Tag: Hard Ton
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RC 363: Swinging Songs For Mashup Lovers
The return of the mashups, now re-integrated back into polite society and the podcast, now mixed live with non-mashups a merry sort of chaos (no-one mixes music like this!). This is the second ‘Towelcast’ – originally streamed live from The Disco Bathroom. If you watched the stream (well the bits that haven’t been trimmed or…
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RC 330: Lost Stars
Are we all lost stars trying to light up the dark? This episode is more of a downbeat/upbeat commemoration of some artists we have lost recently, have become stardust on the way to the big (Champagne?) Supernova. So this one goes out to Peter Green, Denise Johnson, Neil Innes, Andrew Weatherall and of course that…
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Hard Ton Cover useless Man
Minty – the infamous Leigh Bowery with Richard Torry, Nicola Bateman, and Matthew Glammore seem to sadly have become a footnote in pop’s history. Well I say pop, but Useless Man is a great if rather rude very radio-unfriendly track, but definitely a part of queer history. It’s a mutated freak Pepsi commercial, one from…
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RC 205: Royal Dreading
A Post-Coachella show and what could be more English to come back to, a cauldron of self-hatred doffing our (dutch) caps at our overlords than a Royale Wedding with Cheese? So inevitably as everyone is totally sick of it after the event (and during and before…) so this show has a theme of royal dreading…
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disco will never die – nowdisco nu-disco/neo disco long mix
What is nu/neo-disco? I asked myself that recently – disco is in my genes (jeans?) yet I was confused at what had happened to the genre since 2008, and at all since I knew hardly any of it (I thought, it partly turned out a matter of genre labelling for a few acts I already…
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303 + Sylvester + Bear = Hard Ton
I’m all for glamorous bears shaking their thang (well maybe not Bearforce One) and Hard Ton is what you get if you mix a Beth Ditto oversized disco diva with Jamie Principle via the voice of Sylvester and the hot trash mess look of Leigh Bowery & Divine. Yep that good 😀 Saw the video…