Tag: Star Wars
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Everything is a Remix gets a remix!
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…no actually this blog, we featured Kirby Ferguson’s Everything Is A Remix series. And now, for 2021 he’s back with a totally new upgraded remix! Love the parts about Kanye and Led Zep (and I sort of knew that Sister Nancy’s Bam Bam used a riddim,…
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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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RC 331: Mashed Spaghetti aka Morecone!
With the sad death last month of Il Maestro Ennio Morricone I felt I needed to mark his passing better than just a song. From spaghetti western soundtracks, pop, remixes, mashups and even on the dance floor his music has influenced generations from cinema goers and musicians. So just to prove his breadth of inspiration…
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How Star Wars Was Saved
Everyone knows how George Lucas goes back and tinkers with Star Wars, ad infinitum (I remember watching the pre-CGI versions just before he re-released them the first time, those versions are almost impossible to find officially now). What they don’t know is that Star Wars almost flopped because of the story and structure, a lot…
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Bad Lip Reading Strikes Back
Missed this, obviously to tie in with the excellent Star Wars: A New Hope Force Awakens (What Prequels?), but the musical Yoda rapping / Snoop Dogg bit is doing the rounds on Facebook. At first I thought it was joking with the Jack Black bit, but that IS Jack Black! Wow! It’s like if Star…
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Nostalgia Profiteering
So much debate about the new Ghostbusters trailer – to me it looks disappointing but apparently it’s sexist and misognyistic to say that or something? I have no problem with the sex of the cast, in fact I WANTED it to succeed but also dread the fact that if it fails it will probably doom…