Tag: Smiley
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RC 378: Not Alone
Discover the Not Alone podcast, filled with music from the 80s and new music from 80s artists. Paying tribute to Orbital’s new album and Depeche Mode’s latest single, join in as they salute Trugoy Dove of De La Soul.
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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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RC 308: Raving I’m Raving
It’s that time of year – back to school is in all the shops, depressing reminders you summer is close to it’s end. But as it’s 30 years since the Second Summer of Love (and incidentally it’s 30 years since I left school) sod the grey jumpers and shrunken ties, I’m raving Back to the…
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RIP Smiley Culture
Sad to hear about the death during a police raid of Smiley Culture – ironically best known for his 1984 reggae/proto ragga hit ‘Police Officer’ with Saxon Soundsystem about the ‘sus’ stop and search laws – shame that unlike the funny end of the song this police intervention had a far sadder ending. 🙁 And…