Tag: Quietus
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John Peel meets Aphex Twin and Vibert in Cornwall
I’ve watched some of the Sound of the Suburbs series many years ago but I’m sure this one wasn’t online then – a legendary and rare meeting of Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin and Luke Vibert at Gwennap Pit. Found out about this via John Dorran’s review of the latest AFX EP, and the…
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RC 239: Afro-Arab Part One – Cellphones & Icecream
Recently I’ve been checking out what has been called Electro Chaabi (or Cha’abi/Shaaby/Cha3by/mahragan aka ‘festival music’), the new-ish underground hiphop/pop music in Egypt, which led me back to the show I planned after going to Egypt and South Africa in 2011. In fact this music wasn’t new to me, it was all over Egypt blasting…
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Reformed Sugababes lay down in a Swimming Pool
Can’t believe I’m posting about a reformed girl band, but then again Sugababes were never your usual dizzy girl group fresh from stage school, working with the likes of Richard X, and I think did an amazing thing that only a few* have managed to keep their cred and be pop at the same time.…