New Music Mondays # 3

I made the foolish decision last week not to go to the Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards on Saturday. As I sat at home experiencing it via twitter (not so fulfilling it turns out) I realised I'd missed a fantastic event. I think Gilles' show and associated projects are so important to the worldwide music scene. It's a sad state of affairs that sees him leave Radio One, I can't understand how the station that introduced me to such amazing music through the likes of John Peel, Steve Lamacq and Mark Radcliffe is now seemingly handing over all of it's specialist programming to artists rather than radio DJs. I'm not saying the people they've got in won't do a good job, but I can't see any of them having the legacy that the DJs mentioned above have. Anyway, old-man rant over - although the majority of the artists playing on Saturday were known to me already, I had not come across Bad Bad Not Good before. A little bit of internet snooping reveals that they are a 3-piece from Toronto who have collabed with Tyler the Creator amongst others. Covering hip hop classics in their jazz-infused style isn't necessarily going to be an automatic success (in fact I almost wanted to dislike it), but they bang so hard you can't hate on it! Check out their site for a heap of free downloads and take a listen to the clips below.