Katharsis Sept. 29 '08

Voilà

Music played: Mick Turner, Castlemusic, The Low Lows, Rae Spoon, Snailhouse, Land of Talk, Damien Jurado, Manual, Mamiffer, Helms Alee, Aiden Baker & Tim Hecker, Jim O'Rourke, I Heart Lung, Swod, Baja, Tarentel, Because of Ghosts, Sgt., Gutterawl, Woven Hand, and Boduf Songs.

The show recording is in .ogg vorbis format recorded directly from the cjsw stream. I prefer vorbis files to mp3’s due to their better fidelity at similar bit rates (ie. an .ogg vorbis file sounds better than an mp3 file of a similar bitrate) and the fact that vorbis is open source (ie. non-proprietary). Most computer audio software programs can play .ogg files but I realize that not all hardware music players (such as the iPod) can play .ogg files. If you want to convert the show recording to an mp3 or AAC file so that you can load it on to your iPod I recommend dBpoweramp Music Converter (dMC) for PC users.

There is always some quality degradation with conversion between compression formats but as the cjsw .ogg stream is at a higher bitrate than the .mp3 stream converting the .ogg recording to an mp3 of similar bitrate shouldn’t sound any worse than a recording of the mp3 stream.

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Katharsis Sept. 22 '08

Here

In keeping with the season, this episode was mostly autumnal and ambient in nature: Fax, The Fun Years, Belong, Alias, Lawrence English, Yellow Swans, Matthew Robert Cooper, Nico Muhly, Johann Johannssonn, Marsen Jules, Michael Brook, Max Richter, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Christopher Bissonnette, Goldmund, and Port Royal (remixed by Minamo).

The show recording is in .ogg vorbis format recorded directly from the cjsw stream. I prefer vorbis files to mp3’s due to their better fidelity at similar bit rates (ie. an .ogg vorbis file sounds better than an mp3 file of a similar bitrate) and the fact that vorbis is open source (ie. non-proprietary). Most computer audio software programs can play .ogg files but I realize that not all hardware music players (such as the iPod) can play .ogg files. If you want to convert the show recording to an mp3 or AAC file so that you can load it on to your iPod I recommend dBpoweramp Music Converter (dMC) for PC users.

There is always some quality degradation with conversion between compression formats but as the cjsw .ogg stream is at a higher bitrate than the .mp3 stream converting the .ogg recording to an mp3 of similar bitrate shouldn’t sound any worse than a recording of the mp3 stream.

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Katharsis Sept. 15 '08

Recording available here.

From meaty guitar rock to ambient (with a little post-rock for good measure): Brittle Siren, Günther, Jr. Pantherz, Poorfolk, TV on the Radio, The New Year, Because of Ghosts, Psychic Pollution, Yellow 6, Beaten By Them, Voice of the Seven Woods, Esmarine, Slow Six, Nox, The Alps, The Shipping News, Canyon Country, Near the Parenthesis, Swod, Twine, and Seaworthy.

The show is in .ogg vorbis format recorded directly from the cjsw stream. I prefer vorbis files to mp3’s due to their better fidelity at similar bit rates (ie. an .ogg vorbis file sounds better than an mp3 file of a similar bitrate) and the fact that vorbis is open source (ie. non-proprietary). Most computer audio software programs can play .ogg files but I realize that not all hardware music players (such as the iPod) can play .ogg files. If you want to convert the show recording to an mp3 or AAC file so that you can load it on to your iPod I recommend dBpoweramp Music Converter (dMC) for PC users.

There is always some quality degradation with conversion between compression formats but as the cjsw .ogg stream is at a higher bitrate than the .mp3 stream converting the .ogg recording to an mp3 of similar bitrate shouldn’t sound any worse than a recording of the mp3 stream.

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Katharsis Sept. 8 '08

Download away.

Lucid 44 ended off Aubrey's Shindig! and that led directly into Woven Hand, Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden, Liz Durrett, Giant Sand (a PJ Harvey cover from proVISIONS - I was mistaken, Joey Burns and John Convertino are not back with Howe Gelb in Giant Sand), The Walkmen, Benoit Pioulard, Damien Jurado, Alt-Ctrl-Sleep, Conrad Ford, Marsen Jules, Grouper, Ida, Lambchop, Takka Takka, The Sea & Cake, Banjo Consorsium, Snailhouse, Chad vanGaalen, Department of Eagles, Woodpigeon, Gianna Lauren, Hauschka (remixed by Frank Bretschneider), So, Alias, Nomo, Dosh, and The Drift (sorry, Uncanny Valley was unintentionally abbreviated in favour of I Had A List And I Lost It).

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Katharsis Sept. 1 '08

Show recording available here.

A night of fewer artists and longer songs, post-rock to abstract electronic to saturated drone/noise: Beaten By Them (last song of Aubrey's Shindig), Günther, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Grandfather Fire & The Holy Morning, Jasper TX, Can, Tujiko Noriko/Lawrence English/John Chantler, Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden, Tagaq, Gas, The Bug, Signal, Kangding Ray, Alias, Organic Stereo, Ulrich Schnauss, and Bass Communion.

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