Month: May 2014
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The Vegan Leather
Nice email from Gianluca from The Vegan Leather led me to this track ‘Mast’ – if you like Mogwai, Errors et al I think you’d like this song from the Paisley trio. Right up my street. Other tracks seem to mine the more spikier or experimental side of indie dance and pop, so they seems…
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Just vote – no vote is wasted
Tomorrow it’s the Local and European elections for many people in the UK. Here’s a non-party political from Eddie Izzard with one important message: VOTE. Doesn’t matter for who, although I’d really not recommend UKIP because not only it’s most likely against your interests, they’re a bunch of racists, sexists, homophobe and rich bankers who…
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All Hail The New Improved HoloMJ
Here’s the Michael Jackson Hologram Billboard performance that everyone’s talking about, if like me you found the initial YouTube posts pulled by the time I got to them. Same happened to the Tupac Coachella perfomance, almost completely scrubbed off the Net, I had fun trying to find that one to replace a broken link from…
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Derek Boshier and The Clash
In response to my Pop Goes the Easel post, Paul Gormanis posted images from the songbook that Derek Boshier illustrated for The Clash’s second album. It’s amazing stuff, I didn’t know there were links from the pop artists to The Clash, apparently Derek taught Joe Strummer on Foundation, and they bumped into each other later…
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Ukelele of the Beast
Love this Ukelele Slayer cover by Rob Scallon. \m/ \m/ I didn’t think you could get some of those sounds from a uke. In other news, I got tickets for BABYMETAL playing in London just after Sonisphere – the venue has been upgraded upto the Electric Circus, and they’ve been upgraded to the main stage…
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Electronica on the go – Anton Maskeliade
Got an email from Anton Maskeliade from Russia about his new video for Chabrec (below) shot in an old Zaporozhets car, with live triggered visuals. Not sure why the fencing bit, but love the fact he’s using Leap Motion control, it’s like Theremin for the 10’s (Lev Sergeyevich Termen was also Russian, so it comes…