Month: May 2020
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RIP Elektric cowboy
(Me and Colin (wearing his shades, IHNI why,,, I think his pic was the reverse) outside King’s Arms, 2016) Sad to hear on Friday the death of Colin aka Elektric Cowboy, one of the early Bastard / bootleg crowd (well before it got called mashup). His work has been featured frequently on the podcast back…
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Sunshine Teardrop
Not usually down with tribute mashups (they can seem a bit like ambulance chasing) but this is so good and obviously genuine from DJ Schmolli I will make an exception. Massive Attack’s Teardrop vs Bill Withers ‘Aint No Sunshine’ and even an original Schmolli guitar solo – that makes it something else, gives it some…
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Corona Oh My Country
So what have Thomas Dolby’s kids been upto I hear you ask (err…actually you probably aren’t). Well I am glad you (didn’t) ask, they are spoofing their Dad’s legacy with COVID-19 themes and it’s really good. Now singing “Corona! Look at my country now!” Looks like it’s filmed on the South coast, reminds me of…
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RC 324: New Normal / Coronacoaster
Everyone’s talking at me…about The New Normal, which apparently is like New Coca Corona, i.e like the old one but with all the nice things taken out. Apparently we are in a new future, one that seems to be cribbing the lyrics to East 17 songs…Stay now…stay now…stay now…and government mixed message memes with laughable…
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RIP Florian Schneider
Oh boy…where do you start with an artist like Florian Schneider, of Kraftwerk? Sadly he has died at 73. It’s not hyperbole when you say that Florian and Kraftwerk may not be household names like some, but without Kraftwerk you probably wouldn’t have new wave and new romantics, electro-pop, house, techno and all those influenced…
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Billie Joe’s Manic Monday With Susanna Hoffs
One of the few good upsides of this pandemic is that creativity is going crazy in lockdown – even whole TV shows and films are being made from home (loving Mash Report which in some ways is better in lockdown, and Have I Got News For You is shaping up to be a great series…