Tag: drum and bass
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The Last Pirates
Just like the pirate stations, I don’t know how long this video will stay up, but this is a great documentary on London pirate stations of the 1980’s and 90’s. Kiss, Kool, Passion, Fire, used to listen to a lot of those (and remember the anger over Jazz FM). Not exactly the last pirates, there…
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Bjarki
It seems like nowadays the game is to not have a genre at all in electronic music – been listening to quite a few recent acts via Mark Archer’s excellent EPM Podcast mix and the striking thing is how many of them span many worlds. And sometimes you stumble on an artist and it sounds…
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Dead Man’s Chest – FABRICLIVE x Playaz Mix
Great drum and bass / old skool-nu skool ragga jungle mix from Dead Man’s Chest…love Sully – Flock in particular so far, but so many gems – downloadable too! (via Ian Fondue) Ooh Sully’s Crystal Cuts is ace too – and on Bandcamp too. BOUGHT! Recommended, especially if you like chilled (future?) jungle…as I do!…
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Yo Ho Ho and a Dead Man’s Chest
https://soundcloud.com/ingredients/dead-mans-mixtape Harking back to the Pirate Radio sound of the early 90’s (shout outs to Fire* and KoolFM!) is this jungle-tastic mix by Dead Man’s Chest. I thought I’d checked out DMC before, but somehow had missed his recent EPs Nautilus and Dreamscapes, and was (re?) introduced to him by the latest Lloydbrary and Ian…
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RIP Diane Charlemagne
Sad to hear that Diane Charlemagne, singer from Urban Cookie Collective and from Goldie’s Inner City Pressure (the track that single-handedly got me into drum and bass) has died of cancer. 51? Way too young. And some more Diane C, this time classic High Contrast:
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Aphrodite remixes Massive Attack
Any new Aphrodite is very welcome at RadioClashTowers (indeed DJNoNo nods his approval also), and this Massive Attack – ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ remix is the bomb, and free to download until the Copyright Gods come down from Olympus and throw thunderbolts at it. (via Ian Fondue)