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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 [...]

Whilst my grand plan to hit shuffle on my iPod every day, and then to write about the first track to come along, didn’t last much past the new year, I have been using shuffle a lot recently. But rather than finding individual tracks, I’m using it to hit upon whole albums I can listen [...]

Well, this is the joy of Glastonbury (by which, obviously, I mean watching it from the sofa). As, the ever more lovely, Lauren Laverne, and, the ever more Peel-like, Mark Radcliffe, take over the coverage (after a U2 set that, I’m not ashamed to admit, brought a tear to my eye when a real-life spaceman [...]

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 [...]

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 the entire 20th Century. He essentially created a new genre, funk, and did for black [...]

They say that the new year is a time to take stock and so I thought I’d take stock of my iTunes library. As of today it stands at nearly 15,000 songs and I’m increasing it every month by buying (yes, I still buy music) about 4-6 albums. More music than I’m ever likely to [...]

I’m going on holiday – driving through France to a friend’s wedding in a château in Burgundy, thanks for asking. And I’ll probably be listening to this at some point. Enjoy, I will. Breeze image by nao. k on flickr

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 The New Apocalypse, which has also been covered by a lot of other rather wonderful [...]

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 Mark Ronson; I thought it was pretty good and predicted big things for the lad [...]