Tag: girl talk
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Why I Don’t Play That Many Mashups
In a rant response to a thread on Mashstix responding to this post on FMITracks, I thought I’d post here as it fairly succinctly explains why I rarely play mashups on what was a formerly mashup podcast. Ahh the state of mashups…I got there in 2008, what kept you guys I’ve noticed there is two…
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Kevin Blechdom and Blevin Blechdom do Jackie
Just heard this on Do or DIY’s latest podcast which as usual is amazing and wonderful *shelves current podcast and starts again ;-)* and it’s great to hear some new music from Kevin Blechdom (of Bastard fave cover ‘I Will Always Love You’ with Dsico), also reunited with Blevin Blechtum as Blechtum from Blechtum where…
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Warning to proto-mashup historians – ignore Wikipedia
Don’t believe a lot of what you read here. It’s just wrong. Maybe it has been edited by a few people to self promote; all respect to those people, but they arrived a bit later. Doesn’t it strike you as odd, when the page actually mentions GYBO and Boomselection started in 2001/2002 all the ‘notable’…
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Song of the decade: When Xtina met Julian
Guardian has a great article today about Freelance Hellraiser and his incredibly influential Stroke of Genius with namechecks to the dearly missed Boomselection blog, The Remix, and GHP amongst others (and Girl Talk and totally nails that he’s a ‘dead end’ of ADD hyper referentiality in the mashup phenomenon). Much has been said about Stroke…
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Steal This Film II
Shiny new post on a shiny new host, and something that’s been in my torrent download queue for ages – the film Steal This Film II – a great freely downloadable documentary about file sharing, information sharing in cultures (like teaching) and the social and legal issues within and looking at past technologies like the…
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Where were you on 72? What Girl Talk SHOULD sound like.
Yes it’s finally here – 72, the pass-the-parcel mashup project, inspired by our very own Boot in 60 Seconds has reached 72 minutes and is thus finished! This is basically what Girl Talk SHOULD sound like, done by people who actually understand mashups rather than spending more time on their haircut. Cue Girl Talk lovin’…