Blue Boy
The 90’s backbeat and soulful vocals make for a song that never fails to get an atmosphere going. Be it in an office, bar or park in the summer.
Blue Boy aka Lex Blackmore sampled Marlena Shaw’s Women Of The Ghetto to produce the 90s hit.
Proper modern classic.
Blue Boy -- Remember Me -- 
Sleep Assistance Vol. 2
Do you need a particular set of songs to help you drift off?
I almost always need my playlist to help me drift into the land of the nod. Last year our Sleep Assistance post garnered some great recommendations from all of you and many of which have since been added to my sleep playlist.
I’ve got a couple of new ones that I want to share with you and hopefully you can suggest some as well so we can all sleep a little better at night.
Here are three beautiful songs from three outstanding artists.
Jonathan Jeremiah – Happiness (Quiet Village Remix) - download
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Mozez – Feel Free -
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The Album Leaf – The Light –
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Sweet Symphony
Polish duo El Barto & Liam B have put together an unsuspecting mash-up that I really, really like.
The Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony and Marvin Gaye’s Ain’t That Peculiar make for a great pair. The vocals work so well with the strings and as the song builds and builds it really sounds like Marvin could have actually recorded it!
El Barto & Liam B -- Peculiar Symphony -- download
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It’s just a shame it’s not slightly longer.
Marvin Gaye -- I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Live)
James Brown In The Jungle Groove
The weather’s played quite a big part in some of the blog posts recently – that’s because it’s been so shit recently!
At first thought, James Brown and Drum & Bass sound as compatible as smoked salmon and mince pies but Featurecast have ‘regrooved’ a classic track by warming it up with some light and fluffy warm D&B and it works so well.
It’s a shame the Godfather of Soul is no longer with us – he passed away on the Christmas morning of 2006 after performing thousands of shows across the world for decades. He really was The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.
It’s nice that Mr. Brown can live on in different musical forms – especially a bit of Drum & Bass!
James Brown – Sunny (Featurecast Remix)
A Change Is Gonna Come
As incredible as the music was back in the days of Sam Cooke – I’ve never once wished to have live through that era.
The prejudice and discrimination in the US at the time inspired Sam Cooke to write what would become the most important song during the Civil Rights Movement.
The song wasn’t a big hit in terms of chart success – but essentially it was never intended to be. After writing the song, Cooke was sceptical about recording it due to his large white fan base however an incident in 1963 where he and his band were wrongly arrested proved to be the catalyst for Sam and his manager to record and release the song.
Sam Cooke proved that songs don’t just have to be aimed at entertaining an audience but they can change the perspective of millions – something Bob Dylan did with ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ earlier in that same year.
Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
