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There’s so much music around. All these amazing music blogs, myspace pages filled with original tracks and edits. It’s a great time to be passionate about music.
In recognition of this sea change in the way we find and consume music, we are starting a new feature guiding lights. Every couple of weeks or so we […]

So here’s a monster of a track, whichever way you look at it. Fresh from ULYSSES82, I know that the purists in the glass half-empty camp will be all ‘That’s SO obvious Man.. Wow’.
However, the glass half-full camp will already be on the D-Floor, with their shades on and their light-up LED T-Shirts in full […]

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Here’s another* outing for Prince’s alter-ego ‘Camille’, the uber violent, misogynistic parody, Bob George. Apparently, the ‘Bob’ in the title refers to Prince’s Manager at the time, Bob Cavallo and the ‘George’ refers to Nelson George, an outspoken critic of Prince during the mid eighties.
The original version is edgy, dark and funkier than Jaksoul’s […]

Taking a (very) slight detour for part five, here is a track from the Prince produced Mazarati. The band known as much for their ridiculous hair as the songs that Prince wrote for them then decided to keep for himself-originally writing ‘Kiss’ as a track for their debut, before thinking better of it. I was […]

“In the early years when I toured, I was never a tourist. I was always so focused on the show. I just wanted to tear it up and get out of town.” - Prince
This coming Friday will be the first time I’ve seen Prince live. I’ve now got an interminable five day countdown until the […]

So wednesday’s Prince gig was great.
It was so good being with so many people that I didn’t know but with whom I had all these shared memories and, as much as you don’t want it just to be about nostalgia, it’s the past that draws you and the the past that will always be Prince’s […]

Server problems.
It’s not what you need, hungover, day two of your site relaunch.
Oh well.
I’ll give you a full run down of last night’s gig tomorrow (when my brain is working again), but suffice to say it was a great night out in a facing-up-to-the mortality-of-your-adolescent-heroes sort of way.
o2 is a great (if a bit bluewatery) […]

So it’s been awhile.
The basilika update wasn’t meant to take quite so long, but sometimes you’ve got to leave things for time to give you a chance to realize their worth. Basilika started as a blog to accompany a night-three dudes playing great music in a rubbish bar in Angel. But time moves on, things […]