Tag: Jon Hopkins
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Orbital – Smiley / 30 Something
30 something years on and Orbital have a new best-of compilation celebrating their ’30 Something’ anniversary – the real anniversary was in lockdown. New track Smiley sums up the feeling of acid house, 303’s,distant raves and the times – especially with the evil Maggie robot and the sheep police and nods to Burning Man and…
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HAAi & Jon Hopkins
Second of the ‘songs I’d love to hear at a festival if I could afford to go/get a ticket’ bangers is this newly released tune by HAAi featuring Jon Hopkins – total bliss pop banger, and the beats sound very much like Jon’ Hopkin’s older euphoric dreamy style which is Not A Bad Thing since…
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RC 366: May Day Neverlution
Mayday! Mayday! Get out your May Pole and start your Revolutions with this punky pagan podcast. Talking and singing about resistance, riot and revolution for International Workers’ Day, we mash it up with a righteous riot at the front, then a pagan pastoral party at the back. Punk, rock experimental mixes, mashups, jungle, hiphop, dub…
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RC 322: Success is Survival
Sometimes it snows in April, sometimes it’s a heatwave, and sometimes it’s a global pandemic! And I wanna live, I wanna love, I wanna shake shake shake survival, I wanna fly, I’m gonna dance til I die..or until the Reaper comes for me. (or doesn’t record my vocals and corrupts the project file #insidenerdjoke). A…
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RC 308: Raving I’m Raving
It’s that time of year – back to school is in all the shops, depressing reminders you summer is close to it’s end. But as it’s 30 years since the Second Summer of Love (and incidentally it’s 30 years since I left school) sod the grey jumpers and shrunken ties, I’m raving Back to the…
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RC 287: Tarquin Likes Reggae
Tarquin likes reggae, Mary Berry likes reggae and she especially likes a Punky Reggae Electronica Soundtrack Jungle Goth Metal Acid Psych Cat Dog & Harmonica Party! With Added new! Improved! Washes whiter! Natural! Mogwai, hence the picture(s) from Robert Smith’s Meltdown. Also John Foxx, John Foxx, in a cardboard box, what is this I cry?…