Tag: Fads
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RC 308: Raving I’m Raving
It’s that time of year – back to school is in all the shops, depressing reminders you summer is close to it’s end. But as it’s 30 years since the Second Summer of Love (and incidentally it’s 30 years since I left school) sod the grey jumpers and shrunken ties, I’m raving Back to the…
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RC 303: Little Asset People
Request to all our Little Asset People! It’s episode 303 and Mayday Mayday, frustration of facing sanctions and babylon(don) business from the welfare state, so it’s an angry indie meets acid house affair, with some downtempo tracks at the end. I talk about seeing small terrifying Japanese women shouting on stage and throwing condiments around,…
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Hit Me Shakespeare One More Time (A Celebration)
I don’t usually post TED Talks, but I’ll make an exception for this talk on repetition and music by Colin Morris who is a data scientist and educator based in Toronto with a Master’s in Computational Linguistics. I love how he uses quite disparate techniques to prove that yes, pop music is getting simpler and…
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RC 294: Gammonweddon
Last Brexit, I Gave You My Vote, And The Very Next Day, You Threw It Away… Don’t worry there’s no Last Christmas in the latest Radio Clash – I’m playing Whamageddon too, but in the UK it’s more Gammonweddon, a sort of idiotic Whack-A-Mole (or Wham-A-Mole?) for spot the shouty white van bloke, usually on…
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Mrs Flash Is Coming Your Way
Love this from Fakebit Polytechnic to an OctaMED remix from the 1990’s by @SimesGreen. Reminds me of doing similar rave/dance remixes with with Kirk and James. I sampled lots off United States of TV and probably TV Offal/Ads Infinitum or more likely some old VHS documentaries on commercials (remember this was pre-YouTube!) I found at University. And then…
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Sheck Wes
Sometimes you see an artist and you might not be really into their genre and you think ‘wow they have it, gonna be big.’ I mean most of mumble rap and trap has passed me by, well I’ve passed it by, apart from a little early on when it was ‘cloud rap’ and the likes…