Tag: African-American culture
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Orbital – Smiley / 30 Something
30 something years on and Orbital have a new best-of compilation celebrating their ’30 Something’ anniversary – the real anniversary was in lockdown. New track Smiley sums up the feeling of acid house, 303’s,distant raves and the times – especially with the evil Maggie robot and the sheep police and nods to Burning Man and…
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Lou Hayter – Private Sunshine
Rather late to the party – but my what a party! Listening to Lou Hayter’s Private Sunshine, which I would say quickly has rocketed up to my favourite albums of 2021, but it was released last year. The deluxe was released this year, so sorta qualifies. To the layman they’d probably say ‘chilled 80’s’ but…
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Homebound Kid – Not So World Famous album
It’s finally here! The first Homebound Kid album by departure and butterfly boy on Lemon Hed Records called ‘Not So World Famous’ – and it’s great. If you like William Maranci’s Meat Mountain or the Avalanches you’ll love Homebound Kid and their plunderphonic album of blends – less ‘mashup’ or bastard pop and more experimental…
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What happened to hip hop?
AMEN! Darryl DMC is correct about hip-hop, it’s bigger than ever but dumber than ever, and the responsibility isn’t there…at all. It’s about money and greed and not your voice. And it does feel like the end of something, that it’s going to crash…or that new voices will come up. So little is being said…