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Best known for his excursions into the outer limits of scifi electronics and freaky remixes, Joseph Quaid returns this week with a mix highlighting the influences and aspirations of the firemusic sound. It’s a head-y brew of deep detroit flavoured soul and futuristic afro rhythms boding well not just for the deep range series as […]

Sorry for the slack posting and generally balls-upery on basilika recently. Moving servers turned into a freakin ‘mare and it’s only now, almost two weeks later that things are starting to return to normal.
All of our trax need to be re-upped at some point and there’s probably a good few kinks still to be ironed […]

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 […]

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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) […]

I was fortunate enough to see Theo Parrish at Plastic People last night.
Suffice to say it was an incredible night; quite simply one of the world’s best djs at the top of his game playing on the best soundsystem in London. Musically it spanned a massive variety of black musical forms from disco-through jazz, hiphop […]

Hustles of Culture-Flipjack

This track could also be a 3rd floor classic-it’s got the heavy drums, the upbeat jazzy break, the early 90’s vintage.It reminds me of a time when I could listen to tracks without instantly trying to pigeonhole them (probably because it didn’t know enough about music to be able to). We used check […]