Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Frederic Galliano KUDURO SOUND SYSTEM
Friday, November 23, 2007
HOMENAJE A ISOLEE
Oui! J'adore Isolee, mon amour...tu es danse avec moi ce soir?
ISOLÉE is Rajko Mueller, born in Frankfurt/Main.Lived with his family in Algeria at the age of 7 to 12 and went to a French primary school (and on the week-ends to a beach called bomo plage…)
Came back to Frankfurt with his family in 1983 and went to school where he made a lot of spelling mistakes...
Around that time his parents bought an organ for Christmas and he tried to do some synth-pop with a school friend. They decided to buy a syntheziser and a drumcomputer…
Rajko was bored by synth-pop and EBM in the end of the eighties and listened more to rock and independent music. Friends made him discover house-music, hip-hop and techno in the early nineties. He restarted to copy this on his old syntheziser and soon realized the need of more equipment, that luckily his elder brother already bought because he liked electronic music too.
He gave a tape to his friend and DJ Andreas »ND« Baumecker, owner of FREUNDINNEN records, who worked in a record-store where the Playhouse guys used to work, too.
That was the beginning of some marvelous music by a guy named ISOLÉE.
The rest (»REST« PLAY CD 001 / 2LP PLAY 038) is part of electronic music history... web http://www.isolee.de/
Feel Sensual, Be Captivated.
Norman Conners - Be There In The Morning [Arista] (1979)
Bill Summers - Come Into My Life [Prestige] (1977)
Randy Crawford - I’m Under The Influence Of You [Warner] (1977)
Pharoah Sanders - As You Are [Arista] (1978)
Dee Dee Bridgewater - Night Moves [Elektra] (1978)
Sylvia - Next Tıme I See You [All Platinum] (1976)
Jean Carn - You Are All I Need [Philadelphia] (1976)
Peaches And Herb - Star Steppin [Polydor] (1981)
Marlena Shaw - Without You In My Life [South Bay] (1982)
Dionne Warwick - We Never Said Goodbye [Arista] (1980)
Maxine Nightingale - You Made My Life Beautiful [Ua] (1978)
Rufus Ft Chaka Khan - Everlasting Love [Abc] (1977)
Late 70's and early 80's soul lovelies beautifully mixed by Mad Mongos from UK.
A must have show in 256kbps mp3 format.
Labels: mpthrees
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
For Carolanne
Monday, November 19, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Saturday, November 17, 2007
ok babysole... am chill- laxin, r u jus laxin?
Just Chillin Out 2 by Aaron Jerome 128kbps 52"04'listen I download
Little Dragon - Twice
Goldfrapp - Deer Stop
KidKanevil - Help Me Out
4All Lukid - A Smart Girl Alif Tree -
Rain River Soul Drummers -
Space & TIme (Restless Soul Moontime Mix)
Willie Hutch - Hospital prelude of love theme (Foxy Brown)
Freddie Cruger - Take It Personally Onra & Quetzal -
You Don't Have to Go DJ Cam -
Childs Play Hanne Hukkelberg -
The Pirate Erykah Badu -
AD 2000 Presence - Favour Nothing
Labels: geegeelux
Amerie - One Thing
Her father is black American and mother South Korean.
She is beautiful, but I want to know more about her band! Watch this space!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Melted
Monday, November 12, 2007
Doves-Black And White Town
Just want to remind you how great this band from Manchester are..Oh! and Fifa '06!
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Raw Fusion
A strict member of the Raw Fusion label crew and resident DJ at the Raw Fusion Club every last saturday of the month in Stockholm / Sweden, DJ Asparagus presents...
01. Wagon Cookin - Start To Play (Piano Mix) - Compost Black Label
02. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost (DJ Aspargus Copycat Re-Edit) - CDR
03. DJ Eli - Papa (James Brown) - CDR
04. Elektrons - Joy (12'' Version) - Wall Of Sound
05. Gary Bardouille - Starting Over - Soul Heaven Records
06. A-Trak - Sir Duke - CDR
07. Earth, Wind & Fire - In The Stone - CBS
08. Heavy - Countdown - BBE
09. Robert Strauss feat. Leroy Burgess - Hot Like An Oven - BBE
10. Dave Angel - Sheba - CDR
11. Le Stim - Tribute To Muhammad Ali - BBE
12. ? - Are You Crazy - Shoes
13. Jazztronik - Heat - CDR
14. Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers - Block Party - CDR
15. Run DMC - My Adidas - Profile Records
16. Eric Lau feat. Guilty Simpson - For The D - CDR
17. Taraf De Haïdouks vs. Gaetano Fabri - Go East - Crammed Disc listen I download
Labels: mpthrees
Slang Terms Of...
Airhead
Stupid person, usually a woman, usually blond. Often someone pretending to be stupid in order to be considered attractive to the opposite sex.
All Right
That's da bomb.
Bogue
Used to describe something offensive or an unrealistic idea. "That's so Bogue" or "That's Bogue" or "Bogue, man..."
The 'Crib' and going to the 'Gig'
The "crib" was going home or to someone else's house, and "gig" was work or job.
Dream On
a term used to get someone down to earth, or tell them they are being unrealistic about something, e.g. when someone would say, "I'm getting a brand new car!" you'd respond, "Yeah, right; dream on man!"
Far Out
cool
In Your Face or simply 'Face!'
I have succeeded in embarrassing or up-staging you (usually as through an exceptional play in basketball).
Lay A Gasser
to fart.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Labels: selective
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Sotu The Traveller
Grandmaster Melle Mel - Jesse
Pete Rock - Flyin'
Rocque Wun ft. Jneiro Jarel - So complicated
Platinum Pied Pipers - Detroit Winter
Kev Brown - Seven Layer
Waajeed (Bling47) - Clap it up
Dj Spinna - Dillagence (One-4-Jay) ft Phonte
Louis Bordeaux - Ecstasy (Appletree Records)
FS Green - Chocolate Rain (CDR)
Sotu the Traveller - Winter 07 (CDR)
FS Green - Happy Holly (CDR)
Sly - Magiq (CDR)
Onur Engin - Kanon (CDR)
Flying Lotus - 1983
Tom Trago&Maxim - The Real (08Bar)
Talib Kweli - Soon the new day (ft. Norah Jones)
FLYamSAM ft. Dolly & Byron the Aquarius - Roberta Flack (CDR)
D'Angelo - Me and those dreamy eyes of mine (JayDee Remix)
4 Hero - Awakening (ft. Ursula Rucker)
Bugz in the Attic ft. Bembe - 1nce 2wice
Ntjamrosie - Patience (sotu the traveller remix) (Appletree Records)
O.Boogie - Uprunner (08Bar)
Sotu the Traveller & Aïscha - What's going on (CDR)
Dig This DLR
Here is the first (and hopefully not last) Reggea / Dub guest mix of monotape.com by Jahtari, a record label based in Leipzig / Germany. Above all REGGAE music (or DUB) in it's classical sense, they're having a background of mostly electronic music while keeping the original Roots vibes in. And they call their music - for the lack of a better term - DIGITAL LAPTOP REGGAE (DLR). Do not forget to turn up the volume of your subwoofers.
http://www.jahtari.org/myspace.com/jahtari
Digital Laptop Reggea by Jahtari 192kbps 61"42' listen I download disrupt - grave robbers from outer space [iD.EOLOGY]krystoff - Holy Mount [Jahtari]
Afrikan Simba Rootah - Jahtari Massive [Jahtari]
Blaze Dem - Martial World [Jahtari]
disrupt - dont talk - shoot [Phonocake]
Ras Amerlock vs. Volfoniq - En Chantier [Jahtari]
disrupt - Jah Red Gold And Green [Jahtari]
Volfoniq vs Kik The Hypez - Speak ' n' Sex [Jahtari]
Volfoniq - Heroina Dub [Jahtari]
disrupt - jah bit invasion [iD.EOLOGY]
disrupt - kozure okami [iD.EOLOGY]
Illyah Ltd Candy - Fight The Formation [Jahtari]
Ras Amerlock - One From Teslas Lab [Jahtari]
Blue Vitriol - Re-Entry Dub [Jahtari]
Blaze Dem - Dubness Of This Creation [Jahtari]
noisebeyondsilence - Sound Dimension [Jahtari]
Normaa - Give Thanks To Be Part
Labels: mpthrees
Thursday, November 08, 2007
It's The Way She Walks.
A team at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, dressed female volunteers in suits which had light reflectors placed on the joints and limbs and filmed them walking in order to analyse their gait, the British weekly says.
The women also gave a saliva sample to assess their hormone levels.
Women who were in the fertile period of their menstrual cycle walked with smaller hip movements and with their knees closer together, the scientists found.
Forty male volunteers were shown the footage of the women and were asked to rate those with the sexiest walk. The winners were those who turned out to be in the least fertile part of their cycle.
The study appears to run counter to recent research that found men respond more readily towards women at ovulation. A US paper published last month found that lap dancers earn more tips during their fertile period than during the non-fertile part of their cycle.
But, the Canadian researchers believe, there is no contradiction, because a fertile woman gives out "come-hither" signals at close range rather than at a distance.
These signals come through scent molecules called pheromones and facial expressions. The proximity means a woman can vet a potential mate for fitness before allowing him to come close to her.
In contrast, men can pick up the attractiveness of a woman's walk from a long distance -- and a "sexy" walk, visible from afar, could therefore act as an unwitting signal to less appealing males.
So, having a less sexy walk at the time of ovulation gives a woman an evolutionary advantage: she can hide her fertile period from an undesirable man who might want to take advantage of her at the time.
The research, by Meghan Provost, is to be published in the US journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, says the report. It appears in this Saturday's issue of New Scientist.
Labels: selective
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Yoruba Music and Culture
Yoruba folk music is renowned for its advanced drumming. Although there are a plethora of drums the music is based mainly around the use of hourglass-shaped tension drums or dundun. It is this music that forms the basis of the West-African influence in diasporic musical styles typical of Latin America, the Caribbean and especially Cuba. The iyaalu is the lead drum used in a drumming ensemble; it is made to ‘talk’ in such a way that the sound of Yoruba, which is a tonal language, is skillfully imitated.
The music is largely devotional in that spirituality and ancestor worship lies at the core of Yoruba musical expression. The complex religious and philosophical system of the Yorubas date back thousands of years and, as a result of diaspora, has become influential throughout the Caribbean, many areas of Latin America and increasingly in North America and Europe. Believers consult divination specialists or ‘keepers of the secrets’, known as babalawo in order to commune with the spirit world. This practice and the philosophy associated with it, is known as Ifa.
As well as being inseparable from traditional spirituality, Yoruba folk music in its various forms is inseparable from regional distinctions within Yoruba land. In metropolitan cities European as well as Islamic and other Christian influences have been brought to bear in distinctive ways leading to the formation of more popular genres such as highlife, juju, Fuji and Afro-beat.
Track Listing:
1. Ninu Opon Ori Tiwa - 4:24 listen
2. Olukumi - 3:40 listen
3. Enia Lasoo Mi - 3:54 listen
4. Ifanla - 2:13 listen
5. Ori Ni Kan - 6:25
6. Witch Dance - 3:45
7. Seegesi Olooya - 4:54
8. Boya Iro Ni - 6:58 listen
9. Kulumbu Yeye - 3:08
10. Ojo To Wa Ninu Ose - 1:30
11. Aro Orunmila - 6:34
Labels: mpthrees
Back To His Routes
Solá Akingbolá, long-standing percussionist with the international, chart-topping band Jamiroquai, presents a superb album of Yoruba (Nigeria) percussion. He finds his way back to his roots exploring the unique melodies, rhythmic structures and philosophical poetry of the Yoruba people. Solá Akingbolá has spent most of his life in London, UK, but his roots are in Oregun, Nigeria, where he was born to Yoruba parents. Describing his relationship to Nigeria as a musical odyssey in which he finds his way home via exploration of the unique melodies, rhythmic structures and philosophical poetry of the Yoruba people, Solá reveals his passion for the language of music:
“I was always seduced by the sound of the Yoruba language and the way it was expressed within the drumming. When a Yoruba drummer plays, it’s not just music: he’s talking, reciting, teasing, invoking and praising. These qualities open up other worlds of interest for me that go beyond music; worlds that lead me to history, to the essence of my people.”
Inspired early on by Afro-fusion bands like Fela Kuti and Manu Dibango, Solá’s first journey into Yoruba music was playing percussion and then kit-drum for fellow Nigerian percussionist Gasper Lawal of the Oro Band, who was also based in the UK:
“Gasper opened my ears and eyes to a rhythmic perspective that I always felt, but due to a lack of knowledge and technique was unable to realize. The first music I heard was Yoruba. It was inside the language I heard my parents speaking and pulsing through the drumming I soaked up as a child, listening to my dad’s favourite Yoruba artists: King Sunny Adé, Ebenezer Obey, Ayinla Kollington, Yusuf Olatunji and Haruna Isola.”
Entering the jazz scene in the early 90s with the Ronny Jordan band and then finding his feet for the last decade in the jazz-funk of Jamiroquai, Solá has toured the world and played innumerable major international venues. But no matter which route he takes as a musician he always returns to the same place - the tradition and culture that brings him home - Yoruba rhythm, language and poetry.
What's been said about this extraordinary percussionist
“Solá Akingbolá has to be one of the best percussion players I’ve ever worked with – tremendous feel and power.”
Al Stone, Producer of Jamiroquai and Björk
“With Jamiroquai’s Solá Akingbolá beating a funk-infused rhythm on percussion throughout, he truly and masterfully brought the congas to life with an intense passion.”
Rebecca Taylor, Drunken Werewolf Magazine
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Check It.
DJ Santo is also 1/2 of Soulphonic Soundsystem. For more info on Soulphonic Soundsystem visit:
soulphonicsound.com
myspace.com/soulphonicsoundsystem
In the Portland area, DJ Santo has spun at:
Bridgeport Village
Doug Fir
Holocene
Saucebox
Masu
Berbati's Pan
Labels: Radioshows
Monday, November 05, 2007
Christmas Shopping?
Labels: selective
Seal
Labels: great quotations
I Like To Call Him G.P.

Labels: Radioshows
Lo Recordings

Milky Disco-Various Artists BUY
Variously referred to as Nu Disco or Cosmic Disco, it’s an underground scene that’s been getting bigger and stronger in the last couple of years. One of the key players, Lindstrom, is taking influences from across the dance spectrum, from dubbed out instrumental house, pitched down with added live elements to full on arpeggiated italo disco electronics. Lindstrom is only part of an ever increasing group of artistes who are choosing to explore these sounds. The whole scene has been hitting front pages in the last couple of months, on the verge of going over-ground with much media attention bearing down on the ‘Nu Disco Mafia’.
This compilation brings you the tracks that have helped define this sound. They’re all here from Morgan Geist’s spooky tribute to Black Devil as Jersey Devil Social Club. Black Devil themselves who provide a fantastic remix of In Flagranti’s ‘Nonplusultra’, Swedish sensations Studio with the stoned immaculate kraut rock inspired ‘Life’s A Beach’, Cornwall’s answer to Metro Area, Kerrier District aka Luke Vibert in league with Black Mustang dealing out the deadly dub vibrations, San Fran based Sorcerer with his mystic cosmic sound and Padded Cell’s steaming punkfunk disco.
From the deep atmospherics of Quiet Village to the Balearic vibes of the Idjut Boys epic rework of The Emperor Machine’s ‘Front Man’, the New York strut of Daniel Wang or the easy listening almost post rock sound of Lindstrom, there’s ample evidence of why this is the most happening sound around.
‘Milky Disco’ features exclusive tracks from Lindstrom (under his Six Cups Of Rebel alias), Sally Shapiro, Quiet Village. Kerrier District and Black Mustang along with rare tracks only ever released before on vinyl making this the quintessential cosmic disco compendium.