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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

259: DJ Aphrodite: Making Chart Hits on The Amiga - The Retro Hour EP259

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeah, I'm one of their biggest fans. I've got all the vinyl. First saw them at a tiny little place in Camden.

0:07.0

Then as festival headliners a few years back, now that was special. So there's no chance I'd miss their world tour.

0:15.2

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0:23.7

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0:27.3

Visit NS&I.com.

0:30.0

Coming up on this week's show, How to Live in 1998 forever.

0:35.7

However, Snez almost got a Back to the Future RPG.

0:38.8

And we talk making chart hits on the Amiga with DJ Aphrodite.

0:49.0

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1:07.9

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 259, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

1:16.7

Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox.

1:18.9

And a very warm welcome to this week's packed show as we've got so much to get through over the next hour-ish.

1:26.8

I'm actually hoping that you guys can't hear

1:28.7

the wheelie bins blowing around that submo winter at the moment as we're getting battered by a storm

1:34.2

here in the UK right now, aren't we? Oh yeah. I came out and there was a tile that had fallen

1:39.3

off my roof the other day and I was like, oh God, that's not a good sign. So it is getting windy. You know what?

1:45.7

I've been cooped up at home, working from home. And when I'm off, I'm just looking after my baby,

1:50.3

I don't even know when I left left the house. I didn't even know it had been windy.

1:55.7

Well, hopefully none of our ceilings will blow off during the recording this week. So fingers crossed.

2:00.6

However, someone who's definitely going to raise the roof, no pun intended, is that this week's special guest, as we're going to be joined by, I know you always love the music episodes, especially Ravi.

2:10.6

When we talk about Amiga music, now we've got a legend on the show, particularly if you're a fan of old school jungle and drum and bass.

2:18.3

Yeah, let's keep with the puns. He's probably going to blow your bass bins.

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