Month: April 2014
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Kutiman remixes the city
Going through some broken video links (yeah, YouTube and pulled/deleted videos, bane of my life…) I came across Kutiman, and found this recent project where he went to a city, recorded footage of various musicians, performers and DJs then combined them. Above is the amazing one for Tokyo, and below are the earlier ones for…
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Return to the Cloud: Clams Casino, Trill and the new D.A.I.S.Y. age
A few years ago I was all about what later got called ‘Cloud Rap’ – Main Attracktionz, Babe Rainbow, Odd Future – I saw it as the hip hop successor to witch house and an extension of IDM. I tuned out, partly because the lyrical content wasn’t there, and listening now to the more recent…
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Ólafur Arnalds – Living Room Songs
I’ve been raving about Erased Tapes, and especially Ólafur Arnalds and co. for a long time now – and it’s good he’s getting some recognition via the BAFTA nomination. So to celebrate Erased Tapes have posted the full film of Living Room Songs. I played ‘Near Light’ from this last year on the podcast and…
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East India Youth
I went to the Wild Beasts Brixton gig a few days ago. It was strangely schizophrenic in feel, like the crowd and myself love the older songs, there’s obviously a shift in the audience, with Tom Fleming asking ‘who was here when we first played this song 10 years ago?’ to utter silence he responded…
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A history test with dragons and bewbs
Honest Trailers do it again with Game Of Thrones. Warning: Season 1-3 spoilers, so if you’re still stuck north of the wall, hurry up, winter is coming! Also, you might want to watch the spoiler-less version. But it’s not as funny (since most of it is blurred or beeped out!). (via Andy Dunproofin)
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Wombling Free (+ £99 handling charge)
This months ‘Good Work That Man (Or Woman)’ award goes to the wag who on April 1st changed the Kensal Rise Underground & Overground sign to add ‘Wombling Free’ to the end. (via various people, picture by Mark Mooney)