tt’s humble bushwa

klick to image to see some of the african wild life

looks like a speedy folk party, sounds are desribed as hard polka, russian speed folk & gipsy punk. it seems that east european music become pupular …
check the homepages you will find some fine free mp3s.

so maybe maybe we meet at the motörheads of polka

references:

• event page auf seite des exhauses
• event page auf seite des TV  (volksfreund)
• band homepages: The Shanes / 44 Leningrad / The Hoboscopes
• last.fm: event page

Not only the name is phantastic, also the tunes played on www.tokyo-ninja.com are great. According their own description they play music for all ROCKABILLY CATS in the world. Because of my somehow limited japanese, I have no clue who or what is behind the station, but it doesn’t matter, the played music is in no way releated to island in the far east.

A few years ago it switched it on, just on because of the funny name and I never regret. In the past this station was an insiders’ tip, but now I esteem it as standard in its sector.

The ninjas stream a mixture of rockabilly, neorockabilly, psychobilly, horror punk, garage, swing, funk neoswing, speed country, americana, … okay mainly it is somehow rock-/psychobilly, but they don’t stick in this genre .
The common denominator of the songs, populating their playlist, is that they are full of energy and fun. It is the collection of music you need to shake your legs …

Stream is mp3 @ 128kbit, metadata is supplied, but intervall dosen’t fit 100% to song changes, therefore the stream is not usefull for recording single songs.
Let’s rock! It’s hot!

Listen to the stream: http://www.tokyo-ninja.com:8020/listen.pls

naja, schon 2x dies’ jahr gesehen & gehört. und vorher noch ‘nen termin, von daher eher unwhahrscheinlich, aber who know’s ….
refrences:

• event page auf seite der rockhal
• band homepage
• last.fm: event page

It all began because there was nothing good to listen to on the radio… not too hard to understand, turn on your radio & you’ll be directly annoyed by adult contemporary formats. Playing all these boring top-40 whole day long. airplays mostly consists of less title, than an average teenager carries with his ipod! Every few minutes “Die besten Hits der 80iger, 90iger und jetzt!!!”, it seems that the AC-radios have to mention it so often, because you will not realize it by listening. Not worth to mentioned the commercials ….

So free you from this annoyance and listem to nice internet streaming stations!
SomaFM describes itselts as a listener supported, commercial free internet radio station. In general you will find at least one of its channel, in shoutcast most listened directory. As of writing SomaFM offers still 10 channels (they had to close some cause of DMCA CARP ruling). But in opposite to many other nice stations they survived the efforts of RIAA

Channels are:
Groove Salad, Secret Agent, indie pop rocks, Space Station Soma, Illinois Street Lounge, Beat Blender, cliqhop idm, Drone Zone, Boot Liquor, Doomed, Tag’s Trance Trip, Xmas in Frisko (only inx-mas season)

SomaFm streams in various formats, so that you are not stuck to any specific player (you have the freedom of choice). Actually they have an 3GPP stream, which is handy for cell phones .

Formats they use: MP3, aacPlus, 3GPPand WMA. Also the bandwith varies, you can choose from 24k up to 128k. Furthermore I never notice any drop-outs while listening.

Unforunately sometimes not all songs are proper tagged and sometimes crossfading is used (at least this is my experiance with Secret Agent). So it is not perfect, but usable for recording via streamripping.

enough блабла — turn on you favorite media player and switch to: http://somafm.com/secretagent.pls

Ooops I forgot to mention that SomaFM has also a podcast:

• podcast homepage, feed address, DMCA vs SomaFm again

Stay tuned or streamed …

über 26 jahre punk/hardcore und ich dachte nur die deutschen müssen bis 67 arbigge …wer das zufällig liest & auch noch zufällig hier is’, melden!

refrences:

• event page auf seite der kurturfabrik
• band homepage
• last.fm: event page
• review der neuen platte All Ways Lead to Ausfahrt in der spex (huch, modenre zeiten)

Realy nice streaming radio!!!

Played music: Musiques de la Caraïbe, (Kreyol) Dancehall, Zouk, Soca, HipHop, RnB, Soul and of course Reggae. All in all it is nice mixture of contemporary carribian sounds. The stream is quite reliable in good quality (128k, mp3) using clean meta data (makes it suitable for ripping). Only drawback: homepage is french (not my preferred language)
references:

• homepage: http://www.westindiesradio.net/
• listen to stream: http://relay3.westindiesradio.net:8500/

[updated 2006-11-05]

just a small list of CDs you can find for free download in the web:

• The WIRED CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share.
  a classic one, as I rememeber released in 2004. mixed music. my personal highlights are beasty boys and le tigre.
• Mit Anlauf by JAMMIN*INC
  realy great crossover! one of my favorites.
• Pimp my Rights
  a free mixed tape compiled by chaos computer club, different styles
• Wir haben bezahlt - der freie Sampler
  not listened yet
• thepartyparty by rx
  a Goerge W. Bush Mash. imagine George W. walks on the wild side singing nice songs . You have to check that out.
  I thought this content was gone, but it appears back as video!!!
• Mediacracy by waxaudio
  another mash-up, not so good like previos but woth to listen try Imagine ..
• Trésors Cachés by StereoTotal
  complete release consists of some rare material. Like all Stereo Total: charming, nasty, crazy, unique. Somehow a kind of francophil trash-pop. As I remebemr the free download was a x-mas gift to the fans a few years ago.

if you know further sources for free legal CDs please leave URL as comment.