Beats and pieces

[Duff Man]

 

[Paul]

Wayward - All A Bit Mad

 

 

[Paul]

Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats & Smino feat. Robert Glasper - So Incredible (Robert Glasper Version)

 

 

[Paul]

Stereolab - Outer Bongolia

 

 

[Paul]

Thundercat (featuring BADBADNOTGOOD and Flying Lotus) – King Of The Hill

 

 

[Paul]

Hiatus Kaiyote – Get Sun (featuring Arthur Verocai)

 

 

[Paul]

Pinty – Found It

 

 

[Paul]

Tom Misch & Poppy Ajudha - Disco Yes

 

 

[Paul]

Young Franco – Falling Apart (featuring Denzel Curry & Pell)

 

 

[Paul]

Benny Sings - Not Enough

 

 

[Paul]

Jimmy Abney - Come Go With Me

 

 

[Paul]

The Beginning Of The End – When She Made Me Promise

 

 

[Paul]

Emma-Jean Thackray - Say Something

 

 

[Paul]

Lil’ Wayne - Uproar (featuring Swizz Beatz)

 

 

[Paul]

Leo Acosta - Noches de Viaje

 

 

[Paul]

Deema - Can I?

 

 

[Paul]

100% Pure Poison - Puppet On A Chain

 

 

[Paul]

Watched the Sky Arts Classic Albums episode on Club Classics Vol. I by Soul II Soul last night. It’s absolutely brilliant: I loved being transported back to that time.
 

I think that record is probably the most influential of my whole life and certainly was responsible for completely cementing my lifelong love of black music. I mean, I already loved Prince at that stage and was bang into PE and De La, but this was soul music for the club and it opened my tastes to so much more, from its own influences to the music it influenced and everything beyond. 
 

I remember being in Cafe Society on Bold St in town with my girlfriend at that time and hearing Fairplay for the first time, in what must’ve been 1988. I don’t think any other song has had such an impact on me at first listen. The lad behind the counter cranked the sound right up and everyone in the shop just stopped what they were doing. The memory still gives me a buzz even now. That beat, that bass line, that Rose Windross vocal. Ooofff!!! 

 

We asked the fella what it was. He told us and we immediately toured every record shop in town trying to buy a copy, but most places hadn’t heard of it and the lad in HMV said he’d only had five copies of the 12” but they’d all gone and he was struggling to get more. I was absolutely gutted. 
 

We then heard it played out at MacMillan’s on the following Friday and getting a copy became an obsession. In the end I discovered my girlfriend’s mate had one and I offered to buy it off her. She wasn’t having any of it though until I offered her my battered old pair of 501s with no arse in them for it and she agreed.
 

Fuck me, I nearly wore the thing out when I got it home. I must’ve played it on repeat for a solid two hours straight. I just couldn’t get enough of it and I’m still that way now. It’s an incredible tune. 
 

I then became a complete Soul II Soul obsessive after that and bought all the 12s as they were released, then the album and then the clothes. I even made a pilgrimage to the club night (no longer at The Africa Centre by then) at The Fridge in Brixton. 
 

The whole world went fucking nuts for them - and especially Back To Life, which is obviously amazing - but it was always Fairplay for me. Watching this show took me right back and listening to Jazzie, Rose, Simon Law and Andrew Levy talk about how they made it put me back in that shop in 1988. 
 

Even if you’re not a Soul II Soul nut, I’d strongly recommend this programme about one of the greatest British groups of all time. Get on it - it’s ace. 

[Duff Man]

BADBADNOTGOOD have done some great collaborations.

 

 

[Duff Man]

Enjoyed this on Peterson's show yesterday.

 

 

[whtwht]

TsuruSwing - Fever (Crackazat remix)

 

 

Nu Colours - Greater Love

 

 

 

 

[whtwht]

Mark de Clive-Lowe - Thanks Given

 

 

 

Master Soul Boy - Catharsis

 

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Mndsgn - Slowdance

 

 

 

Martha AB - Wants & Needs( lofty Harper Honey Hill remix)

 

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Hiatus Kaiyote - Red Room

 

 

 

Mac Ayres - Almost home

 

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Mpeshnyk - Broken

 

 

 

Atjazz - Strike