In GBA 127 we get better acquainted with Robin the Fog. He talks radiophonics, records, finding sounds, Resonance FM, why he's called the fog and so much more.

We go from The Prodigy to John Cage to Simon and Garfunkle to Thundercats, all the time talking about how you find sounds and how you find ideas.

Robin at one point quotes Charlie Parker: "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."

And that is pretty much what this conversation is about!

Robin plugs (plus extras):

His website: http://www.robinthefog.com

His releases: http://www.thefogsignals.com

The Ghosts of Bush: http://thefogsignals.com/album/the-ghosts-of-bush

The Original Sound Track Show (OST) resonance:  
BBC Records Special: http://robinthefog.com/2012/10/23/a-living-sermon-ost-bbc-records-special/

Howlround: https://twitter.com/Howlroundmusic

Howlround play London Analogue Festival on Sunday 8th September: http://www.londonanalogue.com/

Howlround LP. Secret Songs Of Savamala will be released September 16th on The Fog Signals in a strictly limited vinyl edition of 300 copies (plus download), with spine sleeve and beautiful cover photography by Milica Nikolic.

Prequel to Ghosts of Bush: http://thefogsignals.com/album/earl-grey-whistle-test

Resonance FM: http://resonancefm.com/

You can catch the follow up to The Ghosts of Bush Whirled Service is a twenty-minute nocturnal perambulation around the empty corridors, studios, stairwells and basements of the BBC’s recently completed home, New Broadcasting House on BBC3's Late Junction which is still on the iplayer till Thursday 5th  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038ygzc

We mention:

The Radiophonic Workshop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop

In the Dark: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/

John Cage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage

Stockhausen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen

altern-8: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altern-8

Lone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_(musician)

Alern-8 active - 8 on top of the pops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSWTNeg-uog

The Prodigy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prodigy

Smack My Bitch Up - video: http://vimeo.com/44561183

Out of Space: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qriH-8yeqcE

Take That: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_That

Cradle of Filth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_Filth

Simon and Garfunkle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%26_Garfunkel

DJ Shadow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Shadow

Everybody in the Place - Prodigy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKmhlA2S2KU

Robin the Fog  in Wire magazine: http://robinthefog.com/2012/05/29/fog-on-the-wire/

Charlie Parker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker

Decasia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decasia


Resonance FM Inteview with Stewart Lee: https://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm/til-debt-do-us-part-the-entire

Stewart Lee on Blasphemy:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9EUe8jNr6o

Stewart Lee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Lee

James Baldwin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin

Captain Planet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Planet_and_the_Planeteers

Thundercats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderCats

Oasis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_(band)

The Dave Album: https://soundcloud.com/the-dave/sets/going-back-to-finish-the-job

Canary album: http://www.discogs.com/Jim-Fassett-Symphony-Of-The-Birds/release/3973873

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GBA 127 Robin The Fog

A weekly podcast: Join Dave Pickering on his journey to get better acquainted with the people he knows. Part interview show, part oral history project and part autobiography through conversation.

British Podcast Award 2017 winner (bronze in Best Interview category)

GBA was nominated for a 2012 Radio Production Award, aired for 3 seasons on Resonance 104.4 FM and was featured on BBC Radio 4's In Pod We Trust, BBC Radio 5 Live’s Helen and Olly's Required Listening and has been recommended by The Guardian, Time Out and the Financial Times

One-Man Radiophonic Workshop and founder of haunted tape splicers Howlround. Devout catalyst. Recent albums include 'The Debatable Lands' on Touch and 'Worm Food Delivery' on The Tapeworm.