The Boom Effect Special (Right click, download, and experience.)
This episode is different in the sense that it highlights one gender. Female vocalists are an awesome bunch when you find the right mix, and this episode dedicated to Sonic Boom showcases quite a few. As I explained to one of the artists:
Women play a huge role and often get overlooked in the mass media markets as far as music. And unfortunately, the ones who do get noticed frankly don’t catch my ear. I wanted to show that in independent circles, women can not only sound good but be just as diverse. For example, Klaryssa from Chamber of Echos had to find out the hard way what happens if you let others have creative control of your work, but with the songs I played, she was given creative rights and showed how enveloping she could make each song; as if it were an audible onion full of different layers. Your song and several others also had this characteristic for the most part. And the fact the podcast starts out with a dig on Hollywood and ends with a song on someone who thinks they have it all, it makes the overall experience that much more ironic.
We hope you enjoy and don’t forget to spread the experience! (This episode was recorded in time for most of the auction but do to extenuating circumstances could not be released until after the event. Find out how the auction did after the break.) Read more
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Every year, around this time of year (where the last one ends and this one begins), a vast majority of humanity makes one mistake. I don’t mean having too much to drink; that is the obvious answer. What I’m talking about is the whole concept of that habitual promise to improve oneself just because a new year is knocking on the doorstep. The fact that everybody is doing it makes it as cliché as reality TV shows or like all the so-called musicians who are using autotune as if it were the greatest application since the microwave. Does the idea of having resolutions for the new year have as much of a damaging effect on the product as reality TV for the television industry or autotuning for music? Let’s take a look. Read more
New Year 2009/2010 Part 1 (Right click, download, and experience.)
Part one of our New Year event featuring Jonothan Coulton.#music #podcast
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25
Dec
Experience Christmas 2009 (Right click, download, and experience.)
Merry Christmas to all of our listeners. You have helped make this year a success for Astral Audio Productions. Crank this really stuffed episode up as you unwrap gifts and come back later today for our gift to you. All music in this episode comes from Ariel Publicity.
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24
Dec
Experience Christmas Eve (Right click, download, and experience.)
Our short Christmas Eve episode featuring music from Music Alley.
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10
Nov
Feedback Overload episode 1 (Right click, download, and experience.)
Welcome to episode 1 of our Feedback Overload series where we go over your feedback and update you on the latest happenings in the realm of Astral Audio Productions. This episode, I am joined by my associate producer Michelle. She came down to Natches from NJ for a month. (As of this writing, she is back in NJ.) The show was recorded on Friday Nov 6, 2009. We spent over an hour recapping various events and generally having a blast. See below to find out the songs we played in between segments. Read more
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4
Nov
So it has come to my attention that one of my recent episodes was invaded with a promo about J.C. Hutchins and his novel Seventh Son Book 1: Descent. To help promote his book, we are going to take questions from you, the fans of Seventh Son and the Beta Clone Army. Your mission is to email your question(s) to feedback [at] astralaudio.net with “Questions for Hutch” in the subject line. You can ask J.C. about his writing methods, about music, movies, his personal background, about book sales, anything really; especially any question to help bring out Hutch’s geeky side. The goal is to keep it interesting. Hutch will then answer your questions in the second episode of our Beyond The Voices interview series. You have until Nov 11 to submit your questions. This episode should drop within the month if not early in December.
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Oct
Astral Audio Oct 31 Special (Right click, download, and experience.)
To end the week (and the month for that matter), Astral Audio Productions is proud to give you a dark electronica album by Mark Mosher. Reboot is rather short compared to the earlier albums we featured this week; however, I find it a fitting way to end your evening. Play it with the four parts of the Justnotnormal album. Yes, there are a few promos this time around but . . . they fit the mood I think. Read more
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