Podcasts about super magic hats

Jason and Gill discuss Interstella 5555 and pick their least favorite musicals. Plus, find out what's happening on the next Dragon Ball Super and check out the "Transpose" music video by Super Magic Hats! Last but not least, Gill takes on Nier: Automata with a new installment of One Man's Trash!

Almost three hundred years ago, a woman called Mary Toft was interrogated a bunch of doctors in London. She was interrogated after having given birth to a litter of rabbits. Or so she claimed. But, in that era, one of the strangest things about the case wasn’t just the rabbits: it was that doctors — “male midwives” — were muscling into the giving birth business. Amelia Dale teaches at Sydney University and talked about Toft in her PhD thesis. Links from this episode: Learn more about Mary Toft here, or listen to the BBC’s take on her story. What Hogarth print where? William Hogarth was a visual satirist, who made fun of the scandal around Toft with this engraving:   Songs from Midwives, Doctors and Rabbits: Ojos Del Sol — Y La BambaAkogare — Super Magic HatsCopza Luca — Adrian Simionescu and Orchestre Marin Ioan (Gajo Dilo soundtrack)Slip Away — Kim Boekbinder

We were very happy to discover today's artist. Super Magic Hats is a Melbourne-based musician, beatmaker and producer. This Last Week appears on a collection called Slowly that was released February 28 by the Japanese netlabel Tanukineiri.  They have a wonderful catalog with some intriguing compilations. You can get full release downloads from their website and they also post to both Bandcamp and Soundcloud.How to describe Super Magic Hats' music?  I'll rely on the artist:Half-heard/half-imagined vocals sit alongside vintage drum machines, soaring analogue synth lines mix with surf guitar, crisp production punches through recordings of rainy walks through the park.Enjoy This Last Week.Super Magic Hats - This Last Week

Super Magic Hats (aka Rob) took some time out before his trip up the east coast to discuss his music, his influences and instruments as well as the interesting origin of the wonderful name.