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RC 240: Mexican Monkey 40th Birthday Party!

It was my 40th birthday a few weeks ago and I’ve just about recovered. There was alcohol, there were cards, there were long beards, thou shalt always BBQ, the cake was not a lie, there was mexican monkeys – wait, what? Well maybe not Mexican Monkeys, the new track from Daft Punk. Well not that new, it’s been #1 for like 3 weeks. Current, eh?

And yes we go from Handel to hiphop, shoegaze to sixties, electro to eclectic, bootlegs to booty-shaking bears!

I also went to see Low and Handel’s Giulio Cesare (NOT at the same time, although I suspect they would be compatible) and saw Book of Mormon…and generally and gently ruminated about the nature of life, and being 40.

Mid-life Crisis? Or Mid-life Crisis 2: Opposing Gravity? (1:33 / 96Mb)

  • Daft Punk – Get Lucky (uAnimals Remix)
  • Beartraxx – Remember The Digital Love (Michael Jackson vs. Daft Punk)
  • John Grant – Ernest Borgnine
  • Manu Chao – Clandestino (DJ Yamin Remix)
  • Björk – Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Remix)
  • Dusty Springfield – Don’t Forget About Me (Mono version)
  • Snoop Dogg – Wet
  • Tony Banks – Bears Like Me
  • Twilight 22 – Electric Kingdom
  • The Knife – Stay Out Of Here
  • Seafood – I Dreamt We Ruled the Sun
  • Flying White Dots – The California Show
  • Marianne Faithfull – Beware of Darkness
  • Low – To Our Knees
  • Natalie Dessay, Emmanuelle Haïm & Le Concert d’Astrée – Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Atto Secondo – Scene 8: Se pietà di me non senti
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RIP Romanthony & Rauhofer

Surprised to hear of two house producers deaths over the last day or so – Romanthony aka Anthony Moore, better known as the vocalist on Daft Punk’s greatest moment ‘One More Time‘ (I’m not big on their dancier tunes, but that STILL does the business, and is a classic tune) has died earlier this month.

Also Pete Rauhofer died on the same day (why did the 7th of May hate dance music so much?) remixer and DJ who produced the remixes which were ALL over the gay scene in the 90′s, usually the more ‘tribal’ or trance/hard house I’m really not into, but I did like his work with the Pet Shop Boys, such as the Break for Love cover.

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Four Tet – Unspoken (Promo version)

Meant to post this before, but wasn’t near a computer when Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet dropped this free original promo version of the Four Tet classic ‘Unspoken’ onto Soundcloud (with the original Tori Amos sample intact which had to be changed when she refused clearance).

Rounds is ten years old, and was re-released on vinyl and other formats last week. I remember when that album was released and many of us spent a long time trying to find things to mash it with (which you tend to do with music that jaw-droppingly good), which as you might guess is mostly impossible. But we tried ;-) ‘As Serious As Your Life’ became a theme song of mine back then, along with the excellent Morris-sampling video:

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Mashup videos 5th anniversary

I don’t usually repost stuff, but I was reminded by the ‘Past Clashes’ widget on my front page that I posted my first mashup video 5 years ago today – which was Neon Sex People (Neon Neon vs LaTour vs Depeche Mode) which promptly fell foul of the WMG vs YouTube copyright war, and so the YouTube version still has the wrong audio track…nothing changed there then! Looking at it now it still mostly holds up, although I was using After Effects then and had latency issues on my old machine (I got perfect sync, until I exported…oops!) so I’d tweak that now. We’ve come a long way, baby etc.

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Sunday: zero messages

Sums it up, really. (Audio NSFW, sweary)

BTW Radio Clash Live is down because the host has been taken down by DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack which I assume is some overcompensating micropenis 12 year old script kiddies with too much time on their hands, probably trying to nuke some game server to win some game on WoW. *sigh*

So for the moment RCL is down, and tbh, it might stay that way. Kind of tired of it all…far too detailed to describe here (especially as the ‘first world problem’ response has already been invoked by someone else) but lets just say recently me and social/online media and server woes has invoked a similar response to the video above. Time to retreat I think, for my sanity. I think the first thing is to make my Twitter protected, and setup a Radio Clash twitter for other things – in fact I have done that – the new Radio Clash only twitter is @radioclashbog – update your following lists, because unless I friend you back my personal twitter will be protected.

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