Currently Off Air
By Currently Off Air
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Podcast Description
Currently Off Air is a monthly mash up of radio trash, incompetent correspondents, dream pop, absurd comedy and spoken word concerning the looming end of radiowave transmissions. Also broadcast on Brighton's Radio Reverb 97.2 FM, 9pm Fridays and the last hour of each week, 11pm Sundays (GMT). Produced by Buck in Fudgy. Playlists available on www.currentlyoffair.com
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CleanTransmission 12: 52 Cart Pick Up | Our signal went kaput this month so the Currently Off Air emergency broadcast machine randomly auto-selected 52 complete pieces of music in 55 minutes. A Riot-Girl-Jazz-poetics-ambient-hip-hop-orchestral-folk-electronica mix up playlist at www.currentlyoffair.com | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 11: Odds & Ends | As many of our regular contributors are taking an ill-deserved break or hawking their creations around the Edinburgh Fringe, this show is collection of odds & ends that didn't make it in to the previous 10 shows. Job Centre Ugliness, Mr Blank's job proposal, another School book story, Howard Beale's raving meltdown, DJ Chris from Alaska's K-BHR waxes lyrical about light, poetry from Tex Ritter, Ginsberg and MF Doom's, music from Do Make Say Think, Pavement, Burial, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, Bohren und der Club of Gore, Sun Ra, Vincent Gallo, Thomas Dolby and the extraordinary Daniel Wakeford. | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 10: The Tesla Recap | The first four episodes of the 963 part Space Drama 'The Tesla Frequencies'. A live radio link to the Outernational Space Station goes awry. A vanished astronaut, a space station filled with global eccentrics, Strange radio frequencies recorded by an Astronaut before his disappearance from the Tesla module hint at an Extra-terrestrial radio link. Four 15 minute episodes first broadcast as part of the Currently Off Air podcast and UK radio show. | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 9: Emergency Broadcast | Our signal went kaput this month so the Currently Off Air emergency broadcast machine randomly auto-selected 55 minutes of sonic mayhem to fill the dead air. Playlist: Intro Sound of Year Round Please KEITH TEXTOR Jingle JOHN BAKER Listen SOUNDLESS MIND ERASER Listening to Richard Brautigan Cut Ups WILLIAM BURROUGHS / COLDCUT Worldwide Intro Come with us We are part of the loud minority Graffitti Rock excerpt Flowers for Those You Love RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Discipline 21-II SUN RA Beneath the Undertow ISOTOPE 217 Man in the Green Night Shirt BLASTER AL ACKERMAN read by STEVE Sleaze Steele Turkish March CRISS CROSS We travel the spaceways SUN RA Push it out BETA BAND Allegro (Sonata II - Bach) MOE KAUFMAN Humdrum SAUL WILLIAMS Gossipo Perpetuo JEAN JACQUES PERREY Howl ALLEN GINSBERG Kalchoma KRISHNA SHAH Wheels FRO FIGGIS Thriller LESTER BOWIE's BRASS FANTASY Light my Fire HELMUT ZACAHARIAS & HIS ORCHESTRA Wingwalker SHELLAC Hindi Soundtrack Music TIZRE MANZIL Digichant URSUAL RUCKER Chakan JEFF GILSON There are other Words SUN RA Dirty feet and Giggles LAIKA Wind AIR In a sentimental mood JOHN COLTRANE & DUKE ELLINGTON Seat Soundtrack SOUNDLESS MIND ERASER Journey into Satchidinanda ALICE COLTRANE Sinking of the Titanic GAVIN BRYARS Cafe TIM BUCKLEY Perpeteum Mobile ARVO PART I only have eyes for you THE FLAMINGOS Electro Weird JOHN BAKER | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 8: The Road B-side | The B-side of a themed show about life on the road: road songs and roaring engines, Beat Generation benzedrine buzz from Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Hunter S. Thompson, Lee Ranaldo, Mamie Van Doren and Morphine. Songs from the side of the road by The Modern Lovers, The Normal, Arlo & Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Sun Ra, Tom Waits, Bongwater and Audio Bunny. | 6/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCurrently Off Air at Brighton Festival 2 | More coverage of the 2011 Brighton Festival. Featuring an interview with Yael Karavan on her ensemble's award winning show, 'Anima', Fred Pipes on Open Houses, Cine-City's 'Hangover Square' installation, drunken clowns loose in Hove, and, possibly inaccurate festival reports from FTarts correspondent, Malone Carter. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCurrently Off Air at Brighton Festival No. 1 | Currently Off Air's first show for Brighton Festival Radio features a hunt for Matt Rudkin, a dance maestro whose funny and alarming show, 'Naive Dance Masterclass', plays at the Nightingale Theatre. There is an interview with il pixel rosso's Silvia Mercuriali. Along with filmmaker, Simon Wilkinson, she has created a show, 'And the Birds Fell from the Sky', at the Old Market, which is a mixture of outlaw clowns, interactive film, video goggles and immersive theatre. Also, protest songs, Balkan Brass and various absurdities. www.currentlyoffair.com | 5/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 8 - The Road | The A-side of a themed show about life on the road: road songs and roaring engines, Hells Angels, Taxi Drivers, Jack Kerouac, Tom Waits, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Lee Ranaldo, radio jingle doctors and Bobby Doughnuts reporting on Drunken Wacky Races. | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 7 - Mind Excursions | A themed show about the mind: E.S.P. parties, telekinetic stunts and hypnosis aboard the Outernational Space Station. Includes Episode 3 of the Space Drama, 'The Tesla Frequencies', sports reporter, Iam Ham-Roll covering the 'It's an E.S.P Knockout World Championships' in Cuba, mindful music from 60s Beat Girls, 70s troubadours, 80s protopunks and Shoegazers. Warning: stuffed full of sonic guff. Produced by BiF. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTransmission 6 - Love in Outer Space | The second part of Space Drama 'The Tesla Frequencies' makes up part of this Love in Outer Space themed show. Correlli loses it, recordings of a disappeared astronaut turn up, a Cyborg declares his lust, Barry White swears it up, Bobby Dougnuts covers onanism, collages of Love and Sex provided by the 365 Days Project.60 minutes of the usual mix of absurd comedy, cut ups and music. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 5 - The Tesla Frequencies | The start of a new 963 part Space Drama 'The Tesla Frequencies' makes up part of this Galactic themed show. A live radio link to the Outernational Space Station goes awry. 55 minutes of the usual bouillabaisse of absurd comedy, cut ups and tributes to the golden ages of radiowave transmissions. | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 4 CURRENTLY OFF AIR | Currently Off Air is a monthly sonic soup of absurd comedy, cut ups and tributes to the golden ages of radiowave transmissions. This month: a wassailing bowl of wacaday doom, Bobby Doughnuts reporting from the Reindeer shaving championships, anti-Porn dental pain, the Faruk clown tribe invade Brighton, Shatner's Jingle blow out, Laboratoro in session, music from Frusciante, The Sonics, Beck, Rotary Connection, Jim White and a Charlie Brown christmas. Also broadcast on Brighton's Radio Reverb 97.2 FM on Fridays at 9pm and repeated during the last hour of each week (11pm GMT). Produced by Buck in Fudgy. Playlists are available at www.currentlyoffair.com | 12/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 3 CURRENTLY OFF AIR | Currently Off Air is a monthly sonic soup of absurd comedy, cut ups, mix downs and tributes to the golden ages of radiowave transmissions. This month: Chegwin ragga, Badalamenti drones, Bubblegum Dream Pop, Cameron's Bromance, Nordine's Envelope, Stanshall's Shirt, Outside correspondents banged up inside, Bristow's defective night Swim, Last Month's Quiz, Schoolbook stories, Burrough's Ah Pook, A Life in Sound, Stanley Holloway's Brahn Boots, Huggy Bear's Bullets. Also broadcast on Brighton's Radio Reverb 97.2 FM on Fridays at 9pm and repeated during the last hour of each week (11pm GMT). Produced by Buck in Fudgy. Playlists are available at www.currentlyoffair.com | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 2 CURRENTLY OFF AIR | Radio fuzz, dream pop, useless reporters, leching lurgies, irrational hagglers, Cut-ups and put-downs. The only place where UK Chancellor, George Osbourne can be heard alongside Burroughs and Bongwater. | 8/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTransmission 1 CURRENTLY OFF AIR | Currently Off Air is a monthly sonic soup of dream drones, absurd comedy and bullshagen concerning the looming end of radiowave transmissions. Also broadcast on Brighton's Radio Reverb 97.2 FM on the last hour of each week (GMT). Produced by Buck in Fudgy. Playlists are available at www.currentlyoffair.com | 7/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 15 Episodes |

