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Listen up: TuneSmith’s musical recommendations for January
Welcome to 2011! Here to ring in the changes is TuneSmith Rob Wood, marking another step towards the future with a blast from the past… ALBUM OF THE MONTH Tron Legacy by Daft Punk When? Online or off Why? It’s return-to-form cyberpunk funk The future has never sounded so retro: Daft Punk are here to prove it. They pretty much changed the sound of ’90s clubbing with their vocodered disco-whigging, but somehow they’ve remained relevant, ignored the the copycats and have bodyswerved the commercial black hole that dance music careered into. Electronic acts such as Justice may have taken their sound a step further, but when it came to soundtracking…
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Listen up: TuneSmith’s musical recommendations for November
It’s All Soul Day for Smith’s resident musical maestro Rob Wood. Here are this month’s picks… ALBUM OF THE MONTH Good Things by Aloe Blacc When? This ole world is getting you down Why? It’s a new soul voice on a mission to uplift Tough times breed good music, and here’s a case in point. Born out of compassion for the homeless and jobless, Good Things is the dose of reality that hip hop so often needs. Acknowledging the hard times he sees around him, Orange County’s Blacc opts for positive social change over the glorification of personal wealth. Such anti-bling sentiment flows through the music as well as the…