Month: February 2020
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QUeen of the Rodeo
Something wonderfully Lynchian about this video – by a Canadian Lone-Ranger mask with a lampshade fringe wearing out country ex-punk performer. Orville Peck (not his real name), *And breathe*… This channels Roy Orbison meets John Grant via Lana Del Rey so much I am stanning like crazy. Not too hot on the main song, but…
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Avalanches will always love you
Missed this new excellent track from The Avalanches featuring Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange because the email went to junk, it was released a few days ago. I really love the ‘3am feel’ of this, the sort of music that shines through dark times. As their statement says: Sometimes we receive a message. Telling us…
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Keep Tracking
A great video and basically this is how I produced my early music tracks 30 years ago! I had a Yamaha Portasound 160 and later 590, but my first keyboard was very similar to the one in this video without the fun synth waves. That said, later I had OctaMED and I think a version…
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New Skints video – the Island
I played The Skints a fair bit recently on the podcast, and indeed this was featured song was in #317 but glad it’s got a new animated video. Especially for all of us who feel like we are trapped on this island with idiot gammons and the evil likes of Dominic Cummings, Priti Patel and…
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Pause Button Beats
“Public Enemy No. 1” was a pause tape beat” This is an amazing article via Ian Fondue of the Lloydbrary about early hiphop DJs using cassette tapes in their productions – yes a lot of us started creating ‘pause button edits’ and it’s amazing that some of the classics were created this way. I knew…
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Tina Moombahton
Funnily enough I was thinking of Tina Belcher as I made the same ‘uhhhhh’ noise that she does earlier. Not a new video but I’ve only just seen it tweeted out by Eclectic Method (new series of Bob’s Burgers?). P.S. O.M.G remember Moombahton?! A bit like witch house, brostep and juke, styles that have gone…