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The Incredible Bongo Band’s cover version of Apache by The Shadows should probably have featured in my top 10 best ever covers as well as the top 10 songs ever used as samples. Oh well… Cliff Richard’s backing band The Shadows may not strike you as a band who have been instrumental in the story [...]

I recently posted my top 10 songs using samples, but only got as far as number nine. I’ve now decided on number 10, and you can see which song, which makes great use of samples, I picked….

This should be the last of my Top 10 posts, as I pick the 10 best songs ever to have been used as samples. As always, I’d be happy to hear from anyone who thinks that I missed a killer sample or song… A Tribe Called Quest’s Can I Kick It samples Lou Reed A [...]

Earlier this summer I went to the rather excellent Lovebox Weekender Festival in London, hosted by Groove Armada… There were performances from Ben Westbeech, Coldcut, Norman Jay, Jamiroquai and Gilles Peterson to name but a few. And now, to bring back the happy memories, I’ve discovered some podcasts that were done for the Lovebox website. [...]

The hip-hop classic White Lines by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five gets the lounge-bar jazz treatment in this cover version by Barefoot. And it works.. White Lines, the hip-hop classic with a social message about the dangers of cocaine, has suffered enough for any track with the injury that Duran Duran did it with [...]

I found this cover of the Outkast hip-hop anthem Hey Ya by Matt Weddle of Obadiah Parker on mog.com That’s all I know about it really, apart from the fact that I find it strangely moving. Must be something about turning 31 today that makes a video of a fat bearded man singing a cover [...]

Ok, so like Peter, Bjorn & John’s song this has nothing to do with samples or covers. But I saw the video this morning and it made me smile. US band OK Go were one of the first stars of YouTube when a film of them dancing to a backing track of their song “A [...]