Month: January 2015

  • Ooh Uptown Funk NPG is gonna get you…

    Ooh Uptown Funk NPG is gonna get you…

    The list of how many songs ripped off by Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk gets higher and higher. Latest is Jungle Love by the Time, I wonder if Prince/NPG/The Time will go all Tom Petty on their arse? I called this one, Mezzoforte – Garden Party which was released in 1982, pedant fans: But others called…

  • Donuts the Movie

    Donuts the Movie

    Someone has created a 44 min video for the whole of the J Dilla Donuts album, it’s a little bit random in places but my favourite bit so far is inevitably Lightworks because Raymond Scott & Tomorrow People intro, but love the earlier bits with Aristocats, the Jacksons, and the very moody bit with Dionne…

  • Coil on the Beach

    Coil on the Beach

    Through listening to Hawkwind (Space Ritual album which is recommended) – who interestingly also used the EMS VCS3 to disturbing effect – I googled to find out how Del Dettmar could afford one, (answer: they were actually the cheapest synth at the time, still a hefty for then £350, I guess they weren’t totally broke?)…

  • Hawkwind with the Prince of the Hawk-Men

    Hawkwind with the Prince of the Hawk-Men

    I heard this via Stewart Lee standing in for Stuart Maconie on the Freak Zone – genius combining Brian Blessed (Prince Vultan of the Hawk-Men in Flash Gordon) with Hakwind on this remake of Sonic Attack. Completely mental, in the best way.

  • Happy Birthday Speech Synthesis

    Happy Birthday Speech Synthesis

    Around 40 years ago, Forrest S. Mozer created the first Integrated Circuit speech synthesiser, modelled on his voice, and licensed it to a company creating instruments for blind people. But you’ll more likely recognise it as the voices in Berzerk and later sampled in the Stakker track ‘Humanoid’. Ploque are plugging a new plugin ‘chipspeech’…

  • On terrorism

    On terrorism

    There have been some frankly awful analyses of the attacks in Paris a week ago, and the fallout from them. Either from surprisingly from my side, the left and anarchists seemingly serving our masters by wanting to take freedom of speech away like desperate young Tankies also doing a very good impression of hand-wringing liberals,…

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