Month: March 2017
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You use up everything you got trying to give everybody what they want
Never knew Nina Simone covered ‘Where Does The Time Go?’, heard this through the haunting Nils Frahm’s Late Night Tales, at last a mix that does express that 3am dark night of the soul hinted- but also love the classic preamble: “We are recording tonight and because we are recording we are trying to do…
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African Disco Electro
We’re no stranger to African electronica, Afrobeat highlife, and African funk on this blog – previously mixed, remixed, played or blogged about William Onyeahbor (RIP), Victor Uwaifo, Benis Cletin, Supermax, Fela and Femi Kuti, Lijadu Sisters and many more. So it’s not a surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of Nigerian and South…
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Say my name
Wow – amazing version of Say My Name by Ólafur Arnalds, Arnór Dan & Douglas Dare – how did I not hear this before? Heard it via Ólafur’s Late Night Tales, which is well worth checking out.
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New Order Glastonbury 1987
I’ve heard this gig but never seen it – but it seems someone was in the crowd with a video camera and filmed the whole gig, and of course the audio was broadcast on Radio 1 (not sure if I was listening, maybe since I got into New Order around that time). Never knew that…
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Daft Punk Medley
Love this Daft Punk medley from Jason Yang, John Shroeder ft Cam Tyler…it features Get Lucky, Give Life Back to Music, Aerodynamic and Digital Love…love the talk box action, and the violin fits so well with the Daft Punk melodies I do start to wonder if Grade 3 Violin was in either of the robots…