Tag: Ian Fondue
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Lone Swordsman
This is Daniel Avery’s musical tribute to the much-missed Andrew Weatherall who died in February. Lovely tune and amazing video by Greg Hodgson, and the blurb says: “proceeds from this record via Bandcamp will be donated to Amnesty International for four weeks in his memory”, a great cause. (via Ian Fondue of the Lloydbrary.)
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Keep Tracking
A great video and basically this is how I produced my early music tracks 30 years ago! I had a Yamaha Portasound 160 and later 590, but my first keyboard was very similar to the one in this video without the fun synth waves. That said, later I had OctaMED and I think a version…
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Pause Button Beats
“Public Enemy No. 1” was a pause tape beat” This is an amazing article via Ian Fondue of the Lloydbrary about early hiphop DJs using cassette tapes in their productions – yes a lot of us started creating ‘pause button edits’ and it’s amazing that some of the classics were created this way. I knew…
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Pete and Bas
How did I not know about the oldest grime artists storming the internet? And they are really good…if you think Snatch and Lock Stock meets Breaking Bad and Sexy Beast meets Grime you’re pretty much there. But Pete and Bas have skills. Here they are with some friends, The Snooker Team. Love the intro. There…
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RIP Gary Haisman
Nearly topping the charts just over 30 years ago, We Call It Acieed – the cry of Gary Haisman who also rapped on this seminal UK Acid House single – as much as D-Mob later disowned it. Also promoter, style icon and dancer and in my mind a legend. (via Ian Fondue) . (via Ian…
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RC 289: Pooh Sticks
A bear of little brain playing acoustic pooh sticks with lots of musical honey, from songs about sheep to a house party Fox, 8-bit grunge covers to Victorian space hip-hop, Spanish funk to castles in space, ancient synthesisers to arabic hiphop, and Clangers and steam engines oh my! And of course the usual helping of…