Tag: Video game
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Best of 2021-2022 Bandcamp Albums from Instamatic, Captain Obvious, DJNoNo & tbc
It’s nearly Christmas so here’s your present (or booby prize? It’s that time of year, The Biannual Mashup Report! I am releasing the last 2 years or so of mashups and plunderphonic experiments from Instamatic, Captain Obvious, DJNoNo & tbc on Bandcamp that aren’t on Black Block (now on there for the first time also)…
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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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Katamari Sound Machine / Weeknd vs Fez
Last week’s challenge was video game tunes, so of course I chose my favourite games – although in this case, it’s my favourite game soundtrack, I’ve never played Katamari Damacy or sequels! Yes this is Senor Coconut remixing Katamari on the Funk it’s on the game soundtrack for Katamari Forever…and works perfectly with Gloria Estefan…
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The Art of Atari
I’m not sure if today’s generation realise the wonder of arcade and home console/computer game art, travelling into a world of Chris Foss and pulp sci-fi covers crossed with D&D fantasy, cutesy pop art and plain Robert Crumb psychedelic strangeness. The thrill of seeing new worlds, and being able to travel to them on your…
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Anna Meredith – R-Type & Honeyed Words
It seems to be a waiting game with Anna Meredith, two years on from when I was raving about her Nautilus, we have an album – in March of next year! Can’t totally blame her though, she has been doing the classical day job at the Proms with tracks such as Smatter Haul and schools…
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Twang Hero, or how similar pop music has become
Or in this case, how similar country pop has become, but as others have pointed out you can do similar experiments with mainstream chart pop (any current pop multimash), or even EDM as Daleri did with the Beatport top 100. The recent horrible rise of the multi-mash and ‘compilation’ mashups like United States of Pop…