Tag: Bootleg Archive
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Antony Szmierek
As played on the latest podcast, just checking out Manchester rapper Antony Szmierek‘s tracks – one about Ventolin (oh hai fellow asthma sufferer) with a wonderfully trippy middle eght, and this summer woozy banger from last year – The City Is Safe With You about I suspect the re-opening of cities post lockdown….but it’s also…
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Dan Mei & Marc Johnce & CJRMix Re-Retrospective
I think DMF – now more commonly known as Dan Mei & Marc Johnce – first came onto my radar with their compilation mashups around 2008 or 2009. The best being the long-lost Bootrospective – a Pet Shop Boys mashup album that I talked a lot about back in the day, one of my favourite…
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Crumplstock 9 Roundup & After Party set
Phew another Crumplstock is over! Friday night to Early Monday, nearly 40 artists, streaming most of that. I found myself having to bail on Saturday after listening for 12 hours (I really wanted to stay up and hear Dan Untitled and MsMiep), and was listening til the bitter end a few hours ago on Sunday…
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Kodiak Moment 4: Best of Instamatic, Captain Obvious & tbc 2012 – 2020
Kodiak Moment 4: Best of Instamatic, Captain Obvious & tbc 2012 – 2020 by Instamatic And appropriately for the 4th of May, here’s the 4th volume of my best-of series ‘Kodiak Moment’ taking us up to the modern day – 2012-2020. Includes tracks from my last retirement which lasted a lot longer than this one,…
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How an Illegal Mashup Reignited British Pop
Great video explaining how Richard X et al reinvented British pop music, and it makes a good case for that (although I feel that he was treated like an outsider for a lot of it, even though he was a hitmaker, they took his ideas but shut him out?). And the Gary Numan comment that…
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RC 344: Bootleg Ghost Of Yore – Mashup Show
A retro podcast of bootlegs, bastard pop, mashups, blends and plunderphonics – whatever you want to call them (who ya gonna call? No we don’t have any Ghostbusters mashups in here, thankfully). A podcast about bittersweet memory, mashup history, the Bootleg Archive and a lot of old bootlegs especially from around 2002-2004 (and a few…