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NOMAD046: Treetops McPhoenix

My good god. This is one of the most wonderfully strange things I have ever heard. I can’t even begin to describe it. From Treetops himself:

An extremely eclectic mix which has the audacity to combine yodelling with Neue Deutsche Welle, modern classical with Ghanaian tribal music, and dark cabaret with BBC sporting theme tunes.

The whole thing is held together with samples related to the tragic  children’s television presenter Mark Speight. The particular arrangement  of these clips (from TV show SMart and various news broadcasts about  his death) is intended to emphasise both the sadness and absurdity of  his story. While simple things like the timing or juxtaposition of  samples may invite the listener to laugh at what they are hearing,  hopefully by the end of the mix you will come to appreciate that the  primary motivation for using Mark Speight in this way is a desire to pay  tribute to an evidently nice bloke who was forced to play the lead role  in a drama every bit as tragic and affecting as the work of Shakespeare  or Sophocles.

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