Tag: Breakbeat
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Reggae Mashup Summer Soundclash
The weather has been unseasonably warm around here (yes British summer usually means rain) so here’s a few reggae/ragga/ska mashups for your BBQs and unlockdown parties. Well I say that, but it sadly increasingly looks like the unlocking of the lockdown will be delayed.. Which makes this yearning ragga jungle call to return back to…
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Return of DJNoNo with a Cat Vibing Mashup & Challenging Times
Oh dear, DJNoNo has returned, well he never left like a new strain lurking or the guest who never leaves… Seems he has taken the Cat Vibing meme with evergreen Ievvan Polkka by street musician Bilal Göregen to a new (low) level by adding accordions, namely Donald Where’s Your Troosers to it, with added donks.…
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RC 330: Lost Stars
Are we all lost stars trying to light up the dark? This episode is more of a downbeat/upbeat commemoration of some artists we have lost recently, have become stardust on the way to the big (Champagne?) Supernova. So this one goes out to Peter Green, Denise Johnson, Neil Innes, Andrew Weatherall and of course that…
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RIP Florian Schneider
Oh boy…where do you start with an artist like Florian Schneider, of Kraftwerk? Sadly he has died at 73. It’s not hyperbole when you say that Florian and Kraftwerk may not be household names like some, but without Kraftwerk you probably wouldn’t have new wave and new romantics, electro-pop, house, techno and all those influenced…
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Incredible Original Nuttahs
Just over 25 years ago, Ragga Jungle went mainstream with M-Beat ft General Levy and my favourite Shy FX and UK Apachi’s Original Nuttah. It was a sound that was unapologetically British and mostly London-based, and it was an eclectic mix of soul, reggae, jazz, ragga, West and East, all in one bass-heavy C-Lab Akai…
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#Horseproblems
Petrol Hoers came into my life (fnar) last night through the odd means of 6Music (playing silly horse themed crumpltastic punky speed/breakcore? Really?). I’ve been through the whole of his equine oevre (err, horses don’t lay eggs, neither do humans I guess…) and this is my favourite still from the latest album. As Petrol Hoers…