On Friday last week I put out a new mixtape for WhoSampled x Wax Poetics in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of A Tribe Called Quest’s debut LP ‘People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm’. In the four short days since it went online it’s already clocked over 20,000[…]
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WhoSampled presents ‘Digging in the Vaults’ is out today on limited 10″ vinyl and digi-album. Featured artists include Mark Rae (Rae & Christian), Mr Thing (BBE), Soundsci, myself & Phill Most Chill among others. Please note that the vinyl pre-order has already sold out, but there will be a small[…]
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This is an article I’ve been wanting to write for a while – A fun one to research which forced me to revisit a bunch of classics and introduced me to a few bits and pieces that passed me by first time round. Read here.
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Check out an exclusive preview track from Soundsci below and pre-order the limited edition 10″ vinyl here. WhoSampled Present: Digging In The Vaults by Various Artists Press release information: “In Spring 2014, WhoSampled took a group of renowned UK diggers, producers and beatmakers to the vinyl archives of famed library[…]
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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing RAMP’s John Manuel for WhoSampled. Blurb from WhoSampled: “For the latest edition of the WhoSampled interview series, we speak with John Manuel, drummer, percussionist and band leader with the group RAMP, a Roy Ayers affiliated project whose debut album ‘Come Into Knowledge’ is[…]
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Mixcloud just announced their Top 25 mixes of 2014 and I’m pleased to have scraped my way on to the list at #23 for my Incredible Bongo Band Anniversary Mix. Not quite as good as last year when I managed to grab the #7 and #18 spot, but still not[…]
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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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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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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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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[…]
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