Featurecast: Get Lovely (ft. Greg Blackman)

"Get Lovely" is a brilliant piece of music from UK DJ / producer Featurecast (Lee Mintram) enhanced by the soultastic vocals of Mr Greg Blackman who describes himself on his SoundCloud page as:

...UK funkateer, phat boy and soulsmith... ...As well as being an independent singer, songwriter and professional musician in his own right, GB also forms one half of 'The Paragons Of Goodness' with long-time friend & collaborator Nathan Wacey of Long Track Studios and works as a songwriter and vocalist with and for DJ Vadim, Nightmares On Wax, Rae & Christian, Utah Saints, Featurecast, Mr Bird, Smoove & Turrell, Suonho and others.

James Brown: Get Up Off That Thing (Featurecast Regroove)

Featurecast Regroove that puts a whole new coating of funk on That Thing.

Shirley Bassey: Jezahel / Public Enemy: Harder Than You Think (+ Featurecast Remix)

How cool to be able to post Shirley Bassey alongside Public Enemy. I promised my friend Ruth I would post this Classy Ms. Bassey track for her (see above). It's from Shirley's 1972 album And I Love You So, and as you will hear it was sampled for Public Enemy's 2007 track "Harder Than You Think" which also samples their own 1987 track "Public Enemy No. 1". Bassey and Public Enemy - two very different sounds, but both irresistible in their own way.

And the Featurecast Remix of "Harder Than You Think" is summed up by kris-prodigy in the SoundCloud reviews on the player below... 'Oh my god that's some funky shit!' It brings in a touch of Shirley's "Jezahel" and lays it over a funked up version of "Harder Than You Think".