If you know which video game it's from, contact me!
If you're the lucky winner, you'll get an amazing goodie bag full of stuff as a prize!
**This competition is now closed**
**This music was the Dark World Theme from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past**
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( 3 / 111 )Playlist time!
(Mexican Flyer (Big Band Perfect Version) - Kenichi Tokoi - Space Channel 5 Part 2 OST: Chu!)
01. Batucada - Roberto Delgado - Espresso Espresso
02. Cochise - Ed Lincoln - Ed Lincoln
03. (Hep Hep) The Jumpin' Jive - Cab Calloway
04. My Babe - Donald Byrd
05. Let Love Find You - Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers - Cold Shoulder
06. Brazil - Tino Contreras - Ultra-Lounge: Bongo-Land (Yet another excellent Ultra-Lounge compilation)
07. The Now Generation - Mongo Santamaria
08. Welele - Letta Mbulu - Free Soul
09. Cola Bottle Baby - Edwin Birdsong - Sampled vol.3
10. Too Many Fish in the Sea - The Marvelettes
11. Whoop Up - Johnny Keating & The Z-Men - Sounds From the Lounge: Fast Cars, Secret Agents, Go Go Chicks
12. Stingray - The Barry Gray Orchestra - No Strings Attached
13. I Can't See Straight - Ladies W.C. - Ladies W.C.
14. Shinrikyou - Yasushi Ishii - Hellsing OST 2: Ruins
15. Amen, Brother - The Winstons - DJ Pogo Presents Block Party Breaks 2
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COMPETITION TIME!!!
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You can listen to that specific piece of music again here.
If you can tell me which video game that music was from, email me
You're up for the chance to win a goodie bag packed with lots of random stuff! Don't miss this great opportunity!
Entries must be in by 03/10/2007
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18. Black Rite - Mandingo - The Sound Gallery vol.1
19. I Put A Spell On You - Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
20. Beat It - Senor Coconut and His Orchestra - Fiesta Songs
21. Love Potion No.9 - The Coasters
22. A Crimson Rose and Gin Tonic - Asuka Sakai, Ado Mizumori - Katamari Damacy OST
23. Three Weeks Late - The Swingin' Bachelors - Occasional Fidelity
24. Dance, Dance, Dance - The Casualeers - Talcum Soul
25. Scarecrow - Benny Goodman
26. The Hurry Up - Kenny Graham - Ren and Stimpy Production Music
****The Ren and Stimpy Production Music album I mention can be downloaded here****
27. Fire Fire!! - Masaya Matsuura - Um Jammer Lammy OST
28. Food Additives Song - The Animaniacs
****Go here for The Onion's Dining For A Dollar archive****
28. Twenty-Five Miles - Edwin Starr
29. Miss Funky Fox - Exit 9 - Harmless Sampler
30. Mera Jawani - Bollywood Funk
31. The Work Song - Peter Nero - Peter Nero Plays a Salute to Herb Alpert
32. Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples - Parliament - Mothership Connection
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Hello all,
Just to let you know that Diversion will be on Subcity's online broadcast every Thursday, 15:00 - 17:00 (that's 3PM-5PM for the non 24 clock-savvy).
This will be the schedule for the next three weeks. After then, there's the possibility I may have another slot, but whatever happens, the shows and playlists will always be here.
Now, I'm off to get the music for tomorrow sorted!
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( 3 / 141 )Ken, aka Hyperstyles is playing a couple of live shows in Glasgow soon, here are the details:
Tuesday, 25th September - The 13th Note, with Tom Snowball
Friday, 28th September - The Art School (as part of the JumbleSales Sounds night)
And here's the video of Ken's performance on Diversion...
And the standard link to Ken's MySpace
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( 3.1 / 141 )Diversion is back! Whoo! For more details on Ken the amazing beatboxer, go here.
Good to be back, here's to another year of music!
(Katamari on the Swing - Matsuzaki Shigeru - We Love Katamari)
01. The Earthmen - Paddy Kingsland - The Sound Gallery vol.1
02. Big Boat Up the River - Harry Belafonte - The Mood Mosaic 7: The New Shapes of Sound
03. Asteroid Belt: Go! Go! "Astrobeat Jr." - Dr. Pris & Dr. Rachel - Space Channel 5 OST
04. Living for the City - Hugo Montenegro - Hugo in Wonder-Land
05. You Are My Sunshine - Andy Williams
06. Neville Thumbcatch - Peter Wyngarde - When Sex Leers its Inquisitive Head
07. Happy Beat - Mandrill - We Are One
08. East Indian Traffic - Okko - Sitar and Electronics
09. Dan is the Man (In the Van) - The Mighty Sparrow - Explodes into Calypso Time
10. Mi Palomita - Yma Sumac - Mambo! And More...
11. Black is Black - Sounds Orchestral - Sounds From the Lounge: Pop Covers, Lounge Style
12. Shadrack - Louis Prima
13. Get Right - The Players - The Soul of Minit Records
14. (I Wanna) Testify - The Parliaments - Testify! The Best of the Early Years
15. Ain't No Sun SInce You've Been Gone - The Temptations - With A Lot O'Soul
16. September - Earth, Wind and Fire
17. Dyambo - Hugh Masekela - Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa
18. Theme From Zorba the Greek - Peter Nero - Peter Nero Plays a Salute to Herb Alpert
19. Boogie for an AFTERNOON - Gitarooman OST
20. Okey Dokey - Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock: The Story of the Incredible Bongo Band
21. Theme From 2001 - The Ray McVay Orchestra - The Ray McVay Roadshow
22. Go Go Go! Rescue Team - Team Rescue with Takumi Yoshinaga & Mariko Nanba
23. Mute City - Naoto Ishida, Yukio Kaneoka, Yumiko Kanki - F-Zero OST
24. The 'In' Crowd - Quincy Jones
25. Testify (I Wanna) - Memphis Soul Band - The Soul of Minit Records
26. Circle Sky (Alt. Mix) - The Monkees
27. The Riviera Affair - Neil Richardson - The Sound Gallery vol.1
28. Theme of Nakama - One Piece
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( 3 / 68 )Just a quick reminder that Diversion will be on Subcity tomorrow, 14:00-16:00, 106.6FM.
The FM show marks the start of a new broadcast year, and therefore weekly Diversion programmes. It also looks like I've got 2-hour shows this year, which is both scary and exciting.
I'll post the usual playlist and links after the show, and let you know what the online schedule is as soon as I do!
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Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, yarr!
There be more information here, me hearties.
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( 3 / 133 )Do you want to hear a mighty combination of funky flute, beatboxing and video game music? The internet has it all!
Greg Pattillo's MySpace page
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( 3.1 / 145 )The Transformed Man, William Shatner (1968)
Where do you start with this one? This is the album that now serves as a standard-bearer for terrible celebrity albums, when pomposity and a lack of singing talent combine to make something beyond the boundaries of normal music.
To be fair, William Shatner has never been a guy to do things subtly. As an actor, he gives a veritable feast of acting, delivering a full platter of corn, ham and cheese. When you put Shatner's unique vocal stylings to a backing track and add a dash of Shakespearean concept pretension, then you end up with The Transformed Man.
Although the music is hilarious, the liner notes are woth checking out for more than a few chuckles. Shatner wanted to produce an album of songs with contrasting emotions, songs that showed "two sides of the coin". Since I couldn't find the liner notes online, I've typed them up in full, including the Producer's note and tracklist here. Don't say I'm not good to you.
Shatner can't sing, there's no argument with that, but it's the sheer energy, emotion and earnestness that he puts into each over-cooked performance that makes this album and most of his acting performances totems of kitsch.
Shatner singing 'Rocketman'
'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' - with excellent fan-made video
Was Shatner in on the joke? From the liner notes, it doesn't sound like it, although he's certainly made a career recently out of laughing at himself, either through TV series like Boston Legal, or the 2004 album Has Been, recorded with Ben Folds and tongue firmly in cheek. Shatner may be laughing now, but back in 1968, he was deadly serious, which makes his cry of "Mr. Tambourine Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan" all the funnier.
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( 2.9 / 125 )When Sex Leers its Inquisitive Head, Peter Wyngarde (1970)
I recently bought this album, recorded in 1970 by Peter Wyngarde, the man who played the fabulous novelist/detective Jason King in the British TV series of the same name (the character started out in the late 60's series Department S, and was so popular that he got his own eponymous spin-off).
Wyngarde is a fascinating guy. When at the height of his Jason King fame, he was inevitably approached by RCA Records to make an album. Rejecting the Frank Sinatra and Beatles covers offered to him, he went for full artistic freedom and produced one of the weirdest, kind-of-concept, kind-of-experimental albums of its time, with various situations of love and sex being the rough theme running through the album. Wyngarde approached the project with a sense of tongue-in-cheek playfulness, but this seemed to go over most people's heads upon release, and the LP was never given another release beyond its initial pressing. The inclusion of a track called 'Rape' probably didn't help, either. Fortunately, it's widely available on CD (which beats paying silly money for it on eBay).
Wyngarde's strengths in this album are the fact that he never attempts to sing (hello Shatner), and the frankly awesome quality of the music (the intro to the album's first track 'Come In' sounds Daft Punk-esque, and Wyngarde's delivery of 'Jenny Kissed Me' and 'Neville Thumbcatch' are simply mellifluous). I will definitely be playing some of the tracks on future shows.
Jason King TV intro
Oh yeah, and he also played Klytus in Flash Gordon.
All I need is for Jason King look-a-like Ray McVay to cover the album and my kitsch metaverse will collapse in on itself.
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