Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Juan Atkins
Labels: great quotations
S.O.A.P

EDGAR G. will be open on the 3rd floor of GHETTO on Fridays and Saturdays all season. The grand opening takes place with one of the infamous Halloween parties, with S.O.A.P and Dinamo DJ’s in the DJ booth with guest DJ Todd Terje aka TANGOTERJE, famed with his reedits to Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Wham, Paul Simon, Demis Roussos and The Fifth Dimension.
* Make up available at the door for Halloween!
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Kickback Recordings
Nicole Scherzinger - Baby Love feat. will.i.am MUSIC VIDEO
For my baby love, and for all the girls, in the world, who are in love with they're oh boy, baby love .... we so in love
Download Show
GILLES PETERSON WORLDWIDE - RADIO SHOW
Gilles Peterson Worldwide, 09/20/07 (BBC 1):
Heavy Hitters feature celebrating 10 years of Sonar Kollektiv!
Labels: mpthrees
Saul Williams
coldcut ft saul williams - mr nichols
Labels: great quotations
Shaun Escoffery - Days Like This (Live on MTV)
..And now ladies and gentleman time for something live... The sen-sation-al, ab-so-lute-ly fab-u-lous, the stunning.. Mr.... Shaun... Escoffery!
Monday, October 29, 2007
Little Dragon
*** Finally, I find the voice, that has haunted me, since listening to Alex Barck's Jazzanova Radioshow back in July, and then scooped up and aired by the honourable Mr Gilles Peterson courtesy of Giant Step. "Twice I turned my back on you, what led you on ? I'd love to know..." This is a beautiful story for beautiful minds.
A Beat World.
Labels: words
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Freemasons- Uninvited (Featuring Bailey Tzuke)
UK club culture has undergone something of a dip since its heyday in the late Eighties to late Nineties, but even if the mainstream popularity of the genres like disco house have waned somewhat, the enduring success of production teams like the Freemasons – aka Brighton’s Russell Small and James Wiltshire - demonstrates the scene can still turn out overground hits. The pair rose to fame with a string of bright, funky remixes, but with stars such as Beyonce and Kylie requesting their production knowledge, it’s clear the Freemasons are bound for big things.
The second album under the Freemasons moniker, Unmixed is actually a greatest hits of sorts, bringing together a string of the duo’s early singles plus a few tracks from 2007’s double CD mix ‘Shakedown’ – but all, as the title suggests, in their complete, unmixed state. This isn’t just for the wannabe DJs, though; rather, Unmixed demonstrates that the Freemasons aren’t just scientists in the art of slapping together a neat remix. Rather, they piece together records like vintage disco producers, concentrating more on subtle builds and big-picture songcraft than straight slamming beats.
The band’s biggest hit to date, "Uninvited" - an all-but-unrecognisable take on the Alanis Morissette hit - attaches a stomping beat to circling Eastern strings, sweeping classical violin, and the vocals of the so-called “new Joss Stone”, Bailey Tzuke. The duo’s three other Top 20 hits – "Love On My Mind" and "Watchin", (both starring Freemasons collaborator Amanda Wilson), and "Rain Down Love" with former Michael Jackson collaborator Siedah Garrett – are amongst the group’s best: brassy 4/4 club tracks with powerful diva vocals.
There’s more here besides, though: "Desperados" injects a Mariachi flavour, all lonely horns and the click of castanets, and there’s an uplifting cover of "Love Don’t Live Here Anymore", the Motown classic later popularised by Madonna, that should make the right dancefloor very happy.
Dial Up And Dial OUT
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Rose Garden
Saturday, October 20, 2007
The Home Of Jazz
Dune Records
...the award-winning independent jazz label.
Since their first release in 1997, Dune Records have been building a catalogue of great jazz written, arranged and performed by some of the finest young artists in Britain, who between them, have netted ten major music awards including, in 1999 and 2003 a Mercury Music Prize for An Album Of The Year and a MOBO Award for Best Jazz Act.
"A good way to come upon an entire circle of players from a scene American jazz enthusiasts don’t know as well as they should." New York Times
"Dune: the byword for top-notch Brit jazz. A worthy catalogue of commercial and artistic successes." ES Hot Tickets
"British independent record company Dune has had something of a golden touch with its releases to date."Jazzwise
"Rapidly becoming an important label." Jazz Express
Friday, October 19, 2007
Friday, October 05, 2007
Soul Heaven Presents...
01. Terisa Griffin 'Wonderful' (K-Dope Remix)
02. Terisa Griffin 'Wonderful'
03. Charles Dockins 'Blessed'
04. VMC 'To the Rock'
05. Kim English 'Nitelife' (K-Dope Dub)
06. Tyrah Jae Master 'Addicted'
07. Robert Strauss 'Level 52'
08. Peven Everett 'Sexy Make Up' (Tarantulaz Mix)
09. DJ Spen / Ann Nesby 'It's So Easy' (12" Rmx)
10. Ben Westbeech 'So Good' (Yoruba Soul)
b/w Dennis Ferrer 'Da P 2 Da J'
11. Telepopmusik 'Love Can Damage your Health'
12. Trackheadz 'His Kingdom'
13. Blaze 'How Deep is your Love'
14. K Dope & T Hunter Pres Mass Destruction 'No Hook'
15. Da Groove Doctors 'Like Water'
16. Soul Creation 'It's Your Life'
17. Brand New Heavies 'I Don't Know Why' (K Dope Mix)
18. Roland Clark 'Glad You Came'
19. Camp Soul Feat Tanya Stephens 'Fallen'
20. Liquid Dope Feat Chronkite 'I Want You'
21. Ruffneck 'Get it Right'
CD 2 - Mixed by Karizma
01. Karizma 'Kaytro'
02. Ben Westbeech 'Hang Around' (K2'S Vocal Rub)
03. Taylor McFerrin Feat Bobby McFerrin 'Georgia' (Karizma's Bruk It Down Remix)
04. Martino 'Mars'
b/w Loleatta Holloway 'Stand Up'
05. Karizma 'Twyst This'
06. Kevin Reynolds 'Afrika'
07. Ferrer & Karizma Ltd 'The Cube'
08. Mellow Madness 'Now You're Callin'
09. K2 'Requiem For a DJ'
10. Faith Evans 'Catchin Feelins' (Kaytronik Mix)
11. Van Hunt 'Dust'
12. Karizma 'Haarder'
13. Osunlade 'April'
14. Kemistry 'Emperors Clothes'
15. Aqua Bassino 'Moon Light'
Spotlight On DJ Karizma
Selected Sounds Of Space
Jan. 23, 2003 Sounds of Space - Listen to sample sounds of space.
Labels: selective
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Respect PURE
#1.BRAINSTORM - 13th birthday Party pt 1 (MP3) #2. BRAINSTORM THEN TWITCH - 13th birthday Party pt 2 (MP3) #3. TWITCH THEN EBY - 13th birthday Party pt 3 (MP3) #4. DJ MIX - BRAINSTORM - Live at UTI - Techno mix #5. DJ MIX - BRAINSTORM - 45 minute Chicago & Loopy Mix # 6. Live @ DJ TWITCH at PURE - Live Set Part 1, Approx 30 minutes #7. Live @ DJ TWITCH at PURE - Live Set Part 2, Approx 30 minutes #8. DJ MIX - BRAINSTORM 74 minutes - techno, house & ambient
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Robert Owens (DJ, Vocalist & Producer)
ROBERT OWENS
"I think the essence of what I do lies in the belief that the human heart can change. It's just me expressing different emotions, emotions that go from happy to sad because that's human existence. My work is about being aware of all the different facets and feelings in life. Much of it is driven by pain, but that's just an emotion. I can't stand there and be like a pop star, because I need to be real - and a real person gives from their soul and won't let anyone taint that." - Robert Owens
Ask any seasoned clubber who their favourite male vocalist is and nine times out of ten Robert Owens name will come back. Sure, there are other great male house vocalists out there, but with almost twenty years as a DJ, producer and vocalist under his belt, Robert has not so much embellished house music as played a large part in defining it. 'Mysteries of love', 'Tear down the walls', 'Tears', 'I'll be your friend' and 'Ordinary people' are just some of the tunes that have borne his black velvet voice and gone on to become truly classic records.
Robert Owens was born in Ohio but grew up between Chicago and L.A., traveling back and forth between his mother and father. At an early age his mother encouraged Robert to attend church in L.A. - the place where he first learned to express himself. "I tried to stay in the background at first" recalls Robert, "then they tried to force me to come to the front and I broke down, I just couldn't sing. I was so overwhelmed by the thought of goodness and of Jesus at that time and was convinced that I was a 'wrong boy'…I just lost the courage. But that experience made me question why I was there in the first place, and after a while I started to realise that everything I was looking for to carry on was inside. I realised that as long as you're aware of the essence of people, that's enough to continue."
Entry into the nascent world of house music came not through Robert's singing but via his skills as a DJ. While New York's early hip hop jocks were discovering how to mix and loop breaks from funk, soul and disco records, Robert was doing the same in Chicago, adding occasional European sounds like Talking Heads and the B-52s (not to mention spinning a few well chosen ballads), spinnin at Steppin parties (where all the men would do the trendy Steppin dance), block parties, recreational centres and even bashes held by street gangs like the Cripps and the Black Panthers - Robert became something of a personality.
"Some of my brothers were in those gangs but as I was the youngest one there, I was protected by the older guys. They never tried to pull me into their lifestyle because they could see something different in me. I actually brought a lot of the gang members together through the music I was playing. I used to watch people who would usually do a lot of derogatory things come over to the booth and see their expressions change from real aggressive to…man, sometimes they would look like puppies! I realised then that music was the key to change people."
Hungry for more, Robert trawled the clubs of Chicago looking for spots at pubs, college universities and legendary Chicago venues like the Warehouse and the Music Box. DJs such as Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles were by that time designing house music's blueprint right there on the dance floors by mixing up disco with European music but adding their own drum machine sounds and special effects. A long run of rejections - including getting asked if he had any degree certificates! - made Robert more determined to succeed.
A chance meeting with producer Harri Dennis landed him in a studio with Harri and Chip E, who wanted his advice on a record they had made. Robert ended up putting a vocal hook on the record for them and before he knew it, 'Donny' was getting remixed by Ron Hardy and played to death all over town! Incredibly, in the same week Robert ended up in another studio - this time with Larry Heard (AKA Mr Fingers), another producer friend of his also wanting Robert's opinion. The pair bonded and Robert laid down the vocals for his second hit, 'Mysteries of Love'.
"Larry and I just completely gelled" remarks Robert. "The whole vibe of the music was drawing me in more and more and when we got in the studio and worked, it was like it was meant to be, just a natural thing. The crazy thing was Larry just kept writing and writing. Sometimes he would change stuff up so fast that I remember getting my tape recorder from my house to record some of it before it was lost forever. I still have music now that he probably forgot he ever made! He was a true genius and I was very privileged to work with him."
The pair named themselves Fingers Inc., signed to Trax UK (the English version of Larry Sherman's Chicago Trax) and became one of the first ever bands to tour the UK alongside Adonis, Marshall Jefferson and Kevin Irving. Tracks like 'Bring down the walls', 'Can you feel it', 'I'm strong', 'Never no more lonely' and 'All over' exemplify the magic that flowed between this pair of positive spiritual forces. It also led to one of house music's first LPs in 1988 - Fingers Inc's superlative 'Another Side'.
A couple of years of constant touring and hard work in the studio left Robert exhausted and he eventually left Fingers Inc to concentrate on other projects. Meanwhile, over in Japan, classically trained keyboard maestro Satoshi Tomiie had bugged out over 'Another Side' and was hassling his Def Mix partners Frankie Knuckles (now back in New York) and David Morales about working with Robert. "I kept hearing that Frankie was looking for me" remembers Robert. "One day he came to Chicago to play and I got the word that he wanted me to go see him. I got to the club and he played me a track that he and Satoshi had worked on. I went home, wrote some lyrics and presented them to him. Two days later I was flying into New York."
That tune, so casually constructed, was to become one of clubland's most emotive and defining moments - the sublime 'Tears'. The record landed the Def Mix team a deal with Fourth & Broadway and the second major stage of Robert's career began. During this time he recorded many underground classics. After 'Tears' came 'Changes', 'Visions' and in 1991, a track that in many ways seems the perfect counterpart to 'Tears' and which, by getting to number one all over the world, gave Robert the overground success he so obviously deserved - the dark and brooding 'I'll be your friend'. These tracks featured on Robert's second LP, 1990's 'Rhythm In Me' (4th & Broadway).
"Being involved in the whole New York thing at that time did the world of good for all of us" says Robert. "There was a whole team of people developing music all of a sudden, whereas in Chicago there had been only a few scattered individuals. The experience of working with proper musicians like Eric Kupper and amazing vocalists like Jocelyn Brown and Connie Harvey was really inspirational".
Robert left Def Mix in 1991, staying on in New York for a while to run his Visions club (located opposite the Sound Factory and a hang out for the likes of Barbara Tucker and Spike Lee among others). In 1993 he relocated to England and joined the Freetown label's A & R department with a mission to develop artists and set up an eleven piece live band. The experience didn't work out. Robert quit and started his own imprint Musical Directions, through which he put out solo productions like 'After the rain', 'All night long', 'My heart is your home' and monster club hits 'Ordinary people' and 'Was I here before' (A collaboration with old friends Chip E and Farley Jackmaster Funk). In 1997 he delivered 'The Journey', an LP which - true to Robert's constantly fresh and 'nomadic' approach - highlighted new musical routes.
"'The Journey' was my attempt to go towards a more live feel" explains Robert. "To fuse house music with real instrumentation, which had been my dream since the Freetown days. I also wanted to reach my musical routes with a gospel feel, though to my mind we never got that element quite right. Hopefully though, even though it's not perfect, people can see what I was trying to get at."
"In a strange way, I feel more ready to give myself than ever before" asserts Robert. "At various times in the past I've felt restricted in some way, as if I've just been trying to please other people sometimes. But now I'm ready to just give myself up completely, to communicate directly with all the people who have supported me over the years and kept me going…my new material is about spreading out, communicating…it's more universal."
So there you have it. From the gritty but sublime Trax of yesteryear to the forward looking experiments of tomorrow, this man is one of dance music's true legends, a man who has his roots in the future and his feet planted firmly on the earth - and a man who has never been afraid of sharing himself with others.
Welcome to Robert Owens…the voice of house music.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Smoke Marijuanna?
Some interesting facts and figures raised here in this report written by Paul Armentano, AlterNet. I do believe to a certain extent time and money is unecessarily wasted in such arrests and considering the weed is probably seized, kept and smoked by the officers who make the arrests on the pot petty criminals, it all seems rather ironic, don't you think? Whetever. . Certainly it was the facts and figures, that caught my attention, whilst reading Paul's article. . ............. . . . Since 1990, over 10.4 million Americans have been busted for pot. When will we recognize it's time to stand up to the war on harmless pot smoking?
What would cops do without weed? For one thing, they'd sure spend a lot less time arresting and processing petty pot violators. How much time? For starters, however long it took to bust the estimated 739,000 Americans arrested for minor pot possession in 2006.
That's according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, which reported last week that a record 829,625 Americans were arrested for violating marijuana laws last year. Of those arrested, 89 percent of those were charged with simple pot possession -- the highest annual total ever recorded and nearly three times the number of citizens busted 15 years ago.
Yet to hear local law enforcement spin it, busting small-time potheads isn't their priority. The record number of busts, they claim, is simply a reflection that record numbers of Americans are now smoking pot.
But don't tell Drug Czar John Walters that. After all, the czar just claimed earlier this month -- at a press conference announcing the release of the federal Office of Applied Studies (OAS) 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health -- that pot use has been declining for the better part of the past five years.
Predictably, both the cops and the drug czar are playing fast and loose with the facts. Yes, in fact more Americans are now admittedly consuming pot today than in 1991 (so much for the past 15 years of the so-called "war on drugs"), but this increase is hardly proportional to the dramatic spike in overall pot arrests.
As for Walter's comments, while the survey did indeed report a minor decline in adolescents' self-reported use of pot, it further reported a minor uptick in the total number of Americans who report using marijuana regularly, from 14.6 million in 2005 to 14.8 million in 2006.
Of course, a less than 2 percent increase in pot users from '05 to '06 doesn't explain why pot arrests jumped more than five percent from a then-record 786,545 to today's total. Or why the overall number of annual pot arrests has gone up every consecutive year but two for the past 16 years.
Perhaps the explanation is two-fold. It's plausible that the federal government is -- and always has -- greatly underestimated the number of Americans who use pot. (Does anyone really believe that cops are busting -- on average -- five percent of all pot smokers each year?) It's also plausible that an outgrowth of the ever-growing number of cops on the street (and citizens' increasing number of interactions with them) is inevitably leading to more and more pot arrests. However, regardless of the explanation, it seems remiss for police and politicians not to acknowledge this growing trend and its burdensome fiscal and perhaps even cultural implications.
The bottom line: Since 1990 over 10.4 million Americans -- predominantly young people under age 30 -- have been busted for pot. Thousands have been disenfranchised, tens of thousands have been unnecessarily sent to "drug treatment," hundreds of thousands have lost their eligibility for student aid, and perhaps an entire generation (or two) has been alienated to believe that the police are an instrument of their oppression rather than their protection. These are the tangible results of the government's stepped up war on pot -- results that go beyond the FBI's record numbers, and it's high time that politicians and the general public began taking notice.
DJ Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane was a disco and old-school buyer for NYC’s infamous A1 records. His party “The Deep End” has been a premier night for soulful, leftfield, dirty and Balearic sounds. Guests have included, DJ Harvey, Danny Krivit, Norman Jay, and Kyoto Jazz Massive to name a few. Recorded live at P.S.1 Warm Up on July 15, 2006.
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Ron Trent, A True Pioneer Of Underground Music And Culture
Aybee - FoFo Sessions #3 10/06 Playlist
http://www.prescriptionworld.org/streamz/yellow06_pt2.m3u, Tokyo Japan, Feb 2006 Hr. 2
http://www.prescriptionworld.org/streamz/yellow06_pt1.m3u, Tokyo Japan, Feb 2006 Hr. 1
Aybee - FoFo Sessions #2 1/06 Playlist
Aybee - FoFo Sessions #1 11/05 Playlist
http://www.prescriptionworld.org/streamz/nulife05.m3u (SF) 6/24/05
*0-29min (Pat) 29-2:09min (Ron) 2:09 to end Tag Team
http://grooveparlor.com/audio/grooveparlor/rontrent-africahifi111904.ram (CHI) 11/19/04
http://grooveparlor.com/audio/grooveparlor/rontrent-africahifi082004.ram (CHI) 8/20/04
Ron Trent B-Day Smash (CHI) 5/22/04
Ron Trent Live @ Nulife tag team with Patrick Wilson (SF) 11/14/03 - Pt.1 Pt.2