Tag: x factor
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Mutant Pop 5 – Got the Glitch remix cutup bug
By volume 5 of the Mutant Pop series I was starting to theme them, becoming more like my sets at the time, with a beginning and end and themes between the tracks. As the title says this volume covers the rise of glitch, the mashup originators started branching out towards original tracks and remixing. Cutups…
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Solar Powered Waving Queen & Olympigs Mascots
You can tell the Jubly and the O£ympic$ are around the corner, because not only are all the shop fronts got strange Union Jack items and Queenbilia in them, the crap collectibles are hitting the streets. The Pink Solar Powered Waving Queens, for instance above – I swear, am NOT making this shit up. Or,…
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Synth Britannia
People have been mentioning this for AGES saying ‘Have you seen Synth Britannia?’ and I was wary since I thought it might be another 80’s nostalgia fest with the usual faces. Not at all – and I was blown away how indepth they went, even visiting my old alma-mater at Psalter Lane (my claim to…
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Rage Against the X-Mas Factor
Fuck you Simon Cowell I won’t do what you tell me! Yes I’ve bought my copy of ‘Killing in the Name Of’ by Rage Against the Machine in protest of X-Factor nonsense and the ‘guaranteed’ Xmas #1 – I want my Xmas #1 back, Teletubbies and Bob the Builder and Blobby and all…and so should…
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Brilliant documentary on the State of the Music Industry
via Podcasting News ‘Before The Music Dies‘ is a 2006 documentary about the state of the music industry without the shrill discussion about filesharing and that particular RIAA Weapon of Mass Distraction and very welcome because of it. Made by music lovers FOR music lovers; it interviews many people from Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, a…
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Accordion Hero!
No not the sadly-fake game (Activision SOOORT IT AHHHHT! I’d love to play Accordion Hero fer reals) but this amazing performance which is rumoured from a X-Factor style show (?) and seems to be Russian, a teenager playing a frankly amazing version of Summer from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. That kid got some srs ‘cordian skillz!