Tag: BBC 6 Music
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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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Joe Strummer 10th anniversary
It’s 10 years today (well yesterday now) since the death of Joe Strummer. Strange how the life and death of Joe Strummer – more so after he died – weaves in and out of mine even though I never knew the man directly. Being involved with London Booted the Clash mashup album in 2003, the…
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Your Headphones – Silverclub
Listening to Tom Robinson’s Now Playing on 6Music playing new music and this track by Silverclub came around. I like it for two reasons 1) 90’s influences are being used now, sounds like they have an intimate knowledge of fellow Mancunians 808 State (listen past the 3 minute mark – THAT bassline) which is NOT…
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Soundhog – Whole Lotta Helter Skelter
Wasn’t going to post this since I’m playing this bootleg in the next Radio Clash podcast, but it’s tearing up the blogosphere and even just been played on Radio 6Music so I thought Soundhog’s Led Zeppelin vs Beatles mashup – sorry bootleg 😛 (sH hates the mashup term) deserved posting twice for those few people…
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Sitting on the Fence
Was listening to the 6Music show about King Creosote and Jon Hopkins ‘Diamond Mine’ (well worth listening to both the show and the album, fave of this year so far) and I still think they wuz robbed of the Mercury Prize. Yes ‘Let England Shake’ is good, but PJ’s squawking gets irritating after a while,…
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John Martyn tribute album – Robert Smith does ‘Small Hours’
As usually happens, I go on a massive binge on an older artist or band, say Gil Scott-Heron – then find out they have a big release in the next week or two after years or decades of nothing. It happens a lot to me, and just happened with John Martyn. I wasn’t really up…