Tag: Director’s cut
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RIP Vangelis & Klaus Schulze
Usually I get my tributes out immediately when musicians I love die, but I was totally dumbstruck when I heard a few days ago that Vangelis had died. To me, he’s Beatles or Elvis or Rolling Stones level; a majpr influence in my listening and composing. And that’s why I couldn’t just throw out a…
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KLF White Room – Director’s Cut & new Blacksmoke
It’s another month, another 23rd and of course another KLF re-release, this time the 1990 version of The White Room, bridging the 1989 original version with Kylie Said To Jason and the 1991 actual release. I actually prefer the 1989 version to the Stadium House Greatest Hits-a-thon that was what was actually released. I remember…
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So many tears: RIP Frankie Knuckles
Sad to hear one of the fathers of house has died due to complications with diabetes, Frankie Knuckles. It’s funny, most of the tracks people know are mainly Jamie’s jams, hence here is Your Love which also became part of one of the most successful bootlegs ever, The Source’s ‘You Got The Love’. Never totally…
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Star Wars Uncut: The Director’s Cut
Crowdsourcing at it’s best, it’s usually most successful when it’s something to do with sci-fi or Star Wars – in this case the latter, a project where people were asked to remake Star Wars in 15 second chunks, it’s brilliant, and now the Director’s Cut is online (wonder if key scenes and characters have been…