Some powerful records being added - good work.
Jnr Parker - reminds me of the sort of stuff AIM starts his sets with. It's a smokers record. It's tripped out soul - a proper "grower" to my ears.
Sky - I remember listening to this stuff in my mums Fiesta in the 80's! This one is not really for me. Can see how it's relevant again now due to pacing - it's the guitar that fucks me off.... strip that out and you could play it as a DJ tool, set progresser.
Guido - something in the construction of this makes me feel like I don't need to listen to another prog tune ever again and that is saying something..that's the way I felt about Cass & Slide the first time Sasha started playing them.. the fact that this was written in 2010 only serves to make me love it more.... it feels like peak time Sheffield, the former "Music Factory" nights. My first ever Pink Versace. Melt down. Straight into best of potentials. Strong.
Bicep & Ejeca - well Bicep didn't miss a trick on their name did they/he/she/it ?! Fuck me hard. The production on the vocal is absolutely mindblowingly epic. Don't even get me going on the beats. Oh yeah - the bass aint bad either, is it??!
SR - hehehehe - many fond memories of being ordered to listen to this LP top to bottom by Sully when I was doing my professional submission document only to tell him to "fuck off, I'm pulling back to back all nighters in order to finish it - I NEED TECHNO not fucking chillout!!!!" In the end I was so intrigued, played this album and was totally distracted... long story short I finally (I promise this is true, despite it sounding totally OTT/melodramatic) finished my final piece of the 150 page submission and placed each of the four copies together in order as this LP drew to a close.... then the last 4 minutes of this track came on at 5:05am and I just lay down on my office floor upstairs and wept "I've done it... jesus christ thank you christ I've finished" hahahahaha - what a tw@. Their best overall LP - not a bad track on it imo.
TT - been on my 'potentials' list for years.... likewise I wanted to leave enough time to pass prior to adding. MASSIVE record. The seminal record that really anounced to the world that UK hip hop could cross over (truly, truly cross over) and bomb the shit out of US music whilst at it - big track world wide.........love the jam that ends with "CLC Kompresser just in case that don't impress her" - genius. The d'n'b conclusion just takes the piss. Have some of that you septic w@nkers... Don't tell us how to do hip hop, we just blew you out the Atlantic.
Jessie Ware - I've had a track of hers on my list to add for a few months now. Not heard this before. Lush - smashing vocals - please keep going - you and Emile Sande are the future of this genre.... and the young lady below of course....
Jess Mills..... where's the techno?? Oh JESS Mills..... sorry couldnt resist. More of the same - high quality vocals with someone who knows what they're doing on the mixing desk. Cracking pop music with soul and high quality beats. More please.
Rustie - MAKE THIS LONGER. IMMEDIATELY. Serious beats.
Blake - this was CANED on Radio 1 for a while back there. With good reason. Lovely melodies - amazing voice (stop saying "wa...erfaaaal" though). Proper dangerous bass, distortion and overall production. The rough with the extremely smooth - works incredily well. It very muc reminds me of the old King Tubby soundsytem stuff but then I guess that's the blueprint for all modern Dub/Dubstep. Great stuff.
INLUENCES PT.2
Keys - wow this kid can really sing. She makes me feel weird. First time I heard this tune I was out shopping (help me god)... swear down I was straight to the checkout "What's this CD???..... the track playing now.... find out NOW".
Hackman - What da?!? Who thinks of doing this?! Is it by accident do you reckon?! 3 months it took me to work this out........ drove me mental; "I KNOW IT - I KNOW IT.....". Couldn't for the life of me place it. Then it just clicked in. Sounds so obvious hearing them next door to each other.... believe me when I heard this track last year I hadn't heard Keys' track for AGES. Big record, bought it on Beatport, love it. When the 4:4 drops it's buzzing.
Clash - I don't really wanna get too political on here - google this and read for yourselves. God love 'em - what a band. No-one even comes close these days.
(Still fucked off that my "Straight to Hell" t-shirt got 'lost' in the move out of London ... deep suspicion my missus threw it out due to too many holes.... disappointing behaviour)
MIA - another one that drove me insane when it came out .... "Why can't I remember that 'kettle' sounding effect?!??!". Very clever referencing the Clash in this tune; immigration links etc etc. Never heard anything else she's done. When I heard this I was just hooked. And of course to add to the theme Mr Jigga and K-West clipped the "No-one on the corner have swagga like us" for their monstrously popular "Swagga like us".... The biggest US hip hop star sampling an up and coming UK hip hop artist... who would've thunk it??
Isley Brothers - intro..... if you don't give it "Just waking up in tha mornin' gotta thank God" then you are not normal.. That is official. What a smashing record. My mates old man used to play Isley Brothers tapes every morning on the way to school so when Cube sampled this we were just throwing eppy's. Cube's track has already been added to our lists by one of you boys, so my work here is done....
Until next time,
H
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