Tag: Vangelis
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RIP Vangelis & Klaus Schulze
Usually I get my tributes out immediately when musicians I love die, but I was totally dumbstruck when I heard a few days ago that Vangelis had died. To me, he’s Beatles or Elvis or Rolling Stones level; a majpr influence in my listening and composing. And that’s why I couldn’t just throw out a…
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RC 346: The Light And Dark of the City – Chilled mashup show
A Long time coming, and recorded last month, here’s the ambient chilled mashup podcast mentioned in 344 – and in fact is a sequel to 344, as it’s the part of the same podcast really! From 1975 to 2021, we have plunderphonics, blends, mashups, bastard pop and various sampleage plundering synthwave, electronica, rock, dub, reggae,…
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Chris Carter on NTS
Chris Carter has his first album in 17 years out on March 30th, Chemistry Lessons Vol 1, which I’m really looking forward to from the bits I’ve heard, and he appeared on a couple of NTS shows to share two mixes of his favourite music. First up is the “>The Synth Hero Show – I…
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What if John Carpenter did a Doctor Who Theme?
Liking this alternate dimension version of Doctor Who if John Carpenter did the theme, cheers me up after the shock of finding out that Red Dwarf has lyrics and I missed them all these years o.O (JC DW video via Thriftshop XL) He’s also done Vangelis and Jean Michel Jarre versions of the theme: