Bernardo over at the Delicious Records blog invited me to spin at his monthly party at Bistrouge in Alphabet City. I’m pretty excited about that. Hope to see all you New York readers there! Please say hello if you stop by. Also, I did a mix of mostly current and recent deep house tunes right…
How Much Is Too Much To Pay For A New Record?
Apparently, Theo Parrish is pissing people off by charging more than the “standard” amount of money for some of his new “limited” records. This is something Moodymann has been criticized for in the past as well. In fact, I criticized DeepChord for similar practices in a post 3 years ago. I have to say that…
Guest Mix: Chicago Skyway – In Context
Sean Hernandez, better known as Chicago Skyway, first appeared on everyone’s radar with last year’s “Bells” 12″ on Eargasmic. Since then, he has dropped EPs for M>O>S and Uzuri, and this past week has released his debut album “Wreckage” on Eargasmic (CD only right now, with vinyl coming up early in ’11!). There’s plenty of…
Even More New Records
I know this will make it three new records posts in a very short amount of time, but it needs to be done! There’s just so much good stuff coming out, and none of the things I am going to talk about have been mentioned on here before. I know this one might be long,…
Ethiopian Jazz & Grooves Mix
More African goodies for you all, this time we travel to East Africa, Ethiopia to be precise. Legendary Ethiopian musician and composer/arranger Mulatu Astatke studied music in England and the USA in the 60s and started fusing jazz, funk and latin music with traditional Ethiopian music. He then took what he learned back to his…
Some more new musaks…
My last small run down of new records from the beginning of October contained a few things that Tom had mentioned in a post of his from around then and seeing as Jitter has just made a records post which includes some jams I’ve been loving recently I don’t see the point in some of…
Records rambling….
Mayday! Mayday! Ok, so it’s not new material but it’s as close as it gets from The Innovator… 4 tracks, previously only available on one of those 12 tracks-a-side LP’s that, while useful historically, are about as much use in a club environment as a Vestax turntable. It’s all here, the soaring strings, the alien…
Guest Mix: DJ Red D – Switch
Our man Red D has been doing a syndicated radio show on Belgian national radio since September, and has offered to hook us up with the recordings of his shows from time to time. This one is his October show, on which he shows off the slower side of his style! A couple unreleased We…
Some Random Things Plus Some Pittsburgh Gigs
As some of you may remember, about a year ago we hosted a mix of all original tunes by some friends of mine who are making drum and bass music as Sight Unseen. They use some techno sounds in a very different framework (combined with dub and of course breaks and deep bass), but to…
Unsound 2010 Part 1 (+ some gig action)
It’s been a couple of weeks now but with one thing and another I haven’t gotten around to sitting down properly to re-collect my thoughts on the Unsound festival which took place over the last weekend of October in Krakow, over in Poland. And before I go into that just gonna give a heads up…