Black Sweater, White Cat

Dec 17, 2005

BSWC Artist Playlist for 12.17.05

easter (radio edit) by iermoc
jingle bells by hardvoltnine
Tidings of Comfort by Comfort Stand Recordings
The Comfort Zone by Lee Rosevere
Your Beautiful Flower by Room
Velvetman by Ton Rückert
We Come From Venus by Gltch Btch
sticky viscous gel by big sugar victorious
ding dong! by protoplasm daddy
"Sliding Cavern" (Deep Green Mix) by lethal
Just One Man (Treatment) by fourstones
Spiegelverkehrte Leuchtkugel by Freiraum
Paranormal_Soundtrack by Lui-Mp3
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by Bobby Baby
Mackin Clan - Rudolf from Sweet Thunder Found Sound
4-bit christmas by vim!
Tidings of Comfort by Comfort Stand Recordings
It's Flowers In January by Minus Kelvin
Town Hall - Take One (Eloi Brunelle Remix) by Mossa
Énergy - Eloi Brunelle Remix by Alexandre Bilodeau
Piknic moderne by Eloi Brunelle
wakey wakey wales - it's xmas! by vim!
joytotheworldexceptfortheforiegnworkers by nybbl
ItsChristmasBaby by theHitOnList
Christmas in the Attic by The Hit On List
silent night by nero

Dec 10, 2005

BSWC Artist Playlist for 12.10.05

Beside U by Artemis
Quelque part by Christian DIDELOT
Cincinmusser by Jerry King Musser
Ramanujan by Cargo Cult
Ramadan by Nood
Honesty Got Lots Of Spies by Rene Vis
Camille's aquarium by De Zwervende Keien
The Only Thing I Want For Christmas by Eddie Cantor
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by Bobby Baby
Crazy Little Country by AlpenDub
Kraeuter Pfluecken by AlpenDub
Blood Ties by Cezary Ostrowski
Crazy by Beth Quist
Be Brave (Dub-TripHop RMX) b y Antony Raijekov
One Loop Below by Cezary Ostrowski
More Than 2 Sides (Treatment) by fourstones
Brainwank (Psycho Foo Edit) by Colektro
Problèmes d'amour (the original) by Alexander Robotnick
pulse-(whomadewho mix) by namosh
Summersound by Self
The Space Bandidos by Gorowksi
You're the Murdera by J. Boogie's Dubtronic Science
My Africa - teru remix by P. Mac, teru
I swim (radio edit) by Cezary Ostrowski
Age_Of_Curiousity by Ashwan
One Question (featuring P.Mac) by GaryM

Dec 3, 2005

BSWC Artist Playlist for 12.03.05

In Your Bed (instrumental mix) by Mercy Machine
Fond sonore n°6 by solcarlus
De la bile de mutants mangeurs de foie g... by Christian DIDELOT
être soi-même by thierry blanchard
sun_shine by Pretty Boy Blue & the Mood
Doctor Poppycock by James Lileks
Giga Lounge by Gigaboy
Off by Bep
Spiegelverkehrte Leuchtkugel by Freiraum
Devil exit from fashion by Messer Chups
Shaky girl by Christian DIDELOT
FatBackBeat by Manuzik
SurfSurLaPlage by Manuzik
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah by Manuzik
Chickenheart Doom Mix by James Lileks
heavy by Space Junk Cowboys
Too_much_soul by Uberfuzz
dreams_fade_edit by Alphastone
Smoky Smoky by Coconut Monkeyrocket
It's Snack Time by Fortyone
Simply Ravenous My Dear by Fortyone
Na Na Na Na by Chenard Walcker
Fuzzy Math -www.thebots.net by The Bots
Munchausen_Syndrome_Boogie by Uberfuzz
Don-Ki-Not by Antony Raijekov
Lunna tango by Antony Raijekov
everywhere-DU-remix by hari ossa
only by DeutscheUnschuld feat.J.Lang/Nails/G.Wills
thinkin_of_u by Darkside

Nov 28, 2005

BSWC Podex #3: From Mexico City to St. Petersburg

Black Sweater, White Cat Podcast Extra #3 is here. It's a fun set that takes us from Mexico City's Gigaboy to the sounds of Messer Chups from the Russian Federation. Both have releases on Comfortstand.com. The set also has a great tune from Bep that can be found on Jamendo.com and more from Freiraum's fantastic new release. It is a wide world of copyleft music and we are loving it!

Giga Lounge by Gigaboy
Off by Bep
Spiegelverkehrte Leuchtkugel by Freiraum
Devil exit from fashion by Messer Chups

Nov 27, 2005

Rapp has the Skinny on DRM

Our Friend, colleague, WBCR-LP member, programmer, board member and damn good copyright attorney, Paul Rapp, is also a contributing writer to Metroland, "the Alternative Newsweekly of New York's Capital Region". He sent us a link to his latest column dealing with Digital Rights Management and the SONY BMG brou ha ha:

The Biggest Hack

As I mentioned here a few months ago, the big record labels have been trying for years to limit what you can do with the music you buy on a CD. What they are trying to do falls under the broad category of what’s called Digital Rights Management, or DRM. If you haven’t already, you’ll be seeing these initials a lot in the future.

They’ve been vainly trying to sell you “copy-protected” CDs, which means for the illegally inflated prices you pay for a CD, you might be getting music with digital handcuffs attached. With copy-protected CDs, if you try to play your CD on your computer, bad stuff happens. Want to bounce the music from your CD into your iPod? No can do!

The industry has been told for years that this is tilting at windmills; that, try as they might, they aren’t going to bend the will of the consumer, and they aren’t going to outrun the smarts of the hacker community, which will deftly undo any shackles the industry tries to put on digital music. Information wants to be free, fight the power, etc. The DRM dog ain’t gonna hunt, bubba.

A few months ago, SONY BMG, in their infinite wisdom, tried something new. They put a few different self-executing DRM programs on a bunch of their CDs. When you stuck one of these CDs into your computer, the programs installed themselves into your Windows operating system. They didn’t tell you they were doing this; if they did, the disclosure was buried in a click-through user agreement that may or may not have popped up on your computer screen when you stuck the CD into your CD drive. These programs took up a considerable amount of space and slowed down your computer. Even worse, these programs monitored what you listened to, and in some cases reported findings, via the Internet, back to SONY BMG’s “security vendor,” a company pleasantly named SunnComm. These programs have features that hide themselves from detection and are hard to remove when detected, and their presence on your machine makes you vulnerable to attacks from vicious hackers. Well, more attacks, I should say, since you’ve already been attacked by a vicious hacker: SONY...

There is more here...

Nov 26, 2005

BSWC Internet Exlusive: Podex 2 featuring Lisa DeBenedictis

This BSWC Podcast Extra features one of the CC queens of the internet, Lisa DeBenedictis. The set starts with Solcarlus from Jamendo.com and finishes with Mercy Machine. Mercy Machine is on Magnatune.com along with Lisa DB. It's a great CC set. Music for the people, by the people, distributed by the people. Enjoy.

Fond sonore n°6 by solcarlus
Pull Up The Shade by Lisa DeBenedictis
The Cuckoo by Lisa DeBenedictis
In Your Bed (instrumental mix) by Mercy Machine

Thanks to Subsystem 7 for doing the over-the-air broadcast tonight. His BSWC will be posted within days. Keep a lookout. I'm listening right now and it is great. Thank you Subsystem.

Nov 22, 2005

Black Sweater, White Cat Online Exclusive: BSWC Podcast Extra #1

Biotic is on vacation in the Rockies this week, but with the power of the internet here is a tasty tidbit of a set he put together last night. Great new music from Freiraum out of Switzerland along with Eloi Brunelle from Montreal, a Christian Didelot release from Jamendo.com and a BSWC favorite by Bruce Lenkei that was released on the Comfort Stand netlabel compilation, "Comfort Cake".

Nov 20, 2005

BSWC Audio File from 11.19.05 Available

Here is the audio file from Saturday's program. Thanks, as always, to the Internet Archive for providing a home for so much cool stuff, including Black Sweater, White Cat.

Nov 13, 2005

BSWC Audio File from 11.12.05 Available

Here is the audio file from Saturday's program. Thanks, as always, to the Internet Archive for providing a home for so much cool stuff, including Black Sweater, White Cat.