Me to You: King Britt
This week’s Me to You is an absolute hall of famer, Questlove. When he’s not drumming for The Roots, bandleading for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, or in his role as professor at New York University, Questlove can spare time, even if just a little, for an interview, which is exactly what he did with Jamison Harvey back in 2014. Catch the interview in its entirety here.
Me to You: Questlove
This week’s Me to You is an absolute hall of famer, Questlove. When he’s not drumming for The Roots, bandleading for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, or in his role as professor at New York University, Questlove can spare time, even if just a little, for an interview, which is exactly what he did with Jamison Harvey back in 2014. Catch the interview in its entirety here.
Me to You: Kevin Foakes
This week, we’re heading back to 2014, when Eilon interviewed Kevin Foakes (Strictly Kev / DJ Food) for Dust & Grooves Volume 1. Their lengthy conversation included the birth of Foakes’ love for hip-hop, and how starting in graphic design led the path to a world of vinyl. I particularly enjoyed this Me to You, as the parallels between Foakes’ taste and my own were strikingly clear and exciting. This made it very tricky to write only a few highlights from his tracklist and my playlist, but
Me to You: Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy
Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy is the woman behind Classic Album Sundays, a self-proclaimed "audio diva," a mom, and a lover of cosmic-disco.
Me to You: Gilles Peterson
We’re kicking off with some truly funky stuff. Back in 2013, Gilles Peterson was interviewed for Dust & Grooves Volume 1 by the great Dom Servini, in the basement of Brownswood Recordings. They covered great ground, from Peterson’s French-Swiss upbringing, to the first record that opened the floodgates for introducing jazz to the dancefloor. In his youth, Peterson started with jazz, and started making the switch to funk. This was, in part, due to the introduction of an English school unif
