Tag: freelance hellraiser
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Everything is a Remix gets a remix!
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…no actually this blog, we featured Kirby Ferguson’s Everything Is A Remix series. And now, for 2021 he’s back with a totally new upgraded remix! Love the parts about Kanye and Led Zep (and I sort of knew that Sister Nancy’s Bam Bam used a riddim,…
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Crumplstock 9 Roundup & After Party set
Phew another Crumplstock is over! Friday night to Early Monday, nearly 40 artists, streaming most of that. I found myself having to bail on Saturday after listening for 12 hours (I really wanted to stay up and hear Dan Untitled and MsMiep), and was listening til the bitter end a few hours ago on Sunday…
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Ian Fondue – New Order vs Katy Perry
Great new mashup by Ian Fondue, taking one of my favourite tracks (Regret – New Order, which was released when I turned 20 so it feels like a proper ‘coming of age’ track unlike that #1 on your 18th business) with Katy Perry’s Part of Me and the mood just fit like a glove. ALL…
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How an Illegal Mashup Reignited British Pop
Great video explaining how Richard X et al reinvented British pop music, and it makes a good case for that (although I feel that he was treated like an outsider for a lot of it, even though he was a hitmaker, they took his ideas but shut him out?). And the Gary Numan comment that…
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Mashup Academia
Interesting when academics and music theorists (or in this case philosophers) talk about mashups, something I know very well if you are a frequent reader (if not: this blog started at the second mashup podcast ever – the first fizzled out – for the first year or so, broadening out into DIY remix and music…
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Happy Birthday Shirley!
Shirley Bassey is 80 today, and I present to you a few of her finest moments, firstly is 1972’s Jezahel which you probably know better as Last Leg theme Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy. Yes, they took the horn arrangement, lock stock and tooting barrel! Another is the excellently dramatic and louche version…