Over 2 months since my last podcast, the longest time away since the hiatus and 2008, but I’ve been busy with funerals, probate, and grieving. I think this will likely be my last podcast of 2024, good riddance to this year but unlikely to do a Xmas podcast for the first time ever because I don’t feel that festive. In fact Xmas is a sore point this year…and likely every year onwards. A bunch of resistance songs and merry songs for the apocalypse, I do love to soundtrack that one (yr welcome).

An angry podcast reacting to the news of Trump’s election, the state of the world, and how I am in a fighting mood (I have to be given the shit I’ve had from banks, organisations and pensions) but also reflective too. Selections from the new Jamie XX album, some new mashups from me created for the podcast and before and after John died, punk, new age, soul, covers, ancient Roman music and modern Lebanese songs about Romans, shoe gaze, indie and my favourite mashup of the year and more.

I forgot to explain, the title comes from a post I wrote on Facebook, I might make a t-shirt some point – it read:

Four weeks ago, John my partner of 27 years died. I have the task of arranging the funeral, which is this afternoon 19th September 2024 at 2pm (I recorded this two days ago). This includes the music…the saddest gig for any DJ, let alone the saddest thing I’ve done for someone I loved so deeply. EDIT: there is a report of how it went with video/photos here.

So this cheery banging episode /s is comprised of music I’ve made about the death of John, or about John, or that he loved that will be played at some point during the funeral service or wake/reception after.

Raise a glass for him, and remember him fondly. I will miss him forever, he was my soul mate, my daddy bear, my beautiful man.

The feed artwork is from the coffin I painted for him, a custom abstract piece called ‘The Ship’ that will take him onwards. Collaged into it is pieces of his writing – his thousands of ‘notes’ and also the symbols reflect his life from the TFL roundel to the ANL arrow and Rock Against Racism star.

The actual MP3 artwork I cannot show here, because it’s John lying in state and people get oddly squeamish about death. I just see John in another state, one I’d rather he wasn’t in, but photos of it do not bother me. Unlike my reality of doing CPR on him and watching the paramedics do same, and seeing him dead on the messy floor which I see every time I close my eyes in ‘wonderful’ 3D living technicolour courtesy of my visual brain and likely PTSD. That’s way worse.

John clothed in his favourite clothes in a white coffin – it’s a much nicer memory, if slightly weird cos he’s not really there. So be really thankful if that’s all you have to worry about. So don’t look at the artwork in the MP3 if you don’t want to see that. You are warned.

As i said at the end of the podcast, given my grief and my lack of love for anything other than songs about loss this might be the last Radio Clash, at least for a long while until I can listen to silly mashups and relate to them.

But at the moment pop songs and inane fluff are the last thing on my mind.

A delayed podcast as I’ve been off in the woods – but we have a feature on the two ‘Songs of the Summer’, the new albums by G3RST and Mark David Hadley and talk Twisted Firestarters and Mashup Summer Camp, actual camping and hiking, and why July is always Summertime Sadness – with some songs to soundtrack the long hot/rainy summer.

And we talk about Trump and the times…how could I not? It lurks over this podcast like a black cloud…

Apologies for the late podcast, just scraping in for May, and the last one was early April! I’ve been off walking the West Highland Way and the Great Glen Way in Scotland – all 170ish miles, so a LONG walk and a lot of wild camping, which seemed appropriate as it’s about to be Pride month as well.

So we have a slightly camp disco edit and queer acid tastic mix in the Kitchen Bathroom Disco, a few mashups and tunes I was singing while I was hiking, and listening to on the coach there and back, and a downtempo section where it goes a little Cabin In The Woods with strangers acting weirdly in remote locales.

And to those who follow me on HearThis, they’ve done a Mixcloud and restricted the accounts suddenly to 40 public uploads and 5Gb per account (the latter is definitely new since I am apparently over at 7.6Gb?), so I won’t be uploading there anymore. Please follow me here, on iTunes/Spotify or Amazon Podcasts – I think Google Podcasts is going, and I’m not uploading this to YouTube for anything, too much copyright aggro.

Kind of glad, since it’s another step and I’m trying to reduce my workload on these podcasts – hence no SEO/AI transcripts either. Too much faff for no return.

RIVER iS BEAUTIFUL! Fresh off a long walk along the River Thames – over a 100 miles sweetie – so we have a London and water themed podcast, an imagined soundtrack for my new YouTube video series on the Thames Path – cos I can’t afford the rights!

And new mashups from me and others and original music as well, and some old classics, And Video Killed The Radio Star? Hope not…

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Hello, welcome to Radio Clash, this is 395, called River is Beautiful, and Curse you, Totom,

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for making a Coldplay Mash.

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Making me play a Coldplay Mash.

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Well, not making me play it, but making me like Coldplay Mash.

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After I said I really can’t stand Coldplay Mashes, Totom has to go and mash the one Coldplay

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song off the one album I can stand, which is the first album, and Don’t Panic.

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Yeah, all the feels, that’s I Promise You Flowers, Don’t Panic, Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay.

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And at the start we had the Branflakes with Fifty Four Fifty from their 2016’s Ultimate Hits, which

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I missed, I somehow missed.

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I have several, at least one Branflakes album, and yeah, somehow I didn’t know about that

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one.

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I was checking out the discography and went, “What’s this?”

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And it sounds like a best-off, but none of the tracks I’d heard before, so it’s like

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a mock best-off, but I might be wrong on that.

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And yes, it’s called River is Beautiful because I’ve been walking the Thames path, I spent

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two weeks walking a lot of the Thames path.

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I’m not going to say exactly where I ended up, because it’s a bit spoilers, spoilers

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sweetie, spoilers.

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But yeah, I walked from Yantlet, which is where the London Stone is, to quite a bit of it,

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to more than halfway, and it’s 200 miles, so a lot of walking.

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And as this is a YouTube, as this is a video for my YouTube channel, I can’t afford the

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copyright.

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I can’t afford the musical rights to any of these songs.

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So weirdly, during the whole of it, I wasn’t listening to music.

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This episode is kind of a mixture of new stuff that I really dig, and also an imagined soundtrack

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for the Thames Path series.

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It’s going to be called Thames Spring when it comes out.

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I’m just editing it at the moment.

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And yeah, there’s a lot of tracks in here that are London based and river based.

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And yes, if I could license any music, there’d be some of these in that video, but I can’t.

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So talking of London, we can play a track by Hallmighty.

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This is, surprise I’ve not played this.

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This is from 2023, Hallmighty Presents, Disco Deluxe 6.

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This is Take My Heart Back to London, Ed Sheeran versus Stormzy versus Pet Shop Boys.

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That was Hallmighty featuring Lady Tea, with his first ever original track.

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That’s ‘The Rhythm’.

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I like that a lot.

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It’s a good slice of disco, modern disco.

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And then before that we had, yeah, more of that sort of river section.

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That’s ‘Water’ featuring Clara La San by Bicep from 2022.

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Then before that Overmono with ‘BBY’ from 2029.

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And then before that we had Minor Arth

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We had two Minor Arth tracks in that mix, actually.

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There’s ‘Andromedas Teardrops’, Womack and Womacn versus Gorillaz versus D-RAM or

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DRAM, I don’t know how you say that, a very recent mashup.

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I’m not really up on Gorillaz and I’ve been hearing the odd thing that has used tracks

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and I’ve really liked the track they use.

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So I have one later in the podcast, which is one of those, it’s like, “Oh, actually,

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I’ve not heard that.

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I recognise that vocalist.

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I must have this.”

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And of course, you know, ‘Teardrop’ is a classic and it’s apparently namedropped in the Andromeda

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track.

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Then before that, the theme of mine is ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’, for kind of obvious

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reasons I would say, though I never was a radio star.

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Video killed the radio unknown.

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But yeah, there’s very much a thing with YouTube taking on my time that I don’t really spend

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the time.

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I should do with the podcast and other things, blog and etc. are very neglected at the moment,

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which is very bad.

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But you know, it’s kind of like, that’s the way with YouTube.

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You have to be very much all in.

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You can’t just do half cock, really.

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So that’s Mighty Mike with ‘Time Killed the Radio Star’.

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That’s Cyndi Lauper’versus ‘Buggles’.

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And before that, we had ‘Video Killed Digital Love’, Daftpunk versus ‘The Buggles’ by

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Minor Arth

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Again, another new-ish mash.

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And then before that, we had one of me that was kept an obvious with, because everyone’s

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doing Murder on the Dancefloor mashups because of Saltburn.

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Even though I’ve never seen Saltburn, it was for a challenge actually.

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I didn’t win the challenge, but hey, that’s ‘Murder Everywhere’ on the dancefloor.

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Sophie Ellis Bexter versus Fleetwood Mac

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Yes, me doing a Fleetwood Mac mashup.

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Surprise!

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Much surprise.

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And then before the start of that section, we had Hallmighty with ‘Take My Heart Back

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to London’ Ed Sheeran and ‘Stormzy’ versus Pet Shop Boys.

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Yes, I’d love to have stuff like, you know, ‘Bicep’ in my video.

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I just have to use an AI knock-offs of that kind of thing.

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Unfortunately, yes, it’s sad.

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It’s sad.

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So, we’re going to play another London-related track, which is ‘London Calling’ by The Clash.

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Hey, we’re Radio Clash.

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We have to play Clash tunes it’s in the rules

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And this is Phoenix City All-Stars, their version of ‘London Calling’.

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That was men, not just

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any old men, we’re just innocent men.

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Now, MEN, J.D. Samson’s band from 2011, that’s “Who Am I to Feel So Free?” which I know from

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Duckie I’d heard it from Duckie and I heard it again through checking out what J.D. Samson

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had been up to and I was like, “Oh, I know that song.

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Always good to play some queer indy disco.

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Always a pleasure in this podcast.”

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The whole thing that I always love to play is also Jungle, so we had Charla Green

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with Babylon Fall from 2020, not from London, from Sheffield, but yeah.

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Before that, we had some London Elektricity.

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I mean, how could we do a London podcast without some London Elektricity?

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It’s impossible.

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We can’t.

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We cannot.

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We cannot.

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We cannot.

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We cannot have a London podcast without London Elektricity.

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And that’s from 2019’s “Building Better Worlds.”

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That’s “Possible Worlds” featuring Inja.

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I haven’t played a remix of that, but I haven’t played the original weirdly.

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And then we had Oki’s “Walk Idiot, Don’t Stop.”

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You see what I did there?

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Hives vs. Fleetwood Mac the Oki tracks from 2023, and The Unusuals “I’m Walking,

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Babe” from 1965, some classic garage rock.

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I’ve played some Unusualson a podcast before, a very different one with a different vocalist,

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but that’s their other single.

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They’re like three singles, I think, or two singles.

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And that’s that other single.

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They’re more known for their second single, which I forget her name, but it’s quite a

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well-known vocalist who worked with them on their last single.

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I think it was their last single, one of their singles.

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And then before that, we had Phoenix City All-Stars with London Calling, or London Colin, as

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I always call it.

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I can hear you, Colin.

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London Colin.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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So, again, when I was walking down the river, there was one song that was in my head, or

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one statement.

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There was a few songs that I was singing along the way.

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Weirdly not river-based, most of them.

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For some reason, I was always singing Negativland’s

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“I am a man, a man with four fingers.”

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For some reason, I just kept singing that.

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I don’t know why.

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I don’t know why.

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So I kept changing lyrics.

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“I am a man, a man with four locks.

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I am a man, a man with four rivers.

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I am a man with four pastels.”

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I was eating a lot of fruit pastels.

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With four fruit pastels, yeah.

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I ate two and a half bags of, no three and a half bags of fruit pastels.

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And I can tell you, my fruit pastel research, that the original fruit pastels are worse

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than the supermarket-owned brands.

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Even Lidl.

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That doesn’t make sense.

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But, of course, Rowntrees changed the formula, like they did with fruit gums.

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And then ours tastes like shit.

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Whereas the best one is Tesco’s.

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Tesco’s own fruit pastels taste fruitier than the original fruit pastels.

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And they still have that texture.

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I think it’s because they made it vegan.

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They made the original ones vegan.

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And so now they’re just not as nice.

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Sorry, vegans.

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You spoil everything.

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I’m going to get complaints.

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I don’t care.

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No one fucking listens to this.

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But yeah, so I’m not almost now listening to this.

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So what?

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It’s true, though.

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That’s nice things that have been sort of wrecked by having to change the formula because

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of…

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I mean, I get it with allergies, but it’s…

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Yeah.

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I have vegans and I have gluten tolerance and stuff.

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So I get it.

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But I don’t go around insisting everyone should change their crusty loaf.

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I wish there was more gluten bread, but I don’t think people should change theirs.

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But yeah, and I’ll readily agree that the gluten-free versions are dreadful.

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Well, not dreadful.

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They’re getting better.

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But sourdough is all right.

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But a lot of them are just like cardboard.

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And I will freely admit that.

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But yeah, whenever…

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I’ve noticed the vegan version of things.

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The vegan version of jelly gums.

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Unfortunately, I think you do need pigs or gelatin, really.

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It’s part of the flavor and the taste and texture.

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So the thing that I was saying was “Creek is beautiful” rather than saying what is the

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title of this podcast.

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River is beautiful.

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And so I have to play the original.

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So this is from Bluey.

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“Creek is beautiful” and it is a beautiful episode.

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And this is pretty much every Bluey episode.

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All of them actually.

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They are beautiful.

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But yeah, this is a magical paen to…

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Kids going outdoors and playing in the creek.

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It seems to be a bumper podcast for Hallmighty.

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Well I was actually planning to play the two Hallmighty tracks, and then he dropped the original

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tracks, so I was like, “Oh, put that in as well”

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That’s “Hear Me Under the Bridge,” Red Hot Chili Peppers versus K’Naan versus

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Robbie Williams, versus The Beatles.

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I must have agreed, when I first heard that, I was like, “Where’s The Beatles?

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Where’s The Beatles?”

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And it was just like, right at the end, a little bit of Hey Jude.

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And before that, we had the dub classic, “Kunte Kinte dub plate, version two”.

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Everyone plays version one, and I preferred version two actually.

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That’s by The Revolutionaries.

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And it’s weird, because the date on that is like 2007, 2009.

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I can’t find the original version, even though it’s from the 1970s.

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I can’t find it on Discogs because I can’t find what the original version, when the original

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version, release date was.

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I think I won these things that languished on dub plates, and never got properly released,

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commercially released.

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But I’ve certainly heard that organ sound in so many other things.

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So that organ sound was very much copied.

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And The Revolutionaries was the first time that Sly and Robbie got together.

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That was their group.

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Various people came and went.

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I think Ansel Collins was in there, and various people you all heard of came through The

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Revolutionaries.

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And before that, we had Gorillaz with the lost chord featuring Leee John.

01:37:49.400 –> 01:37:50.400
The man with three E’s

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Oh, it’s great to hear Leee John.

01:37:52.400 –> 01:37:54.040
I’m a big Imagination fan.

01:37:54.040 –> 01:37:56.040
I was as a child.

01:37:56.040 –> 01:37:59.840
And I heard that voice in a mashup, and I was like, “Hey, that’s Leee John.

01:37:59.840 –> 01:38:02.120
I’m pretty sure that’s Leee John on a Gorillaz track.”

01:38:02.120 –> 01:38:03.120
Yep.

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It was from 2020’s Song Machine Season 1, “Strange Times.”

01:38:08.160 –> 01:38:13.040
And I don’t know what that song’s about, but every song sounds better with Leee John in it.

01:38:13.040 –> 01:38:16.320
And before that, we had the headless, the headless organist.

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I’m not going to get very far, are they?

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Headless organist.

01:38:21.960 –> 01:38:22.960
Bonk.

01:38:22.960 –> 01:38:30.080
Now, the Handless Organist is Turn Your Radio On from 1984’s Truly a Miracle of God.

01:38:30.080 –> 01:38:35.880
And people describe that as an outsider album, and I don’t think it is.

01:38:35.880 –> 01:38:38.000
Having listened to it, it’s perfectly fine.

01:38:38.000 –> 01:38:41.360
I love the organ work, and I love the singing.

01:38:41.360 –> 01:38:43.160
It’s like, “Oh, it’s an outsider record.

01:38:43.160 –> 01:38:46.640
Just watch, because she’s got a disability, because she has no hands.”

01:38:46.640 –> 01:38:48.840
It’s like, that’s a bit weird.

01:38:48.840 –> 01:38:50.160
No, it’s not.

01:38:50.160 –> 01:38:52.520
It has to be a bit more than that.

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But still, I really like that song, despite the Christian bits.

01:38:56.360 –> 01:38:59.400
It’s just the, “Turn your radio on.”

01:38:59.400 –> 01:39:00.400
It’s good.

01:39:00.400 –> 01:39:06.280
And then before that, we had Billy No-Mates with Saboteur Forcefield from 2023’s Cacti.

01:39:06.280 –> 01:39:10.080
It’s probably the only podcast that went from Billy No-Mates to the Handless Organist,

01:39:10.080 –> 01:39:11.080
I can tell you.

01:39:11.080 –> 01:39:16.640
Then before that, we had a kind of a London section, but not necessarily a happy London

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section.

01:39:17.640 –> 01:39:19.880
It started out happy.

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So we had Kae Tempest with Bad Place for a Good Time, and that was the last single that they

01:39:25.720 –> 01:39:27.800
did for Big Dada.

01:39:27.800 –> 01:39:32.120
That was the last independent single from 2015.

01:39:32.120 –> 01:39:37.160
And then they joined the big bad UMG, unfortunately.

01:39:37.160 –> 01:39:43.000
And before that, we had Solange with Cranes in the Sky from 2016’s A Seat at the Table.

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And I questioned myself about doing this, because it harmonically works so well.

01:39:47.240 –> 01:39:52.040
But I really didn’t want to cramp on the style of Bluey’s and Joff Bush’s.

01:39:52.040 –> 01:39:53.360
“The creek is beautiful.”

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But then I was like, that is basically my walk.

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It was, you’d see a beautiful creek, a beautiful river, and then you turn the corner and there

01:40:00.760 –> 01:40:04.840
would be cranes and the usual London bullshit.

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And so that was why I was like, yeah, I’ll keep it in, because it’s kind of that duality

01:40:10.720 –> 01:40:13.840
is what’s in my video series.

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To come, he’s very much that ugly next to beautiful.

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And the ugly is beautiful and the beautiful is ugly, you know, that kind of thing.

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That’s London.

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It’s all jostled together, the good and the bad.

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And yes, as you might have guessed, my walk didn’t go badly.

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It didn’t, unfortunately, because of flooding, didn’t actually get where I wanted it to be,

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which was depressing.

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But it’s funny, it was Easter and it was like, well, I can’t walk on water.

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I’m not Jesus.

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So I’m going to go back and finish, well, less than half, I think it is.

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I’m totted it up, but it’s definitely more than half.

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Look at the latter bit when it’s summer and it’s less of a stressy thing, because I just

01:40:57.080 –> 01:41:02.080
ended up walking on roads and like walking roads, taking a path in, finding it flooded,

01:41:02.080 –> 01:41:03.800
you know, and it’s like I did take water through socks.

01:41:03.800 –> 01:41:08.200
I was fording across things, but the problem is you can’t hike in wellies.

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So it was a debate.

01:41:09.760 –> 01:41:13.560
I should have took wellies, but then it was like, well, there’d be another thing to carry.

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Some of the bits are impossible to afford.

01:41:15.200 –> 01:41:20.120
Like I got to this thing which I’ve jumped before or around.

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So sort of like this sort of bit, which is like a break in the bank.

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And it was, I actually put my pole and I was like, should I walk through this?

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And it was like, kept going down and down and down.

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I was more than waist deep.

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I was like, no.

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And the field was completely flooded going into unless I sort of forded that.

01:41:38.320 –> 01:41:41.520
And I was like, no.

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So there was a few things like that, but I did, I did ford quite a lot of them and

01:41:45.560 –> 01:41:48.440
I got, got my feet wet quite a few times.

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It got to a point where I don’t need wellies.

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I need waders.

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It’s too deep.

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And so then I was like, no, it’s just silly.

01:41:56.200 –> 01:42:00.160
I was fed up of camping by roads and walking along roads.

01:42:00.160 –> 01:42:03.000
It was just, it was just too stressy.

01:42:03.000 –> 01:42:05.520
Lots of bad places and lots of good places.

01:42:05.520 –> 01:42:06.520
Well, then one.

01:42:06.520 –> 01:42:09.760
But yeah, I’m going to play a track by Working Men’s Club.

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I love this greatly.

01:42:10.760 –> 01:42:13.360
It doesn’t really fit for the rest of it.

01:42:13.360 –> 01:42:15.880
It’s very sort of new wave.

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This is Circumference.

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I almost didn’t make the ending because I fell asleep to my own mashup, which is, I’m

02:12:42.520 –> 02:12:45.080
not sure that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

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That TBC aka Instamatic with Whisper Forever

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George Michael versus the Spice Girls

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I always wanted to do a mashup with Viva Forever.

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I’m not a massive Spice Girls fan, but I do like the feel of that.

02:12:59.480 –> 02:13:02.520
I mean, it was like a whole Geri leaving at that point.

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And you know, I don’t know.

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There’s a whole kind of feel of that.

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Even though it’s supposed to be like the end of a summer romance.

02:13:11.480 –> 02:13:13.960
It’s quite a sad song.

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Then before that, we had Goldie and the Gingerbreads with Walking in Different Circles.

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That’s some classic psych sort of garage from 1967.

02:13:22.680 –> 02:13:27.560
And before that, we had iWillBattle with Feeling Beautiful Good Things, Benson Boone

02:13:27.560 –> 02:13:28.720
versus Muse.

02:13:28.720 –> 02:13:31.520
I didn’t know the Benson Boone song at all.

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It’s always a good sign of a mashup when you really connect to a mashup, but you don’t

02:13:36.080 –> 02:13:37.080
know one of the songs.

02:13:37.080 –> 02:13:40.640
And you’re kind of like, it just works.

02:13:40.640 –> 02:13:45.880
I’ve not heard the original version of the Benson Boone track at all.

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So I don’t know it, but yeah, it just works really well.

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And then before that, we had ah! Alan Hurley with Black Frog Peace One.

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Again, I think that’s one of my favorite mashups of the year.

02:14:00.280 –> 02:14:03.440
That’s the Doors versus Thom Yorke.

02:14:03.440 –> 02:14:05.440
And I don’t know.

02:14:05.440 –> 02:14:10.200
You know, in some senses, I suppose, Radiohead, Tom York versus the Doors might be slightly

02:14:10.200 –> 02:14:11.960
obvious, but it’s not really.

02:14:11.960 –> 02:14:15.920
It feels very intertwined.

02:14:15.920 –> 02:14:22.640
It’s certainly not an obvious choice, the two songs together, but they work so well.

02:14:22.640 –> 02:14:25.160
So that’s the important thing.

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And then before that, we had Danny Macabre with Vampire Creep.

02:14:28.840 –> 02:14:30.920
There’s Olivia Rodrigo versus Radiohead.

02:14:30.920 –> 02:14:36.440
I question myself whether to put that in because the Radiohead is too fast, that really weird

02:14:36.440 –> 02:14:37.880
break in it.

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And I don’t know why the extra drums sound odd, but the combination is brilliant.

02:14:43.400 –> 02:14:51.840
The Vampire Olivia Rodrigo versus Creep, it’s kind of like more than half of a good

02:14:51.840 –> 02:14:54.040
mashup is the song selection.

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The Alan Hurley as well is like the one from iWillBattle.

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The two things just meshing.

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And that’s kind of more than half the battle.

02:15:05.800 –> 02:15:09.480
It’s just choosing two things that sync together really well.

02:15:09.480 –> 02:15:15.360
At the end of the day, the technical side is not as important as having two good tracks

02:15:15.360 –> 02:15:17.840
that work really well together.

02:15:17.840 –> 02:15:19.520
You can kind of overlook some of the bits.

02:15:19.520 –> 02:15:20.520
It’s like, “Hmm.”

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That’s still, yeah, I don’t know if that’s going on with that first break, but anyway,

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first drop.

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And then before that, we had Totom’s.

02:15:28.360 –> 02:15:33.320
Everybody would drown and You’d Too Y.O.U.D. Too.

02:15:33.320 –> 02:15:39.160
How to Destroy Angels versus Billie Eilish versus Culoe Da Song.

02:15:39.160 –> 02:15:44.600
I don’t know the How to Destroy Angels or the Culoe Da Song, but it just works so

02:15:44.600 –> 02:15:45.600
well.

02:15:45.600 –> 02:15:49.040
I know the Billie Eilish and it just is a complete mood.

02:15:49.040 –> 02:15:50.720
A complete mood.

02:15:50.720 –> 02:15:52.560
Hashtag vibe.

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Then before that, we had Working Men’s Club with Circumference.

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And as you might have guessed, that’s selection.

02:15:59.560 –> 02:16:02.640
Yeah, not exactly happy, happy, joy, joy.

02:16:02.640 –> 02:16:05.720
My mental health has been a bit weird since I got back.

02:16:05.720 –> 02:16:08.520
I think it’s just sitting indoors editing.

02:16:08.520 –> 02:16:13.880
I edited the South Downs Way Part 3 last week and now I’m working on the editing for the

02:16:13.880 –> 02:16:17.240
Thames Path stuff and just going through all my old photographs.

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And it’s just been a bit of a kind of like a drudge I think.

02:16:20.200 –> 02:16:26.440
But luckily I’m going out next weekend on another collaboration trip in Felixstowe and

02:16:26.440 –> 02:16:27.440
Harwich.

02:16:27.440 –> 02:16:31.040
So it’s a coast I don’t know well, walking around the estuary.

02:16:31.040 –> 02:16:34.920
Yeah, that should be hopefully good.

02:16:34.920 –> 02:16:35.920
Hopefully interesting.

02:16:35.920 –> 02:16:38.400
But yeah, I think really getting out would be good for me.

02:16:38.400 –> 02:16:43.360
I’ve been trying to keep myself busy because yeah, things have been a bit like, I think

02:16:43.360 –> 02:16:48.080
it’s just probably because I’m about to reach 51.

02:16:48.080 –> 02:16:51.440
It’s always weird about that sort of time and so looking at my achievements and the

02:16:51.440 –> 02:16:55.320
YouTube channel and stuff and just thinking it’s not really where I want it to be.

02:16:55.320 –> 02:16:59.520
I mean, that’s what the two week walk thing was about was just a bit like, you know, I’m

02:16:59.520 –> 02:17:02.760
going to do something big and sort of really push it.

02:17:02.760 –> 02:17:05.760
But it’s a lot of work, a lot of footage.

02:17:05.760 –> 02:17:06.760
A lot of editing.

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I don’t know how long the series hopefully won’t be daily.

02:17:11.360 –> 02:17:14.080
If it’s daily, it’s going to be 12 parts, which is right.

02:17:14.080 –> 02:17:15.080
That’s crazy.

02:17:15.080 –> 02:17:17.880
I’m hoping to do it every couple of days.

02:17:17.880 –> 02:17:21.760
My computer is having to use external drives and stuff.

02:17:21.760 –> 02:17:22.760
Computer’s fall on it.

02:17:22.760 –> 02:17:26.400
It’s just like, a lot of tech issues.

02:17:26.400 –> 02:17:30.000
I’ve been going through all my old photographs and that’s quite fun.

02:17:30.000 –> 02:17:32.840
But also the scanner won’t scan the slides.

02:17:32.840 –> 02:17:37.640
So I can’t include any of the slides unless I get the other scanner in and it’s all that

02:17:37.640 –> 02:17:38.640
sort of stuff.

02:17:38.640 –> 02:17:43.440
It’s just like, oh, so yeah, there’s a lot of that going on and it’s not helping.

02:17:43.440 –> 02:17:45.040
So I hope you’re all well.

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I’m going to play out with a classic from Lee Spoons, 10,000 Spoons.

02:17:50.760 –> 02:17:57.520
Again, I think I heard this on his Megabllast radio show from Noisebox Radio.

02:17:57.520 –> 02:17:58.880
I think it was that.

02:17:58.880 –> 02:18:00.520
I think he played on that.

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I had not heard it before.

02:18:01.520 –> 02:18:03.440
It’s from way back in the day.

02:18:03.440 –> 02:18:08.640
And I have to say, I love it, but it does have that weird kind of, because I’m pretty sure,

02:18:08.640 –> 02:18:13.440
I’m really not sure what time signatures Charots of Fire is in.

02:18:13.440 –> 02:18:18.000
And I think it’s kind of a weird kind of almost Waltz time.

02:18:18.000 –> 02:18:19.160
I’m not sure.

02:18:19.160 –> 02:18:20.160
So there an element of that.

02:18:20.160 –> 02:18:24.800
But even that, it just, it does, it does work even though bits are on like, yeah, where

02:18:24.800 –> 02:18:27.080
is the snare there?

02:18:27.080 –> 02:18:29.920
So this is Chariots Killed The Radio Star, Buggles.

02:18:29.920 –> 02:18:32.240
Yeah, again, Buggles versus Vangelis.

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Speak to you soon.

Sometimes you need a room full strangers to make you feel less alone,
A place dark enough to make yourself unknown, unknowable,but…home somehow,
A place to hide somehow, at least that’s how it feels.

No murder on the dancefloor with a spoken word club mix about lhaving a place to hide with your rum and ginger beer and losing those life and joy-giving queer spaces …

A very mashup/dance heavy podcast, from acid house meets Pink Floyd to phonk, the new-ish Orbital track, a track from the upcoming Arab Strap album (it’s released in April not May), War of the Worlds, walking and hiking, jungle, ALEXA PLAY PUMPED UP KICKS with tracks about personal assistants, and five gold rings…no, five new mashups from me, including a remake of an old Reborn Identity classic.

All variants of the cover:

WEBVTT

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Hello and welcome to Radio Clash.

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This is 394, and A Place To Hide, and there’s no jingle this time, I thought, well, we’ve

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got this long section from the end is much which I love, I love the fact you’re hearing

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all the Martians here.

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This is iWillBattle with War the Houdinis, Dua Lipa vs Jeff Wayne, War of the Worlds,

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and at the start you heard SpongeBob SquareWave from 2023 that this is one new day you don’t

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want to fuck, which I love the way that sort of chops up that sample.

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I hope you’re all well, I’ve been, oh, I’ve been so busy doing hiking shizzle, so hiking

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YouTube stuff, nearly 500 subscribers now, about sort of 16 away, and I don’t want to

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jinx it because I know I’m just saying this, but like, I’ll probably go down next week,

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it always does.

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And I’ve just posted on my second attempt at the South Downs Way trip where I did 45

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miles, you can find that over at YouTube at @HardUpHiker, just at @HardUpHiker or where

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you’ll find it.

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And yeah, I screwed my knee up, I think maybe I mentioned it in the last podcast, it’s

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taken five, six weeks, and I did about 50 miles for walking last week, including two

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12 mile hikes with the full pack, and I’ve got a video about that next week, but you

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know, I kind of felt I had to kind of build back up again, it’s like, you know, training

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or, you know, recuperation, but it’s taken a very long time and it’s been very annoying

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because I had all these plans and because The Big Freeze finished and everything, warmer

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again and I couldn’t go out, and I was like, now it’s all rains, obviously, we had the

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full spring, and now we’re having the proper spring, which is very wet, so yeah, I meant

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to get this out earlier, and I say it’s just way too, way too busy, the one I did previously

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was a stopgap, I mean that’s the thing with the deep dive shows, they’re very much things

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where I’ve got them and I just want to do a quickie, when I want to do a quickie, yeah,

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and this case with this one is that it’s just been hanging around for the last couple of

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weeks, ready to go, and I’ve just haven’t had time to record it, it’s supposed to have

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been for February, and this is now going to be for March really, and it’s more of a

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mash-up show, but more about clubs, and when the clubs closed down back in the pandemic

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and how I reacted to that, and hence the phrase ‘a place to hide’ is from a song later on

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in the podcast by Antony Szmierek, but we’re going to start in typical fashion, with nothing

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to do with the theme, this is Shades of Fade to Grey, Visage vs Delaney Jane by Sir Hank.

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That had to be Pete Cannon, and Mistrees with their 2023 take of The Streets Blinded By The Lights, and before that was The

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Streets, We Become Heroes, The 9Trane Edit, and that was from 2022.

00:54:00.000 –> 00:54:05.940
I had to have those songs somehow in here in a mashup or remix form, because they’re

00:54:05.940 –> 00:54:10.140
very much about clubbing, and I wasn’t a part of the Acid House Summer.

00:54:10.140 –> 00:54:14.100
I was a bit too young for all the Acid House stuff, but the original Summer of Love, he was

00:54:14.100 –> 00:54:19.380
like five years later and writing about five years before, and now it’s 30 years later.

00:54:19.380 –> 00:54:20.380
Twenty years?

00:54:20.380 –> 00:54:21.380
Yeah.

00:54:21.380 –> 00:54:22.380
I feel old.

00:54:22.380 –> 00:54:26.480
And before that, in honour of the fact that I can’t go to these places anymore, we have

00:54:26.480 –> 00:54:32.360
bis Irrelevant disco from 2022’s System Music for Home Defense, and that’s all about

00:54:32.360 –> 00:54:37.820
seemingly becoming irrelevant, and just wondering if anyone’s out there, which I totally, totally

00:54:37.820 –> 00:54:38.820
get.

00:54:38.820 –> 00:54:40.640
What could that relate to?

00:54:40.640 –> 00:54:45.520
And also, the fact that you can’t afford to go to Tokyo, I can never afford to go to

00:54:45.520 –> 00:54:46.520
Tokyo.

00:54:46.520 –> 00:54:49.760
I probably could have when I was younger, but now you can’t afford to go places that

00:54:49.760 –> 00:54:52.020
you were, and the kind of things move on.

00:54:52.020 –> 00:54:53.020
You know, like Glastonbury.

00:54:53.020 –> 00:54:54.020
I used to go to Glastonbury.

00:54:54.020 –> 00:54:56.860
I can’t afford to go to Glastonbury anymore, which is really sad.

00:54:56.860 –> 00:55:03.260
Then before that, we have, For Those I Love, with I Have a Love, the Overmono remix from

00:55:03.260 –> 00:55:04.260
2021.

00:55:04.260 –> 00:55:10.740
And I didn’t know about that until weirdly, Ivo Graham was talking about, was reviewing

00:55:10.740 –> 00:55:17.540
the Huw Stevens Round Table, the track that I played earlier, the Orbital, and said he

00:55:17.540 –> 00:55:21.560
reminded him of that track, and it was like, I’ve never heard that, and I went and checked

00:55:21.560 –> 00:55:23.060
out the Boiler Room.

00:55:23.060 –> 00:55:29.120
For Those I Love is an Irish poet, and he arrives on stage in the Boiler Room, and he

00:55:29.120 –> 00:55:33.440
is really like, wow, yes, it’s like the whole stage is levitating, and everyone’s just so

00:55:33.440 –> 00:55:34.440
into it.

00:55:34.440 –> 00:55:38.760
It was about his friend who died, so I relate to it in the sense that, you know, it’s also

00:55:38.760 –> 00:55:43.520
I Have a Love of clubbing, and I think that’s also in there as well, but also it’s a very

00:55:43.520 –> 00:55:50.100
specific love for someone else, and love for doing spoken word, and love for doing your

00:55:50.100 –> 00:55:51.100
thing.

00:55:51.100 –> 00:55:55.060
And then before that, we had something that was about the lockdown, that’s Marea (We’ve

00:55:55.060 –> 00:56:02.420
Lost Dancing) vs At Night, Switch Disco Edit, and that’s Fred Again featuring the Blessed

00:56:02.420 –> 00:56:07.620
Madonna, and Switch Disco have mixed in some Shakedown, and that seemed to work really well.

00:56:07.620 –> 00:56:10.300
I mean, again, I wanted to play that, but I played the original, but then I found that

00:56:10.300 –> 00:56:13.720
mashup edit, and I was like, oh, that’s perfect.

00:56:13.720 –> 00:56:17.160
It’s a bit weird, yeah, I haven’t heard of Switch, well, it says Switch Disco, I don’t

00:56:17.160 –> 00:56:21.080
know if that’s Switch, as in the Switch producer, or whether it’s Switch Disco or someone else.

00:56:21.080 –> 00:56:24.800
I’m not totally sure, I’m not sure.

00:56:24.800 –> 00:56:28.600
And then before that, I’ve all mentioned Martin Badder and Antony Szmierek with A Place

00:56:28.600 –> 00:56:36.440
to Hide, from 2023, when I was a single, and he’s doing the Manchester Six Music, another

00:56:36.440 –> 00:56:41.860
thing I can’t go to, the 6Music Festival, which is, you know, quite rightly so.

00:56:41.860 –> 00:56:43.460
We love Antony Szmierek here.

00:56:43.460 –> 00:56:50.180
And then before that, we had, it me, Instamatic, not the winner of the Crumplbanger Challenge,

00:56:50.180 –> 00:56:51.340
but I did actually win that challenge.

00:56:51.340 –> 00:56:55.180
It was a challenge to create phonk mashups, and I had not really come across a genre

00:56:55.180 –> 00:57:02.100
called phonk, which seems to be very much using those tomtoms, you know, those tuned 808 tomtoms.

00:57:02.100 –> 00:57:07.120
Quite often, distortion, and it’s sort of this Memphis thing, but Kordhell, who I mashed

00:57:07.120 –> 00:57:09.840
up there, is actually a British producer.

00:57:09.840 –> 00:57:13.920
And that’s Houdini Fatality, Houdini again, I do like Houdini, it’s a brilliant song,

00:57:13.920 –> 00:57:15.640
Dua Lipa versus Kordhell.

00:57:15.640 –> 00:57:22.240
I’ve done like four or five Kordhell mashups in the last month or so, I’m a big fan of

00:57:22.240 –> 00:57:23.240
his work.

00:57:23.240 –> 00:57:29.480
It’s just a very interesting, it’s a bit like more tempo, witch house, or like stream

00:57:29.480 –> 00:57:30.480
thing.

00:57:30.480 –> 00:57:34.980
There’s, there’s 80s references in there, and they use a lot of samples of Memphis

00:57:34.980 –> 00:57:38.140
rappers quite sped up and you can hardly work out what they are.

00:57:38.140 –> 00:57:43.780
I had fun making them more pop, which is probably against their, against their image with all

00:57:43.780 –> 00:57:48.500
the skulls and all the purple skulls and everything to make it all.

00:57:48.500 –> 00:57:52.940
I did a Whitney Houston one, and I did another one, which I’ll play later on.

00:57:52.940 –> 00:57:57.460
And then before that, we had a mashup, which I missed out on, it was just about three months

00:57:57.460 –> 00:58:03.800
ago, or maybe a bit longer now, at Dunproofin’ with Flash, Green Velvet versus Joey Beltram

00:58:03.800 –> 00:58:04.800
versus Queen.

00:58:04.800 –> 00:58:09.960
Oh, I mean, Green Velvet is about being in a club and looking at all of the naughty

00:58:09.960 –> 00:58:12.640
kiddies doing naughty things.

00:58:12.640 –> 00:58:15.320
Who doesn’t like, you know, Queen meeting Acid House?

00:58:15.320 –> 00:58:20.080
I don’t know, is it Joey, Joey Beltram is more techno, isn’t he?

00:58:20.080 –> 00:58:21.080
Techno.

00:58:21.080 –> 00:58:22.960
So yeah, I like that a lot.

00:58:22.960 –> 00:58:29.620
And then before that, we had Tonight in Belfast, Orbital with David Holmes, Mike Garry doing

00:58:29.620 –> 00:58:32.300
the spoken word and DJ Helen.

00:58:32.300 –> 00:58:36.400
And that was a release at the start of February, which is why I know this mix was kind of inspired

00:58:36.400 –> 00:58:40.180
it, but it was like, yeah, it kind of broke off from there and then I wanted to do a Place

00:58:40.180 –> 00:58:43.020
To Hide and I heard that and went, that’s perfect.

00:58:43.020 –> 00:58:48.220
I wanted to do a whole spoken word club mix, but then it became about a thing, obviously.

00:58:48.220 –> 00:58:54.360
I mean, quite emotional. And interestingly, in a similar sense of hiding, although in

00:58:54.360 –> 00:59:00.080
a different sense, more like looking on headphones and getting away from people, we have Bliss

00:59:00.080 –> 00:59:04.080
by Arab Strap, with the new Arab Strap album, which hasn’t been released yet, or I don’t

00:59:04.080 –> 00:59:09.160
know, maybe it’s been released now, but certainly, I don’t think it has been come out yet.

00:59:09.160 –> 00:59:11.240
But yeah, I really like that a lot.

00:59:11.240 –> 00:59:12.240
That’s really, really cool.

00:59:12.240 –> 00:59:16.800
It’s very much about having to react to people living in a city.

00:59:16.800 –> 00:59:20.740
The whole thing about sitting here, you know, having to shut people off and you put on your

00:59:20.740 –> 00:59:25.900
headphones or go hiking and get away and go camping in the middle of a wood somewhere,

00:59:25.900 –> 00:59:27.300
which is another way of doing it.

00:59:27.300 –> 00:59:28.300
It all relates.

00:59:28.300 –> 00:59:29.300
It all relates.

00:59:29.300 –> 00:59:33.740
And the start is actually just a mashup I really like, although it has a similar mood

00:59:33.740 –> 00:59:39.820
to the Arab Strap mix, Sir Hank, with Shades Of Fade To Gray, Visage versus Delaney Jane.

00:59:39.820 –> 00:59:43.700
I don’t know Delaney Jane, but I love how the interplay of those vocals worked really

00:59:43.700 –> 00:59:44.700
well.

00:59:44.700 –> 00:59:49.200
And that is, I wouldn’t say it’s hard to do, it’s half spotting two combinations that

00:59:49.200 –> 00:59:50.200
work really well.

00:59:50.200 –> 00:59:54.240
And the other one is knowing how to interweave them to make a flow narrative.

00:59:54.240 –> 00:59:57.120
And a lot of people get it wrong, they try and chop it all up and it’s all goes.

00:59:57.120 –> 01:00:03.560
And it’s like, no simple respect when it comes to juxtaposing two things to relate to each

01:00:03.560 –> 01:00:04.560
other.

01:00:04.560 –> 01:00:05.560
It’s best to let them breathe.

01:00:05.560 –> 01:00:07.520
Don’t change it to another diva every 30 seconds.

01:00:07.520 –> 01:00:08.520
And I really hate that.

01:00:08.520 –> 01:00:13.520
And when you’ve got a combination that speaks to both bits, that is a good combination.

01:00:13.520 –> 01:00:16.660
And I feel that about that one.

01:00:16.660 –> 01:00:23.540
So we’re going to change track and play some rock, but I have to say this is something

01:00:23.540 –> 01:00:29.380
I heard via, iWillBattle, iWillBattle does a top 10 or did a top 10 for January.

01:00:29.380 –> 01:00:30.860
I’m not, was it February?

01:00:30.860 –> 01:00:31.860
I don’t know.

01:00:31.860 –> 01:00:36.560
I was in the top 10 for mashups for rock, but I can’t remember if it was end of January

01:00:36.560 –> 01:00:41.980
or early February, but, but yes, I was in the top 10 with a track you’ll hear later.

01:00:41.980 –> 01:00:48.640
But he also played this track by, I originally thought it was by Lewis Wake and I was looking

01:00:48.640 –> 01:00:49.640
at Lewis wake’s Bandcamp.

01:00:49.640 –> 01:00:50.640
Where is it?

01:00:50.640 –> 01:00:51.640
Where is it?

01:00:51.640 –> 01:00:52.640
Where is it?

01:00:52.640 –> 01:00:53.640
And it turns out it’s actually by someone called Lewis Scarole.

01:00:53.640 –> 01:00:54.640
I don’t know them.

01:00:54.640 –> 01:01:00.120
I don’t know if they’re a Mashup Reddit person, but this is really cool because I know DJNoNo

01:01:00.120 –> 01:01:04.840
loves and I love Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly’s Moonlight Shadow.

01:01:04.840 –> 01:01:08.280
And I was thinking there wasn’t enough Moonlight Shadow mashups.

01:01:08.280 –> 01:01:12.700
That’s why DJNoNo did theirs with the Pixies and someone’s done one with Bloc

01:01:12.700 –> 01:01:13.700
Party.

01:01:13.700 –> 01:01:16.700
This is Moonlight Banquet.

01:38:19.640 –> 01:38:25.680
That was one of mine that’s TBC aka Instamatic with ‘The Great Grande in the Sky’ Ariana

01:38:25.680 –> 01:38:32.960
Grande as ‘yes and’, versus ‘Pink Floy’ds The Great Gig in the Sky’, then before that

01:38:32.960 –> 01:38:35.460
I think we’re the best moody mash I’ve heard.

01:38:35.460 –> 01:38:42.020
Well, definitely this year if not in a very long time, that’s ToTom with high times on

01:38:42.020 –> 01:38:48.140
Acid Eiffel With Dying Slaves Of Fear In The Sky, that’s Health versus Yungblud and Lil

01:38:48.140 –> 01:38:55.900
Yachty Pink Floyd versus Choice, and that was the winner in, well, when I won the Phonk

01:38:55.900 –> 01:39:02.620
Challenge, I had to judge one and I chose acid house, and that’s like a 13 minute, nearly

01:39:02.620 –> 01:39:08.200
14 minute acid mash-up epic, and it’s probably the longest mash-up I’ve played in this podcast,

01:39:08.200 –> 01:39:13.560
one of them, and I played almost all of it and just mixed out right at the end and start,

01:39:13.560 –> 01:39:18.360
but it is brilliant, I’m really glad ToTom finished that, it’s really good.

01:39:18.360 –> 01:39:24.760
And then before that we heard Caserta with Lights Off, we had a sort of a Alexa section

01:39:24.760 –> 01:39:30.400
because there was this running joke in the Crumplstock about something which PomDeter

01:39:30.400 –> 01:39:35.980
played, which is shouting ‘Alexa, play Pumped Up Kicks’ at a pork pie, there’s a

01:39:35.980 –> 01:39:40.020
video of just an hour of someone doing that, and he played 17 minutes of that and then

01:39:40.020 –> 01:39:46.660
it became a thing and then I ran with it and did a mash-up during the Crumplstock for

01:39:46.660 –> 01:39:53.580
the phonk challenge, so that was the end of January, that was about a month ago, time flies,

01:39:53.580 –> 01:40:00.560
hence that’s what that comes from. So that was DJNo No’s Phonked Up Kicks, Foster The People

01:40:00.560 –> 01:40:05.560
vs. Kordhell vs. Chin Stroke TV, which is the person who did the shouting at a pork

01:40:05.560 –> 01:40:11.360
pie, but then I thought, well, I wanted to play some Negativland, I was going through

01:40:11.360 –> 01:40:17.580
the Live Brain live Negativland shows I was at in 2020, fortunately they had to cancel the

01:40:17.580 –> 01:40:22.880
one recently because of illness, there’s ‘I’m Going To Sing Now (London 2)’, I was

01:40:22.880 –> 01:40:26.740
there for both of them, I think actually, the Weatherman’s singing, but it’s

01:40:26.740 –> 01:40:32.220
all him interacting with Alexa and Okay Google, so it’s funny how it says, that’s why left

01:40:32.220 –> 01:40:36.580
the drum and bass going, it says, ‘Music of the Spheres’ is 180 beats or whatever, in music

01:40:36.580 –> 01:40:42.440
from the cosmos, 180 beats or more, and it’s like, oh, and then before that, aforementioned

01:40:42.440 –> 01:40:47.140
more ‘Jungle’ really, that’s ‘Mirror Method’ by Charla Green, I’ve really been digging

01:40:47.140 –> 01:40:54.320
Charla Green, Charla Green is a Sheffield Jungle drum bass producer, and yeah, I’m

01:40:54.320 –> 01:41:00.680
really liking what she’s producing, so that’s from 2021, check her out, as she has a bit

01:41:00.680 –> 01:41:06.560
of a quiet YouTube channel where she’s making music from various sound and things, but also

01:41:06.560 –> 01:41:14.120
that one is on Off Me Nut Records, Ian Fondue posted the SpongeBob Squarewave,

01:41:14.120 –> 01:41:18.900
an older one of SpongeBob Squarewave, so thanks to Ian Fondue for that, but then I checked

01:41:18.900 –> 01:41:22.680
out the more recent stuff, and hence the intro thing, and that was all relating to the acid

01:41:22.680 –> 01:41:29.480
challenge, and then before that, we had Shahar Varshal with, as it was like heaven, The Cure

01:41:29.480 –> 01:41:34.680
versus Genesis, me and Genesis mashup, so yes, versus Ultravox versus Harry

01:41:34.680 –> 01:41:38.800
Styles, I love that Harry Styles song, I love the Genesis song, but yeah, that

01:41:38.800 –> 01:41:43.400
works pretty well, I mean, you know, I was talking about how things have to have a narrative

01:41:43.400 –> 01:41:47.480
flow or whatever, but they don’t necessarily have to be too chin-strokey or a little bit

01:41:47.480 –> 01:41:51.080
more chop and change, but it’s still, you know, The Cure goes really well with Genesis,

01:41:51.080 –> 01:41:55.320
The Ultravox and Harry Styles, it has a similar mood, or there’s a connection

01:41:55.320 –> 01:41:59.840
there between them, like telling a story, like with a ToTom, finding very disparate things

01:41:59.840 –> 01:42:05.520
that sound similar, and have a similar vibe, I’m going to tell a story, that’s what a

01:42:05.520 –> 01:42:11.720
good multi-mash is, but so many people don’t do it probably, and then at the start section

01:42:11.720 –> 01:42:17.720
we had Lewis Scarole with Mike Oldfield, Moonlight Shadow versus Bloc Party, is it ‘Helicopter’,

01:42:17.720 –> 01:42:22.000
I forget the name of that one, I think it’s ‘Helicopter’, I should know, 2004, 20 years

01:42:22.000 –> 01:42:31.400
ago, again, fitting old, fitting old, so, you know, play a track from Adriana A’s album,

01:42:31.400 –> 01:42:38.880
Adriana she released a album right at the end of 2023 of a collection of mashups created

01:42:38.880 –> 01:42:42.400
over the last year, and there were a lot are related to challenges I think, and it’s, I

01:42:42.400 –> 01:42:53.780
have tried to say it, it’s ‘Imashionationships’, I can’t say that, and this is, I so loved

01:42:53.780 –> 01:42:59.560
seeing Tracy Chapman at the Grammys, I think I posted about it on the blog, RadioClash.com,

01:42:59.560 –> 01:43:03.680
he sold me on Luke Combs really, because before I was a bit like, who is this person,

01:43:03.680 –> 01:43:08.480
kind of dimly knew the name, very big in country, but I was like, hmm, who is this person, and

01:43:08.480 –> 01:43:15.400
you can see the respect and love for Tracy that he has in the performance, and how apparently

01:43:15.400 –> 01:43:20.720
they made it so that Tracy had complete veto, complete agreement over the arrangement, it

01:43:20.720 –> 01:43:26.440
was her chance to shine, it was her thing, you know, they made sure it was about her,

01:43:26.440 –> 01:43:31.120
and we could tell just by the way he was on stage that it was deferring to her, almost

01:43:31.120 –> 01:43:36.040
nervous to sing with her, and it obviously meant a lot to him, and a very moving version,

01:43:36.040 –> 01:43:41.280
so this is, I Keep Forgetting You’ve Got A Fast Car, that’s Luke Combs versus Michael

01:43:41.280 –> 01:43:46.400
MacDonald, a bit of, yacht mashing, yacht mashing, yacht folk, is that a thing?

01:43:46.400 –> 01:43:48.760
I don’t know.

:18.860 –> 02:08:25.440
This is Tony Mason-Cox, hItting The Bottom, from Songs in the Key of Z, Vol 3, I didn’t

02:08:25.440 –> 02:08:31.400
realize that I think they were unofficial that Songs in the Key of Z, 1 and 2 were in

02:08:31.400 –> 02:08:32.400
Tuesday.

02:08:32.400 –> 02:08:36.960
I don’t know if 3 and 4 are how official they are, especially 3 which ends on the four

02:08:36.960 –> 02:08:44.560
tracks by a child rapist, which, you know, I was like, hmm, Google, who is this person?

02:08:44.560 –> 02:08:49.700
Oh, there he is in the sexual offender registry in the United States.

02:08:49.700 –> 02:08:50.700
Yeah, lovely. /s

02:08:50.700 –> 02:08:55.620
So I really wouldn’t buy that album, but I love that.

02:08:55.620 –> 02:09:00.980
It’s kind of like existential and also funny at the same time, which is, you know, perfect.

02:09:00.980 –> 02:09:04.500
I’ve been checking out lots of outside in music recently, and I’ve been hearing a lot

02:09:04.500 –> 02:09:10.260
via PDSMix’s Brave New Weird Show, and it’s all inspired me to go and check them out.

02:09:10.260 –> 02:09:17.040
I have to say, I have mixed feelings because I remember the heyday of WFMU, I mean, still

02:09:17.040 –> 02:09:23.280
going, but you know, the 365 Days Project and those compilations being released, you

02:09:23.280 –> 02:09:28.480
know, and finding Shooby Taylor, and there’s all that sort of stuff, early 2000s, and it

02:09:28.480 –> 02:09:34.320
seems like that used most of the pot, apart from the old thing like that one, but a lot

02:09:34.320 –> 02:09:39.660
after the pot of the good tracks. And now there’s this thing so bad it’s good and just

02:09:39.660 –> 02:09:44.940
bad or me. There’s a lot of stuff I hear that’s outside of music. It’s like the next big thing.

02:09:44.940 –> 02:09:50.060
It’s like, you know, it doesn’t, maybe just something happens when you listen to a lot

02:09:50.060 –> 02:09:54.980
of outside of music. It just becomes not as good as it used to be, but I don’t know.

02:09:54.980 –> 02:09:59.700
Then before that, we had KKill_mR_DJ with, I Wasn’t Made For Surprises, Radiohead versus

02:09:59.700 –> 02:10:05.920
Billie Eilish. Yes, I love the Billie Eilish song. So, and that was kind of obvious, perfect.

02:10:05.920 –> 02:10:09.580
And I was like, Oh, why didn’t I think of that? But then again, I don’t think I’d do

02:10:09.580 –> 02:10:13.940
another Radiohead mesh for a while. I’ve been too many of them. I’ve certainly done several

02:10:13.940 –> 02:10:19.320
so no surprises ones. Then before that, we had iWillBattle with I Lose Control Of You,

02:10:19.320 –> 02:10:24.080
Teddy Swims, which is currently in the charts, I think, versus Nina Simone, who isn’t the

02:10:24.080 –> 02:10:29.640
currently in the charts, but should be. I lose control and I put a spell on you. That

02:10:29.640 –> 02:10:36.380
works very well. Then before that, we had from 1975, the B side of You Sexy Thing is

02:10:36.380 –> 02:10:40.880
the proof of the Hot Chocolate were nore than You Sexy Thing. That’s A Warm Smile that was

02:10:40.880 –> 02:10:45.660
written and performed by the other members of the band. So not Errol Brown, a beautiful

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song and a couple of theirs are really good. Really, I’ve been banging on for ages about

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Hot Chocolate and how you know, I’ve been diving into the B sides and stuff and how they kind

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of got known as being this novelty disco funk act. Every 1’S A Winner. YOu Sexy Thing in

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a very pop disco funk, but they were much, much more from day one. Then before that,

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we had a track kind of by me kind of not that’s TBC aka Instamatic with Boulevard of Broken

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Dreamcoat Green Day versus Boards of Canada. But originally that was done by Reborn Identity

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Gavin in 2008. And I found that version. I was like, this is good, but you know, I want

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the high quality version. So I made it myself. But then I made it different by adding in

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all of the bits of that’s Billie Joe Armstrong at five years old. He recorded a single Live

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To Love, I think it was. And I think one of the Green Day albums, they had a little bit

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of it of the interview on the B side, I used a lot more of it. Boards of Canada Chromakey

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Dreamcoat is the backing. And there aren’t that many mashups of Campfire Headphase at

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all. And there should be a lot more and heard that one and I was ahh. And I also extended it. He didn’t

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do the end section. So it’s, it’s called a Reborn Identity Mostly Reboot because I

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did bits, but it’s, I don’t know. I hate it when people add a little bit and then they

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go, Oh, this is mine. It’s like, that’s not right. Really, you have to completely change

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it or, you know, do the inverse or I even sideeye inverses. If you, if it’s a well

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known combo, just to do an inverse is lazy. I think you really have to nod to somebody.

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If you take their idea and just reverse it, you know, I think flip in reverse it, but

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I know some people would disagree, ‘who did it first?” But it’s just like really, you

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know, the person came out with a combo. You’re just flipping it. Is that really? Yeah. So

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yeah, that’s why I had to credit that because, you know, it’s mostly Reborn Identity’s, but

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you know, I sped it up and did it my way. So it is kind of my take on it. I don’t think

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you can find the original out there. I was looking for it looking for a high quality

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version because I said the version I had was 192 kilobits second. Yeah. Ooh, quality so

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I couldn’t find one. I was like, Oh, I’ll make it. And then, and then I asked Reborn Identity

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whether I could release that and Gavin said yes. So he was very good about it. So brilliant.

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But yes, it seems to have not been making mashups anymore, sadly. And then before that,

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we had Adriana A with, I Keep Forgetting You Got A Fast Car, Luke Combs versus Michael

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McDonald. Yacht folk is a thing. So we reached the end of the podcast. It’s been a weird

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one because as I say, this has been on on this has been in the stack for last at least

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two to three weeks. I just haven’t had time because I’ve been training, training for hiking

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and trying to get my knee working. And I’m going out and doing a group video in a couple

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of weeks or just under us about a week and a half with some YouTube people, hiking YouTube

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people. So I was like, Oh, I really want to make sure everything’s, you know, my knees

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are okay. It sounds like actually there isn’t going to be a long hike, but I didn’t want

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to let anyone down. That’s going to be fun. And I’m going to go back to South Downs Way

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in the next couple of days, hopefully, since my tent repairs dry, head off to Cocking to

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do the Winchester, Cocking to Winchester part. So it’s thirty three miles I last read. It’s 33

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miles. I think that should be all right and do that in about probably not three days.

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I’m not going to rush it this time. So however long it takes, it won’t take a week, but

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it’ll probably take about three or four days, I think, because my tests say that my knees

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fine for at least 12 miles and I’ll be a bit less going up and down hills. And maybe hills

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will be a problem. I’m hoping that’s not true. But we’ll see. So I’ve been trying to treat

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my knee as gently as possible, but you have to kind of use it. You have to keep moving

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and you have to push that envelope of your stock when it’s hurting, but then just see

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how far you can take it. Otherwise, you’re just stuck at home not doing anything and it doesn’t

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get any better. So that’s the weird thing about knees and leg injuries. You have to

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exercise them even if they’re a bit painful or achy, but not so it’s sharp stabby pain.

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It’s kind of a difference between sharp, like we need stop now. And then this is sort of

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the achy and it went a bit backward recently and a walk a couple of days ago, I did like

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four miles and it was like, ouch okay. But I’ve been trying to regularly walk each day

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or so normally resting if it really hurts. And you’re doing like three, four miles a

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day. But we just lose weight and partly just to kind of keep the knee going until I do

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hiking. Otherwise, what happens is you do a long 50 odd miles in a week and then you

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stop and then the knee kind of just goes back to where it was before it locks up a bit,

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you know, so you have to kind of keep exercising it, use it or lose it. So I’m going to play

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out with the track by Flanagan and Allen. This is one of the ones that’s been in and

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out of various podcasts, but I love it greatly. It’s from, I don’t know, is it in 1960, not

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a camera exactly when it came out with it was 1950s or 1960s [1940!]. So this is, Are You Having

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Any Fun? And you probably know it more from other people like Tony Bennett or Morecambe &

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Wise covering it. And yeah, this is Flanagan and Allen. Yes, ‘Underneath The Arches’. This

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is them doing. Are You Having Any Fun?

It’s been a while since I did a Deep Dive, but I finally got round to do another one, this time the joy of being bored in the 1980’s waiting for a loading screen, disco (sorry ‘jazz-funk‘ *cough*) on the radio, feeling like you are a robot in a robot’s world. You might think boredom is a bad thing, but it can actually be good for you!

So, in this episode, I play a mix of songs from the ironic indie pop of Bis to the exotic Turkish folk of Istanbul Sarkicilari and Istanbul Calgicilari, from the soulful disco of Flaming Ember and glam stomp of Raffaella Carra to the futuristic drum and bass of Cyantific and Culture Shock. And err…disco Sound of Music? Anyone?

You cannot be bored with that! Also it’s the shorted episode I’ve done in years…so bonus!

Previous episodes:

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Hello and welcome to Radio Clash, this is 393 and it’s the third part of the Deep Dive

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series, it’s Boredom Could Be Good For You.

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Welcome to the third of the Deep Dive podcast, I last did one in June of last year, and

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I optimistically was like 36x, it goes to show you how long ago I planned this podcast.

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You compared to the last one, it’s a fairly downbeat of the Deep Dive series, which was

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384, ‘Tender Silence of the Night’, this one’s a bit more uptempo, and I love that

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Bis’s paeon to sort of, well I think it’s more 90s, but that’s what waiting for the

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loading screen, so of course we had to use the 8-bit intro.

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Thank you to Lee Spoons for that.

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And if you don’t know, the Deep Dive series is a dive into the tracks that are in the

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archives of Radio Clash, the ‘To Play’ folder, which is over 100 gigabytes big, it’s like

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90 odd gigabytes, because I’m doing video editing, I have to put it onto another folder.

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I did a new sort of tranche of these podcasts, as soon as I recorded this one, this is the

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last one of the first three, and I’ve actually got, yeah, it goes up to Deep Dive 11, because

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I went through 7,000 tracks on that folder, going through, well if I ever go “Oh sod

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this, I’m running out of space, delete” which I might do at some point, I’d better make

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sure I’ve got all the good stuff, it’s amazing how long it is to go through all that.

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A lot of the tracks I play on the Deep Dive series are things which kind of never really

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fit anywhere else, but are really good, I wouldn’t play them otherwise, but they don’t

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play well with others.

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So here is something that PDS Mix plays a lot, and it’s one of my favorites as well.

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I’ve talked a fair bit about disco Pink Floyd, I’m surprised, I haven’t played this probably

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because it was earmarked for this podcast so long ago, and this is Rosebud, named after

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the sled, and 1977’s version of Money, yes this is Disco Pink Floyd Money, and that is

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a really good 12″ but yeah, this isn’t the only Disco Pink Floyd, there’s quite a lot

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actually.

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Yes, song of my youth.

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A band of my youth, really.

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RAH Band, Richard A. Hewson, who is Hunger For Your Jungle Love, I own, Going Up, that’s

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from 1983.

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It’s actually quite a rare bit of vinyl now, but you can get arrested lugging that kind

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of music in the mid-80s, heard them via Clouds Across the Mood in ’85, and went, “Ooh!”

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and then got the best of and then delved back and found the crunch and all of those wonderful

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things.

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But for a long time, you can get arrested for disco that cheesy, but I love it.

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I love the synths and the vocodas and the “Sam the Samba Man” and “Hunger for Your

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Jungle Love.”

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And then before that, we had a bit of a borrowing the title of a few Twitch streams, Disco After

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Dark, more chilled disco thing going on, very much late disco, quite a lot of it.

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They probably call themselves Jazz Funk, that’s what RAH Band got branded.

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Jazz Funk, because they didn’t want to use the D word.

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That’s Surface with “Falling in Love” original mix from 1983 again, the surface were a very,

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very good group.

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The mold of Change and a few others, there was quite a few survivors of the Disco Crash

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who kind of went into different directions, but a bit like High Energy or Jazz Funk, Disco

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kept going, it just got rebranded, and it tended to slow down a bit, because things

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were getting 120, 130, unless it was High Energy, but a lot of the Jazz Funk slowed

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it down a little bit and rebranded itself, but it’s Disco, I mean Jazz Plus Funk, what

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is that?

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Disco.

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And then before that we had Flaming Ember from 1969, that’s Robot in a Robot’s World,

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Holland Dozier Holland written, that’s a B-side actually, from the things that’s good to show

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you this whole sort of AI, oh, robots are taking our jobs, it’s not a new thing.

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Then before that from 1980, we have, and this is going to be fun to pronounce, Koroglu

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Daglari (Sark Bülbülü ) by Istanbul Sarkicilari and Istanbul Calgicilari I think, and that’s

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from one of the Disco Fassl, Disco Folk compilations from 1980, well sampled, you’ve

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probably heard that in samples, there was a few people who were sampling that and other

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tracks from the series, sort of Turkish synth Disco, Koroglu Daglari is Koryaglu Mountains,

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which are in the north of Turkey, so I assume it’s a song about that material, or a lot

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of the Disco Fasil stuff was traditional songs, but don’t know the Disco style.

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And at the start of the session we had Rosebud with Money from 1977, and we’re going to play

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a track by Raffaella Carra, more known for Eurovision, set again with love and you know,

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thinks she won Eurovision or something, was higher and Ducky plays Raffaella Carra songs

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quite a lot, including this one, and this is a Italian classic from 1974, this is Rumore.

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That was Sheila, as in Sheila B. Devotion, with Hotel de la Plage,

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Ou et la plume de ma tante, so that’s 1978. A good year for disco, a very good year for disco.

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Then before that we had, not disco, that was Acidulant with Who’s The Gangster In You,

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from 2020’s MetroJax 4.3 via Balkan Vinyl, and we had a bit of a DJ no-no mix into Harmony Cats,

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Yes, Harmony Cats, the Brazilian disco stars, That’s Entertainment.

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Seems to be a medley of film tracks, there’s Cabaret there, but the real reason I play it is

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disco Sound of Music. Seriously, why has no one done that? Why has no one done a whole disco album

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of Sound of Music? Trust me on this, it’ll be brilliant. I might be the only person who buys

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it, but it’ll be brilliant. Then before that we had Eartha Kitt with Bronski Beat, although that’s

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Jon Boy, Jon Boy, that famous Bronski Beat queer Waltons, actually it’s not complete off track,

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because the grandfather and the Waltons was gay anyway. No, Jon Jon, it’s post

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Jimmy Somerville leaving, but yeah, that’s Cha Cha Heels, and that’s a camp Classic. And of course,

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again, I haven’t locked that one up. I think it’s 1988, but I might be wrong. 1989. Then before that

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we had SL2 with DJs Take Control, but that’s the Shadow Child remix from 2018. And then before

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that we had another pronunciation fun. This is Ooh oOh!, channeling Michael Zager Band or stealing Michael Zager Band.

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That’s Istanbul Sarkicilari & Istanbul Calgicilari from 1978. ayva cicek acmis, I think.

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Apologies to anybody Turkish listening to this. I mean, I had to put the titles into a normal

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character set because actually, track to us is like, no, no, it’s all those sort of special

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umlauts and track to us like, no, I’m not even going to read this title. And in the start section

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we had Raffaella Carra with 1974’s Rumore, which sounds really, that sounds disco, doesn’t it?

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It sounds like disco glam. This looks glam in there. It’s a bit rocky music. It’s very cool.

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And yes, we’re going to sort of up the BPMs a bit. And I’m going to play some German bass at

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you. And you have no choice in this. And we have a couple of fairly recent other, I think the cut

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of point for this mix was 2020, whereas the next bunch is going to be pretty much until, you know,

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up to the point I moved all move the tracks over, which I think was a year ago, especially as I

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hang you onto this for, I don’t know, a year and a half. I think it’s been two years, but may as

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well do some a few newer tracks and old tracks. But yeah, that was my cutoff point about a year ago

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for when I moved over to the NAS drive. And this is Cyantific with Wild Child.

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That was Enya. I usually can’t play Enya

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because she’s on a Universal label, but it turns out this first album is called The Celts.

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It was re-released as Enya in 1987, but originally it was in I think ’85 or ’86, a BBC’s The Celts

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soundtrack. And that’s off that, that’s I Want Tomorrow. And it’s all there, isn’t it? Proto,

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Enya, it’s the CLannad, the DX7, the slide guitar isn’t unusual, doing a solo version of Clannad

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stuff, but with more synthesizers. Then before that we had Phainopepla, and it’s the name of a

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bird, I don’t know how to pronounce it. With Atmosphere, Joy Division’s Atmosphere, and that’s from

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2018’s EP The Wolf at My Door. And I know very little about, almost nothing about Phainopepla,

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apart from it being a bird. And it’s a solo project of somebody called Holly Springhorn.

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It says here on Bandcamp, but really brilliant. I was like opera version, very operatic version

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of Joy Division, so I love that greatly. Then before that, that’s Amii Stewart with Don’t Ever

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Let Me Hear You Say Goodbye. Bit of a long title. Really, it’s by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis,

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who played quite a lot of their soundtracks. Italian juicers did a lot of giallo and Italian TV

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soundtracks. And that’s from 1979’s Killer Fish, Aguato Sul Fondo, it says it, in getting into

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that whole barracuda killer fish. You know, there was a whole load of them. I’ve not seen the film,

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but I love that soundtrack. There’s something very interesting about slowing it down. I mean,

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I do like that sort of slow disco, or I don’t even recall it, it’s not really disco at that point,

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but yeah, sort of the slow ballads of disco. There’s Discord in that, obviously because it’s a horror

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film. It sounds quite a spooky thing, so it’s like spooky disco. Yes. And then before that,

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we had a version of what playing in the background. They Long To Be Close To You. In fact, am I?

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Is this actually the same backing? Maybe it is. Which I use as a bed all the time. It’s Aleksander

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Mazur Quartet & Novi Singers. I think it is this version. Why am I using it as a bed again?

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You hear it again. You will hear it to the end of time. And I used to hate jazz, but you know,

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Carpenters, hello. And then before that, we had Velvet Chain, Beat Box (Diversion 2) from 2004’s

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The Abduction of the Art of Noise. It’s a cover of Beatbox 2. Again, I can’t play the originals

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because ZZT is now a part of Universal. Here it is. Am I playing this as a bed? Because this is

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the thing. There were several things in that last mix. Well, actually, our beds on this podcast,

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I don’t feel they get enough love. So hence playing them. And in fact, I suspect being in this mix

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predates them becoming beds on Radio Clash. So they were here first. So even though I’m playing it

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after many times using them in the background. And then before the Velvet Chain, we had Ihsan

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Al Munzer with the The Joy of Lina (Farha) from, well, I don’t know when it originally came out, from

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2015’s Habibi Funk compilation. But that, again, is another one of the beds that I use regularly

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on Radio Clash. But it’s a track I really love. And you can tell from the last three of these

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Arabic funk and disco were playing heavily on my mind. And there was lots of it in the archives.

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Still is a lot of it. It’s interesting how these things go through phases, how I go through phases

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of really getting into, say, Japanese classical covers or Arabic funk or Turkish disco or, you

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know, that kind of thing. And so it’s very telling and go through some go, oh, yeah, this was this.

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That’s when I was doing a lot of Eastern block covers as well. Hence the Novi singers who were

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Polish. And then before the Joy of Lena, we had Nino Nardini with Tropicola from 1972’s Mindbender.

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Nino Nardini, is that Roger Roger? It’s one of those people who has lots of aliases and does a lot

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of library music. Came from the Exotica world and then was doing more electronic stuff later on.

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Pre all of that, I think. And has done quite atonal startling stuff. But also quite like

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their traditional stuff, but very, very lovely. Exotica mixes very well, I think, from Drum and

01:35:49.300 –> 01:35:56.740
Bass. It’s a double time thing. So before that, we had Culture Shock with Renaissance from 2019’s

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RAM Drum and Bass annual 2020. And then before that, we had Cyantific with Wild Child, a cover

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of Just Be Good to Me. And that’s from 2018’s Bloodline. And yeah, I was very much into Culture

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Shock at that time, I remember. Because I do these things so far in the future, and it’ll

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be the same with the new ones, though obviously there will not be all Arabic disco, be of some,

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but it’s not going to be as prevalent. Because as I say, things shift and so the new stuff is

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very much my take on what I’ve got in my archive collection. So it’s kind of several levels. You

01:36:36.340 –> 01:36:41.460
have like, when I choose the tracks, and when I choose them for a podcast, and when sometimes they

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get like some of these, especially the last three of these, a lot of things are things I’ve been

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taking in and out. And they’re just like a little bit too long, a little bit too strange, a little

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bit too, you know, and I don’t like shaving off the edges of the podcast. So hence why sometimes

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I leave them in. And hence why sometimes I do podcasts like this where I’m intentionally not

01:37:04.820 –> 01:37:10.660
shaving off the weird bits, and going more into deeper dive into things. And it’s really interesting

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there’s quite a lot of mashups in the next Deep Dives, a lot more than they have been in the last

01:37:15.860 –> 01:37:22.580
three. So there’s more mashups mixed in. Because as time goes on, it’s stuff which is for a long

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time ago, which is I’ve completely forgotten about. So anyway, I hope you’re all well. I’m okay. I’m

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still trying to recover my knee, which according to a friend of mine, it’s LCL, the muscles that run

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down the back and the thighs, and the back of the knee, or the adductor muscles. I was wondering

01:37:42.740 –> 01:37:49.460
if it was a hamstring. And so I’ve just been doing gentle walking and exercises and trying to get

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that back over the last nearly three weeks, trying to get back to normal, because it was just so

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painful just just to walk to the shops was really painful. And that’s stopped now it’s now it’ll start

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to ache after a while, after a mile or so. So I have to rebuild the strength back up again, and also

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try to build more strength into that left knee, because that left knee is weaker than the right.

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So I think we won’t try and do 15 mile hikes with a heavy rucksack in the future. Not until I’ve

01:38:20.260 –> 01:38:25.940
got better at this. I mean, it’s weird because I regularly do walk or regularly have walked,

01:38:25.940 –> 01:38:32.260
you know, long distances, just not with all of that weight and pushing myself into that sort of

01:38:32.260 –> 01:38:37.140
deadline. So this is crazy. So I’ve been sort of doing the videos for that for the channel.

01:38:37.140 –> 01:38:44.580
And Red Crumplstock did two sets at Crumplstock. I released an album of best mashups of 2023.

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You can see that on radioclash.com. And I didn’t record my sets, although I think they’re still

01:38:50.340 –> 01:38:55.860
probably up for 14 days on I don’t know if they’ll be up by the time I do this, but they were

01:38:55.860 –> 01:39:00.980
basically, you know, just playing my mashups. I’ve done previously there was there wasn’t so

01:39:00.980 –> 01:39:07.380
much new stuff, although there was the Alexa, Alexa Play Pumped Up Kicks thing, which was

01:39:07.380 –> 01:39:13.700
via the PomDeter set. So that led to a mashup, which then became a running thing. Anyway,

01:39:13.700 –> 01:39:20.820
so a player with a track, which is very much of a certain time, I think this is Charlotte

01:39:20.820 –> 01:39:28.740
Gainsbourg, with a Ring And A Ring Of Roses. And I think I put this in because it is startlingly,

01:39:28.740 –> 01:39:34.500
you know, it’s 2017 from her album Rest, which is a really good album, by the way. And it’s about

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various things, but including the death of her half sister was starting when I heard it again,

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I think when I put this mix together, because I put this mix together post all the pandemic.

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And it seems to be basically about something like that about an emergency situation with

01:39:50.500 –> 01:39:56.420
an obviously Ring A Roses about plague. So yeah, it’s some very strange lyrics in this.

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So anyway, I’ll speak to you soon.

Happy 2024, and is it a Happy New Year? Not for me so far…a busted knee, burn out, and was out hiking in the Big Freeze – thankfully not Storm Isha!

So a belated New Year episode of Radio Clash including some tracks I loved from 2023, a surprising amount of mashups, new wave electro and indie rock, space disco and cosmic funk, tech house and drum and bass, Rock Dolly, downtempo and strangely reflective.

Fire and ice, snow and sun, hot and cold, like my 2024 is running so far.

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Hello welcome to 2 Radio Clash, this is 392, and it’s Burnout and the Big Freeze.

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Hello and welcome to Radio Clash, this is 392, and it’s The Burnout and The Big Freeze,

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and that was The Staves with All Now, which was released a couple of months ago, and I

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heard a lot on 6 Music, and I tend not to repeat what’s on 6 Music, but I heard again

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recently when I was putting together this podcast and I was like, that really sums up

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what my January has been like, the lyrics about “Be the brand empowerment I’m supposed

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to be.

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I’m supposed to be.

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Bitterness is fine only if nobody can see.

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Isn’t it exciting?”

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Yeah.

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I love the sarcasm in that.

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Suddenly check out the video as well.

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Everything is a happy song about, you know, being in the moment.

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Yeah.

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Check out the video, and yeah, you’re not correct at all, and it mentions the new year, so it’s

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got the whole sort of, “You can go wild, dear, but happy new year.

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Have a happy new year.”

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And that’s how I feel about 2024 so far.

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I’ve already screwed up my knee, lost my wireless microphone, and gained it, gone on a 45-mile

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hike, which was supposed to be a 100-mile hike, and then had to bail because of the knee

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and the microphone, and my channel is tanked.

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People have stopped subscribing to my channels, my YouTube channel, my hard-up hiker channel.

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There’s just been a bit of burnout on that, so not only have I been camping in the big

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freeze, I’ve also had the classic content burnout.

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Everything’s supposed to be happy, happy, joy, joy.

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Everything’s supposed to be like, “Yeah, it’s fine”.

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People are slagging me off in the comments.

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It’s fine.

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Everything is going to shit.

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Let’s just play while the Titanic sinks.

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And that seems to be the same in UK politics.

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We’ve just had Blue Monday, and I think a lot of people are struggling, so this is a new

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year’s podcast with probably a bit of an existential twist, but not so existential, though it doesn’t

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mention being old and tired and in the bones is Pimp Daddy Supreme’s Bubble Bottom Girls,

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Queen and Major Laser Featuring Tyga, and I was Tyga, Tyga, with a Y, not that

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Tiga.

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There’s two tigers.

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There’s Tiga with an I, and there’s Tyga with a Y, different person.

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And this is from 2013, and I missed it, but it was played recently, and I was like, “Oh,

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that’s very good”.

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So anyway.

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That was Billy No Mates, with Spite, such an anthem of mine, for a variety of reasons,

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probably because mostly I’m a spite-powered machine, revenge, is it not only a dish served

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cold, but also success is best rend, although the success thing isn’t going so successful

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at the moment, so anyway, that’s it’s downside, and yes, the 6 Music dads that got upset

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with her Glastonbury set can fuck right off.

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Brilliant album, 2023’s Cacti, very kind of downbeat, I hope she hasn’t left the music

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industry.

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Tori Maes, I think, I know it’s Tori, I can’t remember her last name, is Maes, I think.

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But yeah, I mean really, I’ve seen Self Esteem do something pretty similar with a backing,

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you know, but of course, because she’s Milf totty, no, she’s a proper artist.

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No one says anything, even though she’s in total major label whore, so, you know, seriously,

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in 2024, I’d give no fucks, I’m not going to censor myself, but you know, I think Self Esteem

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is seriously overrated massively.

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Very funny when interviewed, it’s a bit like Noel Gallagher, music way, way, way over it.

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And then before that, we had Cherry Laine from 1979, that’s Mamy Blue, and that’s during

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that interesting period where sort of Caribbean, West Indian disco became a thing, we’re kind

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of Boney M, really, do check out Cherry Laine’s work, very kind of space disco, yeah, I mean

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Boney M was quite space disco, cosmic disco, hence, I always call it night flight to Uranus,

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but it’s night flight to Venus, but yeah, it’s an n-joke.

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And then before that, we had Visitor with our lips sealed 12-inch mix from 2003, and

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that is Jon of the Pleased Wimmin, Jon Pleased Wimmin, under an alias, almost made it into

00:32:55.220 –> 00:32:59.980
Terry Hall related episodes, but Electro-ish, Electro-Clash-ish, I don’t know what you would

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call it, cover of Our Lips Are Sealed originally by, well, the Go-Go’s, and then covered by

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Funboy 3 with the Go-Go’s, also Terry Hall did a solo version with Nouvelle Vague, I don’t

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think The Specials ever did it, but yeah, throughout the years it’s ended up coming back in different

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versions.

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Then before that, we had Live Stream Original Mix by Mark Knight, I went through Mark Knight

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deep dive, I don’t know if it was in Fondue, or someone posted up a Mark Knight track and

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went through Mark Knight’s back catalogue, Rene Amesz and Green Velvet on the vocals

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from 2017.

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It’s weird because that’s 2017, it sounds like something should be in 2020, talking about

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everything’s moving to Livestream, you know, people used to look at Caged Animals, which

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is a bit, yeah, but you know that everything seems to have moved online now and live spaces

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are dying.

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I think Prysm in Kingston is under threat because of the company that owns it or entry

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management and Prysm being an ex-cinema or, it was a bingo hall or a cinema music hall

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that became a cinema and then bingo, but around the corner is The Regal, which has been emptied

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for nearly 20 years and all the frontage has been, all the sort of the scaffold has been

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taken down recently and it’s in a real mess and that was a bingo hall, which then was going

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to be a nightclub and it’s just been sitting empty for nearly 20 years.

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Depressing, of course, the Hebron was lost in Kingston, so yeah, it’s kind of like the

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hollowing out of nightlife and it seems to have all gone into online and Twitch and everything

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and although, you know, there is some good, good things from that, but it’s, I’m disturbed

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by that, I have to say, and the ninth thing is when [Beggars] Banquet boasts about that, they

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said, Oh, Prince Fatty, I think, I think it was anquet’s sort of statement was like,

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use it or lose it and it’s like gay spaces and queer spaces. I can’t afford to. This

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is the problem. There’s a whole bunch of people who are priced out of those spaces

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and I think that’s part of the problem really, you know, there’s a whole bunch of us who’d

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love to support those spaces, but when you’ve got like tickets, you know, 10, 20, 30, 50,

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you know, for major artists now, was it 100 quids up to stupid, you know, much higher

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than that because of online touts and, you know, Taylor Swift and all that, you know,

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it’s just this moan about, Oh, well, you know, people should support it. There used to be

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a thing and my favourite club still does this. There used to be a thing called UB40 or Unwaged

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kind of benefits tickets. I still remember those and now it’s like gone, you know, Ducky

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still does this. Most of the time, most of the things don’t do it at all. It’s like,

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well, you know, you pay for a price of fuck off. It means there’s a whole bunch of society

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that can’t afford to go to these spaces and it means, you know, the artists on stage are

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quite often white, middle class, upper class, darlings, Tarquins and Emilies, who could go

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to stage school, who could afford to spend five years, 10 years working on a band or

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whatever, playing to people who are similar like them. And it just means that there’s

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no working class in the creative spaces. And then people moan about diversity. And it’s

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like, well, what did you expect? Anyway, then before that, we had Jo-Lo with Violation.

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That’s quite a surprise. I found that I also went through a deep dive of high energy megatone

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stuff. That’s from 1983. Jo-Lo were a backing group, Jo-Carrol and Lauren Carter, who backed

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a lot of the Megatone releases. Megatone being where Sylvester was on. And sometimes with

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Sylvester actually, I think I’ve heard at least one where Sylvester’s in there in the

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mix. So quite often you’d hear him in backing things as well, but they were the in-house

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female, the backing vocalist, and they had a sort of a brief career doing singles of

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their own. And they wrote that. And I think it’s brilliant, all my like new wave meets

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high energy. It’s kind of got that as a rock. It’s a weird time where like post disco, it’s

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like that rock disco, but then you’ve got high energy as well. So it’s got that new wave

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feel with the lyrics. But yeah, very little dark lyrics for a Megatone high energy release.

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And it sounds more like, yeah, new wave meets high energy. I love it. And then at the start

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of that section, we had Pimp Daddy Supreme with Bubble Bottom Girls, Queen versus Major Lazer

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between Tyga and a little bit of Baby Got Back in there. And I really wish there was,

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I was listening to that and thinking, yes, I do like Big Bottoms and they cannot lie.

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But yeah, I wish there was like a male version, a male version of Big Bottom Boys. I’m sure

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they probably is somewhere. I’m sure someone has done that. It’s the same with the Mamie

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Blue. I wish there was a Daddy Blue on. I wish there was some more gender switch on.

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That would work very well and be probably more appropriate. So I’ve been checking out

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the AC Soul Symphony album called Metamorphosis, which is another 2023 release. There’s a

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few things in here which are kind of, I didn’t want to say, oh, here is a review of the year

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because I want to play all kinds of stuff really, the stuff I’ve been digging. But yeah,

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along with the Billy Nomates album and AC Soul Symphony is Dave Lee, formerly Joey

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N, the Italian for black. And I want, yeah, we changed to Dave Lee because of Black Lives

00:38:30.180 –> 00:38:34.580
Matter. And quite early, so I think I mentioned on the podcast, you know, would call him that

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I was like, it’s a white bloke, come yourself Joey N. And it’s just a bit like, yes, I’m

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glad he’s just Dave Lee. And AC Soul Symphony is his pet project of, I think he got like

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a small orchestra and recreating the joys of disco, but with a modern twist. The album,

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it doesn’t always work, but I like the fact that he’s done a Philadelphia style big, big

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disco epic version of the New Avengers theme. And if you don’t know about New Avengers,

00:39:07.300 –> 00:39:12.700
that was, well, that was the original Avengers, which is John Steed. No, not that Avengers,

00:39:12.700 –> 00:39:19.100
not the Marvel ones, John Steed and Emma Peel and others. The New Avengers was the 70s version

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with Purdy, Joanna Lumley, and the coffee guy, Gareth I’ve forgotten his last name and a few

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others. The theme of it was a sort of a funk disco classic. So this is the Philly Avengers

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by the AC Soul Symphony.

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That was Cherry Glazerr with Shattered from the album I Don’t Want You Anymore,

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and I’m just looking at what that was about, because I must say the album doesn’t hit as

01:21:47.520 –> 01:21:54.960
much as the previous album for me, but the songs are growing on me. It’s a bit like Cacti,

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Billy No Mates. Initially, I was like, “Eh?” Apart from Deathwish, I love them a lot,

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and as I’m listening more, I’m like, “Actually, no, I get this vibe. I understand this vibe.”

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It’s like I wasn’t ready for that vibe in 2023, and 2024 was hit, and it’s like, “Yep,

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this is definitely the vibe,” and it’s about family drama and family bonds, so no wonder I like that.

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And then before that, we had a match from 2024. It’s so weird seeing 2024 on dates on things now,

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I was like, “Oh, it’s 2024.” And that’s Eternal Khaos, Adam B., with Gimme Some Vampires,

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John Lennon versus Olivia Rodrigo. I don’t know what version of that, whether they’re Remix Step,

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or whether there’s a version, because I have done a mash-up with Vampires by Olivia Rodrigo,

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which is basically all by myself. I don’t remember there being a sort of a rocky,

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up-tempo-y bit, but I have a false memory, but I don’t know if there’s a remix. Yeah.

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I was listening to the John Grant first time. He did Reason, which is brilliant, by the way.

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The first time is a six-music series about the first time you came across music and musical

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Milestones, and he’s got a song where he says, “I’m actually quite angry.” You might not think so.

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And yeah, I am very angry with what’s going on at the moment in the world,

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and what’s going on generally. And that might come out with that selection of some of the songs in

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this podcast, because does that give me some truth, which will be nice from politicians and various

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people, leaders generally, everyone. And then we’ve got Billy No Mates with Apathy’s Wild,

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which has the wonderful lyric, “The depths of everything real have shallowed.” The death of

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everything real has happened. Where do you sit in the new world now? And that kind of just sums

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up. We’re going to post COVID, post Brexit, post everything, feeling that there is at the moment.