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Comments Off on Eight Million Stories – DJ Rockin Rob
8 Million stories are a series of short films featuring people from New york city. In this second episode Hip-Hop pioneer DJ Rockin Rob discusses Block parties in 1978 and the art of the old Northern Soul DJ trick – The cover-up...
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Comments Off on Pretty As I Wanna Be – The Bernard Purdie Story
Bernard Purdie is known as The Worlds most recorded drummer. Although he is best known for being the Funky drummer with James Brown, Purdies session work reads like a Who’s Who of Music.He even has his own drumming style known as – The Purdie...
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Comments Off on Best Of Quantic Mix by J.Rocc
Ever since the release of ‘The world’s made up of this and that’ by Deeds Plus Thoughts we have been big fans of the Brighton based label Tru Thoughts, and currently dominating the Q section of our record collections is the one man music...
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Comments Off on Mowest Records – Ahead of its Time
After a grand total of 10 albums, 40 singles and two years in business Mowest Records was closed down by Berry Gordy in 1973 and swiftly swept under the carpet as Motown tried to keep the train moving forwards. A sad and slightly undignified end to a label...
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Comments Off on Here Come The Nice – Small Faces illustration
As The Small Faces Bass player and songwriter Ronnie “Plonk” Lane would of said – Nice. Designer and illustrator Toby Thane created this cool tribute to the Sixties mod band and the groups that formed when they split – The Faces and...
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Comments Off on Cover Versions
These have been on the Internet for awhile – well since 2009, but they have only just appeared on the Voices of East Anglia radar. Freelance designers Littlepixel recreated some of their favourite album covers in the style of the Sixties...
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Comments Off on Unexpected Gems – Topper Headon Leave it to Luck
Once he’d finished Calling London and Rockin’ the Casbah with The Clash, Drummer Topper Headon recorded a solo album called “Waking Up”. The LP mixed elements of soul, jazz, funk and R&B together.When Topper first started...
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1990s, Music, Vinyl •
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Comments Off on DJ Shadow – Just Your Favourite DJ Saviour
Monday October 5th sees the release of the new DJ Shadow album ‘The Less You Know, the Better’ the first album from DJ Shadow in five years since the release of ‘The Outsider’. Here at VoEA HQ we are big fans of the man Shadow and have been since the...
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1980s, Music, Television •
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Comments Off on How to DJ Scratch with DJ Jazzy Jay and Afrika Bambaataa
Back in the early 80’s, Hip Hop legends Jazzy Jay and Afrika Bambaataa, were recruited by an American teen show to step up front and give the viewers a technical lesson in how to scratch. Great footage of that event is here, and we get some pretty good...
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Comments Off on Ten Songs a Week – Inner City Blues
You may have had your Five a day, now it’s time for your Ten Songs a week.These cool compilations are put together by freelance graphic designer Jean Mosambi. As well as selecting some good tunes Jean also uses his designing skills to create some...
