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They call their music electro-soul. Like the three very different individuals who make up Unklejam, it's loud, colourful and funky but thoughtful too, with instant pop hooks and a heart full of soul. Listen hard and you'll hear echoes of P-funk and Larry Levan's radical dance mixes, the sweet sound of classic soul mixing with 80s electro-pop, all with an edge that's totally contemporary, immediately commercial, yet oddly hard to place. It doesn't sound like anything else around. Which is exactly the point. The name Unklejam comes from Funkadelic's 1979 album 'Uncle Jam Wants You'. George Clinton's wayward habit of...

Dunkle Tage (Dark Days) was a german punk band from Göttingen. They existed in the 80s. .

Recorded in a barn on the banks of Loch Tay in the Highlands of Scotland, Rick Webster (aka Unkle Bob) returns with The Highest Mountains - the luminous sequel to May 2016’s darker The Deepest Sea. This mini-album is his best work to date and the documentation of a journey that took him to Ghana, Berlin and the Highlands of Scotland. Following a music project in Africa organised by Glasgow’s Green Door Studios, Rick decamped his entire studio to a community-run barn in the Scottish Highlands. Sometimes alone, sometimes with visiting friends (inc Chris Hardwick- drums, Scott Cousins- bass, Eilidh...

The Punkles were a band performing songs by The Beatles in punk style. They formed in 1998 in Hamburg, Germany and it was actually a side project of Prollhead!. After a lot of touring around Europe they toured together with Beatallica in October 2005 and in Spring 2006. Unlike Beatallica they performed the Beatles songs "as they are", singing the same lyrics and playing cover versions of the originals, just a "little" faster and with a punk feeling. They were quite successful in Europe, as well as in Japan, where their best of CD "The Punkles 1998-2003" (2003), and the...

Errol Dunkley is a Jamaican reggae singer, born in Kingston in 1951. Dunkley's recording career began in 1965, when he was fourteen, with "Gypsy" (a duet with Roy Shirley) for Lindel Pottinger's Gaydisc label, "My Queen" (with Junior English) for Prince Buster, and "Love Me Forever" on the Rio label [1]. Between 1967 and 1968 he recorded several singles for Joe Gibbs including "Please Stop Your Lying" (1967) and "Love Brother" (1968), before switching to Coxsone Dodd in 1969.[2] In the early 1970s, together with Gregory Isaacs he formed the African Museum record label, although Isaacs soon took sole control...