Tag: Glasgow
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Scottish Mashups
Discover the best mashups from Scotland in “O Flower of Mashups” by DJ Firth. Featuring Scottish artists like Proclaimers and Lewis Capaldi.
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Ceefax Twin – Protect And Survive
Sadly not in Glasgow so can’t go to the Ceefax Twin nights, but I can listen to this mix of ‘nuclear funk’ and electronic library music about a now not-so distant age of cold war and nuclear threat. The nuclear threat might be more Chinese owned nuclear plants going all Fukushima nowadays and cold war…
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New Chvrches
This surprised me – new Chvrches (pronounced Ch-verrrchez – cf. Kirk) single ‘Leave No Trace’ and it’s good. And there’s a new album ‘Every Open Eye’ coming in September. Squeee! Chvrches last album didn’t leave my iPod for over a year, I suspect it’s still there…
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The Lord Is Out Of Control (Nils Frahm Remix)
Another the ‘You need this in your life’ category, from the new Mogwai EP ‘Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1’ is the modern classical and elegant remix of ‘The Lord Is Out Of Control’ by Nils Frahm. The other tracks are great also, with 6Music favourite ‘Teenage Exorcists’ being one of the best things the…
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Cue the piper! Play you bastard!
As we start another Commonwealth Games, here’s the producer Stewart Morris trying to wrestle the opening ceremony of the last Scottish games, the disastrous 1986 Games in Edinburgh onto the telly…very funny. (sort of via Soundhog who posted the Eurovision one, funny also)
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Last out of the Trap
Checking out this trap business…which turns out it’s part what I thought it was, and part not – I knew it was those skippetty 808 claps and snares, slow like chopping and screwing – what surprised me checking out this potted history of Trap is how most of what is called ‘Trap’ I’d call crunk…