Marc Mac has been close to the beating heart of contemporary British for over two decades now. He was genre defining in the early 90s dance/hardcore movement, as part of A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd and redefined drum & bass…
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Tune Of The Day: Marc Mac Presents The Visioneers – Paul’s Guitar Story
Tagged with: 4hero, drum & bass, hip hop, Marc Mac, samples, soul, Visioneers
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Tune Of The Day: Ty – Like You Never
I’m a bit of a one trick pony. Or maybe two or three tricks. There are a couple of little obsessions I have, and I tend to keep coming back to them. One of these is how ridiculous it is…
Tune Of The Day: Ghostpoet – Liiines
Because I never get bored of Ghostpoet. And he so should have won the Mercury.
Meet The Superhumans
I’ve just seen the ad of the year, and it’s Channel 4′s trailer for its coverage of the Paralympics (I rather liked their cheeky billboard as well which I have at the top of this post). The ad, produced by…
Tagged with: Channel 4, hip hop, jazz, London 2012, Paralympics, Public Enemy, sample, shirley bassey
Posted in Advertising
Posted in Advertising
The Blakroc Project
I was chatting with my good friend Matt earlier today and he reminded me of a great project from a couple of years back. American blues rock band The Black Keys got together with a whole host of rappers, masterminded…
Beastie Boys – Sure Shot (Samples Jeremy Steig)
As I’ve said before, I’ve never been a huge Beastie Boys fan, in terms of buying their albums and listening to them all the way through, repeatedly. But a huge number of their songs have a large hold on my…
BADBADNOTGOOD – Flashing Lights (Kanye Cover)
So, last Saturday saw Gilles Peterson’s first show on the wonderful 6Music, and it was great. Rambling, sprawling, diverse and, most importantly, oozing with a self-evident love of music, it covered everything from David Bowie to Paul Weller, Dr. John…
Tagged with: 6Music, BADBADNOTGOOD, cover version, gilles peterson, hip hop, instrumental, jazz, Kanye West
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
DJ DSK & Mystro – I Know You Got Sole (Heaven) [Eric B & Rakim Cover)
I’ve written before about DJ DSK (AKA my old flatmate from Sydney, Nick). And I’ve written about Eric B. & Rakim before. Well, now my Nick/DJ DSK has got together with a rapper called Mystro to do an homage to…
Tagged with: Advertising, Bobby Byrd, cover version, DJ DSK, hip hop, Kanye West, KRS-One, Mystro, samples, SOle Heaven, soul, trainers
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
The Best New* Albums Of 2011
Well, that’s 2011 more or less wrapped up. Where the bloody hell it went, I have no idea, but, as I do most years, I thought I’d finish it by wrapping up my favourite albums of the year. Now, I…
Tagged with: Beastie Boys, brownswood, DJ 2 Tone Jones, Fleet Foxes, Ghostpoet, gilles peterson, grime, hip hop, indie, Lee Fields, mix, rock, samples, soul, the streets
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Devlin – Town Called Malice (The Jam Cover)
I can’t decide whether I love or hate Devlin’s cover version of The Jam’s classic track Town Called Malice. As anyone who knows me, or has ever seen my last.fm profile will know, I think Paul Weller is an absolute…
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