Spinning Wheel – 1994 Remastered Version
By Shirley Bassey
From the album Something
#songoftheday: “I Need Never Get Old” by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
I Need Never Get Old
By Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
From the album Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Weekly Mix 12: March 26, 2017
A couple of weeks ago I nerded out about the social bookmarking service Pinboard, which I use to help produce each episode of The Weekly Mix. I hope you’ll contirnue to indulge me becasue today I’m going to rap with you about how I create the album art that accompanies each show.
One of the things that tickles me about producing The Weekly Mix is how much work I am able to do just using my iPhone. To build the album art that I insert into each podcast and to each blog post I start with the illustraiton of the headphone wearing girl that Geneva B has so graciously let me use for the show. I also use a graphic for the number of the show that I’ve created in Adobe Illustrator (I hope to some day build this graphic on my phone as well). To gather the album art from the bands and musicians that are featured on any episode that I add to my own album art I use workflow from my Workflow app that saves the album art from whatever song I’m listening to on Apple Music to my photos folder. From there I’ll use Instagram’s Layout app to organize all the graphics just the way I want. And that’s how I build the album art for each show.
To build the videos of the album art that I share on Instagram I import the album art I just created in my Glitch Wizard app. Once I’ve glitched the hell out of it I’ll take the video I’ve created and import it into Hyperspektiv to modify further. Once that’s done I’ll take the video and import it Apple’s iMovie app and add audio clips from the show I’m currently promoting.
I hope you got a kick out of all that. I sure do have a lot of fun creating the album art for each show.
Okay, enough out of me. Go listen to today’s show. It’s pretty awesome!
- Ibibio Sound System “Give Me a Reason”
- Dele Sosimi “E Go Betta”
- Topaz Jones “Powerball (feat. Leven Kali)”
- Superorganism “Something for Your M.I.N.D.”
- Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording “Satisfied”
- Grover Washington, Jr. “Just the Two of Us (feat. Bill Withers)”
- DeVotchKa “Dearly Departed”
Illustration: GDBee ©2017
#songoftheday: “Dearly Departed” by DeVotchKa
Dearly Departed
By DeVotchKa
From the album How It Ends
#songoftheday: “Just The Two Of Us (feat. Bill Withers)” by Grover Washington, Jr., Bill Withers
Just The Two Of Us (feat. Bill Withers)
By Grover Washington, Jr., Bill Withers
From the album Love Songs
#songoftheday: “Satisfied” by Renée Elise Goldsberry, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
Satisfied
By Renée Elise Goldsberry, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
From the album Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
#songoftheday: “Something for Your M.I.N.D.” by Superorganism
Something for Your M.I.N.D.
By Superorganism
From the album Something for Your M.I.N.D.
#songoftheday: “Powerball (feat. Leven Kali)” by Topaz Jones, Leven Kali
Powerball (feat. Leven Kali)
By Topaz Jones, Leven Kali
From the album Powerball (feat. Leven Kali)
#songoftheday: “E Go Betta” by Dele Sosimi
E Go Betta
By Dele Sosimi
From the album You No Fit Touch Am
#songoftheday: “Give Me a Reason” by Ibibio Sound Machine
Give Me a Reason
By Ibibio Sound Machine
From the album Give Me a Reason