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PLASTIC PEOPLE – The Final Session Jan 2nd : Floating Points + Fourtet
PLASTIC PEOPLE – The Final Session Jan 2nd : Floating Points + Fourtet When Plastic people closed its doors it signed off an era. It doesn’t seem like 15 years since Ade Fakile moved his initial session from Oxford Street … Continue reading
COOL BREEZE! HAVANA meets DMZ’s Mala
Despite rejecting ’nuff offers of projects over the years something about Gilles Peterson’s Cuba project f elt right! The results of their visits to Havana and beyond are now beginning to surface… here’s a taste… “I was totally out of … Continue reading
Posted in Words, Sound & Power
Tagged Brownswood, Cuba, DMZ, dubstep, electronica, Gilles Peterson, Havana, Mala, Roberto Fonseca
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Jamaica50: Babylon Your Queendom is falling….
Since Big Ben struck midnight on New Year’s eve and the South Bank lit up large in anticipation of the Olympics on the East-side, it seems that Jamaica has thrown up a daily dose of evocative bass-ical vibrations into this … Continue reading
Posted in Just Runnings, Words, Sound & Power
Tagged Bass Culture, Bob Marley, Dub, dubstep, Jamaica, Jamaica 50, Jazz Jamaica, Joe Harriott, Jungle, Reggae, SXSW
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Something for the weekend… Gilles Peterson meets Ross Allen… the podcast!
Having penned the liner notes to Gilles P’s latest offering… ‘Masterpiece’ …from the Ministry Of Sound I was most happy to see GP has got together with my good friend, the ever feisty and seriously deep music fan’ Ross Allen … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Radio 1, Chicago House, Clapham Common, Deep Hose, Dingwalls, drum & bass, dubstep, funk, Gilles Peterson, House, Jazz, Jungle, Masterpiece, Ministry Of Sound, podcast, radio, Ross Allen, soul, Stoke Newington, Talking Loud, That's How It Iss, Worldwide
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INNER CITY INSIGHT: Words, Sound & Power – MC Akala’s Life Of Rhyme & Life in Grime!
A blazing beacon of cultural enlightenment emerged from beneath the post-riot smokescreen in the form of UK MC, Akala’s ‘Life Of Rhyme’ on Channel 4. Following on from Saturday night’s well publicized but low budget and lame ‘How Hip Hop … Continue reading
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Tagged Akala, Channel 4, dan Hancox, drum & bass, dubstep, Genesis Elijah, Giggs, grime, Guardian, Hackney, Hip Hop, jngle, Lethal Bizzle, London, lyrics, Malik, MCs, Ms Dynamite, poetry, Professor Green, ragga, rap, Reveal, Riots, road raps, Rodney P, Wiley
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