Tue, 29 November 2005 After a break the scientist are back and raring to go with a brand new episode. This week Sariah and Nalepa from Terpischore were in town and they swung by the audio lab to drop some wisdom on us. Not only that, but Nalepa brought his rig and played some great live tracks that we caught on tape. Also, Lunchy and Halon chat about out about a possible win for the majors and a huge loss. Check it out!
Terpsichore Group Sony vs. DRM Apple Changing Prices? Nalepa Comments[2] |
Fri, 4 November 2005 In Episode 19 the Fake Scientists discuss the launch of their new digital music store, its birthing process and our hopes for the future. Lunchmeat interviews Scott Unterberg of the band Spycloud about their upcoming record and the distributed recording process. Finally we'd like to thank everyone who helped us in the delivery room. Thank you Seth, Jessica, Lila, Vanessa, Lisa, Chris Subimage, Aaron, Mike the bands on the site and everyone we've talked too, interviewed and harassed along the way. We've arrived, and we like it here. Go be a Patron of the Arts at www.fakescience.com. Comments[8] |
Mon, 17 October 2005 This episode Lunchmeat talks to Larry Crane, Editor of Tape Op Magazine and Producer Extraordinaire, We get to sample the wares of Warez, a glitch-hop producer from Ann Arbor, MI, and the Fake Scientists ruminate on whether an artist needs a label to be successful. Download the show now: Lab Report #18 - "Clap Your Hands and Say “Vomit Launch�". Featured Links: Comments[11] |
Mon, 3 October 2005 This episode Maer catches up with Matisyahu, on the West Coast leg of his tour. Matisyahu is a New York based Hasidic reggae singer, that has been steadily growing popularity and notoriety with this unique sound and style. The Fake Scientist round table about the ongoing music pricing wars, Maer brings us Native States newest compilation and Halon brings you the San Francisco based Eddie Mis. Download the show now: Lab Report #17 - "All Maer, All The Time". Featured Links: Comments[3] |
Sun, 18 September 2005 This episode Halon sits down with Danah Boyd to talk about online social communities. Danah is a PhD student at Berkeley and works at the Yahoo! Berkeley Research Lab. Maer brings in new tracks from InterChill for the OEM Bin, Lunchmeat and Halon talk about Adam Curry vs. Underpants Gnomes and the general state of podcasting today. Finally, Seth and Jessica join us to guest host the Test Subject and play Voxtrot for us.
Download the show now: Lab Report #16 - "Night of the Living Gnomes". Featured Links: Comments[0] |
Mon, 5 September 2005 This episode Halon sits down with M.T. Silvia from Pixar. She is currently the Media Systems Manager and she tells us how she got into the industry and her experiences at Skywalker Ranch, ILM, Sony and other industry audio work. Maer brings us new music from the net-label Cyan Recs, Cedub brings us new music from Ear Rotator and the fake scientist talk about Warner and Universal's new eLables. Download the show now: Lab Report #15 - "The Avengers". Featured Links: Comments[0] |
Sun, 21 August 2005 This episode Halon sits down with David Harrington, founder of Kronos Quartet. Halon and David talk about Kronos' August 23rd release called "You've Stolen My Heart" which features the vocal talent of famed Asha Bhosle. Christopher Morin is back with a new eTicket that features Pitch Black, and we talk about the future of labels in the news. Download the show now: Lab Report #14 - "Time Keeps On Slipping ". Featured Links: Comments[0] |
Mon, 15 August 2005 We have mentioned in the past that Fake Science is doing a music show for KYOU radio. Shows 2 and 3 both had ASCAP/BMI protected music so we were unable to podcast them, but for show #4 Cedub focused on his old band, Code of the West. Code of the West formed in 1983 and played for almost 3 years at most of the clubs and venues in the San Francisco bay area. The band consisted of Terry Barnes on guitar who also wrote most of the songs along with Guy Brenner on guitar, Tom Dean on bass and Chris Walcott (aka cedub) on drums. Download the show now: Music Test #4 - Code of the West. Track Listing: Comments[0] |
Mon, 8 August 2005 This episode Cedub talks to his good friends Tom Dean and Lori Zook. Tom and Lori are the founders of the Oakland Metro and started the Oakland Opera Theater. Maer brings us Legion of Green Men from Toronto, we sit down and talk about payola and Cedub features two songs from "White Darkness" an opera written by Tom and Lori. Download the show now: Lab Report #13 - "A Song for Jim Jones". Featured Links: Comments[3] |
Mon, 25 July 2005 Wow, it was a hot one this weekend in the audio lab, too bad we don't have AC. This episode we check in with the Scientist and see what they are listening to. We talk about how Fake Science tripped up on the DMCA, Maer is back with a new comp from Ultimae Records, and Seth from WHYME jumps in to the fray and plays us Diagram. Download the show now: Lab Report #12 - "Studio Heat Wave". Featured Links: Comments[0] |
Tue, 12 July 2005 In this episode halon sits down with Christopher Morin and they chat about how Ambient Airlines came about, evolved and where it is going. Cyrus Wadia joins us again in the lab to go over the recently settled MGM vs. Grokster/Streamcast case and we get down with "Not On Mars" out of Madison, WI.
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Mon, 27 June 2005 In this episode Cedub sits down with Steve Kirk to talk about his experience as a composer in the industry. Steve is an established guitarist, producer and composer of film and game soundtracks. Lunchmeat and Halon talk about the newest round of DRM issues, Maer introduces us to the world of net labels, and we feature Seth, 3rd Son of Albert. Download the show now: Lab Report #10 - "He Who Waits Is Lost ". Featured Links: Comments[2] |
Sun, 19 June 2005 Wait, its only been a week, what's up!?! Well, Fake Science is introducing a new type of Lab Report. Since we have been picked up by KYOU for the Friday 8 AM slot we decided to start doing an exclusive music show every other Lab Report. In the future we won't be able to podcast this segment because we will be taking advantage of the BMI/ASCAP license for KYOU, but to kick things off we are podcasting the first show by revisiting some of our past Test subjects. The music is all new and we also introduce tracks by Subimage and Cell Culture. Check it out! Featured Links: Comments[0] |
Sun, 12 June 2005 In this episode Cedub sits down with Roger Linn and talks about his experience both as a musician and a hardware/software designer. Roger is a world renowned designer that developed the LinnDrum, the Akai MPC series and the AdrenaLinn, just to name a few. We premier a new segment called the "OEM Bin", with Maer Israel. Lunchmeat and Cedub talk about mp3 blogs and our Test Subject is the 20 piece jazz band, the Realistic Orchestra.
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Mon, 30 May 2005 In this episode Lunchmeat sits down with Cyrus Wadia from the law firm Cooper White & Cooper. Cyrus is a partner with the San Francisco office, is the head of their Music & Recording Industry group and he talks to us about current legal trends in the industry. Halon and Cedub talk about a new music tax idea, we say farewell to Ambient Airlines, and listen to the sounds of The Life On Earth.
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Mon, 16 May 2005 In this episode Lunchmeat has a indepth conversation with new pop sensation, Geoff Byrd. Geoff is being called the first pop act to go from Internet roots to national radio airplay. We also talk to Justin Frankel (Winamp, Jesusonic) about his new audio software/hardware project. We hear select tracks from the Listening Room compilation album and Seth from WHYME introduces us to Relay. Download the show now: Lab Report #6- "Internet Made The Radio Star". Featured Links: Comments[5] |
Sun, 1 May 2005 In episode 5 we sit down with Gabriel Elash, head of A&R for Beatsync. Gabriel has an amazing insight in to the current state of the independent music scene and tells us how artists need to re-align their perspective of the music industry. We also feature the new Shuttle358 album Chessa, and Rick Karr (Techopop) joins us again to feature music made by Box Set Authentic. Download the show now: Lab Report #5- "A Box Full Of Ideas ". Featured Links: Comments[5] |
Sat, 16 April 2005 In episode 4 we sit down and talk to Nick Mason, the drummer of the world renowned band, Pink Floyd. Nick tells us about his new book "Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd", his musical inspirations and how the industry is changing. We also feature German ambient producer, Markus Guentner and San Francisco's cellist/violinist/electronic producer, Rena Jones. Download the show now: Lab Report #4- "Welcome to the Dark Side". Extra-super-special thanks to Chris and Lisa Campbell. Without you two this would not have happened... Featured Links: Comments[5] |
Sun, 3 April 2005 In episode 3 we sit down and talk to our good friend Jack Herrington about his upcoming podcasting book for O'Reilly and why he was so excited about podcasting to start this endeavor. We also feature new music from Dr. Toast (also CEO of False-Profit) and an amazing San Francisco band, Troll.
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Sat, 19 March 2005 Boy we love this show... in Episode 2 we interview Rick Karr, formerly of NPR, about his new project, Technopop and we discuss the $.05 per song model introduced by Sandy Pearlman and Daniel Levitin at a conference in Canada earlier this month. Also we experiment with some Psychedelic Chill and are introduced to Nalepa - oddly, neither of these are street names for hallucinogenics. Featured Links: Comments[5] |
Sun, 6 March 2005 This is Fake Science's first podcast. In this show we have an interview with David Biderman who has helped develop and manage multiple streaming media technologies with such companies as Nullsoft, AOL/Time Warner and Apple. We also feature David Last on our regular Ambient Airlines e-Ticket segement with Christoper Morin. Our Test Subject is Destination Venus out of Fort Worth, Texas. Comments[3] |


