davemerrill

http://misterkitty.org/extras/podcast/index.html

Back when we started Mister Kitty we had a feature called "Found Sound" where we'd post a few music tracks every week, usually from some goofy record of cartoon music or celebrity novelty songs or promotional singles or kids records, something like that. After a while, the weekly grind of selecting songs, digitizing the songs, finding artwork to go with the songs, writing a paragraph about the songs, and posting the songs all got to be wearying, and we quit doing it.

I had no real idea how popular the feature was, but we got a significant number of emails and queries about the feature and if it was coming back, which was kind of a surprise to me. There are so many places on the internet full of wacky music, and so many people way more knowledgeable about music, that I figured people would just get their fix somewhere else. Seems that's not the case, or that our delivery of said wacky music is in some way pleasing or useful. Which is nice to know.

Even though we quit doing Found Sound, we still had a bunch of crazy music that we wanted to share, so when Shain started the Kickstarter for Element Of Surprise, we bought a mic and started doing a podcast. The main reason for the podcast was Kickstarter promotion, but it also gave us a chance to post a lot of the same sort of goofball music, interview our pals, and generally pretend like we were on the radio, like when we were 8 and got a tape recorder for the first time.

This week we posted the fourth installment of Mister Kitty's podcast LO-FI LANDFILL. I got to do a lot of fun audio mixing with this one, it's a fake telethon. I found a lot of live performances and mixed it with us pretending to be hosting a telethon, and I put in applause and phones and background noises. Give it a listen, won't you?