Tag: alan hawkshaw
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Swinging new DJNoNo album – Interval
Interval is a new album focusing on Intermission and Interlude music such as the Potter’s Wheel and Pages from Ceefax and visual mid-program intervals such as Tony Hart’s Gallery. These breaks in film, TV and radio broadcast were before 24 hour programming often included library or production music and are the precursor of the modern…
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PNK Stylophonic Giftshop
Usually I get into new music and bands through covers then check out their oriignals, but this is the exception – YouTube randomly suggested the breaks/drum and bass stylophone track ‘eponymous’ by the PNK Stylophonic Giftshop – very Crumpl – and I stayed for the covers, which are good but I like the originals more.…
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RC 292: Halloween Queen
Halloween puts the willies up me, with things going bump in the dark and all that woo. Here’s a dark yet upbeat selection for the Twerking Witching Hour: from monstrous mashups to spooky soundracks, evil electronica to ghoulish grime, Amy Ghost House, The Punkergeist and the zeitgeist horror of now*. Oh and the theme from…
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Alan Hawkshaw and Les Hurdle on The Champ
You might not know the names, but you certainly know the tune…apparently the most sampled UK track of all time, Mohawks ‘The Champ’ is a real hiphop staple…and amazingly was recorded in ONE TAKE. Respect. Also Alan wrote the Grange Hill theme and Les did that amazing bass line on it…Alan did a lot of…