Four Tet – Unspoken (Promo version)

Meant to post this before, but wasn’t near a computer when Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet dropped this free original promo version of the Four Tet classic ‘Unspoken’ onto Soundcloud (with the original Tori Amos sample intact which had to be changed when she refused clearance).

Rounds is ten years old, and was re-released on vinyl and other formats last week. I remember when that album was released and many of us spent a long time trying to find things to mash it with (which you tend to do with music that jaw-droppingly good), which as you might guess is mostly impossible. But we tried ;-) ‘As Serious As Your Life’ became a theme song of mine back then, along with the excellent Morris-sampling video:

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Mashup videos 5th anniversary

I don’t usually repost stuff, but I was reminded by the ‘Past Clashes’ widget on my front page that I posted my first mashup video 5 years ago today – which was Neon Sex People (Neon Neon vs LaTour vs Depeche Mode) which promptly fell foul of the WMG vs YouTube copyright war, and so the YouTube version still has the wrong audio track…nothing changed there then! Looking at it now it still mostly holds up, although I was using After Effects then and had latency issues on my old machine (I got perfect sync, until I exported…oops!) so I’d tweak that now. We’ve come a long way, baby etc.

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Sunday: zero messages

Sums it up, really. (Audio NSFW, sweary)

BTW Radio Clash Live is down because the host has been taken down by DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack which I assume is some overcompensating micropenis 12 year old script kiddies with too much time on their hands, probably trying to nuke some game server to win some game on WoW. *sigh*

So for the moment RCL is down, and tbh, it might stay that way. Kind of tired of it all…far too detailed to describe here (especially as the ‘first world problem’ response has already been invoked by someone else) but lets just say recently me and social/online media and server woes has invoked a similar response to the video above. Time to retreat I think, for my sanity. I think the first thing is to make my Twitter protected, and setup a Radio Clash twitter for other things – in fact I have done that – the new Radio Clash only twitter is @radioclashbog – update your following lists, because unless I friend you back my personal twitter will be protected.

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Ásgeir Trausti

Support acts are always kind of weird – too close to the main act then they’re boring, too different and the audience isn’t in to it. I was pleasantly surprised by Ásgeir Trausti supporting John Grant at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire – starts out the usual singer-songwriter fare, but then goes more 808-State-meets-post-dubstep, a sort of minimal groove and the bass was nice. He’s working with JG writing english lyrics for his new album, and I think from this production this could break out, Jónsi style.

And his synth player was cute too (what IS it with me fancying random bearded band-members, usually with hats and beards?!? Bassists figure prominently. I was there for the music, HONEST!) Certainly seems that Iceland is all kinds of cool at the moment. Well amazingly apart from their Eurovision entry, less of that said the better…:-/

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