Month: December 2013
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Death Vessel
https://soundcloud.com/subpop/death-vessel-ilsa-drown Hello! From the Xmas Hinterland and Land of Pseudoephedrine! In my Pholcodine and post-Xmas haze* I love this from Death Vessel which came around randomly on Soundcloud. It went something like this: But if I survive my Traditional Xmas Illness and haven’t totally forgotten by then, I might get it. No promises, because between…
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Alan Turing pardoned
(Decoding Alan Turing by tsevis, Creative Commons) We’ve long campaigned for the pardoning of Alan Turing on this blog, so glad to hear that as of today he is pardoned. 61 years too late, and why did it take so long? At least now the record is expunged, and that along with the freeing of…
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Bomarr’s Wild Xmas 8
If you liked my Bah Humbug compilations and A Crumplebang Christmas, then I’m sure you’ll love Bomarr’s Wild Xmas series. I’d love to say I was inspired by these (earlier ones have a lot of overlap with Bah Humbug) but actually I’ve only just heard of them via Mr Fab of Music for Maniacs blog.…
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Road Bike Party 2
Some of this I didn’t think you could DO on a bike, amazing stuff. Especially the full pipe, I was like – no they’re not going to do that… Sad to hear about Martyn Ashton who is one of the three bikers in this video, who injured his back during trials, but I guess like…
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RC 252: A Crumplebang Christmas
Crumplebang! A very silly Facebook conversation invented the term ‘Crumplebanger’ for some even sillier sort of mashups, and scarily it seems to now be a Real Thing so here’s some Christmas and non-festive Crumplebangers ahoy! As well as some of my faves looking back on 2013 and beyond. Christmas crackers go out to Joel Crookes,…
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Ceephaxmas
Not a Christmas tune from Ceephax Acid Crew (that would be a fine thing too) but another great video promoting his new release the World Dissolver EP, which is very funny and has more ideas in it per second than most videos do in their entirety. And he’s shaping up to be the 8-bit version…