Max Sedgley’s career to date has been a tale of unabashed talent, irregular bouts of what Hollywood folk like to call serendipity and bloody hard work. That the man behind ‘Happy’, one of this century’s most enduring clarion calls, is blessed with an uncanny knack for fashioning infectious, dancefloor-slaying nuggets goes without saying. However, Sedgley has had to persevere - he’s earned his rhythmical stripes alright.
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Little Barrie return to the UK in May for a series of live dates and the release of their new single Pay To Join, out on May 7th on Genuine.
Following their fourth consecutive UK number 1 album, the double Grammy Award winning Push The Button, The Chemical Brothers return with their sixth long player, set for release on June 19th 2007. We Are The Night is The Chemical Brothers finest record yet, twelve tracks of psychedelic warehouse party acid music, euphorically melodic and as uncompromising as their retina scorching live shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Coldcut have always been fascinated with the fusion of sound and vision and so the idea of them curating a DVD version of Sound Mirrors (their stunning and critically acclaimed album) is a fitting one. In collaboration with freelance music video commissioner Vez they set about taking the medium of the music video out of the realm of MTV and the cheesy promo, instead making the work a purely artistic expression of the music.
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With the origins of their sound owing to the synthesizer music of the 1970s such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis and Francis Lai coupled with the likes of Pink Floyd, and Tangerine Dream, French music duo Air are due to release Pocket Symphony on March 5th. Read the rest of this entry »
Seeing The Good, The Bad and The Queen live was certainly a gig like no other. Rather than wheeling out some second rate indie band as their support act, the audience instead was treated to a series of vaudeville cabaret acts including Igor the Russian accordionist, a burlesque contortionist and ‘The Great Blondini’, a truly shit magician. Read the rest of this entry »
Funk music was formed from a blend other styles such as jazz, soul and R&B and is characterised by the use of not just drums and bass to create rhythms but the tight coordination of all a band’s instruments.
Dub. The precursor to all dance music. Without its existence, there would be no remix. Samples would be just liquid in jars. And bass on such a serious scale would be considered hostile.
The term hip-hop encompasses a broad range of cross-cultural activities, from dance to graffiti art. At the heart of hip-hop culture, though, is music, and the term hip-hop has come to be loosely synonymous with rap music in general.
Public Enemy. For many, the most important rap group ever. Innovative beats, pioneering scratches, socially-conscious lyrics, and two of the most respected front-men ever. It’s said that Public Enemy were the first rap-group to tour outside of the US, setting the foundations for the word-wide hip-hop domination.
