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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 [...]

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 heart, and I’m guessing that there are plenty of people like me who will have [...]

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 the Eric B. & Rakim classic I Know You Got Soul. It’s excellent in many [...]

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 should probably add at this point that, because I’m no longer a teenager who buys [...]

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, Live At The Social by The Chemical Brothers is a perfect snap-shot of the mid-90s [...]

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 [...]

I have a friend. He shall remain nameless, though I can share his nom de plume with you: Dr Kenneth T. Noisewater. And every so often the good Dr. shares with me the latest mix to emerge from what he calls the Phat Cave. The most recent one of these, which you can enjoy here, [...]

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’m in Dublin as I write this and it’s St. Patrick’s Day.So, to celebrate I thought that it was only right to post a tune by a bunch of Paddies as plastic as all the other American ones lining the streets for the parade today. The fact that this also means that I get to post Jump Around [...]

I’ve just seen an ad for the new Nokia 5800 on TV and it brought the memories flooding back with its use of the seminal Pump Up The Volume by M|A|R|R|S. The Nokia ad featured little more than lines from the lyrics flashing up on the screen whilst the tune played in the background. For [...]