Tag: Ransome-Kuti family
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RC 324: New Normal / Coronacoaster
Everyone’s talking at me…about The New Normal, which apparently is like New Coca Corona, i.e like the old one but with all the nice things taken out. Apparently we are in a new future, one that seems to be cribbing the lyrics to East 17 songs…Stay now…stay now…stay now…and government mixed message memes with laughable…
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In her eyes, in her eyes
Really being drawn to a lot of 60’s Nuggets and Psychedelic rock recently (as well as proto-punk) – was checking out the 100 Records That Set Fire To The World (Not – as the The Wire article pointed out – these are their ‘great lost classics’) after frenchbloke linked to a follow-up on Twitter. Working…
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Quickie mashup #1: Fela Down The Chippy (Swears He’s Hot) – Fela Kuti vs Hot Chip
First quickie mash as part of Jez CMP’s Weekend Challenge (to create a bootleg in a weekend) and as I don’t release things enough (sit on them for months > years) I thought like the CO bootleg to just get this out there to the usual deafening silence 😛 The instrumental given was Hot Chip’s…
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Sounds Familiar?
From Nigeria 1966: to London via Malawi, 2009: Victor Uwaifo and The Very Best aka Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya (someone I’ve played on Radio Clash WAY back) will definitely be accompanying me on my iPod to Ethiopia and South Africa – I’m going on the 1st of November flying into Addis Abbaba, then going to…
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Spotify DJ
Unusually for a new(ish) shiny Web 2.0 music application, Spotify is only currently freely available in the UK – but you can get it outside of the UK with an invite (more in a sec)…but it’s basically a legal iTunes-type application you can listen to music for free (with ads)…and it has millions of tracks.…