Diarmaid is, according to the press release, a three turntable wizard with a flair for Intelligent Dance Music. Or that could just be a play on his name. This 12" has three versions of Just Go on it. Its difficult to work out the speed of the record so I'm playing...

...but i woke up just in time. The special duke releases the latest and the third in his series of 78rpm singles. All are taken from his album, Songs from the deep forest. If your player doesn't play 78, like me, don't worry! The B-side includes the A-side as well as...

This surely is one of very few 78rpm records to be released this year. Duke special seems to be a nostalgia freak. And that comes from a vinyl obsessive!. His cds are printed to look like old shellac records and his singles come out on the 78rpm format. Philistine as I...

Hugh Masekela is a jazz trumpeteer and flugelhornist  from South Africa. He's&nb sp;had a long and varied& nbsp;career with a variety&nbs p;of western and african  musicians. Most recently he&nb sp;recorded an album on t he audiophile label, 'Stra ight Ahead' with Bernie&nb sp;Grundmann. This is a s tandard jazz album.African breeze is something completely different. Released on the Jive Afrika imprint it is aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Of the four tracks the middle two are a mesmerising collage of beats and horn with insanely...

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/12/14/09 5700.phpMusic Review: Sasha - "Coma" Written by David R PerryPublished December 14, 2007 See also:» CD Review: Jars of Clay - Christmas Songs» Music Review: The Killers - Sawdust» Music Review: Mannheim Steamroller – Christmas SongSasha has been steadily producing exquisite releases over the past few years. His debut...

The biggest dance track of 2004 was Drop the pressure, an electronic monster from some bloke who callsed Mylo. Any nightclub, trendy or not, dropped this track st some point(or more than once) and as the momentum builds in the track the club would go ballistic. It is magnificent and there's...

New Order always considered themselves a dance band and were huge proponents of 12" records. Blue Monday being the best selling 12" of all time(and because of the packaging it lost money on every copy apparently). In 1987, when i was in my early teens they released this single with...

Although 'Different Class' established Pulp at the very forefront of British music in 1995, it was the previous album 'His 'n hers' which had fulfilled their early promise. The classic song, 'Babies' featured as a track off teh cd and cassette of that album but strangely not on the vinyl....

Rodrigo y Gabriela are a Mexican couple who landed in Ireland some years ago and wooed us with their exciting blend of metal riffs and flamenco all played on their two acoustic guitars. They manage to extract an awful lot of riveting music from just these two instruments, through the...

I was in a nightclub when I heard a track which was very familiar yet brilliantly different. It had all the heartache and tension of the original and yet managed even more soaring melancholy. It was the Thin White duke mix of Mr. Brightside by the Killers. A track which...