Tag: Countries
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Not Lost Christmas
Another Xmas, another Whamageddon survived! It was close once hearing what turned out to be a sound-a-like cover in a restaurant – it was an instrumental and I know for a fact there isn’t an official Last Christmas instrumental. So for now I sign out with this festive mashup by Pic n’ Mix which is…
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Belgo-ago-go: Jacques Sirol & Rene Costy
“Effortlessly French” – how can you be ‘effortlessly French’? It’s not that hard to stay a nationality after all…And why are you never ‘effortlessly Belgian’? but the electronic version of Railways and Moules-Frites are these two tunes, the first from Belgian electronic pioneer Jacques Sirol. The second is Rene Costy – he’s been sampled by J-Dilla…
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Emotional campaigns and propaganda – StopKony and bulfighters
Shortly after I posted the StopKony video, when I looked further into it I started to feel a little queasy…as documented in that post and on the Guardian and many other places including this infographic, Ugandans as well as people who work on the ground in Northern Uganda have questioned the approach from Invisible Children,…
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Working Xmas Day – Wind-Up Birds
Just heard this on 6Music, and of course every time I do a CD or mix or themed podcast I ALWAYS hear tracks that would’ve been perfect for it just after I’ve put it out. This would have been a dead cert for Bah Humbug II – a story of not wanting to do Christmas…
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Bah Humbug II
It’s been 5 years since the original Bah Humbug (the event and the CD – still up!) hit the world…in fact Kirk has repeatedly told me he plays the CD every year…so I thought in the sake of giving him another CD to play (it must be the only one he has) I’d create BAH…
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Gruff Rhys is Having a Depressed Post Apocalyptic Atheist Christmas
Oh wow? Me too! 😉 Well maybe not this extreme, but ‘Slashed Wrists This Chrismas’ off Gruff’s forthcoming Atheist Christmas EP and it sounds like he’s been listening to Culturecide’s Depressed Christmas (you can still hear it on the Bah Humbug mix I did)…although rather more gently handled, it sums up the ambivalent feelings created…