Brents In SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!

Brents Vs The Planet!

Featuring scenes from Star Journey and Space Battle, here comes Brents In Space!!!!!!! Much like our previous theme show (well, it's sort of a theme show), we came up with everything off the cuff--with a few exceptions. Bringing down the "red shirts" was a given from the start and, well, the joke about the . . .Captain's . . .Log. . . had to be in there too.

Beyond that, we happily had the ship's computer play us music. It's apparently a giant MP3 player that's good at blowing stuff up. I haven't decided if it's shaped like an iPod or Zen yet, but it's been christened the Flagship Brent! Named after one of us. I'm voting for me.

Anyway, check out Richard X Heyman and Suzzane Dwillis (the Elastic Pick). Amazing music.

I won't call this our best show (I hate it when everyone's newest show is their best) but I will call it #2. The Elephant Hunt is still #1.

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1. Ordinary Girl
   • Kelly Harper
2. Everywhere She Goes
   • Richard X Heyman
3. Rain
   • Jessi Hamilton
4. My Resume
   • Acres
5. Miss California
   • Rude Buddha
6. Do You Feel The Need For Love
   • Emmsly
7. Never Really Wanted
   • Square Circle
8. All One
   • Entrain
9. I'll Cry for You
   • Jessi Hamilton
10. New Best Friend
    • Kelly Harper
11. Sands of Time
    • Jessi Hamilton
12. All I Wanted
    • Brand New Day
13. At The End of Things
    • Suzanne Dwillies

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Podcasts, Loudness and Shannon Hurley

Hurley

By far, Shannon Hurley dominated this show. It happens sometimes, when one of us is stricken by an artist. This time it was Brent1. Next time it might be me. Maybe. I love Shannon's sound though. It's smooth, melodic and her vocal intros--especially those at the beginning of Garden Path--are timed perfectly. Really, it's amazing.

Podcasts

This week we'll also be adding podcasts (found at the bottom of each show listing). They will be a 256K MP3 file and is twice the size as the version you can listen to directly off the site. Is the quality better? Well, yes and no. It's all about how MP3 files work.

The first is crunching through my computer right now and I'll be crunching out the rest over the next week. I'll upload today's tomorrow. Many thanks go out to Extruder for his patience. ;) [Update: The podcast is now linked. iTunes comes later.]

The Tip

Finally we give our audio tip on mixing/mastering: Normalizing. We talk about what it is, how it's absence will allow your competition to crush you and the simple tricks to look for.

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1. Don't December
   • Shannon Hurley
2. Sound of Goodbye
   • Tracy Gibbons
3. Mulholland Drive
   • Ashley Powers
4. All That I Want
   • Yohany
5. Cry Tomorrow
   • Vision
6. Paradise
   • The Pigs Oink!
7. Inner Struggle
   • Underrated X
8. Turn To Grey
   • Kategory K
9. Garden Path
   • Shannon Hurley
10. Green Leaves
    • Rearview Mirror
11. Dream
    • Astrella Celeste
12. All I Want
    • Ashley Powers
13. Genome
    • Sugarnuts

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Hogs, Commandos and Helmets

Oink, Oink

Mostly new stuff, which I'm always hesitant about. I mean, our listeners have favorites and Brent and I do too. So tossing in a pile of new can make us nervous. Plus, we're never sure if they're going to be up on Amazon, which seems to be one of the most popular features here on BIB.

'Course, we do have plenty of Soundtrack Mind, who we've played before, though not recently. And Josh comes back with my new favorite: Yeah.

Topping off the new, Matt Humphreys comes in. Pretty sure he was on American Idol, though he's Canadian. Well, at least someone who looks just like him was on AI. Which is close enough, right? And Qua Ti Si with Cochise, which I had trouble pronouncing. You'll enjoy that.

Last, we have our Elastic Pick from Mark Austin Band with Callin' Out My Name. Very energetic with that deep, sexy, radio voice.

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1. Never See
   • Soundtrack Mind
2. Everything Changed On the Way (Full CD)
   • Matt Humphreys
3. Say Goodbye
   • Derrick McKee
4. When You Believe, You Are Believed
   • Holiday And The APC
5. Cochise (Full CD)
   • Qua Ti Si
6. What It Means
   • Soundtrack Mind
7. This One
   • Matt Humphreys
8. Lift Me Up Again
   • Derrick McKee
9. For Once
   • Soundtrack Mind
10. Everything Your Way
    • Amanda Adams
11. Master Plan
    • Amanda Adams
12. Yeah
    • Josh
13. Callin' Out My Name (Full CD)
    • Mark Austin Band

Who Needs Planning?

Time To Wing It

Winging it, right from the start. Not out of laziness (really). We just wanted to try doing it on the fly. See if came together. And it did. Which is nice. And we had fun. Which is smexy.

We think. If you know what smexy is, you should e-mail us at Brent@BrentsInBoxers.com. More importantly though, if you think Brent1 is smexy (or not), tell us. It's time for a vote. We'll announce the results on next week's show.

As for the music, well, Justine Blazer is new, along with Nick Forbes. Both are excellent vocalists with very different styles. They play off each other well. And, frankly, Rush Until Tomorrow White Dove. I'm a sucker for little jokes like that.

Ivory Tower Project, introduced last week, gets to start it all off. And if you thought they sounded like The NeverEnding Story SoundTrack before. . .

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1. Gotcha
   
   • Ivory Tower Project


2. Wings
   
   • 3 Kisses
   
   
3. Yeah
   
   • Josh
   
   
4. Rush
   
   • Justine Blazer


5. Until Tomorrow
   
   • Nick Forbes
   
   
6. White Dove
   
   • Public Symphony


7. Wastin' Time
   
   • 3 Kisses
   
   
8. Running Out of Time
   
   • Abraham Romo
   
   
9. Annabel Leigh
   
   • The Wax Fire


10. Only For a While (Full CD)
    
    • Dave DeMonki
    
    
11. How Can It Be (Full CD)
    
    • Ball In The House
    
    
12. Change Face (Full CD)
    
    • Ball In The House