Aquaboogie's blog

In a crushing defeat for alliteration, the Malty Media monthly radio show has now gone fortnightly. The next show is on January 20 (three weeks after the last show, just to keep things interesting).

There won't be much change in format - there can't be, as we still don't really have one, but it's likely  we'll be relying a little more on DJing other people's tracks. This may be an improvement.

We've now got podcasting up and running. As far as I can tell, podcasting really just means we've wrapped some hyperlinks in XML, with the consequence that you can get to these links in iTunes using the following method:

We've been busy-beavering of late, playing the Apropos of Nothing CD release last Friday and also our regular night last night.

Malty Media went on tour to sunny Auckland* last weekend to promote the CD launch of Angry Rabbit's electronica compilation album, "...Apropos of Nothing" (we are two thirds of Angry Rabbit, and our track 'Mescaline Man' is on the CD).

Another relaxed gig. We seemed to have found some bona fide regulars, which is really nice.

Michael did some astonishing stuff with the RTR theme from 1983, and a Rowan Atkinson ad for appletizer ("fish heads!"), while I took the riposte with a dub out of Mike Oldfield's soft-cock hippy classic Moonlight Shadow and Taco's immortal cover of Irving Berlin's 'Putting on the Ritz'.