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BRITs.co.uk reborn!

Tom Green — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:54:59 +0000

This year marks our 11th year working with The BRIT Awards, and as if to celebrate, they’ve asked us to look after their Digital Strategy. We’re now responsible for all the digital content for the music event, including running its Social Media accounts, and updating, redesigning and rebuilding the website – which has just gone fully-live.

On top of that, we’ve got our video and radio crews preparing to head down at the event at the O2 in February, to provide all the backstage video footage for the website, and syndicate BRITs radio content across the UK and the world.

Follow the official Twitter and Facebook feeds – run by us – to stay up to date with everything that’s happening at the UK’s biggest music bash.

Gilles Peterson’s Tips For 2012 Show!

David O'Donnell — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:13:20 +0000

As part of the Specialist Takeover on Radio 1, this week Gilles was on from 10pm, showcasing some of the sounds he’s tipping to do big things in 2012.

The showcases included music from SBTRKT collaborator Jessie Ware, new US/UK hiphop crew 2Morrow’s Victory, and Southampton beatmaker Gang Colours.

Plus Gilles spoke to Canadian live jazz/hiphop trio Bad Bad Not Good, and found out more about the ever-consistent Soundway Records who are celebrating their 10th birthday this year! And if that wasn’t enough Gilles went in deep with US singer Jesse Boykins III, who talks about how he first met Bilal, and plans to work with Sinden, Gold Panda, Machinedrum and Hudson Mohawke in the coming 12 months. Busy dude!

Finally, we couldn’t forget to slip in the Bumps 2012 mix showcasing the next generation of beatmakers that are causing a stir on the underground…

Gilles Peterson with Jesse Boykins iii

If you missed it first time around, you can listen back here!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wq8d

Somethin’ Else’s Records of 2011

rowan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:23:36 +0000

Every year we ask our staff to nominate their favourite albums and tunes of the year along with their reasons why. 2011′s list ranges from SBTRKT to Skream via Marius Neset, Nicki Minaj, Justice and Josh T.Pearson. We’re nothing but varied here, eh?

You can check out the full list here and you can also listen to a Spotify playlist of of selected tunes here. Happy holiday listening…

1Xtra RnB Mix Show

lucymadge — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:54:07 +0000

This week on 1Xtra’s RnB Mix Show new girl group Duchess provide a beautiful, a cappella freestyle in the Soundcheck and talk to CJ about their new single ‘All The Boyz’, making their debut album and how they started working together.

DJ duo the Dixon Bros also dropped a heavy guest mix in Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, featuring everything from The Pink Panther theme tune to Chris Brown! You can see the full tracklist online, listen again to the show for the next 7 days or catch the show live every Tuesday morning 1 – 4am on BBC Radio 1Xtra.

Ronnie Does It Again

Steve Ackerman — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:21:09 +0000

The Ronnie Wood Show has continued to scoop awards by winning at the Arqivas – the commercial radio awards. Ronnie won Best Specialist Show and Best Newcomer at this year’s event for his show on Absolute Radio. It’s the first time we’ve won Arqiva Awards, and this adds to the Sony Golds we won earlier in the year (one of which was for Ronnie). Ronnie was on hand to pick up the awards – we reckon he was pretty chuffed! Congrats to all the team – there’s more about the night here with a full list of winners here. Our thanks to our friends at Absolute for their continued support – here’s what they’ve had to say.

Mix Master Mike for XFM

Steve Ackerman — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:39:58 +0000

We’ve worked with XFM to bring the legendary Beastie Boys DJ, Mix Master Mike to the network for a new 13 week series. Each week, Mike will be presenting a one hour mix in his incredible style combining all sorts of tunes and showing why he’s been 3 times World DMC Champ. Old time SE-er, Dave King, who’s now based in LA, will be producing Mike for the show that starts on 9th July.

GILLES PETERSON // WORLDWIDE

Rob Poland — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:06:46 +0000

Gilles Peterson is a music lover,record collector, DJ and broadcaster…Arguably, most famous for his much loved, highly respected and genre-exploding radio shows on BBC Radio 1 and stations across the planet. Gilles’ insatiable appetite for new music undoubtedly lies at the heart of his success. Worldwide is a 2 hour weekly journey, joining the musical dots between soul, hip-hop, house, Afro, Latin, dubstep, jazz and beyond for thousands of music connoisseurs everywhere. We’ve been syndicating Gilles’ international radio show for over 12 years to Europe, the USA, Japan, South America and loads of places in between. Worldwide is unbeatable music wise and is the essential programming choice for stations who want to connect with people who want more from their music radio. To find out about your station taking the show contact our Syndication Manager Rob Poland.

40 Up

Steve Ackerman — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:20:15 +0000

With recent tender wins, our total of weekly productions is set to exceed 40 shows. We’re most excited about the diversity of the shows we make, from underground dance to Gardeners’ Question Time. Our current weekly productions include:

Radio 1: Gilles Peterson, In New DJs We Trust, Judge Jules, Essential Mix, The Rock Show, The M1X Show

1xtra: The M1x Show (5 days a week)

Radio 2: Richard Allinson, Trevor Nelson, Janice Long (5 days a week)

Radio 3: Jazz on 3

Radio 4: Gardeners’ Question Time

Radio 5: 606

6 Music: Nowplaying @6 Music, The 6 Mix, The Freakzone, The Freakierzone

Absolute Radio and Absolute Classic Rock: The Ronnie Wood Show (5 days a week)

International Radio: The BRIT Awards, Roger Sanchez, Judge Jules, Essential Mix, The Ronnie Wood Show, Brit 40 UK

Inflight for British Airways: Brit 40 UK

Online: Foxy Radio for Foxy Bingo, CIPD Podcast

Producer success

Steve Ackerman — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:29:26 +0000

The recent Radio Production Awards recognised four of our team as winners thus ensuring Somethin’ Else won more awards than any other company. The awards have been set up to recognise individual producers and the talents they bring to a programme. Amazingly, our winners came from four distinct and different disciplines within radio:

Russell Finch – best documentary producer

Claire Neal – best music entertainment producer

Peggy Sutton – best live music (concert) producer

Polly Thomas – best drama producer.

Also a word for Phil Harris who was nominated as best newcomer.

See their names in lights here.

Sony, Soni, Soné

Steve Ackerman — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:00:47 +0000

The week’s extraordinary award-related headlines keep coming!

Last night we took home an amazing three Sony Radio Academy Awards — the Oscars of the radio world. We’ll be coming back to earth sometime in July, but in the meantime Team SE team says “We are not worthy!” to our winners:

Rising Star Award: Robbie Savage

We salute Robbie’s 606 producer Jo Tongue and all the 606 team who have worked so closely with Robbie all season.

Best Specialist Music ShowJazz on 3

Nominated twice before this means a lot to us, especially as the presenter of the show is our very own founder Jez Nelson. Congrats to the whole team of Robert Abel, Joby Waldman, Peggy Sutton, Russell Finch, Paul Ruston and Becca Aitchison.

Music Personality Ronnie Wood

Ronnie and his producer Claire have created an incredible show — truly innovative in its texture and format. Team Somethin’ Else send massive congratulations to Claire Neal, Rob Poland, Sam Cocker and Ed de Lacy.

We would also like to thank those stations who have supported these shows: BBC Radio 5 live, Absolute Radio and BBC Radio 3.

There’s loads of coverage but some of our favourites are BBC News, The Guardian and Broadcast.