Month: January 2012
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Rusko kicks brostep out of sight
Rusko, the disavowed inventor of brostep, surprised me by creating a complete piano banger of a CHOOOON, Somebody to Love. Now this is proper old skool dubstep, with extra hands-in-the-air rave piano/break kicks in for good measure (and max smiles). Video is really sweet too (and yes like the YT comment I want a WAKE…
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Music Trawl: Here comes the Afrobeats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5dD1cGQYvO8#t=380 (Mono T ft. Navy & Masheleng “Bashanyana” – whose video oddly seems to have been pulled off YouTube?) I’d kind of lost track of south african house and kwaito since the last time but one I was there…I’d heard bits since but it seemed just like normal house from South Africa, and the 1Xtra…
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If there’s a racist then you put your middle finger up
https://soundcloud.com/hassan-matthews/my-tram-experience-bbc-1xtra Love this response by Saskilla to the Stephen Lawrence decision and the terrible video of Emma West spouting racist hate and obscenities on a Wimbledon tram (NSFW, and really disturbing…never understood the pondlife that think that swearing like a navvy around little kids is acceptable either – like they know people won’t hit them…
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Why I Don’t Play That Many Mashups
In a rant response to a thread on Mashstix responding to this post on FMITracks, I thought I’d post here as it fairly succinctly explains why I rarely play mashups on what was a formerly mashup podcast. Ahh the state of mashups…I got there in 2008, what kept you guys I’ve noticed there is two…
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Star Wars Uncut: The Director’s Cut
Crowdsourcing at it’s best, it’s usually most successful when it’s something to do with sci-fi or Star Wars – in this case the latter, a project where people were asked to remake Star Wars in 15 second chunks, it’s brilliant, and now the Director’s Cut is online (wonder if key scenes and characters have been…