Tag: Apache
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Worst Music Videos Of All Time
I’ve posted quite a few over the years – IceJJFish, Christian music videos, various Musical Car Crashes which are in this list but I won’t repost them. A recent Facebook thread added some more to this stack, like the Candlemass track above. This was the first video by Jonas Åkerlund famous for that Ray of…
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WordPress Security 101
Running several WordPress sites, especially ones that gather a lot of welcome and unwelcome visitors, is a crash course in security. I’ve been using WordPress since version 1.2, where hacks were much more common, and thankfully have only been hacked once *touch wood*, back in the 1.5 days. For those not part of the WordPress…
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Tonto Get On It: Incredible Bongo Band 40th Anniversary Mixtape
In honour of the 40th anniversary of ‘Bongo Rock’ and the re-release of the two Incredible Bongo Band there’s this great mix from WhoSampled by Chris Read. It’s a megamix of all the tracks that sampled Incredible Bongo Band, from Pipeline and Inna Gadda Da Vida to of course the evergreen classic, Apache. (via Ian…
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Apache and the birth of hip hop
Good excerpt from Sample This! a documentary charting the history behind Incredible Bongo Band’s Apache. It might seem strange to only focus on one record, but there aren’t many record in hip hop as fundamental and used and abused as Apache (and important to founding at least 3 of the 4 elements and the invention…