Tag: reggae
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Dua Lipa’s Levitating ASS: aka how not to copy a song
Artikal Sound System · 03 Live Your Life Future Nostalgia is apparently copying a song from 2017….eh Dua Lipa? Sound familiar? Artikal Sound System’s ‘Live Your Life’ is identical to Levitating, and was released on an EP in 2017 – called funnily enough ‘Smoke and Mirrors’. As Luxxury points out in his video, the choruses…
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RC 359: Mariahversion Therapy – Happy Xmash & Omicronmash
Xmas is like buses, wait for one for ages then find they are all cancelled by Boris while he has secret Christmas parties in Number 10. Makes a new definition of ‘Secret Santa’, playing (Tory Truth) Twister and pass the parcel, eh? So unlike that we have two Xmas podcasts, and this is the Xmash…
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Kleptones – ER
Another Wednesday so that means another Kleptones album as part of the OV/ER/LO/AD quad-trilogy. This week it’s the turn of ER – starting with a startling current quote from cult 1981 British film Babylon – as sampled by Congo Natty and Bob Vylan (‘lady this IS my fucking country’) and then on Urban Clearway (the…
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RIP Lee Scratch Perry
It happened while I was away, we lost Lee Scratch Perry, dub reggae legend at 85. He will be honoured on the podcast, whenever the next one happens – but this excellent track posted by Scott Cairo – 1977’s futuristic Disco Devil reboot of Max Romeo’s Chase The Devil – sums up the genius of…
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RC 353: Uncover Me aka Lost In The Summer Wine
Lost to the Summer wind., uncovered by podcast archaelogists, on the last day of Summer (well practically everyone knows September is back to school/back to Winter not summer) here is a lost podcast recorded in early August before I decided to run away into the sunset and paint the coast. (the image is one I…