Tag: gimme shelter
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Kodiak Moment 3: Best of Instamatic & Captain Obvious 2008 – 2011
The Rise of The Aliases! I wasn’t exactly a stranger to aliases before but something about the second explosion of work around 2008-2010 meant I was wanting to branch out and not get bogged down with past failures while I was learning…many of which I had to fix on Volume 2! Kodiak Moment 3: Best…
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Merry Clayton – Gimme Shelter
Merry Clayton’s backing vocals of the Rolling Stones classic are stuff of legend, and a crazy story of themselves, as that she did backing vocals for the very white redneck anthem Sweet Home Alabama (as she pointed out many times since, it wasn’t that sweet for black people). I never knew she did a version…
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Defunkto’s Dubset mix
This mix by Shiggi aka Defunkto got props in the latest podcast, an excellent dubstep mix from which I ‘borrowed’ the White Satin and Knights of Cydonia dubstep remixes cos they is HUWGE!! Other highlights I’ll probably filch is the excellent PornStep tracks and the hilariously funny Funtcase ‘Taking the Piss’ which I officially love.…
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Know Your History part 1 – GYBO’s I Created A Monster
Back back back in the mists of time, when men were men, women were women, and Dsico still made bootlegs, there was a messageboard called GYBO. Still is in fact. Now the girls and boys in mid 2003 on said messageboard had an idea – what about getting together and doing a charity mashup album…
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Ground Shelter (Hope & Fear) – two topical mashups
(after Shepard Fairey) OK I’ve been working on this mashup of Stereo MC’s vs Rolling Stones vs Benga vs Fun Boy 3 for a while – kind of a State of the Nation address in a mashup as regards how I felt in the run up to the US election, Georgia v. Russia, Iran and…