Tag: Lloydbrary
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RC 328: Summer Always Happens When It’s Raining
Throwing out a queer life ring to those missing London Pride, Notting Hill Carnival and drowning under the constant rain – although yesterday the sun came back but we’ve had weeks of rain – the classic British Summer! Starts with a traditional summer jungle / drum and bass mix fromme, and then more downtempo with…
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RC 323: Dark & Lonely Folk Horror with Ian of The Lloydbrary
Sumer is Icumen in, Loudly sing, cuckoo! Grows the seed and blows the mead, And springs the wood anew. Happy May Day! It’s sunrise on May the 1st and here’s a witchy folk horror & Black Aquarius edition of Radio Clash with Ian of The Lloydbrary blog and podcast. We stumble into the sleepy pastoral…
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Self isolate with a podcast
I’ve been mostly self-isolating for a while apart from the odd socially-distanced walk where I tend to frown at anyone coming closer than a metre (people are getting better at it, some shockers though who seem to want COVID-19!) and the odd frantic dash round fairly empty shops. I know quite a few of you…
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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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Brothers and sisters…it’s time for Lesson 4
30 years in the making, finally Double Dee & Steinski has finished Lesson 4: The Beat with help from ADA. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard an early version of this (the beat! the beat!) in the past on mixes, but might just be thinking of the Cut Chemist Lesson 4, but apparently they started this…