Monday, 30 May 2011

Blog Playlist (1) - [Sam Sparro]

As you should all know, festival season is quickly approaching. Lovebox is one of the biggest festivals around for dance, electro-pop acts and so on. This year, headliners include Snoop Dogg, Jessie J, Groove Armada, Beth Ditto, Example, Katy B, The Wombats, Robyn, the gracious Scissor Sisters, just to mention a few. Leading up to the festival being held over July the 15th, 16th and 17th at Victoria park, I’ve decided to make my own little blog playlist.

Every Monday (also known as Music Monday) I will be posting up a blog about an artist and some of their best dance tracks. At the end of it I will post up a poll asking which one was your favourite. Also if you have any suggestions of artists and their best tracks you would like me to include, just send me a tweet @Groovervibes. If you don’t have twitter, you can find me on Facebook -“Groov’Tronic” or just simply comment on my blog.


This week’s artist is Sam Sparro.

Although his career has seemed to have died down since his huge success in 2008 with the track Black and Gold, he was able to bring forward many elements to make a fantastic track.

Black and Gold was and still is very catchy with a deep, smooth bass on it’s own at the beginning which then progresses throughout the song and builds it to a sweet melody where Sparro then enters his soulful, silky deep vocals. Picking up somewhat of a pace, the whole arrangement becomes quite hypnotic.  Lyrically speaking, the song is about what the meaning of life is? This is something that everyone has thought about at some point in their lives, “If vision is the only validation, then most of my life isn’t real”.

The video was pretty slick too, limousines, suits, bow ties, canes and top hats in a parking lot with a lot of lights and synchronized dance sets.


Realistically his best release, Black and Gold wasn’t the only track blasting in the clubs of London. 21st Century Life was the next best thing, which had so much more colours and more of a Prince/Jackson-esque dance beat that you could easily groove to, unlike Black and Gold, but we always seemed to have found a way to move to it.

Cottonmouth was his technically his first single released in 2007 about smoking weed then getting really thirsty. It’s not very popular, but it’s got a really fun beat you can easily bounce to and the video’s got a sense of humour. Here’s the video… Get down and Boogie!




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