Tag: bootleg
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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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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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The Story of Eric Prydz – Call On Me*
*sorta. Ooh boy….where to start? Firstly this is a great video from HowardHandz about the debacle which was the mega-hit Eric Prydz – Call On Me, sampling Steve Winwood’s Valerie. I obviously came in during the middle of this, because BigBadBaz, a regular feature on this blog/podcast over the years posted his remix on GYBO…
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Return of Lionel Vinyl – Ian Dury Mashups
Lionel Vinyl is back – aka FAKEID, Gloomybear, Geoff Carpet, Geek Chic Soundsystem seriously the man has had more aliases than me. Now named Ian Geek, I’ve been checking out his Twitch streams, very good – yes I am totally Team Dancing Golem – and now recently he released an excellent new mashup over at…
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RC 363: Swinging Songs For Mashup Lovers
The return of the mashups, now re-integrated back into polite society and the podcast, now mixed live with non-mashups a merry sort of chaos (no-one mixes music like this!). This is the second ‘Towelcast’ – originally streamed live from The Disco Bathroom. If you watched the stream (well the bits that haven’t been trimmed or…
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Radio Clash Live – Again!
Back in 2007 I was an early pioneer in live podcasting – i.e streaming your podcast while you are recording. Back then it was Icecast or Shoutcast only audio streaming, and eventually it became Radio Clash Live (the online radio station) I ran in the early 10’s. Again it was hard to keep Radio Clash…