Just Another Social Profile Really

Sorry to have to stray into something vaguely political, but MTV are trying to pull a fast one on all those future Lily Allens & Arctic Monkeys.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2386164

Billy puts it to the man!

Apparently they are encouraging people to post music to their new social networking site MTV Flux, but they are trying to claim ownership of […]

Hopefully the 10 best covers & 10 best remixes lists have given you something to talk about. Now let’s pick the 10 best songs to provide samples for other songs..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqfCluBH3qY

(DJ Kool sampling Marlena Shaw, Unwind Yourself)

Minnie Ripperton - Inside My Love (sampled by A Tribe Called Quest): A beautiful song with filthy lyrics, the organ […]

Ok, so carrying on from my list of the top 10 best cover versions ever, I thought I’d pick out my favourite ever remixes. And of course, the one that most makes me want to rip off my ears…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElWBsoyvUo

Nuyorican Soul - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (4hero remix): This could well have […]

I haven’t had a lot of time to do detailed posts recently, so hopefully my top 10 cover versions, remixes samples (and use of samples) will allow me to get through a lot of good stuff in not too much time. First, the greatest cover versions ever..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwCBh0z3Hs

Stevie Wonder - We Can Work It Out (cover […]

Another cover of the Pharrel & Jay-Z track Frontin’ - this time a jazzy version by someone called Troy ‘Trombone Shorty’ Andrews - no really..
The Jamie Cullum cover of Frontin’ by Pharrel & Jay-Z is one of my favourites and is, I think, better than the original. Well now I’ve found another jazzy version, which […]

Young Folks by Peter, Bjorn & John isn’t the sort of thing I normally post about. It’s not a cover, remix or sample - but it is a lovely tune, and I just had to share it with you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48hcp-zDpg4

The female vocals are by Victoria Bergsman, formerly of the Concretes. You can find Peter, Bjorn & […]

Ben Westbeech is the first signing to Gilles Peterson’s new record label Brownswood, and this remix brings a bit of house to this very soulful tune…..

Like so many things that I first hear on Gilles Peterson’s Radio 1 show, it took me a long time to find out what it was called. The first time […]