Mixtape Friday! 1992 what would we do without you?

The year was 1992.

I was a young and impressionable 13 year old that discovered a lot of exciting things that year.  Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea lost 80,000 tonnes of crude oil causing an ecological disaster, George Bush lost his lunch into the lap of Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi and I lost my, uh, wallet that year. It was also the year when Khan Noonien Singh rises to power, although now thanks to J.J. Abrams and his magical fuckuptimemachine, I’m not too sure that counts anymore. (more…)

// June 12th, 2009 // View Comments // Blog, Music

Mixtape Friday! : Parklife 2009

With Thursday’s Parklife announcement, I thought I’d dive into my vast collection of musics and pull out some of my fave tracks that have been produced or mixed by Parklife artists.

Hope you enjoy it :)
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// June 4th, 2009 // View Comments // Blog, Music

Mixtape Friday! : My top 10 hits from 1995

Ahh yes, 1995.

T’was a year that I remember… Vaguely.

A young Jerry Yang and David Filo incorporated a new web start-up called Yahoo!, Jacques Chirac is elected president of France and the final original “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip is published. I on the other hand was still in high school considering the pursuit of a pharmaceutical career as chemicals really seemed to rock at the time.

It was also a year of awesome music with Tina Arena topping the charts with her album “Don’t Ask” and Scatman John was considered a musician. It was also the year when Daniel John from Silverchair called me a “fucked up cunt”.

Below is a list of what I considered the greatest songs ever to hit the charts that year. Love it or hate the music, I’m sure you’ll be able to sing along with at least half of these tracks.
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// May 29th, 2009 // View Comments // Blog, Music

After-midnight coversong-a-palooza.

Last night I was fiddling with blip.fm when I realised that they had changed the search interface to include youtube videos. The song I posted was a cover song so I decided to dig into my mp3 collection of almost 30 thousand for my favourite cover songs.

I came up with this list in no particular order (songs will bring you to blip): (more…)

// May 22nd, 2009 // View Comments // Blog, Music