Tag: Danger Mouse (musician)
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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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Kodiak Moment 4: Best of Instamatic, Captain Obvious & tbc 2012 – 2020
Kodiak Moment 4: Best of Instamatic, Captain Obvious & tbc 2012 – 2020 by Instamatic And appropriately for the 4th of May, here’s the 4th volume of my best-of series ‘Kodiak Moment’ taking us up to the modern day – 2012-2020. Includes tracks from my last retirement which lasted a lot longer than this one,…
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An Adventure To Pepperland Through Rhyme & Space
The Beatles back catalogue is a gift that keeps giving, even when you’re the most jaded, some outtake, some stem, remix, or even mashup drags you back in. I was so OVER Beatles mashups especially with hiphop til I heard this. It starts off like every mashup album you’ve heard before (especially Danger Mouse’s Grey…
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You use up everything you got trying to give everybody what they want
Never knew Nina Simone covered ‘Where Does The Time Go?’, heard this through the haunting Nils Frahm’s Late Night Tales, at last a mix that does express that 3am dark night of the soul hinted- but also love the classic preamble: “We are recording tonight and because we are recording we are trying to do…