RC 393: Boredom Could Be Good For You – Deep Dive #3

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Hello and welcome to Radio Clash, this is 393 and it’s the third part of the Deep Dive

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series, it’s Boredom Could Be Good For You.

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Welcome to the third of the Deep Dive podcast, I last did one in June of last year, and

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I optimistically was like 36x, it goes to show you how long ago I planned this podcast.

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You compared to the last one, it’s a fairly downbeat of the Deep Dive series, which was

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384, ‘Tender Silence of the Night’, this one’s a bit more uptempo, and I love that

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Bis’s paeon to sort of, well I think it’s more 90s, but that’s what waiting for the

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loading screen, so of course we had to use the 8-bit intro.

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Thank you to Lee Spoons for that.

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And if you don’t know, the Deep Dive series is a dive into the tracks that are in the

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archives of Radio Clash, the ‘To Play’ folder, which is over 100 gigabytes big, it’s like

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90 odd gigabytes, because I’m doing video editing, I have to put it onto another folder.

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I did a new sort of tranche of these podcasts, as soon as I recorded this one, this is the

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last one of the first three, and I’ve actually got, yeah, it goes up to Deep Dive 11, because

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I went through 7,000 tracks on that folder, going through, well if I ever go “Oh sod

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this, I’m running out of space, delete” which I might do at some point, I’d better make

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sure I’ve got all the good stuff, it’s amazing how long it is to go through all that.

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A lot of the tracks I play on the Deep Dive series are things which kind of never really

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fit anywhere else, but are really good, I wouldn’t play them otherwise, but they don’t

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play well with others.

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So here is something that PDS Mix plays a lot, and it’s one of my favorites as well.

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I’ve talked a fair bit about disco Pink Floyd, I’m surprised, I haven’t played this probably

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because it was earmarked for this podcast so long ago, and this is Rosebud, named after

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the sled, and 1977’s version of Money, yes this is Disco Pink Floyd Money, and that is

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a really good 12″ but yeah, this isn’t the only Disco Pink Floyd, there’s quite a lot

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actually.

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Yes, song of my youth.

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A band of my youth, really.

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RAH Band, Richard A. Hewson, who is Hunger For Your Jungle Love, I own, Going Up, that’s

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from 1983.

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It’s actually quite a rare bit of vinyl now, but you can get arrested lugging that kind

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of music in the mid-80s, heard them via Clouds Across the Mood in ’85, and went, “Ooh!”

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and then got the best of and then delved back and found the crunch and all of those wonderful

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things.

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But for a long time, you can get arrested for disco that cheesy, but I love it.

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I love the synths and the vocodas and the “Sam the Samba Man” and “Hunger for Your

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Jungle Love.”

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And then before that, we had a bit of a borrowing the title of a few Twitch streams, Disco After

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Dark, more chilled disco thing going on, very much late disco, quite a lot of it.

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They probably call themselves Jazz Funk, that’s what RAH Band got branded.

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Jazz Funk, because they didn’t want to use the D word.

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That’s Surface with “Falling in Love” original mix from 1983 again, the surface were a very,

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very good group.

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The mold of Change and a few others, there was quite a few survivors of the Disco Crash

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who kind of went into different directions, but a bit like High Energy or Jazz Funk, Disco

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kept going, it just got rebranded, and it tended to slow down a bit, because things

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were getting 120, 130, unless it was High Energy, but a lot of the Jazz Funk slowed

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it down a little bit and rebranded itself, but it’s Disco, I mean Jazz Plus Funk, what

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is that?

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Disco.

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And then before that we had Flaming Ember from 1969, that’s Robot in a Robot’s World,

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Holland Dozier Holland written, that’s a B-side actually, from the things that’s good to show

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you this whole sort of AI, oh, robots are taking our jobs, it’s not a new thing.

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Then before that from 1980, we have, and this is going to be fun to pronounce, Koroglu

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Daglari (Sark Bülbülü ) by Istanbul Sarkicilari and Istanbul Calgicilari I think, and that’s

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from one of the Disco Fassl, Disco Folk compilations from 1980, well sampled, you’ve

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probably heard that in samples, there was a few people who were sampling that and other

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tracks from the series, sort of Turkish synth Disco, Koroglu Daglari is Koryaglu Mountains,

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which are in the north of Turkey, so I assume it’s a song about that material, or a lot

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of the Disco Fasil stuff was traditional songs, but don’t know the Disco style.

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And at the start of the session we had Rosebud with Money from 1977, and we’re going to play

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a track by Raffaella Carra, more known for Eurovision, set again with love and you know,

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thinks she won Eurovision or something, was higher and Ducky plays Raffaella Carra songs

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quite a lot, including this one, and this is a Italian classic from 1974, this is Rumore.

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That was Sheila, as in Sheila B. Devotion, with Hotel de la Plage,

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Ou et la plume de ma tante, so that’s 1978. A good year for disco, a very good year for disco.

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Then before that we had, not disco, that was Acidulant with Who’s The Gangster In You,

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from 2020’s MetroJax 4.3 via Balkan Vinyl, and we had a bit of a DJ no-no mix into Harmony Cats,

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Yes, Harmony Cats, the Brazilian disco stars, That’s Entertainment.

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Seems to be a medley of film tracks, there’s Cabaret there, but the real reason I play it is

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disco Sound of Music. Seriously, why has no one done that? Why has no one done a whole disco album

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of Sound of Music? Trust me on this, it’ll be brilliant. I might be the only person who buys

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it, but it’ll be brilliant. Then before that we had Eartha Kitt with Bronski Beat, although that’s

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Jon Boy, Jon Boy, that famous Bronski Beat queer Waltons, actually it’s not complete off track,

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because the grandfather and the Waltons was gay anyway. No, Jon Jon, it’s post

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Jimmy Somerville leaving, but yeah, that’s Cha Cha Heels, and that’s a camp Classic. And of course,

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again, I haven’t locked that one up. I think it’s 1988, but I might be wrong. 1989. Then before that

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we had SL2 with DJs Take Control, but that’s the Shadow Child remix from 2018. And then before

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that we had another pronunciation fun. This is Ooh oOh!, channeling Michael Zager Band or stealing Michael Zager Band.

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That’s Istanbul Sarkicilari & Istanbul Calgicilari from 1978. ayva cicek acmis, I think.

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Apologies to anybody Turkish listening to this. I mean, I had to put the titles into a normal

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character set because actually, track to us is like, no, no, it’s all those sort of special

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umlauts and track to us like, no, I’m not even going to read this title. And in the start section

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we had Raffaella Carra with 1974’s Rumore, which sounds really, that sounds disco, doesn’t it?

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It sounds like disco glam. This looks glam in there. It’s a bit rocky music. It’s very cool.

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And yes, we’re going to sort of up the BPMs a bit. And I’m going to play some German bass at

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you. And you have no choice in this. And we have a couple of fairly recent other, I think the cut

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of point for this mix was 2020, whereas the next bunch is going to be pretty much until, you know,

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up to the point I moved all move the tracks over, which I think was a year ago, especially as I

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hang you onto this for, I don’t know, a year and a half. I think it’s been two years, but may as

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well do some a few newer tracks and old tracks. But yeah, that was my cutoff point about a year ago

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for when I moved over to the NAS drive. And this is Cyantific with Wild Child.

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That was Enya. I usually can’t play Enya

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because she’s on a Universal label, but it turns out this first album is called The Celts.

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It was re-released as Enya in 1987, but originally it was in I think ’85 or ’86, a BBC’s The Celts

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soundtrack. And that’s off that, that’s I Want Tomorrow. And it’s all there, isn’t it? Proto,

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Enya, it’s the CLannad, the DX7, the slide guitar isn’t unusual, doing a solo version of Clannad

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stuff, but with more synthesizers. Then before that we had Phainopepla, and it’s the name of a

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bird, I don’t know how to pronounce it. With Atmosphere, Joy Division’s Atmosphere, and that’s from

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2018’s EP The Wolf at My Door. And I know very little about, almost nothing about Phainopepla,

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apart from it being a bird. And it’s a solo project of somebody called Holly Springhorn.

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It says here on Bandcamp, but really brilliant. I was like opera version, very operatic version

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of Joy Division, so I love that greatly. Then before that, that’s Amii Stewart with Don’t Ever

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Let Me Hear You Say Goodbye. Bit of a long title. Really, it’s by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis,

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who played quite a lot of their soundtracks. Italian juicers did a lot of giallo and Italian TV

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soundtracks. And that’s from 1979’s Killer Fish, Aguato Sul Fondo, it says it, in getting into

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that whole barracuda killer fish. You know, there was a whole load of them. I’ve not seen the film,

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but I love that soundtrack. There’s something very interesting about slowing it down. I mean,

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I do like that sort of slow disco, or I don’t even recall it, it’s not really disco at that point,

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but yeah, sort of the slow ballads of disco. There’s Discord in that, obviously because it’s a horror

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film. It sounds quite a spooky thing, so it’s like spooky disco. Yes. And then before that,

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we had a version of what playing in the background. They Long To Be Close To You. In fact, am I?

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Is this actually the same backing? Maybe it is. Which I use as a bed all the time. It’s Aleksander

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Mazur Quartet & Novi Singers. I think it is this version. Why am I using it as a bed again?

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You hear it again. You will hear it to the end of time. And I used to hate jazz, but you know,

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Carpenters, hello. And then before that, we had Velvet Chain, Beat Box (Diversion 2) from 2004’s

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The Abduction of the Art of Noise. It’s a cover of Beatbox 2. Again, I can’t play the originals

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because ZZT is now a part of Universal. Here it is. Am I playing this as a bed? Because this is

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the thing. There were several things in that last mix. Well, actually, our beds on this podcast,

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I don’t feel they get enough love. So hence playing them. And in fact, I suspect being in this mix

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predates them becoming beds on Radio Clash. So they were here first. So even though I’m playing it

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after many times using them in the background. And then before the Velvet Chain, we had Ihsan

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Al Munzer with the The Joy of Lina (Farha) from, well, I don’t know when it originally came out, from

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2015’s Habibi Funk compilation. But that, again, is another one of the beds that I use regularly

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on Radio Clash. But it’s a track I really love. And you can tell from the last three of these

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Arabic funk and disco were playing heavily on my mind. And there was lots of it in the archives.

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Still is a lot of it. It’s interesting how these things go through phases, how I go through phases

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of really getting into, say, Japanese classical covers or Arabic funk or Turkish disco or, you

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know, that kind of thing. And so it’s very telling and go through some go, oh, yeah, this was this.

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That’s when I was doing a lot of Eastern block covers as well. Hence the Novi singers who were

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Polish. And then before the Joy of Lena, we had Nino Nardini with Tropicola from 1972’s Mindbender.

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Nino Nardini, is that Roger Roger? It’s one of those people who has lots of aliases and does a lot

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of library music. Came from the Exotica world and then was doing more electronic stuff later on.

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Pre all of that, I think. And has done quite atonal startling stuff. But also quite like

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their traditional stuff, but very, very lovely. Exotica mixes very well, I think, from Drum and

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Bass. It’s a double time thing. So before that, we had Culture Shock with Renaissance from 2019’s

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RAM Drum and Bass annual 2020. And then before that, we had Cyantific with Wild Child, a cover

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of Just Be Good to Me. And that’s from 2018’s Bloodline. And yeah, I was very much into Culture

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Shock at that time, I remember. Because I do these things so far in the future, and it’ll

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be the same with the new ones, though obviously there will not be all Arabic disco, be of some,

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but it’s not going to be as prevalent. Because as I say, things shift and so the new stuff is

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very much my take on what I’ve got in my archive collection. So it’s kind of several levels. You

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have like, when I choose the tracks, and when I choose them for a podcast, and when sometimes they

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get like some of these, especially the last three of these, a lot of things are things I’ve been

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taking in and out. And they’re just like a little bit too long, a little bit too strange, a little

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bit too, you know, and I don’t like shaving off the edges of the podcast. So hence why sometimes

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I leave them in. And hence why sometimes I do podcasts like this where I’m intentionally not

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shaving off the weird bits, and going more into deeper dive into things. And it’s really interesting

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there’s quite a lot of mashups in the next Deep Dives, a lot more than they have been in the last

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three. So there’s more mashups mixed in. Because as time goes on, it’s stuff which is for a long

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time ago, which is I’ve completely forgotten about. So anyway, I hope you’re all well. I’m okay. I’m

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still trying to recover my knee, which according to a friend of mine, it’s LCL, the muscles that run

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down the back and the thighs, and the back of the knee, or the adductor muscles. I was wondering

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if it was a hamstring. And so I’ve just been doing gentle walking and exercises and trying to get

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that back over the last nearly three weeks, trying to get back to normal, because it was just so

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painful just just to walk to the shops was really painful. And that’s stopped now it’s now it’ll start

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to ache after a while, after a mile or so. So I have to rebuild the strength back up again, and also

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try to build more strength into that left knee, because that left knee is weaker than the right.

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So I think we won’t try and do 15 mile hikes with a heavy rucksack in the future. Not until I’ve

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got better at this. I mean, it’s weird because I regularly do walk or regularly have walked,

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you know, long distances, just not with all of that weight and pushing myself into that sort of

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deadline. So this is crazy. So I’ve been sort of doing the videos for that for the channel.

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And Red Crumplstock did two sets at Crumplstock. I released an album of best mashups of 2023.

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You can see that on radioclash.com. And I didn’t record my sets, although I think they’re still

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probably up for 14 days on I don’t know if they’ll be up by the time I do this, but they were

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basically, you know, just playing my mashups. I’ve done previously there was there wasn’t so

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much new stuff, although there was the Alexa, Alexa Play Pumped Up Kicks thing, which was

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via the PomDeter set. So that led to a mashup, which then became a running thing. Anyway,

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so a player with a track, which is very much of a certain time, I think this is Charlotte

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Gainsbourg, with a Ring And A Ring Of Roses. And I think I put this in because it is startlingly,

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you know, it’s 2017 from her album Rest, which is a really good album, by the way. And it’s about

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various things, but including the death of her half sister was starting when I heard it again,

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I think when I put this mix together, because I put this mix together post all the pandemic.

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And it seems to be basically about something like that about an emergency situation with

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an obviously Ring A Roses about plague. So yeah, it’s some very strange lyrics in this.

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So anyway, I’ll speak to you soon.