Month: November 2009
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Muppets do Bohemian Rhapsody
Wonderful take on the Queen classic in classic Muppet style…saw this doing the round a short while back but of course was at work, and a big no-no watching them at work 😀
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Song of the decade: When Xtina met Julian
Guardian has a great article today about Freelance Hellraiser and his incredibly influential Stroke of Genius with namechecks to the dearly missed Boomselection blog, The Remix, and GHP amongst others (and Girl Talk and totally nails that he’s a ‘dead end’ of ADD hyper referentiality in the mashup phenomenon). Much has been said about Stroke…
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Best mix ever?
Well the legend that is Greg Wilson is well known, but with the Music Played In Discotheques mix he had me at Chairmen of the Board and George McCrae’s woefully underloved ‘Rock Your Baby’ showing his true 70’s northern soul credentials! The idea was to use tracks from 1972-75 for the Tate Gallery in Liverpool,…
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Dan Bull’s Open Letter to Mandy, the Pirate Finder General
After his wonderful letter to Lily Allen, Dan Bull does it again – this time an open letter sung to everyone’s favourite Pirate Finder General and Geffen-loving big corporate shill, Peter Mandelson.
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Victorian Values
Last night I was at the Victorian Values event at the British Library run by the Ministry of Burlesque with Victorian Values and others which I think Gryphons-Hole would have not only liked but fit right in if he wasn’t state-side; I alas didn’t go in my top hat but if I had I would’ve…
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This is what Orbital will be like in their 60’s
…Alexander Robotnick aka Maurizio Dami, Italo GOD if you ask me (and that’s just for Problemes D’Amour and Dance Boy Dance) here jamming live in his amazing analog studio with a friend. Love the Wasp, and all those cables and oscilloscopes! Great music, not so sure about Maurizio’s dancing 😉 Thanks to Cartelmike and Jez…