Tag: The Rolling Stones
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RC 382: Enjoy Your Life?
As we gear up for the Coronation (NOT MY KING! Unless he is getting into the swing) here’s a mix for your Corona Nation Party. This is partly a twin of 381, but more of a reflective/dancefloor meditation on enjoying life and growing older. It’s a lot more fun than that sounds, with creepy blackbirds,…
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Kodiak Moment 3: Best of Instamatic & Captain Obvious 2008 – 2011
The Rise of The Aliases! I wasn’t exactly a stranger to aliases before but something about the second explosion of work around 2008-2010 meant I was wanting to branch out and not get bogged down with past failures while I was learning…many of which I had to fix on Volume 2! Kodiak Moment 3: Best…
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Bruce Haack and his sampling electronic suitcase
Long time listeners and readers of this blog would know my eternal love for Bruce Haack – the electronic genius who sadly still doesn’t get the love he deserves. I’ve seen other clips from his stints on US TV – in fact I think I have posted them with his ‘touch synthesizer’ including Mr Rogers…
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New Music: Hope Sandoval and Primal Scream
Loving the Lee Hazlewood / Nancy Sinatra style vibes from ex-Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval (and also singer of one of the best songs of the 21st Century – Massive Attack’s Paradise Circus). This is her band with one of My Bloody Valentine, and featuring on this track Kurt Vile. Blissful psych country. The video makes…
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Merry Clayton – Gimme Shelter
Merry Clayton’s backing vocals of the Rolling Stones classic are stuff of legend, and a crazy story of themselves, as that she did backing vocals for the very white redneck anthem Sweet Home Alabama (as she pointed out many times since, it wasn’t that sweet for black people). I never knew she did a version…
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Ground Shelter (Hope & Fear) – two topical mashups
(after Shepard Fairey) OK I’ve been working on this mashup of Stereo MC’s vs Rolling Stones vs Benga vs Fun Boy 3 for a while – kind of a State of the Nation address in a mashup as regards how I felt in the run up to the US election, Georgia v. Russia, Iran and…