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Thursday 6 February 2014

#ThrowbackThursday - Donaeo Speechless Live Lounge

I have a habit of dropping these #ThrowbackThursdays (well the 2 that I have actually done) at the very end of Thursday but oh well.

Today I bring to you a Live Lounge I rediscovered during my long long long journey to and around London yesterday within which I had ample opportunity to rinse my iPod's battery to the core. On rammed tubes that I only got on as a result of full exploitation of my small frame, which enabled me to fill the tiniest pockets of space on the carriages, there was no room to breath, let alone manoeuvre my arm so it could reach into my pocket and change the track on my iPod. But on letting it do it's own thing, it dug up a few forgotten gems buried under playlists upon playlists. One of these was Breakage ft. Donaeo - Speechless which technically I can't really call a gem because I don't really like the song that much but I loved Donaeo's solo cover of it.

Donaeo/DON-AAAAAAAAAAAAY-OH, is the creator of some of the biggest tunes that you hear on a night out and so like most, that's all I really knew him for - a wicked producer who occasionally dropped a couple of random vocals in the form or "party-ty-ty-ty-ty-ty-ty haaaaaaaaard zum zum zum" or "I'm fly, I'm fly-y-y-y ta na na na na ni ni ni ta na na na na na ni ni ni ni". I never actually knew he could sing or did anything more than produce mean beats that made my waist wiggle. It turns out Mr Zephron has a voice that I wish he used so much more. It's not exactly a husky, raspy voice (which I'm a sucker for) but there is something about that tone and very slight, subtle coarseness that I want more of.

So Mr Donaeo, please sing more for those soul destroying cold, rainy Mondays when I need therapy (but please also carry on making riddimsssssss too for Friday nights).

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