{"id":571,"date":"2007-05-24T22:10:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T21:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2007-05-25T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T15:01:19","slug":"lsk-the-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"lsk &#8211; the takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>lsk<\/STRONG> (aka <EM>leigh stephen  kenny<\/EM>) has a voice that has quite a history. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">from his first appearance with <STRONG>bedlam a go  go, <\/STRONG>through to his own solo albums, appearances and collaborations with  <STRONG>on-u sound, <\/STRONG>and fellow leeds lovers of the reggae groove,  <STRONG>nightmares on wax. <\/STRONG>problem is, no-one else seemed to be bothered that  back in 2003 he released a cracking album called <EM>outlaw,<\/EM>&nbsp;that  beautifully merged his sweet soulful vocal technique with uk hip hop stylings  (hence the digs towards <STRONG>the streets)<\/STRONG>, old fashioned soundsystem  horn heavy reggae, alongside some&nbsp;quality pop songs. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">not only that but the album cover was a graffiti  mucked up ghetto blaster, just how could the album fail to get the masses on  board?<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">well to be honest, i didn&#8217;t really fall for the  album upon my first hearing, possibly as sonically it&#8217;s very light and sunny,  and i normally prefer my dubbed up fun a little heavier.&nbsp;however, today in  the blistering heatwave we are experiencing in the outback of the south west of  england, the album suddenly made sense.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">this opening track was lifted as a single, but  seeing as the lyrics are a constant dig about the quality of radio playlists it&#8217;  probably no wonder very little happened. shame, as i reckon its a cracking  little ska&#8217;d up hip hop track that just rolls along nicely telling a fun little  story.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so there you have it for today, no cutting edge  remix that&#8217;s only available in the blogsphere, no unreleased special extra,  instead, just a few minutes of easy on the ear skanking pop music. <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">sometimes that is&nbsp;a perfect <EM>perfect<\/EM>  option.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>mp3<\/EM> &#8211; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/takeover.mp3\">lsk &#8211; the  takeover<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/raw-nerve.co.uk\/sony\/lsk\/profile.php\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lsk (aka leigh stephen kenny) has a voice that has quite a history. from his first appearance with bedlam a go go, through to his own solo albums, appearances and collaborations with on-u sound, and fellow leeds lovers of the reggae groove, nightmares on wax. problem is, no-one else seemed to be bothered that back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}