Tag: depression
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Mash of the Titans
After the deluge of albums on Friday I took a while to check out the rest, and was surprised by the Panos T compilation ‘Mash of the Titans 10’. Sure there are heavy doses of EDM mash and pop that isn’t my usual thing – but given it’s Pride month, and sunny my pop tolerance…
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Where were you? An imperfect list for misplaced fake nostalgia
Really only posting Imperfect List by Big Hard Excellent Fish here for two reasons 1) it’s ace, and has been played twice on Radio Clash, and still is the best thing both Robin Guthrie and Pete Wylie has done – yes including their ‘day jobs’ and 2) all the lyrics for this track on the…
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Zoot Boots vol 2
I know this has been slowly bubbling under for ages, but finally Zoot Boots 2 has arrived, the album of 1950s or earlier electroswing and vintage mashups. Loving PomDeter’s Rhumbleboogie (yay! Andrews Sisters!) and g4gorilla’s Mony Mony Billy Idol vs Tommy Dorsey swing bootleg atm, and anyone who mashes Secret Love by Doris Day is…
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Bah Humbug! Repeats are so disappointing aren’t they?
I hate repeats, but Xmess is coming and you’d better get used to them, so here’s my Bah Humbug mix which is now on Mixcloud, again for the 50 Million Time. Well it is fucking Xmas and SNOWMAGEDDON!!!111 has happened, Eurostar and European rail is in disarray and looks like I might be trapped on…
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depression: new digital debris!
OK a lot of you may not even have heard of Radio Clash’s shy sibling, the arts/experimental podcast digital debris. Well finally got to the 3rd proper episode ‘depression‘ I go back to 1929 via 78. 2(00)9 recurring, as we crash, crash, crash. Crunch. Loads of classic Great Depression-themed 78rpm records, readings from novels of…