Tag: scratch
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David Hall – Video Art & Kleptonite
I’m exploring video art at the moment, from 1970s to 1990s – here’s one famous piece from David Hall which was shown unannounced on Scottish TV in 1971. This interest has come in part from capturing the VHS recordings I made in the 1990s – my own but also from BBC2 and Channel 4 who…
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Automatic, push button, remote control…
Always wondered where M/A/R/R/S got that ‘Automatic, push button, remote control…’ chant from – turns out it was those proto-rappers and agitators Last Poets on a track called Mean Machine Chant/Mean Machine which is pretty futuristic sounding for 1970 – but it turns out that in 1984 one of the founding Poets worked with Grandmixer…
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DJ Food & DK – That is the sound of ground being broken
For years I wondered who made the excellent drum and bass mix of The Beat’s Mirror in the Bathroom that Pete Juxtaposeur played in SF and on Radio Clash several times – might have been told ages ago but never tagged it, nor credited the people….finally found out who – it’s DJ Food & DK,…