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Yeah it is soppy sounding but "Slow Down" is a soppy song generally (esp. the bit in the chorus that gratuitously rhymes "beauty" with "cutey") - when the song is stronger the voluptuousness of the production doesn't seem quite so er nambypamby. I'd actually like to see more hip hop tracks with...

For Hauntology-Gone-Pop (in an Avalanches stylee) check New Buffalo's first EP "About Last Night" - not so much the album though.

yeah Tim'n'Bob probably the best producers in R&B right now. But I want them to do a seven minute epic or something a la Ashanti's "Rescue Me" (which is also a gem, albeit from four years ago) - with, like, an instrumental rainforest interlude! David have they done one of these yet? Kylie...

Grr sorry David I can't download anything at the moment, but when I can I'll hunt down those songs! Thanks anyway for posting them.

Thanks David! I'll try to download that when I get home. I mentally group those Bobby Valentino songs (oh no! I haven't heard "Tell Me"!) with Rich Boy's "Get To Poppin" - did Tim'n'Bob do that too? Also they remind me of Wayne Wonder's "You Make My Life Complete" (on Sars Riddim) and Sizzla's...

Some of the mixing on this CD is quite amazing. Esp the first track into the second track and then the second-last into the last - the beginning of the transition in both cases totally sounds like a logical unfolding of the groove, like the producer decided to throw in some really nice variation...

David what is/are Trey Songz? I love the Bobby Valentino singles (esp. "Give Me A Chance", "Slow Down" <i>sounds</i> awesome but as a song is kinda ew). I really like La Toya's "All Eyez On Me".

Ha ha Pearson bigs up the new Kate Bush album on his blog!

I think the idea behind that cliche is that people who wire so much of their lives <i>through</i> music are partially reducing the plane of experience to that level - as if listening to music is a language and you speak it at the expense of learning others, so while others may be able to think...

This thread forced my hand into buying this (I was previously wavering between getting this and getting Rub'n'Tug's <i>Campfire</i> mix, which will have to be next). Only listened to the first half but it's exactly the glittering trebly balearic biznizz I was hoping for. The first three tracks...

"and she went on to claim that every person who values music beyond the surface of its social or entertaining qualities is set apart from the others, those for whom music is nothing more than a casual distraction, by some kind of complex emotional character. " Maybe I'm misunderstanding the...

Simon, have you heard DJ Naughty's <i>One (Naughty) Night In Berlin</i> mix yet? It's on a bit more of a post-Gigolo sleazy electro tip than the Pearson mix appears to be, but I think you'd like it a lot. It's incredibly dynamic and colourful.

Argh I still haven't gotten this yet... And I ADORE Ewan Pearson as any man on the street could tell you. Although they haven't had the air of epochal eventness about them that his 03 remixes did, I love how shiny and trebly and plasticky his remixes are at the moment, they're total sugar...

ha ha the list <i>did</I> strike me as pretty obscure, but only in the best, most Woebot-ish manner possible (and Matt saying "this is all kid's stuff" is so Matt!). The list reads as being v. sincere, and anyway there are about a gazillion obscure records that Matt could have put in place of...

I've said this about a dozen times before elsewhere, but I reckon the Kate Bush/Tori Amos connection is really misleading. They're much less alike than people assume, and the ways in which they can be alike (e.g. shared use of the piano, occasionally odd lyrics) are so broad that the connection...

I suspect the more likely explanation is that Buick spends too much of his energy coming across as sneerily unimpressed with every style of music and every social group who might be into them, and not enough energy self-censoring (or, indeed, coming up with anything worthwhile).

Other Dem 2-related good stuff: Dem 2 - Baby You're So Sexy/Baby (Dub) Divine Styler - Directrix (Dem 2 Mix) Groove Connektion 2 - Club Lonely (Dem 2 Don't Cry Dub) Basement Jaxx - Jump & Shout (Dem 2 Mix) Daryl B - Streetlife (Dem 2 High in Napa Mix) Indo - R U Sleeping (Dem 2 Mix) Barbara...

I kinda agree with Matt about Locked On as being crit shorthand for a much broader scene, but having said that one of my (countless) aborted pieces for blogging this year was a run-down of all my favourite Locked On releases - string 'em together and it really does make the case for it being the...

It saddens me that I still haven't managed to hear so much New Horizons' stuff - like the Scrap Iron Dubs ep! "Find The Path" and "It's My House (Bashment Mix - although this mix was actually done by someone else wouldyabelieve)" are so close to being my favourite music ever it's not funny.

Matt if I remember correctly there were about a zillion garage mixes of "I Want You" (Tuff Jam and Booker T spring to mind). Pure Silk released a rerelease 12" (I think it might also be referred to as "I Want You 2000") with both a Bump & Flex vocal mix and a Bump & Flex "Bass Bin Killa Mix" -...