Tag: States of the United States
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Halloween II: 2 more scary albums
And hot off the press of the Lewis Wake Halloween mashup album Hallowake II, we have IWill Battle’s Bootlegs From The Black Lagoon and Bootie’s yearly Booootie 8, which feature two tracks from iWillBattle and Lewis Wake as featured on their respective albums! So a combined post is in order I think, there’s more crossovers…
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Know Your History Part 4: Bushwhacked
Thanks to Boris B a bit of important cutup/mashup history has been now added to the Bootleg Archive one of the first political mashup compilations, 2004’s Bushwhacked against Bush and the Iraq war. I recently added Twinkleboi who put this together to the Archive and asked him if he still had it – he said…
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Dur brain, Dr Syntax & Binbags are retraining
Dr Syntax has been a bit quiet over lockdown, so nice to see this tune drop – appropriately about the lockdown and it’s affect on the creative industries. Love Ben’s verses and the one by Binbags (the last rapper). Nice. You can find it on Bandcamp.
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RC 336: (Don’t Call It A) Lockdown 2: Election Boogaloo
“Riot shields, voodoo economicsIt’s just business, cattle prods and the I.M.FI trust I can rely on your vote” Uncertain times means an eclectic conscious podcast to reflect that, where we are surfing the second wave of lockdown and electional dysfunction with dub, reggae, metal, drum and bass, hip-hop, indie. kosmische, ambient neo-classical, punk and more…
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A Change Needs To Come
Not going to preface this with a warning, since these unfortunate people from Emmett Till to George Floyd didn’t get warnings. This has been happening for hundreds of years and now is not the time to look away. Sam Cook’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ means a lot to me, and I always read it…
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Up, up and away for this Disney pre-make
What if Pixar’s Up was made in the 1960s live action movie – the era of Love Bug and Mary Poppins? Love the editing in this, and makes me wonder if Carl Frederickson was indeed based on Spencer Tracy and whether ‘Russell’ was modelled on the old film here…the similarity is uncanny! Also if you…