Tag: Hamster
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Instagram and the Social Media Hamster Wheel
Oh yes. All of these. I am on Instagram but I have a massive love/hate for it. And any artist – mashup artists included on social media should watch at least the end part because it talks about the real cost of ‘chasing the algorithm’ – mentally and physically for Cat Graffam but also it’s…
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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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RC 348: Pride and Prejudice (Mashup Show)
This one took a while to edit (a week and a half?) and is a Pride themed podcast with LGBTQ mashup artists and themes running throughout. Happy Pride! Also we say goodbye to a mashup artist, go very Crumplstrange in preparation for Crumplstock 9 later this month, and tracks from the three albums I reviewed…
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Welcome to the hamster wheel
Popstar does a not very obscene gesture. People – well journalists and professional bloggers who aren’t really ‘people’ they are paid to pretend to be – get upset about it. Others get upset about that. And so the cycle continues. Is this the best humanity can do? This has a crushing depressing inevitability of PR…
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Starlight acapella…but not of this earth
While we/you/us/everyone is waiting for this video render (ooh only 2 hours 08 to go of 6 hours so far! aaargh!) here’s wonderful video of François Macré taking the idea of multitracks and acapella and warping it far beyond this earth. Imagine the hamsters in my laptop having an epileptic fit trying to do this…