Category Archives: music

Pop Music In China

Posted on 18/11/2010 by haonowshaokao

I was walking through Wangfujing subway station the other day when I saw a poster advertising a concert by one of the most popular western bands in China. No, it’s not U2, Coldplay, Radiohead or the Kings Of Leon – … Continue reading →

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Pulp and life

Posted on 11/11/2010 by haonowshaokao

I was very happy indeed when I found out the other day that Pulp were going to reform, Russell and all. I’m still pleased about it now, but the fact that I’m almost certainly going to miss their gigs has … Continue reading →

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Pullover

Posted on 28/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

This is the second in an intermittent series of posts about bands I loved in the 1990s who have little or no internet presence. I was listening to an old Mark & Lard Graveyard Shift show last week and it … Continue reading →

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RIP Ari Up of The Slits

Posted on 22/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

Ari Up’s death at the age of 48 was announced yesterday. I can’t write anything more incisive about her than Jon Savage so read this instead. I’d just been getting into The Slits over the past couple of months, and … Continue reading →

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More Ozmotron Remixes

Posted on 06/10/2010 by haonowshaokao

Last week I posed something here about the Ozmotron Remix Project. Since then there have been three more remixes made. The first is Mr Pineapple’s glitchy, melodic Remix of “Pink Elephant”, my current favourite actually. http://www.mrpineapple.co.uk/music/Pink_Elephant_remix.mp3 Then there’s the Rygo … Continue reading →

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The Ozmotron Remix Project

Posted on 24/09/2010 by haonowshaokao

Ten years ago two of my friends stayed up all night with a roomful of instruments and a 4-track machine and made an album called ‘Ozmotron’. Nobody who has heard it can ever forget it. It’s all here for download. … Continue reading →

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Slowed down and sped up

Posted on 01/09/2010 by haonowshaokao

For the last two weeks the internet has been going crazy about pitch-preserved sped-up and slowed down music. First someone called Shamantis took a track by popular hate-figure Justin Bieber and stretched it to 35 minutes. The result sounds like … Continue reading →

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The best thing ever.

Posted on 19/11/2006 by haonowshaokao
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Posted on 17/10/2006 by haonowshaokao

Peter Andre and Jordan’s Christmas song – one of the worst things I have ever heard.

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Posted on 04/08/2006 by haonowshaokao

First Syd, now Arthur All the good ones are dying.

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