Tag: Cha Cha
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Swinging new DJNoNo album – Interval
Interval is a new album focusing on Intermission and Interlude music such as the Potter’s Wheel and Pages from Ceefax and visual mid-program intervals such as Tony Hart’s Gallery. These breaks in film, TV and radio broadcast were before 24 hour programming often included library or production music and are the precursor of the modern…
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DJNoNo – Interlude (Crumplstock 11 set)
DJNoNo’s Interlude set for still ongoing Crumplstock 11 for the upcoming Interval Album, the sequel to 2015’s Ballroom which will likely be released next week. There might be some changes to these tracks before then, so it’s a time capsule of probably the fastest album ever in DJNoNo’s career (all of these tracks plus a…
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Katamari Sound Machine / Weeknd vs Fez
Last week’s challenge was video game tunes, so of course I chose my favourite games – although in this case, it’s my favourite game soundtrack, I’ve never played Katamari Damacy or sequels! Yes this is Senor Coconut remixing Katamari on the Funk it’s on the game soundtrack for Katamari Forever…and works perfectly with Gloria Estefan…
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The Secret Life of The Optigan
Following on from the previous post I looked up the source of the sample in the Paloma Faith track Upside Down and was surprised – it was from the Optigan. ‘That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…’ /OB1 The Optigan was a home organ, really a kid’s toy made by Mattel, a…
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Ballroom remastered
An Xmas Eve treat – a remastered lossless version of DJNoNo’s 2015 Ballroom EP, my silly concept ‘album’ mixing big band jazz, exotica, latin jazz, easy listening, bossa nova, cha cha, samba, swing, space age etc with hip-hop and rhythm and blues. It was supposed to be the first DJNoNo album but never really worked…
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RIP Larry Steinbachek
2016 has a late result – Larry Steibachek of Bronski Beat (pictured, centre) died last month. With Jimmy Somerville and Steve Bronski he formed Bronski Beat, revolutionary as all band members were out and gay. He did keyboards and percussion..here is the last single they did with Jimmy, a complete mostly-unknown classic. A few more…