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About Me

Hey peeps,
Thanks for dropping by. I’ve been a music journalist for many years now covering a wide variety of genres and acts, although I do specialise in crate-digging for funky music from all around the world. I’ve also interviewed many rock and dance artists, including Massive Attack, Placebo, Moby, Rufus Wainwright, KT Tunstall, Gogol Bordello, Air, Zero 7, TV On The Radio, The Bees, Herbie Hancock, David Byrne, Gilberto Gil, Natacha Atlas, Nitin Sawhney, Steve Reich, Khaled, Rachid Taha, Carla Bruni, etc. So I’m open to all kinds of influences (check my blog above).
I’ve compiled thirty compilations to date, of various styles that people would likely place under either ’world/chill/or beats’ ... *sigh*. We all love a good pigeonhole don’t we? Music is music and you either like it or you don’t....
MySpace seems a great place to advertise my comps as I don’t think I’ve ever seen them in one place before, and also it’s a great place to be able to network and catch up with old buddies and maybe a few bands that I’ve interviewed in my other capacity as freelance music journalist for the likes of The Independent, Observer Music Monthly, Songlines, HMV Choice etc etc. If we’ve met before please check in and say hello!
Also please check out my new DJ collective with the mighty Una Musica Brutal called Shisha Sound System. We should be playing at a few festivals next year, and are also up for any interesting requests ... the classier the better!
peace
Phil
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Member Since: 4/27/2006
Band Members: Me, myself, and I ...

Influences: Almost too numerous to mention. I'm influenced by music from all over the world, whether it be rock, pop, arabic, afro-beat, balkan brass, asian underground, funk, soul, alt.country ... my policy is that if if sounds good to my ears then that's good enough for me.Best look at my discography and also check out the features I've written for various publications.
Record Label: Six Degrees,Union Square,Ark 21,MELT 2000,Nascente
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

My new blog

Hello hello. Roll up and check out my new blog. It'll be a collection of musings about anything and everything. The first up is a little diatribe on music snobbery. It's an old chestnut, but worth a l...
Posted by DJ Phil Meadley on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:01:00 PST

Transglobal Underground and World Music Awards

Hi there, My friend Hami is a bit miffed with the BBC World Music Awards people. It's great that the band have finally been acknowledged for all their hard work over the years, but surely someone sho...
Posted by DJ Phil Meadley on Sat, 03 May 2008 10:14:00 PST

Newspapers and music coverage in the UK

I've been a music journalist for many years now. When I started it was a world full of excitement and potential. There were numerous music rags that inspired my musical tastes. I was young, I was enth...
Posted by DJ Phil Meadley on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:04:00 PST

Bar Berlin out May 2008!

As some of you know (I’ll pretend I have a large audience ;-) I do an awful lot of compilations. And to a large extent I put myself into all of them. At least my taste buds get an airing. But th...
Posted by DJ Phil Meadley on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:45:00 PST

BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO BELLYDANCE COMING SOON!

This is a compilation that we've been working on for quite a while now. For us boys it was a case of really learning and understanding the modern bellydance scene, and this wouldn't have been possible...
Posted by DJ Phil Meadley on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:59:00 PST

Beginner’s Guide To World Grooves + more OUT NOW!!

My latest compilations Beginner's Guide To World Grooves, Bar Paris, and Bar Caribbean have just been released. You can get hold of them at HMV, Virgin (as was), Amazon, Play.com, and many other place...
Posted by DJ Phil Meadley on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:59:00 PST

A lost article - Little Cow

Hi everyone, Here's a lost article that was meant to appear in The Independent last year. I think they may have dumped it for something really obvious (as is usually the case), but I think this band ...
Posted by DJ Phil Meadley on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:28:00 PST

World Music?

I've often been cited as a champion of so-called 'World Music'. And what's worse (to some) I'm seen as a champion of world fusion! ARGH! The dreaded 'F' word ... The truth is that I've got an endlessl...
Posted by DJ Phil Meadley on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:01:00 PST

My interview with EUGENE HUTZ (GOGOL BORDELLO)

Hey there, An edited version of this appeared in the Independent mid-summer, but here is the better, unedited version for your exclusive reading pleasure. Hit me back with any comments if you like! ...
Posted by DJ Phil Meadley on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:10:00 PST

SHIHSA SOUND SYSTEM ON BBC ASIAN NETWORK!!!

Hi Y'ALL,****FOR ONE WEEK ONLY***** LISTEN BACK NOW TO THE SHISHA SOUND SYSTEM DJ MIX ON BBC RADIOCLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmJiYy5jby51ay9hc2lh bm5ldHdvcmsvc...
Posted by DJ Phil Meadley on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:03:00 PST