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Letter 20 - Chicken Soul for the Soup
Various -soul music prefixes
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Letter 19 - Ambient Temperature, Ambient Owls & the Ambient Goat
Hi, Life has been fairly hectic recently, so this letter is a little shorter than usual.
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Letter 18 - Literary Singer-Songwriters
Hi, When listening to a song for the fist time, I generally don’t fully process its lyrics as words.
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Letter 17 - Nightclub Bathroom Electro-Pop
Hi, This week I recommend four pop albums released this year that are (mostly) so influenced by dance music, clubbing and raving, you’d think they were…
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Letter 15 - Funk So Nice, They Fused It Thrice
Afro-Cumbia, Neapolitan and old-school funk & soul.
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Letter 13 - Irish Hip-hop: Rise of the Irish Hash Mafia (2024)
Curtisy, Sloucho, Lil Skag, Ahmed, With Love. & the Rory Sweeney Extended Universe
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Letter 12 - Irish Hip-hop: A Rocky Road (1990 - 2023)
A brief introduction and discussion of some landmark records in the genre.
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Letter 11 - Mission Statement
Virtuous curation, algorithmic playlists and independent radio.
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Letter 9 - Favourite Albums and Songs of 2024
Hi, Generally I’m not massively in to ranking music, not least because my opinion of a record’s quality can so easily shift over time.
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Letter 8 - Mini-Christmas Special
Actually good Christmas songs, and festive films for your holiday rotation.
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Letter 7 - Disco is Dead, Long Live Disco (Part 2) - Neapolitan Funk
Italo disco & and the Neapolitan funk revival
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Letter 6 - Disco is Dead, Long Live Disco (Part 1) - Modern Disco
Nu-disco, old disco, new disco that sounds like old disco & Dar Disku.
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