NuNorthern Soul Session 43

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Benjamin James Smith in Session / NME Selector / 27th July 2012

Our lovely friend and long time collaborator, and now NuNorthern Soul artist Benjamin James Smith has just been featured on the NME Selector show hosted by Goldierocks... He does his stripped back acoustic thang on 'Cortisol' which features on the 'Movedrill Projects' album that we have released then he flips the stone cold Hip Hop classic, 'Runnin'' by The Pharcyde into a Folk fuelled sing-a-long.


The Selector (week radio show for UK music, 27 July 2012) featuring Benjamin James Smith by British Council

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The Selector Show - Benjamin James Smith

Those lovely people at the British Council do a regular podcast, it is called The Selector and it focuses on the best of NEW British music. The recently featured The Source from the Benjamin James Smith album, 'The Movedrill Projects' and they are bringing Ben in to record some tracks on Thursday 12th July 2012 for a future broadcast, Ben has a couple of treats lined up including an acoustic folk version of the track below.

 
 You can check the recent show here...

 

NuNorthern Soul Session 41

Once again we delve into the musical abyss in search of those audio nuggets of musical joy and perfection.

Our New Record Label... Our First Release

Perhaps calling it a record label is not correct and proper in the time of digital and CD releases, but we are releasing music and we would have certainly put this to vinyl had it not been so darn expensive...

We have taken the plunge, we are releasing an album of joyous music from long time friend of NuNorthern Soul, Benjamin James Smith.

Ben has been involved with NuNorthern Soul after a mutual friend introduced Ben to Phat Phil after Phil had been gushing about how much he enjoyed the musical outputs of Mr Smith, a meeting was arranged, a few pints of the Irish black stuff sunk, and music was discussed... The end result was Ben agreeing to put the first album out on the NuNorthern Soul label!!!

Benjamin James Smith presents The Movedrill Projects is a journey that has seen Ben working with several collaborators across a 10 year span. Musically NuNorthern Soul like to describe it as Gruff Rhys meets The Beach Boys on a Balearic Folk meltdown...

If you like what you hear please share the tracks, you can also pre-order the digital album below or the CD now from Amazon, release date is the 25th June...

  Benjamin James Smith presents The Movedrill Projects by NuNorthernSoul

NuNorthern Soul Session 39

We have been a tad lazy at NNS HQ of late, sorry about that...

Here is the latest instalment of our podcast series.



Track List
Alan Parsons Project - Time
Benjamin James Smith presents The Movedrill Projects - Show Me Love
Bobby Goldsboro - Summer
Double - The Captain Of Her Heart
Forget Me Not - What Were You Gonna Say
Cerrone - Hooked On You
Lo Tide - Yello Brick
Ave Blaste & Lopez - Yesterday's Games
Synkro - I Miss You
The Slow Show - Brother
Jabru - Vice
Joash - Assassin
Morris Chestnut - Doodlebug

CREAM - My First DJ Set

So it was 1995 I think that I first played at Cream,… I was a huge fan of US Garage and DJs like CJ Mackintosh, The DEF Mix Crew (Morales, Knuckles) and MAW were the dons for me and I was a big collector of anything on black wax that fitted that US groove, so imagine my shock when I was asked to warm up the Annexe for Andy Weatherall… The Annexe at that time was a room for Techno, not the soulful swinging sounds of US Garage and the bumping delights of Tony Humphries inspired New Jersey deep grooves…

Anyway, not one to turn this opportunity down, I went through my records to pick out the chunkiest of beats and toughest of grooves… Todd Terry and DJ Duke productions made the grade, deeper proto progressive cuts from Danny Tenaglia and the legendary Vasquez beats and Morales Red Zone dubs all started finding their space in my impending set… Vocals got cut for a tougher beat driven sound...

So my set was 10 to 12 then Andy was to play till 2am... Andy the gent introduced himself and said he had not seen me play at CREAM before and I explained it was my first set so he said "well you should play till 12.30 then", it was rocking and he could see I was enjoying it so I ended up dropping this (see below) as my last track and the whole room went off, the heat level went up and staggered back off the mini riser in the DJ box and ended up on Weatheralls lap, he then said, "a tad cheesy mate, but it bloody works!' with big grin on his face...

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