‘alMighty’, the debut LP from BBC New Music Award winners Maylight, produced by me is out today! Purchase on iTunes here. Blurb from BBE Records: ” ‘Almighty’ is the debut album from BBC New Music Award winning jazz / soul / electronica ensemble Maylight. The eight strong collective takes in[…]
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This week the first of the preview tracks from the debut LP from BBC New Music Award winners Maylight (in stores 25/03/16) was premiered this week on Groovement. They describe the album as “Ethereal in all the right places. A jazz album pushed through an electronic soul kaleidoscope.” Listen to[…]
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Info from BBE: ‘Digits’ (b/w ‘Beat of the Heart’) is the debut single from BBC New Music Award winning jazz / soul / electronica ensemble Maylight. The eight strong collective takes in the vocal talents of ex-Tru Thoughts vocalist Lizzy Parks, pianist Rob Barron whose resume includes session work for[…]
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Blurb from WhoSampled: “This Weekend (4th December 2015) marked the 25th Anniversary of the release of Brand Nubian‘s classic debut album ‘One for All’. Notable for its use of unconventional sample material (see use of Edie Brickell’s ‘What I Am’ on the smash single ‘Slow Down’), this landmark release of[…]
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WhoSampled have just announced details of 2015’s ‘Samplethon’ event, this time offering 20 up and coming producers the opportunity to sample material from the esteemed Bruton Music catalogue! Watch here or below: Entry details here.
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Info from WhoSampled: “The phrase ‘House Music’ means a variety of things to a variety of people. In the current landscape of sub-genres of sub-genres it can be used either as an umbrella term for a myriad of splinter scenes or a term attached to those styles of dance music[…]
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London hip hop club promoters The Doctor’s Orders celebrate 10 years of live hip hop in the capital this year with a series of events throughout the year and are marking the occasion with this poster, an homage of sorts to the iconic Midnight Marauders cover artwork featuring a selection[…]
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For the latest edition of the WhoSampled interview podcast series I spoke with DJ Format, someone with whom I’ve been friends through DJing etc for many years now. Great to chat about record collecting, DJing, production and plenty else. If you’ve got an hour to kill, it’s now live on[…]
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A labour of love which started life some years ago, the second part of this two part mix is long overdue. Part 1 of this mix was posted around a year ago and this was supposed to follow shortly after. Other projects overtook completing this, but I finally found a[…]
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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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