I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun by Rotary Connection is one of my favourite songs of all time (it features the beautiful vocals of the wonderful Minnie Ripperton). And the cover of I Am The Black Gold Of…
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Monthly Archives: April 2006
Buddy Rich – The Beat Goes On (Sampled By The All Seeing I)
I haven’t had a chance to post for a little while, but my friends at Trackfeeder have added a review I wrote of The Beat Goes On by Buddy Rich – as sampled (in a very lazy fashion by Sheffield…
Paul Weller – Wild Wood (The Sheared Wood Remix by Portishead)
Trip-hop band Portishead add some serious percussion to Paul Weller’s acoustic classic Wild Wood… I could write an entire series of blogs about how great Paul Weller is, and how under-rated he is in the UK (despite the fact that…
Rebirth – Evil Vibrations (Cover Version of Song Used as a Sample by De La Soul on A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays
LA soul collective Rebirth cover Evil Vibrations by The Mighty Ryeders which De La Soul sampled for their hi-hop party classic A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays…… It was a track by an artist called Darondo that lead me to…
My iMix of samples, cover versions, songs that used samples and remixes
As I haven’t posted in a while, here is my iMix of cover versions, samples, songs that sampled them and remixes. You’ll have to excuse some of the mistakes on it – the artist described as Les Fleurs is actually…
The Streets – Weak Become Heroes (Ashley Beedle Remix)
Ashley Beedles’s house remix of The Streets UK garage classic Weak Become Heroes brings the song’s subject to life… As initial reviews of the new album by The Streets, The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, suggest that he…
Donnie Hathaway – What’s Goin’ On? (cover version of Marvin Gaye song)
Donnie Hathaway’s cover version of the Marvin Gaye 70s soul anthem What’s Goin’ On manages to turn this most serious of songs seriously funky… Before it rebranded as Smooth FM, and ended up sounding the same as 99% of all…
Playgroup – Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (Cover Version of Song by Paul Simon)
The cover version of the Paul Simon classic Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover by British dance band Playgroup is a lovely bit of dub house… This is a cover version which I found completely by chance. I had been…
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