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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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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