Tag: Q-Tip (musician)
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RC 379: Lost Horizon
Get ready to explore new musical horizons in this podcast. From cosmic electronica to ambient dubby meditation, we dive into the latest tracks from Hallmighty, Karin Dreijer, William Orbit, and more. Don’t miss out on the indie occult and psychological britpop, angry Indian metal, and even disco Exorcist proto-mashups. Join us on this journey with…
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New Hallmighty – Try and Give Yourself
Hallmighty is back with a new album, Disco 6, released at the end of January. This latest offering, Try & Give Your Self, is a more introspective album with deeper messages and more layering. The album features some fantastic mashup pop gems that will have you hooked.
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Bootie’s Fleetwood Mashed
Finally Adriana has finished the long-awaited Fleetwood Mac mashup compilation, Fleetwood Mashed. I know this has been decades in the making – we discussed this back in 2009 when I was making my own Fleetwood Mac mashup album, which had a rather limited scope compared to her 38 track Tusk-level behemoth! In fact glad to…
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Pause Button Beats
“Public Enemy No. 1” was a pause tape beat” This is an amazing article via Ian Fondue of the Lloydbrary about early hiphop DJs using cassette tapes in their productions – yes a lot of us started creating ‘pause button edits’ and it’s amazing that some of the classics were created this way. I knew…
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RIP Phife Dawg
Sad to hear Phife Dawg from Tribe Called Quest has died. Love this tribute to J-Dilla he made, which seems oddly appropriate now. I have a complex relationship with Tribe – a massive fan back in the day, until I heard a homophobic track from them which they then turned into a moan about the…
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Final Mashups – DJNoNo – Ballroom album
Planned 10 years ago, the Ballroom EP (now album) has been a long time coming…two of the tracks were released (here in a remastered or better quality form) but the rest laid in the Unfinished folder. Mixing ballroom music – big band, jazz, bossa nova, exotica, swing, easy listening and classical pops – with hip…