RC 392: The Burn Out & The Big Freeze

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. Big Freezer Burns Day (2:32, 210MB) Listen to RC 392: The Burn Out & The Big Freeze by Radio Clash on hearthis.at The Staves – All Now Pimpdaddysupreme – Bubble Bottom Girls (Queen vs. Major Lazer Feat. Tyga) (Dirty) Jolo – Violation Mark Knight, Rene Amesz, Green Velvet – Live Stream (Original Mix) Visitor – Our Lips Are Sealed [12″ Mix] Cherry Laine – Mamy Blue Billy Nomates – spite AC Soul Symphony – The Philly Avengers Logan Lynn – Here’s to Us Fred V, & Hamzaa – Freefall Ben Double M – Sledgehammer in the Air Tonight Say She She – Questions Antony Szmierek – How Did You Get Here? Chase & Status Feat. Ethan Holt – Hold Your Ground ToToM – Heart of Jolene (Blondie vs Dolly Parton) v2 Billy Nomates – apathy is wild Eternal Khaos – Gimme Some Vampires (John Lennon vs Olivia Rodrigo) Cherry Glazerr – Shattered tbc aka Instamatic – High And Dry Anti-Hero (Taylor Swift vs Radiohead) Low – DJ Hot Chocolate – Put Your Love in Me tbc aka Instamatic – Pagan Weeknd (Die For Your Poetry) (The Weeknd vs Björk) Giac – I’m Not The Way You Are (Billy Joel Vs 10cc) Fennesz – Vacuum Dolly Parton – Purple Rain Willie Nelson – Don’t Give Up (featuring Sinead O’Connor) pomDeter – Grandad Traitor (Clive Dunn vs Olivia Rodrigo) Mighty Mike – What I imagine (Billie Elish vs John Lennon) tbc aka Instamatic – Let It Be What I Was Made For (Billie Eilish vs The Beatles) Freddie Mercury (AI) – Don’t Let The Sun Go Down on Me Transcript WEBVTT 00:00:20.520 –> 00:00:28.040 Hello welcome to 2 Radio Clash, this is 392, and it’s Burnout and the Big Freeze. 00:04:33.760 –> 00:04:43.120 Hello and welcome to Radio Clash, this is 392, and it’s The Burnout and The Big Freeze, 00:04:43.120 –> 00:04:48.240 and that was The Staves with All Now, which was released a couple of months ago, and I 00:04:48.240 –> 00:04:54.280 heard a lot on 6 Music, and I tend not to repeat what’s on 6 Music, but I heard again 00:04:54.280 –> 00:04:58.420 recently when I was putting together this podcast and I was like, that really sums up 00:04:58.420 –> 00:05:03.280 what my January has been like, the lyrics about “Be the brand empowerment I’m supposed 00:05:03.280 –> 00:05:04.280 to be. 00:05:04.280 –> 00:05:05.280 I’m supposed to be. 00:05:05.280 –> 00:05:09.440 Bitterness is fine only if nobody can see. 00:05:09.440 –> 00:05:11.160 Isn’t it exciting?” 00:05:11.160 –> 00:05:12.160 Yeah. 00:05:12.160 –> 00:05:14.120 I love the sarcasm in that. 00:05:14.120 –> 00:05:16.240 Suddenly check out the video as well. 00:05:16.240 –> 00:05:20.760 Everything is a happy song about, you know, being in the moment. 00:05:20.760 –> 00:05:21.760 Yeah. 00:05:21.760 –> 00:05:27.840 Check out the video, and yeah, you’re not correct at all, and it mentions the new year, so it’s 00:05:27.840 –> 00:05:31.720 got the whole sort of, “You can go wild, dear, but happy new year. 00:05:31.720 –> 00:05:32.720 Have a happy new year.” 00:05:32.720 –> 00:05:36.520 And that’s how I feel about 2024 so far. 00:05:36.520 –> 00:05:42.600 I’ve already screwed up my knee, lost my wireless microphone, and gained it, gone on a 45-mile 00:05:42.600 –> 00:05:46.920 hike, which was supposed to be a 100-mile hike, and then had to bail because of the knee 00:05:46.920 –> 00:05:51.240 and the microphone, and my channel is tanked. 00:05:51.240 –> 00:05:55.480 People have stopped subscribing to my channels, my YouTube channel, my hard-up hiker channel. 00:05:55.480 –> 00:05:59.680 There’s just been a bit of burnout on that, so not only have I been camping in the big 00:05:59.680 –> 00:06:03.760 freeze, I’ve also had the classic content burnout. 00:06:03.760 –> 00:06:06.640 Everything’s supposed to be happy, happy, joy, joy. 00:06:06.640 –> 00:06:09.040 Everything’s supposed to be like, “Yeah, it’s fine”. 00:06:09.040 –> 00:06:10.600 People are slagging me off in the comments. 00:06:10.600 –> 00:06:11.600 It’s fine. 00:06:11.600 –> 00:06:12.840 Everything is going to shit. 00:06:12.840 –> 00:06:14.960 Let’s just play while the Titanic sinks. 00:06:14.960 –> 00:06:18.040 And that seems to be the same in UK politics. 00:06:18.040 –> 00:06:22.800 We’ve just had Blue Monday, and I think a lot of people are struggling, so this is a new 00:06:22.800 –> 00:06:29.240 year’s podcast with probably a bit of an existential twist, but not so existential, though it doesn’t 00:06:29.240 –> 00:06:34.840 mention being old and tired and in the bones is Pimp Daddy Supreme’s Bubble Bottom Girls, 00:06:34.840 –> 00:06:40.600 Queen and Major Laser Featuring Tyga, and I was Tyga, Tyga, with a Y, not that 00:06:40.600 –> 00:06:41.600 Tiga. 00:06:41.600 –> 00:06:42.600 There’s two tigers. 00:06:42.600 –> 00:06:45.360 There’s Tiga with an I, and there’s Tyga with a Y, different person. 00:06:45.360 –> 00:06:50.160 And this is from 2013, and I missed it, but it was played recently, and I was like, “Oh, 00:06:50.160 –> 00:06:51.440 that’s very good”. 00:06:51.440 –> 00:06:52.440 So anyway. 00:30:58.880 –> 00:31:06.680 That was Billy No Mates, with Spite, such an anthem of mine, for a variety of reasons, 00:31:06.680 –> 00:31:13.140 probably because mostly I’m a spite-powered machine, revenge, is it not only a dish served 00:31:13.140 –> 00:31:18.980 cold, but also success is best rend, although the success thing isn’t going so successful 00:31:18.980 –> 00:31:25.560 at the moment, so anyway, that’s it’s downside, and yes, the 6 Music dads that got upset 00:31:25.560 –> 00:31:29.180 with her Glastonbury set can fuck right off. 00:31:29.180 –> 00:31:35.420 Brilliant album, 2023’s Cacti, very kind of downbeat, I hope she hasn’t left the music 00:31:35.420 –> 00:31:36.420 industry. 00:31:36.420 –> 00:31:42.800 Tori Maes, I think, I know it’s Tori, I can’t remember her last name, is Maes, I think. 00:31:42.800 –> 00:31:49.120 But yeah, I mean really, I’ve seen Self Esteem do something pretty similar with a backing, 00:31:49.120 –> 00:31:55.540 you know, but of course, because she’s Milf totty, no, she’s a proper artist. 00:31:55.540 –> 00:31:59.880 No one says anything, even though she’s in total major label whore, so, you know, seriously, 00:31:59.880 –> 00:32:04.600 in 2024, I’d give no fucks, I’m not going to censor myself, but you know, I think Self Esteem 00:32:04.600 –> 00:32:07.800 is seriously overrated massively. 00:32:07.800 –> 00:32:12.960 Very funny when interviewed, it’s a bit like Noel Gallagher, music way, way, way over it. 00:32:12.960 –> 00:32:19.640 And then before that, we had Cherry Laine from 1979, that’s Mamy Blue, and that’s during 00:32:19.640 –> 00:32:25.400 that interesting period where sort of Caribbean, West Indian disco became a thing, we’re kind 00:32:25.400 –> 00:32:30.740 of Boney M, really, do check out Cherry Laine’s work, very kind of space disco, yeah, I mean 00:32:30.740 –> 00:32:36.900 Boney M was quite space disco, cosmic disco, hence, I always call it night flight to Uranus, 00:32:36.900 –> 00:32:40.500 but it’s night flight to Venus, but yeah, it’s an n-joke. 00:32:40.500 –> 00:32:47.260 And then before that, we had Visitor with our lips sealed 12-inch mix from 2003, and 00:32:47.260 –> 00:32:55.220 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 00:32:59.980 –> 00:33:07.900 call it, cover of Our Lips Are Sealed originally by, well, the Go-Go’s, and then covered by 00:33:07.900 –> 00:33:13.960 Funboy 3 with the Go-Go’s, also Terry Hall did a solo version with Nouvelle Vague, I don’t 00:33:13.960 –> 00:33:17.860 think The Specials ever did it, but yeah, throughout the years it’s ended up coming back in different 00:33:17.860 –> 00:33:18.860 versions. 00:33:18.860 –> 00:33:24.340 Then before that, we had Live Stream Original Mix by Mark Knight, I went through Mark Knight 00:33:24.340 –> 00:33:29.780 deep dive, I don’t know if it was in Fondue, or someone posted up a Mark Knight track and 00:33:29.780 –> 00:33:35.820 went through Mark Knight’s back catalogue, Rene Amesz and Green Velvet on the vocals 00:33:35.820 –> 00:33:36.820 from 2017. 00:33:36.820 –> 00:33:41.860 It’s weird because that’s 2017, it sounds like something should be in 2020, talking about 00:33:41.860 –> 00:33:47.460 everything’s moving to Livestream, you know, people used to look at Caged Animals, which 00:33:47.460 –> 00:33:53.060 is a bit, yeah, but you know that everything seems to have moved online now and live spaces 00:33:53.060 –> 00:33:54.060 are dying. 00:33:54.060 –> 00:33:59.620 I think Prysm in Kingston is under threat because of the company that owns it or entry 00:33:59.620 –> 00:34:06.180 management and Prysm being an ex-cinema or, it was a bingo hall or a cinema music hall 00:34:06.180 –> 00:34:12.620 that became a cinema and then bingo, but around the corner is The Regal, which has been emptied 00:34:12.620 –> 00:34:16.780 for nearly 20 years and all the frontage has been, all the sort of the scaffold has been 00:34:16.780 –> 00:34:21.700 taken down recently and it’s in a real mess and that was a bingo hall, which then was going 00:34:21.700 –> 00:34:25.900 to be a nightclub and it’s just been sitting empty for nearly 20 years. 00:34:25.900 –> 00:34:31.260 Depressing, of course, the Hebron was lost in Kingston, so yeah, it’s kind of like the 00:34:31.260 –> 00:34:36.420 hollowing out of nightlife and it seems to have all gone into online and Twitch and everything 00:34:36.420 –> 00:34:41.820 and although, you know, there is some good, good things from that, but it’s, I’m disturbed 00:34:41.820 –> 00:34:47.100 by that, I have to say, and the ninth thing is when [Beggars] Banquet boasts about that, they 00:34:47.100 –> 00:34:52.580 said, Oh, Prince Fatty, I think, I think it was anquet’s sort of statement was like, 00:34:52.580 –> 00:34:57.740 use it or lose it and it’s like gay spaces and queer spaces. I can’t afford to. This 00:34:57.740 –> 00:35:01.220 is the problem. There’s a whole bunch of people who are priced out of those spaces 00:35:01.220 –> 00:35:05.580 and I think that’s part of the problem really, you know, there’s a whole bunch of us who’d 00:35:05.580 –> 00:35:14.140 love to support those spaces, but when you’ve got like tickets, you know, 10, 20, 30, 50, 00:35:14.140 –> 00:35:20.260 you know, for major artists now, was it 100 quids up to stupid, you know, much higher 00:35:20.260 –> 00:35:24.740 than that because of online touts and, you know, Taylor Swift and all that, you know, 00:35:24.740 –> 00:35:29.580 it’s just this moan about, Oh, well, you know, people should support it. There used to be 00:35:29.580 –> 00:35:36.740 a thing and my favourite club still does this. There used to be a thing called UB40 or Unwaged 00:35:36.740 –> 00:35:43.140 kind of benefits tickets. I still remember those and now it’s like gone, you know, Ducky 00:35:43.140 –> 00:35:47.780 still does this. Most of the time, most of the things don’t do it at all. It’s like, 00:35:47.780 –> 00:35:51.820 well, you know, you pay for a price of fuck off. It means there’s a whole bunch of society 00:35:51.820 –> 00:35:56.220 that can’t afford to go to these spaces and it means, you know, the artists on stage are 00:35:56.220 –> 00:36:03.180 quite often white, middle class, upper class, darlings, Tarquins and Emilies, who could go 00:36:03.180 –> 00:36:07.300 to stage school, who could afford to spend five years, 10 years working on a band or 00:36:07.300 –> 00:36:11.820 whatever, playing to people who are similar like them. And it just means that there’s 00:36:11.820 –> 00:36:15.780 no working class in the creative spaces. And then people moan about diversity. And it’s 00:36:15.780 –> 00:36:23.860 like, well, what did you expect? Anyway, then before that, we had Jo-Lo with Violation. 00:36:23.860 –> 00:36:29.820 That’s quite a surprise. I found that I also went through a deep dive of high energy megatone 00:36:29.820 –> 00:36:36.340 stuff. That’s from 1983. Jo-Lo were a backing group, Jo-Carrol and Lauren Carter, who backed 00:36:36.340 –> 00:36:43.740 a lot of the Megatone releases. Megatone being where Sylvester was on. And sometimes with 00:36:43.740 –> 00:36:46.900 Sylvester actually, I think I’ve heard at least one where Sylvester’s in there in the 00:36:46.900 –> 00:36:52.180 mix. So quite often you’d hear him in backing things as well, but they were the in-house 00:36:52.180 –> 00:36:57.140 female, the backing vocalist, and they had a sort of a brief career doing singles of 00:36:57.140 –> 00:37:02.860 their own. And they wrote that. And I think it’s brilliant, all my like new wave meets 00:37:02.860 –> 00:37:07.740 high energy. It’s kind of got that as a rock. It’s a weird time where like post disco, it’s 00:37:07.740 –> 00:37:12.260 like that rock disco, but then you’ve got high energy as well. So it’s got that new wave 00:37:12.260 –> 00:37:20.460 feel with the lyrics. But yeah, very little dark lyrics for a Megatone high energy release. 00:37:20.460 –> 00:37:26.220 And it sounds more like, yeah, new wave meets high energy. I love it. And then at the start 00:37:26.220 –> 00:37:30.940 of that section, we had Pimp Daddy Supreme with Bubble Bottom Girls, Queen versus Major Lazer 00:37:30.940 –> 00:37:36.820 between Tyga and a little bit of Baby Got Back in there. And I really wish there was, 00:37:36.820 –> 00:37:40.100 I was listening to that and thinking, yes, I do like Big Bottoms and they cannot lie. 00:37:40.100 –> 00:37:46.580 But yeah, I wish there was like a male version, a male version of Big Bottom Boys. I’m sure 00:37:46.580 –> 00:37:51.220 they probably is somewhere. I’m sure someone has done that. It’s the same with the Mamie 00:37:51.220 –> 00:37:55.580 Blue. I wish there was a Daddy Blue on. I wish there was some more gender switch on. 00:37:55.580 –> 00:38:01.460 That would work very well and be probably more appropriate. So I’ve been checking out 00:38:01.460 –> 00:38:07.740 the AC Soul Symphony album called Metamorphosis, which is another 2023 release. There’s a 00:38:07.740 –> 00:38:12.940 few things in here which are kind of, I didn’t want to say, oh, here is a review of the year 00:38:12.940 –> 00:38:18.340 because I want to play all kinds of stuff really, the stuff I’ve been digging. But yeah, 00:38:18.340 –> 00:38:24.660 along with the Billy Nomates album and AC Soul Symphony is Dave Lee, formerly Joey 00:38:24.660 –> 00:38:30.180 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 00:38:34.580 –> 00:38:41.420 I was like, it’s a white bloke, come yourself Joey N. And it’s just a bit like, yes, I’m 00:38:41.420 –> 00:38:47.980 glad he’s just Dave Lee. And AC Soul Symphony is his pet project of, I think he got like 00:38:47.980 –> 00:38:55.140 a small orchestra and recreating the joys of disco, but with a modern twist. The album, 00:38:55.140 –> 00:39:01.740 it doesn’t always work, but I like the fact that he’s done a Philadelphia style big, big 00:39:01.740 –> 00:39:07.300 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 00:39:19.100 –> 00:39:26.820 with Purdy, Joanna Lumley, and the coffee guy, Gareth I’ve forgotten his last name and a few 00:39:26.820 –> 00:39:32.020 others. The theme of it was a sort of a funk disco classic. So this is the Philly Avengers 00:39:32.020 –> 00:39:36.540 by the AC Soul Symphony. 01:21:34.480 –> 01:21:41.120 That was Cherry Glazerr with Shattered from the album I Don’t Want You Anymore, 01:21:41.120 –> 01:21:47.520 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, 01:21:54.960 –> 01:22:00.960 Billy No Mates. Initially, I was like, “Eh?” Apart from Deathwish, I love them a lot, 01:22:02.240 –> 01:22:06.480 and as I’m listening more, I’m like, “Actually, no, I get this vibe. I understand this vibe.” 01:22:06.480 –> 01:22:12.080 It’s like I wasn’t ready for that vibe in 2023, and 2024 was hit, and it’s like, “Yep, 01:22:12.080 –> 01:22:19.680 this is definitely the vibe,” and it’s about family drama and family bonds, so no wonder I like that. 01:22:19.680 –> 01:22:24.720 And then before that, we had a match from 2024. It’s so weird seeing 2024 on dates on things now, 01:22:24.720 –> 01:22:31.920 I was like, “Oh, it’s 2024.” And that’s Eternal Khaos, Adam B., with Gimme Some Vampires, 01:22:31.920 –> 01:22:38.560 John Lennon versus Olivia Rodrigo. I don’t know what version of that, whether they’re Remix Step, 01:22:38.560 –> 01:22:43.360 or whether there’s a version, because I have done a mash-up with Vampires by Olivia Rodrigo, 01:22:43.360 –> 01:22:49.680 which is basically all by myself. I don’t remember there being a sort of a rocky, 01:22:49.680 –> 01:22:55.440 up-tempo-y bit, but I have a false memory, but I don’t know if there’s a remix. Yeah. 01:22:55.440 –> 01:23:00.160 I was listening to the John Grant first time. He did Reason, which is brilliant, by the way. 01:23:00.160 –> 01:23:05.040 The first time is a six-music series about the first time you came across music and musical 01:23:05.040 –> 01:23:11.360 Milestones, and he’s got a song where he says, “I’m actually quite angry.” You might not think so. 01:23:11.360 –> 01:23:16.400 And yeah, I am very angry with what’s going on at the moment in the world, 01:23:16.400 –> 01:23:22.480 and what’s going on generally. And that might come out with that selection of some of the songs in 01:23:22.480 –> 01:23:29.200 this podcast, because does that give me some truth, which will be nice from politicians and various 01:23:29.200 –> 01:23:35.040 people, leaders generally, everyone. And then we’ve got Billy No Mates with Apathy’s Wild, 01:23:35.040 –> 01:23:39.840 which has the wonderful lyric, “The depths of everything real have shallowed.” The death of 01:23:39.840 –> 01:23:44.720 everything real has happened. Where do you sit in the new world now? And that kind of just sums 01:23:44.720 –> 01:23:51.760 up. We’re going to post COVID, post Brexit, post everything, feeling that there is at the moment. 01:23:51.760 –> 01:23:57.920 And it doesn’t feel like 2024 is… I was hoping for something better, but it looks like it’s just 01:23:57.920 –> 01:24:04.080 more of the same shit, really. Then before that, we had ToTom. I’m very glad he released his mashup 01:24:04.080 –> 01:24:12.320 finally. This is Heart of Jolene, Blondie versus Dolly Parton, version two. And that’s from his 01:24:12.320 –> 01:24:19.840 release, mashups 2023. So we have a bit of a round of 23 in that section. Before that, although it’s 01:24:19.840 –> 01:24:25.360 from 2022, I didn’t really hear until 2023. That’s Chase and Status featuring Ethan Holt with Hold 01:24:25.360 –> 01:24:30.880 Your Ground. That is such an anthem for me at the moment from 2022 is what came before. I did listen 01:24:30.880 –> 01:24:37.360 to their mixtape. Dunproofin mentioned it. And a lot of Jungle stylings, but it didn’t hit as much 01:24:37.360 –> 01:24:42.560 as that song for me. That was the one where I was like, “Yeah, that says it. That says what I need to 01:24:42.560 –> 01:24:48.880 hear. That resonates with me.” I feel that the album’s a little bit more better than the mixtape, 01:24:48.880 –> 01:24:56.800 but anyway. And then before that, someone who was my 2023 and 2022, I was saying, but certainly 01:24:56.800 –> 01:25:04.320 2023 loved pretty much everything he released as Anthony Smirak with How Do You Get Here? 01:25:04.320 –> 01:25:11.280 Such a funky disco. It feels disco that number. Disco rap. I don’t know. Disco rap is the thing. 01:25:11.280 –> 01:25:17.440 And then before that, we had a band, again, all over 2023 and also my 2022, I think, really. But 01:25:17.440 –> 01:25:22.080 a lot of their music seemed to get proper releases because the album, like Silver, 01:25:22.080 –> 01:25:27.280 was released at the end of 2022. But no one could get it. It was impossible to get. It was 01:25:27.280 –> 01:25:33.680 re-released. That says you see with questions. And I so love that they’re getting the love they 01:25:33.680 –> 01:25:39.200 deserve from various places, 6 Music, all over the shop. They’re getting love and they should do. 01:25:39.200 –> 01:25:44.640 And then before that, we had Ben Double M, the much-missed Austrian 01:25:44.640 –> 01:25:49.360 mashup producer. That’s Sledgehammer In The Air Tonight I heard that via, I think, 01:25:49.360 –> 01:25:54.160 Pimp Daddy Supreme. I’m not sure when it came out because that’s a naughty YouTube rip because I 01:25:54.160 –> 01:26:00.560 can’t find that anywhere. So that’s 2013, I think. That might be wrong. It’s not even in the Bootleg 01:26:00.560 –> 01:26:06.400 rchive. There are quite a lot of Ben Double M tracks I don’t have. Then before that, we had 01:26:06.400 –> 01:26:12.480 Fred V and Hamzaa, another one song that’s just kind of haunted my iPod and has been like CHOON. 01:26:12.480 –> 01:26:18.320 That’s Freefall from 2023’s 500. Hospital did a release called 500. 01:26:18.320 –> 01:26:26.240 And so I can’t remember if, I think that is from 2023, but it’s part of that sort of compilation. 01:26:27.920 –> 01:26:33.360 Well, we’re checking out that, by the way, the 500 from Hospital Records. It’s always great, 01:26:33.360 –> 01:26:37.920 check out anything, any compilation from Hospital Records if you like Drum and Bass. 01:26:37.920 –> 01:26:44.160 And if you don’t like Drum and Bass, why are you here? Then before that, we had Logan Lynn 01:26:44.160 –> 01:26:50.640 with Here’s to Us, and again, another anthem of mine. It feels very New Year’s-y. It feels 01:26:50.640 –> 01:26:57.680 like a New Year’s track. That’s from New Money from 2022. And then I mentioned at Star Wars, 01:26:57.680 –> 01:27:03.120 actually, we had AC Soul Symphony with the Philly Avengers from 2023’s Metamorphosis. 01:27:03.120 –> 01:27:08.160 And that was probably my introduction, the New Avengers, that sort of disco funk thing, 01:27:08.160 –> 01:27:13.120 I think. It was probably the first time I heard funk was probably that, the New Avengers soundtrack, 01:27:13.120 –> 01:27:19.120 you know, and I loved it greatly. So I’m glad he did that. So we’re going to play a track of mine, 01:27:19.120 –> 01:27:26.880 because some of my tracks of 2022 and 2023 never really got much love, even on here. 01:27:26.880 –> 01:27:32.720 And weirdly, I never played them, partly because this came out and then someone else kind of beat 01:27:32.720 –> 01:27:39.600 me to it. And so I just abandoned it. So there’s a couple of 2022 TBC tracks that never really 01:27:39.600 –> 01:27:44.960 had the love that they should really have deserved. And there’s a new one at the end. 01:27:45.920 –> 01:27:51.600 Yeah, I haven’t replayed any of my mashups in this podcast. And I usually played two or three 01:27:51.600 –> 01:27:57.360 of mine. In fact, if that ended up, they were all the damn tempo ones. Yay, some people say. 01:27:57.360 –> 01:28:04.480 But I don’t care, it’s my podcast. So this is High and Dry Antihero, Taylor Swift versus Radiohead. 01:28:04.480 –> 01:28:09.120 I’m very proud of the vocal production on this. No I’m sure audio geekery no-one gives a 01:28:09.120 –> 01:28:13.920 fuck. But yeah, some of the echoes, I was listening to it going “Yes, you did a good job there”, but 01:28:14.480 –> 01:28:18.320 not that anyone cares. So anyway, this is TBC aka Instamatic. 02:16:36.080 –> 02:16:44.400 And that was TBC aka Instamatic, with ‘Let It Be What I Was Made For’. 02:16:44.400 –> 02:16:51.440 I finally saw the Barbie movie, which provoked that mash-up. If you’ve seen the movie, the whole 02:16:51.440 –> 02:16:58.640 Gloria speech and that, it’s very moving. But also, I liked the song before I saw the movie, 02:16:58.640 –> 02:17:05.520 because the lyrics… Well, they have a lot of personal reference. I don’t know how to feel, 02:17:05.520 –> 02:17:10.480 but I want to try. It’s very much an expression of depression. I think I’ve got to be happy, 02:17:10.480 –> 02:17:15.920 but something I’m not, something I can be, something I wait for, something I’m made for. 02:17:15.920 –> 02:17:20.640 When I first heard that song, there’s existential things in there, but also I had to make depression 02:17:20.640 –> 02:17:28.560 and wanting to change, and wanting to be happy, which is a theme of 2034 so far. And then before 02:17:28.560 –> 02:17:33.680 the mashup, they inspired it. Although, accidentally, I wasn’t intending to create a version 02:17:33.680 –> 02:17:38.800 of it. It just happened, and I had to say to myself, “Yeah, obviously, it’s subconscious 02:17:38.800 –> 02:17:44.080 inspiration”, because I wanted to do something with the Billie Eilish vocals, and then I found 02:17:44.080 –> 02:17:48.800 a Beatles track, rather than the Lennon track. So that was what I imagined Billie Eilish versus 02:17:48.800 –> 02:17:52.400 John Lennon. I mean, there’s only one mashup. I was trying to get that sort of interplay with 02:17:52.400 –> 02:17:57.680 the vocals, which I think is in the mighty mic as well, that call and response of saying, 02:17:57.680 –> 02:18:03.120 “Let it be, let it be.” Whisper words of wisdom, yeah, whisper, Billie Eilish whisper words of 02:18:03.120 –> 02:18:07.200 wisdom, “Let it be.” It’s okay. You’re working it out. So it’s going to almost measure myself. 02:18:07.200 –> 02:18:13.280 Some of my mashups are like that. Then before that, we had Grandad Traitor. That was a very late 02:18:13.280 –> 02:18:20.000 addition to this podcast, but I was listening to it today, and he won the Crumplbanger Discord 02:18:20.000 –> 02:18:28.000 Challenge, and that’s Clive Dunn versus Olivia Rodrigo by PomDeter, just 2023, right at the end. 02:18:28.000 –> 02:18:33.360 I find the whole Grandad song was rather cloying, but it works very well with that backing. 02:18:33.360 –> 02:18:39.520 I also never realised how much there’s sort of talking about history, although it was only 50, 02:18:39.520 –> 02:18:46.800 so I’m not sure if he could have remembered a time without cars, because he was only 51, 52, 02:18:46.800 –> 02:18:52.640 and that other single was a hit. So I don’t know, maybe, because it was I think it hit a couple 02:18:52.640 –> 02:18:58.240 of times, but I think it was in the ’70s, so maybe ’20s. There was a hit with, there was a Grandma 02:18:58.240 –> 02:19:01.920 track, which is a kind of version, I think they hit again in the ’80s, I think, if I remember 02:19:01.920 –> 02:19:08.080 correctly. Before that, we had Don’t Give Up, featuring Sinead O’Connor, that’s Willie Nelson. 02:19:08.080 –> 02:19:13.840 And there’s an interesting story about that track, because in 1993, just after she, quite rightly, 02:19:13.840 –> 02:19:21.040 tore a picture of the Pope up on SNL and was right about what was going on, and she never got 02:19:21.040 –> 02:19:26.960 apology for any of that. She was booed famously at a Bob Dylan concert, and I think, I’m not sure 02:19:26.960 –> 02:19:31.280 if someone was conflating, because I’m not sure why she would have been covering that track with 02:19:31.280 –> 02:19:35.760 Willie Nelson at the Bob Dylan concert, but apparently she did, and it was pulled from the 02:19:35.760 –> 02:19:41.760 recording, maybe because of what happened. But the next day, Willie Nelson, being Willie Nelson, 02:19:41.760 –> 02:19:48.880 asked her to record it with him for his album across the broadline. And that’s such a Willie 02:19:48.880 –> 02:19:53.360 Nelson thing to do, you know, he saw what was happening, wanted to give her a message of Don’t 02:19:53.360 –> 02:19:58.880 Give Up, you know, and I’m so sure that’s probably what he was intending to send that message to her, 02:19:58.880 –> 02:20:04.640 that, yeah, Don’t Give Up, almost guaranteed that was him. He’s a good human. And I’d say, 02:20:04.640 –> 02:20:09.040 thank you to Naomi for posting that onto Facebook yesterday, I think it was. Yeah, 02:20:09.040 –> 02:20:14.560 that’s going in last minute. And then before that, from the new Rockstar album, we had Dolly 02:20:14.560 –> 02:20:18.800 Parton with Purple Rain, a brilliant cover. There are a couple of really good songs on there. 02:20:18.800 –> 02:20:24.640 I would say it’s a bit overdone with the celebrity cameos, but I would kind of prefer 02:20:24.640 –> 02:20:31.520 there was less of that, though Wrecking Ball is brilliant because Dolly is Miley’s Godmother, 02:20:31.520 –> 02:20:35.920 good feel on that one. But a lot of them, you know, thinking she does Every Breath You Take and 02:20:35.920 –> 02:20:39.920 string turns up and you’re like, I’d actually prefer this without Sting, actually. I’m not 02:20:39.920 –> 02:20:44.000 sure how Prince would have felt about that cover, but I think it’s a really good cover. 02:20:44.000 –> 02:20:49.440 And of course, Stairway is on there and she did Stairway years ago. So it all of this like, oh, 02:20:49.440 –> 02:20:54.560 I don’t feel rock and roll enough to be in the rock and roll whole of fame, which is bollocks. 02:20:55.040 –> 02:20:58.000 But there’s a reason why she did the album, which is like, okay, I’ll do a rock album, 02:20:58.000 –> 02:21:02.720 which is a brilliant, brilliant thing, brilliant idea. And as I say, it doesn’t all work, 02:21:02.720 –> 02:21:08.400 but when it does, it’s very good. It’s, you know, it’s Dolly. Dolly never does terrible things. 02:21:08.400 –> 02:21:16.080 Dolly is always always quality. And then before that, we had Fennesz from 2008 Black Sea. That’s 02:21:16.080 –> 02:21:22.720 Vacuum. Black Sea and it’s the one with Venice. And obviously everyone knows in last summer, 02:21:22.720 –> 02:21:27.280 I went to a stage of checking out Fennesz’s albums, Christine Fennesz , the Austrian 02:21:27.280 –> 02:21:31.680 electroacoustic artist stage. The scribe is like a guitarist, but, you know, just glitchy 02:21:31.680 –> 02:21:38.320 electronica. And then before that, we had Giac, where I’m not the way you are, 02:21:38.320 –> 02:21:43.440 Billy Joel versus 10CC. There’s a couple of matchups in this podcast, which I usually wouldn’t 02:21:43.440 –> 02:21:49.600 play because of technical issues. And that’s one of them because not to sure about, I understand 02:21:49.600 –> 02:21:55.040 why, but I think the instrumental is pitched a bit too low, but obviously to try and keep 02:21:55.040 –> 02:21:59.840 the Billy Joel vocal at the normal pitch. I don’t know, it kind of works. I kind of like the sort 02:21:59.840 –> 02:22:06.000 of woozy nature of it, but it is slightly off-putting when you first hear that. A few other ones, 02:22:06.000 –> 02:22:10.000 like I wanted to play a Happy New Year by ABBA mashup, but there’s key issues. And I was like, 02:22:10.000 –> 02:22:16.480 yeah, I can overlook some things. It feels very crumpl or whatever, but sometimes it’s just, 02:22:16.480 –> 02:22:21.280 I can’t, I just can’t. I’m surprised there aren’t more about Happy New Year mashups. I mean, I did 02:22:21.280 –> 02:22:27.520 one, there’s that one, and there’s not that many more. It’s bizarre. It’s a brilliant track, and it’s 02:22:27.520 –> 02:22:32.480 sums up how I feel about Happy New Year. It’s depressing, but it’s kind of like, 02:22:32.480 –> 02:22:36.880 of course, that sort of like, that sort of end of the party feel, and that’s how I feel, man. 02:22:36.880 –> 02:22:43.360 And then before that, we had one of mine, which is TBC aka Instamatic Pagan Weeknd, Die for 02:22:43.360 –> 02:22:48.960 Your Poetry, The Weekend versus Bjork. That’s one of the ones I didn’t play because it has a very, 02:22:48.960 –> 02:22:57.600 very, very deep, dark personal, it’s actually about a specific weekend. And I’m not going to go into 02:22:57.600 –> 02:23:02.320 why. It’s just, it was a crush on somebody who was never going to reciprocate. Yeah, those emotions 02:23:02.320 –> 02:23:10.560 can be very strong sometimes. A lot of my TBC aka mashups are like that. When people go, 02:23:11.680 –> 02:23:16.560 they’re like, meh. And I’m like, but, you know, of course, people don’t get the emotion behind it 02:23:16.560 –> 02:23:23.840 because they weren’t there. So, and then before that, we had Hot Chocolate with Put You Love In Me, 02:23:23.840 –> 02:23:29.040 which I used in the Psychodelidisco mix, but, you know, I’ve never actually played on a 02:23:29.040 –> 02:23:35.040 podcast. So your mixes don’t disqualify. It’s if it’s been on a previous podcast. And that’s from 02:23:35.040 –> 02:23:41.680 I think that was a single. And it just sounds so bizarre. In a wonderful way, like 02:23:41.680 –> 02:23:48.800 Arabic Cosmic Disco, but there’s no real beat to it. There is, on Discog, someone said about 02:23:48.800 –> 02:23:54.640 no kick drum. There is a kick drum, it’s just well buried. And it’s not a 4/4 either. It’s very dubby 02:23:54.640 –> 02:24:01.840 feel to it. It’s more dub than disco or funk in a lot of ways. Hot Chocolate were very experimental. 02:24:01.840 –> 02:24:09.920 This tends to get forgotten. Then before that, we had Low with DJ from 2015 ones and sixes. 02:24:09.920 –> 02:24:16.160 We really miss Low, which you know more because of the death of Mimi Parker. I love that lyric. 02:24:16.160 –> 02:24:21.120 You know, “you got to shake that. I’m not your DJ”. You know, “I’m not a DJ. You could shake that”. 02:24:21.120 –> 02:24:27.200 They’re a bit like Bowie’s “I’m a DJ. I am what I play”. I’m the foundational lyrics for me, 02:24:27.200 –> 02:24:32.080 especially when people think that I’m some kind of jukebox, which is like, yeah. And at the start of that 02:24:32.080 –> 02:24:38.240 section, we had TBC aka Instamatic with High And Dry Anti-Hero, Taylor Swift versus Radiohead. 02:24:38.240 –> 02:24:44.000 So, we reached the end of the podcast. I hope you enjoyed it. I’m not sure enjoyment is the 02:24:44.000 –> 02:24:51.680 right word. I hope you’re all well. As I say, my toy is very forcefully a bit weird. 02:24:51.680 –> 02:24:59.840 Lots been happening, but lots not really getting anywhere. Yeah. And as I said, I rent my knee. 02:24:59.840 –> 02:25:06.480 So, I was hoping to do more hiking and more camping, even in the cold weather, just to kind of get 02:25:06.480 –> 02:25:13.200 out of the house. And I can’t do that, man, because my knees screwed. And after nearly a week, it’s 02:25:13.200 –> 02:25:18.960 still that way. So, I might have to go to the doctor. It doesn’t get away. I’ve been doing 02:25:18.960 –> 02:25:24.800 gentle exercises and gentle walks, and it’s still hurt a lot. So, I hope all your 2024s are a 02:25:24.800 –> 02:25:30.160 bit better than mine. So, yes. Although, I mean, there have been some nice things. I’ve just got 02:25:30.160 –> 02:25:35.680 my Christmas present, which is a lovely t-shirt from Naomi, mother of my godson. This is very 02:25:35.680 –> 02:25:41.280 appropriately beard related. The person who sent my wireless mic back, I lost it at Devil’s Dyke, 02:25:41.280 –> 02:25:46.400 and they sent it back to me and I was like, oh, consider it a present when they’re going to, 02:25:46.400 –> 02:25:50.800 you know, send me the money. So, it’s good to have it back. The question is when I’ll be able to get 02:25:50.800 –> 02:25:55.360 out and use it. Although, I’m planning to take another one, because I’ve got a cheaper one now, 02:25:55.360 –> 02:26:02.160 because of course, I bought a replacement before. I put a message saying “has anyone found a mic? 02:26:02.160 –> 02:26:08.160 But I really didn’t expect anyone to actually find it. So, that was amazing. The power of social 02:26:08.160 –> 02:26:14.160 media. See, social media is not just for bad things. The mostly it is. Trying to focus on the good 02:26:14.160 –> 02:26:21.760 things. But I have to say, yeah, 2024 was a bit weird at the moment. I got obsessed with the song 02:26:21.760 –> 02:26:26.640 Don’t Let My Son Go Down On Me, which is originally by Elton John, and I really don’t like the Elton 02:26:26.640 –> 02:26:32.080 John version. I really wish George Michael had recorded it on his own, because, you know, without 02:26:32.080 –> 02:26:41.040 the Elton John. He wrote a great song. I just can’t, I’m not a massive fan of Elton John singing, 02:26:41.040 –> 02:26:48.080 that’s all. There’s only so much Watford Walrus you can cope with. He is the Watford Walrus. 02:26:48.080 –> 02:26:57.040 But someone actually did an AI version, and it’s Freddie Mercury, but not Freddie Mercury, was 02:26:57.040 –> 02:27:06.320 they took a vocal from Mark Martel, was the person who did the vocal bits in the Freddie 02:27:06.320 –> 02:27:12.240 Mercury movie. Although it was Rami Malek doing the acting, the vocals were done by Mark Martel. 02:27:12.240 –> 02:27:17.840 That’s how close to Freddie Mercury he sounds. So, someone’s then put it through about even 02:27:17.840 –> 02:27:26.880 more Freddie Mercury with an AI. And so, this is Freddie Mercury AI doing Don’t Let The Son Go 02:27:26.880 –> 02:27:32.640 Down On Me. And I hope you have a good 2024, and I’ll speak to you soon.

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