Category: Music releases
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Train tracks
It’s not often I get a demo email from a rail company but Gatwick Express has commissioned 30 minutes of music from Philip Sheppard then Benga and The Milk have recorded their own take on it. It’s a mad idea and could go wrong in so many ways, but as you can see from the…
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Long May The Acid Reign – original track on Beatport
Long time in the works, but 303 Acid House compilation ‘Acid Reign’ has been released as a Beatport exclusive today – and it contains a track by yours truly on it (as fingertrouble). Blurb goes something like this: Originally conceived as a replacement for the bassist in a band, the TB-303 was not initially a…
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Fuck the Jubilee
Fuck the jubilee! Cos you know it’s not worth it! Fuck the IOC! Stop wasting our money! Great 😀 If I’d heard this before I’d done the Stuff the Jubilee show this track by The Dirty Rich would have been a dead cert…love it. You can buy it over at Junodownload or Trackitdown. In more…
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Rise for the coral
Most amazing video I’ve seen in a while – Rise by Antony & the Johnsons soundtracking the film ‘Coral: Rekindling Venus’ by Lynne Fallworth. It’s a digital ‘fulldome’ film intended to be projected on the inside of a planetarium dome – you can keep yer 3D, that sounds awesome. Such precious beauty, it’s obvious from…
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Dub Save The Queen
It’s surprising how little kickback/KLF or Sex Pistols style piggybacking there is about HMQ’s Diamond Jubilee – I mean in Olympics year with Chillax King Cameron on the real throne it’s ripe for a little fun. Instead you get the likes of Lily Cole and Bono (yes fucking Bono) turning up to celebrate the old…
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Corn Rigs and Barley Rigs Are Bonny
One of the things I love about my fellow Brits – and I admit it’s not a big list – is the fact that you can know someone years and not know about their talents. I’m not talking about a humble brag, it’s just not done usually to push your work whereas in other countries…