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OST 01.06.2014 – Robin The Fog’s Denman Horn Special

Soundtracks, library and television music, usually brought to you by Mr. Jonny Trunk. This week’s show (and the first podcast in ages, for which we are truly and humbly sorry) comes to you from the Science Museum in London’s South Kensington, and was broadcast both live on Resonance FM and down a 27 foot-long loudspeaker from 1929. Lovingly restored by Aleksander Kolkowski and his team from the original design by Roderick Denman, today’s hour-long special features a carefully curated horn-friendly playlist designed to show the biggest loudspeaker in Britain in it’s most flattering light- and is therefore choc-full of field recordings, radiophonic curiosities, and – of course – foghorns. Full track-listing and some nice photos to accompany your listening experience here. I suppose I could have included them on this posting, but frankly I could do with the extra web traffic.

Strap on your ear-goggles and let’s roll! Best wishes,

Robin The Fog

OST 14.04.2013 – John Parish

Soundtracks, library and television music and other assorted jollies with ringmaster Jonny Trunk. Today’s guest is rock master and soundtrack composer John Parish. Infamous for his collaborations with PJ Harvey, Parish has been quietly forging his career in the world of independent film, creating inspired soundscapes and scores for a number of hip art-house movies. His first ever soundtrack compilation has just been issued on Thrill Jockey Records and we’re very chuffed to have him on the show. Get downloading…

Looking Good, Feeling Great Episode 4 – Clever Use Of An Interesting Quality

Hello. I want to talk to you. Are you in the mood for soft voices? Lovely hula hands? Let’s end our routine with the ‘leg-over’ movement. You are going to relax. You will relax. Make yourself comfortable. You are enjoying a massage, which is being skillfully applied. You walk naked. You get on this escalator. Down towards the floor. Gaze at it intently. Now don’t lose it. I don’t want you to be sick. Take it through the nose. Let the face go. Very soothing. Put it in a nutshell. You’re flat on the floor again. Blame the gypsies. Let them touch the body. Feels good.

We’re all the same.

Join Robin The Fog as he digs up a plethora of inspirational, aspirational and instructional recordings of highly dubious vintage and embarks on a cut-and-paste odyssey that is by turns amusing, absurd and, on at least one occasion, almost unbearable. The very final episode in the current series. 

Looking Good, Feeling Great Episode 3 – A Peculiar Kind of Emptiness

This week’s episode will be just like a rock concert, except it won’t have the singers, the instruments and the crowd noise is ‘kinda missing’ too. It’s disappointingly sad. Are you beginning to understand? It sure covers a lot of material in one place, doesn’t it? That’s awesome. You’re very smart. Let me give you a frosty drink from my thermos…

Join Robin The Fog as he digs up a plethora of inspirational, aspirational and instructional recordings of highly dubious vintage and embarks on a cut-and-paste odyssey that is by turns amusing, absurd and, on at least one occasion, almost unbearable.

Looking Good, Feeling Great Episode 2 – His Knowledge Of London Was Extensive And Peculiar

This week, guided by the vintage voices of several competitively avuncular narrators and a grand piano, we’re taken on a whistle-stop audio tour of London, a fantastical city entirely populated by bad actors. We might go by underground. It’s quicker by tube, as you people say. The Police’ll be after you if you’re not a good boy. We’ll also have a cockney sing-song and enjoy a reggae tune about the joys of commuting. The great dome. A moon in the sky. Makes you think of horses, don’t it?

Join Robin The Fog as he digs up a plethora of inspirational, aspirational and instructional recordings of highly dubious vintage and embarks on a cut-and-paste odyssey that is by turns amusing, absurd and, on at least one occasion, almost unbearable.

Looking Good, Feeling Great Episode 1 – What A Space Ovation!

Good evening, citizens of Earth. For this first episode our hero Bob (and a girl called Betty) journey to the moon. On the way they eat some strange peaches, take a nap, dream of a stupid horse playing party games, listen to the hooting of space owls, learn about Hydrogen and, upon arrival, attend a lunar rave where they dance to a psychedelic version of ‘Greensleeves’. Worth a listen just to find out what happens when a crowd of scientists and technicians ‘go wild’…

Join Robin The Fog as he digs up a plethora of inspirational, aspirational and instructional recordings of highly dubious vintage and embarks on a cut-and-paste odyssey that is by turns amusing, absurd and, on at least one occasion, almost unbearable.

Sine of the Times 09.03.2013 – The Orb in the Mix

The best of London’s cutting edge electronic musics with Rita Maia. This week with an exclusive live guest mix by Dr. Alex Patterson of legendary collective The Orb that you simply won’t hear anywhere else (it being exclusive, as mentioned). Alex also talks about the band’s upcoming 30th anniversary, and his lengthy and varied career, including THAT Top of the Pops appearance…

Sine Of The Times: Saturday 9 PM on Resonance FM, London 104.4 FM or online www.resonancefm.com
Get in touch – sine.radio@gmail.com

OST 16.05.2009 – Paddy Kingsland

Soundtracks, library and TV music with Jonny Trunk. This week’s special guest is Radiophonic Workshop legend Paddy Kingsland. Having found this show down the back of the Resonance sofa, we literally cannot believe listeners haven’t been picketing the Resonance studios for it’s release. Get downloading, quick!

OST 15.09.2012 – Summer Special

Soundtracks, library music and other assorted jollies with Jonny Trunk.
After a ‘well-earned’ summer break (that’s what it says here), Jonny returns with a 2 hour beats of a show examining the awesome releases of the Olympic summer. He also uses the word ‘chillax’ for which he will be disciplined later.
Headphones on…

OST 26.02.2011 Andy Partridge of XTC

Film soundtracks, library music and tank top appreciation with Jonny Trunk.
Back in 2011 the OST Show travelled to Swindon to meet the great Andy Partridge. Here’s how it went.