Channel F - Backtracks: The OTHER 50!

[edit: A technical glitch I caught fairly quickly: if you go to listen to this, and it stops about an hour and 44 minutes in, and/or the timestamps behave all weirdly, delete it, mark it unread, and download it again, then you'll get the full episode....first timer blues, we'll call it.] :-)

 

You are tuned to Nerd Noise Radio – Channel F. Today’s “F-isode” is significant not only for being only the second F-isode we’ve had in over a year, when they used to be quite a bit more common, but is also significant for being the first ever production of Nerd Noise Radio of any type to be produced entirely on Linux. Historically, the show has been produced on Mac. With a small backlog of previously-produced, but not-yet-released music blocks that were, of course, produced on the Mac still in reserve for future episodes, it will be some time yet before the Mac presence fades from the show completely. But it is my hope to do the lion’s share of future all-new production on Linux moving forward. So, the shift will be a glide, rather than a snap. But that shift starts...here. 

 

Longtime listeners of the show will know full well what a Channel F F-isode is, but a pair of really beautiful things happened early this month which will have brought new attention to the show, from faces as near and dear as my fellow Des Moinesers (and surrounding communities), to as far-flung as Linux fans all the world over. For an explanation of what Channel F is, and how it relates to Nerd Noise Radio as a whole for the newcomers, as well as the details of who and what the new faces are, and how all that came about, see below. Also, for a descripton of how this F-isode relates to our April Fool’s episode, “Backtracks”, see the blog....or just sit, back, relax, and enjoy, as you listen to.....”The OTHER 50”!  
 
Timestamps provided, but track details withheld for now in case anyone wanted to play the guessing game on the tracks. A follow-up blog post on April 30th will provide the entire track list information for both Backtracks and for today’s outing. So, be on the lookout for that. 
 
In the meantime, enjoy! 

 

Mystery Tracklist (a blogspot.com article with full tracklist info will be coming in the following days) 

 

01) Intro – 00:00:00 

02) Track 01 – 00:12:13 

03) Track 02 – 00:16:33 

04) Track 03 – 00:19:44 

05) Track 04 – 00:21:21 

06) Track 05 – 00:23:01 

07) Track 06 – 00:25:06 

08) Track 07 – 00:27:36 

09) Track 08 – 00:32:38 

10) Track 09 – 00:36:45 

11) Track 10 – 00:40:02 

12) Track 11 – 00:41:10 

13) Track 12 – 00:42:56 

14) Track 13 – 00:46:40 

15) Track 14 – 00:50:00 

16) Track 15 – 00:51:26 

17) Track 16 – 00:54:49 

18) Track 17 – 00:58:00 

19) Track 18 – 01:00:05 

20) Track 19 – 01:02:23 

21) Track 20 – 01:08:44 

22) Track 21 – 01:13:03 

23) Track 22 – 01:16:12 

24) Track 23 – 01:18:45 

25) Track 24 – 01:20:31 

26) Track 25 – 01:22:05 

27) Track 26 – 01:22:43 

28) Track 27 – 01:25:59 

29) Track 28 – 01:29:13 

30) Track 29 – 01:31:26 

31) Track 30 – 01:33:36 

32) Track 31 – 01:34:43 

33) Track 32 – 01:36:48 

34) Track 33 – 01:38:24 

35) Track 34 – 01:40:05 

36) Track 35 – 01:42:07 

37) Track 36 – 01:44:22 

38) Track 37 – 01:47:47 

39) Track 38 – 01:49:03 

40) Track 39 – 01:50:46 

41) Track 40 – 01:55:13 

42) Track 41 – 01:58:37 

43) Track 42 – 02:04:06 

44) Track 43 – 02:06:22 

45) Track 44 – 02:08:51 

46) Track 45 – 02:10:06 

47) Track 46 – 02:11:09 

48) Track 47 – 02:12:12 

49) Track 48 – 02:15:24 

50) Track 49 – 02:21:46 

51) Track 50 – 02:25:58 

 

Total Episode Runtime: 02:28:13 

 

About the new faces: Jeff Pitts of Des Moines Cityview Magazine did a mini-vignette on four local podcasters, and reached out to me to be one of them. The mini-article appears in the April Issue of the magazine which can be viewed online (Link below). In addition to that, Jason Evangelho, a tech-writer for Forbes Magazine who focuses on Linux very generously boosted my tweets about my first production in Linux, which went on to become the most liked and retweeted tweet in my history on the platform. I make it a point to look at “the numbers” as little as possible, so I don’t know how many (if any) of the new faces stuck around. But certainly a number of them at least had a peek. If you are a new face, either brought to the show through the Cityview article, or through Jason’s buff of my tweet, get a hold of me to let me know you’re here!  

 

Presuming we did have at least a few stick around, I should give an explanation of what Channel F is, relative to Channel 1, and Archive Super Bonuses, so you know how this show works. I will do so at length on the blogspot version of this episode, where the blog format is more accommodating of lengthiness. But I will give you a brief overview here:  

 

Channel 1: This is “the show proper”. These are “the actual episodes”. On average, 10 fresh episodes a year (with reruns to fill in the blanks). Other than extraordinary circumstances, they follow a standard “enhanced mixtape” format: a short, semi-standard intro, and standard housekeeping outro bookending a winding, twisting journey through sound. We have had quite the spate of non-standard “Channel 1” Episodes of late though, so for the newcomers, I wanted to stress what “normal” looks like. We don’t anticipate having anything else non-standard for several months moving forward. 

 

Channel F: This is my side-outlet for bonuses, betas, extras. It can be virtually anything. And additional mixtape music block (like today), but has been all sorts of things. We even had one that was an exposition on a certain episode’s outro. Anything that doesn’t fit in Channel 1, but that I still want to have full attention (podcast feed, blog, social media, Archive.org, etc) becomes a Channel F “F-isode”. 

 

Super Bonuses: These are for the times where I have something that I felt was worth producing, and felt was worth putting out there, but did not want to clog up the podcast feed, or the blog, or social media with. Generally, it takes the form of remixes and twists on existing content. Since they only come out on Archive, and not anywhere else, and since they’re not really advertised, this creates a nice “underground” quality to them. I usually drop hints inside Episodes and F-isodes if there are any Super Bonuses planned. But beyond that, a person just needs to know to be on the lookout. They will release even less consistently than F-isodes, but will also tend to be in bursts around certain episodes that are rich for alternate twists on their content. 

 

See the blogspot version of this episode if you’d like to know more about these. Link below. Meanwhile, our next all-new episode is planned for August, though I do have some really great reruns lined up for the months between. Even those will still constitute much more of a “return to normalcy” for the show than what our past several months of fresh content offers, so a great chance to “get to know us” I hope you will enjoy! We also have a secondary podcast feed which is dedicated entirely to reruns, which will feature reruns different than the ones on the main feed, if you wish to explore even more Nerd Noise Radio history. It can be found on your podcatcher of choice by the name “Nerd Noise Radio Reruns”. 

 

Cheers! 

 

Link to the Cityview Article: 

 

http://dmcityview.com/CityviewApril2020/html5/index.html?page=1&noflash (page 50) 

 

You can find previous articles by Jeff by searching www.dmcityview.com or as compiled on Muck Rack: 

 

https://muckrack.com/jeff-pitts/articles 

 

Link to Jason Evangelho’s Forbes articles  (@killyourfm on Twitter) 

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/#18ee68a0d36f 

 

Link to Blogspot version of today’s “F-isode” (for the long version the Channels descriptions, etc.) 

 

https://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2020/04/channel-f-backtracks-other-50.html