Discovered these Guardian Sessions on their website today. Think they could do a better job at highlighting this content as I think it’s bloody brilliant. Nicely shot and framed by the ‘How I Wrote’ approach. Couldn’t find embed tags so had a look elsewhere.
I stumbled across The Mixtape Club a few weeks back and I’ve been hooked ever since. It’s a really simple concept – ten people, ten tracks, ten album covers. It’s a great example of curated content and the ‘editors’ involved are clearly passionate about their choice of tracks. I find this kind of experience far more compelling than just having access to a huge catalogue of music. Really looking forward to next month’s update!
So there we were, watching the Brits 2011 when this Renault TV ad popped up with Thierry Henry posing the question ‘What is Va Va Voom?’. Who cares? What really matters is the music with Clare Maguire, David Bowie and Rihanna. Simply amazing and I’ve got to see this released soon!
Word on the street is that the SEO Rapper is laying down some great tips on Page Rank from his stateside car park. Not one is sure in which state or car park he resides, I just like the way he rolls.
Fans of the brilliant new new kid’s tv show The Octonauts will be pleased to know it’s finally caught the attention of the dance community. Over the last month, remixes of The Octonauts theme tune have begun to appear online and I’m sure we’re going to see many more in the months ahead. Here’s a quick scout through two of the best – there’s an Ibiza classic in the making somewhere here…
The Octonauts – Cbeebies dupstep remix My favourite at the moment from the mighty ’hardcoreremixer’. Not sure if it’s true dubstep but it’s true to the Octonauts ‘crew’ with various choice vocal samples thrown in for good measure. My two year-old son was transfixed by this one. Hold tight.
Another classic from, hold on, hardcoreremixer! Wait a minute, is this the only person doing these remixes at the moment? Well, I’m sure this won’t be the case very soon. This tune reminds me of the kind of music I was into when I first started to go out clubbing – truly terrible. I can see it perfectly translating to a 3am Creamfields slot. Turn the speakers up.
Other Octonauts remixes I’d like to hear Minimal electronica – Vee are Zee Octonauts style-eee Early Logical Progression – I’m sure the boys over at Good Looking records could do this justice Tinie Tempah – No contest, if he remixed this and dropped in a couple of lines it would go straight in at No.1