Tag: Electronic
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Tim Hunkin’s Secret Life of Components
I suspect as well as seeing David Mach’s 101 Dalmations as a kid which made me want to be an artist, as a child of an engineer with a workshop, Artist Tim Hunkin and inventor Rex Garrod’s anarchic and beaitiful Secret Life of Machines influenced how I’d be an artist. I tinkered and took machines…
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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…
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RIP Gershon Kingsley
I missed the sad news about the death of Gershon Kingsley in the midst of my Xmas Panic™. 97 though, he had good innings, but with him and Perrey gone, it’s a whole era that has passed. Kingsley is most famous for Popcorn, the track that not-arguably-at-all kickstarted the whole synth boom – first it…
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John Peel Is Not Enough
It’s 15 years since the sad death of John Peel – I think music is still reeling from that one, I know radio and support for independent music definitely is. And also 15 years since the idea for this podcast and blog started, since his death inspired me to start it in desperation about who…
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RC 298: Riddle of the Sphinx
The inscrutable smile of the Sphinx brings February and the No-Snowmadeddon, and also the most accessible and upbeat Radio Clash in ages falls from the sky (just as I was telling people how eclectic and strange the music is on the the podcast…oh well. service as usual next time, most likely). AND under two hours!…