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Month: November 2020

Categories Hip Hop

30/11/2020: “Flava In Ya Ear” by Craig Mack

As with many hip hop classics, this song is underpinned by a smooth beat. Terrible rapping ruins great instrumentals, and great rapping is wasted on…

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020
Categories R'n'B, Soul

29/11/2020: “I’ve Got A Woman” by Ray Charles

The chorus of this song is better known from Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” (2005). The sample is flipped on its head there – in the…

November 29, 2020November 29, 2020
Categories Reggae

28/11/2020: “Jah Is Mighty” by Bob Marley

Dig into Bob Marley’s back catalogue, past “Buffalo Soldier” and “Three Little Birds”, and you’ll be surprised. Many of Marley’s most profound and beautiful songs…

November 28, 2020
Categories Dance, House

27/11/2020: “King Of My Castle (Roy Malone’s King Mix” by Wamdue Project

At one stage in my life, I worked as a lifeguard at my local pool. In the evenings, when it was quiet, we’d sometimes have…

November 27, 2020November 28, 2020
Categories Film Soundtracks, Jazz

26/11/2020: “Snow Creatures” by Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones is on the more ‘experimental’ end of Jazz. Frankly, a lot of his music dives into glittering pools of weirdness and splashes iridescent…

November 26, 2020November 26, 2020
Categories Soca

25/11/2020: “Stink Face” by Kerwin Du Bois

When I think of Caribbean music, I normally think of reggae, or ragga dancehall – both associated with Jamaica. They’re laidback and bass heavy. But…

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020
Categories Pop, Rock

24/11/2020: “Here Comes Your Man” by The Pixies

Released in 1989, on Doolittle, this track was actually written quite a few years later, when frontman Black Francis was 14. It’s a very sweet,…

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020
Categories Reggae

23/11/2020: “Youth Of Eglington” by Black Uhuru

For context, Eglington is an area of Toronto with a large Jamaican community. Brixton is an area of London with a large Jamaican community. And…

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020
Categories Punk, Rock

22/11/2020: “Surfin’ Dead” by The Cramps

The Cramps are one of the craziest bands ever. Their pioneering status in punk marks them out as legends regardless of their other attibutes. But,…

November 22, 2020November 22, 2020
Categories Dance, Pop

21/11/2020: “Fashion” by David Bowie

This is typical trailblazing David Bowie. It’s simultaneously entrenched in its time, and beyond it. There’s just enough weirdness to mark it indelibly as a…

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020

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