Tag: Blade Runner
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RC 370: When I Go Deaf
About to go off on my holiblobs, but did I tell you about the time I went deaf? Hear me wax lyrical about how I went half deaf for nearly two weeks, hence the delay in a new podcast as I couldn’t hear properly and realised the hard way how stereo hearing is essential for…
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RIP Vangelis & Klaus Schulze
Usually I get my tributes out immediately when musicians I love die, but I was totally dumbstruck when I heard a few days ago that Vangelis had died. To me, he’s Beatles or Elvis or Rolling Stones level; a majpr influence in my listening and composing. And that’s why I couldn’t just throw out a…
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RC 364: Ukraine In the Membrane
When the ship goes down, you’d better have an humanitarian corridor – mashups, Ukraine drag queens and current events looking large over everything, indie rock and Britpop, swing metal, latin, disco, ambient, neo-classical, Japanese punk and computer game exotica, modern rave, and bid a drum and bass farewell to MC Skibadee and err, swing n’…
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RC 347: Hoodies All Summer
Patterns fit like pixels in my blueprintAnd I found hope in the brushstroke of a masterpieceHanging in plain view This lonely tightrope is hard enoughDon’t pull me downJust like they sayEvery moth needs a flame Lanterns on the Lake – Realist We’ve gone out of time as this is either a delayed spring or early…
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John B is back with a Coronavirus anthem
‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’ has become an unofficial anthem of COVID-19 with even Sting recording it remotely with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots (love the Connect 4 percussion!). Can I say one thing? STING!!!!! But I like best this new drum and bass version by a returning John B, the UK drum and…
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Time…to die
RIP Rutger Hauer. Yes it is one of the best dialogue scenes in cinema, in one of the best films of all time (Blade Runner) although it took most people decades to realise that. And he wrote most of it, and added a lot of his own thoughts and ideas to the role of Roy…