Month: May 2013
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You’ll never work in television again
A friend posting the infamous Orbital video lead to a journey into those musical moments where bands not only rebelled, refused to do as they were told, or just plain failed and created classic moments of TV. In the case of Orbital – Chime this is where a dispute over miming lead the Hartnoll brothers…
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Joe Strummer on Night Network 1988
I used to watch Night Network, and this show, but sadly missed this one as this guy’s interview technique actually works here for once! This is during Joe’s ‘lost’ post Clash years, in 1988, just before the first Mescaleros release ‘Trash City’. I love how he talks about being stiffed for CD royalties!
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Jack Conte – Pedals
Interesting as I was bemoaning the state of play of Reddit and especially r/Mashups I found their April ‘best of’ included Jack Conte’s Daft Punk Skrillex ‘Madeon’ style mashup – and then found the amazing original video for Pedals above which you can download for free. It’s like Quay Brothers meets Survival Research Labs (seriously,…
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8 bit Daft Punk mashup
I hadn’t seen this by Joe Jeremiah but it’s brilliant – all songs from Random Access Memories, in 8-bit style, in one song. BEAT THAT. (And that is a challenge – as I said on the Twitters, hardly any of the remixes or mashups have been worth it. Lots of multimashes, but nothing really good.…