Tag: Stuart Maconie
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Hawkwind with the Prince of the Hawk-Men
I heard this via Stewart Lee standing in for Stuart Maconie on the Freak Zone – genius combining Brian Blessed (Prince Vultan of the Hawk-Men in Flash Gordon) with Hakwind on this remake of Sonic Attack. Completely mental, in the best way.
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Music for Alarm Clocks
Well more accurately from an alarm clock – Jon Brooks has created a whole album from the Dieter Rams Braun AB-30 Alarm clock as a sound source…the results are appropriately germanic motorik but with some lovely melodies more akin to his usual guise The Advisory Circle. In the current mania for Kraftwerk it fits right…
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ZX Spectrum Orchestra
As mentioned on Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone (after playing the divine Space Lady ‘Major Tom’ no less) – here’s ZX Spectrum Orchestra with Dollar Power. ZX Spectrum Orchestra features one of the ex-members of Plone. Here’s Look+Listen…guessing they have one Spectrum reacting to sound input and others making the noises? And those who think 8-bit…
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop Hits 50 – 3 new CDs
BBC Radiophonic Workshop (something that regular listeners and readers to the show shouldn’t need any introduction to) hit 50 this year, and you might have seen or heard various events at the Electric Proms relating to this (listening to Coldcut remixing the works of the Workshop as I type this). What you might not know…