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Happy 2024, and is it a Happy New Year? Not for me so far...a busted knee, burn out, and was out hiking in the Big Freeze - thankfully not Storm Isha! So a belated New Year episode of Radio Clash including some tracks I loved from 2023, a surprising amount of mashups, new wave electro and indie rock, space disco and cosmic funk, tech house and drum and bass, Rock Dolly, downtempo and strangely reflective. Fire and ice, snow and sun, hot and cold, like my 2024 is running so far. Big Freezer Burns Day (2:32, 210MB) Listen to RC 392: The Burn Out & The Big Freeze byRadio Clash on hearthis.at The Staves - All Now Pimpdaddysupreme - Bubble Bottom Girls (Queen vs. Major Lazer Feat. Tyga) (Dirty) Jolo - Violation Mark Knight, Rene Amesz, Green Velvet - Live Stream (Original Mix) Visitor - Our Lips Are Sealed Cherry Laine - Mamy Blue Billy Nomates - spite AC Soul Symphony - The Philly Avengers Logan Lynn - Here's to Us Fred V, & Hamzaa - Freefall Ben Double M - Sledgehammer in the Air Tonight Say She She - Questions Antony Szmierek - How Did You Get Here? Chase & Status Feat. Ethan Holt - Hold Your Ground ToToM - Heart of Jolene (Blondie vs Dolly Parton) v2 Billy Nomates - apathy is wild Eternal Khaos - Gimme Some Vampires (John Lennon vs Olivia Rodrigo) Cherry Glazerr - Shattered tbc aka Instamatic - High And Dry Anti-Hero (Taylor Swift vs Radiohead) Low - DJ Hot Chocolate - Put Your Love in Me tbc aka Instamatic - Pagan Weeknd (Die For Your Poetry) (The Weeknd vs Björk) Giac - I’m Not The Way You Are (Billy Joel Vs 10cc) Fennesz - Vacuum Dolly Parton - Purple Rain Willie Nelson - Don't Give Up (featuring Sinead O'Connor) pomDeter - Grandad Traitor (Clive Dunn vs Olivia Rodrigo) Mighty Mike - What I imagine (Billie Elish vs John Lennon) tbc aka Instamatic - Let It Be What I Was Made For (Billie Eilish vs The Beatles) Freddie Mercury (AI) - Don't Let The Sun Go Down on Me Transcript WEBVTT 00:00:20.520 --> 00:00:28.040Hello welcome to 2 Radio Clash, this is 392, and it's Burnout and the Big Freeze. 00:04:33.760 --> 00:04:43.120Hello and welcome to Radio Clash, this is 392, and it's The Burnout and The Big Freeze, 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.240and that was The Staves with All Now, which was released a couple of months ago, and I 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:54.280heard a lot on 6 Music, and I tend not to repeat what's on 6 Music, but I heard again 00:04:54.280 --> 00:04:58.420recently when I was putting together this podcast and I was like, that really sums up 00:04:58.420 --> 00:05:03.280what my January has been like, the lyrics about "Be the brand empowerment I'm supposed 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:04.280to be. 00:05:04.280 --> 00:05:05.280I'm supposed to be. 00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:09.440Bitterness is fine only if nobody can see. 00:05:09.440 --> 00:05:11.160Isn't it exciting?" 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:12.160Yeah. 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:14.120I love the sarcasm in that. 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.240Suddenly check out the video as well. 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.760Everything is a happy song about, you know, being in the moment. 00:05:20.760 --> 00:05:21.760Yeah. 00:05:21.760 --> 00:05:27.840Check out the video, and yeah, you're not correct at all, and it mentions the new year, so it's 00:05:27.840 --> 00:05:31.720got the whole sort of, "You can go wild, dear, but happy new year. 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:32.720Have a happy new year." 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:36.520And that's how I feel about 2024 so far. 00:05:36.520 --> 00:05:42.600I've already screwed up my knee, lost my wireless microphone, and gained it, gone on a 45-mile 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:46.920hike, which was supposed to be a 100-mile hike, and then had to bail because of the knee 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:51.240and the microphone, and my channel is tanked. 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:55.480People have stopped subscribing to my channels, my YouTube channel, my hard-up hiker channel. 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.680There's just been a bit of burnout on that, so not only have I been camping in the big 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.760freeze, I've also had the classic content burnout. 00:06:03.760 --> 00:06:06.640Everything's supposed to be happy, happy, joy, joy. 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:09.040Everything's supposed to be like, "Yeah, it's fine". 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:10.600People are slagging me off in the comments. 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:11.600It's fine. 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:12.840Everything is going to shit. 00:06:12.840 --> 00:06:14.960Let's just play while the Titanic sinks. 00:06:14.960 --> 00:06:18.040And that seems to be the same in UK politics. 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:22.800We've just had Blue Monday, and I think a lot of people are struggling, so this is a new 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:29.240year's podcast with probably a bit of an existential twist, but not so existential, though it doesn't 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:34.840mention being old and tired and in the bones is Pimp Daddy Supreme's Bubble Bottom Girls, 00:06:34.840 --> 00:06:40.600Queen and Major Laser Featuring Tyga, and I was Tyga, Tyga, with a Y, not that 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:41.600Tiga. 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:42.600There's two tigers. 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.360There's Tiga with an I, and there's Tyga with a Y, different person. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:50.160And this is from 2013, and I missed it, but it was played recently, and I was like, "Oh, 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:51.440that's very good". 00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:52.440So anyway. 00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:06.680That was Billy No Mates, with Spite, such an anthem of mine, for a variety of reasons, 00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:13.140probably because mostly I'm a spite-powered machine, revenge, is it not only a dish served 00:31:13.140 --> 00:31:18.980cold, but also success is best rend, although the success thing isn't going so successful 00:31:18.980 --> 00:31:25.560at the moment, so anyway, that's it's downside, and yes, the 6 Music dads that got upset 00:31:25.560 --> 00:31:29.180with her Glastonbury set can fuck right off. 00:31:29.180 --> 00:31:35.420Brilliant album, 2023's Cacti, very kind of downbeat, I hope she hasn't left the music 00:31:35.420 --> 00:31:36.420industry. 00:31:36.420 --> 00:31:42.800Tori Maes, I think, I know it's Tori, I can't remember her last name, is Maes, I think. 00:31:42.800 --> 00:31:49.120But yeah, I mean really, I've seen Self Esteem do something pretty similar with a backing, 00:31:49.120 --> 00:31:55.540you know, but of course, because she's Milf totty, no, she's a proper artist. 00:31:55.540 --> 00:31:59.880No one says anything, even though she's in total major label whore, so, you know, seriously, 00:31:59.880 --> 00:32:04.600in 2024, I'd give no fucks, I'm not going to censor myself, but you know, I think Self Esteem 00:32:04.600 --> 00:32:07.800is seriously overrated massively. 00:32:07.800 --> 00:32:12.960Very funny when interviewed, it's a bit like Noel Gallagher, music way, way, way over it. 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:19.640And then before that, we had Cherry Laine from 1979, that's Mamy Blue, and that's during 00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:25.400that interesting period where sort of Caribbean, West Indian disco became a thing, we're kind 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:30.740of Boney M, really, do check out Cherry Laine's work, very kind of space disco, yeah, I mean 00:32:30.740 --> 00:32:36.900Boney M was quite space disco, cosmic disco, hence, I always call it night flight to Uranus, 00:32:36.900 --> 00:32:40.500but it's night flight to Venus, but yeah, it's an n-joke. 00:32:40.500 --> 00:32:47.260And then before that, we had Visitor with our lips sealed 12-inch mix from 2003, and 00:32:47.260 --> 00:32:55.220that is Jon of the Pleased Wimmin, Jon Pleased Wimmin, under an alias, almost made it into 00:32:55.220 --> 00:32:59.980Terry Hall related episodes, but Electro-ish, Electro-Clash-ish, I don't know what you would 00:32:59.980 --> 00:33:07.900call it, cover of Our Lips Are Sealed originally by, well, the Go-Go's, and then covered by 00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:13.960Funboy 3 with the Go-Go's, also Terry Hall did a solo version with Nouvelle Vague, I don't 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:17.860think The Specials ever did it, but yeah, throughout the years it's ended up coming back in different 00:33:17.860 --> 00:33:18.860versions. 00:33:18.860 --> 00:33:24.340Then before that, we had Live Stream Original Mix by Mark Knight, I went through Mark Knight 00:33:24.340 --> 00:33:29.780deep dive, I don't know if it was in Fondue, or someone posted up a Mark Knight track and 00:33:29.780 --> 00:33:35.820went through Mark Knight's back catalogue, Rene Amesz and Green Velvet on the vocals 00:33:35.820 --> 00:33:36.820from 2017. 00:33:36.820 --> 00:33:41.860It's weird because that's 2017, it sounds like something should be in 2020, talking about 00:33:41.860 --> 00:33:47.460everything's moving to Livestream, you know, people used to look at Caged Animals, which 00:33:47.460 --> 00:33:53.060is a bit, yeah, but you know that everything seems to have moved online now and live spaces 00:33:53.060 --> 00:33:54.060are dying. 00:33:54.060 --> 00:33:59.620I think Prysm in Kingston is under threat because of the company that owns it or entry 00:33:59.620 --> 00:34:06.180management and Prysm being an ex-cinema or, it was a bingo hall or a cinema music hall 00:34:06.180 --> 00:34:12.620that became a cinema and then bingo, but around the corner is The Regal, which has been emptied 00:34:12.620 --> 00:34:16.780for nearly 20 years and all the frontage has been, all the sort of the scaffold has been 00:34:16.780 --> 00:34:21.700taken down recently and it's in a real mess and that was a bingo hall, which then was going 00:34:21.700 --> 00:34:25.900to be a nightclub and it's just been sitting empty for nearly 20 years. 00:34:25.900 --> 00:34:31.260Depressing, of course, the Hebron was lost in Kingston, so yeah, it's kind of like the 00:34:31.260 --> 00:34:36.420hollowing out of nightlife and it seems to have all gone into online and Twitch and everything 00:34:36.420 --> 00:34:41.820and although, you know, there is some good, good things from that, but it's, I'm disturbed 00:34:41.820 --> 00:34:47.100by that, I have to say, and the ninth thing is when Banquet boasts about that, they 00:34:47.100 --> 00:34:52.580said, Oh, Prince Fatty, I think, I think it was anquet's sort of statement was like, 00:34:52.580 --> 00:34:57.740use it or lose it and it's like gay spaces and queer spaces. I can't afford to. This 00:34:57.740 --> 00:35:01.220is the problem. There's a whole bunch of people who are priced out of those spaces 00:35:01.220 --> 00:35:05.580and I think that's part of the problem really, you know, there's a whole bunch of us who'd 00:35:05.580 --> 00:35:14.140love to support those spaces, but when you've got like tickets, you know, 10, 20, 30, 50, 00:35:14.140 --> 00:35:20.260you know, for major artists now, was it 100 quids up to stupid, you know, much higher 00:35:20.260 --> 00:35:24.740than that because of online touts and, you know, Taylor Swift and all that, you know, 00:35:24.740 --> 00:35:29.580it's just this moan about, Oh, well, you know, people should support it. There used to be 00:35:29.580 --> 00:35:36.740a thing and my favourite club still does this. There used to be a thing called UB40 or Unwaged 00:35:36.740 --> 00:35:43.140kind of benefits tickets. I still remember those and now it's like gone, you know, Ducky 00:35:43.140 --> 00:35:47.780still does this. Most of the time, most of the things don't do it at all. It's like, 00:35:47.780 --> 00:35:51.820well, you know, you pay for a price of fuck off. It means there's a whole bunch of society 00:35:51.820 --> 00:35:56.220that can't afford to go to these spaces and it means, you know, the artists on stage are 00:35:56.220 --> 00:36:03.180quite often white, middle class, upper class, darlings, Tarquins and Emilies, who could go 00:36:03.180 --> 00:36:07.300to stage school, who could afford to spend five years, 10 years working on a band or 00:36:07.300 --> 00:36:11.820whatever, playing to people who are similar like them. And it just means that there's 00:36:11.820 --> 00:36:15.780no working class in the creative spaces. And then people moan about diversity. And it's 00:36:15.780 --> 00:36:23.860like, well, what did you expect? Anyway, then before that, we had Jo-Lo with Violation. 00:36:23.860 --> 00:36:29.820That's quite a surprise. I found that I also went through a deep dive of high energy megatone 00:36:29.820 --> 00:36:36.340stuff. That's from 1983. Jo-Lo were a backing group, Jo-Carrol and Lauren Carter, who backed 00:36:36.340 --> 00:36:43.740a lot of the Megatone releases. Megatone being where Sylvester was on. And sometimes with 00:36:43.740 --> 00:36:46.900Sylvester actually, I think I've heard at least one where Sylvester's in there in the 00:36:46.900 --> 00:36:52.180mix. So quite often you'd hear him in backing things as well, but they were the in-house 00:36:52.180 --> 00:36:57.140female, the backing vocalist, and they had a sort of a brief career doing singles of 00:36:57.140 --> 00:37:02.860their own. And they wrote that. And I think it's brilliant, all my like new wave meets 00:37:02.860 --> 00:37:07.740high energy. It's kind of got that as a rock. It's a weird time where like post disco, it's 00:37:07.740 --> 00:37:12.260like that rock disco, but then you've got high energy as well. So it's got that new wave 00:37:12.260 --> 00:37:20.460feel with the lyrics. But yeah, very little dark lyrics for a Megatone high energy release. 00:37:20.460 --> 00:37:26.220And it sounds more like, yeah, new wave meets high energy. I love it. And then at the start 00:37:26.220 --> 00:37:30.940of that section, we had Pimp Daddy Supreme with Bubble Bottom Girls, Queen versus Major Lazer 00:37:30.940 --> 00:37:36.820between Tyga and a little bit of Baby Got Back in there. And I really wish there was, 00:37:36.820 --> 00:37:40.100I was listening to that and thinking, yes, I do like Big Bottoms and they cannot lie. 00:37:40.100 --> 00:37:46.580But yeah, I wish there was like a male version, a male version of Big Bottom Boys. I'm sure 00:37:46.580 --> 00:37:51.220they probably is somewhere. I'm sure someone has done that. It's the same with the Mamie 00:37:51.220 --> 00:37:55.580Blue. I wish there was a Daddy Blue on. I wish there was some more gender switch on. 00:37:55.580 --> 00:38:01.460That would work very well and be probably more appropriate. So I've been checking out 00:38:01.460 --> 00:38:07.740the AC Soul Symphony album called Metamorphosis, which is another 2023 release. There's a 00:38:07.740 --> 00:38:12.940few things in here which are kind of, I didn't want to say, oh, here is a review of the year 00:38:12.940 --> 00:38:18.340because I want to play all kinds of stuff really, the stuff I've been digging. But yeah, 00:38:18.340 --> 00:38:24.660along with the Billy Nomates album and AC Soul Symphony is Dave Lee, formerly Joey 00:38:24.660 --> 00:38:30.180N, the Italian for black. And I want, yeah, we changed to Dave Lee because of Black Lives 00:38:30.180 --> 00:38:34.580Matter. And quite early, so I think I mentioned on the podcast, you know, would call him that 00:38:34.580 --> 00:38:41.420I was like, it's a white bloke, come yourself Joey N. And it's just a bit like, yes, I'm 00:38:41.420 --> 00:38:47.980glad he's just Dave Lee. And AC Soul Symphony is his pet project of, I think he got like 00:38:47.980 --> 00:38:55.140a small orchestra and recreating the joys of disco, but with a modern twist. The album, 00:38:55.140 --> 00:39:01.740it doesn't always work, but I like the fact that he's done a Philadelphia style big, big 00:39:01.740 --> 00:39:07.300disco epic version of the New Avengers theme. And if you don't know about New Avengers, 00:39:07.300 --> 00:39:12.700that was, well, that was the original Avengers, which is John Steed. No, not that Avengers, 00:39:12.700 --> 00:39:19.100not the Marvel ones, John Steed and Emma Peel and others. The New Avengers was the 70s version 00:39:19.100 --> 00:39:26.820with Purdy, Joanna Lumley, and the coffee guy, Gareth I've forgotten his last name and a few 00:39:26.820 --> 00:39:32.020others. The theme of it was a sort of a funk disco classic. So this is the Philly Avengers 00:39:32.020 --> 00:39:36.540by the AC Soul Symphony. 01:21:34.480 --> 01:21:41.120That was Cherry Glazerr with Shattered from the album I Don't Want You Anymore, 01:21:41.120 --> 01:21:47.520and I'm just looking at what that was about, because I must say the album doesn't hit as 01:21:47.520 --> 01:21:54.960much as the previous album for me, but the songs are growing on me. It's a bit like Cacti, 01:21:54.960 --> 01:22:00.960Billy No Mates. Initially, I was like, "Eh?" Apart from Deathwish, I love them a lot, 01:22:02.240 --> 01:22:06.480and as I'm listening more, I'm like, "Actually, no, I get this vibe. I understand this vibe." 01:22:06.480 --> 01:22:12.080It's like I wasn't ready for that vibe in 2023, and 2024 was hit, and it's like, "Yep, 01:22:12.080 --> 01:22:19.680this is definitely the vibe," and it's about family drama and family bonds, so no wonder I like that. 01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:24.720And then before that, we had a match from 2024. It's so weird seeing 2024 on dates on things now, 01:22:24.720 --> 01:22:31.920I was like, "Oh, it's 2024." And that's Eternal Khaos, Adam B., with Gimme Some Vampires, 01:22:31.920 --> 01:22:38.560John Lennon versus Olivia Rodrigo. I don't know what version of that, whether they're Remix Step, 01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:43.360or whether there's a version, because I have done a mash-up with Vampires by Olivia Rodrigo, 01:22:43.360 --> 01:22:49.680which is basically all by myself. I don't remember there being a sort of a rocky, 01:22:49.680 --> 01:22:55.440up-tempo-y bit, but I have a false memory, but I don't know if there's a remix. Yeah. 01:22:55.440 --> 01:23:00.160I was listening to the John Grant first time. He did Reason, which is brilliant, by the way. 01:23:00.160 --> 01:23:05.040The first time is a six-music series about the first time you came across music and musical 01:23:05.040 --> 01:23:11.360Milestones, and he's got a song where he says, "I'm actually quite angry." You might not think so. 01:23:11.360 --> 01:23:16.400And yeah, I am very angry with what's going on at the moment in the world, 01:23:16.400 --> 01:23:22.480and what's going on generally. And that might come out with that selection of some of the songs in 01:23:22.480 --> 01:23:29.200this podcast, because does that give me some truth, which will be nice from politicians and various 01:23:29.200 --> 01:23:35.040people, leaders generally, everyone. And then we've got Billy No Mates with Apathy's Wild, 01:23:35.040 --> 01:23:39.840which has the wonderful lyric, "The depths of everything real have shallowed." The death of 01:23:39.840 --> 01:23:44.720everything real has happened. Where do you sit in the new world now? And that kind of just sums 01:23:44.720 --> 01:23:51.760up. We're going to post COVID, post Brexit, post everything, feeling that there is at the moment. 01:23:51.760 --> 01:23:57.920And it doesn't feel like 2024 is… I was hoping for something better, but it looks like it's just 01:23:57.920 --> 01:24:04.080more of the same shit, really. Then before that, we had ToTom. I'm very glad he released his mashup 01:24:04.080 --> 01:24:12.320finally. This is Heart of Jolene, Blondie versus Dolly Parton, version two. And that's from his 01:24:12.320 --> 01:24:19.840release, mashups 2023. So we have a bit of a round of 23 in that section. Before that, although it's 01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:25.360from 2022, I didn't really hear until 2023. That's Chase and Status featuring Ethan Holt with Hold 01:24:25.360 --> 01:24:30.880Your Ground. That is such an anthem for me at the moment from 2022 is what came before. I did listen 01:24:30.880 --> 01:24:37.360to their mixtape. Dunproofin mentioned it. And a lot of Jungle stylings, but it didn't hit as much 01:24:37.360 --> 01:24:42.560as that song for me. That was the one where I was like, "Yeah, that says it. That says what I need to 01:24:42.560 --> 01:24:48.880hear. That resonates with me." I feel that the album's a little bit more better than the mixtape, 01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:56.800but anyway. And then before that, someone who was my 2023 and 2022, I was saying, but certainly 01:24:56.800 --> 01:25:04.3202023 loved pretty much everything he released as Anthony Smirak with How Do You Get Here? 01:25:04.320 --> 01:25:11.280Such a funky disco. It feels disco that number. Disco rap. I don't know. Disco rap is the thing. 01:25:11.280 --> 01:25:17.440And then before that, we had a band, again, all over 2023 and also my 2022, I think, really. But 01:25:17.440 --> 01:25:22.080a lot of their music seemed to get proper releases because the album, like Silver, 01:25:22.080 --> 01:25:27.280was released at the end of 2022. But no one could get it. It was impossible to get. It was 01:25:27.280 --> 01:25:33.680re-released. That says you see with questions. And I so love that they're getting the love they 01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:39.200deserve from various places, 6 Music, all over the shop. They're getting love and they should do. 01:25:39.200 --> 01:25:44.640And then before that, we had Ben Double M, the much-missed Austrian 01:25:44.640 --> 01:25:49.360mashup producer. That's Sledgehammer In The Air Tonight I heard that via, I think, 01:25:49.360 --> 01:25:54.160Pimp Daddy Supreme. I'm not sure when it came out because that's a naughty YouTube rip because I 01:25:54.160 --> 01:26:00.560can't find that anywhere. So that's 2013, I think. That might be wrong. It's not even in the Bootleg 01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:06.400rchive. There are quite a lot of Ben Double M tracks I don't have. Then before that, we had 01:26:06.400 --> 01:26:12.480Fred V and Hamzaa, another one song that's just kind of haunted my iPod and has been like CHOON. 01:26:12.480 --> 01:26:18.320That's Freefall from 2023's 500. Hospital did a release called 500. 01:26:18.320 --> 01:26:26.240And so I can't remember if, I think that is from 2023, but it's part of that sort of compilation. 01:26:27.920 --> 01:26:33.360Well, we're checking out that, by the way, the 500 from Hospital Records. It's always great, 01:26:33.360 --> 01:26:37.920check out anything, any compilation from Hospital Records if you like Drum and Bass. 01:26:37.920 --> 01:26:44.160And if you don't like Drum and Bass, why are you here? Then before that, we had Logan Lynn 01:26:44.160 --> 01:26:50.640with Here's to Us, and again, another anthem of mine. It feels very New Year's-y. It feels 01:26:50.640 --> 01:26:57.680like a New Year's track. That's from New Money from 2022. And then I mentioned at Star Wars, 01:26:57.680 --> 01:27:03.120actually, we had AC Soul Symphony with the Philly Avengers from 2023's Metamorphosis. 01:27:03.120 --> 01:27:08.160And that was probably my introduction, the New Avengers, that sort of disco funk thing, 01:27:08.160 --> 01:27:13.120I think. It was probably the first time I heard funk was probably that, the New Avengers soundtrack, 01:27:13.120 --> 01:27:19.120you know, and I loved it greatly. So I'm glad he did that. So we're going to play a track of mine, 01:27:19.120 --> 01:27:26.880because some of my tracks of 2022 and 2023 never really got much love, even on here. 01:27:26.880 --> 01:27:32.720And weirdly, I never played them, partly because this came out and then someone else kind of beat 01:27:32.720 --> 01:27:39.600me to it. And so I just abandoned it. So there's a couple of 2022 TBC tracks that never really 01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:44.960had the love that they should really have deserved. And there's a new one at the end. 01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:51.600Yeah, I haven't replayed any of my mashups in this podcast. And I usually played two or three 01:27:51.600 --> 01:27:57.360of mine. In fact, if that ended up, they were all the damn tempo ones. Yay, some people say. 01:27:57.360 --> 01:28:04.480But I don't care, it's my podcast. So this is High and Dry Antihero, Taylor Swift versus Radiohead. 01:28:04.480 --> 01:28:09.120I'm very proud of the vocal production on this. No I'm sure audio geekery no-one gives a 01:28:09.120 --> 01:28:13.920fuck. But yeah, some of the echoes, I was listening to it going "Yes, you did a good job there", but 01:28:14.480 --> 01:28:18.320not that anyone cares. So anyway, this is TBC aka Instamatic. 02:16:36.080 --> 02:16:44.400And that was TBC aka Instamatic, with 'Let It Be What I Was Made For'. 02:16:44.400 --> 02:16:51.440I finally saw the Barbie movie, which provoked that mash-up. If you've seen the movie, the whole 02:16:51.440 --> 02:16:58.640Gloria speech and that, it's very moving. But also, I liked the song before I saw the movie, 02:16:58.640 --> 02:17:05.520because the lyrics… Well, they have a lot of personal reference. I don't know how to feel, 02:17:05.520 --> 02:17:10.480but I want to try. It's very much an expression of depression. I think I've got to be happy, 02:17:10.480 --> 02:17:15.920but something I'm not, something I can be, something I wait for, something I'm made for. 02:17:15.920 --> 02:17:20.640When I first heard that song, there's existential things in there, but also I had to make depression 02:17:20.640 --> 02:17:28.560and wanting to change, and wanting to be happy, which is a theme of 2034 so far. And then before 02:17:28.560 --> 02:17:33.680the mashup, they inspired it. Although, accidentally, I wasn't intending to create a version 02:17:33.680 --> 02:17:38.800of it. It just happened, and I had to say to myself, "Yeah, obviously, it's subconscious 02:17:38.800 --> 02:17:44.080inspiration", because I wanted to do something with the Billie Eilish vocals, and then I found 02:17:44.080 --> 02:17:48.800a Beatles track, rather than the Lennon track. So that was what I imagined Billie Eilish versus 02:17:48.800 --> 02:17:52.400John Lennon. I mean, there's only one mashup. I was trying to get that sort of interplay with 02:17:52.400 --> 02:17:57.680the vocals, which I think is in the mighty mic as well, that call and response of saying, 02:17:57.680 --> 02:18:03.120"Let it be, let it be." Whisper words of wisdom, yeah, whisper, Billie Eilish whisper words of 02:18:03.120 --> 02:18:07.200wisdom, "Let it be." It's okay. You're working it out. So it's going to almost measure myself. 02:18:07.200 --> 02:18:13.280Some of my mashups are like that. Then before that, we had Grandad Traitor. That was a very late 02:18:13.280 --> 02:18:20.000addition to this podcast, but I was listening to it today, and he won the Crumplbanger Discord 02:18:20.000 --> 02:18:28.000Challenge, and that's Clive Dunn versus Olivia Rodrigo by PomDeter, just 2023, right at the end. 02:18:28.000 --> 02:18:33.360I find the whole Grandad song was rather cloying, but it works very well with that backing. 02:18:33.360 --> 02:18:39.520I also never realised how much there's sort of talking about history, although it was only 50, 02:18:39.520 --> 02:18:46.800so I'm not sure if he could have remembered a time without cars, because he was only 51, 52, 02:18:46.800 --> 02:18:52.640and that other single was a hit. So I don't know, maybe, because it was I think it hit a couple 02:18:52.640 --> 02:18:58.240of times, but I think it was in the '70s, so maybe '20s. There was a hit with, there was a Grandma 02:18:58.240 --> 02:19:01.920track, which is a kind of version, I think they hit again in the '80s, I think, if I remember 02:19:01.920 --> 02:19:08.080correctly. Before that, we had Don't Give Up, featuring Sinead O'Connor, that's Willie Nelson. 02:19:08.080 --> 02:19:13.840And there's an interesting story about that track, because in 1993, just after she, quite rightly, 02:19:13.840 --> 02:19:21.040tore a picture of the Pope up on SNL and was right about what was going on, and she never got 02:19:21.040 --> 02:19:26.960apology for any of that. She was booed famously at a Bob Dylan concert, and I think, I'm not sure 02:19:26.960 --> 02:19:31.280if someone was conflating, because I'm not sure why she would have been covering that track with 02:19:31.280 --> 02:19:35.760Willie Nelson at the Bob Dylan concert, but apparently she did, and it was pulled from the 02:19:35.760 --> 02:19:41.760recording, maybe because of what happened. But the next day, Willie Nelson, being Willie Nelson, 02:19:41.760 --> 02:19:48.880asked her to record it with him for his album across the broadline. And that's such a Willie 02:19:48.880 --> 02:19:53.360Nelson thing to do, you know, he saw what was happening, wanted to give her a message of Don't 02:19:53.360 --> 02:19:58.880Give Up, you know, and I'm so sure that's probably what he was intending to send that message to her, 02:19:58.880 --> 02:20:04.640that, yeah, Don't Give Up, almost guaranteed that was him. He's a good human. And I'd say, 02:20:04.640 --> 02:20:09.040thank you to Naomi for posting that onto Facebook yesterday, I think it was. Yeah, 02:20:09.040 --> 02:20:14.560that's going in last minute. And then before that, from the new Rockstar album, we had Dolly 02:20:14.560 --> 02:20:18.800Parton with Purple Rain, a brilliant cover. There are a couple of really good songs on there. 02:20:18.800 --> 02:20:24.640I would say it's a bit overdone with the celebrity cameos, but I would kind of prefer 02:20:24.640 --> 02:20:31.520there was less of that, though Wrecking Ball is brilliant because Dolly is Miley's Godmother, 02:20:31.520 --> 02:20:35.920good feel on that one. But a lot of them, you know, thinking she does Every Breath You Take and 02:20:35.920 --> 02:20:39.920string turns up and you're like, I'd actually prefer this without Sting, actually. I'm not 02:20:39.920 --> 02:20:44.000sure how Prince would have felt about that cover, but I think it's a really good cover. 02:20:44.000 --> 02:20:49.440And of course, Stairway is on there and she did Stairway years ago. So it all of this like, oh, 02:20:49.440 --> 02:20:54.560I don't feel rock and roll enough to be in the rock and roll whole of fame, which is bollocks. 02:20:55.040 --> 02:20:58.000But there's a reason why she did the album, which is like, okay, I'll do a rock album, 02:20:58.000 --> 02:21:02.720which is a brilliant, brilliant thing, brilliant idea. And as I say, it doesn't all work, 02:21:02.720 --> 02:21:08.400but when it does, it's very good. It's, you know, it's Dolly. Dolly never does terrible things. 02:21:08.400 --> 02:21:16.080Dolly is always always quality. And then before that, we had Fennesz from 2008 Black Sea. That's 02:21:16.080 --> 02:21:22.720Vacuum. Black Sea and it's the one with Venice. And obviously everyone knows in last summer, 02:21:22.720 --> 02:21:27.280I went to a stage of checking out Fennesz's albums, Christine Fennesz , the Austrian 02:21:27.280 --> 02:21:31.680electroacoustic artist stage. The scribe is like a guitarist, but, you know, just glitchy 02:21:31.680 --> 02:21:38.320electronica. And then before that, we had Giac, where I'm not the way you are, 02:21:38.320 --> 02:21:43.440Billy Joel versus 10CC. There's a couple of matchups in this podcast, which I usually wouldn't 02:21:43.440 --> 02:21:49.600play because of technical issues. And that's one of them because not to sure about, I understand 02:21:49.600 --> 02:21:55.040why, but I think the instrumental is pitched a bit too low, but obviously to try and keep 02:21:55.040 --> 02:21:59.840the Billy Joel vocal at the normal pitch. I don't know, it kind of works. I kind of like the sort 02:21:59.840 --> 02:22:06.000of woozy nature of it, but it is slightly off-putting when you first hear that. A few other ones, 02:22:06.000 --> 02:22:10.000like I wanted to play a Happy New Year by ABBA mashup, but there's key issues. And I was like, 02:22:10.000 --> 02:22:16.480yeah, I can overlook some things. It feels very crumpl or whatever, but sometimes it's just, 02:22:16.480 --> 02:22:21.280I can't, I just can't. I'm surprised there aren't more about Happy New Year mashups. I mean, I did 02:22:21.280 --> 02:22:27.520one, there's that one, and there's not that many more. It's bizarre. It's a brilliant track, and it's 02:22:27.520 --> 02:22:32.480sums up how I feel about Happy New Year. It's depressing, but it's kind of like, 02:22:32.480 --> 02:22:36.880of course, that sort of like, that sort of end of the party feel, and that's how I feel, man. 02:22:36.880 --> 02:22:43.360And then before that, we had one of mine, which is TBC aka Instamatic Pagan Weeknd, Die for 02:22:43.360 --> 02:22:48.960Your Poetry, The Weekend versus Bjork. That's one of the ones I didn't play because it has a very, 02:22:48.960 --> 02:22:57.600very, very deep, dark personal, it's actually about a specific weekend. And I'm not going to go into 02:22:57.600 --> 02:23:02.320why. It's just, it was a crush on somebody who was never going to reciprocate. Yeah, those emotions 02:23:02.320 --> 02:23:10.560can be very strong sometimes. A lot of my TBC aka mashups are like that. When people go, 02:23:11.680 --> 02:23:16.560they're like, meh. And I'm like, but, you know, of course, people don't get the emotion behind it 02:23:16.560 --> 02:23:23.840because they weren't there. So, and then before that, we had Hot Chocolate with Put You Love In Me, 02:23:23.840 --> 02:23:29.040which I used in the Psychodelidisco mix, but, you know, I've never actually played on a 02:23:29.040 --> 02:23:35.040podcast. So your mixes don't disqualify. It's if it's been on a previous podcast. And that's from 02:23:35.040 --> 02:23:41.680 I think that was a single. And it just sounds so bizarre. In a wonderful way, like 02:23:41.680 --> 02:23:48.800Arabic Cosmic Disco, but there's no real beat to it. There is, on Discog, someone said about 02:23:48.800 --> 02:23:54.640no kick drum. There is a kick drum, it's just well buried. And it's not a 4/4 either. It's very dubby 02:23:54.640 --> 02:24:01.840feel to it. It's more dub than disco or funk in a lot of ways. Hot Chocolate were very experimental. 02:24:01.840 --> 02:24:09.920This tends to get forgotten. Then before that, we had Low with DJ from 2015 ones and sixes. 02:24:09.920 --> 02:24:16.160We really miss Low, which you know more because of the death of Mimi Parker. I love that lyric. 02:24:16.160 --> 02:24:21.120You know, "you got to shake that. I'm not your DJ". You know, "I'm not a DJ. You could shake that". 02:24:21.120 --> 02:24:27.200They're a bit like Bowie's "I'm a DJ. I am what I play". I'm the foundational lyrics for me, 02:24:27.200 --> 02:24:32.080especially when people think that I'm some kind of jukebox, which is like, yeah. And at the start of that 02:24:32.080 --> 02:24:38.240section, we had TBC aka Instamatic with High And Dry Anti-Hero, Taylor Swift versus Radiohead. 02:24:38.240 --> 02:24:44.000So, we reached the end of the podcast. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm not sure enjoyment is the 02:24:44.000 --> 02:24:51.680right word. I hope you're all well. As I say, my toy is very forcefully a bit weird. 02:24:51.680 --> 02:24:59.840Lots been happening, but lots not really getting anywhere. Yeah. And as I said, I rent my knee. 02:24:59.840 --> 02:25:06.480So, I was hoping to do more hiking and more camping, even in the cold weather, just to kind of get 02:25:06.480 --> 02:25:13.200out of the house. And I can't do that, man, because my knees screwed. And after nearly a week, it's 02:25:13.200 --> 02:25:18.960still that way. So, I might have to go to the doctor. It doesn't get away. I've been doing 02:25:18.960 --> 02:25:24.800gentle exercises and gentle walks, and it's still hurt a lot. So, I hope all your 2024s are a 02:25:24.800 --> 02:25:30.160bit better than mine. So, yes. Although, I mean, there have been some nice things. I've just got 02:25:30.160 --> 02:25:35.680my Christmas present, which is a lovely t-shirt from Naomi, mother of my godson. This is very 02:25:35.680 --> 02:25:41.280appropriately beard related. The person who sent my wireless mic back, I lost it at Devil's Dyke, 02:25:41.280 --> 02:25:46.400and they sent it back to me and I was like, oh, consider it a present when they're going to, 02:25:46.400 --> 02:25:50.800you know, send me the money. So, it's good to have it back. The question is when I'll be able to get 02:25:50.800 --> 02:25:55.360out and use it. Although, I'm planning to take another one, because I've got a cheaper one now, 02:25:55.360 --> 02:26:02.160because of course, I bought a replacement before. I put a message saying "has anyone found a mic? 02:26:02.160 --> 02:26:08.160But I really didn't expect anyone to actually find it. So, that was amazing. The power of social 02:26:08.160 --> 02:26:14.160media. See, social media is not just for bad things. The mostly it is. Trying to focus on the good 02:26:14.160 --> 02:26:21.760things. But I have to say, yeah, 2024 was a bit weird at the moment. I got obsessed with the song 02:26:21.760 --> 02:26:26.640Don't Let My Son Go Down On Me, which is originally by Elton John, and I really don't like the Elton 02:26:26.640 --> 02:26:32.080John version. I really wish George Michael had recorded it on his own, because, you know, without 02:26:32.080 --> 02:26:41.040the Elton John. He wrote a great song. I just can't, I'm not a massive fan of Elton John singing, 02:26:41.040 --> 02:26:48.080that's all. There's only so much Watford Walrus you can cope with. He is the Watford Walrus. 02:26:48.080 --> 02:26:57.040But someone actually did an AI version, and it's Freddie Mercury, but not Freddie Mercury, was 02:26:57.040 --> 02:27:06.320they took a vocal from Mark Martel, was the person who did the vocal bits in the Freddie 02:27:06.320 --> 02:27:12.240Mercury movie. Although it was Rami Malek doing the acting, the vocals were done by Mark Martel. 02:27:12.240 --> 02:27:17.840That's how close to Freddie Mercury he sounds. So, someone's then put it through about even 02:27:17.840 --> 02:27:26.880more Freddie Mercury with an AI. And so, this is Freddie Mercury AI doing Don't Let The Son Go 02:27:26.880 --> 02:27:32.640Down On Me. And I hope you have a good 2024, and I'll speak to you soon.

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