Every inch of this song is feel good music. It has an indefatigable positive energy! The track kicks off with a suitably groove-tastic bassline, which…
Month: April 2019
09/04/2019: “Deep Inside (The Dub)” by Hardrive
Hardrive’s most enduring hit is most probably “Deep Inside”. To me, it symbolises a golden age of garage house, where it seemed every tune was…
08/04/2019: “Personality Crisis” by New York Dolls
The New York Dolls were one of the leading precursors to the punk movement, and as result found themselves being dropped from record labels, polarising…
07/04/2019: “Night” by Benga & Coki
Aside from “Midnight Request Line” by Skream, this is probably one of old school dubstep’s biggest anthems. It got to number 98 on the U.K….
06/04/2019: “Jungle Lion” by Lee “Scratch” Perry & The Upsetters
Unusually for a reggae song, this is heavily sample based. You could almost call it a remix of Al Green’s “Love And Happiness”, released in…
05/04/2019: “Time After Time” by John Coltrane
John Coltrane brings a magic touch to everything he comes into contact with. Here, his magic touch is applied to the 1946 jazz standard, “Time…
04/04/2019: “The Final Countdown” by Europe
This must surely be one of the most iconic songs of the 80s, if not the most iconic. Many people will only know that stadium…
03/04/2019: “Folding Shadows” by Om Unit
It would be a bit reductive to try and establish exactly what genre Om Unit is. It’s bass music, somewhere in between dubstep, drum and…
02/04/2019: “Voodoo Ray” by A Guy Called Gerald
An interesting fact about this song: the sample used was originally “voodoo rage”, but the sampler used was quite old and didn’t have enough memory…
01/04/2019: “Breathe” by The Prodigy
I was saddened by the news that Keith Flint, the iconic frontman of The Prodigy, had killed himself at the start of March. Although Liam…