Mar 18, 2012 | Inspirations, Rants
I recently wrote about musical genres and sub-genres, and then shared the story with friends on my mailing list. You can imagine how exited I was when I got a direct response from Jean-Paul Maunick (aka Bluey) of Incognito! It’s always exciting when you get to...
Jan 20, 2012 | Inspirations
I’ve loved the Rhodes piano sound for a long time, but the record that really gave me a passion for it was Cooking with Lasers by the Baldwin Brothers. This song was one of my favorites – it’s called “Dream Girl,” and it features vocals...
Nov 2, 2011 | Inspirations
Lady Alma is one of my favorite vocalists. She’s mixed the sounds of gospel and Philadelphia neo soul with those of West London broken beat and future soul, collaborating with artists such as 4hero and Mark de Clive-Lowe, and of course Silhouette Brown. So I was...
Jun 11, 2010 | Inspirations
Underworld is a huge inspiration for me. I think that will be a little more apparent in songs to come. But something about their music that has inspired everything I’ve produced so far is the diversity in sounds and styles across all their tracks. Technically...
Sep 9, 2009 | Inspirations
I’ve loved Nicolay’s music for a long time now. And if you know me, you know that the first City Lights record was a huge inspiration. Well, City Lights Volume 2 just came out, and it’s amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything...
Jun 3, 2009 | Inspirations
I love Jazz, Soul, Nu Jazz, Future Soul, Broken Beat… There’s such a diversity of styles among all those genres, and yet there are common threads too. Simon Harrison manages to tie them all together in his Basic Soul Show, which you can listen to here: ...
