Month: March 2012
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Queen of Denmark
John Grant like King Creosote or Wild Beasts is one of those artists where their album just *lurks* on your iPod and never leaves, or pops up again and is very welcome. Those of you who have heard the recent strangely sedate version by Sinead O’Connor need to hear the original if you haven’t –…
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The New Sound of Music
Well for 1979…this BBC documentary is a really good explaination about how sound synthesis works and where the technology has come from – and as well as featuring David Vorhaus and Peter Zinovieff aka founder of EMS, it also includes the Radiophonic Workshop with the likes of Malcolm Clarke. Peter Howell and Paddy Kingsland (and…
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Synthesizer Grammy Medley
Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Thomas Dolby and Howard Jones mashup their hits for the 1985 Grammys. As someone commented, the Grammys used to be fun?!?
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Reggae Rehab / Elvis Gangja Fever
Hot on the heels of Junior Blender’s Adele and Cee-Lo reggae versions, here’s Amy Winehouse having a reggae rehab from Reggaesta. Also from Reggaesta is the very incongrous Elvis In Reggae…not so sure about these, but the version of Fever made me LOL and reminded me of the excellent Easy All-Stars version of Money: Although…
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Darth Vader in a kilt on a unicycle – isn’t that normal?
Welcome to the real Portlandia…another random WTF video, then again I hope it balances out recent more disturbing yet important posts…