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May 2, 2008

Bumping the thread yo say if you like art, people talking into tapes a la the Magnus Archives, and an over arching mystery that might be occult / horror, The Phosphene Catalogue is pretty cool.

official website: https://phosphenecatalogue.com/

Their summary.

quote:

We see light where others see only darkness.


An urban fantasy podcast of tape recordings by the curator of a secretive London-based art auction house.

The Phosphene Catalogue is a 1970s mail-order catalogue, specialising in those items that cannot be sold at other auction houses: Paintings of lost origin, statues that are too grotesque for public display, and books better left unread...

The narrator is newly replacing the previous art director to catalogue various art pieces. At first the pieces dont seem connected until particular symbols, relationships, and coincidences start piling up. I greatly appreciate that she sounds competent and skilled at her job. There's so many podcasts that have bumbling narrators that are allegedly professionals in their fields but sound like they're barely out of high school and have no experience whatsoever in their decades long career.

It's by Namtao Productions so those familiar with the hard scifi hopepunk podcast, Lost Terminal. It's quite well made for an indie podcast. Very professional voice acting and production. Theres only a handful of episodes so far, but I have high Hope's. Lost Terminal had wonderful plot lines and I feel safe to assume it will be the same for this one.

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May 2, 2008

podcast addict. I think I have a cracked version by accident. Though I am a freak who prefers to use a separate app, Smart Audiobook Player and Musicolet, to listen to podcasts. If I don't have my specific type of mp3 tag sorting I will blow up and die. Podcast addict doesn't do some hosed up attempt at DRM by hiding the audio files as some extensionless files. Looking at you, Realm app.

Podcast addict also has decent suggested podcasts at the bottom of individual podcast info summaries.


Observable Radio
scifi, mystery, single season currently,, 8 episodes as of posting, on going, 20 minutes but realistically 15 once you X out the ads, intro extro, and misc.

quote:

Observable Radio is a found footage anthology podcast of retro sci-fi and analog horror from Cameron Suey and Phil van Hest.

When he discovers something beneath the static of the worlds’s communication network, an unnamed Observer begins to catalog and record the strange signals that should not exist…
Currently the first season, assuming there will be more. By found footage, they mean clips, sometimes overlapping ones, which form a cohesive scenario or clipped view of a specific alternative universe timeline. It sounds bizarre but I feel it works, even for me who is HoH and unappealed to most audio sound productions. (Think the artificially deep voiced, gargley bone stealer character from Magnus Archives)

Essentially a radio host who's totally bot a radio host experiences a space phenomenon, and suddenly hears various bizarre transmissions bounced down to his radio station. Theres a brief intro by him and then theres the odd transmission played which is the found footage portion. There seems to be an overarching plot with him, so he's not an unnecessary gimmick to give intros with. It's still developing.

The Liminal Lands
fantasy, mystery, contemporary, on going, multiple seasons, 4 + seasons, 10 to 20 minute episodes, with very brief less than 5 minutes intro extro.

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All alone in a hostile new reality, one man sets out on a journey to find his missing family. Follow along as he struggles to survive in and understand this strange new world he has found himself in. A weekly podcast chronicling his travels through The Liminal Lands, and the trials he faces in a world where seemingly everything wants to kill him. Will he survive? Will he find his missing family? Can he escape The Liminal Lands?
You know when you hear a character from the Southern US and they're usually the stupid and / or hugely racist character? Yeah not this one. Ok yeah he's kind dumb but you try being smart in a wack rear end land full of weird poo poo and monsters. I live that this guy has a twang but he's not a stereotypical character. He's got street smarts and a good heart, and frankly that's what a good Hero Character needs. It's very charming, I enjoy the world setting and how the MC manages to handle what's being thrown at him. While the main character is a man, there is often a woman character and their two daughters. Not a total bro fest, but reasonable, I suppose. I wouldn't be opposed to more of the woman character but understandable it's oriented around this dude. zest la vee.
Being an indie podcast, the voice acting ain't the hottest. In this case I find it genuinely refreshing. Sometimes theres too much emphasis to sound like you have a full time staff to edit record polish jack off etc etc the episodes. It better suits the feel of the podcast--a ordinary guy gets tossed into a bizarre situation and he has to use his ordinary skills to survive it. No tailed beast and sudden magical Super ninja blood heritage revelation here, thank you. And speaking of indie sounding podcasts, have yall heard of John From Back Home?

John From Back Home
fantasy, contemporary, completed, single season, 15 to 20 minute episodes.

quote:

You haven’t been back home in years, but the old answering machine is filled with messages from a high school friend named John. John From Back Home is about leaving friends behind, keeping secrets hidden, and the dangers of trying to live someone else’s life. For fans of horror, mystery, and weird fiction.

Who doesn't love some small town horror? Theres decent audio effects which are thankfully rare and add to the atmosphere. The plot carries itself and i liked the main characters struggles. Poor dude.

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May 2, 2008

I've been listening to White Vault Goshawk and I'm wondering if thats a mistake. See I liked the location horror of a hosed up cave temple thing, and then I got annoyed when it repeated the gimmick for season two. And now it feels like they've gone all the way opposite by not being about a hosed up cave temple at all?

Does it get better and or circle back to the hosed up cave gimmick, or should I cut my losses? I only listened to the first five episodes.

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May 2, 2008

I tried episode six and its finally mentioned the stupid plot point of the vault[s] having secret society families that protect / benefit from them and you know. And one of the family member who is a minor member is supposed yo now take over the worshipping ritual thing because it hasn't been done and now the head matriarch role is hers now or her family is going to die.

I dont think I have the patience for it. Maybe I'll listen to the very last 2 episodes when the season is done. I wanted some hosed up caves not stupid pseudo antisemitic elite clans ruling the world via occult alien caves.

I dont thn k they should've continued this series. It's very Tanis except not good, and I say that as someone who mildly enjoyed tanis*. They also dit ch ed the gimmick of having people speak in their first language, then doing a English translation voice over. I liked that, even if it was a episode time padding.

* listen it was the first big huge multi season podcast I listened through all at once. My standards were still developing at the time.

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May 2, 2008

Goshawk is the name of the latest season for White Vault. I assume it's to differentiate from the priors, and for flavor. Or maybe to make people think it's a sequel? The others never had unique names. The story beginning features two nature photographers so I'm guessing there's symbolism there that I'm not getting. Or its meaningless.

Its suppose to continue the concept of the white vault, but not the previous plot lines.

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May 2, 2008

Doublr posting to say the podcast The Liminal Lands, has started the latest season. Its genres are fantasy, contemporary, maybe a little fairy tale / mythological but very much grounded. I keep imagining the scenery having the same aesthetics as the Neverending Story movie. Not dated, but if it was a modern version of the setting, if that makes sense. Think Bobby Hill but in the Neverending Story? That makes no sense and I'll stop now lmao

It's the podcast wherein a man in the rural Southern us went out hunting, fell from his snipers nest, and somehow landed in a dangerous, alternate world full of monsters and tricksters. The majority of the plot involves his travels back to his family. The minor plot is of his wife trying to figure out where he's gone while caring for their daughters and fending off an unseemly suitor. Not in a explicit sexual harassment way, but it's clear what's going on. It's a little oddyssean imo, but not too on the nose.

It's an indie podcast so its charming and refreshingly unique in its presentation. I really hope people would give it a chance.

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May 2, 2008

Samite podcast, Season three

pros: only four episodes, good writing, interesting plot, consistent quality, I cannot complain.

cons: man c'mon I like hearing even more about this weird analog bbs horror cult. But I kinda wanted to know more about the mythology and this Queen in Samite in the first place. Like what does she do besides encourage murders / suicides, are there other obscure cults that also involve ritual suicides, what motivates her followers to do this. Just a fraction more, please. You know, they did mention there was small offshoots of the cult. What if these offshoots were planning in challenging the Queen? They did mention women ceiling to avoid provoking the Queen into combat.. I wish it went more into that than another season of 'theres yet more, earlier generations of this cult who did murders'.

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May 2, 2008

A horror podcast with some british voice actors that's pretty decent is The Wyrd Side. [wyrd = weird. Get it?] One woman and one man, playing the skeptic and believer in regards to the paranormal. Pretty interesting investigations to historical British lore involving the paranormal and supernatural. Specifically the Folk Horror subgenre.

The official website https://thewyrdside.com/
Link to official transcripts https://thewyrdside.com/transcripts [Yes they actually have free transcripts with content warnings and descriptions of sound effects and everything. I'm also shocked. A small indie podcast group can do this?? What the gently caress. Take note, big name podcasters.]

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The Wyrd Side is a serial New Weird / Folk Horror podcast that follows the paranormal investigations of Aiden Summers and Katherine Moore as they uncover the dangerous truth lurking behind the myths and legends of the British Isles.

In our first season, we're taking a deep dive into the legends that hide in the tangled brambles and ancient branches of the New Forest, from Will-o'-the-Wisps, to creatures from the bog and ghostly hauntings.

It does toe the line between skeptic and guileless believer, so if you dislike ambiguous stories, maybe skip this one. I do like the VAs and the audio effects are professional but not obnoxious. [cough magnus archives deep gargley voice cough] There is one complete season and I think they're coming back for season 2, fingers crossed.

The one thing I dislike, which may be a personal problem, is that the audio is quite low. I've had to open audacity and amplify the volume. If this is also a problem, I suggest audacity's 'Amplify' preset effect, or listening to it at home and not your car or on a jog. Old Fart Emoji, as the kids say.

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