Category: experimental
My first exposure to mashup culture goes back to the early heady days of rap when the ganstas and daisy agers achieved notoriety by borrowing freely from old funk and pop classics to create the dance-punk propaganda that I guess now gets labeled ‘Golden Age Hip Hop’. The likes of George Clinton took offense to [...]
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SOLO-Fabricmix-June09 - Listen now |
Amazing what happens when you get together 4 fingers and the new Akai Ableton controller with aesthetics borrowed from a ‘seventies dancefloor. “The APC40 Ableton Performance Controller in action!” screams the headline. More wrist action than a spotty teen during rainy summer hols.
What a surprisingly delightful place Austin turned out to be. Not exactly sure why I have this latent distrust of Texas; after all you’d have thought I’d have lived through enough racism not to fall into the trap of tarring all with the same brush. But yes, for some strange reason I expected all Texans [...]
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SXSW_Popround_Mix_Mar09_Kiterae - Listen now |
After an hour with Dan Deacon it’s easy to forget which way up is normal. This guy just does not follow the rules. Don’t believe me? Just look at this blatant disregard of the way things work on the indie/dance/rock scene: Rule #1 Let someone else build your stage. Following the support acts, a crowd [...]
Here’s part two of my top tunes of 2008. One Month Off – Bloc Party Sometime Around Midnight – The Airborne Toxic Event Viva La Vida – Coldplay I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You – Black Kids Machine Gun – Portishead Many Shades of Black – The Raconteurs Paris Is [...]
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xmas08_part2 - Listen now |
This time Harry Covert picks up the reigns for the latest in the Best of the Blogs series. Keeping things on a more chilled plane than Kiterae’s offering, this mix is part indie, part hip hop, part Xmas eulogy.Sorry, I’m afraid I couldn’t track down all the original links for these tracks, but take my [...]
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slowdownmofo_dec08 - Listen now |
What can be more exciting than a new album from First Floor Power? Well possibly the even newer remix album, featuring First Floor Power’s new single The Jacket and four remixes of the same song, plus a remix of their To Do List, by people like Karin Dreijer and Hortlax Cobra (Peter Bjorn and John). [...]
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fifteenreasonstobeexcited - Listen now |
What was it we did again, before we had the internet? I know what I didn’t do – I didn’t make Russian cyber-friends on last.fm, who recommended some supercool music (thanks hivr!), which prompted me to scrounge around for more Russian sounds… So we’ll take a break from the usual Nordic stuff and go to visit our [...]
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northernlightsinrussia_01 - Listen now |
gescomx tracks used: puzl, dan one, keynell3, motor1, motor4, sciew spoc, chunge remixed by gescom, d1, mag, go sumo, a2, keynell autechre remix a, slow acid, b1, le shark, keynell1, polarized beam splitter, a1, go sheep, c1, whatever remixed by tara, vira rival remixed by ae, keynell remixed by ae, keynell2, pelt remixed by velocity [...]
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gescomx - Listen now |
…another year over and a new one just begun… ok, a bit premature, but the yearly spirit of catharsis is in the air, whatever you want to call it. btw, santa, just in case you are passing by this way, here’s top of my wishlist (sorry, i appear to have slumped into gadget-geek mode). so, moving [...]
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findannee07 - Listen now |
