Tag: radio 1
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Porij – Lose Our Minds
Not often recently a TOTAL BANGER comes my way (one of two in fact) but checking out NME’s ‘ones to watch at festivals’ article) (sore point – I tried to get tickets for Glasto in the resale and failed, really couldn’t afford it anyway but I deserve a trip away) and nestled amongst the usual…
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RIP Janice Long
RIP DJ and presenter Janice Long – first woman daytime Radio 1 DJ, first regular presenter of Top of the Pops, presenter at Live Aid, and by all accounts a lovely woman. And friend of John Peel – as can be seen on these segments on the excellent Top of the Pops: Story of series…
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The Disc jockeys (1970)
Amazing look into the working of Radio 1 in 1970 by Man Alive. Featuring the likes of John Peel, Kenny Everett, Jimmy Young, Emperor Rosko and yes Tony Blackburn, it’s a critical look at the rise of the DJ. Several of them particularly doesn’t come over that well with Peel criticising the fact that some…
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Here come the tape rewinds…
Just a note to all that love comedy, or liked the bits I used in Radio Clash Radio Musicola, or want to get a handle on where the Tim and Kirk humour comes from outside of Douglas Adams. They should listen to the 1990 Radio 1 shows of Victor Lewis-Smith, repeated for the first time…
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Skip to my loops – Disclosure & Fred Falk 90’s REWIND
http://soundcloud.com/tomorrowland-2013-sets/disclosure-essential-mix-bbc-radio1-10-aug-2013 I’ve been forecasting the skippety skippety return of speed garage and 90’s house since 2011, when at Coachella the likes of Joy Orbison were dropping old speed garage tunes as a nod to where dubstep came from, and these 20 year olds who were hardly born then were going nuts for it. Last year…
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I’m so cool and groovy I go bom bom bom
Am re-listening to Radio 1 in celebration of that bigoted Destroyer Of Radio 1 presenter being finally off the station (yay!) and heard this track by Sam & The Womp – Bom Bom. Love this it’s completely insane, skirting into Doop/novelty territory but rap meets dance meets klezmer/brass/gypsy with totally stupid lyrics. *snaps Kitkat* It’ll…