The man, the voice – the living legend that is Horace Andy here on one of his most infamous and rare outings: Skylarking on Bongo Man! This rare label is of course a Studio One imprint and ,contrary to other claims or credits, would have been a production of Clement “CoxSone” Dodd This 45 was...
Sessions #08 | Red Robin – Expect the unexpected… For our eighth instalment of our vinyl only sessions, our old friend Red Robin takes out some of the very special and precious records that have accompanied him all along his musical career. Every single one having a deep and and personal meaning to him. The...
Welcome to the future and welcome in 2012! I guess it’s just in time for the Glorious Dawn of our Space Issue, that i dug deep and came up with the most fitting 45 on this anti-matter … First of all though: here is my own feeble attempt at “photoshopping” a “spacey” little picture to...
Famous Bar 25-DJ Red Robin talks to iCrates about DJing, his special mixing technique and why vinyl records are like women...
![Let There Be Death [Vol. III]](http://www.icrates.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/michael_jackson_s1.jpg "Let There Be Death [Vol. III]")
And so to the final category of the Let There Be Death series – a sideways glance at the making and breaking of the musical legacy. We’ve loitered in the graveyard long enough to know that not even death can rescue a career from catastrophic implosion. This installment thus features all those who reached the...
Introducing Dick, Ed and Jeanet of Back Beat Records in Amsterdam… a cosy shop with heaps of character and a superb collection of jazz, funk and soul. Their answers may be somewhat enigmatic, but who cares… they own a shop that was opened by soul legend Arthur Conley. Nuff said, as they say… Please introduce...
Tim from Rubber City Review takes a closer look at the iconic album The Dealer by legendary drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton and featuring a young Larry Coryell in his first recording. The Dealer reaches out from jazz to soul jazz to psychedelic/free jazz and back to blues -- a milestone album for both artists....
Here is the Original Extended Unedited Studio Cut, as released on the “In The Jungle Groove” Lp at the beginning of the nineties to satisfy the hip-hop generations huge demand or material by the Soul Brother No. 1: Unfortunately the Original Single Edit is withheld from view due to copyright restrictions on Youtube. Pay close...
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Dez 28, 2011 • The days after Christmas can be a funny time. Having hung your brandy-soaked body out to dry, it is not uncommon to be hit with a little dose of winter depression. Sometimes we just need to be reminded of these darker times in order to overcome them. New York’s Crystal Stilts have unleashed a clutch...
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Dez 27, 2011 • That Kitty Wells was a great cook, with a stable family life and a good husband doesn't make her any less of a revolutionary. In fact without these attributes it is unlikely that she would have been able to kick down the many barriers that she did. That she firmly suggested that the gates of...
It was the morning of the 25.12.2006 – Christmas Day and the news spread like wildfire. I was listening to London’s Heart FM with some friends and having a merry little get-together enjoying the smooth soul and funk as usual until the DJ announced that James Joseph Brown Jr. born near Barnwell, South Carolina, USA...
Ten, as we know now, was something of an aberration. For sure Pearl Jam had the innate talent to repeat it, but the desire to spread and experiment was always foremost in their minds and history has shown that the success of Ten led the band to recoil, regroup and flex their creative muscles. Vs...
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