I don’t know, you leave home at 13 to avoid a stepfather who’s a bit handy with his fists, hobo around the country looking for work, become friends with Joni Mitchell, move to Norway the best part of fifty years later, release an album and get championed by a London radio DJ. Next thing you know, you’re a bona fide living blues legend. In short you are Seasick Steve and everyone wants a piece of you – including Mister Frenchwax
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Tag Archives: electro blues
SEASICK STEVE: Banjo Song (MISTER FRENCHWAX remix) (2016) Free download
CHARLIE BEALE: Another Man (Scour Records Freemix) (2016) Free download
If you were a notable bluesman on this side of the pond back in the 60s, you probably worked with John Mayall at some point – Peter Green, Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton all spring to mind. Very traditional British names of course – but then this was the British blues explosion. Fast forward to 2016 and another name so British that its owner sounds like a relative of one of Eastenders’ main families. That’ll be Charlie Beale. He’s also just
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EXTRA MEDIUM: Size Up (2015)
Medium electro blues doesn’t fit? Large electro swing gives no props? What you need is extra medium! Pounding bass and wobble but not so much that you drown the blues and swing elements. Welcome to Extra Medium’s Size Up EP where the music of early to mid 20th century America gets bumped into the this century without being reduced to a minor element. Blues Boogie
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THE WORLDSTYLERS: Adventures With… (2015)
Savages Y Suefo’s alter ego The Worldstylers goes from strength to strength with the arrival of debut LP . Anyone who caught Niles Philips massive remix of Gimme One More last year will know to expect plenty of interesting antics from this Budapest-based breaks outfit and this album is unlikely to disappoint. Every bit as varied as the name The Worldstylers would suggest, Adventures
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CHAMBER: Flip Like A Renegade (2014)
How about a little Chamber music? No, not that kind. Relative Dimensions decide that warping great electro blues-funk break Flip Like A Renegade from Beat Kitchen resident Chamber was just too good not to remix. So they’ve had it remixed – by Doc Moody who flips like Aphrodite, El Bomba who flips like 90s big beat, Leygo who flips like he’s a ghetto Robert Johnson, Sketi who flips like he’s
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THE CAPTAIN: Run (Moby vs. Wu-Tang Clan) (2014) Free download
Despite the embarrassing publicity of the Costa Concordia incident, there are still Italian captains more than capable of piloting a reliable course. Once such is – er – The Captain who, here, hits upon the conceit of making a match between the one of hip-hop’s greatest storytellers, Ghostface Killah, with one of electronica’s baldes- I mean blues-iest, producers – Moby. With Run he safely
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BEAT FATIGUE: Malfunktionality Part One (2014)
Time was when you went down to the crossroads, and signed your soul away to a Lucifer in return for skill at playing the blues. Nowadays, the digital age allows you to create your own crossroads by intersecting the sound of the path chosen by Robert Johnson with those of jazz, and some synth-heavy glitchy breaks. Kind of like Beat Fatigue does here on his debut Malfunktionality. That’ll be
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THE WORLDSTYLERS: The Blues Boutique (2013)
Oohh – marmite release. Forthcoming drop The Blues Boutique by The Worldstylers (a.k.a Savages Y Suefo) on the Timewarp label taps into the rise and rise of electro blues and delivers two tracks each remixed a number of times. On the one hand there’s the house-influenced Put It Right There which made me want gnaw my arm off a little bit. On the other hand there’s the bumping Niles Phillips‘
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VARIOUS: Electro Blues Vol. 1 (2013) + CD mini-mix 1 & 2
Electro blues? As in ‘like electro swing’? As in take old blues music and sample it or remix it with some form of electronic dance music beat which – on the evidence of Electro Blues Vol. 1 – is statistically likely to be a breakbeat? Er – yeah pretty much. Hmm – blues and breaks. Blues-breaks. John Mayall’s blues breakers. Funnily enough – he’s on here – courtesy of The Empire Fantastic which finds
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