Tag: Iceland
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RC 386: Bagpipes, Big Smoke & Bling
Bagpipes are the new rock n’ roll, as is fiddles, accordions and folk is not a four letter word. From London to Scotland via Ireland, we visit hiphop, mashups, deep house, the new ANOHNI album, new Grove and new-ish AFX, and visit two kinds of Drakes (and don’t talk about one of them). And the…
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Daði Freyr Love
The song that was robbed during Eurovision not by voting but by this virus, Think About Things by Daði Freyr is one of my songs of the year. Funky, funny, and personal – it’s about his child – and such a good video. But not a fluke, even in isolation Daði & Gagnamagnið – the…
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John Peel meets Aphex Twin and Vibert in Cornwall
I’ve watched some of the Sound of the Suburbs series many years ago but I’m sure this one wasn’t online then – a legendary and rare meeting of Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin and Luke Vibert at Gwennap Pit. Found out about this via John Dorran’s review of the latest AFX EP, and the…
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RC 275: The Man Whose Dread Expanded
Saying goodbye to Mark E Smith with music from around the world from Icelandic surf/Country & Western, Portuguese Tuga hop, Italian warped cocktail music, American reggae, Polish dub suicide tangos, UK Indie, British lover’s rock and Jazz covers of the Smiths…it’s all there! And it is far from dreadful. Sorry for the slightly longer episode,…
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Bjarki
It seems like nowadays the game is to not have a genre at all in electronic music – been listening to quite a few recent acts via Mark Archer’s excellent EPM Podcast mix and the striking thing is how many of them span many worlds. And sometimes you stumble on an artist and it sounds…
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Sigur Ros 24 hours 360 degrees
Beautiful audio and video from Sigur Rós. For their new single Route One they created a 24 hour drive around Iceland with an auto-generated version of their single. Now it’s in 360 degree video at 4k, which apparently was so large they had to courier a hard disk to YouTube to upload it, and then…