TAPE RELAY is a radio show hosted by Leigh Tran. in Sydney, Australia.
Tuesdays 7.30 to 9pm on 2SER 107.3fm. real radio etc.
Leigh has been involved with community broadcasting since 1999, pre-millennium and all. She used to host the Osmosis program on 2SER, as well as Roundabout and Sunny Side Up on FBi 94.5fm, and knows, to some extent, how to twiddle the knobs and even cue up the old 45s.
Playing an eclectic mix of indie music, the show is occasionally esoteric, sometimes even educational but hopefully mostly just entertaining.
On Tape Relay, Leigh is joined by regulars who appear to give us the lowdown on all things awesome, including:
+ Alistair Fitchett, preeminent indiepop guru, author, founder of Tangents webzine
+ John Encarnacao, music professor, musician and Crooked Tunes connoisseur
+ Lee Gillespie, well-traversed musician and our Texas-music specialist
+ 4 of a Kind series, various guests including Richard Adams (Hood/The Declining Winter), Douglas Armour and Qua.
Not from these parts? Then tune into Tape Relay online at 2ser.com. Not good with numbers? Then use timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting to work out timezones. Complete luddite? Sorry, can't help ya there...
PODCASTS
You're now able to hear full shows, past interviews and regular segments. Visit mediafire.com/taperelay to download them in 192k glory. Check the 'full shows' folder for recent episodes. If you're a Last.fm user, you can also stream them at last.fm/music/Tape+Relay.
Osmosis has also gone pod-crazy at osmosis.podomatic.com though the content will take a bit more time as I gots to dust off the archives. Tape Relay miscellany also lives on the Osmosis podomatic.
PLAYLISTS
All playlists can be found on this page in the blog section, as well as altogether on the official Tape Relay page on the 2SER website. All of 2007's playlists are also conveniently archived as one page here.
RADIOTHON
Thanks to everyone who became a financial subscriber to 2SER during the Tape Relay Radiothon 2008 specials! The following bands became artist subscribers... even radder! Take a bow Kid Cornered, Rand and Holland, Midget, McKisko (Helen Franzmann), Ya Aha.
COMING UP ON 14 JULY 2009
Our favourite Melbourne troubadour GRAND SALVO lends his delicate hand to creatures of the soil, tingle-inducing ensemble pop from friends of Efterklang, SLARAFFENLAND and from Venezuela via Brussels, BEAR BONES, LAY LOW throw down space synth funnelled through scorching fuzz and drone.
Also THE DECLINING WINTER can't come soon enough, WHAT'S UP play out instrumental 8-bit math pop to great effect and SEAWORTHY kindly curates our 4 of a Kind series with Great Lake Swimmers, Taylor Deupree and Set Fire to Flames.
Hello TR, Thanks much for getting in touch! Just let me know when you're in town; when are you planning on arriving? Should have a show or two during that time...think there's one on the 14th in fact.
Anyway, type at me when you get over this way! And thanks much for the interest, truly do appreciate it...
looking forward to making you tire of our company by the end of the weekend. we'll try to change it up a bit show by show... know any free jazz drummers?
Was that synchronicty or just Myspace - I sent you a friend req a day or so ago. Glad you've been digging the releases. I just sent the Ghost in the Water full length into the station and I I'll send the Bury the Sound EP next week if you like. Did I send the Beautiful Lunar Landscape EP or do you need a copy?
Anyway beyond all that - wonderful playlists. I really dig the selection of work you play. Alas the antenna in Perth aint gettin the signal so well :)
This Thursday November 1 Touch Typist (Melb) 10.15pm Comatone & Sleuthhound 9.15pm Part Timer (UK/Melb) 8.30pm
DJs Leigh Tran (2SER Tape Relay) & Alpen (Feral Media) Sound Lounge, Seymour Theatre Centre, Corner of City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale, NSW. $15/$12 FBI + 2SER subscribers Bookings: 02 9351 7940 Launching POWWOW Five: Touch Typist and Comatone Vs Sleuthhound's Albert & Leonard Put Things In Holes (vinyl album).
