Welcome to the inaugural transmission of Subversive Frequencies eclectic pirate radio presented by The Anartist Collective Creative Arts Magazine & Review. We play all genres of music with no censorship with more of a focus on spotlighting independent artists. Included with each episode is a source list with names of songs and links to the artists. If you’re a musician or know of some great independent and smaller-label signed artists and bands feel free send some music my way! I listen to a little bit of most genres but I could REALLY use the help to broaden our database for future shows! I already have 13 pages of links and I want to make that 50 pages sooner than later and organize it into genres. I’ll be adding the music master list to the table of contents once we’re off and running in 2026.
The entire show is entirely intuitively put together by myself, Shelly Olmstead, by the sound and vibe of the songs somewhat randomly chosen. I don’t listen to the vast majority of the artists on the list, I just found a bunch of them. I just click on one of the band names, scan their music and if it’s the right sound for the segment of the show I go with the song that’s the right vibe for the previous and following songs. I’ll be including genre-specific shows but I want the vast majority to be a mix of different genres so people are exposed to music they might not otherwise be exposed to. There’s a lot of fantastic music out there and it’s a shame to box oneself into a genre camp. I also welcome anyone to compile their own hour or so long playlist if anyone wants to feature any music artists they know or any particular genre you may be knowledgable in. I truly want this to be a crowdsourced effort and once I get enough little movie clips made to create an hour-long video of little movies it’ll make the process of creating each video for the shows too. All I’ll have to do is drop in the audio and some looping text for each song and I can eaily get a show released each week with everyone’s help. And I’ll make sure I’ll announce in the beginning of the show who contributed the playlist if you help out. I’m all about giving people the credit they deserve for helping out and I’ll make sure to include your name and main link in the show notes too.
The video format of the radio show has looping video cards with the names of the songs and artists I’ve been making out of clips of old movies and even though I’ve gotten a lot better at video editing over time, especially over the past year, I still have a lot to learn and a lot more experimenting to do so everyone will be watching me experiment, learn and refine my video editing skills with each new transmission so I hope you all enjoy watching my progress. The most important thing about the creative arts isn’t the end result but the very act of the creative process. Just consider the format of this particular show to be an experimental multimedia evolving art project because at the core of it that’s exactly what it is, just in radio show format.
The radio show is also formatted for audio-only listening so you can listen to the entire show beginning to end and not have to look at a screen or check the source list to find out what songs are played. It’s a traditional music radio show. The only talk you’ll hear is every 3 songs to tell you what was played, what’s playing next and what you’re listening to. No filler, no ads, just one hour of music. For the moment I’ll be releasing shows once a month until I get enough of a database of short videos and music artists of different genres built up to where I can l just do a quick edit and upload and patch a radio an episode together in just one day. And if anyone has any suggestions of some artsier silent and older films I can use to make videos with, feel free to send them over!
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