Tag: Ultravox
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RC 394: A Place To Hide
Sometimes you need a room full strangers to make you feel less alone, A place dark enough to make yourself unknown, unknowable,but…home somehow,A place to hide somehow, at least that’s how it feels. Antony Szmierek No murder on the dancefloor with a spoken word club mix about lhaving a place to hide with your rum…
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Crumplstock 9 Roundup & After Party set
Phew another Crumplstock is over! Friday night to Early Monday, nearly 40 artists, streaming most of that. I found myself having to bail on Saturday after listening for 12 hours (I really wanted to stay up and hear Dan Untitled and MsMiep), and was listening til the bitter end a few hours ago on Sunday…
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RC 344: Bootleg Ghost Of Yore – Mashup Show
A retro podcast of bootlegs, bastard pop, mashups, blends and plunderphonics – whatever you want to call them (who ya gonna call? No we don’t have any Ghostbusters mashups in here, thankfully). A podcast about bittersweet memory, mashup history, the Bootleg Archive and a lot of old bootlegs especially from around 2002-2004 (and a few…
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RIP Florian Schneider
Oh boy…where do you start with an artist like Florian Schneider, of Kraftwerk? Sadly he has died at 73. It’s not hyperbole when you say that Florian and Kraftwerk may not be household names like some, but without Kraftwerk you probably wouldn’t have new wave and new romantics, electro-pop, house, techno and all those influenced…
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RC 287: Tarquin Likes Reggae
Tarquin likes reggae, Mary Berry likes reggae and she especially likes a Punky Reggae Electronica Soundtrack Jungle Goth Metal Acid Psych Cat Dog & Harmonica Party! With Added new! Improved! Washes whiter! Natural! Mogwai, hence the picture(s) from Robert Smith’s Meltdown. Also John Foxx, John Foxx, in a cardboard box, what is this I cry?…
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The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned
On an early Ultravox kick since a friend reminded me that they recorded their sixth album with George Martin (6 albums in 5 years – puts the navel-gazing of current artist release schedules to shame doesn’t it?). I know the “happy fed” Midge Ure Vox, but didn’t know the critically acclaimed but couldn’t get a…