DPRP Radio

Show number 87. First broadcast 27th April 2013.

Featuring four albums from Germany’s Progressive Promotion label, we again mix the best of current and classic progressive tunage with music from Nemo, BaderNana, Freak Kitchen, InFictions, Cyril, Seven Steps To The Green Door, Retrospective, Evergrey, Lisa Cuthbert, Elora and Ray Alder’s Engine.

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Playlist: Freak Kitchen – Ugly Side Of Me; Seven Steps To The Green Door – Prologue/The Empty Room; InFictions – Frozen River; Lisa Cuthbert – Storm Coming On; Elora – Annees Lumiere; Nemo – Une Question de Temps; Retrospective – The End Of The Winter Lethargy; Engine – Fascination Street; Cyril – Sweet Alice; Bader Nana – Liquid Fire; Evergrey – A Touch Of Blessing

Show number 88.  First broadcast on April 22nd 2013.

After over four years of a weekly broadcasting live every Monday this is the final show on StroudFM. Before DPRP Radio takes a sabattical, Andy Read completes his list of 25 albums he’d want to have with him on a desert island. There are lots of thankyous and almost a few tears!!

Tracklist: Evergrey – Mark Of The Triangle; Vanden Plas – I Can See; Karnivool – Goliath; Leprous – Forced Entry; Riverside – Egoist Hedonist; Votum – Falling Dream / Glassy Essence; ARK – Heal The Waters / The Hunchback Of Notre Dam; Magnum – The Spirit; Green Carnation – Lullaby In Winter; Arch Matheos – Stained Glass Sky; Rush – 2112.

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Show number 86.  First broadcast on April 15th 2013.

For the final two shows before DPRP Radio takes a sabattical, Andy Read selects the 25 albums he’d want to have with him on a desert island.

To make it interesting: just one album from any band!

 Tracklist: Conception – Solar Serpent;  Threshold – Freaks; Queensryche: Suite Sister Mary; Dream Theater – A Fortune In Lies; Fair To Midland – Dance Of The Manatee; Sieges Even; The Weight; Seventh Wonder – The Edge Of My Blade; Redemption – Threads; Fates Warning – APSOG pt6;  Pain Of Salvation -  Rope Ends: Wolverine – Sleepy Town; Headspace – Stalled Armageddon/ Soldier; Zero Hour – Demise

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Show number 85. First broadcast 8th April.

We’re joined again by soft-prog connoisseur Phil Morris for a show packed with great new releases and a couple of albums from the vaults. Sample the new Big Big Train, Spocks Beard, Steven Wilson, The Foals, Henry Fool, Iamthemorning, Tempul, TumbleTown, Rizengard, The Minstrels Ghost and TrialX. We have Gazpacho and Marillion in concert plus The Geoff Mann Band.

Playlist: Gazpacho – Winter Is Never (live); Big Big Train – The Permanent Way; Henry Fool – Man Singing; Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing; TumbleTown – Won’t Look Back; Iamthemorning – Burn; The Foals – Prelude; Spocks Beard – Submerged; Rizengard – Tanger; TrialX – So What; The Geoff Mann Band – Tempul – Ikaros; Marillion – Script (live); The Minstrels Ghost – Avalon Pt2. Show length: 1 hour 55 mins.

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The DPRP Radio Show will be taking a sabbatical at the end of April.

Launched 18 months ago, we’ve produced 83 shows that have been downloaded over 30,000 times. We’ve covered bands from every type of prog. We’ve done special features on independent labels and festivals plus interviews with the likes of Clive Nolan, Steven Wilson, Gazpacho, Steve Hogarth, Riverside, Sean Filkins, Mystery and Godsticks. We have regular listeners from as far away as New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, Cuba and The Shetland Isles!

Unfortunately three weeks ago our service provider stopped enabling downloads of the shows. The move followed pressure from the PPL - the organisation in the UK which provides broadcast licences for the recording copyright holder (i.e. record companies).

Andy Read, the host of DPRP Radio explained: “Music licensing is a complex issue and it took quite some find to find a way to legally do DPRP Radio in the first place. We have a broadcast licence, we have a streaming licence and we have a podcast licence for the PRS - the body representing the songwriters. We do not have a podcast licence for the PPL who are now threatening legal action against podcast providers. We would happily buy a podcast licence from them…but they do not offer one! They are in effect blocking any podcasts with music.”

Over 70% of our weekly listeners download the podcasts from dprp.net or via itunes. It takes a day to produce each radio show and costs around £500 a year. Without being able to offer a podcast of the show, it’s not currently viable. Other music websites have had similar problems with podcasts.

Andy said: “I’d like to thank all the bands and artists who’ve got involved, to StroudFm for hosting us and all of the DPRP readers who tuned in, many becoming regular listeners and good friends. The greatest compliment has been the many people who’ve got in touch to say thanks for introducing them to a new band – and from bands to say thanks for selling a few extra CDs!”

“There is clearly a demand for this sort of show. In the current economic climate I’d have thought record labels would be doing everything possible to market their products. Many labels do get theb value of podcasts, but the inability of some to cope with modern broadcasting is ill-considered and myopic in the extreme.”

“I hope we can find a solution and return to the airways as soon as possible.”

There will be four more live DPRP Radio Shows and we will take a break from April 29th. Until then you can tune in live online every Monday and Friday at 22:00 UKTime or Listen Again via the stream of the show at http://www.dprp.net/wp/radio/

Show number 84. First broadcast on Monday 25th March 2013.

Variety being the spice of life, this week we have something completely different. I’m joined in the studio for the first time by my brother Neil as we go back to the 80s and the music that we both grew up with and shaped our listening today.

We each select our Top 10 hard rock and melodic metal albums from our teenage years. It’s a hard rockin’ two-hour treat featuring Foreigner, Winger, Dio, Dokken, Y&T, Scorpions, Hardline. Icon, Q5, White Sister, Tyketto, Giant, Survivor, Helloween, FM, Def Leppard, TNT, Firehouse, Guns n Roses and Tesla. No prog but still great music.

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Show 83. First Broadcast Monday 18th March 2013.

Playing music from three albums he received for his birthday, Andy Read delivers an hour of perfect prog featuring Transatlantic, Gazpacho, Blind Ego, Sieges Even, Morph, Tempul and inFctions.

Playlist: Gazpacho – Tick Tock;  Blind Ego – Lost; Sieges Even – The Lonely Views Of Condors (live); Transatlantic – We All Need Some Light (*live); Morph – Sintrinity; inFictions – This Road Leads To The Village Of Informers/Frozen River; Tempul – Ikaros. Running Time: 59 minutes.

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Show number 82. First broadcast 11th March.

A special feature as we spend an hour with rising Italian progsters Kingcrow. The DPRP’s Andre de Boer is in conversation with guitarist and founder member Diego Caffola plus music from the band’s last three DPRP-recommended albums including three tracks from their new disc In Crescendo.

Playlist: Right Before, Islands, Fractured, Morning Rain, Washing Out Memories, In Crescendo

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Show number 81. First broadcast 11th March.

A perfect blend of current and classic prog with music from Semantic Saturation, Blue Oyster Cult, Sylvan, Tristema, Rush, Riverside, inFictions, The Custodian, The Butterfly Effect. Show length: 58 mins.

Playlist: Semantic Saturation – Stardust; Blue Oyster Cult – Then Came The Last Days Of May (LIVE); Sylvan – That’s Why It Hurts; Tristema – Roses and Thorns; Rush – Manhattan Project; Riverside – Feel Like Falling; inFictions – Frozen River; The Custodian – Other People’s Lives; The Butterfly Effect – The Way.

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Show no 80. First broadcast on March 4th 2013.

It’s one of our regular ProgMetal Specials as we catch up on 15 new releases from 11 different countries. Check-out excellent music from Jolly, Aeon Zen, Votum, My Soliloquy, Shattered Skies, Tempul, Transcend, Semantic Saturation, Roel van Helden (Subsignal), Mechanical Organic, Circadian Pulse, Omega Experiment, Azure Agony, Morph and Maestrick plus a classic from Queensryche.

Tracklist: Votum – Viscious Circle; Maestrick – H.U.C.; Roel van Helden – The Long Road Ahead; Queensryche – The Needle Lies; Jolly – You Against The World/Lucky; Circadian Pulse – Hourglass; Mechanical Organic – Intellectual Clone; My Soliloquy – Ascension Pending; Aeon Zen – Warning; Shattered Skies – 15 Minutes; Semantic Saturation – What If We All Stop; Tempul – Your Machines; Transcend – Entity Divine; Morph – At The Crossroads; Omega Experiment – Karma.

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