Tag: Norman Cook
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RC 383: Cha Cha Charles / House Proud
Royal Blood is in the air – from that band to musically eviscerating King Charles III and his Coronation with some Royalty Free Music, after we Cha Cha Cha our way around Eurovision, kick off Pride month and pay tribute to Tina Turner who sadly recently died. She was a legend. Disco, punk, hiphop, indie…
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Summer Pride Disco Mix
I WILL SURVIVE! FREE MY PEOPLE! I wasn’t planning to make a Pride mix this year, but friends asked me to DJ a two hour set at a live disco event and y’all know how much I L-O-V-E D-I-S-C-O! It was on Midsummer’s Night, the night of the Solstice on Saturday, the start of summer,…
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Swedish Life Gretal
After Greta Thunberg’s amazing and historic speech to the U.N. Climate Action Summit, there are many mashups and remixes doing the rounds – even Fatboy Slim posted one by The Kiffness. I think this Swedish Death Metal one by John Mollusk is probably the best. Also the fact that someone has mashed Greta with Anne…
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RC 301: Evil Twin (Brexit Edition)
A Dastardly Duet in this Mirror Dimension, a Terrible Tango between RC 300 and 301. Nearly every track refers to the other but this is the Evil Twin to the upbeat Mirror Universe. Lightweight subjects from the mosque shootings to Brexit and paedophilia (Look What You’ve Done!) to music critical of this Brexitverse and that…
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RC 284: John Barry – Bond and the Great Beyond
First guest show of the new! improved! sans microplastiques! gluten free! Radio Clash with Ian Fondue of The Lloydbrary and it’s about the soundtrack genius and his music for film and TV. We range from brit-pop to international hip-hop, twang to triphop, funky breaks and forgotten songs, drum and bass to disco, big beat to…
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Disco Bollywood Part 2
If you’ve listened to the shows, you’d probably know I have a thing for disco, and also Indian/Bollywood music, especially Usha Uthup and ABBA Hindi I posted exactly (spook!) 5 years ago, and strange covers in general. Well I discovered this video and ended up delving (again) into the brightly coloured world of silver costumes…