Month: August 2014
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Fuck it all fuck it all….
Annoyingly the original from kittypawws is blocked by teh Evil Copyright Overlords, but love this parody of Frozen’s Let It Go – this is how it should have gone, I might have bothered to watch it then (yeah took me over a year to watch Brave, the more hyped something is the less likely I…
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crx091081gb – Guilty Pleasure
Lovely acid and retro video from Robin Price aka crx091081gb. Trago Acid Mills (great name, strange place). Great to see a tracker program in the video too (looks like ProTracker or MED) and the EP is available to buy on Bandcamp. (via Acid Ted).
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Pavlov’s Pop – Is Pop Music Brainwashing You?
Pop music – does it really exist? I mean of course it does, but as something that is popular, in the way that you choose it? It seems increasingly you don’t – like in Russia the pop chooses you, through incessant repetition. The video from PBS’s Idea Channel above and this article describes it as…
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?uestlove on sampling and hiphop
Tell the truth, James Brown was old ‘Til Eric and Ra came out with “I Got Soul” Rap brings back old R&B And if we would not, people could’ve forgot Stetsasonic came on the radio, and I’ve always loved this lyric as it really said what needed to be said about sampling in hiphop. Apparently…
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Recycled Radio
For those who liked my digital debris podcasts, especially ‘Hell (for Bill)‘ I suspect you might also like Recycled Radio (probably UK IP only) presented by Gerald Scarfe, which has just come back for a second series. The first of the new series is about hell, and it’s mashup/cutup radio at it’s finest, and both…
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O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops…