Category: Tim’s Growls
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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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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 392: The Burn Out & The Big Freeze
Happy 2024, and is it a Happy New Year? Not for me so far…a busted knee, burn out, and was out hiking in the Big Freeze – thankfully not Storm Isha! So a belated New Year episode of Radio Clash including some tracks I loved from 2023, a surprising amount of mashups, new wave electro…
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BabyLondon mashups: Bob Vylan vs Ruts & The Clash vs Pet Shop Boys vs 808 State
Two very apocalyptic love/hate mashups about my manor…London, and part of a series called BabyLondon WINNER of the 1989 Crumplbangers Discord Challenge! So had to do something with 808 State as both Quadrastate and 90 (both of which I own, on vinyl and cassette respectively) were released in 1989, and back then I was all…