Month: February 2012
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Essexboy’s Eclectique podcast is back
Hopefully for good…if you want to hear some great dance tunes, remixes, mashups or dubplates* listen to Eclectique from Essexboy – always a good selection and he always has an ear to the ground for the latest tunes and freshest things: * are they still called dubplates when they’re MP3s? I’m assuming not many people…
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Slowpitch
Carrying on in an ambient mode, Toronto turntable artist Cheldon Paterson aka Slowpitch has just sent me these live improvised videos and I love the mix of turntable, effects and sampler – I hate to compare but the closest thing is a woozy Burial/DJ Shadow/The Caretaker vibe. Check ’em out and you can hear more…
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e4 to the floor
One of the tracks in the Italo disco mix reminded me of Manuel Göttsching’s e2-e4, the guitarist for Ash Ra Tempel / Ashra. Not only did Larry Levan end his sets with this (probably the full 59 minutes!) at the Paradise Garage – you can imagine how this would go down – but also was…
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The Best Thing On The Internet
…if I didn’t imagine it in my Night Nurse feverish state is Procatinator. And I have to say watching this it’s a fine like between reality and feline infested fever…well it distracts me from my cold, although have a feeling with this and Nyancat the space cats are taking over any moment now. o.O Especially…
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Uno Dos Tres Quattro! Going back to the roots of Italo House
https://soundcloud.com/djeuan/killer-kitsch-italo-house Love this mix of Italo house classics and forgotten gems – from Black Box and Numero Uno (the same production team was behind both) to FPI Project and Sueno Latino and more. I miss the piano chord in dance music – occasionally pops up in the odd retro-sampling tune, but when the piano was…
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RC 216: Pop Is Dead 1 – Radio Musicola
I started the Pop Is Dead mix back in 2004 or 2005 – yes 7 or 8 years in the making! Finally got round to doing it, and I’ve collected so many songs about the music industry that I decided to do a series of shows about the State of the Music Industry – starting…