{"id":607,"date":"2009-07-02T17:59:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T06:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discontentblog.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:27:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:27:16","slug":"save-fbi-sign-up-receive-a-free-disorientation-session-mixtape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/02\/save-fbi-sign-up-receive-a-free-disorientation-session-mixtape\/","title":{"rendered":"Save FBI &#8211; Sign Up &#038; Get A Free &#8216;Disorient&#8217; Mixtape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2258\" href=\"http:\/\/discontentblog.com\/?attachment_id=2258\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2258 aligncenter\" title=\"disorientation-session-430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/disorientation-session-430.jpg\" alt=\"disorientation-session-430\" width=\"430\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Sign up or Donate to FBi Radio during the Disorient show on Thursday 2nd July and Thursday 9th July 2009 (9pm-11pm Australian EST), and get a free &#8216;Disorientation Session&#8217; mixtape.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Right now, FBi Radio is calling for help from its listeners.  Since day one, back in August 2003, FBi has been one of the very few 100% independent radio stations in Australia.  FBi is an <strong>incorporated not-for-profit organisation<\/strong>, with a board voted by the listener community, a dedicated and thoroughly underpaid staff team and hundreds of volunteers.  All of these people are united with one common need: <strong>a community-generated media channel<\/strong> that is<strong> undiluted by commercial music, commercial opinion and commercial advertising<\/strong> &#8211; a truly rare commodity in today&#8217;s marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>But when the Global Financial Crisis came to town, FBi was hit hard.  Being independent is great in terms of editorial and creative freedom, not so great when you don&#8217;t have a rich mogul or a vast, educational institution to fall back on.  And let&#8217;s be clear &#8211; <strong>FBi doesn&#8217;t have any government funding to fall back on<\/strong> either.  They receive around 5% of their income for the Government as a direct offset to the enormous commercial fees imposed by the people who look after the antenna, but no more than that.  For six years, <strong>FBi has survived on the generosity of its sponsors and its listeners<\/strong> &#8211; both of which felt the pinch when the economy collapsed, and donations &amp; sponsorships for FBi tailed off markedly in the first quarter of the year.  So much so, that the future for FBi started to look bleak.  There will always be a way to save the 94.5 broadcast licence &#8211; but an FBi broadcasting via a coathanger from the back of a ute (to a radius of 3km) serves very few people, certainly not the current community of listeners, musicians, artists and Sydneysiders that make FBi what it is today.<\/p>\n<p>So, the appeal is on right now &#8211; <strong>Save FBi<\/strong>.  If every listener pledged to become a financial supporter, FBi would be around for ever and a day.  As it stands, only 2% have chosen to do so.  Whether we like it or not, we do seem to live in an era when music is considered something of a free commodity &#8211; and if we don&#8217;t pay for MP3s on our hard drive, why would we pay for music on our radio?  Well, FBi is more than an iPod &#8211; <strong>FBi lives and breathe<\/strong>s.  FBi is a community of smart, creative, thought-provoking human beings, people just like you and me &#8211; and that makes FBi one of the best places for us to discover a true diversity of contemporary Australian music and culture. In a word, <strong>FBi <\/strong><em><strong>is<\/strong><\/em><strong> community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And the subset community of FBi broadcasters have their work cut out for them this week and next.  We&#8217;ve been drafted in to help the station raise money during our shows.  FBi knows that whilst there are many &#8216;general&#8217; listeners who listen to FBi throughout the day, there&#8217;s also specialist shows (like &#8216;Disorient&#8217;) that have their own community that gathers around them.  If you&#8217;re reading this, perhaps that&#8217;s you.  Perhaps you listen to <strong>Disorient<\/strong>, or you used to listen to my previous show, <strong>Fat Planet<\/strong>, when it ran for many years on Sunday afternoons.  If so, hopefully I&#8217;ve shared something that means something to you or turned you onto something new.  Hopefully that means you won&#8217;t mind me asking for a little payback.  Becoming a financial supporter and saving FBi costs seven bucks a month, four for concessions.  Not much at all.<\/p>\n<p>In return you&#8217;ll get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a warm ever-lasting glow, safe in the knowledge that you&#8217;re part of a <strong>rare and passionate community<\/strong> of people who orbit around FBi, and that your cash helped in some way to help keep FBi on air.<\/li>\n<li>every week, FBi gives aways <strong>prizes, such as tickets and CDs<\/strong> and other merch, and only you as a supporter are eligible to win.  Most supporters who pick up the phone to enter these competitions do win something at some point, it&#8217;s not hard.<\/li>\n<li>during this particular drive, FBi has a prize draw &#8211; so you&#8217;ll go in the running to win <strong>two flights to London with V Festival tickets, or two business class flights to Los Angeles<\/strong>.  Literally, a trip of a lifetime.<\/li>\n<li>And a special bonus, just from me, you&#8217;ll g<strong>et a free copy of the &#8216;Disorientation Session&#8217; mixtape <\/strong>&#8211; compiled exclusively for the current FBi Supporter Drive. It&#8217;s copyright clear (no piracy!) and features tunes from <strong>AGF, Growing, Filastine, Salem, The Craters, Dalt Wisney, Inverness, Villa Diamante, I Buried Paul, The Peronists, Atomhead<\/strong> and many many more &#8211; eighteen tracks in all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be giving the mixtape away free to all listeners who sign up (or upgrade \/ renew) as FBi Radio Supporters during the Disorient show on <strong>Thursday 2nd July and Thursday 9th July <strong>2009<\/strong> (9pm-11pm Australian EST)<\/strong>.  All of FBi&#8217;s specialist shows have &#8216;target numbers&#8217; for new supporters, hence my naked bribery to marshal you into supporting Disorient.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll be counting you amongst one of those numbers come Thursday night.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbiradio.com\/content.php\/468.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP OR DONATE ONLINE (VIA CREDIT CARD OR DIRECT DEBIT)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you do need any more persuation, check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbiradio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fbiradio.com<\/a> for more info on FBi and their call-out for much-needed financial aid.  Thanks for reading, and (I hope) for becoming a Supporter &#8211; and helping to save this vital little radio station in these unsteady times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISORIENTATION SESSION Disorient&#8217;s Mixtape For FBi<\/strong><br \/>\nTracklisting<\/p>\n<p>1. Dalt Wisney &#8211; Sci-Fi Dot Fiends [Pakistan] 2:03<br \/>\n2. The Craters &#8211; Samba Party [U.S.] 2:40<br \/>\n3. Ghoul &#8211; Fuck Math [Australia] 1:54<br \/>\n4. Salem &#8211; Brustreet [U.S.] 5:02<br \/>\n5. 7VWWVW &#8211; Mammal Theme [Scotland] 5:55<br \/>\n6. Villa Diamante &#8211; Tonolec vs Kromestar [Argentina] 2:56<br \/>\n7. Berrettaz &#8211; Pense A [C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire] 2:44<br \/>\n8. AGF aka Antye Greie &#8211; Disturbia [Germany] 4:07<br \/>\n9. Filastine &#8211; B&#8217;talla (feat. Rabah) [U.S.] 3:10<br \/>\n10. I Buried Paul &#8211; Favola [Brazil] 3:17<br \/>\n11. Fletcher &#8211; Dreadlox Dub [South Africa] 6:17<br \/>\n12. The Peronists &#8211; Cumbia Maligna [Argentina] 3:39<br \/>\n13. Atomhead &#8211; Unsuspecting Broken Receiver [Belgium] 2:09<br \/>\n14. Growing &#8211; Green Flag [U.S.] 6:16<br \/>\n15. Sleepmakeswaves &#8211; Exits To Nowhere [Australia] 3:41<br \/>\n16. Rothis Bournias &#8211; Last Days Part Two [Greece] 7:07<br \/>\n17. Inverness &#8211; Bats [Brazil] 3:13<br \/>\n18. Flica &#8211; Mid [Malaysia] 4:53<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: All music on the mixtape is licenced via Creative Commons or has otherwise been made freely available by relevant artists &amp; labels. If you like what you hear, please support the artists -visit their site, buy their music.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ofey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irving Liaw<\/a> (under CC Licence).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up or Donate to FBi Radio during the Disorient show on Thursday 2nd July and Thursday 9th July 2009 (9pm-11pm Australian EST), and get a free &#8216;Disorientation Session&#8217; mixtape. Right now, FBi Radio is calling for help from its listeners. 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