Last week we put together a mix for our pal Disco Jesus on the wonderful Deep Frequency Radio.It’s now available to stream or download here. (it’s the show from the 18th June).
It’s the first mix I’ve been involved with for ages and it felt pretty good to summarize what we have been playing out and [...]

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citinite’s new release is something of a lost classic.
Taken from the film Purple Rain, Dez Dickerson’s track ‘Modernaire’ has been an unreleased collectors item for the past 24 years.
“Without a doubt, the most widely known and sought-after of my songs is ‘Modernaire’. The song was immortalized in [...]

“That record was up against the paranoia of radio and the power of corporate record labels. That time, the record and the artist won. These days, neither one would have had a chance in hell.”
The story behind Prince’s ‘Kiss‘.
From the wondeful Mixonline archive.
via mefi
and Dave Rat’s take on Prince’s live show;
What is it about [...]

Being of a certain age, it can a battle not to succumb to easy cynicism. With music (perhaps now more than ever) constantly re-hashing old ideas there can be a tendency to be very suspicious of anything new and to take refuge in the safety of readily affirmed past classics.
Of course rust never [...]

“The trouble with the Jon Snow’s of this world it that they think what
is right for the media is also always right for society, whereas anyone
with a modicum of common sense knows that is not so. It really is time
journalists in general began once again to ask themselves the bigger
question of what is best for [...]

its been a while, and though it was tempting to herald my return with a cover of one of my old posts, but that would have been superlame so i’m only going half way and i’m re-upping something i’d posted before (but which languishes on a far away server now) for this valentine’s thursday.
a tribute [...]

To be frank I’m a little Prince-d out.  After a long summer gorging myself on concerts, aftershows and unreleased gems my purple-appetite was fully sated. More than that, what with it being the a full 20 years since his last decent album, the long standing rumours (and evidence) of unmetered control-freakery and those ‘PR friendly’ [...]

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No Country for Old men is one of those films for which it’s very easy to start bandying around superlatives. It’s a contender for my film of the year (I saw it at the very end of 2007) but would still be in the running if I had seen it on January 1st. It [...]

(pic via)Checked out waajeed at the jazz cafe last week.
It was all kinds of ropey.
Just a lame-assed dj set-if I had paid the £16/£20 door charge, I’d have been mad.Some guy in a big gold chain wheeling out tired hiphop plattitudes. 45 minutes of ‘this one’s for dilla’ (can’t we let this [...]

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So everything is kind of moving in slow motion today (which is very nice)
After last weeks horrendous mix of estate agents, spreadsheets and endless to-do lists it feels a slighty break in the busy autumn ahead.
It was a weekend of strange encounters and brief journeys into other people’s lives. Who knew friday we’d end [...]