Blues and Soul Music Magazine

Issue 1000

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Universe

YESTERDAYS NEW QUINTET: Yesterdays Universe

You may well find proceedings a tad slow and bland at first but persevere...

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Big City

BIG CITY: The City Never Sleeps

The hard-snapping drums, cheerily threatening riffs and rough party rhymes are all unmistakably Beatnuts...

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DMX

DMX: The Definition Of X: Pick Of The Litter

Here comes a greatest hits collection which serves as a reminder that Dark Man X was once a hungry microphone fiend, and hasn’t always been the misguided individual we’ve seen caught up in so many controversial news stories of late...

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Boombox

RAHEEM JAMAL: Boombox

A chocolate-coated health bar of an album rather than a full meal...

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Translations

SAMON KAWAMURA: Translations

Born in Germany but raised in Japan, it’s obvious that Kawamura sees places and spaces in his mind’s eye when creating his epic soundscapes...

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Hip Hop

KENO 1 & THE HERMIT: Poppa Heavy

Brighton meets The Bronx and proves the old-school Rakim adage that it ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at...

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Hip Hop

AKALA: Electro Livin’

The production backing Akala’s much-anticipated return to the mic is something you’ll either love or hate...

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Hip Hop

SWIFT IT MAJOR: Nothing Like Me

London’s Swift It Major attempts to take centre-stage on his first official single release...

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Hip Hop

K-OS: Equalizer

Delivering a track that has the potential to appeal to both underground and commercial listeners...

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Hip Hop

VERBAL KENT: Dead Serious

No-nonsense slice of unapologetic underground hip-hop...

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DNA 1DNA 2

DNA Bournemouth

BOURNEMOUTH'S ONLY CARIBBEAN STYLE NIGHTCLUB. YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME... DAYTIME, NIGHTIME... ANYTIME!

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SO FLAIR @ BAR SOBar So Daytime

BAR SO Bournemouth

BAR SO. IS THE IDEAL VENUE TO SOCIALISE, DINE AND SOAK UP SOME SUNSHINE IN A COMFORTABLE AND CONTEMPORY ENVIRONMENT.

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