March 2008

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General, Music, Records
DFA - WTF?!?!?!
03.27.08 | Permalink | 19 Comments

I can remember the first time I heard a record on DFA. It was Morgan Geist’s remix of The Rapture’s “House Of Jealous Lovers”. My man Jwan played it for me at his house all the way back in 2002 when it dropped, and I was feeling it because Morgan is generally the man. So […]
Music
A Better Definition Of Soul Music
03.24.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

There is a popular misconception that soulful dance music has to include Rhodes keys, vocals, jazz saxophone samples, etc. This is not really what it is all about, it is about personal expression. Thomas Brinkmann has always been a supporter of good music (I remember seeing him talking about Moodymann in a guest review in […]
Culture, Music
MP3 Blogs
03.11.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

Our homie Steve over at Little White Earbuds dropped a nice story on RA about the effect of MP3 blogs. As you can see from our links section, we link to quite a few MP3 blogs. The main difference in what I look for in an MP3 blog is that they are putting up old, […]
Music, Records
Waajeed
03.11.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

When I first heard Waajeed’s music years ago, I liked what he was doing but at the same time I felt like he was something of a J Dilla knock-off. They were boys, so that didn’t necessarily bother me. Then my man Selecta dropped his remix of Troubleman’s “Without You” (which featured on my recent […]
General, Music, Records
Extending the Play (of the techno record)
03.05.08 | Permalink | 17 Comments

Are the golden days of the full-length album and the 4+ track E.P. of house, dance, whatever we care to call our beloved funky dance music well and truly over? Or is there still hope?
Based on my recent vinyl purchases from overseas, I will say that all is not lost yet. Terrence […]
Music, Records
The Return of Pépé Bradock, The New Black Dog Album, and More…..
03.05.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

It’s been a while since I picked up a solo Pépé Bradock record. Almost 4 years, to be exact (and I know that “Distorted Echoes” is not really considered one of his “classics”, though I think it is way underrated), broken up only by the excellent collaborative 10″ “Unicorn/Cheval” (which I used on my “Cold […]
Mixes, Music
One More From Noleian Reusse: Black Tekno Edits
03.02.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

His “Black Tekno” mix has been a bit of a hit for us, so we have one more little tidbit lined up from the man like Noleian Reusse. This one was online a while back, but it features some of my all time favorite dance songs edited up and mashed together into a hot half […]
General
What’s going on?
03.02.08 | Permalink | 16 Comments

I’m feeling quite far removed from what is going on in House and Techno at the moment. All of my recent, admittedly limited, buying has been on the leftfield of Disco and there hasn’t been a huge amount of House or Techno that has really excited me for a good while.
One of the big things […]