Tag: Factory
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Shit Robot – Do It (Right)
DFA shows how to do a lyric video, with a nostalgic journey through record covers. Trax, Strictly Rhythm, DJ International (which is the one I usually bought, Jackmaster compilations!), C & C Music Factory, House Sound of… series and Jack Your Body cover, Streetsounds, and even nods to Peter Saville (Happy Mondays Hallelujah cover and…
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Factory Records – a business, a partnership, a joke
I’d never seen this – New Order making a documentary about themselves for Channel 4 in 1984 about Factory Records. Interesting interviews, and highlights that the story of Factory Records and Tony Wilson was as much a construct as anything, e.g. evil label boss vs disaffected band members which although constantly moaning still stayed with…
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Looking from a Hilltop – RIP Larry Cassidy
Word has got through via the NoRecordShopsLeft blog that Larry Cassidy of Section 25 has died. Who you might say? Well Section 25 was part of the Factory Records roster, formed in Blackpool in 1977, and one of those few electro/dance acts that prefigured and prescribed acid house, linking electro to it’s future Detroit home.…
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2009 in music
No not a list post as I’ve railed against before; just a review of the year. You can add random numbers to it if you want, especially if you want it to make less sense. Feel free to then argue the results bitterly in the comments, across twitter and thus the national press who now…
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Acid House will NEVER DIE!
Hacienda as pictured in ’24 Hour Party People’ – great film btw …and the Hacienda, and piano house in general. I’m sure at some point acid house devotees will become annoying as punk bores, but with piano house on the rebound a and late 80’s house references on the come back (see Hercules and Love…
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Video Podcast #5 – Childhood’s End Pt 3 – Rough Guide to Beacon Hill
In which our intrepid heroes produce the Rough Guide to Beacon Hill, not with Sank-her Goo-her or Magenta DevineTime but the infinitely cheaper Kirk and Tim. We also go to the Chinese Great Wall – no expense spared. All because I love* Beacon Hill so much! Also take a trip around my home town, it’s…