Tune of the week

The PH funky edit of Minus 8's Badman & Throbin' is my tune of the week. HUGE ARSE KICKING BOOM SHIT OF OH ME OH MY!

Yeah I like this, a lot.

Minus 8 - Badman & Throbin' (PH Funky Edit)

Gramatik + GRiZ =?

Grizmatik... And they're kicking things off with an immense tune and throwing it out as a free download. :D Funky, soulful and bordering on dirty, you needs to go get this!

Digital Liberation Is Mad Freedom

Back on it!

Yeah I know, been slack. Sorry. Stuff... Anyway, I be back on it.

The mighty Defunk brings us Banjo Blues available now from Resoul Records. Featuring Banjo, Blackstreet and Billy Holiday, really need I say more? Go get it get it!

Banjo Blues

German Jazz

Sorry for the slow updates, been a hectic few days. Anyway, here's something a little different today, some jazz from Germany. [re:jazz] have a new album out by the name of Kaleidoscope. I've been listening to it this week for more relaxed chilled out evenings. There's lots to like, this is proper music. Plus it has some flute, which is always a bonus ;) Oh and it featues N'dea Davenport of Brand New Heavies fame, so that should give you an idea of where it's going. Various listening options below :)

 

Nuclear

Sammy Senior playing around with Zomboy's Nuclear and providing goodness.

Nuclear (Sammy Senior remix)

I say old chap

Chap-hop still confuddles me. It's clearly ridiculous, yet I remain mildly amused and perhaps charmed by the whole idea. I imagine that's exactly the point :D

Plus it does have some serious beats lurking around. This recent tune from Mr B (The Gentleman Rhymer) is a class example. And damn there's some slick suits in the video.

Just Like A Chap


And then of course there's the rather well known Fighting Trousers from Professor Elemental. Regardless of if the rap style rocks your boat, the tune itself is proper good. Clever tinkering from the Professor as he slows down an old tune Twilight in Turkey by Raymond Scott from way back in the 1930s. Ah I love the things the internet can teach you :D.

Fighting Trousers


Twilight in Turkey

I could post a shit load of other tunes that make me chuckle, but I think this one has to be done. Mr B's tribute to the hip-hop classics

Chap Hop History

An essential Smoove purchase

Smoove knows how to do a remix; his rework of Steve Winwood's I'm a Man is an immense, guaranteed to get your arse moving, b-boy classic that I listen to all the time. So no surprise that I'd been looking forward to getting my hands on his latest album, the aptly named "First Class". Whilst some of the tracks have been knocking about for a while, the album was only officially released last month and has a whole load of other tunes on it. It's an awesome collection of quality remixes and I can't recommend it enough (please note I am not on a commission lol, it's just damn good).

Highly recommended :)

First Class Minimix



As a nice little bonus, Call Up To Heaven is available as a free download.

Call Up To Heaven

Tune of the week

I remember the first time I heard Rose Rouge from St Germain's Tourist album, it was the year 2000 and I was on the last day of a holiday in Amsterdam. I immediately decided I must own this, but being the last day it was a bit of a rush and I couldn't find the album anywhere... So off we went and headed to Schiphol Airport. I popped into a shop to buy a magazine, glanced at the CD rack as I walked in and WTF! There it was straight in front of me :) Result!

Here we have Leftside Wobble giving this classic tune a gentle edit. To quote their wise words.. "This ones all about the rhythm track overdubs and subtle filtering. Sometimes an edit needs a very light touch and with a track so perfect this is certainly the case here."

St Germain - Rose Rouge (Leftside Wobble Bump & Hustle Edit)

Needles

Can't remember if I linked this before, but a mate just reposted it on facebook and since I'm quite the Jimi Needles fan, here it is:

Gotye vs Bucketheads vs Chicago - Street Sounds (That I Used To Know)

Jetlag

Normally I'm not a fan of Whitney Houston songs. I can appreciate them sure, she had a great voice and all, but they're just not my thing (for a wide range of reasons most of the 80s and I are still not talking). However this has now changed, all thanks to the tune that arrived in my email yesterday...

Over in Brussels, Jetlag are doing classy stuff with house and other electronic music (and violins I gather, which intrigues me greatly...). This tune is a remix of I'm Every Woman, ya'll know it obviously. It will be officially released on the 6th of November 2012, though Jetlag have made it available as a free download right now. It's proper good, so go listen.

Every Woman


And whilst we're talking about Jetlag, check out this mixtape. I've got it playing right now. Goodness.

Tune of the week

Is actually a mix. Just heard this and it's destroyed my head with awesomeness. Yet again I must say, nice one Daytoner!

This is an essential free download

Classic Edits Mix 2012

Preach on

A classic with some beat tinkering from Jim Sharp.

Preacher Man (Jim Sharp Re-Edit)

Religion

Been lots of talk about religion today, people claiming with absolute certainty that they know the unknowable. So in reality just the usual manipulative crap. Which made me think of this track by Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip...

A letter from God to Man


And whilst I'm thinking about Mr Pip, here's one from his solo album Distraction Pieces.

Introdiction