By pure chance I just stumbled over a Pandora's box of weird podcasts.
Starting point was a great experimental/minimal techno track by Aldo Tamarind in the de-bug podcast -- see http://www.de-bug.de/pod/archives/1197.html. The music for that episode used to be stored on http://tamarind.podspot.de/, but by the time I got there (i.e., now) all content on that page was gone. Damn!
So I started googling which led to some page on podspider.de -- don't go there, the page sucks hard, but the podcasts the page referenced were amazing. Quote: "related categories: eccentric, classical, religion & spirituality". Chrchrchr.
E.g. http://cba.fro.at/show.php?lang=de&sendungen_id=14 -- Recordings of concerts at Posthof in Linz (where I used to live for a while), with among others Chikinki (go see them live!), Denyo, Tomte, Roisín Murphy, Adam Green, etc.
Or http://siemers.podspot.de/ -- "kraut mask replica", partially 80ies noise rock and partially modern weird guitarry stuff. Excerpts of radio programs, concert recordings, demotapes. Judging from the credits on some of their recordings the podcast is made in or around the Stuttgart area (where I'm from originally).
Then http://phlow.net/dp/ -- which looks kind of like a commercial bastard child of the debug podcast and viva2. (Though the videocast looks more interesting.)
And http://www.friedrich-witt.de/ -- a 76 year old double bass player who used to tour with Herbert von Karajan as part of the Berlin Philharmonics, telling the story of his life as a musician.
Etc.
There are thousands that regularly release new weird stuff from their kitchen tables, daily. And we as listeners can only touch the surface -- someone help me find the good stuff!
I'm now off listening to some of that stuff. And I need a bigger hard drive, I'm constantly deleting files to make room for videos and podcasts.
Comments
thank you for mentioning kraut mask replica. and yes: stuttgart. all the best: ralf.
siemers, 2006-05-27 22:38 CET (+0100) Link
kein ding, gruß ins ländle ;)
(steh übrigens voll auf euren podcast.)
Martin Dittus, 2006-05-27 22:43 CET (+0100) Link
Already knew those podcasts, but I don't understand why u say that site sucks. It is a presentation site for Podspider, which is a very nice application btw.... :/
Hans, 2006-06-21 17:25 CET (+0100) Link
Because it's an unusable trap for attention. It's been a while since I've been there, but from what I remember they didn't offer links to the podcasts' sites, but tried to keep you on podspider. There were virtually no off-site links. (This seems to have changed a bit by now.)
It's really a waste of time just to talk about it -- Podspider is the generic example of a commercial service that tries to lock you in and as a result offers a worse experience than any free site.
Martin Dittus, 2006-06-21 18:43 CET (+0100) Link
You are right about the poor content of the site itself, but as it seems, the site is designed only for the presentation of Podspider. I don't think the developers thought about making a portal out of it, thus attracting more people.
Hans, 2006-06-21 18:52 CET (+0100) Link
So you agree with my point. Why are we then still having this argument?
Martin Dittus, 2006-06-21 18:55 CET (+0100) Link
Sorry, guys, but Podspider is a Windows client software. No portal. No forum. The software includes a data base that will be updated by crawlers and a set of features that no other software includes. Just visit the link to the software description.
"Sometimes is reading of information very useful"
JoeKing
JoeKing, 2006-06-22 17:21 CET (+0100) Link
I don't understand what your fucking problem is. I don't judge Podspider as a software or web service. But as a website it sucks. That's all I said.
Hence the "don't go there". As in: if you want to browse for podcasts, look elsewhere.
Martin Dittus, 2006-06-22 17:31 CET (+0100) Link
As it seems I am not the only Podspider fan around, and your remarks were seen in the first place as trashing the whole product.
Anyway Martin, don't need to get upset or smth, I got your point and we all know where to look for podcasts :P
Hans, 2006-06-23 18:49 CET (+0100) Link
Btw. do you guys know what happened with ippoder.org ? Suddenly it's not be found on the internet :/
Hans, 2006-06-23 18:51 CET (+0100) Link
I thought that maybe I should explain why I reacted so fiercely.
I was just pissed off by the thoughtless reaction. Your desire to protect your software seems to interfere with your reading comprehension skills. You're trying to defend an issue I did not raise. And in that way your comments are worse than spam because they appear to be meaningful.
Which serves as a wonderful illustration of my point: it's such overprotective and thoughtless behavior that harms the quality of your product.
Martin Dittus, 2006-06-25 09:02 CET (+0100) Link
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