Podcasts are now updated.

First up, is the second part of Barry Seroff's Democracy series entitled An Evening With Raymond Scott (in Hell).  This wonderful piece continues in the vein that Barry's worked in before, where he's able to mold improvisations into sounding convincingly like composition with very quirky and beautiful results. 

Second is the third part of the Painful Leg Injuries' latest series of compositions for the Nintendo DS cartridge, Korg DS-10.  CDS3 wanders through aggressive and passive states.

Hope you enjoy them, until next week, take care.

Welcome back.

This week, Barry Seroff begins a new series of podcasts that feature improv excerpts from rehearsals for his cantata Democracy. His collaborators in this 5 part series are Anne Rhodes (Soprano) Carl Testa (bass) and Steve Zeminski (percussion), as well as his six-month-old son Jackson, rocking out on iPhones with the Bebot app. The first episode is Chinese Toy Factory.

Also this week is the latest episode from the series Compositions for the DS-10 the latest round of works by the Painful Leg Injuries.  This episode CDS2, the second part of a five part series that focuses on compositions I wrote using Korg's DS-10 cartridge on a Nintendo DSi.  Thanks again to my main man, Larry, who got me NDSi as a gift back September, others have said it and I agree, the Nindendo DS is worth the price alone for the DS-10 synth cartridge.

Until next week, enjoy!

Belated Happy New Year to all!

We are back for another year, and 2010 will the start of a new phase for this label.

First, OKSRNA as a label will be switching gears to focus more on album releases, and less of new technology releases like podcasts.

So, in May of 2010, we will be ending our weekly individual artist podcasts, with the 200th Painful Leg Injuries Podcast and starting a new label-wide podcast that will be more like a radio-show format than the one we have been using thus far.

Back in 2005 when I started the Painful Leg Injuries podcast there was no general format for what the audience expected a podcast to be.  But over time, it's become clear that a radio show format is what more podcasts are like, so since we are coming up to the 200th PLI podcast, I thought it was good time to switch gears, focus on a new direction for the podcasts.

Additionally, the label's first CD-R release of 2010 will be the first new CD from the Painful Leg Injuries, since 2006's If The Devil's In The Details Than How Many Detail Can You Fit Upon a Match?, which is called The Anomaly That Had Gotten The Better of Me.  We've released a track called Everything Put Here Was With The Best of Intentions.  Click here to download it. 

The Painful Leg Injuries begin their 36th series this week with CDS1, called Compositions for DS-10.  We've done several series of Gameboy music, and I thought the next logical step was to make new music using my Nintendo DSi.  I focused on Korg's excellent synth/sequencer cartridge the DS-10, enjoy!.

Barry Seroff's podcast also resumes this week with the final episode of his collaborative series with Marco Oppedisano called Eternal Loop.  A wonderful conclusion to an excellent collection of work.  Hopefully we will hear more from this great duo in the future.

Until next week, enjoy!