Month: March 2011
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We are all one…
Well we all know the world’s best video is for Friday by Rebecca Black (more of that later) but close second is this by World Order, a group containing Genki Sudo, the martial artist who I guess choreographed this. Was that really done without technology? If so that’s amazing choreography! (via Jeb 50PoundNote). I love…
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Mashup Say, Mashup Do
A sample search and a post over in Facebook by Lee 10,000 Spoons reminded me – one of the people I mentally fingered (oo-er) for the First Mashup show was Westbam – but for some reason forgot – his classic Alarm Clock was, if a little repetitive and pre-figuring the techno revolution, one of mashup’s…
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Before Pump up the Volume: Pirates of London
Listening to ‘On The Run’ – a documentary about London Pirate Radio from the closure of the pirate ships in 1967 to the opening of the first commercial radio stations in 1973, made at the time it’s a fascinating piece of mostly long-forgotten history. Covering the likes of Radio Jackie, Radio Free London and the…
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The original boats that rocked – Pirate ships ahoy!
Preparing for a new show I stumbled across these films of the original pirates satellites – the offshore broadcasting Pirate Radio ships and forts such as Radio Caroline, Radio London, Radio 270, the fort radio stations of Radio 390, Radio Invicta, Radio City, and Radio Essex aka Sealand – and the most dramatic of all…
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What the Radiohead album *should* have sounded like…
…Well I only heard a few bits from passing cars going onto the tops of car parks, but the last few Radiohead albums have been More Of The Same to my ears…whereas this new collab between Burial and Fourtet (check out their last, especially Moth) and Thom Yorke really takes his work into new areas,…