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In the last 6 months they have gone on a little too much about a select few artists, the ones they have forecast as being big in 2010. and if they play that trail with that terrible la Roux ginger cow with a voice like a cheap car alarm repeating that terrible "doing it for the thrill" chorus. Over and over and over again, i'll pop next door and smash my DAB radio through Lavernes already distant eyes.
that said..
Maconie plays some weird and wonderful tracks, Jon Richardson is great for sundays and between Riley and Coe i have been introduced & re-introduced to some classics and keep the tv off on many a night. and Adam and Joe.. what more can you say!
This is the modern age, as a format Radio 6 are moving in the right direction. They are all available for free to download as podcast and they put together some good collaborations, again available to download or hear online
Day time radio has a limited playlist. FACT. But the BBC are providing a service that mixes some popular tracks in with some more wayward ones and it’s consistent. It works
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John Peel was a Kopite, no thanks...
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I haven't leistend to radio six in while now, it seems to of followed the same path as XFM did back in the early 2000s. Started off good and then went downhill, but I'm no music expert.
+1 To skully bad end of FM. Digital radio is like digital t.v in the fact that if you have a good reception with a good radio all is well, if something is off a little it's unwatchable / listen able. Not really an issue for London but it is in other parts of the UK.
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Exactly... just tuned in, and they're playing Slowdive "Crazy For You" from Pygmalion... that's about as mainstream as I imagine them getting.
Music comes first, the DJ's know their stuff. Local info is incredible, and it's all self-funded by donations, on a shoestring.
Oh, and you'll find a megabit raw audio stream on their site: http://kexp.org/audio/kexp-uncomp.asx so even if you're playing this through a big stereo it sounds great.
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+1 To skully bad end of FM. Digital radio is like digital t.v in the fact that if you have a good reception with a good radio all is well, if something is off a little it's unwatchable / listen able. Not really an issue for London but it is in other parts of the UK.
It’s a bit on-going debate with no real reason. Surely the proliferation of these mobile devices with always on internet will means internet radio (stream and download) will overtake DAB for personal radios in not time
The factor they always blamed was car radios. Car manufacturers claimed the DAB radios weren’t good enough. I have a prototype DAB enabled phone from 3 years ago, the antenna need to be omnidirectional and collinear for a clear signal.. which results in a few design restrictions ;)
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It’s a bit on-going debate with no real reason. Surely the proliferation of these mobile devices with always on internet will means internet radio (stream and download) will overtake DAB for personal radios in not time
The factor they always blamed was car radios. Car manufacturers claimed the DAB radios weren’t good enough. I have a prototype DAB enabled phone from 3 years ago, the antenna need to be omnidirectional and collinear for a clear signal.. which results in a few design restrictions ;)
Interesting link.
I don't understand your first paragraph. Are you saying mobiles e.t.c will replace all radio, both FM and DAB?
I'd disagree that due to poor battery life and not wanting to have to pay for a phone / whatever that has internet that I don't want otherwise just to listen to the radio.
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Yep, in the area of mobiles i include iphones/ipods/mp3 players.. there is a general convergence.. actually you could add cameras in there!
The radio will come as a by product, you get bored of the mp3s you have downloaded and start listening to Podcasts of radio shows on your commute.. next step live streaming. but you are right, at the moment mobile phone companies are using "internet" to fill the holes in their bank accounts
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I can see that happening but it still does not solve power consumption, coverage and sigle degeneration issues. FM radios are just far more portable and reliable.
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Fuck, good call on that, cheers!
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Lauren Laverne is a hopeless munthawk and if you disagree then you're wrong.
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Getting into Jarvis' show, first heard it last sunday. He's just about bonkers enough for me to not get annoyed at him being yet another northerner on radio 6. Why ARE they all northern on radio6? Surely there are some welsh, west country, southerners, brummies, jocks, who have skills at being a radio DJ? I'm so bored of the northern voices on there, mostly talking drivel (jarvis is not included in this) dominating it. Am I mad? Yes, probably.
Did anyone just hear hat lost Hendrix track? Pretty good!
Which show was it on Eightball? six days ago you wrote this, meaning I have a chance to 'listen again' I hope...
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Lauren Laverne is a hopeless munthawk and if you disagree then you're wrong.
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I am listening to Lauren now, I like having her on the radio, it means I am going to enjoy the music, just making up words does not make you right!
I do not think 6music is as good as when it started but it is better now that George Lamb is not on in the day, I have nothing against the man but I think his style is better suited on Virgin or Capital or something like that.
I say save it for the fans of good non-chart music. Pavement and Pharcyde in the last hour, not going to happen anywhere else.
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I think Huey was born in northern ireland, so that won't count although he lives in London...doesn't all the best music come from the north anyway? John Richardson is southern I think...Bristol? I can't remember if that was him or Russell Howard. Adam and Joe sound like southerners. All the Brummies are on Kerrang!
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6 Musaic is pretty much the only station bring decent new music to listeners, apart from John Kennedy on the now deplorable xfm. There is literally nothing else i would listen to. Jarvis on a sunday whilst cooking a roast is where its at!