Tag: Tom Middleton
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Happy Birthday Shirley!
Shirley Bassey is 80 today, and I present to you a few of her finest moments, firstly is 1972’s Jezahel which you probably know better as Last Leg theme Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy. Yes, they took the horn arrangement, lock stock and tooting barrel! Another is the excellently dramatic and louche version…
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Selected Aphex Works
I recently posted here about the tracks posted on Soundcloud by Aphex Twin, or AFx as he goes on there (which is more snappy than user48736353001!). Nice to get verification, both from U-ziq and now DJ Food that the tracks turning up seem genuine and match old tapes – but as I said before it’s…
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RC 223: The Record Doctor (Odds & Sods 14)
(Musical London Underground map by Dorian Lynskey) The Record Doctor’s here to soothe your soul (and rock & roll, dub, electronica, hiphop, beatbox, chillwave, folk….). Sadly the Doctor Is Out and on strike, so you’re left with me. Ho hum. *blows on stethoscope* Emergency for Doctor RingDing! (117Mb, 1:57) Saint Etienne – Record Doctor An Instamatic recreation –…
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RC 220: The Quiet Hours (Harmonices Mundi)
Kepler’s Supernova (1604) in the constellation of Ophiuchus Music of the Spheres, Clocks, Stars, Einstein on the beach, Ships in rain, Harmony of the universe, Tidal pools, Kepler, Dr Dee, Philip Glass, Shrigley’s StrangeFruit, Supernovas and bad record release dates all in this ambient episode of Radio Clash – from 90’s electronica to modern hypnagogic,…
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There’s No Vibration But Wait; or how I got into psychedelic music
Strange how conversations go, a discussion about early DJ Fresh (my how he’s changed, from breakbeat drum and bass to aping like the Cataracts or LMFAO?) to Aphrodite with Shiggi which then lead me to ‘Aphrodite, in her see through nightie…‘ which as well as probably being a Pete Seeger lift, is by the Edgar…
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Radio Clash 131: Can’t Stop the Pop!!!!
It’s Poptastic Funtastic Radiooo Claaaaaaaaaash! Coming today from the Beachy Head Roadshow, where we’ll show Noel Edmunds really how to bungy jump, and Popplasticfantastic Tony Blackburn shows us the danger of standing too close to fires. It’s the Northern Rock Favourite! (93mins, 76Mb) https://www.radioclash.com/show-archive/rc_131.mp3 Mylo / Kylie – I’m in the Mood for Love (unsuprisingly…