Tag: Popular music
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DJ Yamin – Funk for the Folks mix
Stumbled over this mix via a friend posting about another one of his mixes, and liking the mix of NOLA, politics, funk, breaks and beats. Good stuff.
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Meteors in flight, Balkan Delight
So now we haven’t been squished by the 7:29pm Mayan Express from Mars I can post about this great mix by the ever-talented DJ Frogg. It’s not just Balkan gypsy music it’s also a whole world of remixed sources: Brazilian bossa nova, Latin American (not sure if the track after Masquenada is Cuban or Columbian?),…
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Automatic, push button, remote control…
Always wondered where M/A/R/R/S got that ‘Automatic, push button, remote control…’ chant from – turns out it was those proto-rappers and agitators Last Poets on a track called Mean Machine Chant/Mean Machine which is pretty futuristic sounding for 1970 – but it turns out that in 1984 one of the founding Poets worked with Grandmixer…
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I dun a bad ting: Rastamouse riddim remix
https://vimeo.com/19769180 Probably be gone by morning given the fervour that Rastamouse Company pulls these things, but here’s my video cutup of Rastamouse vs Wayne Smith’s classic ‘Under mi Sleng Teng’ which is of course about cheese. Yes cheese. *dares anyone to say otherwise* It’s done with a lot of love for Rastamouse and Wayne Smith…
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White Witch Dub used in great dark space dub mix…
It’s rare to hear what happens to your mashups or remixes when you release them; like children they have a life of their own but when they go, they leave for good, they never call, they never write, they never pop round for Xmas to say hello….;-) So it’s nice when you hear something good…