Tag: The Beatles
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RC 292: Halloween Queen
Halloween puts the willies up me, with things going bump in the dark and all that woo. Here’s a dark yet upbeat selection for the Twerking Witching Hour: from monstrous mashups to spooky soundracks, evil electronica to ghoulish grime, Amy Ghost House, The Punkergeist and the zeitgeist horror of now*. Oh and the theme from…
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Bruce Haack and his sampling electronic suitcase
Long time listeners and readers of this blog would know my eternal love for Bruce Haack – the electronic genius who sadly still doesn’t get the love he deserves. I’ve seen other clips from his stints on US TV – in fact I think I have posted them with his ‘touch synthesizer’ including Mr Rogers…
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An Adventure To Pepperland Through Rhyme & Space
The Beatles back catalogue is a gift that keeps giving, even when you’re the most jaded, some outtake, some stem, remix, or even mashup drags you back in. I was so OVER Beatles mashups especially with hiphop til I heard this. It starts off like every mashup album you’ve heard before (especially Danger Mouse’s Grey…
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RIP George Martin
You can take yer Beatles, I’ll always remember George Martin (and Maddalena Fagandini) as Ray Cathode! Telstar (the satellite not the Joe Meek song or the label) meets Take Five in Waltz in Time. Also the producer of Ludo by Ivor Cutler Trio, and he wasn’t half bad with his own compositions too: