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Dread rocker Lenny Kravitz
Song of the Day: After Arctic Monkeys taxi rank scenes in Sheffield night-life, a double header focusing on the drivers with a dismissive attitude and different attempts to hail them on either side of the pond
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The Four Brothers' Makorokoto album cover
Song of the Day: Moving from Nigeria's funk master William Onyeabor, one of Zimbabwe's greatest bands, employing the 'jit' African electric guitar sound of clean, golden-glinting riffs and vocal harmonies
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808 State's Pacific State
Song of the Day: After our last song, Voodoo Ray, it had to be another 1989 dance classic written alongside Gerald's former Manchester bandmates, Graham Massey and Martin Price, featuring that distinctive bird call sample
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De La Soul and co, from 1991's Roller Skating video
Song of the Day: Saturday, it's Saturday! What better way to enjoy the weekend that with the humorous upbeat work of the Long Island hip hop trio, from their second album De La Soul Is Dead (1991) plus and earlier one from '89? Produced by Prince Paul, alongside Dave, Maseo and Posdnuos it features A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip and R&B singer Vinia Mojica
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Lou Reed on the corner New York's 8th Avenue
Song of the Day: Today's selection is as much a sample of Reed's truly great, and undervalued album of 1989, New York, where social and political criticism comes with great music, and killer, prescient lyrics
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