Tag: Jazz
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RC 385: Cruel Summer
It’s a cruel, cruel summer leaving me here on my own…. A summer themed episode of Radio Clash, from track from recently released Summer Booty 2023 to a summer blues mix for driving along Outrun style by the beach with a Ferrari Testarossa (beware the large stone heads! Oh no, that’s Space Harrier)…also some tracks…
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Kleptones – AD
If I was to choose one word to describe The Kleptones fourth album in the ‘quadtriptych’ it would be angry. Not a misplaced or random anger, but a righteous one about the state of the world at the moment. Starting with hypnotic Alan Watts quotes and strange spoken word about reality, truth and cake, it…
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Black Block mashup album
I have decided to make my Black Album – and we all know what that mean don’t we kids? Yes I am out of the mashup making business (and sadly it is a business) for a while, it’s not really making me happy. It’s called Black Block and is 11 tracks in no real order,…
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Bob James on those that sampled him
Ian Fondue directed me to this video with legend Bob James – creator of classic and much-sampled tracks like Nautilus, Angela, Westchester Lady, Take Me To The Mardi Gras – those RunDMC bells and many others. It’s an advert for a sample clearing service Tracklib but fascinating having him talk about these samples – and…
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Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema
My dad – who was a jazz guitarist in his spare time – has a phrase ‘interesting chords’, like ‘some of those chords are interesting‘ i.e. unusual. He also has a love of Bossa Nova, and introduced me to the phrase ‘plink plink/cling cling jazz’ – I suspect he must’ve heard the Stan Freberg spoof…
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Mr B is Back With An Existential Crisis
A THOROUGHLY MODERN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer It seems the lockdown is now paying major dividends – another new(ish) release is this album from Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer ‘A Thoroughly Modern Existential Crisis’ about COVID-19 and the state of the nation. Particularly like the live-streaming ode ‘Live Stream for One’ – been…