Q&As with the movers and the shakers, and articles on some damn cool topics!
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Interview with Stuart Baker from Soul Jazz / Sounds of the Universe
Having moved across Soho from their charming, if cramped, site on the corner of Ingrestre
Place to a bigger and busier location in a converted pub on Broadwick Street, the shop
now known as ‘Sounds of the Universe’...
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Interview with Dave Okumu (Jade Fox)
Jade Fox. Jazz. The first is the vilest character in martial arts flick Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon. The second is a genre of music that can be terrifyingly inaccessible to
the uninitiated. What can you expect of a jazz band called Jade Fox?...
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Here's How Records Give You More Of What You Want - the art of the inner sleeve
It wasn’t that long after the LP was first produced in the late 1940s that the record
labels of the time started getting wise to the idea of not merely using clear plastic or
white paper inner sleeves. After all, before that 78s had come in books...
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Interview with Da Lata
Da Lata consists of London-based Patrick Forge and Chris Franck. Forge, best known as a
highly respected leftfield DJ, radio show presenter, and compiler of excellent compilations,
acts here as co-producer. Franck is a prolific...
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Q&A with Kid Koala
The Montreal-based producer extraordinaire's sophomore album, Some Of My Best Friends
Are DJ's, was released earlier this month on Ninja Tune. Featuring further escapades
of the enigmatic characters from Koala's comic book land of Nufonia...
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My hip hop week in London
A week-long London hip hop adventure, taking in Patrick Neate's book Where
It's At, the UK B-Boy Championships 2003, and a graff exhibition. Here are,
however brief and inconclusive, some reflections on the essence of hip hop...
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Martin Perna of Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Martin Perna is front-man for Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, the NYC-based afro-funk supergroup
whose music, continuing the legacy of the late great Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, has graced two
critically well-received albums to date....
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Interview with Aesop Rock
Aesop Rock is just about to release his fifth album, entitled Bazooka Tooth, and it's a
damn fine piece of work bearing the inimitable seal of Def Jux quality. We visited the
abstract lyricist in his Brooklyn pad...
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Interview with Alan Scholefield from Honest Jons
I’ve been shopping in Honest Jons since the early 90s, and friends of mine have been for as
long as I can remember. Honest Jons is a musical institution, and for me over the years,
it has become more than somewhere to merely buy records ...
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Q&A with Kaidi Tatham
One of broken beat’s leading lights, Agent K, aka Kaidi Tatham, has just released his
Feed The Cat album in the US. We caught up with the London-based musician and producer
for a quick chat...
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