Joseph Bologne, the Black polymath composer
Joseph Bologne may have been a composer, a virtuoso violinist, a conductor, a renowned champion fencer, but he was NOT the Black Mozart!
Joseph Bologne may have been a composer, a virtuoso violinist, a conductor, a renowned champion fencer, but he was NOT the Black Mozart!
Get down and funky to Breakbot’s Lockdown Boogie Mixtape, a 51-minute excursion through boogie, disco, and funk.
Just over an hour of underground 70s French jazz from the likes of Michel Sardaby, Brigitte Fontaine, Jean Luc Ponty, and Henri Texier.
We’ve compiled a special World Cup playlist with songs from every nation in the tournament.
You’ve gotta love a sample showcase and SAMPLE RECOVERY does precisely that. This edition focusses on Justice’s debut, † (Cross).
French beat maestro Keor Meteor drops Cedar Grove, an “alternative GTA IV soundtrack”. Firstly, we’d like to wish Keor Meteor a very happy birthday today (a day after mine no less). Cedar Grove dropped a few weeks ago and it features the Frenchman’s trademark boom bap interspersed with GTA IV sound clips. This gives the …
Leo & Pipo Music’s Dodie Manta releases new album Fragmented Memories.
Keor Meteor drops his second release of the year. Movie dialogue samples are great thematic tools and Keor Meteor used them to great effect on his latest EP, Chlorophyl. The project has the feel of a 60s/70s cop movie soundtrack and clocking in at just under 10 minutes, you’ll want to know how the imaginary …
All things come to an end and Stillmuzik is wrapping up their Perfect Beat series with their fourth volume.
Before DJ Shadow and The Avalanches, there was a French engineer and musicologist called Pierre Schaeffer, a pioneer of electronic music and sampling. The art of sampling is commonplace in modern day music, but its origins arose much earlier. Musique concrète revolutionised how electronic music was created and heard. Pierre Schaeffer, a French musician and …