My unreleased remix of Scor-zay-zee’s controversial 2003 underground cut ‘Great Britain’, put together in 2020 for a remix collection which never ultimately got released, is now available on Bandcamp. Listen here.
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After digging out the parts for the Bone Idols remix last week, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole digging out old remixes. This remix for Swedish duo Chords and Promoe (who I think were signed to Warner in Europe at the time) was done back in 2004.[…]
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Way back in 2003 (hard to believe that’s nearly 20 years ago), I did a couple of remixes for London label ‘Above the Clouds’, which were ultimately never released. I have shared these before but at the time all I had was a pretty poor quality Mp3 rip of demo[…]
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I recently interviewed seasoned Canadian rap artist and host of Netflix’s Emmy award wining ‘Hip Hop Evolution’ Shad for WhoSampled’s interview series. Listen here:
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Blurb from Futuristica: “To celebrate our 15th year as an independent label we are releasing this 2xCD, 32 track compilation along with a 36 page book featuring all the key releases from our catalogue as well as a Futuristica logo t-shirt, all in one package! The CDs include brand new[…]
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Blurb from WhoSampled: “Philadelphia International Records is to the City of Brotherly Love what Stax is to Memphis or Motown is to Detroit: a powerhouse label representing the cream of the era’s Soul talent. Helmed by songwriting / producer duo Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, Philadelphia International was launched in[…]
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“Sony EMI’s famed KPM Music label has been producing high quality recordings for use in Film, Television and Radio for over four decades. WhoSampled arranged for a group of renowned UK diggers, producers and beatmakers to be granted access to the label’s archive of recordings. Their task: to curate a[…]
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Unofficial / Unreleased remix of Common’s ‘What Do You Say’ featuring PJ, taken from the album ‘A Beautiful Revolution’. Tracklist: Common feat PJ – What Do You Say (Chris Read Remix) Common feat PJ – What Do You Say (Chris Read Instrumental)
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The Classic Material ‘bonus’ mixes fill the gaps in the original Classic Material Hip Hop History mixtape series, exploring specific sub genres or spin off genres not covered in the main series. #7 delves into a sub genre which is not entirely easy to describe. In their day these tracks[…]
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The Classic Material ‘bonus’ mixes fill the gaps in the original Classic Material Hip Hop History mixtape series, exploring specific sub genres or spin off genres not covered in the main series. #6 delves into Mid 90s Dancehall Hip Hop, the pairing of Ragga/Dancehall vocals with classic Hip Hop production.[…]
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