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Production is a tricky field. On one hand, a great producer can utterly transform an average or undeveloped idea into an excellent song. On the other hand, a bad producer can ruin the potential the track originally had. This can happen by either taking over too much of the creative process, not doing enough to move it along, or overproduce it with generic beats and walls of sound that removes the artist's musical identity. It's this third scenario that hurts Ellie Goulding 's debut album, Lights . There's a bevy of producers and writers who had [...]

Muso's Guide was invited down to London Fashion Weekend - swanky! - by the lovely folks at Vodafone VIP , to see a very special Ellie Goulding performance indeed. It was all a delight, and I was even rewarded with a little goodie bag. Something called a cake-pop was then handed to me en route to my front-row seat, which for the benefit of our less-knowledgeable readers, is a really delicious and super-dense pink cake on a stick. It was '"by Juicy Couture", of course. I texted my mum about [...]

Surprised this song has not made it to #1 in the UK Singles Chart. I am talking about Ellie Goulding 's Your Song. Yes it was made famously by Elton John. Her version is more piano ballady style. Its the singing voice that just impresses me the most. I know there will be naysayers and be like "She shouldn't touch a classic song and leave it as it be". But its a great wintery holiday track. The song is being featured on an Christmad ad for [...]

• Ellie Goulding - Your Song

Currently doing the rounds flogging John Lewis this Christmas is this cover of Elton John 's Your Song by Brit winner Ellie Goulding . Less than 9 months after winning said award her career seems to be stalling a little, so why not have a good go at the coveted Christmas No.1 battle and release a deluxe version of your average debut album. Still, this is quite pretty isn't it? Ellie Goulding - Your Song (right click)

• Ellie Goulding - Your Song

Last Wednesday, Theophilus London released his highly anticipated mixtape, I Want You . Gone is the sense of urgency in his voice, heard in tracks like "Ultraviolet" ( Jam! ) and "TNT" ( This Charming Mixtape ); the Theophilus London we hear in I Want You is cool, laid back and smooth as ever. The best artists are ones that evolve from project to project while retaining their signature sound, and Theophilus does this beautifully on his third release. A free mixtape gives an artist the freedom to sample, remix and cover tracks without having to [...]

• Theophilus London - 08 Flying Overseas (Version 1)

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Being bestowed with the title of “Sound of X Year” can be a blessing or a curse and is a gauntlet nine out of 10 artists are destined to fail to live up to. With Ellie Goulding’s debut, Lights , the hype machine has unfortunately claimed another victim. Reinterpreting folk-pop through synths and samples, the Welsh songstress lacks the individuality of her musical peers in a music scene already swamped with quirky female performers, but has come up with enough goods to date to create a buzz. Opening track ‘Guns and Horses’ establishes Goulding [...]

Ellie Goulding - Lights The Drums are Hip Hop. KT Tunstall is Alternative. We Are Scientists are World Music and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are, get this, Electronica. These are just a number of the many anomalies residing in my iTunes library, and although the imagination runs wild at what these proclamations could offer, they are all hilariously way off the mark. I mention this because if you’ve heard only one thing about the BRIT and Sound of 2010 [...]

I spent last night trying to take an objective, journalistic view on The Brits. Let's remember, this award show grew from a music club advertised in the Sunday supplements. For the uninitiated, you signed up and they sent you an album of the month. Quite how this ended up as the yardstick or UK equivalent to the Grammys is beyond me. Personally, I feel it is a dinosaur outdated in this age of internet journalism. Let's face it, we have all been listening to these so-called breakthrough artists for months if not years, have we not? For [...]