Chantalia Discobar’s dj debut was great! she played so many great tunes! and it was nice to see everyone in their high school attire!
I will upload some photos soon… but the great surprise of the night was Felix from Basement Jaxx coming to the dj booth and saying thank you for playing his track! I was like WTF?! I love your track!
This track is a BOMB! and I been including it in my set lately, I had to tell him how funny I think it is the fact that house is back in fashion (with all the “fidget” and everything) like 9 years ago when they released their first album and how I knew they were gonna come back and teach everyone how to make a killer track cause that’s what they know best! listen to Basement Jaxx Twerk ft. Yo Majesty:
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This song just came up on my itunes and it was sounding so good that thought on sharing it with you all.
Jeep Ass Gutter (Vocal) -Masta Ace Incorporated
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Monday’s are always tricky…it’s either you love them or hate them. Today its a sunny and nice morning in London! for a change as yesterday was miserable all day.
Here’s two songs by 8 Doogymoto from their Sampler released back on 2003, to hear this morning:
2 SONGS BY 8 DOOGYMOTO FOR MONDAY MORNING
8 Doogymoto release their first album for Matthew Herbert’s Soundslike label, following on from debut “Dakewa” 12” (SL04) released in 2002. The trio are a real band of confused nationality playing electronic/acoustic instruments, a pleasantly schizophrenic melting-pot of contemporary electronic, house and hip-hop influences transformed into Japanese folk music sung in a variety of languages. The band are based in Hamburg and Berlin and have been playing together since 1999.
Fumi Udo, the singer, was born and grew up mainly in Kumamoto, Japan, changing school several times due to her father’s business and causing a little social disassociation in the process. She studied political science and Chinese civilization in Tucson, Arizona before moving to New York where she worked for a Japanese newspaper, Asahi, as a do-everything assistant and illustrator. She now lives in Berlin and sings predominantly in a language known only to herself. Victor Marek first started playing guitar and bass in several different bands before beginning to collect a variety of synthesizers and drum machines and building a studio in Hammerbrook, Hamburg to produce his own music and that of 8 Doogymoto. Heinrich Koebberling studied jazz and classical music in Hamburg and New York and now works as a touring and session jazz drummer.
Despite the title, this isn’t minimal music. It’s doogy music.
Remember: if you there are songs you wanna share with me and the people who read this blog, please drop them in the drop box on the right hand side. Thanks!
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New mix by BOT & PHRA (Crookers), featuring their rework of my song Pela’o
Tracklist :
1.Brand New – Beastie Boys
2.Jags Klimax ft. Sarbjit – Mama so Proud Crookedit
3.The Cool Kids – Gold and a Pager
4.Unknown – Crookers
5.Mujava – Township funk Original + C KKOMPANY -Speaker Bajae + Crookedit
6.MGMT – Kids (Soulwax Remix)
7.Jah Jah Me No Born Yah – Cornell Campbell
8.The Cut – Benga
9.Moneymaker – Dj Deeon feat. Dj Funk
10.Tigerstyle + Pelao – Isa GT feat. Crookers
11.Under The Sun – Herve mix
12.GNG BNG – Flying Lotus + DES C – NACHNA HONDA
13.David Guetta – Joan of Ark (Crookers ‘Pimp My Ark’ Remix)
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I just got my hands on this and even if I’m not a massive fan of The Rapture I like the selection of tracks (by Armand Van Helden, Ghostface Killah and The Bar-Kays amongst other artists)they did for their Tapes take.
grab it here
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I was invited by my friends from Radioclit to perform an “all new stars” version of Secousse (soon to be released) live at Afrika Express (part of BBC proms) last Wednesday at KOKO (Camden).
There was a pre event at a pub next to KOKO in the afternoon, the organiser told everyone to come from 4pm to meet other artists and “jam” between them.
We got there at about 6:30pm just in time for dinner I met a few familiar faces like the ver lovely Jack Penate and had chats and and food before the start of the night, there they were! Kano, Damon Albarn, Flea (from Red Hot Chili Pepers) and bunch of Afrikan musicians that I probably heard their music but never knew how they looked like!
The whole evening was pretty good apart from some “collaborations” between lads from indie bands like Hard Fi who played 3 songs “jammin” with afrikan musicians that they left behind and took the stage thinking with their electric guitars as if it was their solo concert…really appalling appearances by “the aliens” don’t know where they come from but certainly retarded and nothing to do with what the whole event was about.
Another out of place performance was the one by the Magi Numbers who again played 3 of their songs pretty much like they sound normally and with none or not much collaboration with the afrikan artists.
Obviously there were great stuff on the evening too like the performance by Amadou and Mariam who gave the audience goosebumps!
You can read a much better review than mine by Ruth Barnes on the BBC6 website
The whole idea of collaborations between musicians is great but the fact that there wasn’t really a schedule for the performances and everything was so “free” created a bit of disorganization, we had to wait until 2:30 am to finally decided that we should go on stage in a “guerilla” appearance! if we didnt do that we weren’t going to perform! (that’s what happened to BURAKA SOM SISTEMA) they hang around all night and didnt get to perform. So yeah we (mimitah, mo laudi, marina, jose hendrix and I) went on stage and did two songs! to amusement of the stage crew! here are some photos!
Anyways it was an honour to be part of this event and seeing all these amazing personalities going onstage together and playing live was great, after this night I just like to research more about what they do and their music.
The night for us ended after we performed, with some random people congratulating our effort! all tired went home thinking that one day we’ll be the ones headlining an event like that.
>A box like the one below on the right hand side of this blog?
Dropbox is called, and works pretty easily! just click on it and send me a track you want me to listen! If I like it enough I’ll be posting it on this blog!
What do you think?!
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Sunday 7am, woke up and haven’t been able to go back to sleep! It happens sometimes…oh well…I pick up my laptop and go on internet, then start going through some of the stuff that happened this week and I remember last Friday morning was the first radio show of Heidi on Radio 1! Quickly I go to the bbc website and start listening…
Great tracks and a chat with legend Richie Hawtin!
Heidi’s Radio 1 Show (not sure if you can access the site from outside the UK/Europe) This service is available for 1 week only…
DON’T miss my MUSICALIA MIAMI BASS Radio Show this Wednesday 29th of Oct on ETORO RADIO! http://79.75.77.26:8000/listen.m3u.