Introducing a new Retrofit podcast feature straight from the Old School!
This show began as a one-song one-off crafted for college radio audiences as well as truants. These listeners craved the deep dope that reeked of obscurity and cool. From the funky halls of this way back institution you could be the first kid on your block to hear something from 40 years ago that rang with spirit and originality. Or perhaps there’s a sample in it that collected mold on the sound shelf until a master DJ dripped it from a beaker into a beat track.
Scholars and Professor Find Musical Common Ground
For the podcast version of Old School, the plan is to tell short stories about two or three songs, then actually play these rare wonders in real time. Radical, right? It’s all done in the name of music education. Total class time: around 12 minutes but since I get to write the rules I’m keeping them short.
The sound closet I’m pulling from covers over 50 years and is stacked with albums, CDs, cassettes, videos, reel-to-reels. Lots of genres, scattered promos, unintentional rarities, lost vinyl that hasn’t felt a needle in decades. It’s an expanding universe.
The Retrofit newsletter continues with articles, photos, and other feature podcasts. The Old School podcasts will arrive in your mailboxes just as your newsletters do. Hopefully it will be that surprise bolt of inspiration from the Fifties through the Nineties you were needing.
Thanks for tuning in and please oh please share with friends! This is how your desert island joint gets found bobbing around in the podcast ocean.
You can subscribe to it as you do your other podcasts and it will show up in that cue. In case you want to hear them in sequence or whatever.
The goal is to keep it surprising and lively, to offer a take as to why the work was created, and why it didn’t make the standard forever cemetary hit lists. It’s not a countdown or programming based on sales. Please comment, offer suggestions, and send Professor Mikey on scavenger hunts into the unknown.
Once again, we open the Old School, the detention hall of the forgotten, the obscure, the unknown, the diamonds in the rust!
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This week on our first Old School podcast!
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