Future Classic: Lost Midas “Love Undone” feat. Taylor O’Donnell
Sometimes a song just hits you right away. You go from intrigued to captivated after 30 sec and you know the track will be in heavy rotation for days to come. Tru Thoughts (home of Quantic and countless other amazing artists) have just signed electronic producer Lost Midas and released …
Future Classic: Kenlo Craqnuques “Chaude chaleur”
Usually when it comes to picking tracks / records for our Future Classics & Forgotten Treasures section we like to give the piece some context and explain why it touches us so much… But F*** it. Today is sunday, it’s sunny outside and this is just a no brainer! New …
Forgotten Treasure: Soho “Hot Music” (1990)
“Way back in 1994, when I was first cutting my teeth in the world of spinning house music, I picked up an LP from one of my favourite record stores (Inbeat R.I.P. ) called Hot Music by an artist named Pal Joey. The main reason I purchased this album (which …
Future Classic: The Mole “Lockdown Party” (DJ Sprinkles’ Crossfaderama)
The bar had just closed it’s doors and I was packing up from spinning an 8-hour long R&B set. All this to say I wasn’t necessarily desperate to hear more music when my friend had commanded “Everyone stop everything, I have to show you the song of the summer”. We’ve …
Forgotten Treasure: Funky Rainbow “What I Want Is What I Get” (1979)
Who ever said that the US has the monopoly on great Disco Funk? This UFO all the way from Trinidad & Tobago circa 1979 is there to disprove that notion. I found this awesome record from Funky Rainbow in the 45’s collector bin of Mike Vault, the famous British record …
Future Classic: Ka “Off The Record”
I’m not sure I really got lyrics at first. When I started listening to hip hop, it was always the beat that caught my ear. The rapper, rhythmic and percussive, added something but never took centre stage. My moment of clarity lay about halfway through It Ain’t Hard to Tell …
Future Classic: BinkBeats “Beats Unraveled”
For the most part, YouTube has sort of ruined the whole idea of cover versions for me. I mean, you check out a video you like and in the side bar you can see about 18 different versions of random people butchering a song in their basement. Of course, whatever …
Future Classic: Skinny Bros & Jonathan Emile
Do you guys remember songwriting duos? I’m sure Timberland and Timberlake rings a bell and of course Paul McCartney and John Lennon are probably the best known duo but what about Isaac Haynes and David Porter or if I dig even deeper into my childhood memories, the Sherman Brothers who …
Forgotten Treasure: The Rascals “Jungle Walk” (1972)
When it comes to me and music, Pops has a lot to answer for. I got pretty excited on finding out I’d be writing for MIMS and mentioned it to him; he bounced out of the room and returned with a stack of records. Jungle Walk by the Rascals was …