Month: June 2020
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Bootie’s Fleetwood Mashed
Finally Adriana has finished the long-awaited Fleetwood Mac mashup compilation, Fleetwood Mashed. I know this has been decades in the making – we discussed this back in 2009 when I was making my own Fleetwood Mac mashup album, which had a rather limited scope compared to her 38 track Tusk-level behemoth! In fact glad to…
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Fight The Power 2020
Again very timely – Public Enemy revisit their classic with a new posse of Nas, Black Thought, Rapsody, Jahi, and YG, with Questlove and is that DJ Premiere as well?. A brilliant performance, and also sad because it shows how little has changed since 1989. “Most of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear on No Stamp”…
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Boards of Canadathon
Currently listening to all Boards of Canada releases new to old in one sitting – well the official ones plus Boc Maxima, I haven’t got time for the demo messiness of Old Tunes 1 & 2….and I am currently finished Campfire Headphase and didn’t realise like Geogaddi there was a Japanese-only bonus track I haven’t…
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One Very Important Thought
Never realised til now that the speech sampled on Boards of Canada’s ‘One Very Important Thought’ was from a porn movie, 1982’s ‘A Brief Affair‘! It was re-recorded for ‘Music Has A Right To Children’ to include ‘Boards of Canada’ but the original version was used on their earlier BOC Maxima tape.
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Public Enemy – State of the Union
Back when the Public Enemy #1 wasn’t the President of the United States, it was rap group, and like RTJ 4, they are very welcome in this hour of music and chaos. Short and sweet is this message for 45 and his followers, and a request to rock the vote and get him out…he’ll be…
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Summer Pride Disco Mix
I WILL SURVIVE! FREE MY PEOPLE! I wasn’t planning to make a Pride mix this year, but friends asked me to DJ a two hour set at a live disco event and y’all know how much I L-O-V-E D-I-S-C-O! It was on Midsummer’s Night, the night of the Solstice on Saturday, the start of summer,…