MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack One of the least thought about, but perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the way we listen to music is its loudness – that is, the quantity rather than just the quality. Modern day audiophiles will be familiar with the […]

MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack   “Under it all there’s a sort of strong, dark pulsing, the dimly recorded echo of the thundering rhythm: trombones, sousaphones (named after your man, of course), drums. The dynamics build to a controlled climax, the sound getting heavier and heavier as …

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MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack   “Under it all there’s a sort of strong, dark pulsing, the dimly recorded echo of the thundering rhythm: trombones, sousaphones (named after your man, of course), drums. The dynamics build to a controlled climax, the sound getting heavier and heavier as […]

Here’s one of those stories you might reasonably consider to be an old shaggy dog tale, but which turns out to be the work of a single author, adapted ad infinitum since its publication in 1902. It has a novel concept, and a nice subtle extra twist, but having read a lot of Poe and …

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MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack 1902 is the year everything started to explode. Not particularly in the world of music, not really in the world in general, but very much so in on my computer in 2018. Suddenly there is just so much out there to listen …

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MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack 1902 is the year everything started to explode. Not particularly in the world of music, not really in the world in general, but very much so in on my computer in 2018. Suddenly there is just so much out there to listen […]

Psst – come and join my Patreon here – https://www.patreon.com/centuriesofsound – and get access to our radio podcasts in January! MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack   Escaping a blinkered view of early 20th century recorded music sometimes seems like an impossible task. If the Edwardian era is …

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MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack   Escaping a blinkered view of early 20th century recorded music sometimes seems like an impossible task. If the Edwardian era is often viewed as a blissful unknowing summer before the long winter of the First World War, its music is too […]

MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack Is this a new century? Difficult to get agreement on this one, but it’s certainly a new decade, and changes are very much in the air; changes that haven’t quite filtered through entirely to the mix you’re about to hear, but which …

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MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack Is this a new century? Difficult to get agreement on this one, but it’s certainly a new decade, and changes are very much in the air; changes that haven’t quite filtered through entirely to the mix you’re about to hear, but which […]