After yesterday's release of iTunes 7, I figured this would be a great time to share the podcasts I've subscribed to. I've only recently discovered the podcast feature in iTunes. I saw it when it came out, listened to a few people talk about bullshit and never touched it again... until now. Now there's actually music. I'm happy.

Basic Soul Radio Show (iTunes link)
Hip hop to soul to broken beat to nu jazz... that pretty much sums up what I've been in to the past while.

Biggabush Sound System (iTunes link)
Dub, afrobeat and downtempo. I was sent a disc as a part of my last Betaounge Record Club shipment and it was pretty cool. Betalounge was the first internet radio show I listened to regularly, and it's what turned me on to Doc Scott and Ed Rush in the early tech step drum 'n bass years. I haven't been there in ages because I want an mp3/podcast.

Blackmarket Funk (iTunes link)
Future funk, neo soul, deep house and more. I've been feeling this one the most lately... if they only didn't charge an arm and a leg on shipping for their T-shirts. Awww hell... I ordered one anyway. $14 on a $19 shirt is excessive, but I guess the shipping is only $2 more than Khoi Vinh's super cool HELfuckingVETICA T-shirt I just had to order.

Beyondjazz (iTunes link)
I haven't actually listened to this one for a while, as they just put their podcast up. This one is definitely the jazziest: a lot of nu and future jazz. Luckily the genre is very wide. I think the host is speaking Dutch, but every once in a while he'll code-switch to English. I wish I was bilingual.

Broke 'n Beat Radio (iTunes link)
This is the one that started it all for me. Tons of broken beats, some neo soul, funky shit and this is what reintroduced me to hip hop. It's also fueled enough late nights at work over the past few years.

Comeonfeet Radio (iTunes link)
Detroit techno, deep house, broken soul, hip hop, and soul, contrasted with old school soul, hip hop and jazz. Are you starting to see a trend here (other than all the other links that start with the letter B)?

DJ Synflood monthly beat science (iTunes link)
This is where I could have been as a DJ if I wasn't turned off by hip hop at the end of the golden age. It's my first introduction to grime, along with broken beat, soul, Detroit techno, deep house and of course hip hop. The latest mix was a very heavily J Dilla influenced mix. Very nice.


This is where I listen to most of my music lately. I don't buy stuff very often anymore, because all I want to listen to is around me. There have been some tracks that have really stood out for me though, and I wish there was an easy to find and purchase them online. Now the only way I can support anyone is by buying a T-shirt or clicking a sponsor link... none of that goes to the artist.

Ideally I'd like to purchase all the songs I like, mix them down into a podcast so other people can purchase and mix down the songs to spread themselves. How absolutely perfect would that be? Everyone would get paid AND people could share music. Simplistic? Yeah, a little... but how else can you compete with p2p? [/soapbox]

Hey, here's an even better idea... why not charge $10 for a lossless rip of a song which would include podcasting rights? That's in line with what we used to pay for vinyl as DJs, and pretty much worked the same way. We'd buy music, mix it, share it with friends and they went out and bought the same records. But this would be on a worldwide scale. People would still be able to make money. Okay, now I'm done for real... I really don't know what I'm talking about. I just love music.