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Yup, Perfume are Japanese and in their early 20s. AKB48 are a pretty interesting Jpop phenomenon, they have 60+ members who perform daily in their own theater. Although their ages range from early teens to mid twenties, so they're questionable eye candy, not that that seems to bother the...

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Ok, here's some utubes - starts out pretty straight ahead, gets a bit funky, a bit soulful, then goes a bit further out. But nothing too crazy. John Coltrane - Spiritual Yusef Lateef - Morning Morris Wilson Beau Bailey Quintet - Paul's Ark Hadley Caliman - Little One Ndikho Xaba and The...

That period Pharoah Sanders is what I'd class as 'spiritual jazz' (basically modal jazz with a modern flavor) a sound from the John Coltrane school, who's band Sanders played tenor sax in. It runs parallel with the 'free jazz' movement, so the music can be avant-garde, improvisational and...

Fresh 4 was Dj Suv, Dj Krust & his brother if anyone didn't know.

That's Gwen McCrae "All This Love That I'm Giving" Along with a fair chunk of the rest of Gwen's back catalog it's been sampled quite a few times.

Loving this thread. This could well be a bit too boogie for it, but it's by Peter Hunningale who usually put out UK Reggae tracks. <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value=""><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess"...

The Indian immigrant's influence on Jamaican culture is fairly well documented, but I don't know how much of it seeped into JA music. I imagine you can find Indian influences in some reggae/ragga, but whether that's come from within, or is just a reflection of larger outside trends I don't know...

This theory also seems to completely omit the influence of the musical cultures of those who were keeping slaves in various parts of the Americas. The marching and oom-pah-pah bands, that had such an influence on the beginnings of jazz, have very basic rhythmic structures. Compare those to the...

They were originally used to give translated versions of the cd, lp or book cover/jacket text. fun fact - The term obi 帯 designates the sash around a kimono, 着物の帯 (Kimono no obi).

I'm getting a very Nathan Barley esq vibe from this. Tracks must be played in order of secretiveness. The truly cool spend most of the night at the bar deriding the probability that it could possibly be "this one" and only show up on the dance floor for the half hour or so.

And it's definitely not Zombie Zombie related.? Daroc? NOTe FounD? Maehtelvin? Power Glove? (I think they're Frenchies), Kavinsky? The French love that 80s synth sound.

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IMO all Burial really did was combine elements UKG with the aesthetics of ambient music like Biosphere or Tim Hecker, but the result was something original and unique in it's own right. Personally I love his first few releases, for what they are. I don't read much in the way of music journalism...

I'm not sure that within this context it can mean that. Is there such a thing as highbrow dance music? I mean there is definitely a distinction between good and bad, but I don't think you could ever divide it on an intellectual basis. IMHO, unfortunately, I think it's really just used to be...

I enjoyed listening to the varied suggestions so I thought I'd try and keep the thread (hope) alive. I didn't have much faith in picking the right one as there's a lot that could fit your description. Most of what I posted was from the 80s and I just re-read that you said you think it's a...

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The Cure are from Crawley The Horrors are from Southend

Photek is from St Albans. A place I don't have much experience of, but it's listed on those 'crap towns' things.

Yer, Natalia's Song was arguably the biggest track on his album and he straight stole it. Sampling some guy off youtube is clever 'curating', if you want to call it that, but contacting some guy on Myspace then just stealing his tune is just shiesty.