Can I share something with you that is simultaneously mind blowing and utterly mundane?<\/p>\n
I get anywhere from 50 to 250 tracks emailed my way every week. Let me repeat that: every<\/i> week. And I\u2019ve made a pact with myself that if musicians or music labels are generous enough to send music my way to play on the show then I feel obligated to every<\/i> single song.<\/p>\n
As you can imagine, that takes a lot<\/i> of time.<\/p>\n
My strategy to deal with this constant geyser of music is to listen to a couple hours of hours a day of music on my phone that has been sent my way in the last week on random. Listening to music on random gives me an approximation what an album sounds like. I realize it\u2019s not fair to the artists but it would take me forever to listen to each and every album from start to finish. Random\u2019s just faster.<\/p>\n
Anyway, whenever a really good track comes on that I flag it for consideration to play on the show. And tracks from Velapene Screen<\/a>\u2018s album, What If They Can\u2019t Trust You?<\/a><\/i>, just kept popping up again and again, demanding my attention. Who the hell was this guy? Whoever he was, his music is slamming! I wasn\u2019t surprised, What If They Can\u2019t Trust You?<\/i> is a Centrifuge<\/a> release, and The Centrifuge puts out quality music. Check out my interview<\/a> with The Centrifuge\u2019s Wassim if you don\u2019t believe me.<\/p>\n And as I was listening to yet another killer track from Velapene Screen I suddenly saw him post something to Twitter<\/a>. I wondered if he\u2019d be interested on coming on the show with a live set<\/a> and sent him a Tweet. Minutes later he Tweeted back that he was interested. We talked further and the results is today\u2019s show.<\/p>\n On the surface that\u2019s not such an amazing story but if you think about it, it\u2019s almost magical.<\/p>\n Musicians and music labels send me music to download which I might later play on my show, which is available as a podcast or streaming from an internet radio station. And I\u2019m deluged in music. All. The. Time. And I listen to this stuff, anywhere I go, on my phone. And I can reach out and contact the musicians I\u2019d like to come on the show by posting message in the aether. Can you fucking believe that shit?<\/p>\n Like I said: utterly mundane but completely magical.<\/p>\n Anyway, listen to today\u2019s show featuring a chat with Chris Ghiraldi, the man behind Velapene Screen, and Chris\u2019 in-studio performance! His whole life is magical. Became a touring musician at a young age, won the Philly Laptop Battle<\/a> in 2004 and the New York City Laptop Battle<\/a> in 2006, received attention from Rolling Stone<\/a>, remixed artists including Interpol<\/a>, Meat Beat Manifesto<\/a>, Radiohead<\/a> and Regina Spektor<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n Before I get out of Dodge, keep your fingers crossed because next month\u2019s Live show may feature a set from the Stereo MCs<\/a>! I hope I didn\u2019t jinx it.<\/p>\n See you next week!<\/p>\n