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