Sunday, January 29, 2012

Slacker - Kiss 100 Transitions Mix - 27-01-12

Digweed:

"This week I will be airing a tribute to Shem McCauley / aka Slacker / aka DJ Streets Ahead. Shem was a great DJ, amazing producer and a good friend to many, me included. Sadly he passed away last weekend. I will be broadcasting one of the most popular mixes he did for me, almost 6 years to the day. He called it "Obsessive Sounds' and I am going to play the 60 minutes in it's entirety so please make sure you tune in to pay your respects. Shem you will be missed my friend. Your music will always be with with us."



01 Obsessive Intro -
02 Flow - Truth & Sunshine (Funk Void Mix)
03 John Tejada - Paranoia [Paranoia]
04 Skystate - Soundflower One [Jukebox In The Sky]
05 Alex Dolby - Obsessive Sound (Niki B & Christian E.f.f.e. Remix) [Mantra Vibes]
06 Elektrochemie - Vexed [Get Physical]
07 John Dahlback - It Feels So Good [Systematic]
08 Warren G - Make It Do What It Do (Sharam Jey Remix)
09 Sascha Funke - Forms & Shapes (Paul Kalkbrenner Remix) [Bpitch]
10 Flying Doctors - We Make Contact (Oliver Lieb Remix) [Kindred Sounds]
11 The F.t.t. - Make It Good (Fuzzy Hair) [Rise]
12 Delicious - Let It Drop [Phunkwerk]
13 Mode Hookers Vs Cassius - Breath The Sound Of Violence [Unsigned]

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

OZMOSIS OCT 06 (Greg Wilson live mix)

OZMOSIS OCT 06 (greg wilson live mix) by gregwilson


Running for a bumper 3 hours 41 minutes, Ozmosis is a combination of recordings from my first Australian visit in October 2006, edited together to form a whole and given away as a limited data disc, which also included my lecture at the Red Bull Music Academy in Melbourne, and various interviews, articles and photographic images that I took on my travels. The 3 appearances were at the infamous Revolver in Melbourne on Oct 21st, Sugar in Adelaide on Oct 27th, and Mad Racket in Sydney on Oct 28th. Here’s a YouTube clip filmed at the Melbourne gig:
http://youtu.be/W0aBUE7HpE4

The following was written on my return to the UK:

AUSTRALIA AFTERTHOUGHTS:
Got back from Australia a couple of days ago. Went over for the Red Bull Academy and a trio of DJ dates in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. Had a great time and already planning a return next summer, when I also hope to take in Perth and Brisbane, as well as Auckland and Wellington in NZ.

The whole Red Bull thing is very impressive – so much preparation and attention to detail (not to mention funding) goes into it all. The students really know their stuff as well, and it was an absolute pleasure to be invited across to give a talk (on UK dance culture pre-House) and host an editing demo (old school style on reel-to-reel).

The club dates went brilliantly – having now played in New York, Australia and various European countries, it’s clear that the underground scene is undoubtedly global. The internet has truly revolutionised the way we’re all inter-connecting and even though I was on the other side of the World, I met so many people on a similar wavelength.

As a relatively new country with a multicultural vibe, I’ve a feeling that Australia is primed to really make its mark. Despite not having the direct connections with black culture that have had such a huge influence in the US and UK, a younger generation is now retrospectively embracing the dance music of the 70’s and 80’s, taking in new (old) influences. There’s a melting pot bubbling away, which I’m sure will result in some really interesting groove fusion.

Having spent a few weeks over there, I’m more confident than ever that we’re entering an exciting new era for dance culture. There are definite parallels with the early 80’s when the supposed death of Disco allowed dance music the necessary space to explore new hybrid forms in a more fertile underground environment. However, whilst this was mainly centred around New York, nowadays the geography is less important – the scene being globalized, rather than regionalized.

As Ian Brown once famously said (paraphrasing Rakim), ‘it’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re at’ – words that resonate more strongly today than ever.

November 2006

Greg Wilson – January 2012

Monday, January 23, 2012

PSA: Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano and Moritz Von Oswald (Live) w/closing set by DJ Three - Saturday, Feb. 4



Please send your RSVP's to blkfeb4th@gmail.com with full names for location details that will be sent the day of the party.

Also, get your advance tickets here.


Saturday, January 21, 2012

The Chemical Brothers - Don't Think (Trailer)

For nearly two decades, the Chemical Brothers “mind-bending” audiovisual live show has played to packed houses and festivals across the globe but it has never been captured on film. Until now.

NCM Fathom, Omniverse and EMI Music come together to present The Chemical Brothers Don’t Think in select movie theaters on Wednesday, February 1 for only one night. Originally captured in 2011, at the iconic Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, this event captures the synesthetic barrage of sound, film and light and the transforming effect it has on its audience. Fans will also be able to experience not only an incredible concert but gain access to never-before-seen behind the scenes footage from the Fuji Festival and an exclusive interview with Adam Smith, the concert’s director and visual creator of all of The Chemicals Brothers live shows.

Join us in movie theaters nationwide as we embark on a magical realist and psychedelic journey and feel the show in a whole new way. The Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think comes to life on the big screen on Wednesday, February 1 at 7:30PM (local time) in movie theaters nationwide.

Get your tickets here.




Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Funny Jeopardy Questions





Cake - Let Me Go (Live - Jan 22, 2002)



When she walks
She swings her arms, instead of her hips
When she talks she moves her mouth, instead of her lips
I've waited for her for so long
I've waited for her for so long
I've wondered if I could hang on
I've wondered if I could hang on

"Let me go," she said
"Let me go," she said
Let me go and I will want you more
Let me go, let me go
Let me go and I will want you

When she wants
She wants the sun instead of the moon
When she sees
She sees the stars inside of her room
I've waited for her for so long
I've waited for her for so long
I've wondered if I could hang on
I've wondered if I could hang on

"Let me go," she said
"Let me go," she said
Let me go and I will want you more
"Let me go," she said
Let me go
Let me go, and I will want you

"Let me go," she said
"Let me go," she said
"Let me go," she said
Let me go, let me go

Chicago Hip House Documentary (1989)

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Ooft! - Melbourne Deepcast 054

Melbourne Deepcast 054: OOFT! by Melbourne Deepcast

1. Pharao Black Magic – The Eye of Horus (Coyote Remix)
2. The Milk – B Roads (6th Borough Project Dub)
3. Late Nite Tuff Guy – Pull Us Apart (LNTG Rework)
4. Mermaids – Mutual Key Finding
5. Contra Communem Opinionem – Radical Emancipation
6. Nick Turner – InnerVisions
7. OOFT! – Tres Ans (Demo Mix)
8. Leo Zero – Down The Drain
9. Tiger & Woods – T&W Lab File #09
10. K’bonus & Negghead – Harmonizing Pt.2
11. The Tortoise – 2nd Chance
12. OOFT! – Memories
13. Deep Space Orchestra – Blindsided
14. Bubba – I Got G-Love
15. TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos – Something Happened (Instrumental)
16. Gregory Porter – 1960 What (Opolopo Kick & Bass Rerub)
17. Alexkid – Shesgottoleave
18. Intruder – Amame (Dubstrumental)
19. Deetron – The Maze
20. Fingers Inc – Distant Planet
21. Tevo Howard – Content
22. Harold Melvin – Wake Up Everybody (Psychemagik Edit)

Moonrise Kingdom (Trailer)

New film by Wes Anderson, set to release on May 25, 2012.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Eastbound and Down - Season 3 - Trailer

Season 3 premiers February 19.

Vinyl sales jumped 39 percent in 2011

Vinyl sales jumped 39 percent in 2011, music industry not quite dead

By Liza Eckert

There’s been a lot of doom-and-gloom talk in the music industry for several years now. Execs keep blaming internet piracy for slumping sales figures while record stores large and small are closing their doors. But it seems like the industry keeps chugging back, refusing to fully die.

We previously noted a very tiny increase in sales for the first half of 2011 — up one percent compared to the first six months of 2010 — which was the first sales boost since 2004. It seems the good news continued through the rest of the year.
Nielsen SoundScan reported that vinyl records saw a huge bump in sales last year — 3.9 million units, compared to 2.8 million in 2010. That adds up to a 39.3 percent increase.

Vinyl has been slowly crawling back into public consciousness for a few years now, and it’s gone from a hipster-nostalgia thing to a more widespread resurgence. It’s possible to buy albums from some really popular artists on records, as opposed to just the obscure indie acts, which means the medium will naturally have more mass market appeal. And whatever else you might want to say about mass market appeal, the fact is that it will translate into larger sales.

Consumers aren’t stupid. For people to spend money, they have to be getting a product that’s worth it. As the Dead Kennedys said, “Sales are slumping and no one will say why. Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?”

Focusing on putting out higher quality records instead of flash-in-the-pan garbage will help. There were a lot of decent releases in 2011 from a lot of well-known acts, so that had to be a boost.

Records are, in fact, a really good way to keep people actually paying for music instead of pirating it, as well. A lot of fans love the tangible aspect of the format and the accompanying larger-scale artwork. Bands can also include extra incentives to make the deal even sweeter, like bonus tracks or free posters, that aren’t included in other versions. And if they put in a free download code, the listener can also grab a digital copy to load into their iPod.

Events like Record Store Day encourage artists to put out special edition releases, like singles or bonus tracks, that are available in limited quantities in selected stores. It makes people want them, and it’s pretty win-win — the consumer gets unique stuff on top of the album, and the artist gets to actually make a living.

Subvader - Each Time We Touch (Greg Wilson Edit)

60 Minutes piece on Truffles

Watch out for them Chinese truffles:

Friendly Fires - Pala (Remixes)

Fish Butchery Demo

Fish butchery demonstration from Hideo Kuribara, the chef at Ushiwakamaru.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Queen - Keep Yourself Alive (Live @ Rock Monteal)

The Revenge - In Their House #16

Graeme Clarke - known more commonly in house and disco circles as The Revenge - began producing in his early teenage years, making a skewed blend of electronic music using a couple of his dad’s old drum machines, a four track and a sampler. And while his methods may have substantially developed since those early forays into the world of production, the intervening years have done nothing to damped the affable Scot’s passion for the beat.

Now producing for over 15 years, Graeme continues to put his fingers to work on a variety of projects in the studio, including music for DFA, Buzzin' Fly, Domino and Pokerflat, as well as his own (sadly, soon to be defunct) Instruments of Rapture imprint. Here, he brings us an hour of sublime disco edits and bouncing house beats; a suitably optimistic way to kick off the In Their House series in 2012…


In Their House #16 - The Revenge by Defected Records

John Nezda - Hotbox [CDR]
Tornado Wallace - Don't Hold Back [Instruments Of Rapture]
OOFT - Make U Mine [CDR]
Missing Linkx - Got A Minute [Philpot]
The Milk - B Roads (6th Borough Project Udder Dub) [Sony]
James Johnston - Untitled [CDR]
Double Hill & Jerome C - I Need Love [Double Standard]
PBR Streetgang - The Downstroke [CDR]
Manik - She Watches Me (The Revenge Remix) [Culprit]
Uner - Nuribo (Audiojack Remix) [Gruuv]
Gerd - Palm Leaves [Royal Oak]
Dusky feat. Janai - Lost In You (T.Williams Remix) [Anjunadeep]
Alan Parsons Project - The Games People Play (6th Borough Project Rework) [CDR]
Cabin Fever 19 - Untitled [Rekids]
Reggie R - Get Up [Real House Records]

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Sum up 2011 in a sentence…


Another ruddy excellent adventure!

Any particular highlights you’d like to pick out for us…?

I really enjoyed the touring much more this year. It took me a while to get used to the travelling over the last few years, but once I got the album projects finished in January it allowed me to concentrate on DJing a bit more.

Where did you see in the New Year?

I was playing a couple of parties in Sydney with Craig Smith and Motor City Drum Ensemble. So much fun.

You make or have made music under a lot of different aliases…would you say you’re truest to the music you love as The Revenge?

The Revenge is my solo stuff, but I have a strong bond with all of the projects I work on.

Tightness of money aside, what’s been the biggest challenge of running your own label?

The admin stuff ... I hate it. I'm about to finish my existing label and start a new one this spring with fresh material but will have some help so that I can concentrate on the music side of things.

How and where was the mix recorded?

I recorded it in my studio in Glasgow using my E&S DJR400 mixer with Serato.

2011 was the year that more ‘poppy’ house music really came to the fore…do you think they’ll be a backlash against it in 2012?

I think it's great to hear the variety in House music now. There have been some great songs released in the last 12 months and I think that will inspire more producers to up their game. The walls have come down in so many areas of the industry and it's a really exciting time to be involved.

Anything else you’d like to tell us about…?

The Instruments Of Rapture label will finish after the next release but will continue as an event which I'm currently running with Craig Smith, Ali OOFT and Harri at the Sub Club in Glasgow on the first Sunday of the month. Our first four events at the end of 2011 have been great so I'm hoping that continues through 2012.


Interview with Defected

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Queen - I Want To Break Free




I want to break free
I want to break free
I want to break free from your lies
You're so self satisfied, I don't need you
I've got to break free
God knows, God knows I want to break free

I've fallen in love
I've fallen in love for the first time
And this time I know it's for real
I've fallen in love yea
God knows, God knows I've fallen in love

It's strange but it's true, hey yea
I can't get over the way you like me like you do
But I have to be sure
When I walk out that door

Oh how I want to be free baby
Oh how I want to be free
Oh how I want to break free

But life still goes on
I can't get used to livin' without livin' without
Livin' without you by my side
I don't want to live alone, hey
God knows, got to make it on my own

So baby can't you see
I've got to break free
I've got to break free
I want to break free, yea

I want, I want, I want
I want to break free


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Pretty decent write-up about the single on Wikipedia.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Queen - Somebody To Love (Live)

On a bit of a Queen kick at the moment:

The Impressions - It's All Right



Say it's all right (it's all right)
Say it's all right (it's all right)
It's all right, have a good time
'Cause it's all right, whoa, it's all right

We're gonna move it slow
When lights are low
When you move it slow, it sounds like more
And it's all right, whoa, it's all right

Now listen to the beat
Kinda pat your feet
You got soul, and everybody knows
That it's all right, whoa, it's all right

When you wake up early in the morning
Feelin' sad like so many of us do
Hum a little soul
Make life your goal
And surely something's got to come to you
And say it's all right (it's all right)
Say it's all right (it's all right)

It's all right, have a good time
'Cause it's all right, whoa, it's all right
Now everybody clap your hands
Give yourself a chance
You got soul, and everybody knows
That it's all right, whoa, it's all right

Someday I'll find me a woman
Who will love and treat me real nice
Then my woe's got to go
And my love, she will know
From morning, noon, and night
And she's got to ...

Say it's all right (it's all right)
Say it's all right (it's all right)
It's all right, have a good time
'Cause it's all right, whoa, it's all right

Now everybody clap your hands
Now give yourselves a chance
You got soul...

[Fade]

I​:​Cube - Nova Mix - Nov 11

Laurent Garnier - It Is What It Is (Radio Show) - Season 3, Show 17

Radioshow It Is What It Is - Season 3 - Show 17 by laurent garnier

01- THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND -everything i do -ROPEADOPE
02- YEALWOLF -pop the trunk
03- UKOO FLANI & JAHCOOZI -msoto millions -OUT HERE
04- TAPPER ZUKIE -mpla -VIRGIN
05- HIDDEN ORCHESTRA -dust -TRU THOUGHTS
06- REMI KABAKA -the quest -SOUNDWAY
07- MARLON ROUDETTE -riding home -WARNER
08- ENEI feat MC DRS -obsession -CRITICAL
09- ELECTRIC RESCUE -dope -BEDROCK
10- SVEN TASNADI -follow the roots -POKER FLAT
11- AMON TOBIN -surge -NINJA TUNE
12- ROYALSTON -cerulean blue -MED SCHOOL
13- LEE MOSES -hey joe


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Laurent Garnier will be in Brooklyn on Saturday, January 21. You can purchase tickets here. You must also RSVP to blkjan21@gmail.com for location.

Monday, January 2, 2012