| Straight No Chaser / Music Blog |  | | Into The Night by DJD & Chaz Jankel | Soulful vocal house music with the legendary Chaz Jankel playing bass, guitar and keys. With "Dawn" and "Dusk" setting jazzy Chaz Jankel-piano-lead hip hop instrumentals. Chaz Jankel: co-writer of many of the Ian Dury & The Blockheads hit records including 'Sex & Drugs & Rock N Roll' and 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' plus writer of the of the Quincy Jones covered 'Ai No Corrida' and many undergrounds classics including 'Glad To Know To You' and '3,000,000 Synths'. DJD: Dominic Dawson a.k.a. D.J.D burst onto the scene in the nineties djing alongise the likes of DJ Harvey and Carl Cox.
He would then write, produce and record numerous projects on Zoom Records with Rob Mello under the guise of Reel Houze. The last project for Zoom Records in ‘95 was the highly acclaimed 'A Fist Full Of Dubplates' Dominic has had top 40 chart success with his Hydraulic dogs moniker and is in constant demand as a dj and remixer, turning the beat around for artists as diverse as: The Chemical Brothers, Lenny Fontana, Lisa Millett, Chaz Jankel, Mutabaruka, Telex, The Headrillaz, First choice, A Man Called Adam, Rosie Gaines, Crispin J. Glover, Arthur Baker, Kenny Hawkes & Solsonik and has recorded for such labels as Defected, Strictly Rhythm and Look At You Records.
Angie Brown: since Bizarre Inc with Angie Brown on vocals achieved a UK Chart success with 'I'm Gonna Get You' soul diva Angie Brown has gone on to work with Chaka Khan, Courtney Pine, The Happy Mondays, The Rolling Stones, Mark Morrison (singing on Return Of The Mack!), Fat Boy Slim, Boy George and Lisa Stansfield amongst others! | | 2008-07-17 18:06:07 | | | Long awaited LP from ATJAZZ | For his fans, this Atjazz album has been a long time coming, though thankfully not as long as Derrick May takes between records! The epic state of flux in the life of Martin Iveson (aka Atjazz) while writing the album frequently adjourned and ultimately shaped the songs you hear.
 While the last album ‘Labfunk’ was underpinned by detailed instrumentals, ‘Full Circle’ is bumper to bumper with hip shakingly soulful songs, as he collaborates with an impressive selection of superb vocalists. The much lauded singles ‘Put It On’ featuring Sweden’s Ernesto, and ‘Love Someone’ with house music legend Robert Owens were the perfect precursor to the long player ‘Full Circle’.
Other guest vocalists who deserve recognition include Hospital Records’ Mr J from Phuturistix, who appears on ‘Together,’ Dawne B who also featured on ‘Harmony,’ (one of the critically acclaimed tracks from Atjazz’s previous album,) The Communards and Test Dept. collaborator Sarah-Jane Morris, and Sonar Kollektiv’s siren Clara Hill, who lends her strong vocal talents to ‘Before’ (gaining plays from Radio 1’s Trevor Nelson along the way,) and ‘Sense Of Life’
| | 2008-06-20 09:14:24 | | | Bagpak Music Solo Series [BPSS] | Developed by NYC’s Bagpak Music, BPSS (Bagpak Music Solo Series) was set up to act as a platform for unsigned artists seeking to promote their music worldwide. Carefully selected by Bagpak’s A&R team,  BPSS represents some of the finest unsigned talents for all continents covering a wide range of genres and styles.
About the artist: Thierry Barnier aka FlinT is a native of France. His musical education started early, at the age of eight, with a classic guitar later to be rediscovered through the bass guitar and drum machine experiments when already very fond of electronic music under the influence of Kraftwerk, Joy Division, New Order, The Residents, Thierry buys his first synthesizer, the mythic sequential circuit polysix and his electronic adventure starts.
Influenced by many different genres as diverse as disco, punk, techno, drum ‘n’ bass, jazz and classic music he very naturally develops a real multicultural approach to music. Heavily interested in the electronic music from Detroit particularly in artists such as Moodyman and Theo Parrish, in 2000 he gets bit by the broken beat bug. The result of these wide influences is his debut release on BPSS – a genre that he likes to define himself as the broken deep. | | 2008-05-26 04:15:33 | | | 100% ESSENTIAL ! | Monstrous instrumental beats from Bullion. "A Deviation classic!"
BENJI B (BBC 1XTRA)
 "Absolutely loving this!"
MARY ANNE HOBBS (BBC RADIO 1)
"This is someone I'm really feeling right now"
GILLES PETERSON (BBC RADIO 1)
After listening to the new Bullion joint, i drove back to Detroit, and punched my mom in the stomach. FILTHY.
THE HONORABLE DJ HOUSE SHOES (USA)
Really like this, will definitely be playing it out
MARK PRITCHARD (Troubleman/Harmonic 313/Warp Records)
Sounds great! I'll be playing it for sure TODD OSBOURNE (Spectral Sounds, USA) ‘Get Familiar’ is one of those tunes with a magical riff: this is instant gratification, and done in some style. | | 2008-05-23 13:54:27 | | BLOG ARCHIVE
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