Tag: Soul music
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90’s Revival Is In Full Skippety Swing
At the pub on Tuesday getting some dinner I noticed that the internet radio stream, many of the house tracks sampling late 80’s to early 00’s pop, big beat, house and r’n’b, but mostly around the sweet spot of the mid-late 90’s. From FLO and Sk*ill*x bringing back Missy Ellott for that bomp-a-bomp bomp, to…
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Mashup Puns – Marvin Gayle, Fleet (Wood Mac) Foxes, Manfred 2 Mann, Philip Glass Animals
The Crumplbangers Discord challenge from last but one weeks was Mashup Puns inspired by this Letterkenny sketch. Mine were Marvin Gayle, Fleet (Wood Mac) Foxes, Manfred 2 Mann, Philip Glass Animals! So I was inspired to do the exact opposite of how I work – I usually combine tunes that work THEN name them, I…
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RC 349: England’s Screaming
It’s coming home, coming home, Delta’s coming home…. As England are in the Euro final (something that was days away from when I recorded this last Saturday), I break my rule about always releasing a podcast at 9am on a weekday and release it on a Saturday as I think this needs to be out…
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Mashstero – Lil Nas X Montero Mashes
Two weeks ago (it feels a lot longer!) Adriana from Bootie called out the laziness of non-genre clashed mashups of Lil Nas X’s Montero (Call Me By Your Name) in a tweet. This caused a storm, not just some drama but also a flurry of Montero mashups that weren’t pop vs pop. Myself I did…
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RC 343: Punks In The Jungle / Pigs in the Park
Following on from the events of Saturday before last in Clapham Common with the Metropolitan Police attack on the Sarah Everard vigil (a police officer has been charged with her killing, so a very bad move), I hoist the podcast as a sign in support of 97% and join in the chant of We Will…
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Sunshine Teardrop
Not usually down with tribute mashups (they can seem a bit like ambulance chasing) but this is so good and obviously genuine from DJ Schmolli I will make an exception. Massive Attack’s Teardrop vs Bill Withers ‘Aint No Sunshine’ and even an original Schmolli guitar solo – that makes it something else, gives it some…