Tag: Intelligent dance music
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Aphex Twin and the morals of sampling
I didn’t know Aphex Twin‘s XTAL from the seminal electronic album Selected Ambient Works Vol 1 is based off samples from a track from Steve Jefferies, Mary Carewe & Donald Greig called Evil At Play…but in a very cool way. But the original writer says it is ‘morally wrong’ and Richard D. James just lifted…
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B2B Discord Party with PDSMix
Last night myself and PimpDaddySurpreme aka PDSMix went back to back – doing an hour each on his Discord in the Mukbang Danceteria – partly to try it out, and partly support him because Twitch have suspended him #freePDSMix. I did three sets – here they are! All these mixes are almost entirely from my…
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RC 362: Streaming For One
The loneliness of the long-distance streamer – after the streaming goes wrong…. This is not the version announced here, as that had severe technical issues so after that run through I re-recorded it late on a Monday night solely to an audience of Russian bots. Not sure there will be another ‘Radio Clash Live’ for…
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RIP Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire
= Really sad to hear of the death of Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire fame aged 65. As someone who has family links to Sheffield and did my degree there, and even used to hang around the very cemetery where the Sensoria video was filmed (Meersbrook represent! Well, no-one was there, it was dawn)…
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RC 313: Old Age (15th Birthday Part 1)
On this day in 2004 not much happened, Girls Aloud were #1 in the UK with a forgettable single, My Boo (??) by Alicia Keys was #1 in the US Billboard Charts…an actor or two died that had been forgotten or their kids were more famous than them. Looking through the headlines it was a…
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RC 306: The First Pride Was a Riot And Other Stories
Just over a week ago was the 50th anniversary of the riot at Stonewall Inn, and today is London Pride, so the first half is a queer collection of revolutionary songs, from trans hardcore punk to dragapella, werk a pose to some acid banji realness and pansexual pop, and some folk tunes from the fabulous…