games people play

Here, archived, is the next installment of Kieran Press-Reynolds show CTRL.ALT. REPEAT for Repeater Radio - part 2 in a 4-part series on the history of videogame musik and how it's influenced pop / unpop - this week heading into the 21st C with Dizzee Rascal, James Ferraro, Minecraft, Undertale and more.

The first installment in the series is here, and here also is Kieran chatting with Repeater man Carl Neville about online micro-genres etc etc.

Some rave-era intersections with videogame musik

The use of PlayStation as a music production tool is another story.

"Edwardian computer-game music"

It's sort of reassuring Britain's gone back to being shit.

Or as FACT puts it in their run-down, "for the last two weeks Britain has been a bubble of positivity, optimism and good-will, and the Closing Ceremony helped restore the cynicism and self-loathing which oils the wheels of everyday life here in Blighty"

The lowlight, in an overcrowded (literally overcrowded) field, was surely Russell Brand's "I Am the  Walrus".

  It actually made this ---

look good.
 
Kitsch is the cultural Esperanto of the world. Its lingua wanca.

(The Rio 2016 foretaste interlude showed that as much as anything provided by the host nation last night). 

But let's  remember the highlights. Like this"ooh gosh" moment