Tag: British Music
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Porij – Lose Our Minds
Not often recently a TOTAL BANGER comes my way (one of two in fact) but checking out NME’s ‘ones to watch at festivals’ article) (sore point – I tried to get tickets for Glasto in the resale and failed, really couldn’t afford it anyway but I deserve a trip away) and nestled amongst the usual…
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Whistle Loudly/Quietly Through The Night (Drumsound & Bassline Smith vs Pablo Beltrán Ruiz) – WINNER!
DJNoNo decided to have another go at the Crumplbangers Discord Spanish Challenge – and he won it with this mashup – the more uptempo ‘Loud’ version, just pipping oki’s amazing Julio Iglesias vs The Weeknd to the post at the last minute with his latin take of Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Through The Night.…
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Mankind – Doctor Who
So you’re shooting a video for a Doctor Who themed disco track in 1979 for Welsh TV (seemingly). What do you do? Well you take four dancers in spandex and get them to dance at a cold and grey Cardiff Airport, with shots of aircraft taking off and air traffic control of course! I knew…
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RIP Janice Long
RIP DJ and presenter Janice Long – first woman daytime Radio 1 DJ, first regular presenter of Top of the Pops, presenter at Live Aid, and by all accounts a lovely woman. And friend of John Peel – as can be seen on these segments on the excellent Top of the Pops: Story of series…
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Kleptones – AD
If I was to choose one word to describe The Kleptones fourth album in the ‘quadtriptych’ it would be angry. Not a misplaced or random anger, but a righteous one about the state of the world at the moment. Starting with hypnotic Alan Watts quotes and strange spoken word about reality, truth and cake, it…
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Kleptones got LO LO LO LO
It’s another Wednesday so what does that mean? Another Kleptones album, the third – LO – accurately described because this has low downtempo moods – I hinted at that on one of the previous posts. Ranging from Daniel Johnston, Pigface, David Byrne, Mark Kozelek, Richard Thompson, Bill Withers, Sonic Youth, Leonard Cohen to Beth Orton…