4.29 Playlist

Here's the playlist for tonight... the audio file will follow as soon as possible.

1. This Is The First Track (The Beginnings Of Music, Memoirs Of Peisinoe, Sentimental Low Little Tree, Requiem: Introitus)	Otis Fodder	Music To Drive Cross Country By
2. crazy blaupunkt v5	engineer garin & stud	concept ep no.4 - transcend primate behaviour
3. would you ever	itoa	1a ep
4. The end is the beginning (live@Evoke2004)	Sudio	Soulstrip (live@Evoke2004)
5. Mount Erebus	Simon Slator	Antarctica
6. sunset - horizon	tatsu	after the twilight
7. Apolloguiltly (black spectres)	kwook!	Immiscible EP
8. Nature Boy	Philip Jackson	Two Zombies Later: Strange and Unusual Music from the Exotica Mailing List
9. ton in ton	christian walt	permanent hangover [id15]
10. Misdirection	Lullabelle	The Trial of Florasador Gehrboyzel
11. Transcriptions	Lullabelle	The Trial of Florasador Gehrboyzel

The Long Play, April 29 at 9:00pm Eastern

Join me, Subsystem7, for a long play special. This Black Sweater, White Cat features longer tracks that you might not regularly hear on the radio. I'll be featuring the work of Otis Fodder, Tatsu, Sudio, Simon Slator, Engineer Garin & Stud, ITOA, Kwook!, Philip Jackson, Christian Walt, and Lullabelle.

Remember, we have a live stream. Make sure to listen as the show unfolds, prepare yourself for an evening of stimulation and thought provoking Creative Commons soundscapes.

EFF: The Season of Bad Laws - Banning MP3 Streaming

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Senators have introduced a bill, that is aimed at punishing satellite radio for offering its subscribers devices capable of recording off the air.

Buried in the bill, however, is a provision that would effectively require music webcasters to use DRM-laden streaming formats, rather than the MP3 streaming format...This would include the streams from Shoutcast, the host of the WBCR stream.

Contact your representatives. This is simply more digital repression.

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RIAA/MPAA to get their wishes from Congress: More DMCA restrictions

For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite.

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Personal Digital Rights Management in the Commons

CC365 visits DisFish, a way happening CC Music download site (europe rocks!). Along the way, Grant shares a link to a firefox extension that tracks and confirms creative commons licensing--perfect for anyone that wants to manage their digital rights personally.

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BSWC Artist Playlist for 04.22.06

	Here is the audio file for this program. Special thanks to Jim Weber for allowing the Berkshire Bateria cut into the commons. Berkshire Bateria Earth Day 2006	Berkshire Bateria feat. Jim Weber
	L action	Xcyril
	Toc toc	YVI
	Do you feel funky	SpatzAttack
	Hacerlo contigo	YVI
	Janglinserbulli	LUXUS
	bonjour	Mr Nuts
	Keep me up al nite	Oilboy's aftersun
	rapid ascent	Igor Vlaslov
	metro rer bus	sam & thierry blanchard
	Marinette	Skastation
	Waiting so long	METISSE
	Hip Hop	Xcyril
	Fiesta	rupert1073
	Fort Minor Folkstoned	DJ Tarquin
	Long Trip To Evaporate	Liquid Zen
	ichikawa-shi, chiba	bhasmantam
	Gone	Lizzi
	101	ne:o
	Completly mysticism	Dr Kuch
	Bernard	Eloi Brunelle
	Electro	Xcyril
	craziest psycho-ride on a cherry girl	superkenel
	In / Out	Car Crash

BSWC Artist Playlist and Audio File for 4.15.06

1. Paris la mort by Lonah
2. les_trains by anabase
3. Losslove by Bangguru
4. Fly Free by Curl
5. CC 365 Promo feat. Grant Robertson by CC:365.org
6. Jazzmine by Cargo Cult
7. Airheads by Chenard Walcker
8. Rockets By Two by R. Stevie Moore
9. Just Whistle by PantyChrist
10. Be rasta by Keep Cool Vibration
11. Love Me by Messian Dread
12. No Worry Your Mind [Test Mix] by Messian Dread
13. The medaillon by Manolo Camp
14. Below (no matter remix) by shockshadow
15. Folded Up (Remix) by His Boy Elroy
16. true dwelling place by aleksi virta
17. True by Uganda Beach Boys
18. EFF Promo feat. Sarah Deutsch by Electronic Frontier Foundation feat. Lee Rosevere
19. Girlzilla by Torley Wong
20. Figure it out - remix by Emma's Mini
21. Scorched Feelings (psycho mix) by Curl
22. Désenchanté by Niconoclaste
23. Le quotidien by Siegfried Gautier
24. Pain of life by Drunksouls

Here is the playlist and audio file for this edition of Black Sweater, White Cat. Don't forget, if you are hanging around the internet between 9 and 11 pm on Saturday nights, check out our live stream.

Spring in the Berkshires: At Last

Yep. It's Spring. Don't forget, you can experience a little piece of the Berkshires online--Try the WBCR-LP 128 kbps stream.

Indie Band shows the way

Lawrence Lessig's blog had a mention of an independent band, Beatnik Turtle, doing right by a fan when that fan's access to their music was denied online. The story comes from Beatnik Turtle's "Indie Band Survival Guide" (to which this submission links directly). The episode was also mentioned in Wired's blog.

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BSWC Artist Playlist and Audio File for 04.08.06

Here is the playlist and audio file for our Lisa DeBenedictis special edition.

Many thanks to Lisa for spending time with us and for being such an exceptional artist. We really got a lot of insight into how the internet and the Creative Commons concept can have such powerful positive effects on artists. The music business is changing in some very fundamental ways and Lisa is part of the change.

1. Chanson pour dépressif by solcarlus
2. The Alternate World Waltz by Lisa DeBenedictis
3. BelowLambourgino-teru-remix by teru by Lisa DeBenedictis
4. Cuckoo feat. Lisa Debenedictis (passive-aggre... by hisboyelroy
5. Pull Up The Shade by Lisa DeBenedictis
6. Below by Lisa DeBenedictis
7. Getting wilder by the minute by Oilboy's aftersun
8. Keep me up al nite by Oilboy's aftersun
9. Keep swinging by Oilboy's aftersun
10. Summer slammer by Oilboy's aftersun
11. Keep me up al nite by Oilboy's aftersun
12. Geisha by GOLDEN APPLE CORPS
13. Japanese for Travellers by Nood
14. Beta Blocker by La Belle Alliance
15. Si Soy, Yo by Kepay
16. Libre by SMILEY
17. Cule Cule Bom Bom by Kepay
18. Theme for "The Mad Thinker" by Dr. Frankenstein
19. Condom Breakdown by The Ratpack
20. I'm on the road by Chili 70

Lisa DeBenedictis on Black Sweater, White Cat

We have invited the CC Chanteuse extraordinaire, Lisa DeBenedictis to join us this coming Saturday. We were pleasantly surprised when she accepted our invitation. You can join us too. Our terrestrial mothership, WBCR-LP now has a live internet stream so you can hear the interview live. We expect to talk to Lisa between 9 and 9:30ish EDT. Naturally, we will be playing a selection of her music from Magnatune.com and some of the remix material from ccmixter.

Magnatune and ccmixter got together to have a remix contest featuring the Magnatune releases by Lisa with the entire Magnatune catalog of over 1,700 pieces of music available for source material. There were some really wonderful pieces generated for the contest and the 13 creators who made the top 15 winning entries were signed to a Magnatune recording contract and appear on a commercially available remix album.

Try Love Bird by callmeyang featuring the vocals of Lisa DeBenedictis.

Don't forget, if you can't make the live broadcast you can always pickup the podcast right here at biotic.blogspot.com.

Thanks for listening.

BSWC 03.25.06: Audio File Now Available

We like to be prompt turning our broadcasts into podcasts, but technical issues have slowed us down a bit recently. Here is our broadcast from a couple of weeks ago. The playlist has already been posted. Thanks for listening, please enjoy.

Comfort Stand Memories: CSR031-The Bran Flakes

Subsystem and I each have our favorite Comfort Stand releases. This is one of my all-time favorites. The Bran Flakes are a CS founder, Otis Fodder project and they take the mashup concept to the level of high art. I Remember When I Break Down--Side 1 just works for me on so many levels. The Debbie Gibson/Dr. Ruth mashup about 10 minutes into the track is insane. From the Archives.org release page:

"The cassette was recorded in Stead, Nevada, outside of Reno where we were living for a short time. Living on broke ends and with ample free time we used what we had around to make the cassette... turntable, 2 cassette decks, discman, VCR, radio shack mixer and the Roland MS-1 Phrase Sampler.

All the sounds were sampled in on 8 touch pads on the Roland and while playing the song live by hitting the pads the output was sent to a cassette deck. Holding down the pads would repeat the loops which was nice and loop points were set before hitting record on the tape deck. Then the process was repeated by clearing out the Roland memory and loading up new sounds and playing them over the previously recorded cassette to a new tape in another deck. This was repeated to achieve the desired effect and/or the finished song. Normally each track had 1 to 6 overdubs. While playing the Roland Live we would load up sound effects CDs in the discman or a video tape in the VCR or a record on the turntable and pipe them live through the board for added effects."

Thanks again to all involved in Comfort Stand for all the memories--The entire collection is an amazing cultural contribution.

Netlabel News: Comfort Stand Becomes an Archives

On April Fools day, 2006 Comfort Stand announced that it was no longer going to be an active netlabel. They are calling it a day. After two plus years and 71 releases everyone involved is moving on to new projects.

I received this by email at 1:51 this morning:

"Farewell Comfort Stand!

We realize that this news comes on April Fools day, however this is no joke.

After a two year and five month run, we have closed Comfort Stand.

http://www.comfortstand.com

The project is over and we will no longer release new works.

All of our music will remain online. Free and for a very long time.

In closing, we present 8 double disc releases and a greatest hits compilation by the Dondero High School A Capella Choir!

http://www.comfortstand.com/catalog/albums.html

Start right off with a pop concert sampler!...

http://www.comfortstand.com/catalog/080/index.html

Thank you, to all of our past visitors and future friends!"

Good bye Comfort Stand and Good Luck to Otis Fodder, Mr. Melvis and all those who contributed so much to such a cool project. The fruits of your labors will live on at the great mothership, archive.org

Try this Mr. Melvis tune from Comfort Stand Release 001, A Walk Through the Powerhouse.

BSWC Artist Playlist for 04.01.06

1. Le chant des sirènes part III by Ehma
2. latino-jazz-cash by Christophe KAY
3. Green Planet by B.e.n. vs Bass
4. tade blues by Perczel
5. parkingi by musicocompany feat. Arkady-Michalik
6. bonjour ma chere by phusion
7. The Carpet by Chenard Walcker
8. Hatikva by Chenard Walcker & Roy 'Chicky' Arad
9. i wish i didn't care by delgarma
10. Mr Tommy by phusion
11. Secret Fascination by Atomic Tom
12. Wings of the meditations by La none
13. sushi for beginners by Emanuele Napolitano
14. So Cruel - remix by teru.
15. never get out by Tomas PhUsIoN
16. Telstar by Seksu Roba
17. Keep me up al nite by Oilboy's aftersun
18. Yep! (Demo version) by Oilboy's aftersun
19. Instrumentaal dink by D'r Sjaak
20. Mé j'suis po un bréton ! by David TMX
21. Unity by BnFlower

That's the playlist. There is a live feed tonight. Join us if you can.

BSWC Live Stream tonight!!!

Major announcement! BSWC will be available via live stream tonight! WBCR-LP 97.7 FM Great Barrington, goes live on the web tonight, April 1st. It may be a bit shaky at first, but check it out, and hope you listen in.

Live Stream Here

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