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October 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 187: Mark de Clive-Lowe

Welcome to episode 187 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Acid-Jazz, America, Auckland, England, Funk, Harvey Mason, Hip-Hop, http://www.mdcl.tv/, Japan, Jazz, John Coltrane, Kamasi Washington, Keyboards, LA, La Petite Chocolat, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Miles Davis, Off The Tracks, Pianist, Piano, Pino Palladino, Podcast, Questlove, R'n'B, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 187, Sweetman Podcast # 187: Mark de Clive-Lowe, Sweetman Podcast: Mark de Clive-Lowe, T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love: #2 – Miles Davis, “Doo-Bop”

Miles Davis, Doo-Bop, 1992 Okay, it might not be the worst Miles Davis album but it’s up there. It has to be. Simply because no other Miles Davis album has a track on it where someone steps up and raps: Let’s kick a verse for my man called Miles ‘Cause seems to me he’s gonna be ’round for a long […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1992, Acid-Jazz, Crap Albums I Love, Doo-Bop, Easy Mo Bee, Hip-Hop, Miles Davis, posthumous, R'n'B, Rap, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love: #2 – Miles Davis ·

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April 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Ghost-Note: Swagism

Ghost-Note  Swagism  ROPEADOPE  If Kamasi Washington is exploring the Albert Ayler/Coltrane connections in a modern landscape then Ghost-Note is doing something similar with templates created by Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock…which is to say on Swagism they hint at the late-80s/early-90s hip-hop influenced and inflected funk and R’n’B jams of those masters whilst also adhering to the types of grooves Hancock and Jones […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acid-Jazz, Album Review, Ghost-Note, Herbie Hancock, Jazz, Kamasi Washington, Quincy Jones, Snarky Puppy, Swagism, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 140: Red Snapper – “Our Aim Is To Satisfy”

I really don’t think I knew anything about this – not only this album but even the band Red Snapper. Now this is weird to me for one reason: Anything even vaguely Acid-Jazz related in and around the years 1997-2003 was entirely my bag. My bag clearly wasn’t big enough to keep this in it…  So it’s time and place […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged “Our Aim Is To Satisfy”, “Our Aims Is To Satisfy”, 1001, 1001 Albums, 1001 Albums Challenge, 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 2000, Acid-Jazz, British, Instrumental, Red Snapper, Red Snapper - “Our Aim Is To Satisfy”, The 1001 Albums Challenge, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 140, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 140: Red Snapper - “Our Aim Is To Satisfy” ·

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November 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

St. Germain: St. Germain

St. Germain St. Germain Nonesuch Ludovic Navarre’s albums under the name St. Germain (2000’s Tourist was the big one,1995’s Boulevard was of course better) were sublime. Until you heard them too many times – and the whole industry built up around them, and compilations from Café Del Mar, Buddha Bar and other vacuous entities hoping only […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1995, 2000, Acid-Jazz, Album Review, Boulevard, Cafe Culture, Dance, Ludovic Navarre, Nonesuch, Nu-Jazz, Saint Germain, St. Germain, Tourist ·

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September 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Orb: Moonbuilding 2703 AD

The Orb Moonbuilding 2703 AD Kompakt Germany When I first heard The Orb my mind was blown, the ambient-house served as breath of fresh air was hip and wafting, psychedelic and engaging – it was easy to float along inside it, beside it, within it. But it was never only esoteric – and when it […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acid-House, Acid-Jazz, Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, Album Review, Alex Paterson, Ambient, Ambient-House, dance music, Dave Gilmour, David Gilmour, Moonbuilding 2703 AD, Pink Floyd, The Orb ·

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May 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Gilles Peterson presents No Deal Remixed

Melanie De Biasio + Various Artists: Gilles Peterson presents: No Deal Remixed Play It Again Sam Melanie De Biasio’s No Deal album was something lovely – and special. And so in that truly bogus way, and showing that Gilles Peterson is stuck in his ways, presenting some future-chic remix chicanery that now sounds (ironically) so […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acid-Jazz, Chassol, Cinematic Orchestra, Clap! Clap!, Gilles Peterson, Melanie De Biasio, No Deal, No Deal Remixed, Remixes, V/A, Various Artists ·

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March 19, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 67 – The James Hardway Quartet, Wellington, 1998

I guess it must have been a University Orientation gig – judging by the date. I wasn’t a big James Hardway fan ever – but I was aware of him. Perhaps the peak of my James Hardway fandom was going to this gig. I had one of the albums – if you don’t remember what […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1998, Acid-Jazz, Gig, James Hardway, James Hardway Quartet, Live, Orientation, Stub, Stubs, Stubs # 67, The James Hardway Quartet, University, Victoria University, Wellington ·

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May 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

L’Orange: The Orchid Days

L’Orange The Orchid Days Mello Music Group Hip-hop producer L’Orange returns with The Orchid Days, another easy-to-like collage of dusty old jazz and soul vocals chopped up and spliced in with clipped hip-hop beats. If that sounds like a simple (classic) formula – well it is. But it’s in the way he does it, not […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acid-Jazz, Album Review, Beatmaker, DJ, DJ DSL, DJ Shadow, Hip-Hop, Jazz, L'Orange, Old Soul, Sampling, The Orchid Days, Turntablism, Vinyl ·

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