Finally a new year podcast just scraping into January (I have been busy with artwork and re-designing the very blog you are looking at). As is traditional this time of year, a wintry reflective podcast looking forward to where we are going and Goin’ Back, but with an added Arabic resistance music section in honour of the sadly departed Mashrou Leila, and Bluegrass and folk runs throughout, from mashup to inventing? renaissance/medieval psych-grass. And a few nods again to Terry Hall and the anniversary of the death of David Bowie, some Japanese insane metal/pop/glitch manga fusion, some Swift Pixies and as always latest mashups, mixes and more – from Wham meeting Black Sabbath to running up that hill with Alan (Parsons, not Smashee) and some old/cold war Frankie bootlegs. Michael Nyman and Ennio Morricone get mashed with Pink Floyd backing it all up. Here’s The Years of New Pioneers – Where’s There To Go? (2:45, 234Mb)