There’s nothing too advanced about the grooves

I’ve just discovered BBC Radio’s podcasts. (If you use iTunes, search the Podcasts section of the store for “BBC”.) The Beeb’s already pretty good at making content available over the internet, but this makes it much easier. It’s like getting magazines delivered to your door as opposed to browsing for them at the library.

BBC Radio 1 is the popular (i.e. not jazz or classical) music channel. I subscribed to the Best of Unsigned, listened to the "Electric Proms special" from October 27, and was intrigued by the last song of the podcast: "Found Can Move", by Edinburgh lads Found. It sounded as if Lou Barlow was experimenting with trip-hop.

How can you not like a band that holds a colouring contest for its CD cover? That and their laid-back combination of lo-fi indie and equally lo-fi electronica won me over. I was also impressed that an overseas listener like me could buy their music easily; I feared that the band was so new (and Scottish) I wouldn't be able to find their CD in stores, and I'd have to spend too much at Amazon.co.uk.

Thankfully their record label has an online store where, for 6 pounds sterling, you have 24 hours to download all the songs from Found Can Move in either mp3, ogg and/or flac format. You can also listen to all the tracks. The whole transaction was brief, painless, and a great example of how the music industry can make the internet work for them.

Found website
Found on MySpace
Found Can Move at the Surface Pressure Records shop