Tag: presets
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RC 228: Sloppy Seconds
A post Kleptonite #1 report and some great tracks I didn’t play. Continued in the next podcast since I ran out of time…(hence the Hipster Repent graphic which now makes more sense with the next podcast…*sigh*) Born Sloppy (1:39 – 80Mb) Jimmy Cliff – Guns of Brixton Prince Fatty ft Hollie Cook – And the Beat…
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Presets – Promises (Lifelike remix)
Only yesterday I was revisiting the thoughtful, downbeat but strangely (and wrongly) ignored Pacifica album by The Presets, and listening to some of the past Lifelike remixes and thinking how that combination always delivers. Well what do you know, there must be something in The Presets contract which says every album must have a Lifelike…
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Presets new album – Ghosts
Must say I missed this, being away and all – Presets just released the album Pacifica last week in the UK/Europe. If this excellent single and video (it’s like being back at the Olympics! Where’s Tom Daly?) ‘Ghosts’ is anything to go by, it’ll be a good un – sounds more mature without being all…
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Electro Bears in Rubber and Lace oh my!
Like some cross-dressing mashup of Minty meets The Presets via Front242 and Depeche Mode (and a faint whiff of Jonny Slut’s band Atomizer or is that just me?) San Francisco’s Ejector are not only rubbered up and bear-friendly (and probably NSFW in this video, but whose work doesnt like greased up wrestlers and techno bears…
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slightly LAME
If you’re using LAME MP3 encoder like I am, and upgrade to LAME 3.98.2 and hear whispery phasey effects, try either 3.97 or 3.98 as there seems something slightly odd with the codec, or at least working with RazorLAME. I’ve just upgraded and degraded to 3.97 final – hmm maybe best to leave alone 😉…
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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…