London Elektricity

Welcome to episode 55 of the Fast Soul Music Podcast with me, London Electricity.

A chaotic show this time.

I'm going to kick off with this.

And all royalties from this release.

to bring brass instruments to the people in different areas of Africa.

And also Youthsayers, an amazing band, under 18s, Afrobeat, big band based here in South East London.

I will be playing this tune live tonight at the Fox and Firkin.

If you haven't got your tickets, come down.

You know yourself, like when you're presenting something in the room, it's the words that land sometimes harder and bigger than the actual creative work.

Because I'm going to reference something really random here, but it was a guy called Tony Coleman, who was a drum and bass DJ and producer under the name of London Electricity.

And he was talking about how genres can come and die, like how they live and go.

And he was talking about the mid-90s and early 2000s.

So basically when I signed with, I talked about this before, but when I signed with Hospital in like the early 2000s, one of the first artists signed, the first drum and bass one, the first other artist was Landslide, who was doing like some wicked two-step garage and stuff.

But I was the first drum and bass artist alongside Tony and Chris London Electricity.

And yeah.

I made all those tunes and then the whole thing changed in the music.

I think once upon a time, I sort of felt like, oh, if I can't do this, then I'm not going to be able to do this.

And actually, do you think that there is a good understanding in music? Have you worked with some good people that have said to you, like, you know, take some time and...

Yeah, I mean, even Tony, London Electricity, he was good at that sort of stuff.

He'd be like, take some time off.