What is this? Well, Radio Clash, is a weekly mashup podcast from your host, Tim in London.
It's the one of the longest running podcasts in England (since Nov 2004), and includes mash-ups (of course), mixes, weird covers and more! As featured in The Independent, the BBC, SPIN and Entertainment Week, and even the world's first ever podcast on psychedelics (!), it brings you the history of mash ups, bootleg events, news, views and interviews of the bootlegging scene and beyond. More about the podcast.

Back with attack and a very big Mack(intosh), it's a new Odds and Sodz show with an exclusive from Phil n' Dog, an exclusive new mashup from me (now released over at AudioPornCentral), and loads of great tunes, in the LONGEST EVAH Radio Clash at over 2 hours...in honour of the mighty mighty WOBCast (well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it)

What is a Cherry Chopstick anyways? (103Mb,  130Min)

• Phil n' Dog - Bleeding Rascal (EXCLUSIVE!)
• Negativland - Richard Nixon Died Today (from Thigmotactic)
• Senor Coconut and his Orchestra - Around The World (Rumba) (from Around the World)
• People Like Us - Singin' In The Shower (via WFMU)
• Fosforo - Desconocido (via WFMU)
• Vampire Weekend - Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac Cover)
• David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones (from Everything That Happens Will Happen Today)
• Wally Whyton - Don't You Push Me Down (from Fred Deakin's Triptych)
• Joe Meek - Keep Your Sunny Side Up
• Negativland - It's Not a Critique (from Thigmotactic)
• Senor Coconut and his Orchestra - Moscow Discow (Mambo) (from Around the World)
• Ame - Fiori
• Jonathan and Darlene Edwards - Tiptoe Through The Tulips
• Negativland - Kind Of Grumpy (from Thigmotactic)
• Instamatic - I Kissed a Monster (EXCLUSIVE!) part of Guilty Pleasures - Volume One: We All Kissed A Girl at APC
  
• Finitribe - De Testimony
• Handbook for the Recently Dead - Hell is Other People
• Chase and Status - Indian Dub aka Eastern Jam (from their Radio 1 Essential Mix)
• Braintax - Decade (from Panorama)
• Deman Rockers - Iron Lady (from Ragga Twins Step Out)
• Kid Carpet - Nelson Street Space Invaders (from Ideas And Oh Dears)
• George Michael - Cars And Trains (from Patience)
• Negativland - Basketball Plant (from Thigmotactic)
• Dusty Springfield - Am I The Same Girl
• Soko - I'll kill her
• Finitribe - Hypnopaedia (from An Unexpected Groovy Treat)
• Air - Alone In Kyoto (from Lost in Translation)
• Finitribe - Mellowman (from An Unexpected Groovy Treat)
• Fleetwood Mac - Save Me a Place (from Tusk)

It's ages since I did a mashup - and prompted by AudioPornCentral which will be featuring this and other KP mashes, I did an exclusive Katy Perry 'I Kissed a Girl' mashup included in the APC Guilty Pleasure compilation with 17 other Katy Perry mashes! (a pink kissing overload? I wonder...)

Yes, yes, the song is awful, but sounds a LOT better with L7's Monster and a few brief interruptions from Lesbians on Ecstasy. Basically an angry lesbian sort of mix, unlike the original which is just straight-bloke wank fodder

I Kissed a Monster (L7 vs Katy Perry vs Lesbians on Ecstasy) at APC (with 17 other I Kissed a Girl mashups!)

Something I hate about commercial 'free' software, like FTP and Anti-virus programs when they say 'free for uncommercial use' - so I happily use them at home (not commercially of course) for several years, lured into a false sense of a happy-warm-fuzzy-glow towards the company.

Then some marketing wonk in the company obviously freaks out, saying 'We're not making enough money!' and then they change the license; and as most programs force auto-updating (which is annoying, but hey you're getting it for free, right?) and so you're left with nothing, with all your data or bookmarks left inside the now-payment-only software; and left with either coughing up, which in my case I'm loathed to do - not because it's expensive, but I hate these sorts of techniques to 'force' people to pay for something the company was quite happy for you to use for free - or finding alternatives.

And then the said 'pay' software fades into obscurity - these kind of things go down badly with consumers and usually it's the last you see of that...although I suspect the marketing wonk jumps ship beforehand to another company, and so the cycle begins again. The only company to do this so far was Eudora, who brought in a free-ad supported model and a Paid mode, like Livejournal. That DOES work and means you can use it for free if you want. and if the ads annoy you then you pay.
I think that's a fair model, and doesn't wind up people as much as suddenly changing the license and forcing them to choose.

So this has now happened to SmartFTP - a great program, one I would normally be happy to pay for but their forcing of payment and forcing of mandatory updates annoys me (it's a licencing model so I expect you'd only have it for a year and then have to cough up again? Anyway I don't like being forced to pay for something that was previously free). So I've found a few great alternatives - open source - one is FireFTP - which works with Firefox as a plugin and seems to do everything SFTP does. And the other is Filezilla, not really tried it much yet, but looks good if less polished than SFTP. But it's free.

And it seems rather strange if there are open-source FTP clients that even commercial companies can use, then why are SmartFTP shooing away most of their install base? DOH.

TIP: If you want to export your Favorites - FTP sites from SmartFTP into these, you can, although it's not as easy sadly as 'File...Import'!

Before your copy expires (if not install the trial off the website, it seems to reset it for 13 days) goto Favorites - Manage Favorites. Click on 'Export' in the Tools menu in the popup window. Select either HTML option and give it a name (that threw me initially).

Then open the HTML file in Firefox, and click on each of the links. As the window opens, right click and select 'open this in FireFTP' or somesuch - and there you are! You can then edit the 'Account' info by clicking edit, but most of the details should be there, unless it needs some special setting.

I have no idea how yet to import into Filezilla...can you do it via FireFTP?

Goodbye from him and it's goodbye from me - to my room, the philosophy bench, the Garfield posters, to the evil anglepoise lamps, the brandy butter stains, and my childhood.

Video Podcast version (MP4 - 58Mb)

Incidental, coincidental, and purely mental music used:
The Knife - Marble House (PTR remix)
Dubstar - Stars

Everything must go from the 'Write a Sequel, Secret 7! to the secret condom stash, to the Piggybank-to-eleven and the Horace and the Spiders from Mars, and the Clip Art Monster from Freehand 4!

Also features Tim and Kirk in: 'Landfill or Maybe!' a humourous look at Tim's terrible cassingle collection!

Video podcast (MP4, 58Mb)

Incidental, coincidental, and purely mental music used:
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
SFX - Lemmings
Electroset  - How Does it Feel?
Various ska/dance tracks