Studio One legend Little Roy releases his sixties ska version of Nirvana’s Lithium next week. It’s the best track off his Battle For Seattle album (produced by Prince Fatty and Mutant Hi-Fi) and the relentlessly upbeat backing manages to reduce Cobain’s grungey miserablism to a faint undertone of melancholia on an otherwise jaunty number. It’s prompted such descriptions as ‘daring and brilliant’ (bbc.co.uk), ‘Glorious’ (Daily Torygraph), ‘Stunning’
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LITTLE ROY: Lithium (2011) + video
JOHNNYPLUSE: Load Up On Guns (2011) – Free download
Never a man to let an opportunity pass him by, Bulabeats label boss Johnnypluse cashes in on the cashing-in of the twentieth anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind album by putting out a cheeky retro breaks number that makes shameless use of ‘that’ guitar riff from Teen Spirit. Well, I say ‘cashes in’ – this one’s actually a free download
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