Month: May 2015
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RIP Erroll Brown
An ever-present force in the 1970’s, redeemed by Full Monty, but way before that I always loved You Sexy Thing. But not many know their first record was on Apple, a reggae cover of Give Peace A Chance that John Lennon liked. Sadly Erroll Brown died of cancer yesterday. On the eve of the election,…
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The Squire of Alsatia
A new uptempo mix from me, like the previous mix, Tabula Rasa which was an existential psych mix without many psych tunes, it’s far from just some tunes thrown together, there are layers and multiple themes. It’s deep, yes this mix has a sort of manifesto, a journey which spans from xylophone jazz to electro…
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Don’t vote for Tory or UKIP lies
There’s an election coming up on Thursday in the UK, and it’s disturbing how short people’s memories are. Scare stories about SNP-Labour coalitions when I seem to remember both the Lib-Dems and Tories denied they would go into a coalition in the run-up to the last election (Pro-Tip: no-one ever agrees to a coalition before…
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The Pre-History of Mashups – Medleys and Mixes
I suspect the public at large think that mashups are fairly new phenomenon, or at most 15 years old. [QI voice] This is not in fact true. Although sampling as a technology didn’t become widespread until the late 80’s (the likes of Art of Noise allowing, a band who also took parts of songs and…
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MOST INSANE DUBSTEP YET (Remix)
Everyone in the known universe has seen the original by Sam Sadler, but here is a new remix by RIOT. Might seem a few views here, but it’s over a million on FB and it was released yesterday! Srsly someone needs to release this remix properly…almost got me to like dubstep again (brostep has a…