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How Did I Miss That: Top 10 Worst National Anthem Performances

With Alicia Keys singing the National Anthem for at the Superbowl next month, we take a look at the top 10 worst national anthem performances. To sing your country’s national anthem in front of millions is nerve wracking. It really sets the tone, whether it’s for the Superbowl in the USA or a football (soccer) match …

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Sampleface Five: Dub Music Samples

If you were hoping for a post on dubstep, you might want to look elsewhere. This is about dub music, an offshoot of reggae music originating in the 1960s but since developing into its own identity. It first began as a general sound centred around instrumental remixes of existing reggae tracks, where they were sonically reshaped and the focus was mainly …

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: James Brown - Get On The Good Foot (Live)

The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, takes to the stage for this week’s Throwback Thursday. When you watch James Brown perform, you can see why he was described as The Hardest Working Man In Show Business. Born in South Carolina, he grew up in extreme poverty but managed to pull himself out when he moved …

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The Auracle - Play Porous (insideMYBODY)

Our very own The Auracle has started a beat series centred around the cartoon, Adventure Time. Warning: clear the area you’re sitting or standing in before reading this this article. All will be explained very soon. Play Porous (insideMYBODY) is the first part of The Auracle’s latest beat series, Into The Land of Ooo, where …

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VIDEO: Motel Eola - Before Rap (The Visual Experience)

Motel Eola provides a video for Before Rap (The Visual Experience). Clips from Hey Arnold! are the best but when they’re in a beat video, that’s when you know someone has good taste in cartoons. Motel Eola is that someone, having chosen the visuals for Before Rap (The Visual Experience), a track of his last album Kids Looking …

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SATURDAY MATINÉE: Oskar Fischinger - Optical Poem (1938)

Something old and unique on this week’s Saturday Matineé in the form of Oskar Fischinger’s 1938 avant garde film, Optical Poem. To most of us music suggests definite mental images of form and colour. The picture you are about to see is a novel scientific experiment- it’s object is to convey these mental images in visual …

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Jamiroquai Live on MTV Europe

We watch Jamiroquai keeping it live and funky in 1995 on this week’s Throwback Thursday. It was Jamiroquai front man Jay Kay’s birthday a couple of weeks ago and at the age of 43, he’s still going strong with the band who are currently working on a new album. For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we …