Tag: Remixers
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RC 370: When I Go Deaf
About to go off on my holiblobs, but did I tell you about the time I went deaf? Hear me wax lyrical about how I went half deaf for nearly two weeks, hence the delay in a new podcast as I couldn’t hear properly and realised the hard way how stereo hearing is essential for…
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Orbital – Smiley / 30 Something
30 something years on and Orbital have a new best-of compilation celebrating their ’30 Something’ anniversary – the real anniversary was in lockdown. New track Smiley sums up the feeling of acid house, 303’s,distant raves and the times – especially with the evil Maggie robot and the sheep police and nods to Burning Man and…
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Dan Mei & Marc Johnce & CJRMix Re-Retrospective
I think DMF – now more commonly known as Dan Mei & Marc Johnce – first came onto my radar with their compilation mashups around 2008 or 2009. The best being the long-lost Bootrospective – a Pet Shop Boys mashup album that I talked a lot about back in the day, one of my favourite…
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Pet Shop Boys vs Soft Cell – Purple Zone
No not a mashup – it’s only taken 4 decades but Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys collaborate with a track called Purple Zone. I’m guessing from the lyrics Marc Almond took more of a lead, but then again the backing sounds like classic Pet Shop Boys/Chris Lowe (keeping a ‘Lowe’ profile in this video,…
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Blue Monday 20 minute Soulwax mix
Broadcast a few days ago, here is Soulwax aka 2Many DJ’s take (again, they did quite a few mashups back in the day including remaking Erol Alkan’s infamous one for Kylie at the Brits) of New Order’s Blue Monday, including the history of the track. I guess they released it on Blue Monday itself? It…