Tag: The Presets
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RC 308: Raving I’m Raving
It’s that time of year – back to school is in all the shops, depressing reminders you summer is close to it’s end. But as it’s 30 years since the Second Summer of Love (and incidentally it’s 30 years since I left school) sod the grey jumpers and shrunken ties, I’m raving Back to the…
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RC 307: Upside Down Under
In which we are the Grand Mage of Oz (Music Level 20) and go to the Great Original Upside Down, Down Under with Australian music and songs, far too many Men At Work covers, Ed Sheeran rapping, funky 80’s soul, antipodean Pulp covers, an original accordion recording that became a Negativland track, a bit of…
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RC 301: Evil Twin (Brexit Edition)
A Dastardly Duet in this Mirror Dimension, a Terrible Tango between RC 300 and 301. Nearly every track refers to the other but this is the Evil Twin to the upbeat Mirror Universe. Lightweight subjects from the mosque shootings to Brexit and paedophilia (Look What You’ve Done!) to music critical of this Brexitverse and that…
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RC 299: Running Away Into The Sunset
From Sunset to Sunrise, from Metal Muppet Baby Shark to Catching A Godlike Pussy, we take a trip into the far blue yonder soundtracked by disco, northern soul, electronica, punk, heavy rock, ska, pop, hiphop, indie, hi-nrg, indie and a small shedload of queer artists. We talk about social media, avoid Br*x*t, Time passes…, My…
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RC 286: Gardeners Of The Galaxy
Uphill Gardeners of the Galaxy Unite! It’s Pride month and we’re going to get out the Walkman (or Zune) and get down to some Sounds of The Seventies, drum and bass, indie, disco,, electro pop, new wave, psych rock, AOR, electronica, 60’s pop, metal, neo-classical and some crazy covers. Probably naked in the garden, that’ll…
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Presets – Downtown Shutdown
Somehow I missed the fact that Presets have a new album out in just over a week on the 1st of June called Hi-Viz. One of the singles released this month was this, Downtown Shutdown, which ostensibly is a party anthem, but I think given past secretly political songs like ‘My People’ I suspect the…