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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I have a new mixtape dropping this Wedensday, commemorating the music of ELO bassist Kelly Groucutt in conjunction with WhoSampled in support 0f Kelly’s family’s Kickstarter campaign to commemorate his life with a Blue Plaque on the family’s former home. A short teaser video comes ahead of the Mixtape and[…]
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This Saturday (13th September) marks the 20th Anniversary of the release of one of hip hop’s all time classic albums, The Notorious BIG‘s seminal Bad Boy Records debut LP ‘Ready to Die’. In celebration of the album’s 20th birthday, we’ve teamed up with Wax Poetics to present an exclusive mixtape[…]
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This week’s 22Tracks London Funk & Soul playlist is live. New music added from Myles Sanko, Hugh Geldhill, Lack of Afro, Weekend Sun and many more. Listen here.
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This week’s 22Tracks London Funk & Soul playlist compiled by Chris Read & Nick Armitage for So Much Soul is live. New music added from Beau Williams, Weekend Sun, The Shaolin Afronauts, Cookin on 3 Burners and Kylie Auldist. Listen here.
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I recently interviewed my friend DJ Amir for the WhoSampled interview series. Blurb from BBE: “For the latest of our WhoSampled interview cloudcast series we spoke with DJ Amir, one half of legendary digging and mixtape duo Kon & Amir, record collector, DJ and label boss at 180 Proof Records. Speaking over a slightly unreliable[…]
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I recently interviewed Pro-Era member and rising star Kirk Knight for WhoSampled. Blurb from WhoSampled: “For the latest of our WhoSampled interview cloudcast series we spoke with Kirk Knight, producer and rapper for Brooklyn’s Pro Era crew and producer for Pro Era member Joey Bada$$. Kirk talks about how Pro Era came about, the group’s influences[…]
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