Ready mixed tunes

Do you work better with a bit of music? For some a bit of background rhythm is highly offputting. For others it's a welcome distraction.

But if the offerings of traditional radio stations, national and local, bore you to death, even more than your own CD collection, and you have no time to be fiddling with playlist websites to hear something new, there is an alternative where someone has done the thinking for you.

Yes, the musical podcast is ever on the rise, and several people in Liverpool are coming up with fine mixes of audio goods..

Like anything, it takes discipline and skill to execute properly. Take this weekly-issued podcast, The Sound of Music. which is coming up to its first anniversary and attracting a heap of regular listeners “where the happy people go”.

It is nothing to do with Julie Andrews but is 85 minutes of wide ranging tracks, many rare, collated into a loose theme in each episode. Punctuated by a bit of talk from Bernie Connor, a well known face for many years on the city's music radar, it is a bit of different.

Listen to last week's episode, #47, titled I Dreamed a Dream (here), minimise the window and forget about it. Or burn it and go for a drive.

Alternatively, visit the Sound of Music site here for the most up to date episode and 46 more.

If you have a decent podcast that you think deserves a wider audience, contact editorial@liverpoolconfidential and we might feature it next week.

Click to listen to these tracks here.

Float On (full length version).....The Floaters.

Take Care.....Beach House.

China.....Electric Sandwich.

Pipeline.....The Chantays.

Spring Tides.....Jeniferever.

You're a Very Lovely Woman.....The Merry Go Round.

Sex o'clock (matias aguayo remix).....Tiga.

Lesson 2 (the James Brown mix).....Double D & Steinski.

The Champion.....Willie Mitchell.

Two Can Make It Together......Tony & Tandy.

Nocturn.....Mark E.

Homespin Rerun (Cornelius mix).....The High Llamas.

Southern Nights.....Allan Toussaint.