{"id":47294,"date":"2016-01-17T17:31:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.aws.dancingastronaut.com\/?p=236901"},"modified":"2016-01-17T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T17:31:54","slug":"james-blake-honors-david-bowie-in-new-mix-for-bbc-radio-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/?p=47294","title":{"rendered":"James Blake honors David Bowie in new mix for BBC Radio 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstruse and ever-experimental, James Blake unsurprisingly draws from an eclectic well of influences over the course of a DJ set. In his most recent mix for BBC Radio 1, Blake joins fellow 1-800-Dinosaur cohorts Connan Mockasin and Dominic Maker (of Mount Kimbie) . Throughout the two-hour mix, Blake and company traverse a wildly diverse musical topography ranging from Aphex Twin, to Kode9, to Three Six Mafia.<\/p><p>Around forty minutes into the mix, while fading out of Mark Fell and G\u00e1bor L\u00e1z\u00e1r&#8217;s hectically dissonant &#8220;Untitled (6),&#8221;James Blake switches tones to broach the topic of Bowie&#8217;s recent death:<\/p><blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t that that we could really do this radio show without mentioning the fact that the great David Bowie has unfortunately passed away; And I think that in his honor, we should play a couple of tracks. All of us are big fans of his.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Blake and Connan Mockasin bashfully note that they hadn&#8217;t known Bowie&#8217;s 1974 track &#8220;We Are The Dead&#8221; prior to his death, but found it unfortunate that the song hadn&#8217;t become more well-known. After &#8220;We Are The Dead,&#8221; Blake transitions to &#8220;Blackstar,&#8221; the titular track from Bowie&#8217;s most recent album.<\/p><p>James Blake recently showed his musical roots from Bowie&#8217;s era <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/10\/james-blake-works-magic-simon-garfunkels-sound-silence\/\">when he hauntingly covered Simon &amp; Garfunkel&#8217;s &#8220;The Sound Of Silence&#8221; <\/a>in October on BBC Radio 1.<\/p><p>Stream James Blake&#8217;s BBC Residency mix <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/bbc.in\/1OtVWi5\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p><em>H\/T: <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.musictimes.com\/articles\/61981\/20160116\/james-blake-pays-tribute-bowie-new-bbc-radio-1-residency-mix-listen.htm\">Music Times<\/a><\/em><\/p><p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p><p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2016\/01\/david-bowie-dies-69-cancer\/\">David Bowie dies at 68 from cancer<\/a><\/p><p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2016\/01\/watch-ultimate-hour-long-david-bowie-tribute-courtesy-soulwax\/\">Watch the ultimate, hour-long David Bowie tribute, courtesy of Soulwax<\/a><\/p><p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/10\/james-blake-works-magic-simon-garfunkels-sound-silence\/\">James Blake works magic on Simon &amp; Garfunkel&#8217;s &#8216;The Sound Of Silence&#8217;<\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p> <img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DancingAstronaut\/~4\/UjHLQknqLzg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstruse and ever-experimental, it is to be expected that James Blake would draw from an eclectic well of influences over the course of a DJ set. In his most recent mix for BBC Radio 1, Blake joins fellow 1-800-Dinosaur cohorts Connan Mockasin and Dominic Maker (of Mount Kimbie) .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47295,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47294\/revisions\/47295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}