Month: January 2015

  • Tricky Flash Pooch!

    Tricky Flash Pooch!

    Queen vs Run D.M.C. Mashup by oki, video by Andy/Andrea Hamilton, on ColaTron’s FB posting dogs jumping with superman capes = PRICELESS.

  • Mort Garson

    Mort Garson

    Exploring the world of Mort Garson at the moment. I’m not really how you go from this, funky disco Kung Fu, to Moog Satanic spooktronica in a similar vein to Haack’s Electric Lucifer album: To Summer of Love floaty psychedelic astrology floaty bobbins (thanks to Ben Soundhog for pointing me in the direction of this…

  • Twang Hero, or how similar pop music has become

    Twang Hero, or how similar pop music has become

    Or in this case, how similar country pop has become, but as others have pointed out you can do similar experiments with mainstream chart pop (any current pop multimash), or even EDM as Daleri did with the Beatport top 100. The recent horrible rise of the multi-mash and ‘compilation’ mashups like United States of Pop…

  • Gentrification: The Horror Movie

    Gentrification: The Horror Movie

    Doesn’t this look like some Ballardian dystopian horror fiction? Something out of American Psycho? So much so, someone has recut it with that footage: The real horror is the vapid emptiness of the vision, and the pure naked greed, like the reviled yuppies in the 80’s, but that was a local phenomenon. And the fact…

  • This Charming Charlie

    This Charming Charlie

    I love The Charming Charlie blog for two reasons – the first Charlie Brown and Morrissey lyrics? Genius! The second is more appropriate to the copyleft issues I usually cover here: they’ve gotten legals from Universal in 2013, and have defended it through lawyering up and enforcing fair use and the man himself approving of…

  • Anklepants

    Anklepants

    Probably the strangest Boiler Room act you’ll ever see (the audience are usually weirder though) – Anklepants, the Australian musician, artist and prosthetics and animatronics genius creates the sort of uber-freaky party that shows how staid all the other Boiler Room performances are. He’s a sort of horror techno clown, a Jake And Dinos Chapman…

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