#Flashback We could listen to this on an all day loop, and quite often do. Today of all days you should do the same
Quite possibly the defining tune of our university experience, it’s now 20 years since those smart cookies at XL signed and released the track ‘Gabriel’ by Roy Davis Jr. featuring vocals from Peven Everett.
We could listen to this on an all day loop, and quite often do. Today of all days you should do the same.
#Flashback A whopping 10 years has passed since this cracking debut dropped
My how ten years flies by, but it has and that means Jack Peñate’s debut album ‘Matinée’ is now ten years old.
Track 9 on the album (‘Yvonne’) featured an as yet unknown Adele. She did alright for herself after that.
#Flashback It’s rave time people and after 25 years this album is still an essential entry point to the sound of the UK in 92
It’s rave time people and after 25 years The Prodigy’s debut album release ‘Experience’ is still an essential entry point to the sound of the UK in 92.
Single releases from the album spanned a near two years either side of the official release date with ‘Charly’ coming out in August 91 and a remix of ‘Wind It Up’ coming out in April 93.
It’s the classic ‘Out of Space’ with its Max Romeo sample that everyone instantly recognises though.
#Flashback The album that vaulted M.I.A. forward on the global music scene; ‘Kala’ celebrates its tenth anniversary this week
The album that vaulted M.I.A. forward on the global music scene; ‘Kala’ celebrates its tenth anniversary this week.
Undoubtably the biggest track to come from the album was the monster single ‘Paper Planes’ with its sample of The Clash song ‘Straight to Hell’.
#Flashback Where is Jai Paul? We don’t know, but we do know Jasmine came out 5 years ago. Let’s recap
The second release from the enigma that is Jai Paul came out 5 years back now. ‘Jasmine’ is softer and sweeter than ‘BTSTU’ but still has that unquestionable Jai Paul sound.
The guy has 17 thousand followers on Twitter, has only tweeted once (to tell us that his ‘album’ that got released wasn’t actually official) and has only released 2 singles yet every knows him. The question remains though “Where is Jai Paul?”
