Year: 2019
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RC 314: NEW Age (15th Birthday Part 2)
Second part of the 15th year birthday episodes, and we go all new age, futuristic and shiny with drum and bass, Japanese pop, jazz harp, happy hardcore, serial minimal classical, new age and dream pop ambience from Canada, New York, Britain, Los Angeles and Venice, psychedelic star-watching tomorrow vibes, modern britpop and even the odd…
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RC 313: Old Age (15th Birthday Part 1)
On this day in 2004 not much happened, Girls Aloud were #1 in the UK with a forgettable single, My Boo (??) by Alicia Keys was #1 in the US Billboard Charts…an actor or two died that had been forgotten or their kids were more famous than them. Looking through the headlines it was a…
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Quentin and Kenneth
I’ve been dipping back into the World According to Quentin Smirhes, and it’s a wonderful ride. Love this cover of Ivor Cutler’s ‘Yellow Fly’ and also Quentin’s Dream below is the stuff of 1970’s commercials…only the crumbliest flakiest Quentin, tastes like Quentin Never Tasted Before! Beautifully filmed as well….although in places more Dark and Lonely…
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Du HAST HAPPY
Love this happy version of Rammstein’s Du Hast from the Melodicka Bros. It goes from a brooding metal/industrial track to something more like Walking on Sunshine, 99 Balloons or something from a John Hughes film. BTW I didn’t know the original german song which sounds so evil is actually about not wanting to marry a…
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RC 312: True North
Good Hello! A journey to the Big 10-8 Northland where the men are men, the women are women and the Northern soul is exceedingly funky via a new album by Negativland in nearly two decades. We also visit Girl Land, Timbuk3, Somaliland, Euroland, Lizland, Ruskyland, Discoland, Fleetwood Mac via Dubland, Moondogland, AFXland and 80’s Soul…
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The Abandoned Mansions of London
There are quite a few mansions in London which are empty – appallingly given the housing crisis. Whole areas are bought up by foreign (and probably dodgy) oligarchs and left to rot, an investment rather than a home. Here is a fascinating look at the dilapidated towers of capitalism in one street in North London.…