Yasiin Gaye - Amerigo Gazaway Mashup (via tsw)

Just in time, that is, shortly before the 30th anniversary of Marvin Gaye's untimely death, a guy called Amerigo Gazaway released the superb mash-up album Yasiin Gaye: The Departure (Side One), in which the genius of Marvin Gaye gets fused with the one of Mos Def a/k/a Yasiin Bey. It can not only be streamed but also downloaded!

Revisited: Glu-Tang Clan - Synaptic Cleft

Because it's just too well done and it didn't get the attention it deserves (it isn't on youtube but it does have its own DOI): The Glu-Tang Clan with Synaptic Cleft.


...you can also download the audio as mp3.

...Addendum: It can be found on youtube

Istolethesoul Mixes by Koray Özel

Check out the neat selection of Nujazz'n'Soul-slash-Hiphop-tracks and mixes available at istolethesoul.com, the 'mix archive and music blog by Koray Özel', a Toronto-based graphics guy.

Death: Dwele w/ the Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra - Angel

Leaving aside the whole discussion about the interaction effects of his fame and his death, Jay Dee a/k/a J Dilla has been dead for four years now and I don't know of anybody who filled his spot.

Last year, Mochilla organized a series of three "timeless" concerts "in homage to the composer/arrangers who have influenced hip-hop in the most literal and profound ways".
The DVD can now be purchased and one of the pieces is Dwele performing Dilla-produced Angel together with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson conducting the Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra:

The Sounds of VTech / Dwele: Angel (Suite for Ma Dukes)

In addition, a review is up on okayplayer and more videos can be found on the timeless youtube channel and at digitalinberlin.de.

New HomeCookin': Hardcore Boogie Bass

ichi.one's got a new one: HC52, Hardcore Boogie Bass

...and the Principles of Neural Science publication date was shifted again - September 2010.

New Tracks by Josa Peit

New!
Tracks!
By!
Great!
Josa Peit!

(see former posts)

Unsteady Road / Outline
Can't see the sun (also neatly produced by emski)
(...and still the amazing) Cheat
and Minutes

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Addendum: This blog just celebrated its 5th birthday!

Update: Josa Peit on Offtrack Radio Show

I totally forgot to mention that Dirk Rumpff used Josa Peit's Cheat (see post) to round off his most recent Offtrack show, which also features a great guest mix by Âme.

OFFtrack February 20th 2009 by dirkrumpff

Warren's Thy Kingdom Reprise Mix

Having met the creator of thehumansare.com/ing yesterday, I felt reminded that I should really catch up with my blog readings (especially as I am not using an RSS reader at the moment). By checking manually, I noticed that I missed this grant mix from late 2008.
So check out the Thy Kindom Reprise mix, an eclectic "ambientfolksteptronica" selection.

Thy Kingdom Reprise by The Healing Arts

Zo! and Tigallo - Love the 80's

Homecookin' Trackwerk Mixchange

I put it in the heavy rotation box on the right a while ago, but it just doesn't stop to rock:
I highly recommend the Homecookin' Guestmix "Homewerk mix" by Scott Trackwerker and the new counterpart by Homecookin' host Ichi.One "Do you want the real thing?"

Cali Agents - How the west was one - Intro

Finally a piece of media that's worth sharing (I hadn't really encountered anything in a long time):
The hilarious intro to the great Cali Agent's (Rasco and Planet Asia) album how the west was one from 2000: Here's the link to the mp3.
NB: Be warned, it may not be as emotionally charged for you as it is for me -- but it's definitely still funny.

Douglas Adams Acoustic Memorabilia

I checked for acoustic memorabilia of Douglas Adams on the web and found the following:

• Two interviews from 1983 and 1989 as streams and downloadable as .mp3 files on wiredforbooks.org
• Another one dating back to 1982 on The Generalist (.mp3) and one more from 1988 on thebaldheretic (stream and .mp3).
  
• Then there is this 90 minute video-streaming talk at UC Santa Barbara which he gave one month before his death in 2001.
• Lastly, a whole BBC website dedicated to Douglas Adams and H2G2, including cool Real Audio interview snippets.

Now Online: Jerry Blossom presents Electric Boogie + Jazz Striptease (1975-85)

The 2007 Jerry Blossom tape is finally up 'n' runnin'.
Originally, it was conceptualized as a summer tape -- so listen and shake it as if...

As usual, it contains 60 minutes of Funk, HipHop, Disco and Jazz straight outta the crates;
with a little bit of both Paris and Berlin flavor to it.
You can find it online as .mp3 (zipped twice).


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Jerry Blossom presents
ELECTRIC BOOGIE & JAZZ STRIPTEASE (1975-85)

SIDE 1:
Kurtis Blow - The Deuce (1981)
Kurtis Blow - It's Gettin Hot (1981)
Alphonse Mouzon - By All Means (1980)
Champaign - Can You Find The Time? (1980)
Kevie Kev - All Night Long (Waterbed) (1983)
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - New York New York (1983)
Prince Charles - Video Freak (Defend It!) (1982)
The Biddu Orchestra - The Stud (1978)
Ramsey Lewis - Salongo (1976)

SIDE 2:
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky) (1976)
George Benson - Gonna Love You More (1977)
Mel Brooks - It's Good To Be The King (1981)
René & Angela - I'll Be Good (1985)
Heatwave - Party Poops (1978)
Heatwave - Dreamin You (1980)
Sigi Schwab & Peter Horton - Jagt Den Beelzebub (1978)
Earth Wind & Fire - Runnin (1977)
Werner Müller Orchester - Cherry Blossom Time
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (1978)

Cool Common - Goodies and Video

I just posted it two weeks ago: the new Common album 'Finding Forever' will be out, soon (mid July).
The single 'The People' can be heard on his myspace site and now the new video of 'The Game' has been put up online.



Furthermore, the frequency of Common news on the Okayplayer board and in the forums is increasing. There you can download for example a great sampler called Cool Common Collected with rare Common tracks and remixes.

Heavy Rotation Daytrade - Manual last.fm

Jus' quickly: I decided to introduce something like a manual last.fm section just below the blogroll. These are tracks I consider interesting at the moment and that are on heavy rotation on my different soundsystems. I try to add them as .mp3 files as long as they are freely available on the net--if not, I'll give links to the myspace pages.

Check out the contagious new Roisin Murphy track Overpowered to be officially released on July 1st.

Gilles Peterson and Ben Westbeech in Paris, Homecookin' & DeepSoul3

Ben Westbeech, his band, and of course Gilles were incredibly good. I had an extraordinary evening. Ben seems to be a really nice guy (watch out for his LP dropping next month), the club had a decent sound, and the crowd was in a good mood.
Nevertheless, I would have wished for a little less hard-to-dance-to Brazilian music, Gilles. Apart from that, the transition from Alice Coltrane via some HipHop classics, Funk and Samba over Soil and Pimp to close with Minimal and House-- what can I say?!

Plus, Ichi.One's latest Homecookin' guestmix for DeepSoul3 is perfect, and the 4hero LP is out and superbe... Musically, 2007 starts off as a good year.

Just three things (trois trucs):

1) It's weird what just happened in Montreal. It doesn't buy you anything being considered one of the world's safest cities. Once they explode, you can do nothing against crazy individuals.

2) But I am in Paris right now, and I found something that somehow extends the google maps post from a couple of weeks ago: Paris en 3D. It's pretty cool, but be careful since it needs a lot of your system's resources.

3) There has been a nice refresh of ichi.one's Homecookin' site. As far as I can see it you can now download all old mixes (and there is the new #27). Plus a couple of months ago, ichi.one asked to send spontaneous photos of one's DJ corner without making any arrangements or cleaning the set. Her is the beautiful gallery of DJ corners from the Homecookin' community.

New Urban Music Blog

There is a nice music blog by a German guy called Matthias which covers topics in the NuJazz, Electro, Broken Beat sphere. There are nice reviews, tour dates, and other information.
The blog is called New Urban Music Blog, short NUMBlog, and it's so hi-quality that I will add it to my permalinks on the right side. The most recent post, for example, contains a link to the official download of Mark De Clive-Lowe's nice first album "Six Degrees".

1st Birthday - Musicpost

Whomever of you guys I never told about Chromeo should check out their music, their style and their website. They are of origin Montrealais, and they're just phenomenal. You have to listen especially to their anthem "Needy Girl", and watch the corresponding video (Audio/Video section on chromeo.net).
Dave 1, one of the two Chromeo guys, is the bigger brother of DJ A-Trak, the rocket DJ who, by the way, just released his new website. Check out the trivia behind Chromeo and A-Trak that's available on the web.

P.S.: Chromeo has never been absent in all of my playlists, but it got recently reinforced when I got my hands and ears on the hot Bloc Party Remix of Needy Girl ...and also check the track with Little Brother (their website) in the media section of A-Trak's website.

HomeCookin' - Acoustic Gourmet Ichi.One

Another exquisite page on the web I didn't tell (most of) you about:

Supposedly a Belgian guy called Ichi.One, a rare groove, vinyl, all in all music fanatic, regularly puts his mixes online. His HomeCookin' mixes can be downloaded approximately once a month, and they are anabolics for all your Ipods and MP3 players.

The official catch phrase is: "If you like your music flavoured a bit eclectic and with a nice groove, then maybe you should taste some HomeCookin'..."

And in the words of Tony Allen, best known for being the drummer with Fela Kuti: "You gotta have a tongue for the taste, it's the kinda food you don't waste, food for your mind and your belly..."
and
"HomeCookin' is the best my friend, cause once you've had it you won't be hungry again. Cause it will nourish you deep within ya soul, you won't be eatin' junk food no mo'!"

Word!

Today, the chef recommends #24.