Tag: Information Age
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RIP Elektric cowboy
(Me and Colin (wearing his shades, IHNI why,,, I think his pic was the reverse) outside King’s Arms, 2016) Sad to hear on Friday the death of Colin aka Elektric Cowboy, one of the early Bastard / bootleg crowd (well before it got called mashup). His work has been featured frequently on the podcast back…
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Wham vs Slayer
More crumpl/soundclown mashup genius from Radio Clash regular Bill McClintock – this time Slayer’s ‘South of Heaven’ vs what is probably the best Wham’s tune ever ‘Everything She Wants’. (via Pom Deter) Also in the stack for future podcast play are the recent mashups with The Doors vs Temptations (funky Doors!) and Iron Maiden vs…
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Calling MacBook Pro/ modern PC Laptop DJs (aka Expresscard is a pile o’ shit)
What do you use as a decent (ie not crappy onboard) soundcard? I just bought an Indigo DJ on eBay, arrived and I’d made the SAME mistake, it’s PCMCIA and I need fucking ExpressCard, it’s a totally useless format since no-one supports it, especially for soundcards apart from a very badly reviewed Creative Xi-Fi and…
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Steal This Web 2.0
It’s here I’ll reveal secrets of my trade, well not-trade cos I don’t get paid (that almost rhymes!) but I think these methods should be widespread. You might have wondered where I get my videos or tracks for shows…well I’m about to tell you how 😀 (well for the PC at least, other computer owners…
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Mashup Preservation Society
Quite an interesting blog called Mashup Preservation Society has popped up reposting a lot of the early mashup albums from 2003-2005. Even a few of mine on there! Good albums mostly so far, recommended. But how is posting them to a file-sharing site that will probably nuke the files/not stick around really ‘preserving’ them? I…
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Mashups are for music…
Another example (click on the 25 companies) of mashup term being perverted to mean some sort of geekoid web/RSS hybrid misc category. AARGH! STOP IT NOW! A mashup is a musical term, nothing to do with .NET and AJAX and AGRAJAZZ and the like. Before I come slap, I mean mashup your head…oops…go find your…