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
Posted in Advertising
Posted in Advertising
Coldplay – Strawberry Swing (Sampled By Frank Ocean)
Well, music’s a funny old game, as Jimmy Grieves might have said. Last year I wrote that Coldplay hadn’t done anything decent since their second album. I also wrote that I thought the Odd Gang Future Wolf Gang Kill Them…
Chuck D – Notice, Know This (Samples Otis Redding)
I downloaded the new Jay Z & Kanye West album, Watch The Throne, last night and was, after my first listen, rather disappointed. Is this really the best that two of the most successful, innovative and inspiring hip hop artists have…
Andy Smith Releases Document 4 On SoundCloud
Andy Smith’s Essential Selection mix for Radio 1 is one of my favourite ever DJ sets. Almost as good is his mix album The Document, which led to a number of sequels. And now, years after it first came out,…
Freestylers – Ruffneck (Samples The JBs’ The Grunt)
So I’ve just got back from an amazing week in Cannes at the advertising festival, where the sun shone and we went to an amazing set on the beach by (apparently) Tiesto. And now, I’m at home, on the sofa,…
#shfl11: James Brown – Soul Power Pt. 1
Well, after the obscurity of yesterday’s #shfl11 entry comes a song that I know very well, and love even more. James Brown was, arguably, one of the two or three most influential musicians of the last 50 years, if not…
Chuck D – No Meaning No (Samples Hendrix’s Foxy Lady)
This isn’t available as a legal download. The world has gone mad. That is all. Oh, Chuck D’s No Meaning No samples Jimi Hendrix’s Foxy Lady (the intro) as well as the rather fantastic Get Out My Life, Woman by…
Tagged with: Chuck D, cover version, hip hop, Jimi Hendrix, rock, sample, soul, The New Apocalypse
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Rebirth – Evil Vibrations (Cover Version of Song Used as a Sample by De La Soul on A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays
LA soul collective Rebirth cover Evil Vibrations by The Mighty Ryeders which De La Soul sampled for their hi-hop party classic A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays…… It was a track by an artist called Darondo that lead me to…
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