How Podcast Theme Songs Got Their Signature Sound
What if the entire sound of modern podcasting can be traced back to a single Grateful Dead song uploaded in 2001? That’s the intriguing question Switched On Pop hosts Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan ask to kick off an episode dedicated to the musicology and lineage of podcast theme music, which they trace all the way from The Grateful Dead’s “Truckin” to Disparition’s “Ballad of Fiedler and Mundt” and then on to theme songs from Serial, Reply All, and more.
The episode “How podcasting got its sound ft. Breakmaster Cylinder” goes into how podcast music evolved from classical public radio strings into today's signature blend of plinking pianos, breakbeats, and irreverent sampling and includes an exclusive interview with Breakmaster Cylinder.
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