Tag: Amy Winehouse
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RIP Janice Long
RIP DJ and presenter Janice Long – first woman daytime Radio 1 DJ, first regular presenter of Top of the Pops, presenter at Live Aid, and by all accounts a lovely woman. And friend of John Peel – as can be seen on these segments on the excellent Top of the Pops: Story of series…
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Hannah Williams & The Affirmations
I was digging around tracks sampled on departure’s Graduation Demos (very good btw) and she did a remix of Jay=Z’s 4:44, a track I didn’t know (I hd long tuned out Jay before all the Bey/Becky drama) which samples Bristol group Hannah Williams and The Affirmations ‘Late Nights & Heartbreak’. It being 3am and having…
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Mashstero – Lil Nas X Montero Mashes
Two weeks ago (it feels a lot longer!) Adriana from Bootie called out the laziness of non-genre clashed mashups of Lil Nas X’s Montero (Call Me By Your Name) in a tweet. This caused a storm, not just some drama but also a flurry of Montero mashups that weren’t pop vs pop. Myself I did…
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Dead Poet’s Society
DEAD POETS SOCIETY by Beets This came up randomly I think during a Bandcamp trawl, it’s by BEETS and Dead Poet’s Society is a concept album of those who burned out too young, leaving their music. Fallen rappers, singers, comics, musicians all together, from Nick Drake to Biggie, Elliott Smith to Bill Hicks, ODB to…
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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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RC 271: Pop Is Dead #6 – Dead Pod Stars
This will be my monument This will be a beacon when I’m gone… So that when the moment comes, I can say I did it all with love A bumper self-indulgent 10th anniversary show – 2 shows in one! If you listen at the 1:30 mark you’ll realise why it’s so long 😉 First half…