Tag: Soft Cell
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RC 388: Autumn – Everything Must Go
We say hello and wave goodbye to summer, holidays and camping, Autumn is here and so we have a autumnal podcast about change and endings with mashups from virtual camping with PDS Mix’s Mashup Summer Camp, and actual camping with music and chat relating to Jaunt 4 where I was walking along the Jurassic Coast.…
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RC 368: Eat The Rainbow Capitalists (Dark 80’s Edition)
Fuck the rainbow capitalists and all that shiz. Taste the Rainbow? I’d rather puke it up all over those who get offended by queer people tbh…or eat the rich….pride was a riot! A dark 80’s edition of the podcast – influenced by Stranger Things and the sad death of Depeche Mode’s Fletch – so many…
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RC 365: Gayle Force 10 / ABCDEFUK
Spring vibe check says: cold, windy and storms ahead after the false spring was deposed, and the outlook is unclear and unsettled. We take it to Gayle Force 10 with drum and bass,, metal. punk, jungle, rave, indie, strange italian disco, pop, and round it up with crumpl-banging tunes from the recent Discord challenges including…
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Pet Shop Boys vs Soft Cell – Purple Zone
No not a mashup – it’s only taken 4 decades but Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys collaborate with a track called Purple Zone. I’m guessing from the lyrics Marc Almond took more of a lead, but then again the backing sounds like classic Pet Shop Boys/Chris Lowe (keeping a ‘Lowe’ profile in this video,…
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RIP Steve Bronski of Bronski Beat
Sadly Steve Bronski of Bronski Beat has died aged 61 (on the right in the above photo). I can’t stress how important his band was – not only launching the career of Jimmy Somerville but also soundtracking my early queer experiences and being one of the few out queer bands – the only one that…
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RC 344: Bootleg Ghost Of Yore – Mashup Show
A retro podcast of bootlegs, bastard pop, mashups, blends and plunderphonics – whatever you want to call them (who ya gonna call? No we don’t have any Ghostbusters mashups in here, thankfully). A podcast about bittersweet memory, mashup history, the Bootleg Archive and a lot of old bootlegs especially from around 2002-2004 (and a few…