Posts tagged Glasgow

Sahara Soul – featuring Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba, Tamikrest and Sidi Touré

One of Africa’s richest musical heartlands, today is sorely afflicted by internal conflict, an ongoing state of adversity from which this defiantly inspiring collaboration, uniting artists from three of ’s different musical cultures, arose to demonstrate their shared homeland’s strength, diversity, and its music’s power to bring people together.
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Mobo Award winners 2011 – revealed first on flyglobalmusic.com


, , Dappy and were among those honoured with a prestigious , while walked away with a staggering four gongs. Who’s laughing now? Continue reading Mobo Award winners 2011 – revealed first on flyglobalmusic.com

V/A – Scientist Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space

Wow! Yes it really is veteran Jamaican expert at the controls of ’s with cover by Tony McDermott and you can’t get much better than that.

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Hidden Orchestra – Night Walks

Based in , it’s about time that the revelled themselves and their debut album is certainly a revelation that’s already caught the attention music insiders; another big album from the terrific Tru-Thoughts label.

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Jah Wobble & The Nippon Dub Ensemble – Japanese Dub

After England’s friendly with at the weekend and with the World Cup fast approaching, time to check out some Anglo-Japanese musical appreciation via the mighty bass of !

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John Butler Trio – April Uprising

The ’s first album in 3 years that’s appropriate released in the same week as the Grand National, why is that you ask?

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The Imagined Village – Empire And Love

The ’s debut won many accolades including the BBC Radio 2 Awards but their latest, Empire And Love is definitely their best yet!

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Speech Debelle – Speech Therapy Wins Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2009 & Tour Dates

The Big Dada office was a bit quite on Thursday as the surprise winner on this years’ Mercury prize was their very own .

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Wave Machines – Punk Spirit

We find somewhere between Arctic Monkeys and the as Liverpool’s likeliest look for their spirit in a catchy sing-a-long.

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Led Bib – Sensible Shoes

No fan of the description wears sensible shoes and the music on this album is the antithesis of the concept of sensible shoes; this is ’s finest hour!

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Alex Empire – Shivers (& UK Tour Dates)

Alec Empire strikes back with a new mini album called Shivers that’s a heaven and hell horror movie and gets some help from some of his muso mates.

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Mr. Scruff – Ninja Tuna

It was only the other week that was interviewing Mr. Scruff (aka Andy Carthy) and he definitely said there was no forthcoming album, well he was wrong because here is the first plate of hot Ninja Tuna

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El Guincho – Alegranza

With a worldwide release coming out on Young Turks, the question is, is the world ready for El Guicho’s Alegranza?

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Roots Manuva – Again & Again

The new single from the forthcoming Slime & Reason is a monster tune that’ll you’re just want to be hearing again and again as Roots does it again (and again).

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Wired Desire – Barely Illegal

If you thought it strange that Charlie was back in love with Afro beat, Wired Desire have given me the hots for some good ol’ guitar based ’n'Roll!

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