‘Let’s Dance’: Reflecting on David Bowie’s legendary impact on dance music
David Bowie's death sent a hush across the world, catalyzing a collective moment of silence with greater unanimity than perhaps any public figure since John Lennon. From the resulting outpouring of elegies and tributes from musicians, writers, world leaders, and the rest of us, it is abundantly clear that the performer was a sum greater than the whole of his staggeringly impressive body of work.
James Blake honors David Bowie in new mix for BBC Radio 1
Abstruse and ever-experimental, it is to be expected that James Blake would draw from an eclectic well of influences over the course of a DJ set. In his most recent mix for BBC Radio 1, Blake joins fellow 1-800-Dinosaur cohorts Connan Mockasin and Dominic Maker (of Mount Kimbie) .