?It wasn?t till I was in the studio the other day listening to a few of the tracks back, I was with the Soul Mekanik boys and the thought hit me?Do songs like the ones you like, I?m eight albums in, why didn?t I think of this before. Doh! I?ve just been scared to make this record before I think.
My solo career started when the Britpop explosion did, and I thought, try and make songs that sound like that, but this is now?I?m 32 years old, eight albums in, and this is the record I?ve always wanted to make. It?s the start for me. It?s reignited how I think about what I can do with music myself. I?ve always been scared to try out different things and this album I think I?ve lost the fear of where I should be in my head as a populist, as a populist artist, and it means I can just go and do wonky pop now, which is all I really wanted to do anyway.
It has become something on which I?ve found myself. This is the right direction for me personally, this is what it is. I saw the whole Robbie thing coming to a close, I couldn?t make another album like the ones I?d made, and this has just opened up a thousand other doors. What I am excited about now is making more music. I love all the stuff on the album, I love Rudebox, it?s a favourite song of mine. I don?t know what?s gonna happen now, I?m excited about getting it out there, but I?m more excited about making more.?
Robbie Williams - August 2006
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Robbie Williams will release his highly anticipated and much talked about new album ?Rudebox? on October 23rd on EMI Records.
?Rudebox?, recorded during the early months of 2006 see?s RW collaborating with an array of musical mavericks including his heroes The Pet Shop Boys, King of ambient William Orbit, fellow Stoke natives Danny Spencer & Kelvin Andrews AKA Soul Mekanik, disco-house icon Joey Negro and NYC-based DJ cum-?ber producer Mark Ronson, on both new original compositions and covers of some of his favourite tracks by artists as diverse as Manu Chao, The Human League, My Robot Friend, Lewis Taylor and old friend Stephen Duffy, that through its 16 tracks ?Rudebox? marks out and charts his musical loves and life.
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We Love celebrated last Sunday (13th August) in more ways than one ? for not only hosting Space?s 17th Birthday celebrations but for also holding the record for We Love?s busiest Space event yet ? with over 8,000 people through the doors over the 22 hour period.
This year We Love have taken a noticeable change in musical direction ? inviting artists such as Riton, ATA, DJ Hell, Swayzak, Abe Duque (Live), Miss Kitten, Geddes, Alex Smoke (Live), Ewan Pearson and Serge Santiago to play - some for the first time ? joining residents Tiefshwarz, Paul Woolford, Nic Fanciulli, Dan Ghenacia, James Zabeila and Smokin Jo, as well as other We Love favourites Jeff Mills, Danny Tenaglia, Layo and Bushwacka!, 2Many DJs, Armand Van Helden, Craig Richards, Groove Armada and more.
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It seems to be a case of a new dress code for a new venue at this year’s Creamfields, as research reveals a host of ticket holders will be emulating the fancy dress antics of headline act Gnarls Barkley.
Renowned for their stage costumes, the chart-topping duo of Cee Lo and Danger Mouse have performed in outfits including the Lion and Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz, Superman and Clark Kent and characters from Star Wars. Organisers of the UK’s number one dance festival asked 5000 ticket buyers which of the costumes worn by the singers of ‘Crazy’ they would wear to the festival.
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Scissor Sisters are to play a free concert in London’s Trafalgar Square as a one-off special on September 16th and will promote Global Fund which provides funding for programmes to fight Aids ? and will coincide with the release of their second album.
Scissor Sisters Singer Babydaddy said: ‘London is our spiritual home, and the UK gave us our first and longest-lasting embrace. To be able to play this event in conjunction with the campaign and to launch our new album, seemed the perfect match, as every step towards success for us means a chance to give back to the global family.’
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1. Kid Lopez / Perfect Motion (PTFA?s Dex In The City Mix) - Cosmonote
2. Shlomi Aber / Inspiration - Alternative Route
3. Richard F / Automatic - Spread Muzik
4. Sebastien Leger ft Gia Melish / Hypnotized - Rising Music
5. Delicious & Jan W / 3rd Floor (Bryan Dalton Remix) - Soundslike
Continue reading ‘Noir Chart - August 16, 2006′
Hip Hop, House and RnB are intrinsically linked. They share the same deep musical roots, influences that are rarely given the credit or exposure they deserve. More than most forms of music contemporary black recordings possess the ability to borrow, looking back at what went before them. As a result today?s artists, producers & remixers consistently draw inspiration from classic, often obscure, Soul, Jazz, Funk and Disco tracks, and subsequently the pioneers of these genres are, arguably, directly responsible for many of today?s biggest dance floor cuts.
Continue reading ‘Deep Down and Discofied’
Some news from our buddies at Defected
We like to think that we are not your average independent, so we thought that our website should reflect that. Take the time to see what we have done with our totally revamped house portal launching on Aug 21st.
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My Digital Enemy up the ante on their second release, abandoning the hands-in-the-air vocals of their first release and following several weekends? worth of ?field research? in some of the more seedier, scarier after hours parties that London has to offer, they return with the grindy, gritty triple-headed beast that is the ?Sordid You EP?
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Sex Machine is the meeting of minds of top songwriter Danny Kirsch, hot new producer Mat Bradshaw with super-vocalist Shena and Friday Night is set to be the funky house anthem of the summer!
Friday Night is the most essential tune to kick-start your weekend in style with it?s sing-a-long, feel good lyrics. Already championed by Pete Tong on Radio 1 for 5 weeks, Friday Night is teed up to cross over and hit the charts.
Continue reading ‘Sex Machine Feat Shena - Firday Night’
Cosmic Gate are Claus Terhoeven & Stefan Bossems, AKA Nic Chagall & DJ Bossi. Having toured the world, remixed the hottest artists and generally shaped their own distinctive place in the trance scene (notching up 7 top 40 hits in Germany alone), the German duo have polished off what is set to be surely one of the big trance albums of 2006.
Continue reading ‘Cosmic Gate - Earth Mover’
Maelstrom Records is going from strength to strength in 2006 with a string of massive releases from some of the biggest names in dance music including Marco V, Ti?sto (under his Allure guise) Bobina, Mr Sam and now the Belgian-destroyer that is Johan Gielen, who not only drops this spine-tingler of a single but also his first full artist album. Continue reading ‘John Gielen - Physical Overdrive’
Bank holidays always tend to be the time to really let your hair down and party hard, safe in the knowledge that the extra day to recover makes all the difference, this year is no exception!
Leading house label Cr2, have recognised this need for maximum over the bank holiday, and have organised a very special boat party on Sunday 27th August, that not only caters for the crazy party animals that we know you all are, but will also help under privileged children, with all proceeds from the party being donated to the NSPCC!
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Since its launch back in summer 05, Housexy has been on an ardent house music mission introducing three hugely successful albums and visiting unlimited cities across the UK inviting clubbers into its infamous Housewarming party. Now it is time for the next instalment from the Housexy empire ? Housexy Sounds of Summer, the fourth edition to the album series.
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01. Jason Hates Jazz - Pray For Love (Chus & Penn)/Defected
02. Degrees of Motion - Do You Want It Right Now (Haji & Emanuel)/Cayenne
03. Morpheus - So Special (James Dean)/Wooden
04. Jay P - Kookoo/Free2Air
05. Phunkkmob - Something’s Gotta Give (Wawa)/CD
06. Francesco Diaz & Denis The Menace - In The Sunshine (DTM)/MDS
07. Wawa - Music/CDR
08. Whitecell - Tainted Love (DJ Prom)/AATW-Egoiste
09. Lo-Rider ft Cumberbatch - Skinny (Phunkkmob)/Absolution
10. Fireflies ft Alexandra Prince - I Can’t Get Enough/Data
11. Erick E - The Beat Is Rocking/Spinning
12. DJ Exacta - Set Me Free/Compulsive Music
13. Dennis Christopher - Soul Shakin’ (DC Latin Dub)/CD
14. Peplab - ET (PL Classix)/Mr Cheng’s
15. Olav Basoski - Like Dis/Rootz
16. Chanel - My Life (M Factor)/Hed Kandi
17. Kathy Brown - Get Another Love/Defected
18. George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair (Mike Perry)/Archangel
19. Central Ave - For Only You (Oliver Nickels Electric Life Remix) - Delecto
20. WVP presents Fresh & Juicy - Blow That Door (Splashfunk)/CDR
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