Series 12 of Doctor Who concluded today, so I offer my review of its final episode, “The Timeless Children”.
Author: Rand al'Thor
Radio Free Caemlyn: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
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We’re less than 48 hours from Doctor Who changing forever (cue dramatic music), and Rand reflects on why they’ve liked series 12 so much, and anticipates the imminent plot reveals of The Timeless Children (while avoiding spoilers).
Please enjoy and thank you for listening.
Radio Free Caemlyn: The Strange Situation of Actually Enjoying Doctor Who
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What’s this? A new episode that isn’t a sound collage? What manner of madness is this?
Anyway, in this episode, I talk about Doctor Who series 12 leading up to the two-part finale. I also briefly touch on Star Trek: Picard and the imminent start of Better Call Saul’s fifth season.
I also recommend eight podcasts. Those include:
Wake and Bake With Clay Pigeon Weekday morning radio show on WFMU, featuring music and guest segments. Airs live on WFMU weekday mornings from 6-9am eastern time.
Techtonic With Mark Hurst Weekly WFMU show discussing tech news topics. Airs live on WFMU Monday evenings from 6-7pm eastern time.
Seven Second Delay With Ken and Andy Comedy and listener call-in show that airs live on WFMU Wednesday evenings from 6-7pm eastern time, cohosted by WFMU station manager Ken Freedman and TV writer Andy Breckman.
The Snow Plow Show from the Phone Losers of America. Prank call podcast created/hosted by Brad “RBCP” Carter.
Dwight the Janitor Podcast. Airs live Saturday nights starting at 10pm eastern time. Prank call show.
StarDate. Daily short-form podcast discussing astronomy topics.
Ken’s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza Long-running sound collage series created by Kenzo. Airs on WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio most Wednesday evenings from 5-7pm eastern time.
Madhouse Live Radio. Long-running prank call show created by Carlito.
Please enjoy and thank you for listening.
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 104: The Dreams In Which I’m Dying
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Here it is, a rainy, new sound collage, made at the halfway point of February, 2020 (or just past, rather).
Let’s get to the ingredients list. Check with your doctor to see if these fit in your diet or in case you have allergies or medical requirements, or if there’s any negative reactions with medications you may be taking.
Atmospheric/Weather Ambient Recordings, BBC Sound Effects Library
Gary Jules – “Mad World”
Blank and Jones ft. Francis – “Hey Survivor”
Miranda July – “Lena Beamish”
Belle and Sebastian – “Modern Love Song”
Arcade Fire – “We Used to Wait”
Intro excerpt from Cultdom Collective episode 362 reviewing Doctor Who 12.08: “Can You Hear Me?”
As always, please enjoy and thank you for listening. You can send feedback and/or ideas/suggestions to radiofreecaemlyn at gmail. Thank you.
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 103: Half the Light of the World
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Here’s my latest sound collage, and this one features a listener request! Ian The6thDoctor from the Cultdom Collective Podcast requested loops from “Phat Planet” by Leftfield. That appears in the last quarter of this collage.
Samples used in this collage include:
Alan Parsons Project – “Siren Song”
Alan Parsons Project – “Oh Life (There Must Be More)”
Leftfield – “Phat Planet” [Listener Request!]
Blank and Jones ft. Francis – “Hey Survivor”
Evan Doorbell’s Telephone Tapes – Early ’80s
Doctor Who – TARDIS De/Materializing, Interior Ambient (circa series 10)
Various Petscop Tracks, SFX
Alan Parsons Project – “The Light of the World”
Alan Watts – “Beware the Melody”
As always, please enjoy and thank you for listening!
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 102: Are You Out There?
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February is upon us, and while the Academy Awards were on, I was busy both watching CometTV’s MST3K marathon and working on this new sound collage, while it was raining outside.
This collage combines the following:
Kraftwerk – “Radioactivity”
Police scanner recording, location unknown
“Only You” – Yazoo
Atonal pads, drones from Ghosthackery
Vangelis – “Chariots of Fire”
Kraftwerk – “Autobahn”
[Artist Unknown] – “Abstractions”
Alan Parsons Project – “Ignorance is Bliss”
Angelo Badalamenti – “Twin Peaks Theme”
David Wise – Various tracks from the NES game “Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II”
Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu – “A Premonition”, “Chrono Trigger” from SNES game “Chrono Trigger”
Kumi Tanioka – “Clouds Reflected on the River Surface” (from the Nintendo Gamecube game “Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles”
Poe – “Hello”
Aphex Twin – “Cliffs”, “White Blur”
Kenneth W. Arnold (?) – “Lord British’s Castle Theme”, “Overworld Theme”, “Exodus’ Castle Theme” from the NES port of “Ultima: Exodus”
Boards of Canada – “Farewell Fire”
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 101: To Far Away Times
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Episode 101 combines some of my random memories with Aes Dana’s “Haze” and “Iris Rotation”, Coldplay’s “Aiko”, Radiohead’s “No Surprise”, and Carbon Based Lifeform’s “Silent Running”.
Thank you for listening.
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 100: The Truth Is All There Is
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Here we are, the big 100th episode milestone. Let’s get to the playlist.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – “White Mischief”, “Music For a Found Harmonium”, “Rosalosis”
Various BBC Sound Effects (Doorbell, Door Opening/Closing, Washing Up, Phone SFX, Cathedral ambience, Alarm Clock Ticking, Clock Striking 6, TV Being Crushed, Window Breaking, Brick Wall Destroyed)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Maps”
Alan Watts lecture – “What Did You Forget”
Cross Record – “Steady Waves”
Tangerine Dream – “Song of the Whale Part 1: From Dawn”
Joe Frank – “God”
Boards of Canada – “Music is Math”
Handsome Boy Modeling School – “The Truth (ft. Roisin of Moloko & J-Live)”
Tangerine Dream – “Song of the Whale Part 2: To Dusk”
Yuri Kane – “Right Back (Original Mix)”
Please enjoy and thank you for listening.
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 99: A Hallway of Memories
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Samples include:
Toto – “99”
Various music tracks from the video game “Golden Sun” (GBA, composer Motoi Sakuraba)
Aes Dana – “Opalin”
Poe – “Exploration B”
Poe – “Haunted”
Me reading from the introduction of Mark Z. Danielewski’s novel “House of Leaves”
Jon Hopkins – “Small Memory”
“My Dinner With Andre” audio clip
Caller from an open lines episode of Coast 2 Coast AM w/Art Bell
Koji Kondo – “Dire, Dire Docks Theme” (Super Mario 64)
BBC Sound Effects Library – Crowd Chatter, Applause
Bardo State – “Seneca”
Rapid Eye – “Circa Forever (Rapid Eye’s Chillseeking Remix)
Angelo Badalamenti – “Into the Night” (Vocals by Julee Cruise)
Riccardo Eberspacher – “ClassJazz”
Everything But the Girl – “Missing”
Poe – “Hey Pretty (Drive-By 2001 Mix)”
Nightmares on Wax – “You Wish”
Poe – “Dear Johnny”
Poe – “Amazed”
Boards of Canada – “Come to Dust”
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 24: Peace and Friendship
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Finally adding this older episode (created in March of 2015) to the official TalkShoe archive.
Samples used in this episode include:
Foo Fighters – “Everlong”
Sam Cooke – “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Dan Deacon – “Prettyboy”
Windows Install Music, Microsoft
Darius Rucker – “Wagon Wheel”
Black Sabbath – “Planet Caravan”
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – “From the Beginning”
Nouri – “Peace and Friendship”
Eroc – “Wolkenreise”
Atlantean – “Starbound”
Theophany – “Time’s End” (From Time’s End: Majora’s Mask Remixed)
Boards of Canada – “Oscar See Through Red Eye”
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