"Barack Obama-The Remix!"
PRX Review
***** Amusing, Political, Sound Rich
"The yearly Shortcuts series has become a genuine pubradio tradition--
something we radio folk look forward to, secure in knowledge our listeners
are gonna love it. It's a musical voxpop & sound-bite tour of the past
year, and a tour de force of sonic-editing sweat, song, speech, and segue.
2007's Shortcuts got it all: global warmth, Imus' hot seat, The Sopranos
swan song, steroids in baseball, and Bhutto's assassination. Instant nostalgia,
history and overview. Weeks after we broadcast the 2006 Shortcuts we were
still getting gushing listener calls" "What was that great hour you played
with news-clips and pop-culture and music and all kinda mixed together and..."
etc., etc. Shortcuts is an annual audio extravaganza and audience pleaser.
(Producer) Barrett Golding , KGLT
Bozeman, MT
January 4, 2008
shortcuts
Mixing music, dialogue
from soundtracks, press conferences, sound effects and other sources,
shortcuts has
presented a wide variety of themes over the past thirty years, including
programs on growing up, growing old, going crazy, being afraid, alone,
in love; shows on music, space, race and politics from Watergate to Whitewater,
plus retrospectives featuring the major events of each passing year. Recorded
and mixed digitally, shortcuts features no narration, it's message evolves from the careful
juxtaposition of the various elements.
The 40th Anniversary Mix!
"Shortcuts-25th Anniversary Special"- 1972-1997:
Highlights from
twenty-five years of Shortcuts,
available
now on 3 compact discs and cassettes.
"A Finger on the Pulse of the Nation!"
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