreciate this trip down memory lane, especially if you are a new listener and didn't hear these tracks first time round.

The one 'new' track on this episode is a brand new mix of 'Between Being & Ego' by Of The I. I played the original mix of the track in the early days, but the band have re-recorded it for their forthcoming album and sent me a copy. Good timing for this special show. I've written a review of the album sampler they sent me and I submitted it yesterday to the Noize Makes Enemies webzine along with another couple of reviews. I'm not in charge of these things, but I'll guess they'll be online by the end of the week.

A couple of new videos since I originally played these tracks, including an animated video for 'Between Being & Ego' that's absolutely brilliant.

The Impulse - Get Ready To Go

Speechwriters LLC - Blood On The Frets [Live Performance]

Popup - Chinese Burn

Of The I - Between Being & Ego

Mates Of State - Goods (All In Your Head)

See you next time and remember beautiful women on myspace aren't always spam.

TRACK LIST

1: The Impulse - Get Ready To Go [From Episode #1]

2: Speechwriters LLC - Blood On The Frets [From Episode #2]

3: Infidelity - Breathe [From Episode #3]

4: Murder Of Lilies - Elector [From Episode #4]

5: The Blood Choir (AKA Maddicott Mountain) - Dreams In America [From Episode #5]

6: Popup - Chinese Burn [From Episode #6]

7: Of The I - Between Being & Ego [From Episode #7]

8: Leiana - 2B Unkind [From Episode #8]

9: Mates Of State - Goods (All In Your Head) [From Episode #9]

10: Lesbians On Ecstasy - Party Time (a womyn's luv) [From Episode #10]

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

About 5 years ago I got a demo of a program called eJay that let's you create your own dance music. This week I came across the CD of the tracks I made and decided I might as well put out a special podcast featuring them all. Talk about a vanity project...

Anyway since the demo software I had ran out after 30 Days that's what I've called the 'EP' and since my online moniker has been Ourobouros 54 forever I present to you 30 Days by Ourobouros 54.

Here are some explanations for the tracks:

1. Infinity 

I wanted to do a down-tempo ambient style track and this is what came out. Since the Ourobouros is a symbol of infinity that seemed a good title.

2. The Zeppo 

My all time favourite TV program is Buffy The Vampire Slayer and my all time favourite quote was Xander's line that I used in the track. I found a wav of the line and used it to create this track. The title comes from one of my favourite episodes of the show that focuses on Xander.

3. Concussed Duckling

I wanted to create a weird track and the flute sample fitted the bill perfectly. The title comes from a Terry Pratchett line: 'He had all the self-awareness of a concussed duckling'. It's one of the funniest lines I've ever read and it fitted a funny sounding track.

4. Roc Stars

eJay gets some well known artists to provide samples for their software and one of them for the edition I had was Cut La Roc. I was already a big fan of his as he was on Skint Records and I had a lot of his tracks from Skint compilations. I challenged myself to create a track that only used Cut La Roc samples and this is the result.

5. Playboy 

I wanted to create a trippy, down tempo track and was looking for inspiration. At the time I was a fan of WWE wrestling, and one of the female performers was named Torrie Wilson. Her entrance music was pretty good and had the feel I was looking for. This is my attempt at re-creating her music using the available samples. Since she'd recently posed for Playboy at the time I did it I had my title.

6. Tajiri

As I said above I was a WWE fan at the time and my favourite wrestler was a Japanese guy named Yoshihiro Tajiri. He inspired me to create a Japanese sounding track and this is the result.

If for some unknown reason you want to own these tracks you can download it from this link.

Ourobouros 54 - 30 Days

Normal service will be resumed this weekend with the long anticipated 50th Episode special.

All the tracks in this special bonus episode are by Ourobouros 54 (that's me).

1. Infinity

2. The Zeppo

3. Concussed Duckling

4. Roc Stars

5. Playboy

6. Tajiri

Hope you enjoy them and they'll be available for download from my homepage.

TRACK LIST

1: Rieser - Just Seen A Ghost

2: Page 44 - With Or Without Your Help

3: Ours - Murder

4: Seppuku Paradigm - Sure Thing

5: Bury The Bully - Army Of Love

6: Boys Will Be Boys - Word On The Street

7: Matthew Dear - Don & Sherri

8: Zoon Van Snook - Bibliophone

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.