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Thursday 20 November, 2025

The AI Music Gold Rush Is On: Warner’s New Deal Could Mean a Payday for Musicians.

The recent settlement and licensing deal between Warner Music Group and AI music startup Udio marks a significant turning point for the music industry, shifting the narrative from legal battles over copyright to collaboration and new creative partnerships . A new AI music platform, set to launch in 2026, is designed to be a next […]


Monday 27 October, 2025

Bunny Bread – An Artistic Innovator and Collaborator

So ingrained in the arts scene its hard to pinpoint where Bunny first crossed our path; Mau Mau or Ion bar or before, but mostly the link is through Jazz Refreshed/Uprock Recordings. Bunny’s creative innovation was admired widely and Unifunk championed his work, working with him on different projects through the years.  For us he […]


Thursday 26 June, 2025

AI Music Production Is the New Sampling and Licensing Is Catching Up

A.I Music Production Is the New Sampling and Licensing Is Catching Up. Much like sampling evolved music creation in the 1980s, AI is now driving the next paradigm shift in production techniques and copyright challenges. While AI and digital tools have dramatically lowered barriers to creative output, the business and legal frameworks lag dangerously behind. […]


Monday 04 November, 2024

An Orchestrator and Producer’s Life Qs

“…I️ used to dream of a better life for myself but also about how I️ hoped to shape the world in some way…” Quincy Jones Jr was out in the music world, playing and attending Jazz clubs when he was a boy, watching and learning from the best live jazz players. His first band was […]


Wednesday 21 August, 2024

Elton John and David Furnish – A Human Curation by Artistically led Appreciators

A viewing of David Furnish and Elton John’s art collection allows us to ponder about the use of time in the whole of our lives. The experiences that shape our form. Elton John is a celebrated musician, an exceptional person in modern speak.Has amassed a fortune and has the freedom to invest in objects of […]


Monday 13 November, 2023

Stamped from the Beginning : Moving the race conversation forward.

‘Stamped from the beginning’, based on the ideas in Dr Ibram X Kendi’s book is an everyone must see documentary, with interviews and narrative given by historians and academics.  Largely about the root of the racism idea, execution and where we are in America, but all over the world.  How tanned to dark skin was […]


Friday 16 June, 2023

Grace Jones :: The Artists Icon

‘I’m a born-alone, die-alone, sing-alone kind of girl.’ – Grace Jones The first opportunity to see Grace Jones came at Lovebox in 2013, seeing little of the opening song and leaving because it was Fathers day, there was a dinner to attend. It must have been the right decision because years later here arrives a […]


Monday 13 February, 2023

De La Soul – doing things differently

On February 12th, a representative of De La Soul confirmed the death of founding member, David Jolicoeur aka Trugoy the Dove. Today we reflect on the importance and innovation by this group in the history of POPular music and Hip Hop. In 1989 De La Soul produced by Prince Paul released their debut album ‘3 […]