Slashmusic

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Slashmusic was a podcast presented by Tom Ravenscroft for Channel 4 Radio. Forty shows were made available between August 2006 and June 2007.[1] The show was produced by Hermeet Chadhar, who had formerly produced a Radio 1 show for John Peel, Ravenscroft's father. The podcast was relaunched in January 2008 under the name New Music Download.

The show was originally a 30 minute podcast, and was later extended to 45 minutes due to demand from listeners (although the show often extended to around an hour in length)[2].

Contents

[edit] Music

[edit] Channel 4 Unsigned

The show was intended to showcase music from the Channel 4 Unsigned music pages (from which the show took its name, i.e. www.channel4.com/music), but the time was often filled with tracks taken from other sources. Ravenscroft said of the Unsigned pages,

Despite my initial apprehensions of what I would find on Channel 4's MyMusic website, the job of trawling through its 20,000 tracks has proved hugely entertaining and we found some brilliant music.[3]

[edit] Sessions

The show also featured sessions especially recorded for the show:

Show Date Artist
3 September 9 2006 Pants Yell!
6 September 24 2006 Gay Against You
9 October 18 2006 Misosoup
11 November 1 2006 'In the City', live in Manchester
14 November 23 2006 Genghis Tron
17 December 14 2006 Pocket Promise
20 January 4 2007 Splen
24 February 1 2007 Poq
28 March 8 2007 Rolo Tomassi
31 March 29 2007 Neural Sonic Combustion
34 April 19 2007 Ergo Phizmiz
36 May 3 2007 Berlin Special
38 May 17 2007 Jesus Licks
41 June 7 2007 Hotplate

Show 11 was a series of live performances recorded in Manchester, and featured The Fourers, Cutting Pink With Knives, Suzy Mangion, 65 Days of Static and Hotplate.

Show 36 was recorded in Berlin and featured specially recorded tracks by Milenasong and Malta.

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ "Replace Dad? That would be hateful", The Daily Telegraph, August 17 2006. Accessed online March 30 2008.
  2. ^ "I have not a gram of rock'n'roll in me", The New Statesman, November 20 2006. Accessed online March 30 2008.
  3. ^ "I have not a gram of rock'n'roll in me", The New Statesman, November 20 2006. Accessed online March 30 2008.

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