Tag: Arthur Baker
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Steinski and the art of the cut-up
Didn’t know there was a video for ‘We’ll Be Right Back’? This song along with Arthur Baker’s Criminal Element Orchestra – Put The Needle To The Record, Bomb The Bass – Beat Dis, S’Express and Coldcut’s mix of Eric B & Rakim’s Paid in Full were my introduction to the world of the cut-up –…
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Story of Pop on Sampling and Remixing
If you’re in the UK (or have access to a UK proxy) I really recommend these two BBC 6Music shows as part of the Story of Pop series which I’ve been listening to – I have an old cassette tape of the It’s A Steal – Sampling show of Coldcut talking through all their samples…
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Let Me Go Sunshine (Heaven 17 vs Rockers Revenge vs The Clash)
(Taxi image by Marc Samsom, used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic) As premiered in the latest podcast, this mashup isn’t my idea at all – Jeb Edwards aka DJ 50PoundNote asked me to make it as part of his set. He originally heard it on a friends tape from the 80’s but couldn’t find…
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Know your roots: Beat This Hip Hop documentary
Beat This: A Hip Hop History BBC documentary from 1984 about the roots of hiphop – contains an interview with the legendary DJ Kool Herc, the father of hiphop…and Afrika Bambaataa, Malcolm McLaren, Arthur Baker and more.
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Radio Clash 118: I’d Rather Hurl Than Reynolds Girl
Episode 118, in a mentality far, far away. Where Tim gets obsessed with Fleetwood Mac, plans to go off to Trier (err and comes back, this was recorded before I left) and it all ends with hilarious consequences, or something. Actually it ends with a lack of editing where I got bored, so it sounds…