My head's in the Mixcloud

My head's in the Mixcloud
Extracts from my March 2013 Radio Websites column for Radio User
I subscribe to many different channels on Mixcloud and I’d like to
think my choices are wide ranging and eclectic. Here’s some of what I
have been listening to over the past month. Why not be brave and
take the plunge with me into some new genres, ideas and sounds?
I enjoyed DJ Ravemasters’ Renaissance mix, presented and produced
by Brioni Faith. Brioni’s music is all about big atmosphere and up-
tempo beats. Her vocals create an intimacy with the listener; inviting
you into her world, while the music is uplifting and inspiring. The mix
itself is at www.mixcloud.com/Trance_Mix/dj-ravemaster-renaissance/
with links to Brioni at www.brionifaith.com and www.facebook.com/
brionifaith.music In their own words they “decided to entitle this mix
as Renaissance because of this new age, this new world we are
shifting into. Many are calling it the golden age, as we go through this
apocalypse. I use apocalypse in its original meaning, to uncover, to
reveal, to become more aware.“
Also at http://TranceMix.org
For something completely different how about the Eat My Mind Radio
Show, a two hour bonanza every Monday at 7 p.m. on Manchester
community radio station NFM 106.6 or whenever you want it via
www.mixcloud.com/EatMyMindRadioShow Entertainer X plays a blend
of “Out there TV and movie themes, kitsch, incidental music, organs in
orbit, mondo, exotica. We embrace the criminally ignored and the
ignorantly reviled. We salute the men and women of the musical
world that blew their minds and continue to blow ours.”
How about a Headphone Commute? That’s the name of a channel
playing modern classical, dark ambient, cinematic and film music. It’s
also an online magazine. http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/ You
can subscribe to their mix tapes or podcasts at Mixcloud and also
listen at www.mixcloud.com/HeadphoneCommute/
Or you may be in the mood for a cloudcast from Jazz Cat? This is an
intriguing mix of styles including a programme concentrating to
modern jazz from Italy, and a marvellous series called Lost and
Found. www.mixcloud.com/maxvibes/
John Faulkner has a regular programme which is an eclectic mix
where he brilliantly mixes comedy snippets with music. the end result
is called All Mixed Up at www.mixcloud.com/John_Faulkner/ That put
me in a lively frame of mind so I then moved onto further banish the
winter blues with West Coast Sailing. They play a mix of " super
smooth West coast crust." It put me in the mood for a holiday on the
west coast of the USA. www.mixcloud.com/saladsoundsystem/west-
coast-salad/
If you want something different to hear then London station
Resonance FM has ever inventive and quirky recordings. It's been
successfully running as an FM station on 104.4 on London, and online
since way back in 2002. It "features programmes made by musicians,
artists and critics who represent the diversity of London’s arts scenes,
with regular weekly contributions from nearly two hundred
musicians, artists, thinkers, critics, activists and instigators; plus
numerous unique broadcasts by artists on the weekday Clear Spot."
you can follow Resonance FM at www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/