Tag: Babylon
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BabyLondon mashups: Bob Vylan vs Ruts & The Clash vs Pet Shop Boys vs 808 State
Two very apocalyptic love/hate mashups about my manor…London, and part of a series called BabyLondon WINNER of the 1989 Crumplbangers Discord Challenge! So had to do something with 808 State as both Quadrastate and 90 (both of which I own, on vinyl and cassette respectively) were released in 1989, and back then I was all…
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RC 371: Don’t Truss it / Kings & Queens
Aka a Tale of Two Lizzes…. one Liz leaves as another arrives as I go away for a month and we get not only a new Prime Minister Liz Truss but a new monarch? So of course I have to start with God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols not Elgar – they cancelled the…
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Kleptones – ER
Another Wednesday so that means another Kleptones album as part of the OV/ER/LO/AD quad-trilogy. This week it’s the turn of ER – starting with a startling current quote from cult 1981 British film Babylon – as sampled by Congo Natty and Bob Vylan (‘lady this IS my fucking country’) and then on Urban Clearway (the…
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Iron Maiden – The Writing On The Wall
Trust Iron Maiden to be there during the End Times – the collapse of empires, Brexit, Trump, COVID and the implosion of late-state capitalism. And then make an amazing Good Omens vs Mad Max vs Lord of the Rings meets the Bible animated video for it…with samurai Eddies and the four horsemen and the Eden…
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RC 303: Little Asset People
Request to all our Little Asset People! It’s episode 303 and Mayday Mayday, frustration of facing sanctions and babylon(don) business from the welfare state, so it’s an angry indie meets acid house affair, with some downtempo tracks at the end. I talk about seeing small terrifying Japanese women shouting on stage and throwing condiments around,…
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RC 301: Evil Twin (Brexit Edition)
A Dastardly Duet in this Mirror Dimension, a Terrible Tango between RC 300 and 301. Nearly every track refers to the other but this is the Evil Twin to the upbeat Mirror Universe. Lightweight subjects from the mosque shootings to Brexit and paedophilia (Look What You’ve Done!) to music critical of this Brexitverse and that…