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Parboiled Kettle: Ben's 5 for 2015
In 2015 we played 1,112 pieces of music on Eclectic Kettle. Not all of them were brand new, some of them came from the same albums. But even accounting for that, it's a tremendous quantity of great...
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Parboiled Kettle: Ben's 5 for 2016
983 pieces of music were aired on Eclectic Kettle in 2016. Once again at the turn of the new year, I get to distill that into just five records.Europe Is Lost // Kate TempestFrom “Let Them Eat Chaos”...
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Parboiled Kettle: Ben's 5 for 2017
In 2017, Simon, myself and a gleeful bevy of guests played 981 pieces of music on Eclectic Kettle. As always, the annual traditional distilling to just five tracks makes for a slightly absurd...
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Parboiled Kettle: Ben's 5 for 2018
Here we go again. In 2018 the Eclectic Kettle playlist spanned 1073 tracks. With the show coming to an end there's much to reflect on, and I think I'll try to do that in a separate post. But as we...
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A Kind of Magic: Ben Ward's 5 for 2019
It's traditional around these parts to publish an annual retrospective at the start of each new year. At the start of 2020, for whatever reasons around travelling and getting a bit lost in the writing...
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The No Magic Roundabout: Ben's 5 for 2020
2020, right? For its second year, No Magic just about endured the loss of live studio guests, and I still managed to play 1100 tracks and host 44 new shows. Musically, the trend this year was to play...
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Roll up, roll up, it's the 2020 roundup–roundup
We made it! It's a new day, 2020 is gone and the sun is… well, it's behind clouds. In fact, it's raining in San Francisco right now. Look, this was never going to be perfect, we knew that. But we're...
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No Magic, Just Music: Ben's 5 for 2021
You likely recall that 2020 was a real bad time, everything-wise. A year that imploded beneath already weary limps. But 2020, for all its horror, at least had some definition. 2020 definitely happened...
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That was 2021!
I don't know about you, but I'm not entirely sure where 2021 went. I think deep down we all know why it might have been a confusing one, but still, here we are in January 2022. Fortunately, your...
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God! Show Me Magic: Ben's 5 for 2022
I can barely find much to say about 2022. Maybe we shuffled back into some kind of pandemic new-normal? Some people did, I saw them. But since we didn't really do it as a coordinated society —...
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It's been a buffeting, stormy start to the year here in BFF.fm's home of San Francisco, but as we regather ourselves from holiday breaks, new years toasts, and a little flash flooding, we took a moment...
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