Tag: Richard X
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Lou Hayter – Private Sunshine
Rather late to the party – but my what a party! Listening to Lou Hayter’s Private Sunshine, which I would say quickly has rocketed up to my favourite albums of 2021, but it was released last year. The deluxe was released this year, so sorta qualifies. To the layman they’d probably say ‘chilled 80’s’ but…
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Everything is a Remix gets a remix!
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…no actually this blog, we featured Kirby Ferguson’s Everything Is A Remix series. And now, for 2021 he’s back with a totally new upgraded remix! Love the parts about Kanye and Led Zep (and I sort of knew that Sister Nancy’s Bam Bam used a riddim,…
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Ian Fondue – New Order vs Katy Perry
Great new mashup by Ian Fondue, taking one of my favourite tracks (Regret – New Order, which was released when I turned 20 so it feels like a proper ‘coming of age’ track unlike that #1 on your 18th business) with Katy Perry’s Part of Me and the mood just fit like a glove. ALL…
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How an Illegal Mashup Reignited British Pop
Great video explaining how Richard X et al reinvented British pop music, and it makes a good case for that (although I feel that he was treated like an outsider for a lot of it, even though he was a hitmaker, they took his ideas but shut him out?). And the Gary Numan comment that…
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Annie II: Electric 90’s Boogaloo
The 1990’s revival, or another attempt at making that era into another 80’s theme night seems to be in full retrostalgia swing. Like This Is England ’90 where it didn’t so much jump the shark as put it in a tank and exhibit it. (No-one outside of a rave looked like this in the 90’s!…
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Slaves and the NME Award Tour
Talking of the NME Awards, I had a great one* I knew Wytches and Fat White Family were ace, heavier in form this time around, it was comical watching ver kids try to mosh to sludge ‘surf doom’ as some hack calls it, but discovery of the night was Slaves. Initially I was unsure, but…