Music: My Music Podcast Selections

When I chose an iPod over a new Archos MP3 player, it was for the user interface and small size. I had no idea that podcasts were going to consume so much of my use of the player. It has been a welcome surprise. While most of the podcasts I follow are technology or Lost related, below are the free music podcasts to which I subscribe.

If you'd like to try one out, drag and drop the "subscribe" link to your iTunes podcast page or right-click and copy the "subscribe" URL to use Protein's instructions. If you don't use iTunes, you could subscribe by adding the URL to your Netvibes homepage ("Add Content" and then "Add My Feed") to listen through their slick browser-based player.

illJazz Podcast: subscribe or visit the website, which describes this great one as "a podcast providing you with soulful sounds from the past and present. It's all about funk, breaks, old school hip hop, afro beat, disco, and house." Episode #2 is my favorite, featuring some great old school hip hop.

Solid Steel Podcast: subscribe or visit the website. As I've posted about before, I'm a big fan of the Solid Steel radio show. This podcast is a thiry minute excerpt of the weekly show. Great stuff.

DJ Connor Podcast: subscribe or visit the website. DJ Connor has "eclectic musical tastes, including hiphop, electronic, house, dnb, techno, trance, breakbeat, and triphop." I found this one on Podzinger when I was searching for podcasts with DJ Shadow tracks.

Coldcut Podcast: subscribe or visit the website. I've followed these guys since I heard the "Seven Minutes of Madness" remix of Eric B & Rakim's "Paid In Full" in the late 1980s and they're still kickin'.

Pete Tong Tongcast: subscribe or visit the website. Pete Tong is a long time club DJ throwing down the techno and trance (or whatever the kids call it these days).

Protein Podcast: subscribe or visit the website. They say their podcast "takes you on a musical mystery tour that travels the entire sonic spectrum. Soulwax to Snoop Dogg, Daft Punk to DJ Shadow." My favorite episode is the Andy Compton mix, "Floppy Disco '05."

Category: Music