Month: June 2010
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Waiting for Garfield
Behold Dan Walsh’s genius Garfield minus Garfield; which is unusual in a whole sea of C&D’s regarding derivative and transformative works of cartoon/comic characters is that Jim Davis is not only a fan but they did a book together. Very cool of Jim…as Dan points out the whole idea isn’t new, although the idea of…
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Bearshine Hotel
Strangely til yesterday I knew not the existence of the wonderfully and appropriately named Richard T. Bear (with the name, the plaid and the Grizzly Adams look he SO has to be a Bear prototype?) so the excellent Niallist has created a great re-edit of his biggest hit Sunshine Hotel – the Disco Beard edit.…
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L’art de l’échantillonnage (trans: The Art of Sampling in French House)
Blame the probably bad french on Google Translate, but also blame French House expert Ian Fondue for putting me onto this wonderful video explaining the samples in..err..French House. And Merci it’s in English! Au revoir!
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Just a reminder – Sad but New (1995 ISDN live version)
Someone posted this up at the end of April – it’s Orbital’s infamous live in the studio Radio 1 version of Sad But New from 1995. Great music, but Major’s nasal harrowing tones are a reminder of what the Tories were like last time. Criminal Justice Bill, Poll Tax, Miner’s Strike, Clause 28 and most…
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Newly rediscovered Northern Soul gem off 7″ – I Heard You Were Ill (So I Brought You Grapes)
I discovered this old Northern Soul gem on ‘Shoot the Piano Player’ records down the charity shop – who knew that Marvin Gaye and Mayer Hawthorne ripped this poor guy off? I ripped it from the original 7″ in glorious original mono just for y’all. Marvin Hawthorne – I Heard You Were Ill (So I…