The Overnightscape Underground

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Friday, January 9, 2015

Ramplers #1 (1/9/15)

3:59:56 – Take a deep dive into The Overnightscape Underground (Onsug) Archive…

Onsug is a massive collection of audio – currently over 6,200 tracks, totaling over 251 days (over 8 months) of audio. But what’s in the archive? What does it sound like?

I chopped each audio track into 5-minutes segments, with the last segment of each being what’s left, and so less than 5 minutes. Once completed, I had over 75,000 of these segments. By playing them in random order, we can deeply explore what’s inside the archive, to get an idea of what it contains.

Earlier this week I released the first mix of these clips, called Onsug Explorer. Since then, I’ve listened to 10+ hours of these random segments, and I’ve really been enjoying it – I just want to hear more and more. Something new and unexpected every 5 minutes… very compelling…

I decided to rename this project “Ramplers”… and start compiling the clips into 4-hour blocks. This one in particular really blew me away – that’s why I chose it to be Ramplers #1.

Let me know what you think…

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Onsug Hosts – more info at TheOvernightscape.com

Here’s the list of all the segments played:

SHEPS – World’s Fair II – Sep 18 1964 – (5/30/11) – 07/10
Nightstation – Loungewear – 89/91
The Overnightscape #618 (8/28/07) – 10/12
Midnight Cassette 008: Electro DnB I – 02/12
The Overnightscape #765 (1/3/09) 8.2 – 08/25
The Rampler on WFMU – Episode 13 (9/19/09) – 44/48
Frank Nora Show 1526 – The Cinnamon News (7/7/10 Wed) 30.16 – 10/20
The Overnightscape #581 (2/23/07) – 21/38
Other Side 107 from ONS 1049 (2/14/14) – 4/9
The Paunch Stevenson Show – Episode 166 (3/15/11) – 11/11
BUG OUT – Lit Zone – (2/26/12) – 08/17
Overnightscape Central – Straws in the Wind (6/16/14) – 21/21
PQ Ribber’s SHOW CLUSTER TWO – (10/10/10) – 13/37
The Rampler on the Airwaves – Test 1 (1/31/09) 8.58 – 04/19
Quaquaversal Satellite – Change (3/25/14) – 02/15
Pop Culture qd – Rhymer (6/22/13) – 02/14
The Overnightscape 1005: Algae Madison (9/13/13) – 11/20
Capsicum (FN 1/14/10) 24.9 – 04/19
Success Odyssey – Ep. 13: Mentor Sessions: Tom Ufert – Adversity Builds Character (9/28/12) – 05/13
Glass Parameters (3-20-12) – 06/56
The Sounds of Disneyworld, Part 1 – 01/27
The Overnightscape 821: Blue Milk Room (9/27/11) – 36/39
The Shambleshow #114: The Arsenic Audition (7/30/13) – 4/7
Republic of Avalon Radio – Episode 127 – Thank You Thaddeus (2/4/14) – 11/25
Nightstation – Reversion – 49/76
The Overnightscape 963: The Wolfmellow Express (3/28/13) – 10/45
The Overnightscape #610 (7/22/07) – 01/21
Frank Nora Show 1589 – The River Line (Part 1) (10/23/10) – 21/29
Nightstation – Tempura – 076/100
Overnightscape Central – Underground (8/25/14) – 14/15
Quaquaversal Satellite – Pocket (3/2/14) – 8/9
ROAR-2010-10-31 – Episode 103 – Under A Harvest Moon – 11/15
Nightstation – Hotshot – 084/128
The Shambleshow #7: KZ-93 (1-23-12) – 03/15
ABM Show #1 (2/19/07) – Premium – 10/36
iPhone (NYC-7/15/08) – 2/7
The Motor Excursion Ruffians #2 – Part 2 (4/4/03) 7.20 – 07/13
Other Side 54 from ONS 996 (8/14/13) – 9/9
Manifesting Mastermind – Episode 6 (4/23/12) – 03/11
Nightstation – Blacktop – 061/106
Overnightscape Central – UFOs Are Real!!! – (8/1/11) – 05/14
The Overnightscape 912: Museum Garden IV (9/14/12) – 33/34
Morning Commute (with Bob) #131 – PST (03/13/12) – 4/6
Quaquaversal Satellite – Hooray!! (11/13/14) – 07/12
Fuzzy Daupner at The Underpass (8/3/01) 12.13 – 16/24
The Overnightscape 866: The Teleporting Madman (4/3/12) – 11/37
The Overnightscape 1096: Tinsel Burrow (7/23/14) – 15/32
The Rampler on WFMU – Episode 1 (6/27/09) 13.26 – 47/48
The Rampler on WFMU – Episode 10 (8/29/09) 15.23 – 39/49

posted by Frank at 10:29 am filed in Frank,Jan15,ramplers  

5 Comments »

  1. There’s something very appropriate about having it start with a Jean Shepherd clip. 🙂

    Comment by Shambles Constant — January 9, 2015 @ 11:47 am

  2. Yeah definitely. And Shep actually rampling, walking around!

    I didn’t fiddle with any of the randomness… it just came up as the first piece…

    Comment by Frank — January 9, 2015 @ 11:50 am

  3. I know. That’s what makes it all the more amazing!

    Comment by Shambles — January 9, 2015 @ 1:55 pm

  4. I remember listening to that Jean Shepherd clip several years ago late at night and nodding off to it.

    Comment by Mike — January 9, 2015 @ 7:10 pm

  5. I like this Idea…. I like the way you think… I like it. I like.

    Comment by Eddie — January 12, 2015 @ 9:49 pm

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