Month: January 2020
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Pete and Bas
How did I not know about the oldest grime artists storming the internet? And they are really good…if you think Snatch and Lock Stock meets Breaking Bad and Sexy Beast meets Grime you’re pretty much there. But Pete and Bas have skills. Here they are with some friends, The Snooker Team. Love the intro. There…
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Acid Sesame
Sesame Street was always a little surreal and psychedelic early on, but did Sesame Street have a tripped out LSD for kids episode in 1969? Reason I ask is I’ve just found in the first series they covered The Beatles ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ which despite the band’s protestations is definitely lysergic. According…
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Boing Jean is Not My Doorstop
Seen this doing the rounds, I avoid viral stuff because it’s usually all kind of dumb, but this is really funny and well made. Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean accompanied only with samples from a spring door stopper! At last something worthy of a ‘viral lift’ or whatever those evil marketing tossers say nowadays…
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Incredible Original Nuttahs
Just over 25 years ago, Ragga Jungle went mainstream with M-Beat ft General Levy and my favourite Shy FX and UK Apachi’s Original Nuttah. It was a sound that was unapologetically British and mostly London-based, and it was an eclectic mix of soul, reggae, jazz, ragga, West and East, all in one bass-heavy C-Lab Akai…
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Public Enemy Rhythm Scholar mix
Chuck D himself said share this, and I can see why, nice remix of Public Enemy by Rhythm Scholar with RATM-inspired guitar riffs from Sami Turunen and video from TravAlma which is a bit of a history lesson – I’d certainly not heard of Farrakhan and probably Malcolm X til I heard PE records.