Sunday, 8 May 2011

Times Are Hard Friends Are Few


Chillin' with a heavy head cold ain't no fun but with some spiritual righteous vibes from Del Jones 'Positive Vibes' 1973 LP, re-issued in Japan, that's similar in vain to the legendary Gil Scott-Heron, helps ease the suffering! This is one of those top-notch albums that really needs your attention..seek it out..Njoy!


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Saturday, 7 May 2011

Demdike Stare

To coincide with their 3x re-release of previous album projects Demdike Stare aka prolific vinyl collectors Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker, dropped this podcast for xlr8r this week.
A mixture of sounds plucked from a variety of sources, from traditional Middle Eastern, Asian,Eastern European ,modal jazz & industrial..These guys never fail to inspire me....check it out HERE

Get to know about the guys a bit more,



Part 2

Sunday, 17 April 2011

Dissolve it!

Can't wait for this forthcoming PlanetMu album "The Dissolve" by Barry 'Boxcutter' Lynn to drop by the end of the month, We've had the preceding 12" release on constant play and sure the LP will be firing...Get on It!!

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A taste of things to come..



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Friday, 15 April 2011

I should KOKO


Tune of the week outta
Copenhagen, Denmark. Skippy big band jazz sampled coolness from Kari Guðmundsson aka. HYPNO...Luv it!




Tracklist
A.KOKO
B.Analies
TEAL002

Available - boomkat/juno//chemical/redeye/digital-tunes

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Out in the streets


The Japanese youth are stirred, Is it just the beginning? Read about it HERE.


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Monday, 11 April 2011

NK Bonus

The guys who brought us the Nihon Kizuna Japan disaster relief compilation have released a free or you could just slip a few bucks in, Bonus compilation as a huge thank you to all of you who purchased the original comp and as a celebration of the amazing response which has raised over $20,000 in under a month...Big up!!!..NKBonus once more features tracks from artists worldwide, some of which were submitted for the original comp but not received on time and others which were submitted later. For a full tracklist of the artists see HERE.




They are also having a few Release Parties, check'em out if your in the vicinity.

To celebrate the incredible success of the Nihon Kizuna project we’re holding two release parties in April, one in Tokyo and one in London.Both parties will be used to raise more money for the Red Cross and awareness of the work we’ve done, as well as give everyone a chance to hear some of the incredible artists on the compilation live.

Nihon Kizuna Tokyo release party
Friday April 15 @ Be-Wave, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Free entry w/ donations to Red Cross - 11pm – 5am
FeaturingDj's:XLII, Broken Haze, Eccy, Yosi Horikawa (live), Himuro Yoshiteru (live), Daisuke Tanabe, BD1982, A Taut Line, Ken One and Kper.


Nihon Kizuna London release party
Wednesday April 20 @ Vibe Bar, Brick Lane, London
Free entry w/ donations to Red Cross - 7.30pm – 11.30pm
Featuring Dj's: Kid Kanevil, Blue Daisy, Om Unit, Throwing Snow, Danny DriveThru and Slugabed. (Additional fundraiser for Japan upstairs at Vibe Live)
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Wednesday, 30 March 2011

6mix

Another Xcellent mix i heard yesterday by DJ, Producer and US techno music icon Carl Craig who takes over the 6 Mix. The best known of the second wave of electronic producers from Detroit in the early '90's, Craig took his cues from the likes of Derrick May and Jeff Mills, fusing their pioneering sounds with a more experimental, jazzy soundscape.....check this ASAP....you got only 11 days left. Essential!

Monday, 28 March 2011

World Peace Mix


As another 6.5 Earthjolt hits Japan this morning over breakfast and a blogpost, it's a good time to let you know about an old cohort of mine who has just dropped an Xclusive mix from back in 2002 on GenBass. I first meet Pathaan when he used to come into my record shop and bug me silly for new tunes with his unmistakable signature of world globetronic sounds that set off a very dear friendship with him. Together we started a club night AUDIO SUTRA @ the famous central LDN cavern called Bar Rhumba in the late '90's, with such legends of the dance music scene as Pressure Drop, Howie B, Paul Daley (leftfield), Tsuyoshi Suzuki & record shop co-founder Pete Herbert.

Pathaan says about the mix;

I’m not a politician but am human and sickened by the current world affairs.......... During a time of religious conflict, war, oppression, famine and racism etc etc, can music change & influence man ? I BELIEVE IT CAN !!! So here begins a story I feel I must share and a mix for you to download. Just under a decade ago, as a mark of respect and to acknowledge in my own way the 1st anniversary of 9/11, this was a 'Stoned Asia Music' priority release in Sept' 2002 that was never released in this form. The reason being, a few of the distributors felt nervous about the tracklisting especially the 1st track and the point I was trying to make through the music !!



So sit back and allow me to take you, back to the future’ on one of my musical voyages around the globe – From September 2002, 15 EXCLUSIVE & HARD TO FIND tranquil productions from artists around the globe....Smiles & Hugs !!! Pathaan x