Tag: New York City
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RC 314: NEW Age (15th Birthday Part 2)
Second part of the 15th year birthday episodes, and we go all new age, futuristic and shiny with drum and bass, Japanese pop, jazz harp, happy hardcore, serial minimal classical, new age and dream pop ambience from Canada, New York, Britain, Los Angeles and Venice, psychedelic star-watching tomorrow vibes, modern britpop and even the odd…
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African Disco Electro
We’re no stranger to African electronica, Afrobeat highlife, and African funk on this blog – previously mixed, remixed, played or blogged about William Onyeahbor (RIP), Victor Uwaifo, Benis Cletin, Supermax, Fela and Femi Kuti, Lijadu Sisters and many more. So it’s not a surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of Nigerian and South…
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There But for the Grace of God Go I
I’m really loving The Get Down, a semi-fictional series about hip-hop in 70’s Bronx via Baz Luhrmann. I don’t know why it’s got mixed reviews because unlike other shows, it has Grandmaster Flash, Nas and Kurtis Blow on board, as well as Furious 4 advising and although there are some minor slips (I’d have gotten…
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Disco Queerness
I’ve been working on a disco mix using rare, camp/gay and psychedelic disco for the last few months, originally called Disco Sickness but it mushroomed into a two-part mix. Here’s the first part, an uptempo celebration of Pride month (it’s London Pride today, so yes it’s rather late!) and also the U.S. same-sex marriage Supreme…
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I own hip hop, and you do too
Another day, another person having a go at Iggy Azalea. I’m not opposed to that, she’s an awful pop rapper, but then again it’s that hypocrite Q-Tip trying to lecture a rather skewed picture of hip hop history, pretty sure him and Tribe were middle class kids from Queens? Anyway I’m sure those that grew…
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Riding in the bike lane and Critical Mass
I like this guy’s style. Gets ticketed for not riding in the bike lane – which isn’t apparently illegal – so he then goes and crashes into all the obstructions in the bike lanes…including cop cars 😀 (via Doug Jardine) On a related note I see Critical Mass got to it’s 20th anniversary in London.…