Tag: Weeknd
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Marc Johnce – KM Kylie Minogue album
And another album released on Friday was the long-awaited KM by Marc Johnce (and a few collaborators). He’s been teasing this for ages, and is obviously a massive Kylie Minogue fan, and I have been loving some of the mashups he’s been releasing to promote this. People asked if a whole Montero mashup album was…
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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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Something wonderfully indescribable this way comes – Leron Thomas
Leron Thomas sent this new video to me, and I have to say I was wonderfully confused, which is always a good sign. Anything that cannot be easily be pigeonholed is usually something ploughing it’s own course to a new star, so to speak. Here’s Sanitation Truck, which seems to deconstruct jazz and 80’s pop…
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Frank Ocean: Beginner’s Guide
It’s funny…the date I had on my copy of the famous Frank Ocean ‘nostalgia, Ultra’ mixtape is 7th April 2011 – a week before Coachella, I never listened to it bar a few tracks, and after the dreadful performance of OFWGKTA at that festival I tended to dismiss all the group efforts. In the case…
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Slowpitch
Carrying on in an ambient mode, Toronto turntable artist Cheldon Paterson aka Slowpitch has just sent me these live improvised videos and I love the mix of turntable, effects and sampler – I hate to compare but the closest thing is a woozy Burial/DJ Shadow/The Caretaker vibe. Check ’em out and you can hear more…