Tag: composers
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RC 382: Enjoy Your Life?
As we gear up for the Coronation (NOT MY KING! Unless he is getting into the swing) here’s a mix for your Corona Nation Party. This is partly a twin of 381, but more of a reflective/dancefloor meditation on enjoying life and growing older. It’s a lot more fun than that sounds, with creepy blackbirds,…
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RC 377: Where’s There To Go?
Looking for a wintry reflective podcast to kick off the new year? Look no further than Radio Clash’s latest episode, featuring Arabic resistance music, bluegrass and folk mashups, and nods to Terry Hall and the late David Bowie. With insane metal and pop/glitch manga fusion, this podcast has it all!
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RC 331: Mashed Spaghetti aka Morecone!
With the sad death last month of Il Maestro Ennio Morricone I felt I needed to mark his passing better than just a song. From spaghetti western soundtracks, pop, remixes, mashups and even on the dance floor his music has influenced generations from cinema goers and musicians. So just to prove his breadth of inspiration…
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RC 328: Summer Always Happens When It’s Raining
Throwing out a queer life ring to those missing London Pride, Notting Hill Carnival and drowning under the constant rain – although yesterday the sun came back but we’ve had weeks of rain – the classic British Summer! Starts with a traditional summer jungle / drum and bass mix fromme, and then more downtempo with…
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Hit Me Shakespeare One More Time (A Celebration)
I don’t usually post TED Talks, but I’ll make an exception for this talk on repetition and music by Colin Morris who is a data scientist and educator based in Toronto with a Master’s in Computational Linguistics. I love how he uses quite disparate techniques to prove that yes, pop music is getting simpler and…
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History of Mashups vol 3: further reading
Thought I post some of this research on StockHausen up since it’s interesting reading, and free MP3’s too! Reading: http://www.stockhausen.org/licht_by_malcolm_ball.htmlhttp://www.sonic.mdx.ac.uk/research/dackdiffusion.htmlOhm: History of Electronic music booklethttps://web.archive.org/web/20100109045036/http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/stockhausen.html Listening; excerpts: http://www.stockhausen.org/stockhausen_multimedia.htmlRemix project – Bomb Center- http://www.centrebombe.org/remixed1.html have fun! tim