Bound Off Short Story Podcast #25

I completed assembly of Bound Off Short Story Podcast #25, which came out on February 15, 2008. Here's the MP3. It's 13 minutes long and about 12MB in file size.

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Stories in February are:

• "Fish Camp" written by Sarah Black and read by Kelly Shriver (2.5 minutes long, starts at 0:37).
  
  Sarah Black writes flash fiction and erotic romance; her latest anthology of three novellas, Fearless, is available from Amazon, and the ebook Border Roads from Loose ID.
  
  
• "Last Call" written Clifford Garstang and read by Mark Rushton (8.5 minutes long, starts at 3:43).
  
  Clifford Garstang left the practice of international law to write fiction. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Shenandoah, The Ledge, Baltimore Review, GSU Review and elsewhere.

Music for this podcast is "Brush Creek" from my 2007 album Regeneration X.

"Brush Creek" is available as a single download through iTunes or Amazon MP3.

You can listen to the song a limited number of times on Free Napster, or download it if you have a paid subscription to the Napster service.

The Driver's Companion, Hum And Drift, and Regeneration X Are All At Amazon MP3

2007's Regeneration X (instrumental, mostly downtempo and beat-driven electronica with some ambient) is now at Amazon's MP3 store as DRM-free 256kb MP3s.

Got any Pepsi Points? It looks like you can buy tracks from Regeneration X with Amazon Pepsi Points.



2005's Hum And Drift (instrumental, downtempo/electronica with touches of ambient and ethnic) is now at Amazon's MP3 store as DRM-free 256kb MP3s.



2004's The Driver's Companion (instrumental, electronica/rock with ambient) is now at Amazon's MP3 store as DRM-free 256kb MP3s.

Bound Off Podcast #24 - January 2008

I completed assembly of Bound Off Short Story Podcast #24, which came out on January 15, 2008. Here's the MP3. It's 29 minutes and 30 seconds and about 27MB in file size.

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Stories are:

• "The Sky Darkens" written by Len Kruger and read by Dave Robinson (13.5 minutes long, starts at 0:50). Len Kruger's fiction has appeared in Zoetrope All-Story, The Barcelona Review, CrossConnect, and elsewhere. He lives in Washington, DC.
  
  
• "Acapulco Blue" written and read by Vincent Louis Carrella (14 minutes long, starts at 14:14). Vincent Louis Carrella's debut novel, Serpent Box, chronicles the short life of a young boy on a quest for God, meaning and the secret mysteries of faith. It will be available on February 26, 2008. For more info visit www.serpentbox.com. Carrella lives in a state of perpetual wonder in the state of perpetual dreams - California.

Music in this podcast includes:

Intro: "Adsorption"

Between the two stories: "Preemergence"

Closing: "Memory Trigger"

All tracks are available on Mark Rushton's 2007 release Regeneration X.

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Regeneration X is also available on Napster, Rhapsody, and other digital download services.

Bound Off Short Story Podcast: Issue 18

I engineered, read a story, and provided music for Bound Off Short Story Podcast: Issue 18, which became available on July 15, 2007.

The show is 21 minutes long. You can download the MP3 here. It's 14.5 MB and encoded at 96kb.

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Stories are:

* "Sext 1947" written by Terry Collett and read by Kelly Shriver (3.25 minutes long, starts at 0:42). Terry Collett is a 59-year-old poet who has been writing since 1972. He had two slim volumes of poems published in 1974 and 1978. Since that time he has had poems and short stories printed in anthologies, magazines and newspapers. He is married with eight children and eight grandchildren.

* "The Cutting of Carrots" written by Kevin P. Keating and read by Mark Rushton (15.25 minutes long, starts at 4:35). Kevin P. Keating has never prepared carrots nor has he attended culinary school but he does teach English at Baldwin-Wallace College near Cleveland, Ohio. His essays and fiction have been published in Fringe, Smokebox, Exquisite Corpse, Whiskey Island, Fiction Warehouse, Double Dare Press, The Oklahoma Review, The Spillway Review and many others.

The music used is the song Memory Trigger. You can download a free MP3 of the track at last.fm. Memory Trigger comes from my album Regeneration X, available on CD or digital download at iTunes.

Regeneration X is now on Last.fm

Regeneration X is now available for previewing at last.fm.

There's one free MP3 download ("Memory Trigger"), four full-length streaming previews ("Adsorption", "Brush Creek", "Post-Rock", and "Preemergence"), and the rest of the tracks have 30 second previews.

last.fm links over to the Regeneration X page at iTunes in case listeners want to buy the album or individual tracks.

Regeneration X is also available in CD format.

I'll be adding more tracks and albums to last.fm in the very near future.

Mark Rushton Podcast #20

Mark Rushton Podcast #20 is available.

It features sections of every track off my latest album, Regeneration X.

Mark Rushton's Regeneration X now available

Regeneration X, an album of instrumental pop/electronica and ambient, is available for purchase in CD format and is available for purchase as a digital download album or as single tracks at .