10 tracks on this special episode, but I deliberately tried to cut down on the talk so I rather surprisingly brought it in under the hour mark.

50 Episodes isn't that big a deal, but it is a deal and I felt like celebrating. I hope you appreciate this trip down memory lane, especially if you are a new listener and didn't hear these tracks first time round.

The one 'new' track on this episode is a brand new mix of 'Between Being & Ego' by Of The I. I played the original mix of the track in the early days, but the band have re-recorded it for their forthcoming album and sent me a copy. Good timing for this special show. I've written a review of the album sampler they sent me and I submitted it yesterday to the Noize Makes Enemies webzine along with another couple of reviews. I'm not in charge of these things, but I'll guess they'll be online by the end of the week.

A couple of new videos since I originally played these tracks, including an animated video for 'Between Being & Ego' that's absolutely brilliant.

The Impulse - Get Ready To Go

Speechwriters LLC - Blood On The Frets [Live Performance]

Popup - Chinese Burn

Of The I - Between Being & Ego

Mates Of State - Goods (All In Your Head)

See you next time and remember beautiful women on myspace aren't always spam.

TRACK LIST

1: The Impulse - Get Ready To Go [From Episode #1]

2: Speechwriters LLC - Blood On The Frets [From Episode #2]

3: Infidelity - Breathe [From Episode #3]

4: Murder Of Lilies - Elector [From Episode #4]

5: The Blood Choir (AKA Maddicott Mountain) - Dreams In America [From Episode #5]

6: Popup - Chinese Burn [From Episode #6]

7: Of The I - Between Being & Ego [From Episode #7]

8: Leiana - 2B Unkind [From Episode #8]

9: Mates Of State - Goods (All In Your Head) [From Episode #9]

10: Lesbians On Ecstasy - Party Time (a womyn's luv) [From Episode #10]

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

About 5 years ago I got a demo of a program called eJay that let's you create your own dance music. This week I came across the CD of the tracks I made and decided I might as well put out a special podcast featuring them all. Talk about a vanity project...

Anyway since the demo software I had ran out after 30 Days that's what I've called the 'EP' and since my online moniker has been Ourobouros 54 forever I present to you 30 Days by Ourobouros 54.

Here are some explanations for the tracks:

1. Infinity 

I wanted to do a down-tempo ambient style track and this is what came out. Since the Ourobouros is a symbol of infinity that seemed a good title.

2. The Zeppo 

My all time favourite TV program is Buffy The Vampire Slayer and my all time favourite quote was Xander's line that I used in the track. I found a wav of the line and used it to create this track. The title comes from one of my favourite episodes of the show that focuses on Xander.

3. Concussed Duckling

I wanted to create a weird track and the flute sample fitted the bill perfectly. The title comes from a Terry Pratchett line: 'He had all the self-awareness of a concussed duckling'. It's one of the funniest lines I've ever read and it fitted a funny sounding track.

4. Roc Stars

eJay gets some well known artists to provide samples for their software and one of them for the edition I had was Cut La Roc. I was already a big fan of his as he was on Skint Records and I had a lot of his tracks from Skint compilations. I challenged myself to create a track that only used Cut La Roc samples and this is the result.

5. Playboy 

I wanted to create a trippy, down tempo track and was looking for inspiration. At the time I was a fan of WWE wrestling, and one of the female performers was named Torrie Wilson. Her entrance music was pretty good and had the feel I was looking for. This is my attempt at re-creating her music using the available samples. Since she'd recently posed for Playboy at the time I did it I had my title.

6. Tajiri

As I said above I was a WWE fan at the time and my favourite wrestler was a Japanese guy named Yoshihiro Tajiri. He inspired me to create a Japanese sounding track and this is the result.

If for some unknown reason you want to own these tracks you can download it from this link.

Ourobouros 54 - 30 Days

Normal service will be resumed this weekend with the long anticipated 50th Episode special.

All the tracks in this special bonus episode are by Ourobouros 54 (that's me).

1. Infinity

2. The Zeppo

3. Concussed Duckling

4. Roc Stars

5. Playboy

6. Tajiri

Hope you enjoy them and they'll be available for download from my homepage.

TRACK LIST

1: Rieser - Just Seen A Ghost

2: Page 44 - With Or Without Your Help

3: Ours - Murder

4: Seppuku Paradigm - Sure Thing

5: Bury The Bully - Army Of Love

6: Boys Will Be Boys - Word On The Street

7: Matthew Dear - Don & Sherri

8: Zoon Van Snook - Bibliophone

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

Not much to say this week, so back well under the 50 minute mark.

A hugely welcome return to the show for Rieser, who were one of the very first bands I contacted to play on the podcast over a year ago. They were one of those unsigned bands that I was always playing to my friends until one of them just said 'why not do your own podcast'. They were very agreeable to being played on my show and sent me a preview of their absolutely fantastic 'The Well Dressed Thief' album. It was one of my favourite albums of last year and is well worth your time to go and download. I wrote a review of it for Podcast User Magazine and it's actually been quoted in their press release for the Rockstar Single. It makes me feel all fuzzy that I'm contributing in a small way to the success of such a fantastic band. If you want to listen to the full Rockstar single you can find it on Ourobouros Podcast #36, AMPed #111 or Made In The UK #2. You can also watch the Video.

Also go and have a listen to Zoon Van Snook's remix of 'Nude' by Radiohead on his myspace site. All the remixes that have been done can be found at radioheadremix.com. Whether you like Radiohead or, like me, find them pretentious and irrelevant you have to admire the innovation of making it so easy for people to do remixes of their song.

It's going to be Show #50 next week and I have something planned. It's a minor milestone, so only a minor celebration, but it is going to be an extended show. That's all I'm saying for now, but a heavy hint of what type of show it's going to be was given on Episode #46.

Not a great deal on the video front this week as far as 'proper' videos goes, but I did manage to find quite a few live videos.

Rieser - Just Seen A Ghost [Live Performance]

Ours - Murder [Live Performance]

Seppuku Paradigm - Sure Thing

Bury The Bully - Army Of Love [Live, Acoustic Performance]

Matthew Dear - Don & Sherri

See you next week and remember, Rockstar out 5th May.

My theory that I might have room to squeeze in another Los Campesinos! track because 'My Year In Lists' was so short proved to be a little optimistic. For the first time on a 'regular' podcast I went over the hour mark. Oh well any excuse to play more LC!

On this weeks show we have a couple of acts that I have been wanting to play for a loooong time, a mini local music special section, a couple of 'trashy' tracks and purely coincidentally on the same episode that I play Los Campesinos! a band that really reminded me of them.

It was my turn to host AMPed this week so you can check out Episode #122 on Monday featuring my dulcet tones.

If you hurry you can pick up The Whip's album 'X Marks Destination' for £4.74 from the New Artists Showcase promotion on iTunes. With any luck you can pick up 'Hold On Now Youngster' by Los Campesinos! on the same promotion. It was listed, but for some inexplicable reason not only has it been taken off the promotion, the whole album has been removed from iTunes. I have no idea what's going on there. The promotion ends on 15th April.

Nice selection of videos this week.

Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists 

Los Campesinos! - ...And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes In Unison [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

The Whip - Trash

Razmataz Lorry Excitement - The Biggest Waste Of 33 Minutes

Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe

Cherry Poppin' Daddies - White Trash Toodle Oo [Live Performance, Poor Quality]

See you next time and remember, I'm gonna kill them all and eat the bodies.

TRACK LIST

1: Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists

2: Los Campesinos! - ...And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes In Unison

3: The Whip - Trash

4: Razmataz Lorry Excitement - The Biggest Waste Of 33 Minutes

5: Lego Castles - My First Casio

6: Lodestone - Stay For A While

7: Slovakia - Part Of The Factory

8: Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe

9: Cherry Poppin' Daddies - White Trash Toodle Oo

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

It's weird how things work out. I haven't actually checked, but it could well be that we have the longest track title and the longest band name in the same show.

Assuming that the Black Kids record label Almost Gold doesn't object it's probably going to be a situation where I play a track one week and it's high up in the top 40 the next week. Footage from the 'Later...' show I mentioned is on YouTube already. Those bands move fast.

On this weeks show a lot of music from Yorkshire, mainly thanks to Penny Broadhurst and her excellent Instant Classic Podcast, a track taken from a CD I received through the post (something that doesn't happen very often) and some funk/electronica/rock that sounds bloody brilliant.

I feel some explanation is required for the madness at the beginning of the show. I've been listening to this new podcast called Hyper Nonsense which is not a music podcast, but rather the hosts Shawno & Jen from San Luis Obispo, California discussing weird stuff and chatting. It's been a while since I have listened to one of these types of show since the last one I subscribed to broke up rather acrimoniously and it's very entertaining. Last week they recorded a promo for their show and said they would welcome a promo trade. I thought what the hell and recorded one myself. Well I'm afraid I got a bit carried away and it ended up being slightly insane. Anyway it exists now and if any other podcasters want to play my promo on their show then drop me a line.

It's another case of quality over quantity on the video front this week. Only three for you, but they are all fine pieces of work. The Minus The Bear video in particular is very funny. You can also hear the differences in the Black Kids' track between the demo version and the single version before you go out and buy it on Monday (hint, hint).

Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You

Minus The Bear - Throwin' Shapes

Darlings Of The Splitscreen - I Know What You're Doing

See you next week, and remember it's the DEMO version record label!

TRACK LIST

1: Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (Demo Version)

2: The Seven Inches - The Little Things

3: Ian Cockburn & The Whole World - I Thought We Had It Good

4: Minus The Bear - Throwin' Shapes

5: Darlings Of The Splitscreen - I Know What You're Doing

6: O Titus! - Loopy Loo

7: Televandals - Dirty Lovers

8: Normaa - The Void - Triumph

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.