Tag: Nils Frahm
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An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains
An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains by Solcofn Surprisingly given the attention to song structures and music production, not many straddle both the bootleg/mashup and original composition worlds, Dunproofin is one who creates his own excellent rock tunes, so does Neil Cicierega with Lemon Demon but I always feel parody and comedy songs are already…
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RC 334: Windmills of Mercury
A long episode of Radio Clash for reasons explained within, this has taken over a week to finish and started out being an uptempo celebration of Windmills of Your Mind, the Mercury Awards and Eddie Van Halen during the first Kitchen Disco Hour…and became rather more downbeat after I learned that Radio Clash has been…
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RC 313: Old Age (15th Birthday Part 1)
On this day in 2004 not much happened, Girls Aloud were #1 in the UK with a forgettable single, My Boo (??) by Alicia Keys was #1 in the US Billboard Charts…an actor or two died that had been forgotten or their kids were more famous than them. Looking through the headlines it was a…
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RC 303: Little Asset People
Request to all our Little Asset People! It’s episode 303 and Mayday Mayday, frustration of facing sanctions and babylon(don) business from the welfare state, so it’s an angry indie meets acid house affair, with some downtempo tracks at the end. I talk about seeing small terrifying Japanese women shouting on stage and throwing condiments around,…
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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…
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RC 288: Milk and Honey (and other scaphic desires)
The Soviets are Coming! And the Beat it uses you, Comrade! Novichoka Can (or bottle, or milk and honey). Too soon? Here is an international disco and funk episode, mostly from the former Soviet region and Eastern Europe (Uzbekistani cosmic disco anyone? Latvian funk? Try it you might like it!) but also from Spain, Italy…