NBPC Presents: Rip and Rebind

[Source: BlackPublicMedia.org, August 19, 2010]

Rip and Rebind is an anthropological snapshot of life taken with hip-hop's camera. Through a collaged narrative reflecting the mash-up genre whose origins are largely found in Hip-Hop, this sonic journey confirms that the music is a reflection of the people. The series aims to preserve an honest perception of an artistic expression that has too often been commodified. Sample-heavy and audibly rich, Rip and Rebind is essentially cultural "crate-digging."

The phrase "rip and rebind" comes from the publishing industry. When a successful book is being re-published as a paperback, sometimes there is an abundance of hardcover editions left over. In order to reuse the hardcovers for this new purpose, the books are ripped from their hard shells and re-bound as paperbacks for a new audience of readers.

Today, the general consensus among the Hip-Hop Generation (a reference to Generation X, 1965-1982) is that the music is dying. And while the cause of death is uncertain, the time has come to rip ourselves from old ideas of separation, and rebind ourselves on a common ground. This show was created, hosted and produced by Carl Scott as a collaboration with The Public Radio Exchange and their new formatless radio project Remix Radio.

Public Radio Exchange: REMIX is an experimental radio stream hosted by PRX to showcase pieces from PRX.org and develop new approaches to public radio formats and sounds.

They are a 24-hour semi-formatless remix of amazing public radio stories, cool podcasts, fascinating interviews and anything else that makes a sound that they find interesting.

Join them on the satellite airwaves all over the world on XM 136, or at remixradio.org.

That guy you keep hearing is Roman Mars.

Roman Mars is the host and content curator of the Public Radio Exchange radio stream. His reported and documentary work has most recently aired on Morning Edition, Weekend America, KALW’s Crosscurrents and WBEZ’s Re:sound. Before going rogue, Mars spent over three years at WBEZ’s Third Coast International Audio Festival as the project's senior producer and sound designer, developing their weekly documentary radio program and producing the TCF national broadcast specials for Public Radio International. Mars started his radio career at KALW in San Francisco and was best known as host and executive producer of Invisible Ink, an independent literary audio zine. The show received numerous recognitions from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and was named “Best of the Bay” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian.