Tag: Benga
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Kodiak Moment 3: Best of Instamatic & Captain Obvious 2008 – 2011
The Rise of The Aliases! I wasn’t exactly a stranger to aliases before but something about the second explosion of work around 2008-2010 meant I was wanting to branch out and not get bogged down with past failures while I was learning…many of which I had to fix on Volume 2! Kodiak Moment 3: Best…
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RC 253: Leftovers (Odds and Sods #16)
The cards and lights still left up, here’s all the leftovers from 2013 in one handy show, with some old Crumplebang/Soundclown crackers thrown in for good measure and and undrunk 10cc bottle. Cover featuring vintage Tiny Hippo and Tiny Train. Brought to you by ‘Is the feed still on?’ I’m Not In Love, I Just…
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Train tracks
It’s not often I get a demo email from a rail company but Gatwick Express has commissioned 30 minutes of music from Philip Sheppard then Benga and The Milk have recorded their own take on it. It’s a mad idea and could go wrong in so many ways, but as you can see from the…
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The death of Dubstep?
In every genre there usually comes the ‘breakout moment’ into mass consciousness – as it goes overground away from the dedicated fans and into the wider world. In dance music this usually spells the death of that genre, not (just) in some hipster ‘I heard it first’ sense but usually because that means the evolution…
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Defunkto’s Dubset mix
This mix by Shiggi aka Defunkto got props in the latest podcast, an excellent dubstep mix from which I ‘borrowed’ the White Satin and Knights of Cydonia dubstep remixes cos they is HUWGE!! Other highlights I’ll probably filch is the excellent PornStep tracks and the hilariously funny Funtcase ‘Taking the Piss’ which I officially love.…
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Parkade Flashback 1: Traffic Jambient Dark Dub mix circa 2007
Sorting out some minidiscs I found some of the mixes I recorded years ago at the Parkade…now the Parkade is gone it’s high time to release them as a reminder what was so great about it 🙂 Here’s the first Parkade Flashback – a nearly 2 hour dark dubby laid back ambient mix. This mix…