Tom Robinson| 09:43 UK time, Wednesday, 28 March 2012
主播大秀 Introducing: Fresh On The Net has been broadcast on 主播大秀 Radio 6 Music every week since 28 October 2008 and will end this Sunday night - well technically at 3am on Monday morning 1st April 2012.
Fresh On The Net started out as a single 120 minute show broadcast at midnight every Saturday night聽 - but in June 2008 it was expanded to two shows a week at 1am on Sunday and Monday mornings.
Our mission was to connect listeners with new music 鈥 and musicians with new listeners. Central to this was our Recommend Music web page where the public could suggest favourite tunes directly to the team, bypassing record company pluggers and promo CDs completely. All music considered by the show had to be streaming in full on the web 鈥 the aim being to provide a guide to new tunes that could be heard legally and for free online. (The only exceptions were session tracks and tips from 主播大秀 colleagues).
Unlike most 主播大秀 shows, our tracklists have always featured live links direct to the artists鈥 own websites. Those tracklists have now been compiled into one big (click to open in new window). Once it鈥檚 loaded you can scroll, browse or search through the entire four and a half years the show has been on air.
So what's next?
Well from Easter I begin a new Saturday evening show (9pm 鈥 midnight) which will feature vintage gems from my record collection alongside new tunes plus guests and occasional sessions. 主播大秀 Introducing will still be featured on my album-length download - which will continue to offer an hoursworth of new music every week. That download will now be broadcast on 6 Music as a standalone programme in its own right every Sunday morning from 2am.
As you'll see from recent tracklists, in the last few weeks 主播大秀 Introducing: Fresh On The Net has been revisiting some of the most interesting artists we discovered over our four years on air. This weekend we wind things up by packing in 60-70 more of them into two music-heavy shows, It's our final salute to the huge variety of fascinating talent to be found on the wilder fringes of cyberspace.
Even though the radio show is almost at an end, Fresh On The Net will live on as a not-for-profit music blog run by volunteers. Our mission remains the same - to connect listeners with new music and musicians with new listeners - and you're warmly invited to .
Tom Robinson| 01:00 UK time, Monday, 26 March 2012
This is an exclusive first view of the new video from Track One in tonight's show. Highlights: the beefy Genesis Elijah getting attacked by a scrawny middleaged woman in the street, and Deeflux getting bombarded with chips by girls in the park. I've loved this song since day one... For more expert slacker wordsmithery do锘 check out the full five minute album version ...
Our studio guest was Simon Deacon, senior Lecturer on the at Goldsmiths, University Of London. In recent years a phenomenal number of our favourite artists coming out of South East London have turned out to be Goldsmiths graduates - including Beaty Heart, James Blake, Alt Track, Buffalo Ink, Ifan Dafydd, Gilbert Linley, Lisbee Stainton, Tom Morley, Fabiana Palladino, Katy B and La Shark among others. Simon talked us through the kind of creative coaching that has produced such spectacularly innovative musicmaking... Excellent graduate degree courses in Popular Music are of course also available from other Universities.
UNSEEN & DEEFLUX - I Know ft GENESIS ELIJAH & GADGET
ELLEN AND THE ESCAPADES - All The Crooked Scenes
THE ROBBIE BOYD BAND - I Won't Let You Go
DRUNKEN BALORDI - Santa Maria
MARK MORGAN - Ponies And Balloons
SLIDES - Dead Letter Box
DIMBLEBY & CREWDSON - Bad Luck
INTERVIEW GUEST: SIMON DEACON JACOB CHEETHAM - Lifeblood
HUW STEPHENS TIP PARK BENCH SOCIETY - Room 66
VINYL JACKET - Red Light
EXCLUSIVE LIVE TRACK SPOTLIGHT KID - Haunting Me
FLASH FIKTION - Capsules Of Sun
WEIRD SHAPES - Clouds
SWAMI BARACUS - The Recipe
RAILWAY CLUB - Clouds
SYMPHONIC PICTURES - Bootstrap Paradox
I AM VEXED - We Both Got Hit
RUTH BARNES TIP 1 NEDRY - Squid, Cat, Battle
RUTH BARNES TIP 2 VUVUVULTURES - I'll Cut You
EMILIE CHYTRAEUS - A Night In Rain
HOLD YOUR HORSE IS - You Show Up
RED SHOE DIARIES - Ice & Snow
MIMIKA MAK MURTIC ENSEMBLE - From Scratch to Structure - Movement II
Tom Robinson| 01:00 UK time, Sunday, 25 March 2012
Our guest today was Dave Haynes - the UK director of - who brought us his favourite seven free resources to help online musicmakers make the most of the web's expanding possibilities. 1) lets you give fans exclusive downloads in exchange for their addresses.聽 2) lets you build a maintenance-free website in 2 minutes without writing code. 3) creates instant pages combining video, audio, text & photos from across the web 4) : a smartphone photo app with its own unique filters, format & social network 5) : record an audio story around your Instragram pictures, share it as a slideshow. 6) : record & share music on the fly, wherever you are. 7) : lets users create automated tasks on the Internet. is one of many online audio services available to musicians including , , and among others.
COLD IN BERLIN - God I Love You
LAUREL COLLECTIVE - They Hate Me
KATE HAVNEVIK - Mouth 2 Mouth
ALBY DANIELS - This Dawn
INTRODUCING ROULETTE ROBYN G SHIELS - Upon Such Things
JAY SPEARS - Revolution
TROPHYS - Interlude:Problem Child
INTERVIEW GUEST: DAVE HAYNES FROM SOUNDCLOUD PORTICO QUARTET 鈥 Steepless (Feat. Cornelia)
ARIEL ARCHER - The Prayer
ALBERTEEN - The Butcher's Daughter
SI SENOR - For The Young
EXCLUSIVE LIVE TRACK BEAR CAVALRY - Custom Hands
ATHLETES IN PARIS - Echoes Louder Than Voices https:// athletesinparis.bandcamp.com
SCHNAUSER - Everything Is Nice
SALTWATER SAMURAI - Wrapped in Plastic (featuring Danny P)
LADY FORTUNE - I Feel So Slightly Strange
RED SHOE DIARIES - Ice & Snow
FUZZY EMPIRE - Contraband
GHOST TRAINS - Astronaut
LITTLE VEGAS LIES - Set Me On Fire
JOANNA WESTON - Amy
DANIEL LAND & THE MODERN PAINTERS - Eyes Wide Shut
EXCLUSIVE LIVE TRACK BEAR CAVALRY - The Word 'Canoe'
Tom Robinson| 01:00 UK time, Monday, 19 March 2012
Tonight's guests were - whose founding members have known each other for over a decade - during which one of them worked in a Sudanese refugee camp for 5 years while the other got on with placing his music on TV shows back home in the UK. Now with a full four piece lineup based in Brighton they recently released a debut album on Bad Nurse Records and are already busy working on a followup. They turned up mobhanded to meet us - in the picture above from L to R they are Jake Fern, Steve Barber, Gar Rock and Steve Rochford.
THESE GHOSTS - Footsteps On A Frozen Lake
THE DARLINGTONS - It Hangs
AUDIODELUXE - To Drown Is Love
PEPE DELUXE - A Night And A Day
TOMOS LEWIS - I Died Deep Inside
VASQUEZ - Pete's Eagle
TESS - Lullaby for Maisy Jane
TIM OT - Dear Sir Or Madam
INTERVIEW GUESTS HOLLOWMOON - Rising In The Blue Sky
BOMBERS - Crush
HUW STEPHENS TIP MR BEASLEY - Wrong
ARIEL ARCHER - The Prayer
SESSION TRACK STEALING SHEEP - Shut Eye
THE BARBARELLATONES - Sperm Whale
NEDRY - Violaceae
STYLES MAKE FIGHTS - All the Things I've Done Wrong
BOBBY FRICTION TIP OPIUM feat. MC RAI - Freedom Is Free
AIR CASTLES - Falling To Pieces
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT CLECKHUDDERSFAX - A Decree
GLIS GLIS - River POD PERMISSION
WILLIE DICK - Baby Dying
RUTH BARNES TIP 1 CITI PETTS - Love In A Riot
RUTH BARNES TIP 2 HI FICTION SCIENCE - Private Sorrow
ARTHUR RIGBY & THE BASKERVYLLES - One Stormy Night
Tom Robinson| 01:00 UK time, Sunday, 18 March 2012
The drummer from tonight's guest band was among many enterprising artists who pressed a CD into my hand at the 主播大秀 Introducing Masterclass earlier this year.聽 I was blown away by his group's energy, attitude and freshness and by the fact that they were making an EP called Budget Cuts in a shed just outside London. Officially they spell their name as #TAGS but when Oli Stanton, Mike Smith and Patr McManus from the band dropped by the studio for a chat we simply called them Hashtags.
CHRIS LETCHER - Parker
ATHLETES IN PARIS - Echoes Louder Than Voices https:// athletesinparis.bandcamp.com
JAY SPEARS - Revolution
STYLUSBOY - Whole Picture
INTRODUCING ROULETTE THE DIRTY RIVERS - Get Your Guns Out
TATI KALVEKS - B.I.G Breasts
MOODY GOWNS - Stepmother
B.O.Y. (Battle Of You) - Rebecca
INTERVIEW GUESTS HASHTAGS - Sick Of Heels
ROCK IN YOUR POCKET - Nobodys Bitch But mine
EVOKATEUR - Wildflowers
I AM AUSTIN - Blood Lips
TOMAHAWKS FOR TARGETS - Building The Neo
COLD IN BERLIN - God I Love You
CAVE BIRDS - Some Lightning Thrill
SESSION TRACK DUPPY BEATZ - Told You So (ft EMPROR & JAVIER-SMI)
Tom Robinson| 01:00 UK time, Monday, 12 March 2012
Tonight's guest band Binko Swink was born in London at the start of last year and nurtured on a diet of Mazzy Star, Pavement, The Velvet Underground, Tthe National and St Vincent - which, I think you'll agree, is pretty nourishing fare for the raising of any infant musical venture.
Writing and producing whatthey describe as their "heartbreak-fuelled pop" from home they released their debut single Patient last September through Adventure Club Records. In today's how they joined us in the studio mob-handed to explain how they came to subequently record their album in a tumbledown cottage near Glastonbury.
From L to R above: Lyla Foy, Andy Goodall and Dan Bell, with yrs trly lurking behind them doing my best Wallace impression ("CHEEEESE, Gromit!")...
Tom Robinson| 01:00 UK time, Sunday, 11 March 2012
Well, the news was finaly released on Friday that my Fresh On The Net radio shows will end on 6 Music this Easter after four and a half years. I'll blog about what it all means on another occasion, but in its time the show has picked up a good many friends in the independent music community. Having first played them in 2008 we've had a longer relationship with tonight's guests The Scholars than most.
Earlier this year they pulled off the tricky but vital trick of turning a classic much-loved demo into a single that actually trumps the original. Originally from Banbury, three fifths of them went to Uni in Birmingham, but they're perhaps best known on the Oxford scene.
Their entire current lineup came in to visit us in the studio. L to R: vocalist and bassist Adrian Banks, drummer Leigh Taylor,听 lead guitarist Chris Gillett, keyboard player Josh Herring and their second guitarist, digital spokesman and all-round interactive specialist Tim Mobbs...
TOM COPSON - Afraid To Fall
EXIT PURSUED BY BEAR - And I You Yours
THE BRUTE CHORUS - My Testament
TESS - Lullaby for Maisy Jane
INTRODUCING ROULETTE CAPTAIN KENNEDY - Paper Cut
SUPER SQUARECLOUD - JMPTHNFLYNW
THE BARBARELLATONES - Sperm Whale
INTERVIEW GUESTS THE SCHOLARS - This Heart's Built To Break
THE GANG - All Spoon No Fork
MYHEADISABALLOON - Movie Love
ORLANDO - So Much To Explore (Countryside Mix)
SESSION TRACK PEGGY SUE - Boxes
DELTA/ALASKA - Vancouver
AMONGST THE PIGEONS - The Inherent Racism Of Doves
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