Photo by James Maher – New York Photography
New in the Radio Archive
SESSION 1348: FUNKY SLICE 06.29.12 – Eddie Nocentelli
SESSION 1347: ELBIN RECORD GROCERY 06.26.12 – Elbin Reyes
SESSION 1346: GUEST SESSION 06.27.12 – Rahaan
Mixed by DJ Eddie Nocentelli
1. Get On Off Me – Ebony Rhythm Funk Campaign
2. Barry Horowitz – Action Bronson
3. Fast Lane – Bad Meets Evil
4. Shaolin Vs. Wu-tang – Raekwon
5. B-Boy Massacre – Blitz The Ambassador
6. Sanity – New York City
7. Bubble Gum – 9th Creation
8. (Ha Ha) Slown Down – Fat Joe Feat. Young Jeezy
9. Roc The Mic – State Property Feat. Beanie Sigel & Freeway
10. Sweet – Common
Mixed by Elbin Reyes
01. The Crusaders – Sweet N’ Sour
02. Richard Evans – Burning Spear
03. Cool Runners – Play The Game (So You Think It Funky)
04. Martin Circus – I’ve Got A Treat
05. Poussez – Come On And Do It (Remix)
06. Beaches of the Black Sea – Cosmodelica Remix
07. Arno E. Mathieu – Sun Force (Radiant Version)
08. Dream 2 Science – Hooo Do I Love Thee
09. Mandy – I just Can’t Wait
10. Jamie Lewis & Marc Evans – Without You (Jamie Lewis House Mix)
Mixed by Rahaan
Rahaan has been dropping disco and funky house beats to retro music heads since the 80’s when he and his friends use to dance at the best house parties in Chicago – Rahaan’s home state and most importantly, the place which gave birth to House music.
Playing at house parties in Chicago obviously done Rahaan some good, as he is now a successful DJ and music producer in his own right. He recently released Rahaan Edits Vol. 1 and 2 in 2008/9 on Stillove4music record label as well as putting out some remixes on the KAT record label.
The thing about Rahaan is that he defiantly knows his art, and it is his outstanding skill behind the decks that has brought him from the Chicago underground circuit out onto the international playing field of Japan, Australia, Amsterdam, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, England, throughout America.
But before Rahaan made his presence on the global dance floor, Rahaan was playing his music from his cassette tapes with his dance crew called the Chuck Brothers. He then moved to the state of Wisconsin whereby he started to grow a serious collection of disco and house records. In 1996 Rahaan moved back to Chicago started hanging out with his old friends, forming the reunion of the Chuck Brothers once again.
During the 90’s Rahaan was building up his reputation as one of Chicago’s finest Disco/House DJ, playing at a hot club called “The Spot” and the infamous loft parties with Mr.Bill, Pee Wee and friends. This opened the door for Rahaan to perform on guest spots for Sisterz of Vision and Soul In The Hole club nights, followed by a residency “Budda Lounge” – one of Chicago’s best nightclubs. ..[Read More]
Mixed by Donald Lassiter
01. Gino Soccio – Closer
02. Noel Pointer – Standing With You
03. Billy Cobham – The Pleasant Pheasant
04. Teena Marie – Opus III (Does Anybody Care)
05. George Benson – Summertime
06. Jose Feliciano – Golden Lady
07. Marlena Shaw – Woman Of The Ghetto (Live at Montreux)
08. Summer In The City (Onur Engin Edit)
09. Don’t Let Love Get You Down (Onur Engin Edit)
10. I Want You (Alternative Instrumental Mix)
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Friday night (June 29) is sure to be a steamy and hot one at Cielo (18 Little West 12th Street NYC). Richard Sen (aka Padded Cell) and Dennis “Citizen” Kane are celebrating Strut Label’s release, This Ain’t Chicago: The Underground Sound Of UK House & Acid 1987-1991. The Compilation pays joyful homage to the golden age of 80’s UK acid house and warehouse scene. Richard Sen along with Dennis “Citizen” Kane (from Disques SinThomme and Ghost Town Labels) will be spinning classics from the original days of acid house. Here’s your chance to relive the legendary long lost days.
Daily Session is happy to announce that we have CDs of This Ain’t Chicago along with free entry passes for the party at Cielo (home of the best sound system in NYC) up for grabs. Three winners will pick up the compilation and (1) free pass at Cielo on the night of the party. For a chance to win send your names and e-mail address to events@dailysession.com
Mixed by DJ Eddie Nocentelli
01. The Communicators- The Road
02. Marsha Hunt- Oh No Not The Beast Day
03. Black Merda- These Folks From Mothers’ Mixers
04. Willie Bobo & The Bo-Gents- Soul Foo Young
05. Rufus- Keep It Coming
06. Union- Strike
07. Peter King- Ajo
08. Zia Atabay- Helelyos
09. The Lijadu Sisters- Cashing In
10. The Final Solution- Never Coming Back Again
Mixed by DJ C-Sick
01. Mr Fingers – Washing Machine
02. Honesty 69 – Rich in Fantasy
03. DJ Sneak – Tweakin at the Club
04. Eddie ‘flashin’ Folkes – Stella
05. Seven Grand Housing Authority – Loves Got Me High
06. DJ Spen – Tedd’s Beat Goes On
07. Daniell Spencer – What is House Paranoid Jack remix
08. G.O.D. – Untitled
09. DJ Duke – Mountains
10. Cassius – 1999
Mixed by Ali Coleman
01. Larry’s Classic – Johnny Dangerous
02. Dance Dirt – rkzbX
03. The Look –
04. Dance To My Beat – Dirty Two
05. Dirt – Mary Mary
06. Shining Your Way – AK
07. The Beat Goes Boo – Lovebirds
08. A.I.E.A Mwana – Blackblood
09. Sting Tao –
10. Grand Piano – D Flowers & Dolls Combers
Mixed by Ben Monzone , Matt Brownell & Monchan
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Photo by MDPNY
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SESSION 1337: CEDAR ROOM 06.16.12 RECORD PLAYERS – Monchan
Mixed by DJ Seoul & T.Linder
DJ Seoul:
DJ Seoul is one of America’s leading ambassadors of Detroit Techno and Techno Bass. As a soldier for the Detroit Techno Militia, this powerhouse DJ has been spreading the gospel of Techno throughout the world for the past fifteen years. With lightning fast mixing skills and exceptionally technical scratches and juggles, Seoul brings an energy to the dancefloor that is rarely seen. As a producer, his work on the Detroit Techno Militia record label and his remixes for Drugaci Exhibitions have garnered him worldwide acclaim. DJ Seoul gives the crowd one hundred percent every time he performs. This energy is clearly visible and reciprocated by the audience.
If a citizen of Detroit could be considered an asset, then DJ Seoul would be one of the most beloved. By representing his home town globally and by playing Detroit Music, Seoul continues to carry the torch that was handed to him by the greats that came before him. Playing music, from Electro, Techno and Acid, to House, Soul and Rare Groove, this trend setting performer has become known for his style of bringing a Hip-Hop Turntablist flair for mixing and scratching to his DJ set regardless of genre.
Before he was a full-time DJ, Seoul spent many years in the music industry. Raised on the East side of Detroit, he began his musical career at a young age through various counterculture sounds and movements. His formal training began in 1985 with the drums and continues today with both traditional and electronic instruments. Coming from a very diverse musical and cultural background, Seoul cites many different personal influences including Jeff Mills as The Wizard, Terrence Parker, Dave Clarke and Underground Resistance. [Read More]
T.Linder:
A veteran DJ with more than ten years of experience underhis belt; Detroit native, T.Linder has done his homework and paid his dues.
T.Linder takes a no-nonsense, working-class approach to the art of spinningrecords. He cites old-school Detroit street jocks: The Wizard (aka. JeffMills), Gary Chandler, and Steve “DJ Energy” Crawford among others, as major inspirations for his unorthodox aesthetic. “If someone’s going to pay money to hear me spin, I’m going to make it worth their money. The way I look at it, there’s too many DJs out there meticulously and methodically blending records that all sound the same. As a listener, I’m easily bored with that. I like to take some risks when I perform, skipping across genres and eras, doing scratch tricks with two copies of the same record. I want to give the listener the experience of hearing something they haven’t heard before.”
Over the past decade, T.Linder has kept a busy performance schedule that has taken him to literally thousands of events across North America. He has played at most, if not all, of the venues in Detroit catering to Electronic Music. Notably, 2030 Grand River, The Works, Motor Lounge,St.Andrew’s Hall, and the Underground Stage at the 2002 Detroit Electronic Music Festival (a gig that he considers one of his career highlights).
In 2007, T.Linder released his first EP entitled DTM002, on Detroit Techno Militia (a record label/artist collective that heco-founded). He has also done remix projects for legendary Detroit Techno producers Scan 7 and DJ 3000. [Read More]
Mixed by Donald Lassiter
01. Malcolm and Martin from Do The Right Thing
02. WAR – Waiting To War
03. Willie Hutch – Mother’s Theme (Mama)
04. Mandre – Interlude
05. Steve Marshall – You Are The World
06. Kent Jordan – Looking Through The Windows
07. Zazou Bikaye – Soki Akei
08. Charles Earland – Coming To You Live
09. Sylvia ST. James – Ghetto Lament
10. The Best of Donny Hathaway – Someday We’ll All Be Free
Mixed by Rick Wilhite
Rick Wilhite has dedicated his life to the music industry; whatever one wishes to know about Wilhite is conveyed through his music. His skill set includes DJ sets of R & B, Hip-Hop, Techno and Reggae but his MO is House and Disco.
A Detroit native, Rick learned at an early age that a career in music takes more than playing one’s favorite records. Multi-faceted crowd control, sound engineering and creative party promotion are what make him more than a Detroit DJ.
With over two decades experience in playing clubs and parties 24-7, 365 makes the Godson one of Detroit’s best and most versatile DJ’s around. His venture to college in the south to Southern University allowed his skills to take the region to another level of Music.
FRIDAY JUNE 1ST KICK OFF
SEED RECORDING SHOWCASE
01. SESSION 1324: FUNKY SLICE 06.01.12 – Mixed by Dee Jay True
02. SESSION 1325: FUNKY SLICE 06.01.12 – Mixed by Bradford James & DJ Said
SATURDAY JUNE 2ND
DISCOVERY/ZOOVOX/ALPHA RECORDING SYSTEM/SONY
01. SESSION 1327: ELBIN RECORD GROCERY 06.01.12 – Elbin Reyes
02. SESSION 1328: FUNKY SLICE 06.02.12 – Faso
03. SESSION 1329: FUNKY SLICE 06.02.12 – Zoovox (Benjamin Gebhardt & Jeremy Campbell)
04. SESSION 1330: FUNKY SLICE 06.02.12 – Sean Bee & Takaya Nagase
SUNDAY JUNE 3RD CLOSING
PNEUMATIC RECORDS
01. SESSION 1331: FUNKY SLICE 06.03.12 – Matt Brownell
02. SESSION 1332: FUNKY SLICE 06.03.12 – Ben Monzone
Mixed by Scott Grooves (90’s Mix Tape)
Mixed by Ben Monzone
By HOLLAND COTTER – NY Times
For artists New York City has always had unaffordable neighborhoods. Now it has an unaffordable borough, Manhattan. There, in the past, blue-collar areas like Greenwich Village, SoHo and the Lower East Side offered cheap living for the no-collar day-jobbers that most artists were and still are. Rents were such that they could make their work upstairs and show it downstairs.
Art was a cottage industry.
Then came the 2000s and money and Chelsea, which is the equivalent of a suburban mall: a business district, a consumer zone.
A few artists went there to show; most went to look and then go home. Increasingly, in the past decade, home has been Brooklyn, starting with Williamsburg, then moving outward ahead of the real-estate cash tide. For a while now the buck has stopped at Bushwick, a scrappy, ethnically manifold, postindustrial jumble of a place abutting onto Queens. At street level it’s mostly bodegas, fast-food shops and auto repairs. But artists are there, lots of them. [Read More]
Mixed by Matt Brownell
01. Bebel – Love from the Sun
02. Alice Coltrane & Carlos Santana – Angel of Air/Angel of Water
03. Pharoah Sanders – Astral Traveling
04. Isaac Hayes Movement – Aruba
05. Johnny Harris – Fragments of Fear
06. Earth, Wind, & Fire – Clover
07. Jefferson Starship – Love too Good
08. War – Four-Cornered Room
09. Ramsey Lewis – Brazilica
10. Jorge Ben – Katarina Katarina
Mixed by Sean Bee & Takaya Nagase
Mixed by Zoovox (Benjamin Gebhardt & Jeremy Campbell)
Mixed by Elbin Reyes
01. Monk Montegomery – Reality
02. Percy Faith – First Light
03. Pat Metheny Group – Phase Dance
04. Jose Feliciano – Nirvana (Part 1.Part 2)
05. The Alan Persons Project – I Robot
06. Montana – Warp Factor II
07. Carly Simon – Tranquillo (Melt My Heart)
08. Faison – Talking bout Love
09. Splendor – Special Lady
10. Cheryl Lynn – In The Night
Photo by Joji Shimamoto
New in the Radio Archive
SESSION 1226: MOVEMENT DETROIT 05.27.12 DISCOVERY
New in the Photo Gallery
PICTURES: BOS @ FUNKYSLICE ART INSTALLATION BY KFKS
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Mixed by Bradford James & DJ Said