duggup

Hand’s up everyone who likes mashups? Well I do. I am fascinated by the whole idea of taking two (or more songs) and creating something new  out of it. It turns out I am not alone.
Head over to  Ziggy Stardust Remixed and listen to say, Suffragette City. This was always one of my favourite Bowie [...]

Ant Neely was featured on NPR’s Second Stage Podcast a week or so back and I was really taken with the “Scratch Redux” piece of his new album, it’s a really bright poppy song that belts along at a good pace, great beat, really nice slide guitar and just perfect vocals by Lisa Moore, [...]

I ran across Cineplexx a little over two years ago and pegged them for a Duggup - that’s as far as it got; until now. Going through my backlog, I decided it was time for a revisit. Two years on and I seriously wonder what took me so long.
Brazillian Sebastian Litmanovich is the musician behind [...]

Glyn “Bigga” Bush is an indie producer and DJ from the South West of England. His two main projects BiggaBush and Lightning Head reflect his love of dub reggae, Brazilian rhythms and Afro-Cuban beats and he has produced two albums “Studio Don” (Best Seven/Sonar Kollektiv) and “BiggaBush Free” (Stereo Deluxe) as well as many remixes [...]

Artist: Joe Frawley
Website: joefrawleymusic.info
Track Name: Tangerine
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: Yes
Joe Frawley is not a musician in the conventional sense, more performance artist than anything else. He specialises in soundscapes as explained by his website:
Joe Frawley’s Sound Collages are intended to blur the boundary between music and sound art. Using found sounds, field recordings, recontextualized speech, and samples [...]

Artist: Clothesline Revival
Website: http://www.paleomusic.com/clothesline_page.htm
Track Name: Ramblin’ Man
Playback: mp3/flash
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I don’t know what to do with this band (it seems I am still stuck in Americana mode). Arranger and musician Conrad Praetzel calls his label Paleo Music, which is big hint I supect and if you check out his [...]

Artist: tryad
Website: http://tryad.org
Track Name: Final Rewind
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes

Back at the end of September last year I discovered tryad and wrote a brief post about them at ThatchSpace (my other blog).
Tryad are now (in)famous as being one of the first internationally-separated internet Creative Commons bands. They released their first album, Public Domain to critical acclaim [...]