Intellectual Property. A topic that gets far too little play in the thinking culture of radio. We think about this issue constantly in the course of producing stuff for radio or release to the wider world on CD/MP3: pick your format and medium... Graphic artists too. Yet the issue is not heard so much on the radio. FLASH: if you are successfully operating in the rarified world of Fine Art (i.e. not commercial) you actually don't worry about IP so much! At least according to a curator at the Mass MOCA. Why the difference? Hmmm, I bet you can guess that it is about the Benjamin's (and I don't mean the producer ; | ) but to hear this piece is to illuminate it with feeling...

I was not certain how wide an appeal this topic would have but after listening to the piece I am convinced that Mr. Walker has shown a way to make the topic less Academic and more Street for a wide variety of people, voices and histories...

The guests coming along with Walker are a great way of bringing me the listener along too...real voices and thoughts... Fred is priceless and to hear his position and interpretation of things compared to fascinating voices of the women riffing with 80k Grad School phrases such as "activated objects" and it has the "texture and color of falayed skin" make this all the more memorable...

A fabulous mix and deft editing with some real nice, somewhat unconventional, but totally appropriate flourishes herein. Oh, and the music actually hits the right emotional buttons and there is a delightful bit of credit info regarding the music rights that will get you thinking and maybe even feeling deeper at the conclusion of the hour...

In the spirit of full disclosure I feel the need to say that I kinda know Mr. Walker (I did a weekly radio show after his shift for about a year). But then again I suppose a significant percentage if not the majority of reviews written on PRX are written by associates of the producer's. I wonder if the PRX God's could facilitate a system or something that would take this into account and also encourage anonymous review writing, as it really feels like there a lot of people who use The PRX but don't post for perhaps fear of offending or stubbing their job potentials...

Listen to the remix yourself: you will learn something, be entertained and hear time bend.