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Wookie18 December 2008
Don’t bother trying to google wookie, unless you want to be overloaded by these sort of images (not such a bad thing really).
The Wookie I’m bringing up is of the UKG type, known to the taxman as Jason Chue. Jon from my office has been searching high and low for his self titled album. It came in today and was well worth the month long wait. Wookie came to wider prominence with a few excellent remixes including Gabrielle’s Sunshine (I never knew there was a Frankie Knuckles mix too!!!) and Soul II Soul’s Back to Life. From here he went on to make an album, which I’d group amongst some of the other great British Dance albums of all time, including: Blue Lines, Club Classics Vol 1, Untrue. Although these differ in genre and aims, they’re brought together by dark brooding production and excellent use of British soulful vocals. Typifying this, at its best is:
Wookie -Battle
Whilst looking all this up I could get over quite how amazing Soul II Soul used to look. I can’t fathom anything feeling nearly as exciting in this day and age:
Soul II Soul – Back To Life
Soul II Soul – Keep On Movin’
Strangely, Melissa Bell’s (the ‘other’ singer from Soul II Soul) daughter is Alexandra Burke. If you don’t know who she is you probably live outside of the UK and don’t need to know. If you do know, then you’ll know that the Beyonce duet was a pretty special moment. I was certain that is was fake, but was assured by someone there that it was 100% real. If it is indeed real, Beyonce really does have an unbelievable voice:
Beyonce and Alexandra Burke – Listen
In related news I can’t stop watching (even though the AMA peformance was better) this:
Beyonce – Single Ladies
So I’ll be buying these.
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