Tag: Elvis Presley
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Mashed Up At The Sock Hop Vol 2
Oh hello…I am alive, as you can see from the latest podcast, but not many things bring me out of blog lurkdom, but a new volume of the Sock Hop Rock n’ Roll mashup compilation from iWillBattle will do it! As before, we have rock, and/or roll mashups of a pre-1960’s flavour, with an album…
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Taylor Swift – Midnights Mashups
Really digging Midnights, the new-ish album by Taylor Swift atm and obsessed by the songs Anti-Hero, You’re On Your Own, Kid, and Snow On The Beach. I’m only on track 11 cos I keep stopping to make mashups of the album. Even DJNoNo got in on the act! At this rate I’ll have an album….and…
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Back to YouTube Part 2: New Mashup Videos
I have neglected my old YouTube channel somewhat – I’ve done the odd Live stream but not many proper videos for my mashups. Feeling I should make some quick ones, and at first planning to just make simple artwork only videos, I got sucked into making visualisations, or simpler videos for my work. I have…
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Music Industry’s Never-Ending End Of Days?
Newsweek concluded their article on what they called “rock’s doldrums” by reminiscing about the “good old days” when Elvis Presley and the Beatles created excitement by providing an identifiable center to the pop music world, recording music that the various segments of the pop music audience could all share. According to Newsweek, Elvis and the…
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Planet Disiac 2000 Light Years From Home
Sometimes you come over something that shouldn’t work, but in the spirit of Oki or Pilchard it just hangs together in it’s own crazy orbit. From the alternate universe of Disiac Here’s Rolling Stones vs Melle Mel and a few other bits I don’t recognise. Brilliant in it’s madness. Also like his take on Elvis…
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God Loves Rock and Roll and Smash Up Derby!
Video I shot while at Bootie Aprilween in San Francisco – it’s Smash Up Derby (with Zombie Elvis – Adrian, Zombie John Bonham – Dada no less) doing their NIN vs Joan Jett live mashup ‘Closer to Rock n Roll’ – with added furry SQURRRL invasion! Loads of fun, and yes that’s Jeb and me…