This mix was put together toward the end of last year for WhoSampled in support of a Kickstarter campaign launched by the family of ELO bassist Kelly Groucutt to raise money for a memorial to his life and music on the former family home. The campaign was a great success[…]
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Last Friday saw the release of my latest remix, a drum heavy rework of The Impellers ‘Not About That’ featuring Clair Witcher on vocals. The track features on The Impellers’ new LP of remixes and instrumentals taken from the ‘My Certainty’ album on Legere Recordings. Listen on Soundcloud below or[…]
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This week’s 22Tracks London Funk & Soul playlist is live. New music from Cookin’ on 3 Burners, Ray Lugo & The Boogaloo Destroyers, Mr Battery, Dawn Pemberton, Souleance & more. Listen here.
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This Friday The Doctor’s Orders kicks off its 10th Anniversary celebrations with 10 of the club night’s regular DJs (including me) playing at London’s Trapeze (formerly East Village). More info here.
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The purpose of this post is 50% a thanks for everyone I worked with this year and 50% designed to motivate me to get on with getting 2015 underway. I posted the roundup pic shown above on Instagram a few days ago with a probably unnecessarily long list of thanks[…]
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With Xmas less than a week away, I thought I ought to do the traditional thing and pst a reminder of the Christmas mixtapes Marc Hype and I put together over the course of a few years starting back in 2009: Xmas themed funk, soul, hip hop, disco, reggae, jazz[…]
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In celebration of the release of D’Angelo’s stellar new long player ‘Black Messiah’ I gave WhoSampled a run down of my Top 5 D’Angelo samples from the vaults. Peep my selections here.
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This week’s 22Tracks London Funk & Soul playlist is live. New music from The Milk for Wah Wah 45s, The Public Opinion 6, Emma Donovan and The Putbacks, both for Hope Street Recordings, a great reissue of Perez Prado and a Kon rework of a Linda Evans classic. Listen here.
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New video in which I speak to the late ELO bassist Kelly Groucutt’s nephew Darren Groucutt regarding the band’s impact on the music of today and the story behind my recent ELO mixtape produced in conjunction with WhoSampled in support of the Kelly Groucutt Blue Plaque Campaign. More like this[…]
Read More »New guest mix for WhoSampled. Info from WhoSampled: “The Electric Light Orchestra are among hip hop’s top 10 most sampled rock bands, the group succeeding in fusing rock and pop with experimental classical music to create memorable pop hits and epic soundscapes alike. The group’s eclectic sound has unsurprisingly found[…]
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