Tag: stroke of genius
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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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Song of the decade: When Xtina met Julian
Guardian has a great article today about Freelance Hellraiser and his incredibly influential Stroke of Genius with namechecks to the dearly missed Boomselection blog, The Remix, and GHP amongst others (and Girl Talk and totally nails that he’s a ‘dead end’ of ADD hyper referentiality in the mashup phenomenon). Much has been said about Stroke…
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RC 182: Do You Remember The First Time part one
This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence (yes Banksy you can kiss my arse) I mentioned on Twitter that I was planning a follow-up to these shows, and without even mentioning that the idea was around the theme of first, dorkland aka Walton (Viera?) in Second Life suggested I do a show on…