Tag: XFM
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Slaves and the NME Award Tour
Talking of the NME Awards, I had a great one* I knew Wytches and Fat White Family were ace, heavier in form this time around, it was comical watching ver kids try to mosh to sludge ‘surf doom’ as some hack calls it, but discovery of the night was Slaves. Initially I was unsure, but…
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Know Your History part 2: London Booted
Fast forwarding past 2003 and part one of this series, we join our intrepid DJ Heroes in 2004 as they decide to Clash it up and celebrate the 25th anniversary of the classic London Calling LP, mashup style. Richie Deluxe over at Culturedeluxe was the main honcho who put together the MP3-only release, but eventually…
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72: The event
As well as being released and played in part on XFM, 72 the collaborative mashup project will have a live mashup event in London on Thursday 29th October at Loom bar from 7pm-1am with many mashup DJs in a continuous moving mashup feast! Idea is like the old Bastard ‘Bring Yer Own Boots’ – each…
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Podcasts – it’s all gone Pete Tong!
In the latest edition of Computer Music (Feb 06) there’s an interesting interview with Pete Tong, the dance/Radio 1 DJ and A&R person. According to the article he’s one of the people at the Beeb who are spearheading podcasting – the Essential Mix podcast is out there (Essential Mix is mostly commercial dance, but is…
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Monkeying around: The Myspace Musical Revolution
interesting…a band in the UK (Artic Monkeys) last week went #1 in the UK with very little traditional promotion – as far as I can tell this is the first purely Myspace/online fan marketed band to get successful that way alone – at least in the UK. I just read the interview in this weeks…
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Radio Clash 7 – Xmas Xscape Pod!
Show 7, 21/12/04, 43mins, 25Mb Radio Clash 7 – Xmas Xscape Pod available from the show archives Pilchard – SantaBully DJ Riko – Merry Mixmas 2004 (excerpt) El Vez – Feliz Navi-nada (off Cool Christmas XFM CD) Richard Cheese – Christmastime is here RIAA – G-L-O-RIAA Beatles 1963 Christmas single excerpt vim – wakey wakey…