Tag: mixtape
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More Luxxury: Petula Clark and Slow 2
https://soundcloud.com/luxxury/im-not-in-love-luxxury-edit I’ve been very much inspired by last year’s Baron Von Luxxury Slow mix…I’m liking music that’s about 105 bpm, not exactly nu-disco but certainly Ibiza chilled sort of vibe – not sure if it’s a new genre, but I think that’s going to be the next new big thing…slower tracks, more psychedelic, disco. Or…
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The Pre-History of Mashups – Medleys and Mixes
I suspect the public at large think that mashups are fairly new phenomenon, or at most 15 years old. [QI voice] This is not in fact true. Although sampling as a technology didn’t become widespread until the late 80’s (the likes of Art of Noise allowing, a band who also took parts of songs and…
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Guardian Microplays
Love the two Guardian Microplays (very short 5 minute plays with the Royal Court) so far – the second on the mixtape – Groove Is In The Heart is a subject very close to my heart. It features Ride, New Order and Neneh Cherry but also points out the sort of time travel we all…
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Slow 78 Luxxury mixtape
Via the Wall Street Journal oddly (eye spy with my little eye, a site beginning/begging a C and ending in D…*cough*) I heard about this mixtape. I’d heard the name and probably heard some of Baron Von Luxxury’s edits, but I love this slow 100bpm disco mix. You can download his edits over at his…
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Ubuntu (Water into Wine) and Sick to D(eat)h
UBUNTU (Water Into Wine) by Sage Francis I was late getting round to listening to Sage Francis’s last mixtape Sick to D(eat)h released the end of last year, but given the new album is around the corner I thought I should. And I was struck by the song Ubuntu (Water into Wine) because not only…
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Rastatroll Battyboy Sound System
I don’t know who Rastatroll Battyboy Sound System are, but I LOVE YOU. Very funny, very rude, very NSFW, making a queer dub reggay cutup dancehall mashups. Years ago I downloaded some dancehall acapellas with the idea of taking the piss out of them, I could never get anything that worked, but glad someone else…