Podcasts by Base Camp Beta
Idiots talking about music.
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BCB032 - Live From L&B Spumoni Gardens from 2021-10-11T16:59:53
Live from L&B Spumoni Gardens in Brooklyn, NY. We talk giallo and italo-disco, dough hydration, and Richard H Kirk.
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BCB031 - Loveland Institute Of Technology from 2021-06-09T12:20:26
RIP Jasen Loveland
We dedicate this episode to our friend Andrew Smith aka Jasen Loveland who recently passed away. An incredibly prolific producer who immersed himself deeply in his music...
BCB030 - Dytiq My Coconuts from 2021-05-19T11:00:26
Real relaxed show today as Shawn and Chris begin to shoot the shit about Basic Channel's "Dytiq" and Kid Creole & The Coconuts "Don't Take My Coconuts" but quickly get derailed towards topics from ...
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BCB029 - The Slow Cancellation of the Future from 2020-11-27T12:26:18
The Base Camp Crew talks about Mark Fisher's 2013 essay "The Slow Cancellation of the Future", neoliberalism's effect on production and consumption of culture, and how 100 Gecs throws a wrench in t...
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BCB028 - Base Camp's Back On The Menu, Boys from 2020-10-27T13:04:50
Base Camp Beta is back and we're talking about RA and Boiler Room getting $1 million grants, the use of the word "community", and we try to imagine what a future for music could look like.
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BCB027 - Construction Time Again from 2020-04-01T14:00:33
It’s Season 2 of Base Camp Beta and we’re back from a break of what seems like 20 years. We talk about Coronavirus (obviously), its impact on underground music, and (hopefully) the death of the neo...
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BCB026 - Staten Island Scene Report with Bryan Kasenic from 2020-02-07T12:00:04
BCB returns for 2020 with Bryan Kasenic to talk about The Bunker turning 17, how to run a label in 2020, and the always changing dynamics of New York nightlife.
But really we spend the fir...
BCB024 - On The Beach With The Shah's Son from 2019-11-25T12:00:23
Just the original crew today talking about Xenakis’ “Persepolis” and telling family stories about the Shah’s son. We also tell the story of our friend Peter Daou, talk about streaming and back cata...
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BCB023 - 3 - Clubland And Its Discontents Part 3 - Veronica Vasicka And Stuart Argabright from 2019-11-15T12:00:23
Unfortunately the recording of the second panel with Sybil Jason and Ryan Martin got screwed up. The demons of the Zoom recorder strike again.
So here is the third and final installment of...
BCB023.1 - Clubland And Its Discontents Part 1 - Scott Mou and SSPS from 2019-11-07T14:36:56
First of "Clubland and Its Discontents" - a series of panel discussions exploring the dialectics of dance and non-dance in the New York Underground in collaboration with the Interzone festival.
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BCB022 - Black Pilled Field Recording Ken Doll with William Burnett from 2019-10-18T11:53:46
Speculator drops by with a fancy microphone to talk about the YouTube biz. Check out Will’s show Talk Video https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD-qgVQIiEpUQEcTnWHh4Iw
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BCB021 - Sandwell District Was Born At The John Wayne Airport with Juan Mendez from 2019-09-18T11:42:32
We’re psyched to have our friend Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant call in from a payphone somewhere in the valley and regale us with tales of faxing Submerge, early Sandwell District, and LA nightlif...
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BCB019 - Spoken Word Youtube Comments With Sanna Almajedi from 2019-09-12T11:41:10
This week our friend Sanna Almajedi drops by to talk some cultural theory, dive deep into Nuyorican spoken word, and share with us some 7000 year old Egyptian rave. We also talk about our first con...
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BCB018 - Sipping White Claw At The Copacabana With C Spencer Yeh from 2019-08-23T14:19:33
Our friend C. Spencer Yeh drop by this week to talk sober partying and how hard it is to actually have deep conversations and make friends sometimes. We also talk about Spencer’s work at Spectacle ...
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BCB017 - BDS & MIDI Organizing with Samir Eskanda from 2019-08-15T11:00:35
A hearty sandwich of an episode, the meat of which is an interview with Palestinian musician and activist Samir Eskanda. We talk about BDS organizing and tactics for musicians and music listeners t...
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BCB016 - Blog House (Seltzer Mix) Feat Steve Mizek from 2019-08-05T12:39:19
Steve Mizek - of Little White Earbuds and Argot Records fame - joins us this week to talk about the heyday of mp3 blogs and the many ways in which the music media landscape has changed since then. ...
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BCB015 - Couldn’t Get Evicted With Nihar Bhatt from 2019-07-23T11:50:39
We’re joined this week by Nihar Bhatt - producer, DJ, party thrower, and label partner of CZ. We talk about San Francisco, the “canary in the coalmine of capitalism”, and reminisce about the consta...
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BCB014 - Witch House Never Dies feat Sybil Jason from 2019-07-10T11:00:24
A spectre is haunting music - the undying spectre of witch house. Sybil Jason aka Farced joins us for this week’s Base Camp Beta where we for some reason talk about witch house and how it never rea...
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BCB013 - The Beach Beneath the Subway feat Ania and Maroje from 2019-07-05T20:24:05
Never mind your half eaten hot dog, welcome to BCB, episode 13 in which we talk: Weird Science with Ania Waluk and Maroje Tabakovic, future communes, mountains vs. the beach, the frightening skelet...
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BCB012 - Base Camp Burning Man Fundraiser from 2019-06-25T11:02:14
Base Camp Basic this week with the original zoo crew - no guests - just pure, uncut base camp. We talk about the Boiler Room, Burning Man, and the Grateful Dead. Like any trip, though, you gotta br...
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BCB011 - Mumbo Sauce With Tajh Morris from 2019-06-20T16:59
Tajh Morris aka Turtle Bugg moved to Detroit last year and misses five things about New York - on this week’s episode, we investigate those five things while snacking and drinking (as usual) and re...
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BCB010 - With Long Time Listener, First Time Caller Anthony Parasole from 2019-06-11T11:24:56
It’s guys night on the podcast, so friend of the show Anthony Parasole stops by to talk guy shit: John Carpenter, Thom Yorke’s moany-ass voice, virtual clubbing, and why you may as well toss a suit...
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BCB009 — The Silence Of The Juuls feat Selwa Abd from 2019-06-05T14:04:20
This week’s Base Camp Beta, our ninth episode, features Moroccan-born, New York-based special guest Selwa Abd, better known by her musical alias Bergsonist, with bonus appearance by Greg Zifcak aka...
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BCB008 - Aliens and Alea feat Doug Lee from 2019-05-29T14:40:47
Base Camp Beta is down a Chris (Miller) but up a Doug (Lee), who visits to tell us the story of An-I. We muse over compositional techniques, the rise and fall of disco edits, music's cross-cultural...
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BCB007 - Vampires Don’t Play Games, and Other Self-Marginalizations feat Lorraine Sangre from 2019-05-25T12:46:59
New York City DJ and Producer for three thousand years and counting, L. “Your Friend is My Stranger” Sangre (@lsangre) joins Base Camp Beta to talk about anti-social media, beverages of choice (blo...
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BCB006 - La Techno Continua ~ASMR~ feat Aerin Ercolea from 2019-05-14T12:05:09
Aerin Ercolea aka @mxsilkman from Cleveland’s In Training collective joins Shawn, Chris, Katie, Chris, and Rachelle for a wide-ranging episode covering the Red Brigades, queer raving, capitalist re...
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BCB005 - Community College Philosophy 101 With Nick Klein from 2019-05-07T11:00:39
Friend of the show Nick Klein joins us for some real pessimist hours - we’re bumming each other out about everything from careerism to higher education to the idea of recorded music in a cool 60 mi...
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BCB004 - Electro-Eco-Communism With Ben Allen from 2019-05-01T13:13:47
BCB004 - Electro-Eco-Communism with Ben Allen
Episode four of Base Camp Beta, where CZ, Chris, and Shawn are joined by Knoxville, TN based scientist, promoter, and activist Ben Allen @dial...
BCB003 - All That Is Solid Melts Into Tech-House feat Saheer Umar And Asya Gorbacheva from 2019-04-23T13:00:24
BCB003 - C O S M I C M A N H A T T A N or: All That Is Solid Melts Into Tech-house feat Saheer Umar and Asya Gorbacheva
Shawn, Katie, and Chris tend bar for episode three of Base Camp Beta...
BCB002 - Corporate Influencers feat Cindy Li from 2019-04-16T13:00:14
Episode 2 of Base Camp Beta, in partnership with ABSOLUT Vodka, Boiler Room, and Saudi Aramco. We’re thrilled to have our very first guest, Cindy Li aka @cl_lit, on to talk about the spread of corp...
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BCB001.5 - Taurine Comedown from 2019-04-12T15:33:55
Beta is back, covering last week's hottest news - the closure of RBMA and Red Bull Radio. Old hat, you say? We also cover some even older hats, talking Ron Hardy edits, house music anti-canons, and...
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BCB001 - Waveform Transmission from 2019-04-08T12:48:43
Episode One... ePisode 1... ep-1... and it's a big one. Chris, Shawn, and the other Chris (CZ) lay out our plans for discourse domination by talking about perceived authority in music criticism (it...
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