Tag: Music
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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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Kano – Trouble
The godfather of grime is back, with a new album out at the end of the month ‘Hoodies All Summer’ – and to hear his tones on the radio is very welcome! And here he is in a hard-hitting film featuring two of the tracks – Trouble and Class of Deja with D Double E…
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RC 307: Upside Down Under
In which we are the Grand Mage of Oz (Music Level 20) and go to the Great Original Upside Down, Down Under with Australian music and songs, far too many Men At Work covers, Ed Sheeran rapping, funky 80’s soul, antipodean Pulp covers, an original accordion recording that became a Negativland track, a bit of…
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Everybody in the Place
Not sure how long this will be up, but this is a great documentary on youth culture and the rave scene by artist Jeremy Deller. It’s not your usual documentary either, just showing some dancing people in an hanger and then clips of angry news reports – Jeremy is filmed doing a talk to 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…
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DJNoNo – Unhappy Hardcore
I thought MrNoNo had disappeared into the Great Mashup In The Sky, but no, he’s just plopped out some demos for an unfinished project called Unhappy Hardcore which never happened. The idea being pairing depressing/downer tracks with upbeat rave and happy hardcore. Featuring Lorde, The Smiths, Simon & Garfunkel, Cristina, MANIC, Altern-8, Prodigy and Vicious…