Tag: Folk music
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Christmas Leftovers 2: Last Christmas to Fuck The Tories
Well firstly before the obligatory Wham – Last Christmas mashups (who on earth makes those?) we have to cover The Kunts who are aiming to knock that ‘sausage roll grifter’ off the Xmas #1 with the wonderfully BBC-friendly title of Fuck The Tories. I love the Cassetteboy and Mr B remixes especially. Now I’ve had…
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RC 375: Home for Christmas
Only one Christmas podcast this year – blame the strikes (and having a lockdown Xmas #3 at home for financial reasons) with a weird combination of merry metal mashup mayhem vs epic festive sadbangers. Bittersweet happy/sad music for the holidays partly made for those folk who have to survive or endure this time of year…I…
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RC 369: Clownbusting (Hardcore Heatwave)
Hardcore you know the score – the heatwave is here and BoJo the Clown is finally busted. I would say PARTY TIME at No. 10 but there’s a clown car of other fools on the way in the Silly Season that’s lasted , ooh, 6 years now…. Brought to you by the letter C, this…
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RIP Vangelis & Klaus Schulze
Usually I get my tributes out immediately when musicians I love die, but I was totally dumbstruck when I heard a few days ago that Vangelis had died. To me, he’s Beatles or Elvis or Rolling Stones level; a majpr influence in my listening and composing. And that’s why I couldn’t just throw out a…
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RC 365: Gayle Force 10 / ABCDEFUK
Spring vibe check says: cold, windy and storms ahead after the false spring was deposed, and the outlook is unclear and unsettled. We take it to Gayle Force 10 with drum and bass,, metal. punk, jungle, rave, indie, strange italian disco, pop, and round it up with crumpl-banging tunes from the recent Discord challenges including…
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The Secret Life of The Optigan
Following on from the previous post I looked up the source of the sample in the Paloma Faith track Upside Down and was surprised – it was from the Optigan. ‘That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…’ /OB1 The Optigan was a home organ, really a kid’s toy made by Mattel, a…