Archives from April 2010

ABC

British new wave had more disco and pop feel in it in early 80′s. The band ABC is one significant part of the new romantics movement. One term used is “new pop”, which is kinda stupid name for a music style. ABC’s Lexicon Of Love is an album that can be easily found on every [...]

Deep at its best

One of my favourite deep house production group, Trickski made a track called “Hormony” five years ago. Been feeling this one lately a lot. Funny thing is that it sounds more at-the-date now than at the time it was published. The dubstepish intro and a great change to the 4/4… Gotta love Compost sound. Trickski [...]

Drum & Bass Classics Part 1: Metalheadz

In my first DC post I’m gonna give you some huge D&B anthems from one of the biggest and most respected labels on the D&B scene: Metalheadz. I’ve selected three classics from Metalheadz for you. This was harder than I expeceted, because there are at least twenty big classics which I have to choose from, [...]

…you’re looking kinda down to me.

This is a repost to the previous one. The vocal sample from Phats & Small – Turn Around is of course from Toney Lee’s feel-good classic “Reach Up” Toney Lee – Reach Up (Mediafire 320k)

Hey! What’s wrong with you?

90′s was full of semi-commercial and simple house anthems that were easy to dance to even if you didn’t enjoy smoke machines and strobe lights. Many of the artists and producers behind these cheerful tunes did not make it the second time, and here is one of these groovy one hit wonders from 1999 – [...]

Return of the Ankh

Everybody’s favorite soul mama is back. And we’re loving her. Now this is something we’ve been expecting a long time.. Back to the Baduizm times. Full of J Dilla, James Poyser, Quest, Madlib, Sa-Ra, Karriem Riggins and 9th Wonder greatness. Get yours now on vinyl or download the album at iTunes. ‘Window Seat’ official video‘ — [...]

Boogie

This time it’s all about boogie. This Early 80′s genre followed the commercial “death” of disco music that emerged during late 70s and early 80s. Boogie was significant part of the post-disco era and entroduced more electronic and experimental side of disco. Here’s a hour full of classic boogie tunes and my own favourites. Enjoy! [...]

Samplebusters, Episode 2

I thought I’d make a guest appearance on this post series with some epic sampling madness: Man Alive by Devilfish uses the famous chord loop from Inner City’s Good Life as well as the breakbeat loop from Grooveyard’s Watch Me Now, which in turn has a funky sample from It’s Just Begun by The Jimmy [...]