{"id":439,"date":"2005-01-12T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T17:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2005\/01\/radioblog_uk_flava_volume_1_electronica\/"},"modified":"2005-01-12T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T17:13:12","slug":"radioblog_uk_flava_volume_1_electronica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/12\/radioblog_uk_flava_volume_1_electronica\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio.Blog: U.K. Flava Volume 1 (Electronica)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since there&#8217;s so much great music coming out of the UK I thought I&#8217;d highlight some of my favorites, which get so little air play in the States.  When I went through and ripped my UK CDs I ended up with about 80 songs, so instead of cutting most of those out I decided to break them into genres.  The songs on this radio.blog <em>could<\/em> be lumped into the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronica\">electronica genre<\/a>, although they sound very different.  There&#8217;s representation from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drum_and_bass\">Drum &amp; Bass<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garage_(dance_music)\">Garage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jungle_(music)\">Jungle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2Step\">2 Step<\/a> as well as music that would probably be called straight up R&amp;B in the US (like the Craig David &amp; Artful Dodger &#8220;2 Step&#8221; tracks).  <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p>Some other recent radio.blogs to check out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honeysoul.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/to_the_beat_yal_1.html\">old school hip-hop rb<\/a>.  She&#8217;s dropping bombs with tracks from Stetsasonic, Brand Nubian, Chubb Rock, AZ&#8217;s &#8216;Sugar Hill&#8217;, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Todd takes us back on a trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toddkelley.net\/MT3\/archives\/2005\/01\/the_monday_mela.html\">1980&#8217;s L.A<\/a>. (and Seattle &#8212; My posse&#8217;s on Broadway<\/li>\n<p>!)<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dark-silhouette.net\/light\/index.php?m=20050111\">Clubbed In The Nuts With A Bag Of Ice<\/a> &#8211; Don&#8217;t ask, just go listen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since there&#8217;s so much great music coming out of the UK I thought I&#8217;d highlight some of my favorites, which get so little air play in the States. When I went through and ripped my UK CDs I ended up with about 80 songs, so instead of cutting most of those out I decided to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/12\/radioblog_uk_flava_volume_1_electronica\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Radio.Blog: U.K. Flava Volume 1 (Electronica)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":473,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/01\/radioblog_tribute_to_luther_vandross_-_rip\/","url_meta":{"origin":439,"position":0},"title":"Radio.Blog Tribute to Luther Vandross &#8211; R.I.P.","date":"July 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I just heard that Luther Vandross passed away today so I had to do a radio.blog of some of my favorite Luther tracks. People always say that \"they don't make 'em like this any more\" but in Luther's case that's very true -- voices like his don't come along very\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":373,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/radioblog_tribute_to_rick_james_-_rip\/","url_meta":{"origin":439,"position":1},"title":"Radio.Blog Tribute to Rick James &#8211; R.I.P.","date":"August 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a little musical tribute to Rick James, who passed away today. Thanks for the great music, you should see the smile on my face listening to these tracks. R.I.P. Songs are from 'Bustin' Out: The Very Best of Rick James' Update: AllHipHop.com has a five part series on Rick.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Radio.Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":321,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/07\/diggin_in_the_crates_1983\/","url_meta":{"origin":439,"position":2},"title":"Diggin&#8217; in the Crates: 1983","date":"May 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"A little musical flashback to 1983 (give or take a few months). This was a great year musically, with some early hip-hop, electronica from the likes of Art of Noise and Kraftwerk, Prince's '1999' was out, as well as some great R&B. 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I was gonna go with Andromeda,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":435,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/31\/diggin_in_the_crates_a_dr_dre_production\/","url_meta":{"origin":439,"position":5},"title":"Diggin&#8217; in the Crates: A Dr. Dre Production","date":"December 31, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been sitting on this radio.blog for a while now because I've had radio.blogger's block. It's not that I couldn't think of anything to post, it's that I had too many ideas floating around in my head. At least now I have some good ideas for next year. 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