Tag: New York
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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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New York is Killing Me
And sadly it did – the large 3 screen version of this was the highlight of Chris Cunningham’s AV set (the only highlight, the rest was just gorish and violently boring – shock and awe with very little content) – and was a great tribute to Gil. (best watched in full screen in HD)…and was…
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1979 interview with Jellybean Benitez
Wow…pre Madonna, pre solo career, pre production genius, just a New York DJ. Some things haven’t changed (not doing requests unless it fits – this is very true, for if people are dancing it’s going right, why change it?) and the lists of audiences (gay: dance with female vocals! Still true!) but some things have…
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RC 180: Shabbey Road (Beatles #7)
One Hundred and EEEiiiightyyyyy!!!! Last of the Beatles Podcasts, a bumper edition concentrating on the end of the Beatles, their various followups in mashup and cover form, and John Lennon’s death. I live near Abbey Road so I just popped out and took these pictures – the ones of the tourists recreating the famous picture…
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dark mix #1: dark electro disco noir
‘Dark electro / Disco noir’ is what I call a certain type of music referencing or sampling certain horror movie soundtracks from Goblin to John Carpenter that’s popped up recently in certain electro / electro house quarters, and it’s a music that I can connect to for several reasons, it’s dark and broody and seems…
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Holy Electric Nun! It’s the Sisters of Transistors!
Ever wondered what Mr Massey of 808 State is upto nowadays? Well working with these people, the Sisters of Transistors: Nice to see a) it’s rocking that electro-horror sound I’ve been calling ‘disco noir’ or ‘dark electro’ that takes a lot of inspiration from Mssrs Carpenter and Moroder, with a dash of early 80’s New…