The Rev Up Review at Hotel Mundane

The Rev Up Review, Number Nine:

• Title: RUR-2005-08-20
• Size: 15.7 MB
• Duration: 34'13"

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Contents:

• 00.00 Intro music sampled from "Undertow" by Reaman (ElectroBel)
• 00.08 "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
  
• 00.13 Welcome
• 01.20 Feedback from Dean, about time-travel
• 01.30 Kip Thorne's Black Holes & Time Warps
  
• 01.50 Henri Bergson's Time and Free Will
  
• 02.28 Cyberpunk Radio
  
• 02.59 The Podcast Pickle Hall of Fame
  
• 05.37 How To Make a Spacious Fortune
  
• 12.21 Guest voice: "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
• 12.25 Vox Monitor special report on scripting of podcasts
  
• 13.55 Britcaster and PodcastCon UK
• 14.33 Music: I Do by Rob Costlow, at the Podsafe Music Network
  
  
• 18.23 Guest voice: "It's time for the Rev-Master's Rant"
• 18.26 Mundane SF?
• 21.25 "RUR -- Rev Up Review"
• 21.32 Doctor Who: Podshock at The Gallifreyan Embassy
  
• 22.11 James Naughton
  
• 22.50 Firefly, as recommended by Geek Goddess Mur
  
• 23.40 Episode 4 of Travel With Confidence (music by The Brothers Femme at Pod Safe Audio)
• 33.09 Send feedback to rur@revupreview.co.uk, or in North America call the RANT line: 206-339-RANT (7268), or post a comment in the TSFPN Forum
  
• 34.13 End

Background music:

• L. A./Passing By by Rob Costlow. More at the Podsafe Music Network
  

The Rev Up Review: Nemo & Time Travel

The Rev Up Review, Number Eight:

• Title: RUR-2005-08-07
• Size: 17.6 MB
• Duration: 38'20"

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Contents:

• 00.00 Intro music: "Undertow" by Reaman (ElectroBel)
• 00.08 "You're Listening to The Rev Up Review"
  
• 00.13 Welcome
• 01.41 The Rev Up Review is a proud member of The SciFi Podcast Network
• 02.26 Another visit to the BBC Proms
• 03.46 BBC Radio 3 clip
• 05.54 Mur Lafferty's Geek Fu Action Grip
  
• 06.12 Vox Monitor's review of Escape Pod: "Clean Up Your Room"
  
• 06.23 Geek News Central
  
• 06.28 Mental-Escher.net CyberpunkRadio Cliffnotes #1-9
• 06.40 Email from John, in Ontario
• 07.05 Rant/ramble about time-travel stories
• 10.52 TSFPN audio tag
• 11.02 The Bookcast, with Bill Thompson of Eye On Books
  
• 11.59 James Naughton
• 12.08 Podcast Who
• 12.11 Slice of SciFi
• 12.58 Free Podcast Novel: Brace For Impact
  
• 13.39 Air Out My Shorts
  
• 14.13 Music: Kyrie Eleison by Fumitaka Anzai, at the Podsafe Music Network
  
  
• 19.34 Review of Nemonymous Two
  
• 26.41 Neil Dixon's "A Minor Technicality" and Britcaster
  
• 27.22 Episode 3 of Travel With Confidence (music by The Brothers Femme at Pod Safe Audio)
• 37.02 Send feedback to rur@revupreview.co.uk, or in North America call the RANT line: 206-339-RANT (7268), or post a comment in the TSFPN Forum
  
• 38.20 End

Background music:

• Sad Sequence Part 1-2 by Fumitaka Anzai. More at the Podsafe Music Network
  

Some other bits I missed....

I should do this stuff when I'm more awake. Here are the links for Critters, ABCtales and AuthorsDen.

Britcaster

Just in case you haven't noticed the link graphic on the right-hand side of the Rev Up Review home page...

The Rev Up Review is now listed at Britcaster.com -- home to such terribly British podcasts as A Minor Technicality and The Richard Vobes Radio Show. Thanks to Neil Dixon of Britcaster for accepting The Rev Up Review into this very British family.

If you subscribe to the Britcaster podcast feed you'll automatically receive a host of British podcasts, now including The Rev Up Review.

Oops... missing link:

Here's the link to my review of Will Self's Great Apes
referred to in the review of Cyberpunk Radio.

The Rev Up Review Breadcast

The Rev Up Review, Number Seven:

• Title: RUR-2005-07-24
• Size: 21.4 MB
• Duration: 46'33"

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Contents

• 00.00 Intro music: "Undertow" by Reaman (ElectroBel)
• 00.18 Welcome
• 02.02 The Rev Up Review is a proud member of The SciFi Podcast Network
• 02.23 London after the bombings
  
• 04.50 Congrats to Skepticality on their top 100 iTunes placing
  
• 05.17 Producing The Rev Up Review
  
• 06.13 "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
  
• 06.18 Feedback rant
• 07.42 Themestream articles
  
• 09.34 TSFPN.com audio tag
  
• 09.43 "Paradox" by Scott Janssens at Escape Pod
  
• 10.01 The Third Alternative becomes Black Static
• 10.44 SFF Audio website revamped
• 11.19 The Breadcast
• 20.56 Review of Cyberpunk Radio
  
• 21.22 Cyberpunk Radio promo
• 28.41 The Secrets of Harry Potter with Father Roderick
• 29.32 Wizard News Radio
  
• 29.54 Music: The Secret Of Your Heart by Miss Kristin, at the Pod Safe Music Network
  
  
• 34.23 Episode 2 of Travel With Confidence (music by The Brothers Femme at Pod Safe Audio)
• 44.54 Podcast Pickle Directory and Podcast Pickle Show
  
• 45.21 Send feedback to rur@revupreview.co.uk, or in North America call the RANT line: 206-339-RANT (7268), or post a comment in the new TSFPN Forum
  
• 46.33 End

Background music:

• "Melting Ice" by Retail. More at the Pod Safe Music Network
  

News catch-up

First, something I should have posted here last week but only just got around to -- you can hear the Rev-Master reading a story for Steve Eley's Escape Pod here...

http://escape.extraneous.org/2005/07/18/ep-flash-paradox/

(Thanks Steve, it was fun!)

Second (and more up-to-date): Gary Leland, aka P. Dilly (formerly known as the Pickleman), played the Rev Up Review promo on the Podcast Pickle Show - Episode VII. (Thanks Gary!)

Lastly, a new Rev Up Review should be up some time this coming weekend.

Thanks for concerned emails

Thanks to those who emailed me about the London explosions. It's been frightening watching the carnage on TV, but fairly amazing to see how quickly the transport system was up and running again. Thankfully my nearest and dearest were nowhere near the capital on the day, but we'll all need to be extra vigilant from now on. Vigilant, yes -- cowed, no. Trying to fathom the mind of a terrorist is a pretty fruitless task, so we simply endeavour to continue with our lives.

Anyone who was affected, indirectly or directly -- my thoughts go out to you. There's little comfort we can offer to those maimed or bereaved, other than to make it known that our sympathies are with them, and that despite the threats we will not be terrorized.

The Rev Up Review: New Serial Starts Today

The Rev Up Review, Number Six:

• Title: RUR-2005-07-03
• Size: 16.4 MB
• Duration: 35'45"

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Contents

• 00.00 Intro music: "Undertow" by Reaman (ElectroBel)
• 00.08 "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
  
• 00.14 Welcome
• 01.10 The Rev Up Review is a proud member of The SciFi Podcast Network
• 01.28 The release of iTunes 4.9
  
• 03.44 Ambient Audio (per Dave Winer)
• 05.57 The Rev Up Review Competition
• 06.30 Skepticality promo
• 07.41 Skepticality review
  
• 10.09 Update on Matamea Rising
• 10.38 Matthew Krohn's explanation
  
• 12.28 Snow Bank by Jeffrey Adams
• 13.52 TSFPN.com audio tag
  
• 14.02 Who listens to podcasts?
• 19.33 Music: Make It Go Away by David Henderson (Pod Safe Audio)
  
• 23.52 Episode 1 of Travel With Confidence (music by The Brothers Femme at Pod Safe Audio)
• 35.00 Send feedback to rur@revupreview.co.uk, or in North America call the RANT line: 206-339-RANT (7268)
  
• 35.45 End

Background music:

• "Another Place In Time" by David Henderson, from the album For You For Me. More at Pod Safe Audio

Soon...

Apologies to any folks who've been expecting to hear from me, but I'm recovering from a bout of some kind of flueyviralthingy. I'd hoped to be posting RUR 6 this week, but my voice sounds as if I'm chewing razor blades (that's when I can actually speak without launching into a wheezing monster-chunk).

Should be okay by the weekend (I hope).

Geek stuff (plus promised clue)

Correction time (again!) -- When I talked about making minidisc recordings from BBCi's 'Listen Again' I was wrong when I said my digital recordings were classed as digital originals. They're not, they're classed as digital copies, which means that I can't make further digital copies from them at all, and that's what I find inconvenient. If I want to copy the recordings to CD I have to use the analogue input on my CD recorder, which means standing over it to make the track marks (you can't make track marks afterwards when using a CD recorder -- unlike when recording to minidiscs).

Not that many people wanted to know that.... But here's something that tons of people are anxiously waiting for: the CLUE!

Right, email me at rur@revupreview.co.uk if you want to win the new paperback copy of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Just tell me where you think the two-minute ambient audio clip (played on RUR 4) was recorded. Within 100 km. It's a capital city. In continental Europe. I will respond to the first correct email with a request for a mailing address.

The Rev Up Review Escapes!

The Rev Up Review, Number Five:

• Title: RUR-2005-06-11
• Size: 17.9 MB
• Duration: 39'01"

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Contents

• 00.00 Intro & Welcome
• 02.18 Escape Pod promo
• 04.45 Review of Escape Pod
• 08.46 Comments on the state of short fiction
  
• 10.43 'Zing' FX
• 10.50 Spinfuture by Chris Future
• 11.41 Sound Stages byJeffrey Adams
• 12.07 Update on Ambient Audio Contest
• 12.43 Rev Up Review now listed on iPodder.org
• 13.06 "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
• 13.11 Overview of The Seventh Dimension (BBC7)
• 15.36 A rant about DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting)
• 19.52 Examples of what's available on BBC7
• 21.46 BBC7 mailing list
• 21.57 MythArc becomes Peering Into Darkness
• 22.18 Derek Gilbert's comment (this is on the main blog, not the LibSyn blog as wrongly stated on the show)
  
• 22.33 'Glissando' FX
• 22.39 Feedback to rur@revupreview.co.uk (text or mp3), or comment below, or call the Rev Up Review Rant Line: 206-339-RANT (7268)
• 23.05 Comment from Tee Morris
• 24.40 MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana
  
• 25.35 Pronunciation of the word 'podiobook' (and others)
  
• 27.01 Music: "Feel My Pain Miss Jane" by David Henderson at Pod Safe Audio
  
• 29.53 Episode 5 (final) of The Journey of Jonathan Cave (first published in Alien Q webzine)
• 39.01 End

Background music:

• "Another Place In Time" by David Henderson, from the album For You For Me. More at Pod Safe Audio

iPodder.org

Thanks to Evo Terra of the Dragon Page, The Rev Up Review is now listed in the iPodder.org directory.

(Not sure quite how this happened. Evo posted a comment on the revup.libsyn.com blog after the feed for The Rev Up Review somehow appeared in his iPodderX. Well, you know, some things are just meant to be....)

No correct answers yet!

Still no correct answers to the competition question, so now's your chance to win a new paperback copy of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

Listen to the two-minute clip played in the last Rev Up Review, and if you recognize the location let me know (by email) where you think it was recorded.

The winner will be announced not in the next but in the sixth Rev Up Review, which is scheduled to be towards the end of June. (This will be the edition that starts the new serial, "Travel With Confidence.")

Escape Pod

Jesse at SFF Audio has reminded me about Escape Pod, which as far as I'm aware is the the only SF podcast that pays for accepted short-story submissions. There have been three shows so far, and I hope to cover them in the next Rev Up Review. If anyone knows of other paying podcast short-story markets (not necessarily SF) please let me know.

The Rev Up Review Competition

The Rev Up Review, Number Four:

• Title: RUR-2005-05-28
• Size: 16.1 MB
• Duration: 35'03"

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• 00.00 "Be Upstanding for the Rev Master!"
• 00.13 Intro
• 01.04 Votes at Podcast Alley
  
• 01.17 The Rev Up Review Rant Line: 206-339-RANT (7268)
  
• 01.58 SFF Audio
  
• 02.46 Matamea Rising
• 03.53 The Seanachai
• 05.01 SciFi Retrospectives
• 06.28 Between the Lines on Oneword Radio
• 07.35 SF Site Podcast
  
• 07.57 University of Minnesota EngL 3020 Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy
• 09.31 Britcaster
  
• 10.57 Current and future review policy
• 11.37 The Rev Up Review Competition
• 12.10 Ambient audio clip
  
• 14.56 "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
• 15.01 Comment on 'reality podcasting'; Dawn and Drew; The MacCast; Geek News Central; Geek Fu Action Grip
  
• 19.44 Music: "Oaxaca" by Simpatico at Pod Safe Audio
  
• 24.04 Episode 4 of The Journey of Jonathan Cave (first published in Alien Q webzine)
• 33.40 Request for preferred length of fiction episodes
  
• 34.23 Send feedback (emails, or mp3 audio) to rur@revupreview.co.uk, call the Rant line (206-339-RANT) or post a comment below
• 35.03 End

Background music:

• "Take My Love" by Simpatico, from the album Resolve. More at Pod Safe Audio

The Rev Up Review of The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Rev Up Review, Number Three:

• Title: RUR-2005-05-07
• Size: 14.7 MB
• Duration: 31'53"

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Contents:

• 00.00 Start
• 00.08 Jingle: RUR, Rev Up Review
• 00.14 Intro
• 00.46 Proposed Schedule for The Rev Up Review
• 01.15 The Rev-Up Review Pages
• 02.38 List of Reviews
  
• 05.09 The Fix (see TTA Press)
• 05.54 Previous chapters of Morevi available at www.teemorris.com/podcast
• 06.38 RSS feeds for Morevi, Earthcore & The Pocket and the Pendant
  
• 07.15 Some background to HHGG
  
• 08.57 Review of the film: The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• 13.51 Jingle: "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
• 14.03 Music: "Too Late" by Equalized Intentions, available at ElectroBel
  
• 20.08 Musing on spec-fic podcasts, including Tom Corven and The Seanachai
  
• 21.47 Episode 3 of The Journey of Jonathan Cave (first published in Alien Q webzine)
• 31.04 Send feedback (emails, or mp3 audio) to rur@rev-up-review.co.uk, or post a comment below
• 31.48 Jingle: Rev Up Review
  
• 31.53 End

Background music:

• "The Recruit" by reaman. Find more of reaman's music at ElectroBel

The Rev Up Review of Speculative Fiction Podcasts

Details of the second (and first real) Rev Up Review podcast:

• Title: RUR-2005-04-23
• Size: 15.7 MB
• Duration: 34'08"

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Contents:

• 00.00 Start
• 00.08 Jingle: RUR, Rev Up Review
• 00.14 The second Rev Up Review has landed ('Tardis landing' sound-effect from Out Of This World BBC Radiophonic Workshop LP 1976)
• 01.04 Intro to this podcast
• 02.25 History of The Rev-Up Review Pages (original website also accessible through the link at the top right of this page)
• 03.38 The Seanachai by Patrick McLean (www.goodwordsrightorder.com)
• 04.35 The Seanachai promo
• 05.57 Invasive Species from Audioblaze
• 07.07 Earthcore by Scott Sigler
• 08.38 Earthcore promo
• 10.06 MythArc from Derek and Sharon Gilbert
• 13.23 Tom Corven by Paul Story
• 14.50 The Pocket and the Pendant by Mark Jeffrey (also available at the Dragon Page)
  
• 15.12 Promo for The Pocket and the Pendant
• 17.30 Cover to Cover, Wingin' It, Morevi and Slice of Sci Fi on The Dragon Page
• 18.58 The future of podcasting?
• 20.06 Cinemascope promo (Oneword Radio)
• 21.32 "You're listening to The Rev Up Review"
• 21.39 Episode 2 of The Journey of Jonathan Cave (first published in Alien Q webzine)
• 33.16 Background music: "Longing for Home" by reaman. Find more of reaman's music at Electrobel
• 33.45 Send feedback (emails, or mp3 audio) to rur@rev-up-review.co.uk, or post a comment below
• 34.05 Jingle: Rev Up Review
  
• 34.08 End

Next podcast:

• I'm aiming to post a podcast once every two to three weeks, though there might be some additional Rev Up Extra podcasts if something crops up...who knows?

The first Rev Up Review podcast

Details of the first (experimental) Rev Up Review podcast:

• Title: RUR-2005-03-25
• Size: 15.3 MB
• Duration: 33'23"

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Contents:

• 00.00 Start
  
• 00.07 Jingle: "RUR, Rev Up Review"
• 00.13 Intro
• 00.53 The Rev Up Review Pages
• 02.09 Audio Actuality: A visit to the supermarket
• 05.00 Interzone Magazine
• 08.30 Intro to Skype test
• 10.16 Skype test
• 15.57 Audio Actuality: Driving home
• 20.53 The Journey of Jonathan Cave -- Episode 1
• 31.14 "Cinemascope" on Oneword Radio
• 33.14 Jingle: "Rev Up Review"
  
• 33.23 End

Equipment:

• This first experimental podcast was recorded on a Windows PC using the open source audio editor Audacity, available here.
• Microphone/stereo headset was a Sennheiser m@b 30, which was also used for the original recording of "The Journey of Jonathan Cave" on a Sony MZ-R55 minidisc walkman.
• The MZ-R55 was also used for the Audio Actuality recordings, with a Yoga EM-8 stereo tie-clip mic.

Music:

• Background: Gershwin -- Concerto in F
• Jonathan Cave intro & outro: Sibelius -- Finlandia

Next podcast:

• Will there be one?