Tuesday 17 January 2012

Favourite song at the moment


DJ Fresh is one of the biggest names in drum n' bass right now. His last release - Louder - was a massive crossover smash, going all the way to the No.1 spot in the charts and becoming one of the biggest selling singles of the year with over 500,000 units sold. With widespread playlist support at radio and TV (Capital, Kiss, MTV, Viva, Bauer Network) Fresh now looks set to continue that success with Hot Right Now. Featuring Roc Nation jewel Rita Ora, it has already amassed over a million YouTube plays in just a few weeks, and has become the top rated pre-release track. Fresh's live tour was huge, including a full band with the entirety of the dates selling out, culminating in a 6,000 capacity crowd at Alexandra Palace.

Tuesday 6 December 2011

Bashment Music



Bashment may refer to:
  • another name for dancehall, a type of Jamaican popular music which developed around 1979
  • a term meaning 'party' in Jamaica, with Sound System that was developed in the late 1940's, also sometimes used to denote a particularly good party
  • "Bashment Boogie," a song by Roots Manuva, produced by Lotek from his 2001 album Run Come Save Me
  • Bashment, Play by British playwright, Rikki Beadle-Blair, exploring the controversy around dancehall reggae music and the consequences of homophobic lyrics

Tuesday 8 November 2011

R&B Music Genre




Rhythm and blues, often known as R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed mostly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.

From the early 1950s, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the 1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "Contemporary R&B".