Last Thursday I was going to follow up the previous Throwback Thursday with another group and song that my cousin, Van, introduced me to when I was kid. That didn’t happen due to the server crash, but it’s all good cus I’m gonna finish that segment today. The year 1991, by this time I was fully into hip-hop, the era best known as the Golden Era. Well in one of my trips to visit my cousin, he decided to get me into a music genre that I was quite unfamiliar with, electronic dance. My ears would get a taste of this genre with LA Style and their hit track “James Brown Is Dead”. Quite honestly I probably listened to that song and the numerous remixes attached to it like a million times that Summer. I remembered the bass just thumping constantly and then there was rhyming so there was a bit of that hiphop tieback. Anyways that was my introduction to electronic dance music thanks to my cousin. As for LA Style, they weren’t from LA, they were from the neitherlands and pretty much faded after that one song.

Also, let’s take a moment to actually remember the late great James Brown who passed away on December 25, 2006, two years ago. The man was a legend. R.I.P. James Brown.

The new and amazingly good Cut Copy album “In Ghost Colours” drops in North American stores today. These cats from Melbourne, Australia have put together a masterpeice.

If you’re into synths, electronic, new wave/80’s steez or just plain feel good music go scoop up a copy. “Hearts on Fire” has been tearing up dancefloors internationally and “Lights and Music” is bound to do the same as the next single.

I can’t get enough of the album, theres too many good tracks to even pick a favorite..buuut if I had to, my joint would be “Strangers in the Wind”.

Also, Vancouverites, Cut Copy will be hitting town on April 29th for a performance and Dj set at Richards on Richards and Caprice respectively. Tix are available at ticketmaster now.

Check em out at their website and myspace page.

**UPDATE** - I just went to HMV and apparently it doesn’t drop in some Canadian stores until next Tuesday. You can still get it on itunes though. Also, shout out to my man Calvin Yu from R3SP3CT.com for putting me on to them.