Tag: Heaven 17
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Kodiak Moment 4: Best of Instamatic, Captain Obvious & tbc 2012 – 2020
Kodiak Moment 4: Best of Instamatic, Captain Obvious & tbc 2012 – 2020 by Instamatic And appropriately for the 4th of May, here’s the 4th volume of my best-of series ‘Kodiak Moment’ taking us up to the modern day – 2012-2020. Includes tracks from my last retirement which lasted a lot longer than this one,…
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Let Me Go Sunshine (Heaven 17 vs Rockers Revenge vs The Clash)
(Taxi image by Marc Samsom, used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic) As premiered in the latest podcast, this mashup isn’t my idea at all – Jeb Edwards aka DJ 50PoundNote asked me to make it as part of his set. He originally heard it on a friends tape from the 80’s but couldn’t find…
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Rogue Vogue
Ooh given my latest mashup (see the latest podcast for that, not released it yet but shortly will) I love this re-edit of Heaven 17’s Let Me Go – whose US mix of this track I consider to be the first acid house track, as it used the 303 burbling away all through it. (via…
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Gay Marvine welcomes you to the Bath House
It seems that 2011 has been the year of the re-edit – yes re-edits have been around since the mid 80’s (another heyday) or even earlier as early DJ remixes from Greg Wilson and Larry Levan were mostly just tape re-edits. But the current taste for nu-disco and chillwave/frosty echoed 80’s sampling ambience has put…