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Black Moses and the Promised land

Andria Lisle, looks at Memphis’ incredible musical legacy in today’s Guardian. As the legend goes, if you plant your pocket change on the silty banks of the lower Mississippi River, copper and silver trees will spring up overnight. Maybe that’s… Continue reading

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Wednesday Night People

Aint it Black, last night, was it’s usual explosive mix of eclectic music and up-for-it party crowd. I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun deejaying, it’s like a massive, slightly mad house party. The best thing about it,… Continue reading

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Yo Gazelle!

There is a definite African flavour to this week’s Ain’t it Black Session, down at Favela Chic. Headlining are HOT Afro-Electro act Gazelle and there is added motherland pressure from Shrine deejay Rita Ray. To get you in the mood… Continue reading

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HL *hearts* dam-funk

Dam-Funk is the man

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Wild Tigers I have known

image via Back when we were younger, horse latitudes was full of plaintive love songs and mornfully, quixotic posts about things we couldn’t really express, let alone want to write about publically. Whilst I’m certainly grateful that the need to… Continue reading

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HAND RAISED BY ROBOTS

Damn! It’s all about Detroit this month. Fresh on the heels of innersound-boy jez’s killer ‘4am in Detroit‘ mix (one of my favorite mixes of the year) comes Brother Quaid‘s seriously deep sci-fi soul adventure. Mixing bladerunner sound fx with… Continue reading

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Grace Jones – Corporate Cannibal

When we saw Grace Jones at the meltdown festival last month, this was the promo that opened the show. It managed to both half scare us to death and prove she still had her edge in four freaky minutes. Maneater.

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On & On

Manni’s blog ‘Those City Nights‘ is one of the best researched and consistently well written music blogs out there. The level of detail and work that goes into it, puts most blogs to shame. Today there is a great interview… Continue reading

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Blackjoy mixtapes

Gotta a lot of love for Blackjoy. Both ‘Moustache’ and ‘Untitled’ got heavily caned back in the basilika love disco days. I stumbled across their blog a few months back (probably via chris’ ever-heavy another night on earth blog) and… Continue reading

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standing on tippy toes

My visits to the latitudes, leaving parcels of goodness at your door are getting fewer and farther between. If I keep going at this rate, l’ll soon be as illusive and as Father Christmas (though with a less predictable timetable)… Continue reading

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