Tag: Music
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The Sound of Belgium
Here’s a brilliant documentary on the music of Belgium, which might sound as flat, long and boring as those infamous roads, but those who love electronic music know better. From automatic playing organs with their 3kg cardboard programmes to New Beat and Rave, it runs the whole gamut from Boccaccio (a club that I wish…
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RC 291: Out of the Window
Out of the window and what can I see?Scaffold is gone and they are coming for me. Yes the four month ordeal of ScaffoldGate is over, JUST in time for winter to appear so all the birds to have disappeared and the garden and outlook looks grumpy outside the window. Dark times ahead, from Kavanaugh…
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Low Triptych
I’ve been listening to Double Negative – in fact my mask from when they played live in August is just a few feet away – and the album is taking some time to settle with it’s ‘Beach House’ and chillwave distortion and vocal effects…Quorum was such a shock I was like – do I like…
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Sheck Wes
Sometimes you see an artist and you might not be really into their genre and you think ‘wow they have it, gonna be big.’ I mean most of mumble rap and trap has passed me by, well I’ve passed it by, apart from a little early on when it was ‘cloud rap’ and the likes…
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What happened to hip hop?
AMEN! Darryl DMC is correct about hip-hop, it’s bigger than ever but dumber than ever, and the responsibility isn’t there…at all. It’s about money and greed and not your voice. And it does feel like the end of something, that it’s going to crash…or that new voices will come up. So little is being said…
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RC 289: Pooh Sticks
A bear of little brain playing acoustic pooh sticks with lots of musical honey, from songs about sheep to a house party Fox, 8-bit grunge covers to Victorian space hip-hop, Spanish funk to castles in space, ancient synthesisers to arabic hiphop, and Clangers and steam engines oh my! And of course the usual helping of…