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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 The Sun By Nuyorican Soul (New York house Gods Masters at Work working under a [...]

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 band All Seeing I.
Have a listen to this great track here;
Buddy Rich - The [...]

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 he recently won the Lifetime Achievement award at the Brit Awards). But you’d probably get bored. [...]

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 Rebirth’s cover of Evil Vibrations. Darondo is a forgotten soul master who Gilles Peterson unearthed for [...]

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 Minnie Ripperton, but then when did Apple ever claim to be perfect?!

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 may have lost his way somewhat, it’s a good time to think back to when his [...]

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 commercial radio stations, London’s Jazz FM used to play some pretty good tunes. This won’t be [...]

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 meaning to get the first group by dance band Playgroup (called Playgroup) since its release in [...]