charlie chaplin without makeup looks like heβs about to announce his new ambient album after the move to Berlin in 2010 didnβt quite work out for him
speaking of DJs - itβs the 5 year anniversary of jezza underground losing his shit cos his hotel didnβt have a steam room and his manager sending the greatest email ever
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So, in the very early 90s, I used to work in a record shop in Cambridgeshire. Mainly after school and on Saturdays. I never earnt any money, I would just work to pay off my tab, but anywayβ¦ early β92, the nascent βraveβ scene really started booting off round our wayβ¦
"Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate."
TV show idea - Ant & Dekmantel. cordial Geordie tv show hosts drive to Croatia with some rare African records, a rotary mixer and a bag of dingers. watch how the weekend unfolds
anyway, RIP Randall - you probably have no idea how much this music blew a load of 20 year olds minds in some small market town in Cambridgeshire - have a listen for yourself
no one:
literally no one:
resident advisor: we spoke to jonty & piers from a berlin web3 club promotions collective about how NFTs can revolutionise seamless mixing
βMy themed vinyl only mix got to
#27
in the mixcloud balaeric charts during the pandemicβ¦it should have been me on that coachella stage, not some pop star who canβt even mixβ
been listening to some old ltj bukem mixes this morning, i mean seriously - technically, people like him and ratty - un-fucking-beatable - 2 min long blends, chops - you name it, all on wax - and this was 30 years ago ffs
In what might be the first dance party in Europe in months, Gerd Janson played to a small, socially-distanced crowd in MΓΌnster last night. We're speaking with the promoters on how they pulled this one off. More details forthcoming
Never thought Iβd DJ in a helicopter around Ibiza! But
@hiibizaofficial
always take it to new heights! Mixing my own personal soundtrack while cruising over the island was such a once-in-a-lifetime moment.
These studio mix tapes were a series called βYamanβ and they all had incredible artwork. This tape completely blew me away, and it became - by a long margin - my biggest selling bootleg (and the shops biggest selling tape too.
β¦I mean if weβre talking game changing uk **dance music** labels then the lineage is surely music of life - street sounds - acid jazz(?) - FFRR - talkin loud - XL - reinforced - metalheadz - movin shadow - moβwax - warp - network - skint - contβ¦
tell you who's really underappreciated as a producer - i:cube - man's been doing his thing for decades and always doing his thing really, really well (his new LP is great too)
disco edit producers: remember not to reference the original record at all when releasing not only to avoid copyright, but also to make sure you get all the glory for adding 16 bars top & tail and being familiar with the quantise function
I know 2019s been a fucking weird year on a number of levels, but today I learned that fucking zz top sampled second bad vilbel by autechre on their 2015 song βdreadmonboogalooβ
of all the fucking hotels in the UK, the one our friends decided to book us into is the one thatβs got a PEAKY FUCKING BLINDERS convention on tonight. I wish I was making this shit up
I, for one am really enjoying the onslaught of vertical videos of DJs with practically zero social skills awkwardly talking about their record collections ππ»
Chechnya has reportedly banned music that is too fast or too slow - ruling that all music should "correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute".
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imagine how the rest of the world views a country that is unlocking with 50k cases a day, the fucking health minister has covid!! and the prime minister is self isolating. you canβt make this shit up
@lastminute_com
Is there anyone I can speak to please to try and resolve a situation, the three customer service reps Iβve spoken with have all been shockingly unhelpful and rude?