Sunday, April 06, 2008
Saturday, April 05, 2008
DJ/producer/label-head Joe Claussell is perhaps the most influential and in-demand figure on the New York dance scene since Masters At Work. Responsible for some of the best deep and soulful house NYC has heard, Clausell’s Sunday night Body & Soul DJ gig is one of the most legendary house parties of the ’90s. Former owner of the landmark record store Dance Tracks, and long associated with the house labels Spiritual Life and Ibadan, they all reflect his deep love for and his eclectic and multicultural taste in dance music. Much of the global dance movement can be traced back to Claussell’s highly percussive style that incorporates Latin, African, Brazilian and other world rhythms with elements of jazz, rock, disco, and live instrumentation. On his remix of Nina Simone’s "Feelin' Good", Claussell tones down the percussion a bit, instead opting for a lush and soulful downtempo approach.
His DJ sets are unmissable and he has an army of fans that follow him wherever he performs. Never selling out and always wary of commercial crossovers this is a
person who has absorbed all the various cultures around him and reproduced them in his highly individual House sound. From Paris, to New York, London and Tokyo, he travelled the globe to hone his production and DJ techniques and absorbed everything that House had to offer.
He has been regarded as the king of the afro beat scene with his highly percussive tracks that feature many African, West Indian and Caribbean flavours. His biggest production ‘Elle’ has touched every house DJ that has heard it and became an instant classic. It is a permanent fixture in most of their record boxes.
Gregory was one of the first pioneering house producers that was invited by Bob Sinclar to become part of the legendary Africanism project; a project that embraced the percussive riffs and flavour of Africa and translated them into energetic house tracks.
However the success he enjoyed here made him realise he could do bigger things with his own label.
"After Africanism, I wanted to do exactly my own shit, I wanted to release my stuff, I wanted to be on my own also not to be under someone else’s is record company. The first release was Tropical Sound Clash so the success of this first release has made a name for the label".
So Faya Combo was born. Named after the translation that Faya means ‘On Fire’ and ‘Combo’ derives from the fact that 70's West Indian and Caribbean music that Gregory loved always included a ‘combo’ of people. He thought that Faya Combo sounded cool and the label was born.
In this package he puts together his inimitable own sound. You will find CD1 is an energetic mix by DJ Gregory himself. He combines a few of his classics along side some heavyweight remixes from the likes of Ame, Kerri Chandler, Yass and Argy and some exclusive new cuts
from the Faya Combo camp.
CD2 showcases his classic releases on an unmixed format which is ideal for CD DJs. Elle ,Attend 1, Don’t Know Malandro, S2 and Solaris; these are essential tracks for any self-respecting House DJ to own. This CD is simply a comprehensive guide to the tracks that lead to his legendary status he has today.
Friday, April 04, 2008
Swedish House Crew
Daniel S
Eskilstuna, Sweden
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George Levin Keep On Making Me High Sonar Kollectiv (Germany)
SUMO feat. Clarisse Muvemba Lovebeat HEYA HIFI (Sweden)
Wookie feat. Lain Live On Soul Heaven (UK)
Tiger Stripes Missing You Slip 'N Slide (UK)
Marcus Enochson feat. James Ingram Day And Night Sonar Kollectiv (Germany)
Gioia Bruno & Mix2Inside Why Did You Call Me? Mix 2 Inside (Italy)
Terisa Griffin Sunshine Dope Wax (US)
Feet feat. Simon Grey & Yuanist Woods Hard To Say Feet (France)
Polyphonics feat. Hasina Sheik Circles Essence (UK)
Gregory Del Piero Don't Fight The Feeling Del (US)
Oriental Funk Stew & Olivier Desmet Simple Things Tango (US)
Style Of Eye We Got You Stylus Music (UK)
Shannon "Let the Music Play"
Stuck on an eighties groove...One of the greatest dance songs in the early 80's considered at the time to be powerpop along with Madonna's "Holiday"
Carlos Mena
Let The Record Play
"I am very proud of this accomplishment, because of the reputation Yoruba has as a dance label. They have always put out quality, and now here I am with the only remix on this 12" of Frank-I's 'Let The Record Play'."
Here are snippets: A SIDE - Original Mix (Osunlade)
B SIDE - CASAMENA "Living Room Remix"
This single is now available on traxsource.com and dancetracksdigital.com: (click here)
My latest single is available exclusively on traxsource.com: Click here to preview or dowload the mixes
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Food For Ya Soul
Food For Ya Soul Vol.3.5 by Boo & Dj Chikano 28’28" 160kbpsdownload
willie hutch - now that it’s all over
les mc cann - can’t we be strangers again / live version
bless 1 - exclusive
carl douglas - dance the kung fu
latimore - qualified man
connexion street - exclusive
donny hathaway - je vous aime (i love you)
the o’jays - never can say goodbye
the dells - playin the love game For more soulful vibes click here & check their "Food For Ya Soul" compilaiton series..myspace.com/foodforyasoul
Wicked duo from Lausanne, Boo & Dj Chikano brings us 28kg of tasteful food for our souls.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Let's Go!

DJs Da Funk One and Sonny B met in April 2005 through formal introduction from DJ Camacho of New Jersey. Shortly after their introduction, they quickly realized that they shared the same thoughts and ideas about the music. Through this common ground, a friendship was born and they quickly set out to accomplish their goal of bringing new music to the listeners or as they like to call it, “A Breath of New Life”.
Work on the brand new site is still in progress, but here you can find mixes to listen to and download from Unified Spirits, Master Kev, Consortium Muzic, Beppe Gioia, Dante. This site is the house music lover's paradise... les go!
Currently you can listen to Unified Spirits on Cyberjamz.com (Saturdays 4pm – 6pm est) and PushFM.com (Wednesday 5pm – 7pm est).
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Disc Jockey Tip.
Spring 2008
[Editor's Note: Marcus McBride is a resident DJ on XM Satellite's BPM Channel 81 and KNRJ Phoenix (Energy 92.7 & 101.1). He is the owner/operator of Full Tilt Remix (a remix service for professional DJ's). He also has a bachelor's degree in broadcasting engineering from the University Of Cincinnati.]
Radio mixshows are among the most prestigious residencies in the world of deejaying. A typical night on the air will likely have your mix reaching more people than your biggest and best night at any club that you'll ever spin for. It's a highly competitive sector of the industry with a finite number of available slots and an infinite number of candidates who are interested in filling them. Getting your foot in the door isn't the easiest of things to do, but it's not impossible. Here are a few suggestions for getting started. Getting In ...Give yourself some homeworkIf you have a local station in mind to submit a mixshow demo to, give yourself a leg up by doing a bit of research first. Make note of what the station plays, and more importantly, what the station doesn't play. Listen for new music and how frequently (or infrequently) such music is added to their rotation. Playlists are a valuable tool as well, many of which can easily be found online. These things will allow you to tailor a demo package that's best suited to the station's sound, image, and overall presentation. Be accessible... Anything that you submit to a radio station for consideration should have your contact information on it (phone numbers, website, email address, etc). That includes your demo CD, bio, submission letter "you name it." It doesn't hurt to spend a few bucks at the office supply store either. A clearly printed label for the CD itself and a professionally-made business card (neither of which are terribly expensive these days) both go a long way to making your submission look that much more professional. Keep things brief and to the point Write a full-page bio about yourself as DJ. That's great -- now cut it down to a few simple paragraphs. The station doesn't need your life story, just the most relevant points about who you are what you do. Likewise, your demo should showcase your mixing and programming talents without being overly zealous. Bells & whistles in the mix are nice but best kept to a minimum if you haven't truly mastered them. Use any custom ID's or drops that you may have sparingly as well (having them professionally produced doesn't hurt either).Think big but start small They're seldom glamorous and most are unpaid, but internships can offer you entrance into the radio world while teaching you a lot about the industry in the process. You'll see how the business works first-hand and cultivate a better idea as to how to pursue your own goals down the road. Many a successful mixshow deejay first got their start working as an assistant or an intern or in some other facet of the business. Be both persistent and patient in equal measures The time & attention of a station's program director and/or on-air staff is inevitably split among countless tasks at just about any given moment. Twice-daily calls or emails aren't likely to elicit a faster or more favorable response from them. Proper follow-up on your submission is a must but be mindful to do so in moderation; and take action accordingly on any suggestions or guidance that they offer you. Staying In ...Radio is a "team sport"Mixshows and the deejays that create them are a small (and important) part of a much larger whole, and that whole has its best chance for success when its individual parts are working together towards the same goals. Always remember that the station's agenda is your agenda -- not the other way around.Your listeners only chew when they have something to bite into first ...As a medium, radio is consistently at the mercy of the ever-shrinking attention spans of its listeners. Deejays by nature are creative people, many of which like to break new ground or set themselves apart with what they do. Just remember that your typical listener probably isn't as savvy as you are when it comes to music (after all, you're the deejay -- not them). Familiarity is a good thing to keep sight of when programming your sets, and sandwiching those newer tracks and remixes in-between staple hits is an easy and effective way to keep people tuned in to your show.... and you can trim the fat while you're at itWhat works in the club doesn't necessarily translate as well over the airwaves. That nine-minute anthem mix of your favorite track that often whips dance-floors into a peak-hour tizzy is very likely to have radio listeners reaching for another preset sooner than later. Keep in mind that the length of most songs played in regular rotation fall somewhere between 3:00 and 4:30 on average. Getting to the meat of the tracks you play in your mixshow is advisable, as is not letting individual tracks drag on for too long.Give your show a personal touchBreathing new life into records that you find yourself playing over & over again is an easy way to help keep your listeners interested. Remixes and edits of most popular tracks can be found in droves these days, but creating your own can really put a customized spin on what you do. Conjuring up your own remixes, edits, and mash-ups may take time to properly master, but it's an investment in your craft that could potentially pay off in more ways than one.Being a "mixshow person" is good, but being a "radio person" is greatRadio is a diverse and multi-faceted medium, a multi-million dollar industry that is as competitive and unpredictable as they come. Hands-on experience and proper networking will afford you the opportunity to expand your own skill sets time-and-time again. Countless mixshow deejays first got their start doing something else within the radio business, and many of them have gone to bigger and better things within the industry as well. The more you learn, the more likely you are to become one of them.
Related Links
Marcus McBride MySpace Page
Full Tilt Remix
XM Satellite BPM Channel 81
Industry News
* Stephen Webber of Berklee College of Music has created several free video clips showing how to crab, create drag scratches on a turntable, and more. See Berklee Shares.
* The 23rd annual Winter Music Conference (WMC) will be held in Miami Beach, Florida from March 25 through March 29, 2008. More information about this year's WMC can be found here.
* Beatport.com recently launched a sister site called Beatsource.com, which claims to be "the first legal online digital retailer specializing in the global sound of urban music. As a member of the Beatport family, Beatsource is designed to service the evolution of digital music culture - redefining how DJs and enthusiasts acquire their music. Beatsource.com allows users to access the world of urban music through secure, legal, hi-speed, high quality downloads in MP3, MP4 and WAV formats on a pay per download basis." See Beatsource.com.
* Remixmafia.com has closed. According to the website, "our site was hacked at some point today (3-3-08). All essential files have been deleted. We have come to the conclusion that rebuilding the site is too much of a task. We thank you for your support ..."
Labels: DJ Tip
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Handz On Radio
This is a great online radio station playing deep soulful tracks such as...
Osunlade - Elements Beyond (My Reflection)
Africanism - Wintersong
Phuture Bound - Akabu (Remixes) (Ame Mix) .... Handz on Radio is absolutely making waves, check it out.. The Shadow Kings Sol 4 Reel Live 2 hour show is sensational listening! A full schedule listing of Live shows is available on site.
Labels: Radioshows
Listen Now
Joining the musical dots with hip hop, latin, funk, soul and jazz, presented by Gilles Peterson.
Labels: Radioshows
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Happy Days Are Here Again.

Balearic - a club scene from the 1980s spinning everything from folk-rock to disco - is flourishing again. Justin Quirk on why the conditions are perfect for a third summer of love
In 1983, Chris Rea released an album called Water Sign. The record was, in effect, little more than a demo, but its drum-machine rhythms and songs infused with the music he'd heard on his endless European tours made it something of a lost classic to some fans of house music. Despite Rea being a byword for middle-of-the-road rock, he forms an unlikely footnote to the most exciting scene in dance music right now.
Balearic - originally a loose amalgam of sounds rooted in the music that was popular in the clubs of mid-1980s Ibiza, encompassing everything from folk-rock to disco - is set to be the trend of the summer. Parties and DJs such as Tropical Hotdog, Afternoon Session and Chew the Fat (all in London), the Balearic Brothers (Brighton), the Balearic Mike/Jolyon Green axis (Manchester) and Phil Mison's Reverso 68 project are all flying the "anything goes" flag of Balearica. It's not just DJs and clubs, either. There is also a new generation of Balearic bands in the UK. Mountain of One combine beats with the influences of Pentangle and Tusk-era Fleetwood Mac, while the shadowy Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve marry Joe Meek-ish samples with pulsating backing tracks. Further afield, Norway's Todd Terje and Germany's Henrik Schwarz are producing Balearic-inflected electronica. Balearic is even starting to influence fashion: the spring/summer collections from Dries van Noten and Gucci embody the Balearic aesthetic in the form of linen trousers, slip-on shoes and soft pastels.
"The contemporary Balearic scene has been quietly developing and is a very exciting musical place to be right now," says Enzo Amico of the Balearic Brothers. "People are disillusioned with the house scene and are listening to a more diverse mix of music. The trend towards bars and smaller parties rather than superclubs suits a more relaxed and varied style of DJing." So, are we about to witness a third summer of love?
For convenience, most people trace Balearic back to the eclectic style pioneered by the DJ Danny Rampling at the London club night Shoom in 1987. Rampling had holidayed in Ibiza that summer, and became obsessed with DJ Alfredo, the Argentinian resident at the island's Amnesia club. His sets, as recreated on last year's Original Sound of Ibiza album, moved effortlessly between the Art of Noise and Yellowman, the Residents and Phuture. Rampling would later compare Alfredo's experimental mixture of "texture and music ... to a Miro painting", but his eclecticism was rooted as much in the realities of playing to a crowd who were both pan-European and in the first flushes of the ecstasy rush. The music at Amnesia didn't need to be fast and rhythmic to be danceable (most Balearic classics hover around 110bpm), and because familiar songs were put into fresh contexts, they shed whatever unfashionable associations they might have had for clubbers used to London ideas of hipness. "It was quite a naive thing," says Chris Galloway of Pure Pleasure Music, Britain's leading Balearic dealer. "You had a lot of classic pop records that became seen as Balearic, and a lot of songs that people could kind of take or leave on their release that were subsequently reassessed."
"In its purest sense it's about music that makes you feel good, makes you smile, and has no pretensions to be anything else," says Amico. The mixture of what Galloway sums up as "big pop records and very underground stuff put together" became, and remains, the defining characteristic of the Balearic aesthetic.
The success of Rampling's Shoom nights sparked off a series of similar parties, such as those organised by Boy's Own, a loose network of clever, funny, music obsessives from Windsor and Slough, including Andy Weatherall, Terry Farley and Cymon Eckel. "It really picked up in 1988-89 and the race was on to find the strangest records that you could dance to," says Eckel. "There was a massive Boy's Own party at Painshill Park in Surrey and It Must Be Love by Madness got played. Being happy and smiley as we were, as opposed to nasty and aggro, it all worked."
While much of dance music culture was (and is) lambasted as little more than pill-munching, repetitive idiocy, the "Balearic network" offered a stylish, knowing alternative based on better clothes and encyclopaedic record collections. "Given the state people were in, it was easy to see how you might end up in a pair of denim dungarees - not that I ever did, I might add - but you wanted to look a bit more well dressed," says Eckel.
The original Balearic players shared a deep, trainspotterish immersion in music, style and vinyl hunting, kicking against what they saw as the lumpen nature of most pop and rock. The critic Simon Reynolds saw the original Balearic lovers as representing an English obsession with class and status: "The antagonism was grounded in an enduring class divide that runs through British pop history," he wrote in his book, Generation Ecstasy. "An upper-working-class hipster superiority complex vis-a-vis the undiscriminating unskilled proles."
"There was a conscious split, as you wanted a point of difference," agrees Eckel. That sentiment is echoed by the new wave of Balearic artists. Questioned recently by a journalist about the grand, almost prog-like nature of their music, A Mountain of One's Mo Morris witheringly pointed out that "you can only hear so many songs about fights in chip shops." .
A Mountain of One are the emblematic modern Balearic group, with feet planted firmly in two vintage musical camps. As well as the 1980s dance influence that underpins the music, they draw on another side that predates Rampling's encounter with Alfredo, rooted in folk, psychedelia and pagan counterculture. "People are, without a doubt, more open-minded at the moment," says Morris. "They want something that is more contemporary and - for want of a better word - abstract, as record companies have just been playing safe for so long."
"Ten years ago, people just wanted the big club records," adds Balearic Mike. "But kids nowadays who are 20 want to hear bizarre things that aren't getting played on the radio."
Balearic Mike also believes new technology has been the key to reviving the attitudes and sounds of the Balearic era. "For a while it was a nostalgia thing," he says, "but the internet's made the world a lot smaller and opened up all these scenes that have fed into the current sound. There's Italy's cosmic scene, which no one in this country knew of until five years ago. There's a whole scene in Belgium that I had no idea about." And because of the ease of access to so many different forms of music, Balearic flavours are popping up all over the place. Goldfrapp's new album, with its pastoral feel and acid-folk overtones? You could call that Balearic. The sophisticated, slow-house of the New Jersey label Italians Do It Better? Very Balearic. Even Kate Bush is in on the act. Her last album, Aerial, with its ambient interludes and massive crescendoes, couldn't have been more Balearic if it was wearing white espadrilles and hoovering up MDMA.
Nick De Cosemo, editor of the dance magazine Mixmag, has a further theory about Balearic. First, he suggests, some of the new bands and DJs function as "the acceptable face of chill-out, and in some ways the acceptable face of the 'Guilty Pleasures' phenomenon." Second, he posits that a scene rooted in the drug revolution of 20 years ago might now be recurring as a partial reaction against drugs. "The whole minimal thing - very discordant, electronic music that is interesting but very challenging - has been dominant for a few years, really fuelled by ketamine, and a taste for disharmony. I think there's probably a search for melody again, something a bit less abrasive for people doing less drugs."
But perhaps the real attraction of the Balearic scene lies - at least for now - in its organic, unmarketed state. Its open-mind and constantly evolving nature makes it difficult to turn into a standardised advertising soundtrack or instore radio staple in a way that couldn't be said of new rave or indie. "In A Short Film About Chilling someone asks [808 State's] Graeme Massey about Balearic, and he says it's just about having freedom in DJing," explains Balearic Mike. "There's loads of artists you shouldn't even own records by but sometimes it just sounds right." In this way, the scene is harking back to a time before every single aspect of youth culture was commodified and marketed. "We started Boy's Own coming out of the matt-black Filofax era in terms of what nightclubs were like," recalls Eckel. "Nowadays you can do college courses in party planning and every aspect of event management. It was much less structured then."
So unstructured that even Chris Rea could and can be celebrated as a house pioneer. "I Can Hear Your Heartbeat's a sweet record," says Chris Galloway. "Danny Rampling broke it first time round. The story I heard was that it was played in a taxi when he was on the way home from Amnesia and he loved it." In the world of Balearic, anything goes.
· A Mountain of One's Collected Works is out now on Mountain Records. Balearic Mike's album, Cosmic Alphonsus Vol 7, is available through piccadillyrecords.co.uk.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Valentines With Gilles Peterson
This Show was an absolute peach to listen to in the wee small hours of Valentines Day. I would also love to know what ever happened to Sharon Redd ? Class selection GP!
Listen to the show
Tracklisting 14 February 2008
Benjamin Herman – ‘Title F# Minor’ (Roach)
Chet Baker – ‘My Funny Valentine’ (Pacific Jazz)
The Friends of Distinction – ‘Great Day’ (RCA)
Roy Ayers – ‘You Send Me’ (Polydor)
Lawrence Hilton Jacobs – ‘Baby Your Eyes’ (ABC)
Jeffree – ‘Love’s Gonna Last’ (MCA)
Ronny McNeir – ‘You Are Everything’ (Prodigal)
The Controllers – ‘Hello’ (Juana)
Leroy Hutson – ‘So In Love With You’ (Curtom)
John Byrd – ‘I Can’t Stop Loving You, Girl’ (20th Century)
Sydney Joe Qualls – ‘I Don’t Do This’ (20th Century)
The Independants – ‘Lucky Fellow’ (Wand)
Milton Wright – ‘Leave Me Alone’ (Alston)
Marva Whitney – ‘The Girls In Love With You’ (King)
Ruth Brown – ‘I Don’t Know’ (Atlantic)
Bill Withers – ‘Grandma’s Hands (Live)’ (Sussex)
Leon Haywood – ‘Long As There’s You (I Got Love)’ (20th Century)
Maxayn – ‘Doing Nothing, Nothing Doing’ (Capricorn)
Patti Drew – ‘Introduction’ (Capitol)
Donald Byrd – ‘Black Byrd’ (Blue Note)
Slave – ‘Son Of Slide’ (Cotillion)
Sunbear – ‘I Heard The Voice Of Music Say’ (Soul Train)
Rhyze – ‘Just How Sweet Is Your Love’ (Sam)
Sharon Redd – ‘Beat The Street’ (Prelude)
Teena Marie – ‘Square Biz’ (Gordy)
Prince – ‘If I Was Your Girlfriend’ (Paisley Park)
The Love Unlimited Orchestra – ‘Welcome Aboard’ (Unlimited Gold)
Johnnie Wilder – ‘Thank You, Jesus’ (Light)
Light of the World – ‘I’m So Happy’ (Ensign)
The Voices of East Harlem – ‘Loving You The Way That I Do’ (Just Sunshine)
Samuel Jonathan Johnson – ‘My Music’ (Columbia)
Shawn Phillips – ‘I Don’t Want To Leave You, I Just Came To Say Good-Bye’ (A&M)
Labels: Radioshows
Monday, February 11, 2008
Carl Craig- Sessions
http://m1e.net/c?79582827-9fBXtZ28za5k6%403099002-eIxmQZVZoBCR6
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Phono Doowop Mixtape by 1000Names
Here is an exclusive guest mix by the brilliant duo Casio Blaster and 99 Mistakes -1000names. They are both dj's from Sofia and they started to play together at the end of the 1990's. Their "eklekto hip-hop" beats has been released through the labels like Eklektik,Up My Alley, Faces, Vaatican & Digital Wax. Until their first ep comes out from Eklektik Records, enjoy the wicked "Phono Doowop Mixtape"& check its artwork.myspace.com/1000names Phono Doowop Mixtape by 1000Names 192kbps 56"32' download
Intro
Beat Conducta in India - Fift chant - Stones Throw
Onra - Dark sea - Favorite
Paul White - ?? - CDR
Charles Trees-memories - CDR
Al Green - You ought to be with me -
Pete Rock - You remind me -
Coleman - Home - Plug Research
Ras G - Jus feel - Poo Bah Records
Soul II Soul - Jazzie's Groove - 10 Records
Hot Chocolate - Rumours - E.M.I
Cymande - Brothers on the slide - Logic Records.
Achiteq - Into the cosmos - CDR
Mike Slott - Flunky - CDR
.00high Collabo - Long time - CDR
Blaq and fEux - 00 - CDR
Powell - Dimension X - Up My Alley
Dabrye - Game over (Dorian Concept Remix) - CDR
1000names - Meee loo dee - CDR
Teebs - Sloppy/unfinished - CDR
00Genesis - Dream catcher - CDR
Sir OJ - Star Wars - CDR
Flying Lotus - Spicy samitch - Warp
Georgia Ann Muldrow - Melanin (instrumental) - Stones Throw
J Dilla - Sun in my face feat. Blu & Jontel - ??
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