Month: September 2012
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RC 225: Babylondon 2012
Welcome to Gridlock! They call it murder… A state of the capital address about London, 2012, Babylon and ting. Righteous music from roots reggae to dubstep, soul, rock and gothabilly & psychobilly (and two Orchestras and some funky dubby jaxz from Miles Davis!) celebrating Jamaica’s 50th birthday and Red, Gold and Green rather than Bronze,…
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Gee Mr Tracy – Mr Unlucky
Weird and wonderful this here internet, where someone (in this case Robb Idiotech) posts a probably unremembered tune from 1986 on their Facebook wall and a hitherto unknown (to me anyway) band comes to light. Here’s Norwich’s finest Gee Mr Tracy with a (fan?) video of ‘Mr Unlucky’. As Robb points out, the lyric “And…
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Modern Toss ‘Robin Of Essex’
Modern Toss Can Do No Wrong and here they prove why in the hilarious Robin Of Essex. Hope it’s a series…
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Forest Swords
Loving Forest Swords at the moment – was hoping to catch them at Bestival but missed them. Love the medieval murky acoustic dubstep feel, with a sort of 3am country thing in there too. Amazing to think this was 2010 – with the current XX album and interest in all things gothic, electronic and floaty…
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I’m so cool and groovy I go bom bom bom
Am re-listening to Radio 1 in celebration of that bigoted Destroyer Of Radio 1 presenter being finally off the station (yay!) and heard this track by Sam & The Womp – Bom Bom. Love this it’s completely insane, skirting into Doop/novelty territory but rap meets dance meets klezmer/brass/gypsy with totally stupid lyrics. *snaps Kitkat* It’ll…
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Psychemagik return to Fleetwood Mac
Really glad to hear this, was prodding them on Facebook to give FM another go after their amazing remix of ‘Everywhere’ and glad they have done so – this time doing a brilliant rerub of ‘Dreams’. I suspect a certain Facebook group helped them too *cough*. I caught some of their set at Bestival, twas…