It was such a pleasure to dig this old 45 out of my collection, and drop it on DEAD AIR BASS 009 yesterday.
M/A/R/R/S – PUMP UP THE VOLUME
To put it quite simply, all forms of EDM would now have developed in the way they did without the unlikely success of this single. Recorded…
Any Bostonites in the build? This one is for you!
NEIL DIAMOND – SWEET CAROLINE
It’s one of histories greatest sing-a-long songs. Originally released in 1969, it was 44 years later, in 2013, that this single peaked in popularity. Because of its reputation as a crowd pleaser, Boston’s Fenway Park began playing the song, during Red Sox…
Tonight, we go allll the way back to 1995. JUNGLISTS, fasten your seatbelts.
DJ SS
He began, in the 80′s, as a turntablist, and member of Leicester based HIP-HOP act, THE FORMATION FIVE. As the UK RAP scene gave way to RAVE music, his stage name, SCRATCHENSTEIN, got…
If you’ve seen the YEAR 4 RELAUNCH post, you know exactly how excited I am about this new weekly feature.
THE HUMAN LEAGUE – DON’T YOU WANT ME
The story of THE HUMAN LEAGUE’s most prominent hit song, DON’T YOU WANT ME, is an almost romantic tale of unsuspected success. The song is…
What would BREAKS sound like today, if SL2 had never been formed? For that matter, would DRUM N BASS or HARDCORE have happened at all??? If you’ve ever enjoyed any of these genres, you owe a “thank you” to SLIPMATT & LIME.
SL2
They didn’t invent a genre. What they…
You could argue, speculatively, that if not JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, it would have been THE GRATEFUL DEAD, or JANIS JOPLIN, that ended up being acquainted most strongly with the Hippy culture explosion of 1967, but due to perfect timing and commercially friendly POWER POP appeal, it was a song, titled SOMEBODY TO…
What do Britney Spears, The Strokes, Wreckx-N-Effects, Nelly, Azealia Banks, Waka Flocka Flame and Daft Punk have in common? The answer is surprisingly,
Pharrell Williams.
The multi-talented 13-time grammy nominated singer-songwriter, rapper and producer has done an impeccable job at bringing new sounds into the mainstream,…
You can learn a lot about an artist by exploring the things that influenced them early on. We are all shaped heavily by the sounds and images of our adolescence. They remain at the core of our being, and we can never really escape them. The following is from that era of my own life.
DR….
Rewind to the 60′s, a time when the Beatles and the Beach Boy’s innocent anthems flooded the airways. A time when bands were still iconic based on the music they released, and fans lived or died by the genre that represented them. Fast forward to today,…
