Month: November 2020
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An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains
An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains by Solcofn Surprisingly given the attention to song structures and music production, not many straddle both the bootleg/mashup and original composition worlds, Dunproofin is one who creates his own excellent rock tunes, so does Neil Cicierega with Lemon Demon but I always feel parody and comedy songs are already…
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The Last Bastard(ish) 94
F-me, it seems to be a recent history of finding old videos I’d never think I’d see again. First I found a rip of a BBC2 reality show I briefly appeared in called The Candidate, a June 2000 pilot that never made a full series. I turned up for a job and there was cameras…
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The return of Dunproofin
Uvavu! The dove from above has brought us a new mashup from Dunproofin, who recently returned to making mashups, and it’s a belter, Prince vs Donna Summer! And as luck would have it he released it as I was playing the final mashup on the 16th year anniversary podcast! So has to be in the…
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osymyso’s Happy…or Sad
I am 4 years late with this, but checking up on a few old friends who use cutups and mashups for more artier means – well Phil Eastenders bothering aside – and came across this ‘happy’ mix by osymyso. I actually think that’s Mark singing Happy?! Certainly one for the likes of us who don”t…
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More DAta
Listening to Negativland’s latest album, ‘The World Will Decide’ and a few tracks stand out, the ones about AI, big data and social media – including ‘More Data’ featured above, ‘Content’ and my favourite which features The Weatherman with ‘Before I Ask’ with some funny Siri/Alexa action – this needs a full proper video! Hope…