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This is wonderful. It’s a lovely, lilting drum & bass track. No great surprises there, lots of drum & bass is lovely & lilting. But it’s made up, in large part, from little snippets of sound effects and speech from the Pixar film Monsters Inc. It’s by a guy known as Pogo and reminds me slightly [...]

I’ll keep this one short. So, Gilles Peterson, second show on BBC 6Music. Sixth track of the afternoon, a restrained, slow-building house remix of Stevie Wonder’s funk classic Superstition. The remix is by Obol, who I don’t know much about other than the fact that he likes remixing things, and he’s from Switzerland. I don’t often [...]

Any regular readers will know that I’m a fan of remixes, and there are a lot of good ones out there. But, there can be few that will ever come close to the genius of this incredibly moving reworking of Adele’s Rolling In The Deep. Whoever this dillbert21 is, it wouldn’t surprise me if ends [...]

Well, #shfl11 finally seems to be doing what I’d hoped it would: introducing me to music I have never encountered before, despite it being on my iPod. Today, Happy People by Brass Construction, which is certainly the worst band name we’ve had so far, and possibly one of the worst names ever. According to Wikipedia [...]

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 to be sent by a kind friend. And, so, one of my first buys after [...]

I’ve just been flicking through the crap that makes up Saturday TV when I came across one of these interminable ’50 Best (insert genre here)’ shows on 4music. Except that this particular show was being presented by our next Prime minister, Dizzee Rascal, and was made up of the best team-ups. Being Dizzee, it has [...]

  I know absolutely nothing about this other than the fact that it rocks, it was waiting for me when I logged into YouTube and I heart the video footage used.

I know that I only wrote about the original version of Music Sounds Better With You by Stardust but I just had to post this amazing Bob Sinclar remix. Why? Because, far from posting too many music videos, this blog has recently turned into one long rant. Because I stumbled across this Bon Sinclair remix [...]

So I have to say that the newish Adidas ad is one that, in theory, I should hate. The idea of them organising the ultimate house-party, to which Adidas has invited all its mates, from Estelle to David Beckham, Kate Perry to Missy Elliot, feels like it might just be trying a bit too hard. [...]

A remix of this track just came on the office stereo (the Groove Corporation one that features on the Bedroom Sessions mix by Faithless) and I just felt like I had to play the original. Cocaine In My Brain by Dillinger is undoubtedly not a song that should be taken as a suggestion on how [...]