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Watch A Trippy Video For Jamie Lidell's 'Walk Right Back'

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Watch A Trippy Video For Jamie Lidell's 'Walk Right Back'

The English soul singer invokes the purity of parent-child love in his new video, a surreal interpretation of what the world might look like to a baby seeing it for the first time.

07Building a Beginning

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    Building a Beginning
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Songs We Love: A-Trak Feat. Jamie Lidell, 'We All Fall Down (Jamie's Version)'

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Songs We Love: A-Trak Feat. Jamie Lidell, 'We All Fall Down (Jamie's Version)'

The great British soul singer and production wiz refashions his vocal from the EDM house hit into a weighty throwback.

01We All Fall Down (Jamie's Version)

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    We All Fall Down (Jamie's Version)
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    2015

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Jamie Lidell On World Cafe

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Jamie Lidell On World Cafe

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The glitchy techno DJ turned soul revivalist has explored many genres and methods of music-making over the years, but his latest album, Compass features a full band and collaboration with Beck. Listen to the set here.

Jamie Lidell On World Cafe

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Jamie Lidell: Doubling Back To Soul

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Jamie Lidell: Doubling Back To Soul

It seems almost absurd to list all the elements that Lidell manages to synthesize in "Compass": delicate, empyrean tones; an out-of-tune, Micachu-esque guitar; desperado horns; a drumline that sounds like it was recorded in a tunnel; and, of course, his own wistful set of pipes.

'Compass' by Jamie Lidell

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World Cafe

Jamie Lidell: Funk by Way of Electronica

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Jamie Lidell sees no boundaries between the most vintage R&B influence and a futuristic loop or techno treatment. He channels his background in electronic music to produce a neo-soul brew that touches upon the best of Otis Redding, Prince and Sly Stone.

Jamie Lidell in Studio on World Cafe - 05/11/2006

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