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…
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Tagged with: Channel 4, hip hop, jazz, London 2012, Paralympics, Public Enemy, sample, shirley bassey
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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
Brassroots – Good Life (Inner City Cover)
It’s been a funny old week, as the saying almost goes. Last Friday I was visiting the UK, and spent a very enjoyable hour or two sipping ice cold lager in the roof garden of a pub in Wimbledon. 3…
Tagged with: #riotcleanup, #ukriots, Brassroots, brownswood, cover version, gilles peterson, jazz
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
St. Germain – Easy To Remember
I’ve spent this weekend trying to get up to date with what’s new in music. And, for the most part, that’s involved trying to download everything that’s yet been created by Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, or OFWGKTA…
Eric B. & Rakim – Juice (Know The Ledge)
Right, I’ll be brief, so listen closely. This is amazing. The film it’s from is one of the best thing Tupac ever did (overrated doesn’t even begin to describe hip hop’s Kurt Cobain). The mix I first heard this on,…
#shfl11: Break Reform – Fractures (U-Neek Dub)
Around 11 years ago I returned from a great year in Australia, though when I got back to the UK I was very happy to be able to find great music without having to wait for a Gilles Peterson tape…
Pete Kuzma – High & Dry feat. Bilal (Radiohead Cover)
Many moons ago, when I’d not been blogging all that long, I wrote about a Radiohead cover I’d heard on Gilles Peterson’s show. It was a cover version of Just by some hip young New Yorker by the name of…
Tagged with: Bilal, cover version, gilles peterson, jazz, mark ronson, Pete Kuzma, radiohead, soul
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Posted in Music
Best Songs Of The Noughties
So, when Absolute Radio announced their quest to find the best songs of the decade, I said that I found it hard to pick any. Well, I’ve changed my mind, thanks to some inter-office discussions (ending in this playlist) and…
Tagged with: amerie, Amy Winehouse, Aqualung, Arctic Monkeys, ben westbeech, Coldplay, Common, Damon Albarn, Dizzee Rascal, garage, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, hip hop, indie, jamie cullum, jazz, Jose James, Kanye West, Kings of Leon, LCD Soundsystem, Lily Allen, mark ronson, N.E.R.D., noughties, paul weller, pharrell williams, R&B, radiohead, rock, the streets, The Strokes, Travis, zero 7
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Kind Of Bloop – 8-Bit Miles Davis Tribue
A very quick post, like the last one was meant to be. Via Tom Critchlow I found Kind of Bloop: it’s a project where musicians who make music with Nintendos and similar equipment have recorded a track by track tribute…
Miles Davis – So What
A very quick post this evening, a live rendition of So What by Miles Davis. Taken from Kind Of Blue, arguably the greatest jazz album of all time, it not only features the magical trumpet of Miles Davis but sax…
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