Digable Planets are a band I used to listen to back in the early ’90s – I’m pretty sure aDawgg had their first album on tape* but I liked them enough to get it, as well as their second album, on CD for myself later on. Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) was [...]
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Yeah, it’s understandable when people just don’t get excited about an album of covers. When the covers are the long-playing debut of a band, well, that could be a worry. But, sometimes, you should be excited. Sometimes you shouldn’t worry. The Dynamics’ Version Excursions, released by the German Groove Attack label, is just that: 14 [...]
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My all-time favorite nineties movie soundtrack is from the movie Panther. It was directed by Mario Van Peebles in 1995 and it chronicled the story of The Black Panther movement … or so I’ve been told. I have to admit that erm, to this day I still haven’t seen the movie, but the line-up for [...]
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Oh, woe is me. My preferred music provider is causing me problems and I was unable to complete Those Zany Charts … Sadly, we will have to wait until the next one comes up to be wowed by insights into the weird and wonderful world of popular music. Many many apologies dear readers. 100b will [...]
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Here’s 100b’s selection of tunes by artists that didn’t make the best albums list, but are definitely nothing to pooh-pooh at. Here are the songs that made 2007 seem less like the rainy, dreary, slosh-fest it was for a good part of the year: Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma Ryan Adams – Pearls On A [...]
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