Tag: The Evolution Control Committee
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RC 346: The Light And Dark of the City – Chilled mashup show
A Long time coming, and recorded last month, here’s the ambient chilled mashup podcast mentioned in 344 – and in fact is a sequel to 344, as it’s the part of the same podcast really! From 1975 to 2021, we have plunderphonics, blends, mashups, bastard pop and various sampleage plundering synthwave, electronica, rock, dub, reggae,…
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Masters of Mash – Trademark G
Bootleg/mashup history is very much on my mind at the moment for obvious reasons, so it’s fortunate that Pimpdaddysupreme is doing a set of live two hour video interviews called Masters of Mash with various mashup artists. Previously he’s interviewed DJBC and ThriftshopXL – seen the DJBC one and it was fascinating, not watched the…
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Pause Button Beats
“Public Enemy No. 1” was a pause tape beat” This is an amazing article via Ian Fondue of the Lloydbrary about early hiphop DJs using cassette tapes in their productions – yes a lot of us started creating ‘pause button edits’ and it’s amazing that some of the classics were created this way. I knew…
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Mashup Academia
Interesting when academics and music theorists (or in this case philosophers) talk about mashups, something I know very well if you are a frequent reader (if not: this blog started at the second mashup podcast ever – the first fizzled out – for the first year or so, broadening out into DIY remix and music…
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Final Mashups – DJNoNo – Ballroom album
Planned 10 years ago, the Ballroom EP (now album) has been a long time coming…two of the tracks were released (here in a remastered or better quality form) but the rest laid in the Unfinished folder. Mixing ballroom music – big band, jazz, bossa nova, exotica, swing, easy listening and classical pops – with hip…
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RC 203: Radio Fail
A themed yet random show while I go off to gallivant in the US tomorrow – in fact today (!). This show was inspired by Twinkleboi posting about the Radio Fail website which is full of funny on-air disasters, but also combined with PSAs about the threat to US college radio (SaveKUSF) and old-skool original…