"Don't hate the media. Be the media"' - Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

1. Be Your Own Pet - We Will Vacation, You Can Be My Parasol
2. Dressy Bessy - Electrified
3. Duels - Potential Futures
4. Soledad Brothers - Downtown Paranoia Blues
5. Tigs - Don't Tell Me
6. The Presets - Are You The One?
7. ZZZ - House of Sin
8. Product 01 - Hot (Electro Vox Mix)
9. Yuppie Pricks - Cherry Red
10. Akimbo - Rockness Monster
11. Asobi Seksu - I'm Happy But You Don't Like Me
12. All Mighty Whispers - Love Revolution
13. Voxtrot - The Start of Something
14. We Start Fires - Hot Metal
15. Audion - Tide
16. Bedroom Walls - In Anticipation Of Your Suicide
17. Shy Nobleman - Baby In The Rain
18. Kissing Tigers - So Stay In Love
19. Fuck - Oops!...I Did It Again (Britney Spears Cover)
20. Die Krupps - Enter Sandman (Metallica Cover)

What's all this podcasting business about anyway?

1. The Podcasting concept
2. Instructions on how to listen to NYUB in iTunes

Check out the Take Your Medicine Podcast if you want to hear the latest up and coming UK acts.

..doesn't get itFor the last 3 weeks I've been happily mailing signed bands to see whether I can play their material on NYUB. The vast majority of their labels are very eager to co-operate. They understand 'media fragmentation' and where it's all heading. Then occasionally you stumble upon a dinosaur. I had a few emails from people who recommended that I get in touch with a group called 'Giant Drag'. I couldn't find any decent downloadable material on their site nevertheless, I persevered and fired off an e-mail to what seemed to be a generic small label sales address.

A few days later I got an e-mail back from a marketing assistant at Polydor records who stated that it was company policy not to release any MP3s into the public domain. I could have a 1 minute sample of a Giant Drag track to play but that's all. Whoopdee fucking do. But wait, does this mean I can play anything I want for 1 minute? Perhaps it does. So where does this leave the mash-up people who are getting their asses dragged through the court? The big labels just don't get it.

But not luckily not every label I deal with is a bunch of twats. Take Leslie Gilotti for instance at gilotti.net. Strictly speaking, she's not running a label, instead her company assists independent labels in formulating an online marketing and PR strategy, one that increasingly relies on podcasts as a vehicle. Last week I saw the Presets play support for Wolfmother here in London. I loved their stuff so I emailed Leslie asking her who I should talk to about getting one of their tracks on NYUB. By chance she had an existing relationship with Modular records (their label) and I promptly got permission to play the track. 

So, I get to play a track I love, thousands of people out there get to hear it too and the presets will see a few extra CDs sold. Everybody happy right?

Not the people at Polydor it seems. So in honour of Polydor, I'm going to start a little competition. Send me your favourite 1 minute tracks. Email me directly or leave a comment below. The winner gets to introduce it on the show!