Posts Tagged ‘Playlist’

Poly-rythmo

// September 2nd, 2011 // Comments Off // Bez kategorii

I have a playlist to begin with. Whether that was the chairman who decided to choose this one or only a chance – it doesn’t matter. What matters is the trans and the freshness of this sound, your ass shaking and your neighbour’s irritation. Have fun and comment. Polubisz?

Best Music of 2009, Most Anticipated Music of 2010

// January 18th, 2010 // Comments Off // Bez kategorii, radiobalance.com

Hello there

Haven’t been here in ages, really sorry. This is partly because of the improvements we are getting ready for you. This means, to be more specific or less boring, live shows and a real studio which we can, let’s say officially, call ‘Radio Balance – Studio 1′. It’s not ready yet, but it will be, soon. And on the top of that – if everything goes fine (meaning if our potential sound engineer gets an extension visa for living in the UK) – we can even announce a ‘Radio Balance – Studio 2′. But I’d wait with that, we will see. For now I can definitely entertain you with some photos of the Studio 1 construction. It’s a tough job, you know, to fix it all together and work full time somewhere else at the same time. However, we believe, we can achieve something good by doing that so we know it’s worth it. And we will finish the construction soon, promise :).

(and upload some working pics of it too) :(

As for the music. It was a good year, last year. Amazing albums by Animal Collective, XX, Florence & the Machine, Phoenix, Japandroids, Friendly Fires, Speech Debelle, Mos Def, Major Lazer, The Field, Fuck Buttons, Moderat, Mumford & Sons, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Keith Jarrett, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Wooden Shjips, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Staff Benda Bilili, Bat For Lashes, Alice in Chains, Imogen Heap, Jack Pénate, The Invisible, Marissa Nadler, Mew, Soil & Pimp Sessions, Bill Callahan, Allen Toussaint, Them Croocked Vultures, Céu, Jimi Tenor and Tony Allen, Tinariwen, Quantic and His Combo Barbaro, Muse, Atlas Sound, Jonsi & Alex, Temper Trap and Wilco to name a few(!). It’s hard to choose the best one as well, never liked having to choose it. I can pick the best for the kinds, but not a total favourite amongst the lot. Based on that, we decided that we’ll be playing a few blocks of little genre-specified mixes from now on rather than one, whole mix of everything, details to follow soon. I hope you’ll enjoy the changes. At some stage the genre-specified playlists will be available to stream separably, regardless of the live broadcast. This is also one of the tasks for the new year – to make it possible for you peeps to create the radio the way you want it, as in the web page content ‘drag and drop’ way, well almost like that. You’ll be able to choose – thanks to a choice of podcasts – what you want to listen to. Hopefully – if it works.

The most important and most anticipated albums of 2010 will come from the talents and tastes of the following:
Radiohead (hopefully),
Elbow (same),
Red Hot Chilli Peppers (as above)
Massive Attack,
Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck – Charlotte Gainsbourg (Feat. Beck) – \"IRM\" (mp3),
Yeasayer – Yeasayer – \'Ambling\' (mp3)
Four Tet – Four Tet \'Love Cry\' (mp3)
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend – Myspace
Peter Gabriel,
Hot Chip,
Amy Winehouse (maybe),
The Avalanches,
The Magnetic Fields,
LCD Soundsystem,
Interpol,
Panda Bear,
Midlake,
The Strokes,
Cat Power,
Fleet Foxes,
Arcade Fire,
The Walkmen,
MGMT,
R.E.M.,
Sade,
The National,
Jonsi (of Sigur Rós),
Toro Y Moi,
Flying Lotus,
Lindstrom & Christabelle,
Joanna Newsom,
Goldfrapp,
Broken Bells,
Spoon,
Foals,
Klaxons,
Nedry – Nedry – Official website
Two Door Cinema Club,
Los Campesinos,
Delphic,
Eels,
Laura Veirs,

That’s just a rough selection, it doesn’t include any jazz or world music artists unfortunately. It will get topped up by me at a later date, when we know some more. As you can see so far, though – 2010 looks good for music too. By the new sound of a few from the list (Delphic, Vampire Weekend, Midlake) I can assure you it doesn’t set off to be worse than 2009. For now – I’m off to sleep, happy and full of hope. The new playlists are to follow soon. Hopefully.

Pawel

Off Festival part 2

// August 24th, 2009 // Comments Off // events

I feel so much wiser and educated musically after the whole festival weekend that I could probably write a book about the current ‘off’ tendencies. What it is: the bands performing here, in Myslowice, are generally unknown to a wider, predominantly commercial-oriented crowd and this event makes this crowd aware, curious and wanting to experience something new. It may be a bit arrogant and haughty in its ‘come and learn’ style but it works – at least on me. However, whilst I do listen to a lot of different themed, non-commercial music every day and am receptive to any good suggestions – because this is what I love and what I work with anyway – I can’t believe an average festival goer does the same. I’m not aiming at being too brash here, with my opinionated self, only wish there was more acts somehow established and known enough so we all could dance to or sing to on such gatherings, something that an average person recognizes and therefore enjoys more. After all when you pay for the ticket not only do you expect to be thought by the others but you try to prove you are right at liking a certain artist and are immensely proud of the fact that those who taught you before learn something from you too sometimes. Otherwise the event turns into a very limited, arty-farty or even a posh happening for the musicians themselves, organizers, critics, media, their friends and the families and maybe a bunch of real nerds. The rest is not attracted enough. And this rest can also be interested in new, ‘off’ music, but just need an insulation of something that will drag them down to the event, something bigger than the remaining line-up names.
From the factual point of view there is a few more artists I’d like to recommend, indeed. Amongst them: Wooden Shjips – amazing psych-rok, sounding like modern The Doors -video link below- commercially reminiscent enough to bring the dream success into reality. Wooden Shjips – Dance, California
Then there should be The Field (or Axel Willner) from Sweden, a mixture of ambient, minimal techno and… shogaze, who made an instant contract deal with The Swidish label Kompakt, after handing them a copy of the demo in 2005. The Field – Everybody’s got to learn sometime
Finally a whole rest of the good stuff which, I hope, will be analysed more by me in the future. Beginning with The National, Crystal Antlers to Handsome Furs, The Frightened Rabbit and finally to Marissa Nadler, The Spiritualized, Olafur Arnalds, The Week That Was and Errors (Errors – Cutlery drawer), this honours list is at the same time a very special recommendation and I hope you will share the interest in it with me too. It surely will be on the playlists for radiobalance.com

Pawel

First things first

// August 5th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // radiobalance.com

Hello

I, hereby, announce that The Radio Balance starts officially now and I promise we will try our best to keep it enjoyable for both You all and us few. My name is Pawel Zieciowski, I am going to be the main editor of the content and the main DJ for Balance at the same time. Slawek (Slawomir Hess), my friend, will make sure nothing collapses whilst we use the server and the website. The rest of the collaborators, whom I shall introduce later (if we find anyone really interested), is going to tell you what they actually do when they finally actually do it.
It’s a huge pleasure for me to be here and welcome you to this new, exciting and, hopefully, somehow innovative project. Radio Balance is an idea behind listening to the music in a non-conservative, curious way. Having been in the industry for over five years I learnt that you truly should not dismiss anything that you don’t know well yet or you just must not ignore an entire genre as a whole only because you don’t like some of it. That you have to have your mind open, that the music needs to be a joy first of all, regardless of your tastes or prejudices. And I believe it can work, we just have to want to open our ears for new things, we simply have to start the first things first all over again and go back to the basics sometimes.
Radio Balance will, I hope, represent our wishful ‘make love- not war’ thinking the best way possible via playing plenty of unknown, little-known, missed, forgotten or underestimated in our opinion melodies. There will be some mainstream, commercial or chart stuff as well though, simply because a lot of it is just good and we definitely don’t want to fight with some imaginary windmills as a result of an over-educated, semi-scientific and clearly too ambitious attitude to one of the greatest entertainments of our lives, which is music. We are going to be critical, don’t take me wrong, we’re not going to play anything for just a sake of it, we surely are selective. But, just to close this, already well over-analytical, manifesto, the main factor of our choice is going to remain in the right balance of it all, a common sense and most importantly the joy of hearing something good. That is what Radio Balance says – now, at last, it’s time to play. Enjoy it

Pawel

P.S. The stream is currently available here: Radio Balance