Category: hip hop
So said Jimi Polo all the way back in 1989 over the top of one of dance music’s most memorable piano riffs. But then house music in those days was all about gay black kids coming up with funky piano snippets on their Utopian search. Oh, how far we’ve come. So, here it is, my [...]
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round_Kiterae_better_days_Mixtape - Listen now |
My first exposure to mashup culture goes back to the early heady days of rap when the ganstas and daisy agers achieved notoriety by borrowing freely from old funk and pop classics to create the dance-punk propaganda that I guess now gets labeled ‘Golden Age Hip Hop’. The likes of George Clinton took offense to [...]
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SOLO-Fabricmix-June09 - Listen now |
It’s surprising that in this day and age there are some artists that you just can’t find on the web. Sparkletone is one. I checked Myspace – nothing there. Next the personal website – lovely design with a bunch of remixes, and that’s about it. Coming full circle back to the mix that originally triggered [...]
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Egypt - Listen now |
The UK’s BBC Radio 1 has been supporting and promoting emerging dance music since the early days of rave (when the public-funded organ attracted some ire for forging links with a ‘drug-addled’ sub culture). Back in the day, I had no way of getting out into the fields where the raves where happening, so I [...]
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20DJs%2520We%2520Trust_2009_06_19 - Listen now |
Amazing what happens when you get together 4 fingers and the new Akai Ableton controller with aesthetics borrowed from a ‘seventies dancefloor. “The APC40 Ableton Performance Controller in action!” screams the headline. More wrist action than a spotty teen during rainy summer hols.
What a surprisingly delightful place Austin turned out to be. Not exactly sure why I have this latent distrust of Texas; after all you’d have thought I’d have lived through enough racism not to fall into the trap of tarring all with the same brush. But yes, for some strange reason I expected all Texans [...]
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SXSW_Popround_Mix_Mar09_Kiterae - Listen now |
Here it is. Thug Wife digs out some seeeerious classics from Austin this spring. Miss Lucifer – Primal Scream Voices In My Head – K’naan Daniel – Bat For Lashes Ankles – Chris TT Nyet Spasiba – Handsome Furs Mad Dogs And Englishmen – Late Of The Pier It’s Impossible – Daniel Johnston Country Mile [...]
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sxsw09_thugwife - Listen now |
After an hour with Dan Deacon it’s easy to forget which way up is normal. This guy just does not follow the rules. Don’t believe me? Just look at this blatant disregard of the way things work on the indie/dance/rock scene: Rule #1 Let someone else build your stage. Following the support acts, a crowd [...]
February meant visits from all the family – both sides descended on our small flat. Quite a horde. San Francisco showered them with rain and I regressed back into my teenage past. And talking of my teenage past, for this mix I’ve resurrected some hip house hits of yore. Beware, I’ve been excavating more classics [...]
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bestoftheblogs_parentals_feb09 - Listen now |
The other big treat for me on a recent night out in Liverpool came in the shape of an anonymous-looking CD from fellow beat-mongerer Dax. We take the year-end as an excellent opportunity to exchange tunes that rocked our boat over the previous twelve months. It’s great for me to get some insight into the [...]
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dax_xmas08_kiterae_mix - Listen now |
