Its funny, I left the house this morning thinking I would be listening to one thing in the car on the way to work; Then I realised I had forgotten the cd. So a random selection from the increasing stash in my car, a playlist dating back to 2005,...
Its funny, I left the house this morning thinking I would be listening to one thing in the car on the way to work; Then I realised I had forgotten the cd. So a random selection from the increasing stash in my car, a playlist dating back to 2005,...
I had it all worked out today I had no playlist as I’d traveled in to work with my 19 month old boy. So I was taking a freebie and it was going to be a blinder of a track. Prefuse 73 – Storm Returns. Then I got home and...
Even though I didn’t have a commute today, if I had, I would have been listening to this album…. again…so, having a freebie today didn’t change anything. So, Django Django – a name which makes me, and probably many, conjure another name: Django Reinhardt the Jazz guitarist. I believe...
When it comes down to it Hip Hop when done well is a pretty simple music form. That’s not to say it’s easy and People can make it very complicated. But for me the best stuff is nearly always just a looped break and a great MC enjoying himself over...
Well here it is. The first in a semi regular podcast by the blog. The selection premise is simple, 5 days of the week = 5 walks to work = 5 tracks for the podcast. I went with a simple selection this time out, but I think it reflects the...
If you follow the blog you’re probably aware that I am absolutely obsessed with melancholy in music. Anything that can make me feel both happy and sad at the same time really gets me, and Getting Away with it by Electronic is a truly great example of this. Obviously the...
Like Aapie, I am a big fan of hip hop and like Aapie I am drawn to the independent, non-money, positive style of hip hop for want of better terms. And possibly my favourite hip hop track of all time is Timebomb by Public Enemy. It came on...
Picked this little gem up back in ’97 and like most people I grabbed it for the Mount Rushmore remix as they were pretty big at the time and must haves if you were a DJ. There was an added bonus in my eyes in that on the flip side...
You can use all the big words in the world to describe a track but at the end of the day it’s either good or bad. So I was apprehensive when I picked up the John Talabot album ‘fiN’ as reading through all the press had brought up clever metaphors and...
Over the years the formula for Deep House has remained pretty consistent. Take a 4/4 kick pattern ramp it up to 120-125bpm, add a bit of bass, maybe some strings, maybe some synths, bit of Rhodes piano etc… but to carry it off successfully without sounding like everything else that’s...
