“Mr Bongo’s ‘Brazil 45’s’ is a series of sought after ‘golden era’ 1960s and 1970s Brazilian releases, pressed on 7” vinyl. The imprint features rare and sought after tracks previously unreleased as singles or only available on quieter LP pressings. Finding these tracks in good condition is extremely difficult, as[…]
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Thank you Mixcloud for including WhoSampled in the Beats & Bass Top 10 of 2015. Have to say I’m slightly confused by our inclusion in that category, given the nature of most of our content, but happy to have scraped into the Top 10 nonetheless. Read the rundown here.
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Happy New Year! Just a quick one to take a look back on 2015, say thanks to everyone who helped along the way and lift the lid on a couple of things for 2016. Biggest achievement for the year was to release my second album ‘All Night’ for BBE Records.[…]
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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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Blurb from WhoSampled: “This Saturday (14th November 2015) marked the 20th Anniversary of the release of The Pharcyde‘s seminal sophomore album ‘Labcabincalifornia’. Produced in part by the late great Jay Dee together with various members of the group and guest producers including Diamond D, it’s a timeless long player that[…]
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Check out a live recording of my recent session at Diggers Dozen at Ace Hotel London up now on Mixcloud. No mixing, just a bunch of interesting records including some disco-jazz, Soviet funk, Polish jazz, some other oddball jazz selections and funk bits from around the globe. Listen here or[…]
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This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Wil Baptiste of Black Violin about the relationship between hip hop and classical music and the band’s new album ‘Stereotypes. Blurb from WhoSampled: “For the latest edition of the WhoSampled interview series, we spoke with Wil Babtiste, one half of Black Violin,[…]
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I recently did a brief guest mix for Moscow’s ‘Funk & Beyond’ radio show / podcast hosted by Anatoly Ice ahead of my gigs in Russia this weekend. You can listen again here or below (my guest mix appears in the last half hour): Funk and Beyond Podcast. Issue 77.[…]
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There’s a brand new mix up on Mixcloud. Details below: “This is the third and final installment of the ‘Funky Drummers’ mix series and the most uptempo of the three. As with previous editions, it’s a solid 20 minutes of nothing but raw drum breaks from Funk, Soul, Rock &[…]
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Guest mix for Bonafide Magazine’s ‘Bonafide Beats’ series in support of the release of my ‘All Night’ album. Previous editions have included mixes by the likes of Ashley Beedle, Aim, Rhettmatic and Jneiro Jarel among others. The mix comprises just under an hour of Electronic Soul and related beats from[…]
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