Even if you don’t recognise the name Misirlou you will know the melody. It has been covered well over a hundred times and sampled to death.
Category Archives: Chord of the day
Discovered this song in an awesome playlist by AAA Badboy, which was 60s, 70s and 80s soul music sampled in Jungle records. Check the playlist out here.
An incredible track from Erykah’s 1997 Baduizm album. Otherside of the Game was written by Badu, Questlove, James Poyser and Richard Nichols. Wikipedia describes it as “effectively showcases Badu’s debt to jazz as well as soul”, which I can’t disagree with.
Taken from their 1974 Light of Worlds album, Summer Madness is perhaps one of Kool and the Gang’s coolest tracks in a slew of well known dancefloor fillers.
As genre defining classics go it’s hard to look past Marvin Gaye’s Ain’t no Mountain High Enough as a candidate for an exemplary Motown soul song.
The cynic in me feels there aren’t too many great new love songs made these days, Inside Voice from Joey Dosick certainly bucks that trend. Joey is part of the Vulfpeck collective and released his EP Game Winner back in 2016, pointing out this was recorded while he was recovering from a basketball ACL injury.
I’ve tasked myself with doing this in my lunch break, so here goes… Air’s Moon Safari is one of those 90s coffee table albums along with Zero 7’s Simple Things and various others that helped bring the sound of downtempo and chill out to the masses (there are tonnes more but I’m against the clock here…)
Moon Safari was released in 1998 and produced three singles – All I Need, Sexy Boy and Kelly Watch the Stars.
Who Is Jill Scott? (Words and Sounds Vol. 1) is the platinum album from Neo Soul singer, songwriter, poet, model and actress, Jill Scott, released on Hidden Beach Recordings in 2000.
Radiohead’s Kid A saw a change in direction for the Oxford five-piece. Released in 2000, and sandwiched between OK Computer and Amnesiac, it’s probably fair to say it had a little influence from both of these albums.
In 1976, Roy Ayres released his album Everybody Loves the Sunshine under the Roy Ayers Ubiquity moniker. The title track is a cool, lazy summer evening jam that’s been sampled by Mary J Blige, A Guy Called Gerald, Machinedrum, J.