I love this Blackbyrds track! It’s got that great summer groove perfect for these hot summer days.
The Blackbyrds were an American rhythm and blues and jazz-funk fusion group, formed in Washington, D.C. in 1973, and were led by trumpeter Donald Byrd. Their jazz-funk classic, “Rock Creek park” is probably their most widely know track, from the “City Life” album. It has been sampled numerous times by groups such as De La Soul, Eric B. & Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, NWA, Massive Attack, Ice Cube, Heavy D, Nas and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.
Women in Balaclavas! These 2 sets are part of a long session of playing I did last October at a friend’s housewarming party, on a street called Balaclava. The aforementioned friends are also beautiful ladies so I think this cover is fitting in more ways than one. There is a great variety of stuff on here, and it was really fun to play for the party and keep people interested and dancing. Lots of indie dance, edits, disco and funk, with some house in the mix as well. It was a great time! Thanks B and A…
Part 1, called “Warming Balaclava”, starts mid tempo and moves upwards as it progresses.
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Tracklist: Part 1, Warming Balaclava
1. Killing For Love (Todd Terje Brokeback Mix) – Jose Gonzalez
2. Over and Over (Maurice Fulton Remix) – Hot Chip
3. Hold On (Mock & Toof Remix) – Holy Ghost!
4. Spectacle Wins (Holy Ghost! remix) – Only Fools & Horses
5. Naked (original mix) – Sleezy Mcqueen
6. Sister Savior (DFA Dub) – The Rapture
7. Old Sequencer – Clap Rules
8. Gang Bang – The Emperor Machine
9. Kick Out The Chairs (WhoMadeWho Remix) – Munk
10. Underwater – Mock & Toof
11. My Spine (Is The Bassline) (Hashzilla’s Second Brain In His Spine Resuscitation Edit) – Shriekback
12. King Of The Witches – Capracara
13. Jhelisa (DJ Persignora Contro I Cubisti Neri remix) – Club Silencio
14. Mary Lewis – Bottin
15. Green Circle – Junji Masayama
Part 2, called “Warm Balaclava”, is more uptempo and a pretty fun and eclectic mix.
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Tracklist: Part 2, Warm Balaclava:
1. Rio (Jimmy2sox & U-GO-B Remix) – Bumblebeez
2. Flat Beat – WhoMadeWho
3. Breakin In The Edges (original mix) – Coringa
4. How Freak May We Be? – Coringa
5. Love Bizarre – Prince & Sheila E.
6. Chocolate Factor – Greg Wilson
7. Merrymaking at My Place (Mr. Oizo Remix) – Calvin Harris
8. Miura – Metro Area
9. Dragon (Shit Robot Remix) – Dondolo
10. Otaku – Popular Computer
11. On The Boat (Disco Devil’s Rubber Room Mix) – Antena
12. Forever (Escort Remix – Pete Herbert Edit) – Walter Meego
13. Black Jub – Mock & Toof
14. Wheel Me Out (Remix Version) – Was (Not Was)
15. Give Me Every Little Thing (Cajmere Remix) – The Juan Maclean
16. Die Nacht Ist Kuhl – Mugwump
17. Keyla’s Moments (original mix) – Coringa
18. live fast! die old! (maral salmassi & zero cash remix) – Munk With Asia Argento
19. Meteor One (Bonar Bradberry Edit) – Tele Music
20. Konked Out – Boogie Corporation
21. Miami6000 – Blitz
22. Yo Spaceship – 40 Thieves
23. Tom Select – Discodeine
24. Blue Snakes – Canyons
25. Ignored Folklore – Mugwump
26. This Time – Tuccillo
27. Stuck In The Middle With You (Todd Terje Edit) – Stealers Wheel
28. Under My Dub (Todd Terje Remix) – Rolling Stones
29. Casual Friday – Black Leotard Front
Whatup y’all? Here’s the 2nd installment in my “last night on earth” series. It’s a week late, but here it is! This recording is from my rotational gig in North Vancouver at a fantastic little restaurant lounge called The District Social Establishment. It starts with some mushroom jazz and hip hop grooves, moves through some afro funk and then glides on into that good old mid tempo disco steez! Enjoy!
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The District has kick-ass food, an insanely good supply of Belgian craft beer, and a very nice chill atmosphere. The staff are great as well. Other rotational guest DJs are Jamez Lloyd, Randal D, Mike McClure and Nick Redway.
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Anyone who’s been following the disco/edit scene over the last couple years undoubtedly will have heard of Glaswegian producer/label owner The Revenge, aka Graeme Clark.
Graeme Clark aka "The Revenge"
Graeme began producing in his early teenage years, making a skewed blend of electronic music using a couple of his dad’s old drum machines and a sampler. Influenced by his parents collection of rock, soul and funk aswell as eighties daytime radio and the burgeoning rave scene, he began the process of dissecting and re-imagining the music.
Productions for his own labels Instruments Of Rapture, Five20East and his DJ edits for L.E.S.S. Productions have had across-the-board support from scene heavyweights including Danny Krivit, Jimpster, Radio Slave, Prins Thomas, Fabrice Lig, Todd Terje, The Unabombers, Karizma, SWAG, Dan Ghenacia, Gilles Peterson, Ashley Beedle, Domu, Kissy Sellout, Joe Claussell, Stuart Patterson, Atjazz, Bill Brewster, Phil Asher, Tim Sweeney and more.
DJ work over the years has included spots with Jimpster, Joe Claussell, Domu, Mark E, Mad Mats, Seiji, Yousef, Jeff Mills, Jazzy Jeff, MAW, Sinden, James Lavelle and more.
Graeme has also provided his engineering experience to several projects over the past few years and has recently mastered Harri & Domenic’s 20 Years Underground / Sub Club mix for Soma aswell as new material for Mark E, Jisco, Under The Shade and Fine Art Recordings. His other collaborative projects currently include Deportivo Street Team, OOFT!, Cronk Family Enterprises, 6th Borough Project and The Hong Kong Micros.
Brandon Biebel, Zered Bassett, Ryan Decenzo, Ron Deily, and Magnus Hanson barge in on a Vancouver shipyard and skate everything from metal ropes to floating gaps.
I love Mock & Toof! They’ve got some great remixes out there, and they produce some pretty spiffy music as well. Here’s a writeup from Resident Advisor about them and their upcoming new album:
Mock & Toof have revealed details of their forthcoming full-length, which goes by the name of Tuning Echoes.
Comprised of Duncan Stump (Mock) and Nick Woolfson (Toof), the English production outfit have steadily built up a reputation for quirky and melodic disco-fueled house productions, being picked up by both DFA and Mule Musiq for 12-inch singles. However, Stump has been managing his own Tiny Sticks imprint since 2005, releasing tracks and remixes from the likes of Michoacan, Shit Robot, Escort and Telespazio, and it’s through his own label that Tuning Echoes will be issued.
While fans may associate them with the electronic disco scene that has become popular during the last decade, Stump is eager to distance themselves from being pigeonholed into the genre. “We’ve never been about ‘nu-disco’, whatever that means anyway,” he explains. “Anyone who knows our music will know that we’re a bit all over the place as producers. If we like an idea we run with it, and we’re much more comfortable being eclectic and not pigeonholed. Hopefully the album will help us in our quest for non-categorisation!”
The album may certainly be a shock to those expecting a full-length of instrumental club tracks, as Tuning Echoes is a largely vocal affair, with previous collaborator Gavin Gordon and Munich-based singer-songwriter Pollyester providing the record’s respective male and female voices. The murky, low-slung disco-pop of DFA single “Underwater” is the only previously released track, with the rest of the record encompassing bleepy boogie (“Day Ken Died,” “Shoeshine Boogie”), twinkling electro-pop (“From Kashima”), vocoder-aided disco-punk (“The Key”) and even some slo-mo beatless arpeggiation (“P2160″).
Tracklist
01. Farewell to Wendo
02. Move Along
03. Day Ken Died
04. From Kashima
05. Shoeshine Boogie
06. The Key
07. Underwater
08. Mr Frown
09. Norman’s Eyes
10. Suppress Your Feelings
11. Lovehearts
12. P2160
13. Take Me Home
Tiny Sticks will release Tuning Echoes on May 24th, 2010.
Here is a link to a soundcloud mini sampler mix of their live material they are touring with, including tracks from the upcoming album:
Juno download has a new audio player! I love Juno… Their selection of music is super dope and I like the way their suggestions take me in unexpected directions. Their player for sampling tracks wasn’t bad, but often times you’d check the track out after buying it and discover more breaks than expected, or a cheesy vocal you didn’t know was there. Now they’ve updated the player so it plays a chosen hype part of the track initially, but you can then click around for a shorter 30 second sample of any part of the track! Dope. You can also see the waveform, which shows you the breakdowns… Intrinsic like!
Well, that’s all she wrote… Unfortunately the Vancouver Canucks playoff hopes fizzled out in game 6 against the Chicago Blackhawks tonight. It was an almost eerie reminder of the last playoff series against them, where we suffered an identical game 6 loss, occurring on the exact same day 1 year ago. Perfectly shitty. So for now, I suppose we can hope to see the Montreal Canadians win tomorrow in game 7 against last year’s champs the Pittsburgh Penguins. At least that will leave us Vancouverites some sort of excitement to look forward to, basically turning it into a Canada VS US thing… Jaroslav Halak has been playing fantastic in the net, so maybe they have a chance of going all the way. “Go HABS!” Whatever…
Last night after finishing up my gig in North Van, I decided to meet up with my bro Nathan, and he tells me he’s at some huge party under a bridge in east Van put on by Hyaenas. Holy frackles it was hands down the dopest thing I’ve been to in Vancouver since I moved here. There was great music for the short while (not sure who was on) I was there, which was dub/ragga based. The lineup consisted of Basketball, Max Ulis, No Gold, Phowa, The Brown Acid and Hyaenas crew. The sound wasn’t exactly huge but what blew my mind the most was the fact that there were like 500-800 people there between the grungy metal bridge girders and rubble and discarded furniture. It was so ghetto, and SO beautiful. I could only imagine a detroit techno party going off there. It was rad as shit. I knew it couldn’t last and sure enough, the cops came to herd everyone out of there. I don’t know what else happened next exactly cause I took off before any cop backup arrived, but man it was great until about 3:20am or so… Here are a couple dodgy shots of the crowd and one of Nathan & Sam…
AGFA, or at least one half of AGFA, Frank Cueto, played some pretty sweet funk/disco/house tunes down at Shine last night. He was supported by DJ Neighbour, DJ Evo & Three piece suite and MC Think Tank on the mic. Here are a few pics from the night…
One of my favorite funk groups, All Good Funk Alliance (Funk Weapons, Washington DC), are playing tonight at Shine Nightclub alongside local Disco/Boogie funkster, Neighbour (Funk Weapons, Good Groove), DJ Evo & Three Piece Suit, with MC Think Tank on the microphone! Should be dope!
The first offerings in the “Last Night On Earth” series are two excerpts from my bi-weekly night @ The Whip Gallery Restaurant on 6th Ave (@ Main) in Vancouver. It’s a fun place to play where there is quite a bit of freedom for musical direction.
Set A starts with some classic downtempo beats and moves into some slow deep disco.
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Set B is later in the night and comprises of deep house and deep disco grooves
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Here’s a pretty tasty nudisco/disco/funk mix, recorded live @ The Whip Gallery Restaurant & Bar, April 9th, 2010, Vancouver, BC
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1. Crazy P - Stop Space Return (Hot Toddy Mix)
2. Slave – You Can Slide With Me ‘Till Morning (Andrew Allsgood Edit)
3. Ilija Rudman – Call Me Tonight (The Revenge Engaged mix)
4. Capracara – King Of The Witches (Rub & Tug remix)
5. Solid State – Freak You Baby (unreleased dub remix)
6. Lovebirds – Out Into The Night
7. Drrtyhaze – Make My Body Hot
8. BE – All The Thrills
9. Art of Tones – The World As I Live It
10. Fernando – Scarecrows (Ilija Rudman mix)
11. Lindstrom/Christabelle – Baby Can’t Stop (Aeroplane remix)
12. Toby Tobias – In Your Eyes (Tensnake Remix)
13. Midnight Express – Danger Zone
14. Outter Limitt – In The Groove
This one is for those times when you need to take it easy, regroup, revive, settle down, come down, come up, escape, return or any combination of these actions. Relaxed and non abrasive balearic grooves will soothe you, reassure you, soften your edges, bring you back to earth, or maybe even send you off into space! I enjoyed making this mix on the fly, selecting tracks as the mix progressed that I’ve been really wanting to lay down in a chill mix. I hope you enjoy experiencing this mix as much as I enjoyed mixing it, and that it will enhance your emotions at times when you really need it… Much love.
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Tracklisting:
1. Coyote – How You Doin’
2. Soiree – Overgroomed
3. Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan (DJ Steef remix)
4. Zeb – Zindagi (Vocals by Alook Mehta)
5. Coyote – Mongolia
6. Bangles – Dub Like an Egyptian (Todd Terje Edit)
7. Loop Guru – The Fine Line Between Passion And Fear
8. Coyote – Single Handed
9. Rocha – Hands Of Love (Fingers of Sand) – Mugwump Magnet Rekrump Mix
10. Floating Points – Truly
11. Mark E – White Skyway
12. Sleazy Mcqueen – Naked (Eddie C Mix)
13. Felix Laband – Whistling In Tongues (Todd Terje Remix)
14. Coyote – Drop Out (Deadstock 33’s remix)
15. The Juan Maclean – The Future Will Come (Canyons remix)
June
12 - 121 Studios, Vancouver
18 - Whip Gallery, Vancouver
25 - Whip Gallery, Vancouver
26 - District Social, N. Vancouver July
2 - District Social, N. Vancouver
9 - Whip Gallery, Vancouver
16,17,18 - Soundwave, Van Island
23 - Whip Gallery, Vancouver
31 - District Social, N. Vancouver
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There is a great variety of stuff on here, and it was really fun to play for the party and keep people interested and dancing. Lots of indie dance, edits, disco and funk, with some house in the mix as well. It was a great time! Thanks B and A…
