Tag: David Holmes
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RC 394: A Place To Hide
Sometimes you need a room full strangers to make you feel less alone, A place dark enough to make yourself unknown, unknowable,but…home somehow,A place to hide somehow, at least that’s how it feels. Antony Szmierek No murder on the dancefloor with a spoken word club mix about lhaving a place to hide with your rum…
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RC 381: This Is My Church / 50th
Recorded on my 50th birthday, this is the church where I heal my hurt. It’s a speed garage special for punk rockers with flowers in their hair (in the pouring rain or buying them for yourself). We also have a tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto, a middle finger to complaining neighbours, various mashups new and old,…
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RC 370: When I Go Deaf
About to go off on my holiblobs, but did I tell you about the time I went deaf? Hear me wax lyrical about how I went half deaf for nearly two weeks, hence the delay in a new podcast as I couldn’t hear properly and realised the hard way how stereo hearing is essential for…
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Orbital – Smiley / 30 Something
30 something years on and Orbital have a new best-of compilation celebrating their ’30 Something’ anniversary – the real anniversary was in lockdown. New track Smiley sums up the feeling of acid house, 303’s,distant raves and the times – especially with the evil Maggie robot and the sheep police and nods to Burning Man and…
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Currently listening: Fred Deakin
One of the best compilations or mixes this side of Ruby Trax, Cosmosonica, Soulwax and David Holmes is Tryptych by Fred Deakin. It like the others I mentioned introduced me to several artists, and got me scrabbling to locate some of the tracks (always the good sign of any mix, podcast or compilation). And anything…
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There’s No Vibration But Wait; or how I got into psychedelic music
Strange how conversations go, a discussion about early DJ Fresh (my how he’s changed, from breakbeat drum and bass to aping like the Cataracts or LMFAO?) to Aphrodite with Shiggi which then lead me to ‘Aphrodite, in her see through nightie…‘ which as well as probably being a Pete Seeger lift, is by the Edgar…