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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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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June 22nd 2015 sees the release of my new album for BBE Records. Titled ‘All Night’, the album is a round up of my remixes and productions from 2010 to 2015 including 9 previously unreleased tracks. Guest vocalists include Grammy award winners Bilal and Algebra Blessett, plus Oddisee, Pugs Atomz[…]
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Following on from the ‘Funky Drummers’ Part 2 mix which I posted two weeks back, this is the alternate version that I mentioned I would be posting. Essentially the same mix, but stripped right back to the essence – 20 minutes of nothing but the raw drum breaks! Tracklist: 1.[…]
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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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On Friday last week I put out a new mixtape for WhoSampled x Wax Poetics in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of A Tribe Called Quest’s debut LP ‘People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm’. In the four short days since it went online it’s already clocked over 20,000[…]
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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing RAMP’s John Manuel for WhoSampled. Blurb from WhoSampled: “For the latest edition of the WhoSampled interview series, we speak with John Manuel, drummer, percussionist and band leader with the group RAMP, a Roy Ayers affiliated project whose debut album ‘Come Into Knowledge’ is[…]
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After my post last week regarding Mixcloud’s Best Mixes of 2014 list, a number of best of category lists have been published and I’m pleased to say I’ve also made the ‘Best Crate Diggers’ run down alongside the likes of Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B, Andy Smith of Portishead fame[…]
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Mixcloud just announced their Top 25 mixes of 2014 and I’m pleased to have scraped my way on to the list at #23 for my Incredible Bongo Band Anniversary Mix. Not quite as good as last year when I managed to grab the #7 and #18 spot, but still not[…]
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