Tag: Black British music
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Kano – Trouble
The godfather of grime is back, with a new album out at the end of the month ‘Hoodies All Summer’ – and to hear his tones on the radio is very welcome! And here he is in a hard-hitting film featuring two of the tracks – Trouble and Class of Deja with D Double E…
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Skip to my loops – Disclosure & Fred Falk 90’s REWIND
http://soundcloud.com/tomorrowland-2013-sets/disclosure-essential-mix-bbc-radio1-10-aug-2013 I’ve been forecasting the skippety skippety return of speed garage and 90’s house since 2011, when at Coachella the likes of Joy Orbison were dropping old speed garage tunes as a nod to where dubstep came from, and these 20 year olds who were hardly born then were going nuts for it. Last year…
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Wiley – what could be
How many blogs go from early 70’s folk to up-to-date 2010 grime-pop? Not that many, that’s what! More up to date I’ve been slowly wading through the gigabytes of tunes that Wiley released via Twitter in July – 11 zip files full of new Wiley music, variable (even demos and just beats in there) but…
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UK Funky – yup another new genre!
Twittered about this but forgot to post about it – Uk Funky (or just ‘Funky’) – a new genre/type of music coming out of I guess house, dancehall, grime and 4×4/nu garage scenes, adding african beats or soca beats and rather simplistic dancehall/aerobics style lyrics, I love the groove though, and seems like every song…