Archive for August, 2008

Common – Announcement
Genre: Hip Hop
Recommended By Catablogger Feranmi

Common tried to drop an album this summer, but for some reason or another  it didn’t materialise. However one or two tracks rose to the surface. Trying to steer a new course, Common departs from his “serious”  Hip Hop and opts for some party [...]


Here are some gems for the webcentric, musicgeeks, fashionfreaks & the bits and bobs brought to you from this weeks catablog evangelist.
fashionfreakery

Stockholm Street Style taps into a number of common human instincts, emotion and interest by capturing the street style of stockholm indigens unique fashion and style for the rest of us to admire and [...]


Marlene Shaw has been the source of inspiration for modern day funk, soul and RnB. It is incredible the amount of artists that have covered here material without many people knowing anything about the original.
Here are some sounds you may have heard before…
Marlene Shaw – Woman of the Ghetto
Blue Boy – Remember me
Marlene Shaw [...]


My Drive Thru – Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.DIf
At some point, over the coming months there will be a TV show on Channel Four, on sunday evenings, called ‘The top 100 tunes to walk to’. It will feature tunes, that when you start walking down the street give you that really comfortable rhythm to (and I choose [...]


Regina Spektor – The Call
She’s been away for a while and shes not really back to be honest, not properly. Regina’s only musical outing for at least a year was the feature on the Prince Caspian OST. Not as strong as her previous material but not a bad listen on a dull day! I’ve really [...]


Roy Davies Jr ft Peven Everet – Gabriel
The mid to late 90’s, hailed the short dominance of Upfront Garage in the UK club scene, many of us who grew up during the era of UK house and garage often reminice about nights spent in dodgy clubs listening to tracks by MJ cole or Wookie, occasionally [...]


Steriod Maximus – Chain reaction
Genre:Jazz/Avant Garde
Steriod Maximus is the brain child of Australian composer and musician J.G Thirlwell. The instrumental project that presents a mele of musical styles and genre’s that combine to deliver impactful, epic contempory compositions. Chain reation typifies the jazz, electronica, orchestral sound of steriod maximus and is worthy of a place [...]


Esser -I love you
Genre: Pop
I may be getting abit obvious with the music lately, I can only say this is a symptom of listening to too much BBC 6music. First in this weeks obvious selection is Ben Esser, former LadyFuzz drummer who is now trying his hand at abit of electro pop vocal. If you [...]


Our pick from SW4 this weekend was the consistently impressive Green Velvet aka Cajmere


Song of carnival – Crazy Cousins – Do you mind remix (paleface Ft Kya
THE Carnival Soudsystem – Norman Jay Goodtimes

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