Tag: Downtempo
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RC 384: Tender Silence of Night – Deep Dive #2
It has only taken me a year and a half to get around to the second Deep DIve (!) – I was going to put this out in a few months after the first Deep Dive but never got around to it. The catalyst for this bonus podcast was a new controller – the five…
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Best of 2021-2022 Bandcamp Albums from Instamatic, Captain Obvious, DJNoNo & tbc
It’s nearly Christmas so here’s your present (or booby prize? It’s that time of year, The Biannual Mashup Report! I am releasing the last 2 years or so of mashups and plunderphonic experiments from Instamatic, Captain Obvious, DJNoNo & tbc on Bandcamp that aren’t on Black Block (now on there for the first time also)…
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Mashup Puns – Marvin Gayle, Fleet (Wood Mac) Foxes, Manfred 2 Mann, Philip Glass Animals
The Crumplbangers Discord challenge from last but one weeks was Mashup Puns inspired by this Letterkenny sketch. Mine were Marvin Gayle, Fleet (Wood Mac) Foxes, Manfred 2 Mann, Philip Glass Animals! So I was inspired to do the exact opposite of how I work – I usually combine tunes that work THEN name them, I…
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Kleptones – ER
Another Wednesday so that means another Kleptones album as part of the OV/ER/LO/AD quad-trilogy. This week it’s the turn of ER – starting with a startling current quote from cult 1981 British film Babylon – as sampled by Congo Natty and Bob Vylan (‘lady this IS my fucking country’) and then on Urban Clearway (the…
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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…