Month: August 2016
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RIP Gene Wilder
You’ll always live on in my imagination, Gene. And he was no stranger to my mashups, either:
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Adriano Celentano & Manu Chao
A thread about novelty songs brought me to Freezing Cold in 89 Twoso, Mike Reid’s closest he ever came to a Krautrock hiphop avant-garde new-wave disco knees up. It’s still a record I’d DJ if someone went ‘but all novelty records or songs by DJs are naff aren’t they?’ because it rocks hard. But I…
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There But for the Grace of God Go I
I’m really loving The Get Down, a semi-fictional series about hip-hop in 70’s Bronx via Baz Luhrmann. I don’t know why it’s got mixed reviews because unlike other shows, it has Grandmaster Flash, Nas and Kurtis Blow on board, as well as Furious 4 advising and although there are some minor slips (I’d have gotten…
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Peter Zinovieff
Great interview with composer and synth pioneer Peter Zinovieff who co-invented the EMS synthesisers and called the ‘British Bob Moog’ and the amazing EMS studio started 50 years ago. I didn’t know he worked with a ZX81, but mostly abandoned computer music for 30 years. And he uses REAPER now!
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Olympic Bus Apartheid and The Invisible Poor
The Olympics is about to start in Rio, if they get it finished in time, LOL. It’s interesting though that apparently 11 bus lines from the poor North of the city have been cancelled so poor people don’t come into the richer south where the tourists and Olympics are. Also near the airport a wall…