CrossFade is a dueling album review show about expanding your musical horizons hosted by Matt Helgeson. Released every two weeks, CrossFade has guests introduce one of their favorite albums of all time to Matt Helgeson (and vice versa) as they review the highlights, play clips, and compare each other's picks. On every episode, we answer questions from the community via MinnMax's Patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
For this year’s Give to the Max Day, MinnMax supporters raised more than $65,000 for Emerge Mothers Academy, a nonprofit supporting Twin Cities single moms. Along with the great feeling of supporting a worthy cause with their charitable donation, Nikolai (TechBeatNik) also unlocked an episode of CrossFade about “undun,” the 2011 record by Philly R&B/hip-hop group The Roots!
It was a lot of fun coming back to CrossFade for such an interesting album and such a good cause. Remember, you make this happen!
We’d love it if you’d rate and review CrossFade on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson (https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson) and https://twitter.com/nintendufus (https://twitter.com/nintendufus) respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server.
Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI (https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI)
Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/ (https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/)
Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox (https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox)
Timestamps
0:00 - Give to the Max 2024: The Roots’s “undun”
1:36 - The roots of The Roots
5:50 - The Roots — “undun”
6:34 - "Dun"
8:16 - “Sleep”
10:46 - “Make My”
14:32 - “One Time”
18:54 - “Kool On”
25:32 - “The OtherSide”
29:08 - “Stomp”
30:18 - The storytelling on “undun”
37:08 - “Lighthouse”
39:48 - “I Remember”
42:41 - “Tip the Scale”
48:12 - “Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)”
49:35 - “Possibility (2nd Movement)”
50:32 - “Will To Power (3rd Movement)”
52:01 - “Finality (4th Movement)”
57:55 - Music Things from 2024 (Matt’s new band, our Spotify Wrapped, bands who disbanded, Jack White’s album, Steve Albini’s death)
5 Jan 2024
Give to the Max 2023: Ne Obliviscaris's "Portal Of I"
Surprise! It’s a special episode of CrossFade, thanks to a generous member of the MinnMax community.
On Give to the Max Day, the MinnMax community raised more than $57,000 to help foster kids in Minneapolis. One of the many appealing donation rewards was an episode of CrossFade where the donor got to choose the album we talked about! Chris Fayter (a.k.a. Crayter) chose “Portal Of I,” the debut album of Australian prog metal band Ne Obliviscaris, which became one of his COVID-era comfort listens.
We’re really jazzed to get back behind the mic to discuss some great, unique music. Thanks to Chris and the MinnMax community for their ongoing generosity!
Go back a few decades to find new music: http://www.mediatraffic.de/tracks.htm (http://www.mediatraffic.de/tracks.htm)
We’d love it if you’d rate and review CrossFade on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson (https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson) and https://twitter.com/nintendufus (https://twitter.com/nintendufus) respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server.
Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI (https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI)
Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/ (https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/)
Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox (https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox)
Timestamps
0:00 - Give to the Max 2023: Ne Obliviscaris’s “Portal Of I”
3:04 - A message from Crayter, charitable sponsor of this episode
13:40 - Ne Obliviscaris - "Portal Of I"
14:31 - Tapestry of the Starless Abstract
24:16 - Xenoflux
30:08 - Of the Leper Butterflies
37:06 - Forget Not
41:23 - And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope
51:23 - As Icicles Fall
54:44 - Of Petrichor Weaves Black Noise
1:05:15 - Community questions
1:40:43 - Sampha - “Jonathan L. Seagull” (suggested by MinnMax supporter notweirder)
30 Dec 2022
Ending Season 2 with the Last Community Shuffle for A While, Probably!
CrossFade is taking a break! We haven’t picked a return date yet, but Matt and Jason have ideas about how to make it even better going forward.
We decided to end this season on a high note by bringing back the CrossFade Community Shuffle. It’s an episode where dozens of our Patreon supporters send us their current favorite songs, we shuffle a bunch of them, and we listen to and talk about them live on the show! It’s one of our favorite CrossFade traditions, so we hope you enjoy it.
You can still enjoy all 60-some episodes of CrossFade for free wherever you listen to podcasts. From the bottom of our hearts, we want to express our appreciation for everyone who’s enjoyed the show so far. Thanks for listening, chatting, asking, tweeting, posting, and sharing in the fun of CrossFade! You’re the ones who make it great.
We’d love it if you’d rate and review CrossFade on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson (https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson) and https://twitter.com/nintendufus (https://twitter.com/nintendufus) respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server.
Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI (https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI)
Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/ (https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/)
Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox (https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox)
Timestamps
0:00 - The Last Community Shuffle for A While, Probably!
6:30 - Niyaz - “Shir Ali Mardan (Song of a Warrior)” suggested by Shazirah
11:27 - Nation of Language - “Sacred Tongue” suggested by Nolan Kelly
15:25 - Puscifer - “Green Valley” suggested by Ian Pierce
19:22 - Taylor Swift - “mirrorball” suggested by Mackenzie Beyer
23:52 - The Killers - “Miss Atomic Bomb” suggested by Ramses Garcia
28:56 - Black Country, New Road - “Chaos Space Marine” suggested by Holden Hintz
33:51 - Frightened Rabbit - “The Modern Leper” suggested by Halea Kasishke
38:00 - Craig Finn - “Messing with the Settings” suggested by Gabriel Cleveland
44:07 - The Knife - “Heartbeats - Live” by podbod
48:25 - Paolo Nutini - “Through The Echoes” suggested by Luca Alberti
51:52 - honeyhoney - “Thin Line” suggested by Matt Rogers
55:47 - Haken - “Invasion” suggested by Sjors van Berkel
1:00:34 - Rahul Sipligunj, Kaala Bhairava - “Naatu Naatu” from RRR suggested by Bob Kinnear
1:08:24 - P.O.S - “Wearing a Bear” suggested by Josh LaBaw
1:11:51 - Yot Club - “u dont kno me” suggested by Bezlo
1:16:05 - MEMBA, EVAN GIIA, Nooran Sisters - “For Aisha” suggested by Geoff Enright
1:20:43 - Algernon Cadwallader - “Pitfall”
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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.8 / 5
86 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
34 ratings
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