Category: Dance

1. Cerrone

   Posted on 7:43pm Sunday 4th Dec 2011

   If you like dance music of any kind and aren’t familiar with Cerrone, it’s time to get back to basic… and I’m here to help!

    

   French drummer, composer and producer Cerrone is best known as a pioneer of disco music in the 70s and early 80s.  His sound later branched out into pop-rock and electronica, fed on collaborations with top international musicians and singers, and was staged into large-scale “event” concerts around the world in the late 80s and 90s.  He’s enjoyed continued international success in the new millennium and is often cited as a major influence by the top dance artists and DJs of today...

2. SuperCool-Guy’s music collection

   Posted on 10:49pm Sunday 20th Nov 2011

   Kids come up to me all the time and they’ll say things like “SC-G, we know you’re super cool and all, but what does your music really sound like?”

   Well, actually, no one’s really asked me that, but if they did, what better way to answer that than walk them through my record collection?

   That’s essentially what I’m going to do with this blog.

   I think if you went to most artists, took all the records in their collection, all their musical influences, and kind of stuffed them all in a big blender, you would get a result that is a pretty close approximation of that artist’s music.

   Unconsciously, we all borrow from the music that came before us and that we love, process it, add a bit of personality, the new sounds and technology of our era, and then spit it right out as our own.

   In an interview with Time Magazine published this week, Sting says “I don't think there's such a thing as composition in pop music. I think what we do in pop music is collate. […] I'm a good collator.”

   So anyway, let’s start with a bit of quantitative analysis: I’ve crunched the numbers, and this is what my music collection looks like:

3. Teaser Medley "Back In The Groove"

   Posted on 11:37pm Wednesday 16th Nov 2011

   I have just mixed and uploaded a medley of new songs, to be released over the coming months.

   I hope you enjoy it - let me know what you think!?

   The medley features snipets from the following tracks:

   Whatever You Do
   Today
   One Of These Days (feat. Maria Willson)
   Tierra del Fuego (feat. PJ Lequerica)
   Naughty Dreams
   Time Difference
   You Don't Get Me (feat. Kelly Webb)
   California Days
   Spirits Danced (feat. PJ Lequerica)
   Back In The Groove (feat. Priscilla Slade)