"I like early Kanye West..." we heard 'em say.

On this episode we scrutinise the work of college dropout Kanye West, charting his transition from jobbing producer in the mid to late 90s to Rapper/Producer to Producer/Rapper and finally to supposed saviour of rap music in the mid 2000s. 

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It's Christmas time - a time to bring together your favourite festive songs and pit them against each other. Combatants this year include Elton John, the Andrews Sisters, Perry Como, Aqua, Destiny's Child, Tom Waits and many more.

Once you've listened to this episode you can hear the winners in the playlist below, which also includes the winners of Part 1. Listen to the episode first though or it'll spoil the whole thing for you.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6XtCMjD3onbpcZw6mvhAsH?si=b07e4759cf644d74

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We review the reviewers in the latest Critical Lug, this time with a slightly different format. This time we take two critically beloved albums from the year 2023 and pit them against each other. The music critics have to convince us which album is the most compelling. There albums are

'Guts' by Olivia Rodrigo

'Everything Harmony' by The Lemon Twigs

If you'd like to follow along, we have included links to the reviews, compiled by Metacritic.

https://www.metacritic.com/music/guts/olivia-rodrigo

https://www.metacritic.com/music/everything-harmony/the-lemon-twigs 

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The music of Deep Purple has spanned 7 decades and there have been 8 different line-ups during that time. But no line up has captured the record buying public quite like the 2nd version of the band, commonly referred to as Deep Purple Mark II.

In this episode of the Blastfrom Castfrom we desks the highs, the lows, the breakups and the reunions of this version of one of the most successful rock bands of all time.

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Come with us for a time swim to the year 1976. There were half as many people on earth as there are now and the doomsday clock had nearly 8 more minutes.

Find out what else was going on and whether the music of the day eye wateringly better than it is today on the latest episode of the Blastfrom Castfrom.

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The wise Reginald Standholt aka Baba Gadji joins the Blastfrom Castfrom one more time. We talk about what he has been up to since 2020 as well as his new show coming soon to Blastfrom Music + Talk.

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The subject of this pukka podcast is Jamie Oliver. The overriding question is 'why?' or perhaps 'how?'

If you're from the United Kingdom, the man needs no introduction. For everyone else, Jamie Oliver is a very rich and famous English chef, who likes to turn his hand at a number of activities - one of which is music. Top bloke!

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This is our review of the year 2022. Because in this diabolical decade each year is better than the next, we can look back on each preceding year with both something closely resembling fondness.

The big topic of the year are the end of human civilisation with the birth of Skynet… I mean ChatGPT… and we look at how this could effect creativity in the future of popular music.

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