Tag: Departure
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The Secret OV Kleptones
I’ve been featuring bits off the first three Kleptones albums in this quad-trilogy on the podcast for the last few years (just realised there were four of them, I somehow missed ‘AD”!) – OV, ER, and LO. They are being released on YouTube over the next four weeks, every Wednesday at 4pm UK time. The…
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Downtempo is the new Rock n Roll
Continuing the downtempo theme from Hallmighty & MarkJMix’s latest album is the return to mashups by Departure with a new name – Certified Mashup Girl (also on Soundcloud). This came out at the end of September so yes I am late on this, but it has a chilled downtempo fusion of the likes of Brian…
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Hannah Williams & The Affirmations
I was digging around tracks sampled on departure’s Graduation Demos (very good btw) and she did a remix of Jay=Z’s 4:44, a track I didn’t know (I hd long tuned out Jay before all the Bey/Becky drama) which samples Bristol group Hannah Williams and The Affirmations ‘Late Nights & Heartbreak’. It being 3am and having…
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Homebound Kid – Not So World Famous album
It’s finally here! The first Homebound Kid album by departure and butterfly boy on Lemon Hed Records called ‘Not So World Famous’ – and it’s great. If you like William Maranci’s Meat Mountain or the Avalanches you’ll love Homebound Kid and their plunderphonic album of blends – less ‘mashup’ or bastard pop and more experimental…
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Lemon Hed Vol 1
As you might have heard on RC 346, I am really into sample collage and vapourwave ambience at the moment – in big part because of Departure and the record label she co-runs with Lav Kazan. I blogged about them before but recently they released their first compilation – an easy way to get a…