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[…]
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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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This week’s 22Tracks London Funk & Soul playlist is live. New music and releases added from The Baker Brothers, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, The Ephemerals and more. Listen 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 week’s 22Tracks London Funk & Soul playlist is live. New music added from Sena Dagadu (taken from the Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club Volume 3 compilation), Jimmy Chambers (Riccio’s rework of the classic theme from Assault on Precinct 13), new BBE signing The Grits, Emma Donovan & The[…]
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This Friday (21st November) I’m happy to be playing at ‘Can’t Stop Won’t Stop‘ Nottingham. Facebook event page here.
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This mix was put together a few months back for Wax Poetics and WhoSampled in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of The Notorious BIG’s classic 1994 debut LP ‘Ready to Die’. It’s since been listened to over 50,000 times on Mixcloud & Soundcloud. Here’s what they had to say about[…]
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This week’s 22Tracks London Funk & Soul playlist is live. New music added from Tara Priya, The Mighty Mocambos, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, The Gene Dudley Group and Calibro 35. Listen here.
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