Tag: Breakbeat
-
RC 308: Raving I’m Raving
It’s that time of year – back to school is in all the shops, depressing reminders you summer is close to it’s end. But as it’s 30 years since the Second Summer of Love (and incidentally it’s 30 years since I left school) sod the grey jumpers and shrunken ties, I’m raving Back to the…
-
RC 297: BANUARY IDOL
After a gluten free Christmas, it’s a New You and a fresh start on those resolutions that will last about 2 weeks – Veganuary, Dry January, going to the gym, etc. Yes let’s give up nice things on the most depressing, grey and dark time of the year! That’ll work! So bucking the trend we…
-
Bruce Haack and his sampling electronic suitcase
Long time listeners and readers of this blog would know my eternal love for Bruce Haack – the electronic genius who sadly still doesn’t get the love he deserves. I’ve seen other clips from his stints on US TV – in fact I think I have posted them with his ‘touch synthesizer’ including Mr Rogers…
-
Bjarki
It seems like nowadays the game is to not have a genre at all in electronic music – been listening to quite a few recent acts via Mark Archer’s excellent EPM Podcast mix and the striking thing is how many of them span many worlds. And sometimes you stumble on an artist and it sounds…
-
African Disco Electro
We’re no stranger to African electronica, Afrobeat highlife, and African funk on this blog – previously mixed, remixed, played or blogged about William Onyeahbor (RIP), Victor Uwaifo, Benis Cletin, Supermax, Fela and Femi Kuti, Lijadu Sisters and many more. So it’s not a surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of Nigerian and South…
-
Greg Wilson’s Monster 40th mix
There are a few DJ’s I’ve seen and I’ve had a ‘WE’RE NOT WORTHY!’ moment with – Rodigan is one, Mark Moore is another and Greg Wilson definitely belongs to that group. He makes it look and sound so effortlessly easy. He’s been DJing professionally for 40 years, and so did a 5 hour mix…