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PodOmatic


Deleted my podomatic account. Second time. The less said about the first one might be the better. It was a futile attempt to stop myself from ruining my old blog, which I started doing something like a podcast on, but it kept derailing miserably. The move to the podomatic site did not improve things. Let’s say it was a learning experience. But the learning didn’t stop there, oh no. After writing the site off completely, I found several people doing interesting shows, and it looked like they were fixing up the site quite a bit. I made a new account, and lost no time turning a whole new show into a whole new complete disaster. I was working through some stuff. But forget about the show, I could now use the site to keep up with all these new podcasts! I can follow 10, 20…no better keep that within multiples of 3 so the grid fills out evenly…yes, yes!

Now, most of the shows I was following have stopped and the site’s updates have stagnated. Plenty of people still use the site, but 90% of them appear to be house DJs* and they’re all friends with each other and they all want to be friends with you if you play even one housey J-pop track (which, I did…nice video). I don’t hate it, but it’s become like the myspace of podcasting sites. It’s a good place to start.

So here are the ones I was following at one point or another:

Asian Rock Asian Pop & Other Asian

This guy added me on there like the first day, one of the few who was in it for the J-pop. Yes, he likes the J-pop, and all kinds of “other asian” [music]. It’s a pretty varied selection. He’s not so much into the “show” part of podcasting tho, he’s straight up posting unaltered individual songs, even some major label stuff…no takedown yet! Taking down podcasts is pretty lame on the labels’ part and I don’t think it’s happened on podomatic, but this one is pushing it even for me. Still, if you want to check out some random Asian [music], you couldn’t ask for a lesser time commitment.

DJ Don’t Fuck About

Only dance music DJ I friended, er, followed, um…I liked this one. It’s not solid hour-long blocks of the same 4 on the floor beat.

DJ Pork Chops Presents…

Actually wasn’t following this guy, just found him on tumblr the other day. Whatever. I still like the old ska and it’s some good mixes and seems to be active. Will be coming back to this one.

dub

What it says. This account like the Kevin Bacon of podomatic and is connected to everyone who joined before a certain date. Then they gave it up, but the shows are all there. Hard to screw up a dub show I guess, but they actually put some thought into some great themed mixes until they ran out of ideas towards the end.

Evolution Rock Metal Podcast

If you follow underground metal on the many blogs dedicated to the genre, you know there are hundreds of new bands out there. You may be wondering if there are any metal podcasts that manage to play none of those bands but an entirely different group of hundreds of bands you’ve never heard of with almost no overlap? Yes! How do they do it? They only play music from the Podcast Safe Network (which is now part of Music Alley, not to be confused with Podcast Alley…jesus.) The J-pop vs. Metal dichotomy almost disappears in some of these shows. That is, the most extremely underground metal now = the most mainstream J-pop. I swear one episode could have Tommy Heavenly6 in it. [Link warning: loud autoplay. Also, mostly terrible.]

Fresh Off the Shelves

This guy found me on MySpace (when that happened) through Philly band Voodoo Economics, which he did this weird longform mashup mix with/to. It’s great. I like his all his mixes, but that one gets extra credit for the Airheads clips.

Keshi Head’s Radio

This started years ago as a podcast about Takashi’s Castle. Somehow, a sober discussion of visual humor and slapstick didn’t make for great podcasting fodder (they have a forum) so they started just playing Hello Project mixes. Despite abandoning their entire original premise, it’s the most consistent show I’ve found on the site. Every Saturday morning now for a couple years. The greatest thing about it is the variety and the length. New singles, old b-sides, main groups, shuffle groups…it’s like the old Beatles Brunch show that mixes in the hits and solo stuff with obscure demos and like, Badfinger. Except there’s no talking and it’s only 20 minutes long. 5, maybe 6 songs and it’s done. I don’t love every H!P song ever, but odds are good of hearing a couple favorites and some ones you forgot and maybe a couple you hate but then it’s over. So perfect. [Warning: extremely inappropriate sound effect.]

METAL DJ WILL’s Podcast Page

LA radio DJ I heard about through Giant Robot. Old school metalhead.

On Blast

Official podcast of the Philly Student Union, which I have nothing to do with. Well, I used to be a student in Philadelphia. College student. I like to keep up with the issues. I’m generally on the side of these guys, but it’s increasingly bleak. Not fun, but you should check it out. Found it under “Philadelphia“.

ONES DE CROM

Really great profiles of experimental bands and musicians that just happen to be entirely in Portuguese. Found when they did an ep on Daniel Menche, which he mentioned on his blog. [They have two accounts for some reason.]

Outro Mundo

Part of my quest to listen to all music, from all time periods, from everywhere. It’s kind of winding down. But I was listening to a lot of M.I.A. and Ongaku Gatas and was looking for something a little less…ridiculous? Completely manufactured? Culturally dubious. I needed to go back to the source of some real Latin music. Closest I ever got was Latin Jazz. Not good enough. I need the real stuff, man. But who am I kidding? I’m a ridiculous dude. I’m not about purity. But neither is this real-life (assumed) Brazilian. There’s the realest real all mixed up with crazy hybrids from all over and…Shatner. Huh.

Prime Cuts & Schmaltz Liquor

Someone I found on last.fm or maybe another message board. There’s a clip of her calling in to TBSOWFMU in one ep but no other talking. It’s just some quality digital mixtapes, lotta psyche, garage rock, old indie, great stuff. This one is equally noteworthy for how great she got it to look. Some css hacking going on or something, the pages aren’t that easily modded with a standard account. Very nice.

Takeo Udagawa’s Podcast

Found via Ongakublog; may also be this writer. Some serious 60s/70s theatrical-art stuff. Not J-poppy in any way. Which you may need. [Warning: Some Hitler.]

The Chill Room

Super-dense media barrage mixes, probably great stoned. (Believe it or not, I’ve done nothing stronger than beer or dub reggae for years now.) I love this kind of thing but it really demands your attention in a way that hours of dub do not, so it’s like an hour of this tops before my brain is screaming at me to change my entire life. It’s great late-night radio that’s not so great in earbuds while walking the dog. A line is crossed.

The Lesbian Mafia

Lesbians. Sometimes you wish they had a better sense of humor. Most of the time you’ve got to admit they’ve got a point.

The songs stuck in my head

Cloverdale Dave runs the Original Ska group on last.fm that I started. There were a dozen ska groups that were all pretty vague, it needed its own group. This guy joined and knew way more about it than me and he was doing this show that had a lot of old ska in it; I don’t have much to with do with it myself, so I gave it to him. He was doing his show for a while, but now all his episodes are deleted. I could have deleted my episodes and kept the account now that I think about it, but it’s established that guy is smarter than me. He did not always stick to ska so if he comes back posting new eps don’t get mad.

THE ZERO HOUR J-Rock with J. C. Kaelin!

This guy used to do stuff with the Church of the SubGenius, I think I met him once in New Brunswick, he was running sound for a talk by Ivan Stang. He also had a great site for shareware and soundclips I used to visit all the time, before the rest of the internet happened. But I didn’t know he did a podcast or that he was into Japanese music until he did a Listener Hour on WFMU. (Or until I heard it, a year later.) He’s recorded a bunch of NYC J-punk/rock shows and mixed it up with his collection of WWII broadcasts. Questionable! (Yet, endearing.) He seems to have turned his archive thing into a full-time gig so no more time for this.

0x1’s Podcast

No idea who this is. If I wasn’t blogging this now, I’d have forgotten I ever heard it. Just listening to this one show again now. Pretty trippy stuff. (It really calms the post-finishing rage.) And now I see the guy has a link to his soundcloud, I can add him over there.

 

 
I should really post some stuff to Soundcloud.

*probably not true; probably should be

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  1. #1 by bennett on 2011.06.13 - 12:09

    Thanks for the comments and interesting observations. I am well aware that Podomatic has turned into House Central, which I find incredibly boring. I would love to find other places to put The Chill Room (it also appears on the killradio.org site, and most episodes also end up on radio4all.net — both sites also get my news shows and occasional Chill Rooms that don’t fit what I do on podomatic), so any suggestions would be welcome.

    Let me know where you are and I will listen.

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  2. #2 by Shane Kevin Bacon Kramer on 2011.06.14 - 00:29

    hi, I do the dub podcast. Thanks for including my page on your list of podomatic sites and also for making the list in the first place.
    Please take into account that most of that stuff was personally recorded from vinyl and mixed the way I do my personal mixes for years. Just want everyone to know I didn’t give up or run out of ideas. I’ve posted 3 podcasts relatively recently and will probably have more to come. Hope to have some contemporary dub in the near future, too.
    Earlier mixes can be found at http://dubvortex.podomatic.com . Those used to be on a site called mixdepot a long time ago. ……

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  3. #3 by J. C. Kaelin on 2012.09.13 - 03:17

    Yes that is me with the Zero Hour podcast – and the devival too! Thanks for remembering me and for hosting that photo! Kind regards, jc kaelin :)

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