The Rhythm Expedition

08/03/2025

Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap are bringing their wild, boundary-pushing energy to Fed Square for a free, pop-up gig on Monday 10 March 🙌🏻🇮🇪

Merging Irish with English, satire with socially conscious lyrics, and reality with absurdity, theirs is a voice which comes screaming from the too-often deprived areas of the North of Ireland, speaking in a language which is too-often ignored, and it makes for suitably electrifying stuff.

BETTER WAY TO LIVE FEATURING GRIAN CHATTEN AND TOM COLL ON DRUMS, OUT NOW ON HEAVENLY RECORDS.FOLLOW:WEBSITE: https://www.kneecap.ie/SPOTIFY : https://open.s...

08/03/2025

RIP Roy Ayers, Vibraphonist Who Injected Soul Into Jazz, Died this week. He helped introduce a funkier strain of the music in the 1970s. He also had an impact on hip-hop: His “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” has been sampled nearly 200 times.

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupEverybody Loves The Sunshine · Roy Ayers UbiquityEverybody Loves The Sunshine℗ A Verve Label Group Release; ℗ 197...

03/03/2025

“Run The Jewels are like Rage Against The Machine” 💪🏼🩵

27/02/2025

"Powered by fast-paced timbale rhythms, driven by spidery, treble-damaged guitar lines, and drenched in bright splashes of organ, Amazonian cumbia was like a hyperactive distant cousin of surf music crossed with an all-night dance party in the heart of the forest. While many of the genre’s greatest tracks were instrumental, and others were simple celebrations of life in the jungle, the goal of every song was to keep the party going."

18 track album

27/02/2025

"Cornelius Ferguson—aka Corky “Traxman” Strong, aka just Traxman—has been at the heart of Chicago’s dance music for a very, very long time. Having grown up during the first waves of evolution of the city’s house culture, he founded the collective G.E.T.O. DJz, Inc. in 1992, and made his recording debut for the infamous Dance Mania label in 1996. This was at the height of the ghetto house sound: Deliberately simple repetitions of b***y lyrics, pounding kicks, and nagging one-note riffs—generally pressed on the worst quality vinyl known to humanity, just to emphasize the rawness."

The dance legend had a front-row seat to the evolution of the city’s crucial sound.

27/02/2025

"Reggae tracks don’t often come as iconic as Willie Williams’ 1979 track ‘Armagideon Time’. Recorded by Coxsone Dodd in Jamaica and released via the legendary reggae label Studio One, the track is pretty self-explanatory, detailing the plight of modern man and a decline in quality of life. Obviously, these themes were already very much part of The Clash’s repertoire, so it should come as no surprise that the band chose to cover Williams’ track for the B-side of ‘London Calling’. "

Provided to YouTube by Sony Music UKArmagideon Time · The ClashHits Back℗ 2013 Sony Music Entertainment UK LimitedReleased on: 2013-08-26Composer, Lyricist: ...

11/02/2025

27/01/2025

The Long Goodbye is the complete, unabridged recording of LCD Soundsystem's 2011 "farewell" show at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Provided to YouTube by Parlophone UKyou can't hide / shame on you (live at madison square garden) · LCD Soundsystemthe long goodbye℗ 2014 Songs From My Face,...

27/01/2025

"The Libyans are inclined to Reggae for a reason, I think due to our traditional musical rhythm known as Darbuka “Libyan Drum” or Kaska, its rhythm is very similar to the one of Reggae therefore the society got closer to this music and the the nation loved the reggae style and embraced it“

from the album Habibi Funk 024: The Father of Libyan Reggae

27/01/2025

"A defining guitarist and composer in the development of Jamaican music, Ranglin’s career spanned mento to reggae, playing on the groundbreaking recording of My Boy Lollipop itself, before going on to work with the likes of the Skatalies, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley."

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesIn The Rain (Mukatsuku Dub) · Ernest Ranglin · Mukatsuku · Noel WilliamsIn the Rain℗ 2021 Emotional RescueRelea...

22/08/2024

DJing tomorrow with my old pal Conor Feeney at Pawn Shop Dublin. We will be playing all night back-to-back from 10pm to 3am. I have been looking back at all our old BigDishGo flyers for inspiration. Epic memories. Absolutely buzzing for it now! 🙂🙃💥💚

09/09/2022

"possibly the true crescendo of the album. A miniature concerto, the movements of this piano piece are portentous and full of emotion. As the keys double-up and begin to weave in with mournful synths, it’s hard to not stop and concentrate on the intricacy of the composition."

John Roberts - Went

https://johnrobertsdial.bandcamp.com/track/went

from the album Glass Eights