Since the site's inception, 4ever in Electric Dreams has strived to provide interesting and dynamic audio content. Primarily revolving around podcasts that celebrated the team's varied passions for films, music and graphic novels, the list of shows has slowly expanded to provide a more diverse array of shows, again, with an eye on celebrating those areas of genre fiction we each hold dear. The launch of our new horror anthology series, The Monsters Within Us, marks a new milestone in the 4ever l...
Aug 08, 2023•40 min
Welcome to Episode #17 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode, the pair celebrate the 1997 album from the iconic neo-soul pioneer, Erykah Badu, 'Baduizm'. Marking the debut studio effort from Badu, the project found a home on Kedar Records and Universal Records, and was ...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 17 min
This episode of the Close Encounters... Minicast sees friend of the show Stuart Giblin join Dan Collacott and Imran Mirza to discuss some of those fantastic moments of television that bring a conclusion to, in many cases, years of brilliant storytelling and gifting devoted fans with incredible send-offs for some of their favourite shows and characters. Directing our focus to sitcoms today, the trio analyse those endings that remained key nostalgic moments for shows we grew up with, and we spend ...
Jun 22, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Welcome to Episode #16 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode, the pair celebrate the 1996 album from the legendary singer/songwriter/producer Babyface, 'The Day'. 'The Day' is the fourth studio album by American R&B singer Babyface. It was released by Epic Records o...
May 16, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Welcome to Episode #2 of the 4ever in Electric Dreams podcast series - Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Imran Mirza from London, UK, connects with Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, to delve into a series of conversations continuing their unwavering fandom for all things TMNT, Marvel, music and undoubtedly more! This episodes continues in the show's adoration of IDW's reimagined TMNT lore this time focusing on the 4-part miniseries, 'The Secret History of the Foot Clan'. Boastin...
May 10, 2023•2 hr 21 min
Ten years after the original Apocalypse Survival Guide Series - as released via our close-knit affiliates over at Infiniverse Media - the Liberation Frequency Editorial Team get the band back together and have a retrospective look at how mankind could possibly survive the end of the world. Finding a hefty dose of inspiration from a certain global pandemic - that went on to usher in the era of quarantine, face masks, home schooling and an abundance of hand sanitizer - the first in the Liberation ...
May 01, 2023•1 hr 1 min
With this episode initially starting out as a follow-up to Imran and Vahe's Close Encounters Minicast episode of IDW Publishing's 'The Last Ronin' graphic novel (episode #6), this conversation inadvertently - but excitingly - spun out into a new podcast series for 4ever in Electric Dreams marking the inaugural episode of Supple & Lean | A Geekcast. Imran Mirza from London, UK, connects with Vahé Vishapakagh Koshayan from Melbourne, Australia, to delve into a series of conversations continuin...
Mar 08, 2023•2 hr 2 min
This episode of the Close Encounters... Minicast sees friend of the show Stuart Giblin join Dan Collacott and Imran Mirza to discuss some of our favourite road trip movies. The beloved movie premise which finds a group of sometimes unlikely travellers engaging in a trip that is often more about the journey itself than the destination. The proverbial metaphor for self-discovery just as much as geographic, we look at films that have created some fantastic journeys born of some incredible on-screen...
Feb 25, 2023•1 hr 1 min
We join Sam on his first weekend shift at the newly opened Twilight Rivers Retirement Home. He and nightshift manager Deggs find themselves encountering a series of increasingly unusual and paranormal events within the walls of the sprawling complex. But what is the truth behind the building's strange history and can Sam heal a fracture from it's dark past.
Jan 30, 2023•19 min
This episode of the Close Encounters... Minicast sees friend of the show Stuart Giblin join Dan Collacott and Imran Mirza discussing the art of the movie montage. In around 60 seconds, with an abundance of cinematic fades and some inspirational music, great things can happen; in a mere 60 seconds we have seen street bums become heavyweight boxing champions... unskilled wimps become karate experts... and werewolves win basketball matches... we are of course talking about the humble film montage. ...
Jan 03, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Welcome to Episode #15 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode, the pair celebrate the sophomore studio album from the R&B trio TLC, 'CrazySexyCool'. 'CrazySexyCool' is the second studio album by American girl group TLC, released on November 15, 1994, by LaFace and Ar...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 12 min
This episode of the Close Encounters... Minicast sees friend of the show Stuart Giblin join Dan Collacott and Imran Mirza discussing some of Hollywood's most iconic roles and looking at the actors that almost played them. Ralph Macchio as Marty McFly? Eddie Murphy as Winston Zeddemore? Will Smith as Neo? All decisions that were incredibly close to coming to fruition ultimately before the final casting decisions were made. Would we even have wanted to see anything differently? Al Pacino, unquesti...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Episode #65 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Dan, Imran and Tee-J turn their attention to resolving all of society's woes... Tasked with the responsibility of establishing a new settlement to ensure that humanity survives, what would you do to make sure the same mistakes aren't replicated - would you focus on stopping war, outlawing religion, controlling childbirth? And what elements of human civilisation would you try to preserve? No easy task so tune in to hear which of us...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 34 min
This episode of the Close Encounters... Minicast sees friend of the show MISTA VEE from Melbourne, Australia, return following his invaluable contribution to The Last Ronin episode (#06) marking this as the official launch of the DJ Supple & MC Lean show - it's a working title for now(!). This time, Imran and Vahe discuss the latest Thor outing ('Love & Thunder', 2022) and conduct an extensive character analysis of Thor across his multiple appearances across the MCU to date. With a mix o...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 55 min
For this episode of the Close Encounters... Minicast, Dan Collacott, Imran Mirza and friend of the show, Stuart Giblin, celebrate their fandom for one of the most revered trilogies in film history - 'Back to the Future' - but we go as far as to pitch a potential fourth installment within the franchise. Ever wondered whether Marty became a the rock star he always wanted to? And ever wonder where Doc & family ventured off to on the magical train of time travel? We can answer none of those ques...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 34 min
Episode #64 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Dan, Imran and friend of show, Rich Roth, take a veritable journey through nostalgia as we each look at the forms of entertainment that we now love but that we seemingly missed upon initial release. With an entertaining array of discussion points from music to 90s US sitcoms to 80s teen believe-in-yourself-you-can-do-anything-you-set-your-minds-to movies, we ask how we possibly let some of these treasures slip through our hands fi...
Sep 11, 2022•1 hr 29 min
Spearheaded by IDW Publishing's 'The Last Ronin', this episode of the Close Encounters Minicast features Imran Mirza connecting with MISTA VEE in Melbourne, Australia, over their shared fandom for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. An incredible story that tells a story set in the future where Michelangelo is the only Ninja Turtle left standing against the Foot Clan following their conquest of New York, and seeks vengeance against their master for his lost family and friends. Beyond 'The Last Ron...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 32 min
Episode #63 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Dan, Tee-J and Imran delve into the presentation of women within action films. Episodes #59 and #60 of this podcast series saw the team review the 80s action movie genre specifically through the movies 'Cobra', 'Big Trouble in Little China' and 'The Wraith' (all from 1986) and in an unofficial follow-up to that conversation, we look at how women were positioned within those films and ask where Hollywood's reluctance to feature wom...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Episode #62 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Dan, Tee-J, Imran and friend of the show, Richard Roth, discuss the news of Vince McMahon's retirement from WWE. Many never believed they'd see it in their lifetime but the WWE seeks to journey into a new era under the guidance and leadership of Stephanie McMahon and Paul LeVesque (HHH). What does this mean for the WWE product, how will it impact the company's overall culture moving forward and what impact is this likely to have o...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 30 min
Episode #61 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Tee-J, Imran and Dan discuss the abundance of comic book films and TV. Is this the golden age of comic book visual entertainment or has the peak passed and we're now reaching an oversaturation point? We look at Marvel's impact on the genre, the variety of streaming services available and ask the pertinent question - what was the last thing you watched that wasn't rooted in comic book lore? www.4everinelectricdreams.com/ Emanating ...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Episode #60 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Tee-J, Imran and Dan settle down to classic movies that we've never actually seen. Following on from Episode #59 which sees the team allocated their movies to watch in the fourth of our 'catching up with the classics' series, hear our first-time reviews of three movies within the theme of 80s action including 'The Wraith' (1986), 'Cobra' (1986) and 'Big Trouble in Little China' (1986). Plus we kick the episode off with Dan's incre...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 44 min
Episode #59 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees Tee-J, Imran and Dan settle down to classic movies that we've never actually seen. For the fourth in our 'catching up with the classics' series, we each pitch three movies we haven't seen to the group with them voting on which movie each person should watch. This go-round sees the team explore the glorious genre of 80s action movies as we seek to fill the gaps within our own catalogues. There's lots of preamble about the genre its...
Jun 21, 2022•1 hr 40 min
Episode #58 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees the team ponder the increasingly darker portrayals of our big screen super heroes. From the recent depiction of Matt Reeves' grittier and violent representation of 'The Batman' to Sam Raimi's heavily horror-inspired extension of the MCU's Dr Strange narrative, the team looks back at a simpler time when comic book movies where such themes weren't so prevalent within superhero movies. We seem to have moved on from an era of comic bo...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Episode #57 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees the team delve into the most recent on-screen adaptation of The Caped Crusader, 'The Batman'. Directed by Matt Reeves and featuring an all-star cast including Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis and Colin Farrell, we look at all aspects of the film including the how our new Bruce Wayne holds up, the depiction of Gotham, the Rogues gallery and where this depiction fi...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Episode #56 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees the team issue their final, somewhat overdue, entry into March's 4ever in Electric Dreams' 90s hip-hop month. For this episode, Dan Collacott, Tee-J Sutherland & Imran Mirza explore some of their favourite 90's hip-hop one-hit wonders and then Imran finds out that revenge truly is a dish best served cold... As quizmaster to episode 55's 90's hip-hop quiz pitting Dan vs TeeJ, the quiz-ees unexpectedly turn the tables with a sur...
Apr 17, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Welcome to Episode #14 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode, the pair celebrate the sophomore studio album from the late, great Notorious BIG, 'Life After Death'. Released 25th March 1997 through Bad Boy Records, the album would see its release 16 days after Biggie's m...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Episode #55 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees the team once again put their geek credentials on the line in epic fashion with the second of our Quiz Night-themed episodes in support of 4ever in Electric Dreams' 90s hip-hop month. Dan Collacott and Tee-J Sutherland are put through their paces courtesy of ruthless Quiz Master, Imran Mirza, as we delve into head-first into hip-hop's revered golden era tackling a range of different questions like... "What was the name of Missy El...
Mar 20, 2022•1 hr 41 min
Welcome to Episode #54 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast which sees the team celebrate their shared affection for 90s hip-hop by compiling a list of their favourite 100 songs. This episode sees Dan, Tee-J and Imran discuss those key artists and releases that had the biggest impact on their respective fandom as well as asking what it was about the 90s that was responsible for that indefinable magic that can't be replicated today. www.4everinelectricdreams.com Emanating from London,...
Mar 07, 2022•1 hr 38 min
Welcome to Episode #13 of the 90s State of Mind podcast - a collaborative project between 4ever in Electric Dreams and Blue-in-Green:RADIO. This podcast series sees Imran (London, UK) and Rhonda (California, USA) delve into some of their favourite releases from the 90s and for this episode, the pair revisit Bobby Brown's, 'Bobby'. Released 25th August 1992 through MCA Records, the album served as the third solo outing for the R&B vocalist following his departure from R&B collective New E...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Episode #53 of the Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind podcast sees the team delve back into the realms of current Star Wars releases through Disney+ looking at the current slew of shows in the works along with discussing season 1 of 'The Book of Bobba Fett'. While the Star Wars Cinematic Universe is still trying to find their footing following the heavily derided outings of 'The Last Jedi' (2017) and 'The Rise of Skywalker' (2019), the Disney+ shows - spearheaded by the amazing Mandalorian - are ...
Feb 24, 2022•1 hr 16 min
