Tag: British musicians
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RC 357: Cats, Accordions & Hiphop – New Mashup podcast
Cats rule the internet, but what about Accordions and Hip Hop? The evil triumvirate of Crumpl, the Four Horsemen of the Audio Apocalypse but Kazoo took the day off. If that doesn’t make any sense, no matter, we have a silly mix of metal, rave, polkas, reels, disco, hip hop, house, funk, country, new wave,…
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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…
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Kleptones – ER
Another Wednesday so that means another Kleptones album as part of the OV/ER/LO/AD quad-trilogy. This week it’s the turn of ER – starting with a startling current quote from cult 1981 British film Babylon – as sampled by Congo Natty and Bob Vylan (‘lady this IS my fucking country’) and then on Urban Clearway (the…
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The Secret OV Kleptones
I’ve been featuring bits off the first three Kleptones albums in this quad-trilogy on the podcast for the last few years (just realised there were four of them, I somehow missed ‘AD”!) – OV, ER, and LO. They are being released on YouTube over the next four weeks, every Wednesday at 4pm UK time. The…
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RC 350: The List Show Part 1
Podcast 350 is finally here and it’s slightly listing because it’s the much threatened show of list songs! 23 tracks and you won’t believe #22! This is first of a 2-part series – both parts are recorded, and even just recorded 352. So I’m well ahead but I have been fighting the apathy caused by…