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Inescapable UK pop music

Having lived in the UK for 20 months now, it’s hard to escape pop music. Growing up in New Zealand, I was surrounded by pop from both the US and UK. Combined with a healthy sprinkling of kiwi and Australian … Continue reading

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Philadelphia International Classics: The Tom Moulton Remixes. Amazing

Tom Moulton was one of the first remixers ever who took the best ‘breaks’ and songs and extended them for the dancefloor way back in the 70s. After being fed up with the music scene in the 1960s, he was … Continue reading

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Scritti Politti live and intimate at the Guardian

The Guardian in London were hosting an open weekend featuring talks, seminars and performances covering the myriad of content they publish. I was excited to see an evening with Green Gartside (of Scritti Politti) interviewed by their music critic and … Continue reading

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Paloma Faith is back

 She’s  back! I got very excited when I heard she was returning with an album produced by Nellie Hooper. Admittedly, I haven’t heard much of him in years but his work with Madonna, Bjork and Soul II Soul is good … Continue reading

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Pump Up The Volume (documentary)

I had a day off work to recover from a large night out partying for a friend’s birthday. That usually means blobbing on the couch, some Facebooking (it’s a verb now) and reading tweets. I follow King Britt who posted … Continue reading

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Escort live at the Jazz Café 8 March 2012

Inhabiting the murky world of underground dance music  as I do,  the genre that continues  to influence is disco. It’s now been several years of edits, reworks and remixes – some of which are standout and some are not. Just … Continue reading

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Jessie Ware

It’s new artist time and this week up popped Jessie Ware. She’s from South London, Brixton I think, and I think one to watch this year. Her second track “Running”  grabbed me right from the opening synth lines. Produced by … Continue reading

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Disco in 2012

Beatport have just done a feature on disco in 2012 with playlists and interviews with some of current disco scene-shapers including Todd Terje, Joey Negro and Greg Wilson.  There’s some quite varied opinions, with some even hating disco and others … Continue reading

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UK Soul strikes twice

Emeli Sande “Our Version of Events” (buy) Emeli Sande released her debut album t “Our Version of Events”. Having won the Brit’s Awards Critics Choice and delivered three outstanding singles, it was about time her album dropped. I saw her live … Continue reading

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Is disco dehumanising?

DJHistory.com posted an article written by Simon Frith in 1978 with his perspective on disco music. I’ve read mountains about disco over the years and consumed mountains-worth of it – but this is a slightly different perspective – definitely with … Continue reading

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