On The Road Again: In the preshow we visited my stash again for some more D’s – Dave Swarbrick, the effervescent fiddler who is most famous for his time with Fairport Convention, Dave Pegg, the tricksy bassist from both Fairport and Jethro Tull, Dave Mason, formerly of Traffic and with a long solo career and Dave Greenslade, who was a long-time member of Colosseum before branching out with his own group and also on solo projects.  Then some Road Songs to prepare you – Gary Numan’s electronic Cars, Tom Paxton’s very acoustic Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound, Donald Fagan’s Tomorrow’s Girls, a favourite from his album Kamakiriad, which is all about a futuristic road trip and The Who, I Can See For Miles – the sort of view you get On The Road.

We started with fewer listeners than usual (probably because I’d not let you know soon enough) but picked up very well as we went on and we ended up with a peak of more than 20, I think – which was, as always, very pleasing.

Playlist is below:  Ed padded out the postshow set but I don’t have exactly what he played – I do know Autobahn was one of them.

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A good time was had by all at the Electric Folk show on Sunday, including several who attended in Second Life. We are slowly building an audience there thanks to Ainia’s hosting in TJ’s Dance hall.

Perhaps this is a good point to say that although we are called Radio Free D’ni, our content is not specific to Myst Online or any particular environment. The shows stand on their own merits as straightforward entertainment, or at least that is our intention when preparing them. So please don’t be worried by the channel’s title – our shows are for everyone.

We had up to 23 listeners, with 16 for most of the time, which was very pleasing for a show that was not mainstream by any measure.

Playlists are below. As is becoming usual, there were requests from the audience for us to continue after the postshow, so another set was played – as listed.

In two weeks time, the next show will be another Road Songs set – the last one went down well and we have a lot of tracks we could not ft in to that show. See you there.

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We had a great 50th show, with a Golden theme that produced a lot of favourites, both ours and yours. I managed to get the notes finished just in time, and the show was a hit, with 19 listeners for most of the time and a peak of 25. We’re working on improving that, not sure if sending out scantily-clad tempters (of all sexes – we are an equal-opportunity team) or waiting in dark alleys to, ahem, persuade passers-by will work best.

Our thanks to Ainia who rebroadcast the show for us in real time in TJ’s Dance Hall in Second Life.  I have plans afoot to include Ainia in our commentary team, and she is also hoping to widen the scope of our advertising in SL.  Never a dull moment here on RFD.

We are still coming up with ideas that interest us, and I think will interest you as well. Next time we have picked Electric Folk as a theme, but will eschew the best known (who we’ve already featured quite heavily) to concentrate on some of the lesser-known champions of the genre. And believe me, there are a lot to choose from.

The Golden playlist is below, and we will be back in two weeks with some killer Electric Folk. See you then.

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Ed’s ISP suffered a catastrophic failure, and he dropped out after just three of the postshow tracks. We breathed a collective sigh of relief that it had not happened earlier.  I took over, and about 16 listeners stayed with me as we went through a great dance set, and also managed to incorportate the missing bits of the postshow, later on.  From the Mixxx logs, I can give you a rundown.

About three hours of good golden dance tracks and other nice music – well I think so, and I hope you liked it too.

Reviewing this, I’ve been reminded of just how influential Jobim’s ‘Girl from Ipanema’ was – I wonder if we can put together a set of ‘influential songs’.  It would be pretty impressive listening, I think.  What do you think?  Let us know by commenting below.

Yes, Radio Free D’ni is two years old and in our now-traditional format the anniversary show consists of Edison’s choices from the past year’s shows.  And, for the first time, we had a simulcast with Second Life, Ainia playing the show in TJ’s Dance Hall, which is something we hope to continue.

Despite it being Mysterium weekend, we had a good attendance, 16 for most of the show, peaking at 21, and five people in Second Life.  Thanks to everyone who’s listened now and in the past year, and we have ideas for more shows still.  Special thanks and a garland of Martian fire flowers to Ainia, our Second Life representative.

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A new idea here, to explore by means of songs the connections between various artists and albums.  At the center of this first collection is Eric Clapton, but the connections are sometimes not obvious.  Mal has now posted a little bit more of his research findings…

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16 listeners for the majority of the show with a peak of 25 and 23 at the end.  I think lots of people were enjoying the holidays and only joined us later – but that’s fine, as long as you were entertained.

As there were several folks wanting more, I carried on with some stuff from my stash in a post-postshow show.  I managed a peak of 14 listeners with 9 for most of the time, despite you having to restart your music player and re-find the stream.  Some people reported that if they used the Urutunes link, they got a repeat of the just-broadcast show, whereas if they used the link from the radiofreedni.org site (this site) they got the new stream.  We must investigate.

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Broadcast 10th July 2016.

The theme here was cars, road transport, road trips and the people you might meet.  20 listeners for most of the show with a peak of 23.  We have lots more tracks in the same vein, and could well put another show like this together shortly.

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Actually the postshow went on much longer but I haven’t got a record of everything we played. Yet…

The playlist for the show on June 26th:

Part 2 of the History of Pink Floyd takes us from ‘Atom Heart Mother’ to ‘Wish You Were Here’. There will be a part 3 and maybe part 4.

We topped out at 20 listeners, and it seems got a few new people interested 🙂

Broadcast 12th June, 2016

A second show of TV themes (mostly) because I found I’d missed one really important one out (the BBC Film night one, from Billy Taylor).

I have added links to sites for each of the shows, and also for the lyrics to the two songs sung in Geordie which confounded the audience a little.  Sorry about that – it would be my native accent if I retained one.

A peak of 24 listeners – very pleasing.

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Broadcast 29th May, 2016

The pre-show and post-show selections were put together from earlier shows on Radio Free D’ni. As usual with our Rarities and What-If bits, the music presented was quite diverse.

Despite this having been broadcast on a U.S. national holiday, we got a pretty good attendance.

Broadcast 15th May 2016

A set of tracks inspired by the glimpses we’ve seen so far of the new game from Cyan, Obduction

Ed was away from his mixing desk for this show, so AlanDJ made a solo broadcast with Malaclypse assisting on the plaza.

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