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The Difficult Listening Channel
The sounds in my head become the sounds in yours.
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Authentic audio insanity since 2005! The Difficult Listening Channel Podcast is now 7 years old! That's ancient in the world of podcasting. And the experiment continues into 2012. That's right. More glitch. More sound hiccups. More audio jump cuts. More extreme splinter edits. More Reaktor overloads. More bizarre field recordings. More of whatever nonsense I can come up with and then some. All wrapped up in a beautiful mp3 format for your listening pleasure. In other words, this is what it sounds like when the clicks, hiss and static ARE the music!
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 164 - Operation Drunken Idiot or: Only the Wrong Survive" The shit gets real for Ralph when the family dog breaks into the household laxative stash. Barry has a root canal. Sarah farts in yoga class. Mark confronts Gina. Beth loses her car keys while Sal explores the exciting world of circus side shows. Jeff learns the hard way that just because it has a vagina does not mean you must have sex with it. Tanya begins marketing her very own line of gourmet enemas where she receives better than expected success along with an Emmy nomination.
show release date 1-31-2012
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 163 - St. ColonBerger's or: Insane in the Methane" A giant space robot comes down from space and starts talking in this secret space talk when Jimmy does the right thing: he contacts the authorities. It all goes downhill from there. Randall has sex with a whale. Roy bends time with his circuit bent Casio. And Nancy breaks up again.
show release date 1-26-2012
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 162 - The Dead Can Vote More Than Twice or: When you said forever, I thought you meant a week or so" Tensions rise as Bob gets into Diane's meds. Suzie smells a fart, but there's no dog nearby. Rob's minature robot is a total failure and Sam brings more to the table than just good looks and a Glock.
show release date 1-18-2012
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 161 - Lord of the Hives or: Put on your Disco shoes it's time for Meltdown" The season premieres without a hitch as Glen finds a panda in the pool, while a UFO grabs Betty by the strings. Mark finds himself in a sticky situation as Dawn pulls the plug on Jamie's ferret.
show release date 1-9-2012
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 160 - Hung Like A Mastodon or: The Miracle of Climate Control" In this gripping episode, Max stubs his toe, Holly and Ben finally hook up. Len finds gold in his wine cellar, and Jane accidently shoots her dog.
show release date 11-2-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 159 - Breakfast at Lobotomy's or: You Had Me at Straight Jacket!" This week, Toby gets a mohawk, Mike finds a $5 bill, Sally finds out who the real father is, and toast gets burnt to a crisp.
show release date 10-19-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 158 - Electric Placenta or: In the Future, Everything Will Sound This Great." You can't make this stuff up. You might want to, but it's simply impossible.
show release date 10-11-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 157 - Lots of Knobs or: How Many Times Can You Dig in the Same Cat Box and Expect to Find Valuable Artifacts?" You want to know what's really shocking? 220 volts.
show release date 10-4-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 156 - Sex Vagina Horror Armageddon or: How the West Was Really Won" Lots of bootie shaking was had as people from all walks of life celebrated. Then the electricity was shut off. And then undead robots rose up and walked the Earth.
show release date 9-29-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 155 - Rise of the Mushroom Accelerator 2.0 or: There's More Than One of These" I had my best, brightest, most experienced engineer working on it. Pedro did a really good job considering he didn't understand English and had just a 7th grade education. But he was all that I could afford. Still, I think he is making progress and the prototype is expected to be ready for testing sometime early next year.
show release date 9-22-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 154 - Space Tampon Ninja Destroyer or: Maybe I Didn't Make My Point Clear" It was supposed to be a quick test. Nothing special. A run of the mill operation. But that's when the unexpected happened.
show release date 9-15-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 153 - More Is Better or: When a Routine Tonsil Scraping Goes Wrong" Just taking the laptop for a spin on a beautiful Summer morning, when all of a sudden, trouble hits.
show release date 9-8-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 152 - An Unfair Advantage or: How to Time Travel On Less Than A Dollar A Day" Lets get this groove going with the smooth sounds and hot beats of the best in simulated malfunctioning electronics. All the bits with less of the bytes. And it's even great on toast.
show release date 4-20-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 151 - Run Forrest Run or: Scrambling Up the Numbers Makes Better Cheese" It's the classics that we crave. And this one is destined to be a classic, that's for sure.
show release date 4-12-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 150 - A Side of Greens or: My Dreams Are All Digital." I sat and stared at the waves, but they didn't wave back. I washed the dishes and made the bed. Only time will tell if this was the correct course of action.
show release date 2-17-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 149 - Nice Girls Don't Fart or: What do you mean cheese costs extra?" Should this much power be allowed to be in the hands of an single person? And will the cute, cuddly little kitten really get it? Stay tuned to find out.
show release date 2-9-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 148 - Hot Robot Pr0n or: At Least I'm Still Big in Japan!" They may be cute and cuddly, but the pack a nasty bite. I suggest you keep your hands inside the ride at all times. It's going to be one of those days, I can feel it.
show release date 2-3-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 147 - Stop Eject or: When All the Broken Things Speak at Once" A laptop can be so many things. For me, it's a musical instrument. That is if you consider noise to be music, which I do. I used my custom synthesizer "Trash92" in Reaktor to make this mess.
show release date 1-4-2011
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 146 - Auntie's Alias or: I Told You Not to Press the Red Button!" Inspired by the deposit that one of my cats left on the floor for me, I decided that the world needed some more interesting things to listen to.
show release date 12-22-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 145 - It Takes One or: Every Glitch is Better Than the One Before." When a bad day suddenly turns worse, our hero manages to step in a big smelly pile. And then the fun begins.
show release date 12-9-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 144 - Well, It Worked a Minute Ago or: She Can Touch My Junk But I Better Get a Happy Ending." The smoke started to clear when it hit me.... This is exactly what happens when you overload the system with conflicting messages. Nothing that a few extra gigahertz can't fix. But, until then I'll just keep to eating off of paper plates.
show release date 11-18-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 143 - At Least it's a Dry Heat or: Live from Uranus As Paul the FrogBoy's Free Dinner From El Loco Becomes a Burden." The day was as hot as it was long. But at least it was a dry heat. The dumpster affectionately known as El Loco was full of refuse as usual. Located just outside a nuclear plant most people stayed away from El Loco and its radioactive contents. But Paul the FrogBoy was not most people. He had spent the last 20 years living as a freakshow attraction and had a reputation for eating anything especially if it was free. Is Paul about to be done in by El Loco?
show release date 10-27-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - 142 - A Beautiful Disintegration or: How I Destroyed Your Prized Cassettes and Became Huge in Japan." Another one of my Reaktor creations. This time its and audio processor meant to disintegrate whatever goes in. Sounds kind of like a ruined tape with a little extra.
show release date 10-21-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 141 - Dr. ReGurgiTron or: How I Learned to Stop Recording and Love Nonlinear Distortion." Adding some tweaks to Trash92 made it even more unstable. Should I expect anything other than that or was it what I was shooting for in the first place? Disregard all other options and you'll be left with the truth or some version thereof.
show release date 10-13-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 140" Inspired by everything I've ever broken, this is an updated version of my Trash92 Reaktor synth. Lots of under the hood changes make for a wider array of sounds and more fun!
show release date 9-28-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 139" Another of my "latest" synthesizer creations in Reaktor. This one is called Trash92. Trash92 is the result of my continuing quest to create unusual sound makers in Reaktor. Though my methods may be somewhat evolving, the results are anything but predictable.
show release date 9-21-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 138" I'm playing it like a drunken monkey, just the way nature intended. It's the Akai MPC 1000 loaded with a ton of my own sample creations all rolled up into one sonic mess. And that's the good part.
show release date 8-18-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 137" You're hearing my latest synthesizer creation in Reaktor. I put all my knowledge from the Mushroom Accelerator, Circuit Bent Sputnik, and Wall Street Bailout Generator to work in making this one. I don't have a name for my new synth yet, but hopefully soon.
show release date 8-10-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 136" Not since Luke found out who his father was has something so shocking been revealed. This is the Wall Street Bailout Generator - a soft synth that I created in Reaktor. It's a whole new breed of glitch, so enjoy!
show release date 4-14-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 135" Not since the time I circuit bent Stephen Hawking's voice synthesizer have I heard such a fit of glitch. So I really showed my laptop who's boss and then some.
show release date 1-13-2010
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 134" This is the cilling saga of when the 8 bit digital Schumer hits the fan. Be there when a venerable flea market computer is tasked with analyzing the schematics of something called a 'Death Star' for any weaknesses.
show release date 11-17-2009
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 133" You may want to wait for the good part, and it's only a glitch away. Listen asap as this kind of sound mangling could become a federal crime. What? That doesn't make sense? Since when does that matter....
show release date 9-29-2009
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 132" After a long break, I bring you a 'mixtape' of DLC episodes. A clash of sounds to end the Summer and it's a long one. I'm considering releasing this as an EP.
show release date 9-20-2009
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 131" Last time, I presented the "lost episode". This episode, however, might be the one that you'd wish I lost to begin with. Happy 2009!
show release date 1-12-2009
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 130 - the Lost Episode" Now here's the real story. This was supposed to be episode 93. It got tucked away on a backup DVD and stayed there for over 2 years. Here's why I think this happened: Either my hard drive was too full to safely render the audio and/or the show was too long and would take up too much server space. Whatever the reasons, a "replacement 93" was created and this one was forgotten until I accidently stumbled upon a test-burn CD-R in my car. Oh, and Bono still IS the record!
show release date 12-19-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 129" Citi gets bailed out and we wait to see who's next. About 25 years ago, John Cougar "needed a lover that won't drive him crazy". And just last year we found out that Bono didn't hold the record. He WAS the record! Don't worry. What you're hearing has nothing to do with any of this.
show release date 11-25-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 128" Since I'm not getting my 2008 bonus, I figured it'd be a good time to pull out Circuit Bent SputniK and have a blast.
show release date 11-17-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 127" Once again, I attack my MPC 1000. Over 1300 sounds, some dating back more than 20 years are unleashed in mutant form. I played all of this live...no edits! Be afraid.
show release date 11-4-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 126" Here's a glitchy little treat to start a new week. I played this all live on the MPC 1000 as you hear it. All the sounds are mine, some going back over 20 years. All chopped up and reassembled for your listening pleasure.
show release date 10-20-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 125" This one was especially fun. Skirting the breakcore, glitchcore, chipcore, corecore, and chaos genres, this episode was done completely live on the Akai MPC1000. I even cut 3 of my fingers from hitting the pads so hard. You can actually hear me hitting the pads since I recorded this with the internal microphones of the Sony PCM-D50 set in front of my studio monitors. All the samples are my own creations and you may even recognize some tiny chunks from earlier episodes of the DLC - since I love to hack up my own work.
show release date 9-30-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 124" It's yet another brain bender. This is the first time I've used my new Akai MPC 1000 in a production - as I've only had it a few days. But, there's lots more than the MPC going on, of course like field recordings and synthesizer stuff.
show release date 9-19-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 123" You're hearing a perfect example of why I don't ever get invited to the annual neighborhood barbeque. It's because I'm always tweaking my Mushroom Accelerator! And here it is running on an Intel chip.
show release date 9-12-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 122" Here's some of my field recordings run through a computer simulation of 16 malfunctioning CD players. The things I think of....
show release date 8-15-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 121" Do computers have souls? Is this what the machines will be listening to when they take over? I travel 20 years into the future to find out.
show release date 8-8-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 120" Now you shall experience the full power of the Mushroom Accelerator! Oh, and this was all done live with just one edit near the beginning.
show release date 7-29-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 119" I've been working on the Mushroom Accelerator. I think it's become intelligent. Or, maybe it's just some random crap. Anyway, enjoy some pure Mushroom Accelerator.
show release date 7-3-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 118" These still aren't the droids you're looking for. But, they sure sound like them. Malfunctioning droids, that is.
show release date 5-28-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 117" See what my wife has to put up with? Well, I thought that it was time for a nice, juicy podcast. Made with plenty of laptop noise.
show release date 5-8-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 116" Time to get out your secret decoders. What? You don't have your secret decoders? Well, who's fault is that?
show release date 4-8-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 115" I force my laptop to do unspeakable things... puke out relentless sound effects and there's nothing that can stop it. And you can hear it all!
show release date 3-24-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 114" Evolution or just me continuing to mess with Reaktor? You decide. What I do know is that I've spent far too much time tweaking this ensemble. What I also know is that I'll be spending even more.
show release date 2-28-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 113" A step forward in processing audio. This is like show 109 (show 109 was the source audio), but where 109 had over a thousand edits, this show has none. That's right, this was all done live using the audio from DLC-109. I created the processor using Reaktor 5 and processing is all live and somewhat ramdom. No 2 performances are the same even if the same source audio is used.
show release date 2-12-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 112" You'd think I like editing audio or something. Why? Well, if you saw the Pro Tools session for this podcast, you'd see ass loads of edits. But it's all about the sound. Headphone listening recommended.
show release date 1-23-2008
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 111" Like a Hollywood plastic surgeon, I did plenty of cutting to get this one just right. Edit after edit after edit. But that's what you love about this podcast. Headphone listening recommended.
show release date 12-7-2007
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 110" Will Smith stars in this movie where he's the last person alive on Earth. He probably lived because he listened to this episode of DLC. But, I can't be sure.
show release date 11-15-2007
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 109" Messing with voice. I take 'the sounds in my head' clip and abuse it. Chop it up, move bits around, chop some more. Then cut it up and rearrange stuff again. Then play bits of it while recording to a CD. Then take that CD and scratch it up and re-record it. You get the picture.
show release date 11-5-2007
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 108" What a real ear-bender we've got today! Processed field recordings, glitchy Reaktor, and some mutant tape effects all for you. It reminds me of that tiny mosquito that followed me the other day. Annoying as hell. But this is like 10,000 of them at the same time. Headphones and aspirin are recommended.
show release date 10-16-2007
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"Difficult Listening Channel - show 107 - Circuit Bent Sputnik v. 1.2" My circuit bent Sputnik now features software version 1.2! Which means that it's .2 better than before. So enjoy the simulated sounds of late 1950's Soviet technology.
show release date 09-18-2007
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