Tag: Super Furry Animals
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We Will Not Live In Fear mix (Pride 2016)
Nearly exactly a week ago a man stepped into a LGBTQ Latinx club in Orlando and shot over a hundred people, killing 49. I usually make personal mixes, but this is specifically as a message for my friends and ‘family’ who are living scared, worried about what happening in the US, UK, and the political…
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RIP Howard Marks
Partly surprised he lasted this long given his lifestyle, but RIP Howard Marks! Obviously best known for his drug dealing then writing, and also inspiration and later work with Super Furry Animals who featured him on several of their covers, who saw him as a Welsh folk hero.
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DJ Charles IV’s Rainy Night Selection
This is partly an excuse to post 8 tracks I’m digging at the moment, but seriously my iPod – Charles IV – has selected podcasts and mixes before now, and somehow has an uncanny knack sometimes to group tunes together on shuffle. I don’t have time at the moment to capture them into a mix,…
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5 Years of Angry
Went to see Super Furry Animals tonight, it was great, but before a very emotional ‘Fire In My Heart’ Gruff Rhys spoke about the current situation in the UK, with the Tories being re-elected. He said ‘Let’s get angry. 5 years of angry’ to cheers. They later did an appropriately angry ‘Man Don’t Give A…
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Tabula Rasa – new mix
Something I’ve been working on for a few weeks is a different kind of mix…I hate the words ‘downtempo’ or ‘chilled’ *shudder* but at some point I stripped all the uptempo tunes out of this mix, I wanted something deeper, something heavier, something that says ‘blank slate’ and new start – hence the name and…
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RC 263: England Streaming
Bertha, lovely Bertha the storm is here, war has a 100th birthday and gets more than a telegram from the Queen. Which is odd since the War to End All Wars is still living it up in the Ukrained and Gaza and there’s a strange light in the sky – I hope it’s aliens taking…