This Week’s Playlist #2

Summer is here – or at least should be here, since it hasn’t been that great of a week weather-wise in London (BORING). As it’s the custom, my iPod adapts to the seasons… Read More →

This Week’s Playlist #1

George Duke – For Love I Come  from The Aura Will Prevail (1975) Relatively unknown gem of acid funkadelia courtesy of George Duke, the great synth pioneer and astral soul traveller of the 1970s, who honed his monster… Read More →

At last some tracks from THUNDERCAT’s new LP

At the risk of turning this blog into Thundercat’s number one groupie, here’s another post about my currently fave bassman. Gilles Peterson had two tracks from his upcoming, Flying Lotus-produced LP on his… Read More →

STEPHEN “THUNDERCAT” BRUNER – The future of bass?

He’s Flying Lotus’ protégé, tours as Robert Trujillo’s replacement with Suicidal Tendencies and records with Erykah Badu. It would be quite an impressive resume for any bass player already, but I sense that bigger… Read More →

FISHBONE: The skapunk eccentrics are still bonin’ in boneyard

My biggest goal and my biggest fear were to be the Fishbone of hip-hop, the band that influenced the most but got the least recognition out of the game – Questlove, drummer extraordinaire,… Read More →