Tag: bbc 6music
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(Not) The End Of The World
Some songs arrive and they are so good and timely you can’t work out why they aren’t massive. Even when played on the likes of 6Music, some songs seem to miss the boat, and I usually want to correct this error as much as I can. Max Pope’s (Not) The End Of The World as…
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John Peel Is Not Enough
It’s 15 years since the sad death of John Peel – I think music is still reeling from that one, I know radio and support for independent music definitely is. And also 15 years since the idea for this podcast and blog started, since his death inspired me to start it in desperation about who…
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Story of Pop on Sampling and Remixing
If you’re in the UK (or have access to a UK proxy) I really recommend these two BBC 6Music shows as part of the Story of Pop series which I’ve been listening to – I have an old cassette tape of the It’s A Steal – Sampling show of Coldcut talking through all their samples…
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Womack is Back
Heard this via Cerys On 6’s show from Sunday, they’ve been playing this a lot on BBC 6Music but unusually it’s not an old 2011 release, the album’s not released yet apart from this single. I thought on first listen this was a mashup, it sounds closer to Jamie XX’s post-remix work on Gil Scott-Heron…
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Saving 6 Music & Asian Network: Peel would be spinning in his grave
Well it’s official – the ‘not going to happen’ axing of BBC 6music, the only real music station now worth listening to, is going to happen.. Or will it? Let’s see. What can you do? Firstly there’s a flashmob protest at 6pm tonight outside Broadcasting House, dunno who’s organising it (the nature of flashmobs says:…