Month: November 2021
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Happy Hanukkah!
Well 2-3? days late, but celebrating Hanukkah every night Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin are doing Hanukkah Sessions again, celebrating Jewish music in funny and surprising ways. I mean Dave being in a dress isn’t the most surprising thing about the cover of Lisa Loeb’s Stay… And for night two, hey ho it’s the Ramones,…
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Keep Tracking: Trackers and 16 bit music
I have covered the musical history of trackers and 16 bit music before on the podcast, but this is a great in-depth historical look at the ‘sound of software piracy’ – although I’d argue that the early Amiga demos like the 1988 classic Wild Copper were more coding brags and weirdly computer shop adverts (?)…
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HallMark Mojos spread their magic
Another month so you know what that means, it’s another Hallmighty & MarkJMix mashup album! This time I suspect they were listening when I joked they should be called HallMark – the new album is called that. And it seems every album they are going from strength to strength – not many fillers here –…
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Free lessons on harmonics, waves and dissonance
I stopped geeking about microphones and audio interfaces for a second and got dragged into a rabbit hole on harmonics, waves and dissonance. (long story, involving trying to remove room tone/echo so I can record in the bathroom). I dropped in on Adam Neely‘s channel for a video about of all things, Celine Dion (?)…
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RC 357: Cats, Accordions & Hiphop – New Mashup podcast
Cats rule the internet, but what about Accordions and Hip Hop? The evil triumvirate of Crumpl, the Four Horsemen of the Audio Apocalypse but Kazoo took the day off. If that doesn’t make any sense, no matter, we have a silly mix of metal, rave, polkas, reels, disco, hip hop, house, funk, country, new wave,…
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Viagra Boys: Always Hard
After Pengshui, another recent punk gem is Sweden’s Viagra Boys – kind of like an amphetamine Fat White Family that shops at IKEA and not ALDI. Started in 2015, they seem similarly genre blind like Fat White, and have a post punk funk thing going on – as well as country and electro…. You can…