Month: February 2024
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The Age of Enshittenment – Israel vs Gaza
I mostly gave up on talking politics here…and anywhere, because it’s like shouting into a particularly disinterested (or sometimes scarily dangerous and stalky) void. No-one reads blogs anymore, anyway, grandpa? And trying to SEO the shit out of them is particularly depressing to hope a few scraps of audience escape the giant prisons of Facebook,…
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Luke Combs & Tracy Chapman sing Fast Car at the Grammys
I was looking for this the day after the 2024 Grammys, because the short clips I found were amazing. Now posted in full a few hours ago – the joy on Tracy Chapman‘s face as the whole crowd go nuts at the start of that repeating riff, the back and forth with Luke Combs like…
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Aphex Twin and the morals of sampling
I didn’t know Aphex Twin‘s XTAL from the seminal electronic album Selected Ambient Works Vol 1 is based off samples from a track from Steve Jefferies, Mary Carewe & Donald Greig called Evil At Play…but in a very cool way. But the original writer says it is ‘morally wrong’ and Richard D. James just lifted…
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RC 393: Boredom Could Be Good For You – Deep Dive #3
It’s been a while since I did a Deep Dive, but I finally got round to do another one, this time the joy of being bored in the 1980’s waiting for a loading screen, disco (sorry ‘jazz-funk‘ *cough*) on the radio, feeling like you are a robot in a robot’s world. You might think boredom…