Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: L.A. producer Classixx remixes Preatures – This is how you feel?

It’s that time of the year when everything needs getting done, in our house anyway. I’ve got things to pack for the impending holiday, children to look after, and a…

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Track: New York duo Cardiknox release engaging new single, Hold me down

I never quite got it right in the 1980’s, the bits I remember anyway. There was the case of the elasticated trousers, where my Mother, with money being very tight in…

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See: Ellie Goulding releases new visuals for current single, Burn

Me and royalties are not very close partners. In my pop career, as bassist to (the name doesn’t matter) a band that peaked by scraping into the indie top twenty…

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Track: Zen Death Squad – Oni Valley

Mad Max and Back to the Future. I reckon they were the best trilogies I can think of without resorting to Wikipedia. I suppose it shows my age that the…

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Track: Raashan Ahmad releases new single Music feat. Ty, Sarsha Simone

I almost totally impractical. I can’t change a plug, although I vaguely remember being show how to in my science lessons at school. I can’t put shelves up, and as…

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Track: Fat Freddy’s Drop’s Clean the house available on free download

Damn those free offers. There’s always, always a catch. It’s those term and conditions that always do it. You know the bit that says, to the effect of – when…

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Track: Hudson Taylor release their new indie folk track, Care

How I loved playing football. I was reasonable, but had been injured for a long time on this particular occasion. I had moved down about eight leagues in standard to…

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Track: Goldfrapp – First song from new album, Drew, premiers.

My father used to drag us around the countryside. He was (and still is) the kind of father that knows the names of all the plants, all the ferns, all…

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New Music: Alpine – Gasoline (High Highs Remix)

I sat out on my decking tonight. Me and the decking fell out disastrously last year when slippy steps caused me to nearly rip the rebuilt cruciate ligament out within…

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See: Boys Noize release new video for Starwin

Oh, how I remember those days of Acid House with affection. (Yes, I remember – that surely tells you something, I was far too straight-laced for any of that sort…

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