Month: July 2014
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Urvasi Urvasi
Will.i.am’s It’s My Birthday is UK number one, has quite a cool Vine-based video but I’m glad he didn’t even try and compete with the original. It’s based off a Tamil song composed by A.R.Rahman called Urvasi Urvasi from the film Kadhalan. Watch the video, it’s like Vanilla Ice meets John Hughes meets Seven Brides…
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An unfortunate Rolf Harris sketch in hindsight
Hindsight’s a bitch, especially when it catches up with you and bites you on the bum. Obviously as the About of this Not The Nine O’Clock News video points out, John Lloyd did not intend the modern reading of this sketch, more than his show was so bad they had to round up kids. But…
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RC 262: The Post Glastonbury Show
(Photo by me from Glasto 2014, yes it was muddy. Rest of the Glasto pics) Post Glastonbury, Post God and Post Great (War), this accidentally themed show includes Project Flake mashups, the Utopia soundtrack, Heavy Music To Annoy Your Polluting Neighbours Chain Smoking In The Garden, Minneapolis hip hop, summery house and electro, some very…
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Brett Domino Trio – How To Make A Hit Pop Song
He makes it looks so easy, in some senses it is, given that most modern pop songs are a) so simple a 5 year old can do them and b) they’re all so similar. Here Brett Domino creates a song ‘You’re Sexy When You Do That’ in Jason Derulo style, and the second video ‘Pinnochio’…
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Slow 78 Luxxury mixtape
Via the Wall Street Journal oddly (eye spy with my little eye, a site beginning/begging a C and ending in D…*cough*) I heard about this mixtape. I’d heard the name and probably heard some of Baron Von Luxxury’s edits, but I love this slow 100bpm disco mix. You can download his edits over at his…
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Morph is back, on the Wheels Of Steel!
I didn’t know Morph was coming back, let alone have a YouTube channel and a series this summer…with all the doom and gloom, this is very good news indeed! Apparently Peter Lord & Aardman raised a Kickstarter (I think that’s the right verb?) to fund it, and must’ve been successful since the first one is…