March 31, 2010
Adidas are quickly becoming the Pilooski ‘re-edit’ Kings.
Pilooski - Can't There Be Love
First the Frankie Valli track, Beggin’ on their House Party ad – I didn’t realise this until a guy who shared my old office told me, but that ad was filmed at house parties across different locations and edited together to look like one massive party meaning Missy and Becks may not actually have been at the same House Party…
Now, and I think I might like this one even more, Pilooski’s worked his magic on Dee Edwards’ ‘Why Can’t There Be Love?’ in another Adidas Originals ad, this time Neighborhood.
Pilooski – Can’t There Be Love
Heard it during the Arsenal v Barcelona phenomenal comeback match today and rewound Sky+ 3 times to try and identify it. (Shazam first time didn’t work, MusicID did, gave Shazam a second try just to confirm, still didn’t get it 
).
I had downloaded it from iTunes before the ad break ended.
Ace track, which I’ll no doubt be playing frequently this summer, along with all the clubs that played Beggin’ last time around.
Do it again…go on…
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March 29, 2010
Jeff Buckley - Grace
I’ve started and re-started this blog post 3-4 times. It doesn’t happen very often – because most times I write about anything up here, it’s because I know exactly what I want to say about it.
But nothing I say about Jeff Buckley could even come close to conveying how I feel about his music without sounding melodramatic, possibly pretentious and maybe even a little bit crazy!
It makes me so sad the world lost him so prematurely – I want more.
I’m going to keep this short – just a list of my favourite songs and a couple of lyrics.
Lover You Should Have Come Over – “It’s never over, my Kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder”
I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted to Be) – “I’m not with you, but of you”
So Real
Last Goodbye – “Why can’t we overcome this wall? Baby, maybe it’s just because I didn’t know you at all.”
I Want Someone Badly
Forget Her
and, of course:
Eternal Life
Here’s a spotify playlist, to make it even easier.
This is what made me finally attempt to write about him:
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour”
- William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”
I wish I had read that somewhere other than an ad board on a Metropolitan line train… :p
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March 24, 2010
The songs are:
Let’s Work It Out – especially loved because it samples Leke Pehla Pehla Pyar (spotify), one of the most beautiful 50s Golden Greats ever written, performed here by Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle (yes, as in ‘Brimful of Asha’), and Shamshad Begum.
Teri Baaton (Your Words) – a reggae-hindi concoction which is a second version of his UK hit ‘Angel Eyes’ and makes me think of Summer… so will be played this Summer, a lot. It’s actually the flight into the classical vocal at the end that gets me more than anything else.
So Confused – early 2000′s R&B. They played it in ALL the clubs back then (well, all the desi clubs folks like me were going to, anyway) and when I have my way, they still do. 
Raghav - Storyteller
I have a thing about desi-rnb fusion/remixes/mashups, and have done since I heard Taal Se Taal Mila mixed with Only You at the Imperial College London ACS Fashion Show back in…2000? (Thanks Az!). Raghav does it released and mainstream.
The man is Raghav, the album – Storyteller.
Seen live a few years back under the pretence of wanting to see Jagged Edge.
Apparently he’s still around and has released a new album!
*opens a new amazon.co.uk tab whilst typing*
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March 22, 2010
Stepping away from the hip-hop and back into the indie/electronica – I’ve been meaning to post about this band for weeks, since I came across their name in The Fly Magazine Feb issue.
They got a brief mention in a Summer Camp post last month as they’ve also done a cover of The Flamingos – I Only Have Eyes For You, which is up on their MySpace right now, but this one’s just about them.
North Atlantic Oscillation - Grappling Hooks
The reason I sought out more, specifically, was this track:
77 Hours (Engineers Mix)
Their new album, Grappling Hooks, is out today, 22 March, on KScope and features, my favourites amongst the others, 77 Hours (the not-Engineers mix), I Only Have Eyes For You and Audioplastic (linked but no music at the moment, hopefully after the album release today?)
They’re a trio of lads from Scotland, who don’t sound like Biffy Clyro or We Were Promised Biffy Clyro, I mean We Were Promised Jetpacks, but are a hazy electro cloud of beats, synths and a bit of auto-tune (which seems to not be dead).
Their album launch show is at the Lexington tonight. Support them for £6… go on…
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March 21, 2010
Surely this man needs no introduction whatsoever – aside from saying I cannot believe it’s taken me this long to dedicate a post to him.
A modern-day legend in the hip-hop/rap space and co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, his tunes are my first port of call whenever I need a power-play, a bit of confidence or some “you can do it” encouragement.
Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
So why has this come up today of all days? I just got my copy of The Blueprint 3 in the post, and this happens to be my favourite track on the album.
Jay-Z – D.O.A (Death of Auto-tune)
I missed his Roundhouse gig last year but was jammy enough to be at Wembley Stadium when he was “supporting” (ahem!) Coldplay. One of the oddest shows I’ve been to – a bunch of Coldplay fans, many (but not all) of whom seemed unsure how to respond to the music, cheering politely but a little awkwardly through classics like Big Pimpin’, 99 Problems and Dirt Off Your Shoulder, until… Numb/Encore when the crowd went genuinely crazy, bouncing in unison like hip-hop is all they’ve ever known.
Little mini-shout out to Paul, who actually rubbed shoulders with Mr. -Z and his lovely wife at a Grizzly Bear concert in NYC last year.
Well… close enough.
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March 20, 2010
I realise this is a really odd, random, grime track to post at a time when our ears are generally bombarded with folk, electro-pop, indie, hip-hop etc…
SLK - Hype! Hype!
But I ripped some of my old CDs a few weeks back, transferred them to my iPhone and then pretty much immediately forgot about them until I ‘shuffled’.
This came up:
SLK – Hype! Hype! (iLike)
Cue instant smile and memories of other grime tracks I used to love and do again when reminded – like 21 Seconds (So Solid Crew), P’s And Q’s (Kano) and…, I actually also love Random (Lady Sovereign – who is NOT Mel C’s sister).
So I thought I’d share.
Oh My! Nearly forgot Dizzee…
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March 19, 2010
Recently launched social music discovery engine Mflow is a “revolutionary download company” (Clash Music newsletter, 16 March 2010) that, to paraphrase their words, is a way for mates to send each other music that they think rocks.
mflow - social music
But not just mates. Radio One DJ Zane Lowe, recording artist Lauren Pritchard, whoever mans the user accounts at Clash and NME Magazines and I’m sure many more music celebs/entities as the service grows. It’s currently in invite-only beta but invited users receive 5 of their own invites to send their friends on registration.
The idea is that users “follow” their friends, or other users whose taste hits the spot more often than not, and receive streamable tracks and albums “flowed” by those users straight to their mflow-platform inbox. Users can also flow tracks that are available through mflow on to their own followers. Many of the tracks on the system (but not all) can be purchased for download directly through the platform.
The twists?
One. You can only stream a track in full if it’s been flowed to your inbox by a user you’re following or you’ve purchased it on mflow.
Two. If you flow a track and one of your followers purchases it, you receive an mflow credit of 20% of the price they paid to offset against the cost of your own purchases on mflow.
Things we like?
- They’ve incorporated the human element into digital music discovery without bespoke, individual, personality profile, read-your-mind interaction
- The service aims to tackle piracy by promoting legal discounted downloads
- Effectively, they’re paying their users to spread the word about the music they love with…Read More
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