Month: February 2012
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Doubt and Facebook
Something Beckett-like about taking the Facebook quarrelling of 12-13 year olds and performing it as an adult play…all those non-sequiturs and unspoken bits and random asides…
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New Order 6Music playlist help
Looks like Now Playing on Friday is doing a New Order special and via Friend of Radio Clash (I should make Tshirts saying that) Jeb 50PoundNote I’ve heard they want input from New Order fans what to play…links in quite nicely with their recent Kraftwerk specials too, I bet – and New Order have some…
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Reggae in the Deep / Fuck You (and your Ska too)
https://vimeo.com/39624498 I know a few people who will go crazy for this reggaie remix of Rolling in the Deep and the ska one below…Adele goes old skool reggae/ska flava! Wish she’d done this version at the Grammys (heard a clip of that, what the Americans made of her crazy Essex-girl babbling, I don’t know –…
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Music for Alarm Clocks
Well more accurately from an alarm clock – Jon Brooks has created a whole album from the Dieter Rams Braun AB-30 Alarm clock as a sound source…the results are appropriately germanic motorik but with some lovely melodies more akin to his usual guise The Advisory Circle. In the current mania for Kraftwerk it fits right…
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Take a strange seemingly unrelated chance
I wasn’t aiming to post about this again, but a strange hop skip and a jump from a current news item back to music I am currently listening to (and featured on the last but one show) like a musical consequences… OK Exhibit A – this quirky funk/electro single by Bill Laswell and Michael Beinhorn,…
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Remember her as she would’ve wanted…
…totally mashed. Actually maybe I should rephrase that? :-/ Whitney Houston RIP – a cultural icon, probably more than she knew, like in these cheeky mashups or covers of her most famous hits – especially the first one given it’s also 30 years since Kraftwerk’s The Model hit #1 in the UK too. *Salutes* EDIT:…