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  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Christmas Songs!

    Ok, so we had to do a festive theme sooner or later! With workloads relentlessly on the up before St. Nicholas parks his sleigh to make those all important deliveries, it seemed only natural to inspire a bit of festive cheer in The Fashion Office. So from the ever-popular Wham to classic Bing Crosby, here’s our hit list…

  • Paul Kalkbrenner- Atzepeng

    Time to come clean, I have an unhealthy addiction. Ok, so there are worse things to be hooked on but I can’t quite get enough of Paul Kalkbrenner. From his amazing mix from this summer’s Chateau Click Clack festival in Germany and his performance in Berlin Calling (finally winging it’s way to me as we…

  • Radio One Live Lounge: The Script – Times Like These

    Every now and then there’s a Radio One Live Lounge cover that totally blows me away.  This time, it’s The Script’s turn with Foo Fighter’s Times Like These. Ok, so I’m a huge Foo Fighters fan but this track sheds new light on The Script for me as it showcases lead singer Danny O’Donaghue’s amazing vocals,…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Songs About Friends

    This week, we’re devoting The Fashion Office Recommends to those lovely people we call Friends. Where would we be without them? Sostylistic selects: Dionne Warwick & some very famous friends – That’s What Friends Are For. Sartoriology recommends: The Rembrants – I’ll Be There For You. A Work In Progress picks: James Taylor – You’ve…

  • MYNC Are Back, Bigger & Better Than Ever Before

    About three years ago I discovered an amazing track called Something On Your Mind by MYNC Project, aka CR2 Records owner Mark Brown and Nick Corelli. Since then, the duo parted ways temporarily to invest time on their solo projects and now they’re back and after enlisting producer Harry ‘Choo Choo’ Romero and Jose Nunez…

  • Say Hello To Dadahack’s Debut

    Between working with the We Fear Silence boys and a few other projects, I’ve been inundated with a plethora of reviewing and the virtual postbag (or six, or seven) has been filled with all sorts of new music. With so much to plough through and listen to, it’s refreshing when something pretty awesome like Dadahack’s Hellos EP jumps up…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Songs About Driving

    This week, we’re getting into our virtual car and stepping on the gas pedal in Songs About Driving. Read on to find out what tracks are accompanying the girls speeding through their work and all the way into the weekend… Sostylistic selects: Tracy Chapman – Fast Car. Sartoriology recommends: Chris Rea – Road To Hell.…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Songs Inspired By Love

    Due to the powers that be (aka work), I sadly had to abandon, or at least postpone my Bonfire night plans last night. Not one to miss out, this simply meant moving my celebrations to Saturday where I’ll be drinking mulled wine, snapping pics and singeing my fingertips on sparklers to the ‘Love’ themed display…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Songs To Trick Or Treat To

    This Saturday things will go bump in the night, carved orange faces will eerily light up door steps and ghouls, gargoyles, skeletons and black cats will take to the streets.  Halloween, it’s just like any other night out in London. To celebrate the spooky occasion, The Fashion Office have dedicated this week’s issue to Fright…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Songs About Leaving

    For the last week, all we’ve heard in the office is “Because I’m Leaving!” belted out at the top of SoStylistic’s voice.   In a vain attempt to keep the noise down, and as the rather vocal lady in question is moving on to pastures new, it seemed only fit to dedicate this week’s The…

  • Will Chris Tietjen Rocket Germany’s Temperature Above Freezing?

    It’s October. In Germany, it’s already minus seven degrees at night, so who better to step up to the challenge of getting the countries temperature, and pulse, royally roasting other than Cocoon regular Chris Tietjen? On Saturday November 28th, home grown tech DJ Tietjen will take to the decks at Gloria’s in Regensburg, and as…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Songs Inspired By Colours

    There’s a good vibe in The Fashion Office today, the sun is shining, it’s Friday and we’re feeling inspired by Colours this week.  By chance, it’d appear there’s a lot of gold going on too, and from a collective of sensationally-stylish ladies with naturally expensive taste, who’d expect anything less? Sostylistic recommends: Jill Scott –…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Songs Featured In Adverts

    This week The Fashion Office Recommends turns its attention to TV with Songs Featured In Adverts. From Crunchie to Barclaycard, Levi’s to the very British Co-op, here’s the tracks we love from some of the best ads to grace our screens over the last few years… Sostylistic recommends: The Pointer Sisters – I’m So Excited, from Crunchie.…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Musicals

    Seems we love a bit of a sing-song at work, so this week’s The Fashion Office Recommends has been dedicated to Musicals. Sorry boys, us girls love them! Here’s what my fashionable desk sharers chose… Sostylistic recommends: Porgy and Bess – Summertime. Sartoriology picks: An American Tale – Somewhere Out There. New Favourite Thing selects…

  • Bimbo Jones Puts The Party Into Lott’s Mama Do

    Straying from house and into slightly foreign territory, I’m going to stick my neck out and say I like Pixie Lott’s recent chart stormer Mama Do.  However with what can only be described as eclectic taste, and although not a music snob; it’s got to be UK mixmasters Bimbo Jones’s impressive revamp. I heard it…

  • Radio One Live Lounge: Dizzee Rascal – Money Talks

    Most of those that know me will be aware of how much I love Radio One’s Live Lounge. Whilst it saddens me that the lovely Jo Whiley will now only look after the show on Saturdays, (and leave week days to Fearne Cotton), she has at least exited with the almighty bang that is Dizzee…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…The Charts

    Wow, we’re down on team members this week…it seems most of The Fashion Office are topping up their tans on a last minute break or just taking some well earned time out. Fear not as this week, we have a fine and fabulous four recommendations from…The Charts.  After all, it’s about quality rather than quantity…

  • Transform – Transformation (Tobi Neumann Matthew Styles Mix)

    Since returning from Ibiza, I’d somehow forgotten to look up the tune that became the soundtrack to my holiday. Going by last year’s effort, that’s quite out of character too… Fear not, last night, a friend sent me a link to a song he wanted me to listen to…and there it was. Funny how things…

  • ATFC – ‘I Called You’, The Conversation (ATFC’s Heated Conversation)

    After a very chilled Sunday doing very nearly nothing, I decided to scoop myself up off my bed, away from the film that was taking an eternity to download, and began hunting down some new house tracks.  On discovering AFTC’s ‘I Called You’ (The Conversation), I think I may have just struck gold. Released the…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Songs That Make You Happy

    After a bit of a break, it’s time again for The Fashion Office Recommends. This week, it’s all about songs that inject a little sunshine into our lives.  From those that make you jump around in your bedroom like a crazed fool, to tracks that simply bring a smile to your face; here’s something to make your…

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