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He also did a great cover of U2's "One" - which is definitely better than the original :) Other great covers that spring to mind include: - "Somewhere" (the one from "West Side Story") by Tom Waits - "Come as You Are" by Dani Siciliano - "Califronia Dreamin'" by Jose Feliciano (more light...

Interesting (particularly the part about "Europe"). In my earlier posting, I forgot to mention "Life's A Gas" by Mike Inc., and there's too much Chain Reaction lushness to mention here - once I start, I won't stop. And I think they cover off all three of the above quite nicely. Can something be...

"Caroline" by MC Solaar "Ballad of Dorothy Parker" by Prince The whole of the "I'm Still In Love with You" by Al Green - minus the crazy cover of "Pretty Woman", which ruins the mood entirely :mad:

I think the keywords here are: "not for profit". There is clearly no business imperative behind the Soulseek network, or the people that give up their time to develop and maintain it. If anything, I see Soulseek as performing a public service :) Nowadays I rarely, if ever, buy anything I...

Isn't that kind of certainty the privilege of youth? There are precedents for most forms of cultural expression, and it's only with experience and the sense of perspective that comes with it that one really begins to take that on board. That's a pay-off of sorts; but equally, nothing ever sounds...

Robin S - Show Me Love (I know it's been mentioned by others already, but it managed to redeem many an evening otherwise wasted at the Blue Orchid in Croydon :o ) Daft Punk - One More Time feat Romanthony Armand van Helden - Flowerz (I notice he's been referenced a lot, as well. Armand van...

Well, it's a mainstream event with soul-shredding corporate sponsorship... but the line-up for this year's TDK Cross Central (who thinks these names up?) event is actually pretty good. <a href="http://www.crosscentral.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.crosscentral.co.uk/</a> For Grace Jones...

Oh yeah, I agree; that's why I said that the experience of listening to a recording can never match that of actually being there. What I meant was that the existence of an interlocutor - in this case, the audience - will for the most part push the artist - here, the DJ - to make decisions and...

There is certainly something paradoxical about listening to a recording of a live event. A "live recording" might be an interesting document, and work well as a slice of time, but the experience of listening to the recording can never match that of actually being there. That said, I'd dispute...

Hmmm, personally I don't feel that way at all. Certainly nothing beats the visceral thrill of the live mix, warts and all. And I agree with you that white elephant commercial DJ mixes, at least in part, sounded the death knell for 90s dance culture (altho I think it was more symptom than cause)...

Ummmm, yes. I think I agree. His production skills are great. But it's his average MC skills that makes me think him over-rated in the grand scheme of things. Anyway, I was just expressing a personal - and as such, subjective - opinion. Oh dear :)

Well, stand by to be disappointed by the video, as well. It seems that only the nasty white bourgoisie ever buy diamonds. NOT that I'm saying that bling is an exclusively black phenomenon, but the entire video strikes me as absurdly disingenuous. There is one macabre moment - which is actually...

Or maybe a live audio-visual mashup - now that would be rockin'! As for the new movie - yeah, it's not bad, as it goes. Spielberg stays pretty faithful to the original story, which is a relief; altho the ending couldn't really be much worse. The whole world is shot to shit, yet Mom appears to...

Kenny Dixon Jnr is, indeed, the man, and has been for some time now. "Black Mahogony" and, in particular, "The Thief That Stole My Sad Days" are 2 of my all-time-favourite-tunes-of-all-time. And I still rate "Silent Introduction", which no one else has name-checked yet; it's easily on a parr...

Motion seconded where the Coldcut JDJ / Daniel Bell mixes are concerned :) For my own part, I'm still feeling Recloose's Jigsaw Music mix on Eskimo; and Erlend Oye's DJ-Kicks mix from last year. Matthew Herbert's Tresor mix "Let's All Make Mistakes" is pretty classic, too. Christ, this thread...

Also worth checking from the same milieu: Porter Ricks. They were originally on Chain Reaction, before moving to Mille Plateaux following, if memory serves, a dispute with Chain Reaction about their CD packaging (it was when they were using the metal cases that actively destroyed the disc...