Tag: Electronica
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RIP Jean Jacques Perrey
Sad to hear of the death of Jean Jacques Perrey – synth and electronica pioneer, and creator of some very mad, funny and whimsical tunes. The curse of 2016 strikes again! Many don’t know I did two DJNoNo mashups using Perrey 10 years ago, probably because I made them for my old Multiply site and…
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Up Against The Wall – Psych Mix Part 1
Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody Poor: And Mercy no more could be, If all were as happy as we; Moloch! Moloch! Moloch! Moloch! If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going! I’ve been promising a psych mix for ages and here it is, but it goes deep and dark, to…
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Russian Electronics – ANS
A random comment about KLF’s Space using some music from Solaris lead me to this, Musical Offering which is an album of Russian electronica circa 1971. Created on a machine called the ANS (Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin) synthesiser created by Evgeny Murzin, a photo-electric machine but sounds way before it’s time (apparently created between 1937 and…
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PBS’73
It’s sunny – a rare thing in the United Kingdom of Drizzle, and blasting out new music from a band I’d not previously heard of – PBS’73 and their Viewers Like You album. I heard of them via the excellent Lloydbrary #80 and immediately tracked down their Bandcamp and bought the album. ‘Viewers Like You’,…
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Kaytranada
Almost embarrassed to post this, since I’ve heard the name (Madonna tour) and seen him DJ (that Boiler Room appearance) but not really checked out Kaytranada’s productions yet I know he’s BIG and everywhere now. Yeah Two Thousand and Late, but hey, this is my musical journey, and I don’t do the latest thing purely…
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DJ Charles IV’s Rainy Night Selection
This is partly an excuse to post 8 tracks I’m digging at the moment, but seriously my iPod – Charles IV – has selected podcasts and mixes before now, and somehow has an uncanny knack sometimes to group tunes together on shuffle. I don’t have time at the moment to capture them into a mix,…