Break-time for Meme Magazine
I’m sorry to say that we at Meme are having to take a short break from the magazine, purely due to pressures from the day jobs. We’ll be doing the occasional news piece and review but just not to the extent that we have been able to do in the past. Hopefully we’ll be back [...]
SoundCloud Track of the Week 07.01.12
Every week we bring you our favourite tracks that we’ve discovered on Soundcloud. This week our first STOTW of 2012 is a few days late, but is well worth waiting for – Virgin Magnetic Material from Tel Aviv has remixed Queen’s ‘Radio Ga Ga‘ in a sultry, minimalist style to great effect. The track is [...]
B-Team – You Wild (Super Hi-Fi)
If it’s on Super Hi-Fi, then it’s gotta be funky. This release brings us the B-Team with a couple of versions of ‘You Wild’ as well as ‘Electric Nostalgia 99′. The original title track has been remastered and comes with a new version which includes even funkier bass and some sweet percussion touches. But it [...]
SoundCloud Track of the Week 31.12.11
Every week we bring you our favourite tracks that we’ve discovered on Soundcloud. Our last selection of 2011 is a storming edit of ‘Melting Pot’ from Booker T and the MGs by Tony Johns. The track was originally released by Stax on the album of the same name in 1971 and came in at 8’15″ [...]
Sun Glitters – ‘The Wind Caresses Her Hair (The Remix EP)’
Maybe it’s the time of year, but we are loving anything with that cinematic vibe at the moment. Sun Glitters (who is Victor Ferreira from Luxembourg) takes Cinematic and cuts it up into little shapes to be re-constructed with his own pitch-bent vocals into lush new sounds that are knocking on the doors of Dub-Step [...]
Echocentrics – Echoland (Ubiquity)
The Echocentrics is a project from Adrian Quesada who is also responsible for Ocote Soul Sounds (who we reviewed earlier this year), Grupo Fantasma and Brownout. His debut LP, ‘Sunshadows’ got a lot of media attention, but it was while working on his follow up album that this little collection of songs came into being: [...]
L-O-V-E – Sugarush Beat Company Exclusive JackMaster Hawk Re-Edit for Meme Magazine
We are proud to announce another exclusive edit for Meme Magazine. One of our favourite Soundcloud contributors, Jackmaster Hawk, has done a wonderful job reworking Sugarush Beat Company’s track ‘L-O-V-E’. The song was originally released in 2008 and was followed by the band’s eponymous LP which, although an extremely good record indeed, never lived up [...]
SoundCloud Track of the Week 24.12.11
Every week we bring you our favourite tracks that we’ve discovered on Soundcloud. This week is hardly a seasonal choice – Alkalino has re-edited ‘Sketch For Summer’ from The Durutti Column. The track was off their debut LP ‘The Return of the Durutti Column’, released in 1980 on Factory Records. Apart from being an iconic [...]
Meme Magazine’s Review of 2011
As is traditional at this time of year, we wanted to take a retrospective view of the last 12 months, and highlight some of our favourite music that we’ve bought you in 2011. Probably one of the main themes this year has been that of diversity. We have managed to find some great music from [...]
Funkommunity – Pass It On (MPM)
Funkommunity is the brainchild of Isaac Aesili who you may recognise from his work as Karlmarx, which Melting Pot Music also released last year. He has now teamed up with singer Rachel Fraser to form this five-piece band that blends hip hop, soul and funk with extraordinary ease. The single is out now, and there [...]
Little Boots – Shake (Crazy P Remix) – Free Download
This is the first single from Little Boots’s second album which is due early next year. It’s big and bassy and a real statement of what is to come. The single features a number of remixes, including this one from Crazy P which you can download for free. You can hear the original version here, [...]
Two Little Dragon Remixes – Free Downloads
Just by coincidence (or due to some higher natural power) there were two remixes of Little Dragon tracks in our inbox this week, both of which are available for you to download for free. The first (‘Crystalfilm’) is by a new, though anonymous, artist who calls himself Close. His forthcoming LP features collaborations with Ewan [...]
SoundCloud Track of the Week 17.12.11
Every week we bring you our favourite tracks that we’ve discovered on Soundcloud. This week we are going out-of-season to bring you Kool & The Gang’s ‘Summer Madness’ which has been expertly edited by Onur Engin. Onur was one of the Soundcloud contributors we interviewed a few years ago, and he has gone from strength [...]
Part Time Heroes – So
Part Time Heroes are currently working on their new album which, from the evidence of this track, will be one to watch out for in 2012. ‘So’ is jazzy and soulful (just the way we like it), featuring the vocals of Sarah Scott, and you can get your very own free copy from the link [...]
Al Kent’s ‘Best of Disco Demands’
One of the albums we are very much looking forward to next year is the ‘Best of Disco Demands’ compilation from Al Kent and BBE Music. Al has been compiling the series for nearly ten years now, and this collection includes all 5 completely re-mastered albums, with most of the tracks having been re-edited as well. [...]
SoundCloud Track of the Week 10.12.11
Every week we bring you our favourite tracks that we’ve discovered on Soundcloud. This week is ‘Message In Our Music’ from The O’Jays which has been reworked beautifully by Jimmy The Twin. The track, originally released in 1976, will be available in this version on Harmless Records on 16th January 2012. You can also find and [...]
Lanu – Roosevelt Blues & Acoustic EP
Lance Ferguson, aka Lanu, will be releasing his third single, ‘Roosevelt Blues’ from his wonderful ‘Her 12 Faces‘ LP just before Christmas. The interesting thing about this release though are the four purely acoustic tracks which accompany the main song, all re-worked from the album and all featuring the vocals of Megan Washington. So, we [...]
Smoove & Turrell – Gabriel
Meme favourites, Smoove and Turrell, will be releasing this gorgeous track ‘Gabriel’ this month from their most recent album ‘Eccentric Audio‘. The pair are building a strong following (particularly on BBC Radio 6) and commercial success surely cannot be far away now. This single, a highly charged and emotional song about hope, may be the [...]
SoundCloud Track of the Week 03.12.11
Every week we bring you our favourite tracks that we’ve discovered on Soundcloud. This week is an extended mix of ABC’s ‘The Look Of Love’ by Luke Fiskey (aka Young Edits). We’ve heard quite a few remixes of classic 80s tracks that have simply not worked, but this one does just enough to make it [...]
Sandy Barber – I Think I’ll Do Some Stepping On My Own (Al Kent’s Classic Mix)
The connection between this piece of superb vintage soul and the similarly excellent ‘Soul On Soul‘ LP from Jean Wells (which BBE released last week) is producer Clyde Otis who really gave both of these ladies their big breaks and also their best albums. So this track, which has been remixed by Al Kent, is [...]
Nostalgia 77 – Sleepwalker
Ben Lamdin’s live band, Nostalgia 77, released their ‘The Sleeping Walking Society’ LP earlier this year. We loved the album, and particularly the (kind of) title track ‘Sleepwalker’ (that features Josa Peit on vocals), which we’re pleased to report is being released as a single, along with a couple of remixes (by Lanu and Ambassadeurs) [...]
Balto – October’s Road
Don’t be scared if we say that we rather like this ‘alt-folk’ LP. We even surprised ourselves. Here’s what the blurb says about Balto: “The band came into being when Daniel Sheron abandoned his life in Moscow, Russia and went alone into Siberia. Against an ever shifting backdrop of railways and desolate wastes, he wrote [...]
SoundCloud Track of the Week 26.11.11
Every week we bring you our favourite tracks that we’ve discovered on Soundcloud. This week we have a remix of ‘I Wish’ from the master, Stevie Wonder. The Reflex has extended and ‘warped’ the track to 7 minutes 53 seconds but, apparently, this is only a snippet – the actual remix is a full 9’23″. [...]
Graingerboy – Three Crowns
Here’s a guy that deserves more exposure. Not only because the music is really good (and this latest track is co-produced by Ian Catt of Saint Etienne), but also because he’s got ‘history’ and an interesting back story. The history is that, during the nineties, Simon Grainger was one half of Electric Boutique with Kitsune DJ [...]
