So we end yet another decade. I'd say its been a good decade...for Downtempo anyway. So I have a question for you:

What's the best releases of the the decade in Downtempo?
What's the best release of 2009 do you think?

Speak up! We'll do a summary after the holidays and discuss. Meanwhile the folks who are new to the station can get some really good ideas for their next CD purchase.

Happy Holidays!
Cheers,
Sean

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I was sharing a fine Canadian beer (there are one or two) with Scott Hansen a couple of weeks ago when he was here for his Gallery opening as ISO50. He mentioned that Costal Brake the next release is going to be out in a couple of weeks. I grabbed a copy of the vinyl release (which IMHO can be framed as an art piece) and patiently waited for my electronic copy. You see, I've just moved and my boxes of vinyl and my wonderful ancient Pioneer Quadraphonic 1970's turntable hasn't been connected yet. I know...its terrible but there's something about listening to electronic equipment that's older than you are.

Well anyway. Today is that day. I received an e-mail last night with the electronic download of the release. It comes with 4 unique mixes of Coastal Brake which made my potentiometer greatly increase with each new track.

This is a very warm and bright track, I can't help but picture me on a beach here with very large waves crashing in and retreating and since we've just had the 1st evidence of snow on the ground in Toronto its very welcome.

You can have a listen to samples here as well as purchase. Right now its only available as the Vinyl release with the digital download. I'll keep you posted as its download only.
Cheers,
Sean

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I must say I'm really enjoying this new release from The Orb. I mean what else is there really to say about The Orb? They have managed to put out some absolute classic downtempo and electronica staples which have helped shape the sound of many of the artists you hear on The Buzzoutroom today.
They have been through much and unfortunately this year Orb member until 1999 Andy Hughes passed away from a short illness in June 2009. The Orb has also postponed their current world tour for reasons unconfirmed. Unfortunately their website http://www.theorb.com redirects to their MySpace page.

You can purchase the new release here

As soon as I hear about the tour opening back up I'll post the information here;





A discovery I found with the New Orb album "Baghdad Batteries"

You can try this yourself:

Make your own LIVE Koyaanisqatsi thanks to The Orb:

1) find a city during rush hour
2) Find a bar and enjoy a couple of your favorite vices
3) turn on The Orb - Baghdad Batteries - Track 4 "Raven's Suprise" then track 5 "Dolly Unit
4) Make it loud enough to drown out all sound
5) Walk through city madness to the train / subway etc...
6) Goto the front of the train to get a good view.
7) Watch the world go by

Let me know how you fare...

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Unfortunately the datacenter which houses the 128k stream has had a power outage. When the power came back up the server didn't make it. They are restoring things from backup but it may be several hours before things are restored on the 128K stream.

Unfortunately we're at the mercy of the provider for things to get restored quickly.

The 24k and 64k streams are still up and running fine.
Here's the links.

http://www.buzzoutroom.com/listen64.pls

http://www.buzzoutroom.com/listen24.pls

Update
So apparently the server will take a while to recover. Fortunately we've moved the stream over to another temporary server and the 128k Stream is back up.
Cheers,
S


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I've had a couple of e-mails from listeners asking if there are any apps for the iPhone or the Blackberry where they can listen to the station on their phone. I'd love to be able to do this myself but...don't even get me started on the cost of bandwidth on Cell phones in Canada.

Do you listen to the station on your phone? If so what phone and which app are you using?

Please leave your comments below to help out the other listeners.

Anyone know anything about getting apps made for phones?

Cheers,
S

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