Tag: Sparklehorse
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The Secret Life of The Optigan
Following on from the previous post I looked up the source of the sample in the Paloma Faith track Upside Down and was surprised – it was from the Optigan. ‘That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…’ /OB1 The Optigan was a home organ, really a kid’s toy made by Mattel, a…
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Kodiak Moment 4: Best of Instamatic, Captain Obvious & tbc 2012 – 2020
Kodiak Moment 4: Best of Instamatic, Captain Obvious & tbc 2012 – 2020 by Instamatic And appropriately for the 4th of May, here’s the 4th volume of my best-of series ‘Kodiak Moment’ taking us up to the modern day – 2012-2020. Includes tracks from my last retirement which lasted a lot longer than this one,…
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Coming Out mix Part 1 – Coming Up
Is it asking too much, of my favorite friends,to take these songs for real.Is it asking too much, of my partner’s hands,to take these songs for real? It’s just over 20 years since coming out, so I thought given all the current 90’s nostalgia I’d (re)create a mix of music that I was listening to…
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You use up everything you got trying to give everybody what they want
Never knew Nina Simone covered ‘Where Does The Time Go?’, heard this through the haunting Nils Frahm’s Late Night Tales, at last a mix that does express that 3am dark night of the soul hinted- but also love the classic preamble: “We are recording tonight and because we are recording we are trying to do…
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Final Mashups #1 – Dark Dreams & Lost At The Beach
I decided to stop doing mashups back in August – probably for good this time, as in I took down all my old mashups and videos for my own mashups, but I felt sad for the tracks that almost made it, were nearly finished when I downed tools. There certainly won’t be any new mashups,…
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RC 250: Make Mine A 89-99 – 9th Year Anniversary Show
Hope you like the cover, it was quite hard to design badly, and break all the rules…must….not…correct! Yes Radio Clash is 9…number 9…number 9…years old as of last week, and I go Back to the 90’s (ALL the 9’s – 89-99!). A paean to covermount CDs and cassettes, and to Deep Heat, Thin Ice, Right…