Slashmusic was a podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

 presented by Tom Ravenscroft

Tom Ravenscroft

Thomas James Dalglish Ravenscroft is a radio presenter. He is the son of the late Radio 1 DJ John Peel.He currently presents Global Soundtracks, an experimental music podcast and the Friday 9pm-midnight slot on BBC 6 Music, having previously sat in for other DJs on the station, including Tom...

 for Channel 4 Radio

Channel 4 Radio

Channel 4 Radio was a radio brand launched by Channel 4 in January 2007. On October 11, 2008 the closure was announced. It incorporated Oneword, in which Channel 4 purchased a 51% share in 2005, although it relinquished this share to co-owner UBS Media in January 2008.Listeners were required to...

. Forty shows were made available between August 2006 and June 2007. The show was produced by Hermeet Chadhar, who had formerly produced a Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...

 show for John Peel

John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...

, Ravenscroft's father. The podcast was relaunched in January 2008 under the name New Music Download

New Music Download

New Music Download was a fortnightly podcast presented by Tom Ravenscroft for Channel 4 Radio. It ran between January and June 2008, replacing the Slashmusic podcast that ran from August 2006 to June 2007...

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The show was originally a 30 minute podcast, and was later extended to 45 minutes due to demand from listeners (although the show often extended to around an hour in length).

Channel 4 Unsigned

The show was intended to showcase music from the Channel 4 Unsigned music pages (from which the show took its name, i.e. www.channel4.com/music), but the time was often filled with tracks taken from other sources. Ravenscroft said of the Unsigned pages,

Despite my initial apprehensions of what I would find on Channel 4's MyMusic website, the job of trawling through its 20,000 tracks has proved hugely entertaining and we found some brilliant music.

Sessions

The show also featured sessions especially recorded for the show:

Show	Date	Artist
3	September 9 2006	Pants Yell!
6	September 24 2006	gay against you Gay against you gay against you were an electronic music duo from Glasgow, Scotland, made up of high school friends Joseph Howe and Lachlann Rattray gay against you (stylised in lower case; sometimes abbreviated GVsY) were an electronic music duo from Glasgow, Scotland, made up of high school friends Joseph Howe...
9	October 18 2006	Misosoup
11	November 1 2006	'In the City', live in Manchester
14	November 23 2006	Genghis Tron Genghis Tron Genghis Tron is a three-piece experimental metal band formed in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco, California. Genghis Tron signed to Relapse Records after releasing two recordings on Crucial Blast. The band is noted for its creative...
17	December 14 2006	Pocket Promise
20	January 4 2007	Splen
24	February 1 2007	Poq
28	March 8 2007	Rolo Tomassi Rolo Tomassi Rolo Tomassi are a British mathcore band from Sheffield, England. Their name is taken from the fictional character in the film L.A. Confidential. On 22 September 2008, the band released their debut album, Hysterics, through Hassle Records....
31	March 29 2007	Neural Sonic Combustion
34	April 19 2007	Ergo Phizmiz
36	May 3 2007	Berlin Special
38	May 17 2007	Jesus Licks
41	June 7 2007	Hotplate

Show 11 was a series of live performances recorded in Manchester, and featured The Fourers, Cutting Pink With Knives

Cutting Pink With Knives

Cutting Pink with Knives were an electronic grindcore band from London. Active in the British independent music scene between 2004 and 2008, the band were known for their chaotic and energetic live performances.- Band history :...

, Suzy Mangion, 65daysofstatic

65daysofstatic

65daysofstatic are an instrumental post-rock and math rock band from Sheffield, England comprising Paul Wolinski, Joe Shrewsbury, Rob Jones and Simon Wright...

 and Hotplate.

Show 36 was recorded in Berlin and featured specially recorded tracks by Milenasong and Malta

Malta (band)

Malta was a Swedish band. It was a duo consisting of Claes af Geijerstam and Göran Fristorp. In 1973, they had to change their band name to Nova in order to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 to perform the song "You're Summer" in Luxembourg, which would put them in 5th place....

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External links

• Slashmusic at Channel 4 Radio
• New Music Download at Channel 4 Radio
• New Music Download at MySpace - formerly the Slashmusic Myspace
  Myspace
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• Channel 4 Unsigned at Channel 4 Radio
• Slashmusic Tracklistings - Unofficial site with tracklistings up to Episode 26.