Hi! I'm Lee. Welcome to my blog. Here we talk music: news, reviews, interviews, tips, tutorials and more. I'm also working on the upcoming podcast Influenced as a guest, writer and researcher alongside music aficionado Mark Williams and friends. Watch this space! I have been a lover of music for as long as I can remember, an amateur lyricist for 25 years, a music writer for 15 years and a hobbyist musician and blogger for almost 10 years. My tastes range from jazz to house to hip hop and I love helping artists from all genres develop their sound. My music, videos, reviews and interviews have been featured in a variety of magazines and websites, including: B-Boy Tech Report Gimme That Beat Humanhuman Audio Skills Dream House Beats Where Did the Road Go Beat Tape Co-Op Push Power Promo Drum Magazine You can find my music on Bandcamp: Monkey Mind Sounds AKA LeeTNB And you can find me on Facebook: The New Beatmaker page Lee's personal page
‘Influenced' explores new music and makes connections back to previous musical generations via panel debates and interviews with artists, enthusiasts, media insiders and more.
Accompanying playlists take the listener through our musical time travel in a mixtape fashion.
We have liftoff!
Episode One finds the Influenced Panel discuss:
MC Nadia Rose and the risk of talented artists not getting the 'push' or attention they deserve during a musical golden age.
Band Chinatown Slalom and the UK music scenes' history of mixing indie, hip hop and electronic dance music.
Singer Greentea Peng and how 'trip hop', decades after the genre was first labeled as such, continues to quietly and satisfyingly make its prescence felt in contemporary UK music.
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