6 September 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2010-08-23: UK Disco

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Iskra - Funkenflug 2010-08-23: UK Disco [en thumb]

This time: music from the U.K., mostly as a pair, new & classic ones, UK Dance & Brit Pop, heroes of the 1990s and beyond. Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, brought the track Brimful of Asha by his remix to the dancefloor in 1997. In 2009, Tjindar Singh and Ben Ayers a.k.a. Cornershop have published a great feel good album with Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast which comprises all the best of their sound between Asian Beats and Brit Pop. The duo Goldfrapp always reinvent themselves anew. This was already the case when they have let [...]

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15 May 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2010-04-11: On a Sunday Night in April

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Iskra - Funkenflug 2010-04-11: On A Sunday Night [en thumb]

I’ve just browsed through some nice music on a Sunday evening in April… It resulted in a mix between cool jazzy, Latin, Balkan and Bollywood tunes, I hope. One of my all-time favourites is the track I Love My Baby by the United Future Organization, here in a Norman Cook & Ashley Slater remix. The track got a new reverence by the The Jivers on the Jazz & Milk-Compilation Jazz & Milk Breaks Vol. 3. Recently, I listened to the remix compilation I Like It Like That of Fania Latin classics in more detail. I already had put the [...]

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