Tag: Canada
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RC 329: One Nation Under A Roof
It’s Really Interesting Arse-kicking Audio, kids! Cease and desist what you’re doing and listen! A Universal middle finger nation response for those with a Big Life on an Island Sanctuary: the corporate Dream that Works is actually complete nightmare. Things have changed in lockdown, power has shifted, artists are showing they can work happily without…
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One Very Important Thought
Never realised til now that the speech sampled on Boards of Canada’s ‘One Very Important Thought’ was from a porn movie, 1982’s ‘A Brief Affair‘! It was re-recorded for ‘Music Has A Right To Children’ to include ‘Boards of Canada’ but the original version was used on their earlier BOC Maxima tape.
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RC 324: New Normal / Coronacoaster
Everyone’s talking at me…about The New Normal, which apparently is like New Coca Corona, i.e like the old one but with all the nice things taken out. Apparently we are in a new future, one that seems to be cribbing the lyrics to East 17 songs…Stay now…stay now…stay now…and government mixed message memes with laughable…
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RC 323: Dark & Lonely Folk Horror with Ian of The Lloydbrary
Sumer is Icumen in, Loudly sing, cuckoo! Grows the seed and blows the mead, And springs the wood anew. Happy May Day! It’s sunrise on May the 1st and here’s a witchy folk horror & Black Aquarius edition of Radio Clash with Ian of The Lloydbrary blog and podcast. We stumble into the sleepy pastoral…
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Every COVID-19 Ad Is The SAME
In a classic case of ‘Corona Ate My Ideas’ from agencies worldwide, Microsoft Sam put together this supercut of COVID-19 related commercials in the US and Canada. Very spookily similar, and rather manipulative and stale in messaging. Together! Together! Together! Home! Home! Home! It’s almost like a Negativland track. And if I was still working…
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RC 314: NEW Age (15th Birthday Part 2)
Second part of the 15th year birthday episodes, and we go all new age, futuristic and shiny with drum and bass, Japanese pop, jazz harp, happy hardcore, serial minimal classical, new age and dream pop ambience from Canada, New York, Britain, Los Angeles and Venice, psychedelic star-watching tomorrow vibes, modern britpop and even the odd…