Tag: Mass media
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Gotye – Somebody I Used to Know (b-boy breaks mix)
Not sure how many would pop a lock and do a headspin to the Gabriel-esque tones of Gotye, but you’d not hear this version on Glee*, it’s a funky little number by Mighty Moves… * I can’t hear the difference between the Glee version and the original, tbh. Pot, kettle, black anyone?
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RC 216: Pop Is Dead 1 – Radio Musicola
I started the Pop Is Dead mix back in 2004 or 2005 – yes 7 or 8 years in the making! Finally got round to doing it, and I’ve collected so many songs about the music industry that I decided to do a series of shows about the State of the Music Industry – starting…
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Flexing / Bone-breaking in New York
With new forms of music and new decade you get new forms of dance – a new one I just found out about via Boing Boing is flexing aka bone-breaking a street dance from New York. Really dig the moves – especially the King Bones & DJ Aaron (?) duets. Certainly these videos with NextLevel…
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Copyright Criminals and the Funky Drummer
Copyright Criminals – the 2009 documentary have released a special DVD edition with extras from the likes of Clyde Stubblefield (the original Funky Drummer – although I dispute the ‘Most sampled drummer’ tag as Greg Coleman who did Amen break in the Winstons has been sampled in many more songs since 1989!). So to promote…
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The grandaddy of VJing – Len Lye
Years ago I bemoaned the lack of the amazing animator and grandaddy of all VJIng and music video animation on DVD, getting a response from Roger Horrocks that the Len Lye Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive were working on it…well several years later it slips out unbeknown to me on Re:Voir, and you…
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Bootie London makes a comeback – and yes I’m playing!
Put April 22nd in the diary, because Bootie is coming back to London, and not only are The Kleptones, A+D from the States, DJ Payroll, and João Brasil over from Brazil DJing but I’m dusting off my DJing shoes (?) as yours truly as an opening set (Instamatic). And not only is it a birthday…