Archive For The “Funk” Category
I first became aware of Gil Scott-Heron around the early to mid-nineties, while I was at university, although it was a while till I actually got where he was coming from. He was often listed on posters around town as playing at something like that …
Gil Scott-Heron – live at the Bottom Line 77 by Ninjamixdump on Mixcloud
A short post here – the music will speak for itself.
I’ve been putting together a video tribute to Gil Scott-Heron, but these things can take a little while to get to a …
Gil Scott-Heron – live at the Bottom Line 77 by Ninjamixdump on Mixcloud
A short post here – the music will speak for itself.
I’ve been putting together a video tribute to Gil Scott-Heron, but these things can take a little while to get to a poin…
“The road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world for it is a journey beyond death…” William Burroughs Starting life as an avant-dance collective, by 1987 Bill Laswell’s Material epitomised a culture in fast forward, popular music eating itself. Fusion has never been so thoroughly realised as on 
The coolest man in pop, no question. This picks up where DeeLite fell down, mixing irresistibly snarky pop with a slightly surreal dancefloor sensibility. Created by TV on The Radio’s David Sitek, the album grooves like a dalek on vaseline. Cover of the year too
From the days when waistbands were high and trousers voluminous; as close to perfection as a debut album has ever been, ‘A Walk Across The Rooftops’ launched one of the most meticulous recording careers in rock. Not uncommon for ten years or more to elapse between releases, yet each album maintains the implausibly high standards 
At £20 per ticket, this event deserved a better sound system, but overhearing an earnest debate on who performed the original “Burning Down The House” – Talking Heads or Tom Jones? was worth the price of admission alone. Tony Allen of course played on neither version, but as Brian Eno pointed out in his introduction, 
