DUB WAR
featuring
Shackleton (Skull Disco)
Eskmo (Warp, Planet Mu)
Eprom (Warp, Surefire, Cloak x Dagger)
+ Joe Nice, Dave Q, Incyde, Juakali
Cost:
$10 advance tix and door before midnight
$15 door after midnight
21+ (bring ID)
3191 Posts By toshi
DUB WAR
featuring
Shackleton (Skull Disco)
Eskmo (Warp, Planet Mu)
Eprom (Warp, Surefire, Cloak x Dagger)
+ Joe Nice, Dave Q, Incyde, Juakali
Cost:
$10 advance tix and door before midnight
$15 door after midnight
21+ (bring ID)
Photo by Joe’s NYC
Recent News
We Are the World Part 2 – Vintage Vinyl News
Upcoming Radio Shows
Monday: Funky Slice @ 8PM
Tuesday: Zakka Show @ 5PM
Wednesday: Halcyon Presents The BandWagon @ 7PM
Wednesday: A1 Afterhours @ 9PM
Thursday: Mo Music Mo Life @ 8PM
Thursday: Bless Up @ 6PM
Friday: Halcyon Presents Nu Pschidt @ 7PM
New in the Radio Archive
Mo Music Mo Life 02.04.10: DJ Ryuhichi
A-1 AfterHours 02.03.09: Jeremie
Zakka 02.02.10: Olé Koretsky
Mixed by DJ Ryuhichi @ SoleFood NYC
01. Bob Sinclar – Love You No More feat. Shabba Ranks – Chuckie Remix
02. Maurice Tamraz – Son Of Jax
03. Sotisfaction – Something
04. Riva Starr – Trompe D Amour
05. Reboot – Enjoy Music – Riva Starr Remix
06. Dario Nunez, DJ Montxo – Zul
07. Pirupa, Pigi – Sweet Devil
08. Doomwork – Groovin feat. Valentine
09. Rob Mirage, DJ Chus – Back 2 NY – Nirvana Mix
10. Michael Woods, Ant Brooks – Yemba
February 13, 2010
Back Room
THE BUNKER/UNSOUND FESTIVAL
Description
2/13, BOTH ROOMS, 10 pm – 6 am, $30, $25 adv
Unsound Festival New York, Co-Presented by:
Unsound, Fundacja Tone, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, Goethe-Institut New York
In Co-operation With:
Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Romanian Cultural Institute New York, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Consulate General of Finland New York, Pro Helvetia, Fonds Pop Over Zee
Saturday, February 13
Unsound Festival New York at The Bunker: Bass Mutations
FRONT ROOM
2562 (Tectonic | Netherlands)
Untold (Hemlock, Hessle Audio | UK)
TRG (Hessle Audio, Tempa | Romania)
Dave Q (Dub War | NYC)
BACK ROOM
Pole (~Scape | Germany) live
FaltyDL (Planet Mu | NYC) live
Pavel Ambiont (Belarus) live
Konque (Konque | NYC) live
Sepalcure (Machine Drum & Praveen | NYC) live
Stefan Betke aka Pole is one of the most important and well known electronic music producers to emerge in the past decade. His first three albums (“1”, “2”, & “3”), released from 1998 to 2000 and packaged in solid blue, red, and yellow sleeves, are absolute stone-cold classics. Betke reissued these three sadly out-of-print albums as a box set on his own ~scape imprint (titled “1 2 3”) in 2008, so they are once again available to the unfortunate souls who missed his timeless music the first time around. More recently, Pole released the “Steingarten” album on 2007, further developing his sound. He also did A&R for the critically acclaimed “Round Black Ghosts” compilations on ~scape, two collection of tracks that blur the line between dubstep and techno. We’ve caught Pole’s newest live set a few times in Europe, and he’s taken things in a much more dancefloor direction while maintaining the Pole sound design and creativity we all love.
Producer Dave Huismans is 2562, pioneering in the way that he has merged dubstep and techno. The result is a full yet lean, fluid hybrid that has found an audience not only among fans of dubstep, but anyone drawn to fresh and innovative club music. His 2562 album ?Aerial? was released in 2008 by Pinch?s Tectonic Label, and regarded by many critics as one of the albums of the year. As Boomkat wrote: ?This album follows in the massively revered tradition of dub experimentation and rhythm science laid down in the lineage stretching from Lee Perry through King Tubby, Scientist, Steve Gurley, Dillinja, Photek, Rhythm & Sound, Kode 9 and Burial.? Huismans also releases deep house and techno influences tracks under the alias A Made Up Sound.
Untold is Jack Dunning, described by Fact Magazine as the ?dubstep producer of the year?, for a trademark sound fusing garage, techno and UK funky with percussion and bass stabs. Releasing a succession of left field 12″?s on Hessle Audio and Scuba?s Hotflush, he also runs his own label, Hemlock. In 2009, Untold?s reputation as an innovator has exploded, for creating tracks that throw the rulebook out the window to create their own sound. Pitchfork wrote in June that Untold is bringing a vitality to dubstep in 2009, by using ?the limits of his imagination?, drawing from a sound palate that includes chirps, sub bass, plastic sounds made on a Casio keyboard and even elephant snorts. Boomkat called him ?the most talked about underground producer in the UK right now?.
TRG is causing a stir. Known in the bass-heavy music scene, electronic music communities around the world who share a passion for fresh new sounds will soon know the addictive grooves of 28-year-old Romanian producer Cosmin Nicolae. His first 12″ on Hessle Audio garnered the attention of BBC Radio 1’s Mary Anne Hobbs among others, and labels soon got on his case. TRG has been active in nurturing the electronic music scene in Bucharest since he relocated there in 2000. Influenced by classical, jazz and disco as a child, and son of a single mother, Cosmin has a fire inside that gave him the gumption for forward thinking electronic music in an environment where there was none. With several manuscripts under his belt by the age of 15, TRG was ready to play mega raves within a year of beginning his first DJ night. Bass Mutations is TRG?s North American debut.
Before New Yorker Drew Lustman began releasing music on UK labels Ramp and Planet Mu, he built up a small catalogue on US independents Unfun, fizx-recordings and Napalm Enema Records. Lustman’s first record as Falty DL was the jungle inspired Beat Lumber EP (Unfun 2007). Raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Drew was influenced by Aphex Twin and Squarepusher and had an early start with music as a child, He played upright and electric bass in the jazz quartet, Luggage, straight out of high school. On moving to Manhattan, Lustman started going to dubstep nights and was inspired by jungle, disco, and New York garage and house. After his jungle inspired releases on Berkley-based Unfun records in 2007, Lustman sent countless “crazy jungle” demos to Mike Paradinas, head of Planet Mu. He finally struck gold when Paradinas picked up the first track of his debut album, Human Meadow. The experimental-dubstep album “Love is a Liability” was released in 2009.
Pavel Ambiont is a producer of dub techno living east of Poland in Belarus. Long releasing his solo work on Internet labels, in 2008 he collaborated with Bristol producer Pinch during the Unsound project ?Connections?. This resulted in the track ?Poison / Remedy?, included on the project compilation compiled by scape Records and Unsound.
Dave Q is the founder and resident DJ of Dub War NYC, the US’s original dubstep party. He has played at London’s seminal DMZ night and many of the leading dubstep events around the US. Along with fellow Dub War residents Joe Nice, Juakali, and Incyde, DQ has been at the forefront of the fast-growing scene from day one. His sets are uncompromising in exploring new directions for the sound, and feature the most sought after dubplates from the scene’s top producers. His new label, The Index, is a collaboration with NYC producer Badawi, and launches in early 2010.
Konque is a music project and record label helmed by Sasha Kaline and David Last. Strange jacking tracks for dirty basements, or sometimes, just pure sound. Konque embodies a more electroacoustic side than Kaline’s Alka_Rex project, and a stranger palette than David’s usual wobbly funk tracks. They share interests in tape music, modern classical, asian percussion music, as well as dub reggae and ska; these influences are clearly present but not obvious. The textures they choose are meant to evoke images, and they have started developing the sounds simultaneously with animation. Separately, Sasha has released with Musique Risquee, Thema and Mille Plateaux, and David has released with Staubgold, The Agriculture, and Foundsound. As Konque they release on their own label Konque. Recently other artists such as Ezekiel Honig, Pheek and Morgan Packard have joined them.
Sepalcure’s combination of love for bass and 90s house acapellas is the culmination of a cathartic two week collaboration between Machinedrum and Praveen. Their mix of tribal dub, house and two step beats works equally well for both late nights in the club and rainy, introspective nights at home. Detroit techno chords cut through wooden beats, neon synths and dubbed out atmospherics. Future lovestep. Based in Brooklyn, NY, the two run the Cassette NYC series of events as well as the curated and user contributed mix archive, PercussionLab.Com. Integral to the thriving bass music scene in NYC, the past 5 years have seen Praveen and Machinedrum inviting artists such as Flying Lotus, Daedelus, David Last and Ghislain Poirier to perform alongside local favorites. Their own past releases featuring artists such as Theophilus London and Beno?t Pioulard reveal an artistic breadth unusual for the majority of genre-trapped electronic musicians today.
Over 75 artists gathered at Henson Recording Studio in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon to record a new version of We Are the World for Haitian relief. Like the iconic 1985 session (right), the artists are in the same sound studio and are being executive produced by Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones with help from producer RedOne. New to the lineup is Wyclef Jean as executive producer and Rickey Minor as producer.
According to the Los Angeles Times, this rerecording had been planned for a number of months; however, the urgency changed after the earthquakes in Haiti last month. Word is that the six-hour session went relatively smoothly except for the occasional hiccup like Barbra Streisand wanting to multiple takes of her section to get the right tone and phrasing. [Read More]
Mixed by Jeremie
01. Hamilton Bohannon – Take The Country To N.Y. City (Inst)
02. Tongi – On the Run (Ghost Mix)
03. White Limousine – Long On Love (Inst)
04. State of Grace – Touching The Times
05. Richard Jon Smith – Baby Got Another
06. I.M.S. – An English
07. Gary’s Gang – Makin’ Music
08. The NIck Straker Band – Straight Ahead
09. Monyaka – Street People (It Ain’t Easy)
10. Tony Watson – Passages
Mixed by Olé Koretsky
01. David Bowie – Yassassin
02. Primal Scream – Come Together (Andy Weatherall Remix)
03. David Byrne – Fuzzy Freaky (Remix)
04. Happy Mondays – W.F.L. (Vince Clarke Remix)
05. David Byrne – Dance on Vaseline (Remix)
06. Nitzer Ebb – Warsaw Ghetto
07. Depeche Mode – Halo
08. Jetlag – Cold Weather Hunting
09. Nite Club – Code of The Streets (Mike Dextro House Mix)
10. Primal Scream – Some Velvet Morning (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)
Photo by C. Bay Milin
Recent News
Sade ‘Solider of Love’ – Daily News
At Chelsea Hotel, Putting Up Plaques, but Evicting Artists – The Villager
The Night Belongs to Us – NY Times
Upcoming Radio Shows
Monday: Funky Slice @ 8PM
Tuesday: Zakka Show @ 5PM
Wednesday: Halcyon Presents The BandWagon @ 7PM (Next Week)
A1 Afterhours @ 9PM
Thursday: Mo Music Mo Life@8PM
Thursday: Bless Up @ 6PM
New in the Radio Archive
FunkySlice 02.01.10: DJMonchan
Dailysession October 09: M.A.N.D.Y.
By Jim Farber – Daily News
Everything changes ? except Sade.
For over a quarter-century, the singer has sported the same look, employed the same band, recorded for the same label, and for the most part, kept the same sound: a lean, wan take on lounge-jazz that never loses its temper or its focus.
So narrow an approach could easily bore a fidgety public. But Sade’s last CD, “Lovers Rock,” sold over 3 million copies without seeming to break a sweat. This, despite the fact that eight years passed between the release of that CD and its predecessor, a stretch during which the star passed the dangerous age of 40. [Read More]
Mixed by DJMonchan
01. Ewan Pearson – The Cows at Jodrell Bank
02. The Orb – Traumvogel
03. Tranquility Bass – Megamix (Reich Remixed)
04. Flying Lotus – 1983
05. Classen Collective – Close To Greatness (Deep Joy Mix)
06. DJ Krush – Alephevo (Truthspeaking) Feat. Angelina Esparza
07. Lee Perry Vs. Horsepower – Excersising
08. Galliano – Travels The Road (X Project Mix)
09. Top Cat – Push Up U Lighter
10. Kruder & Dorfmeiser – Shakatakadoodub
Mixed by M.A.N.D.Y
Rob Fernandez and Benny Soto present Dance.Here.Too
brings you Philipp Jung, one half of internationally renowned M.A.N.D.Y., at SantosPartyHouse on Saturday, February 6th.
By Patrick Hedlund – The Villager
A blurb in the “History” section of the Chelsea Hotel’s recently revamped Web site touts some of the countless boldface-named bohemians to have taken up residence at the legendary W. 23rd St. lodge. There are obligatory mentions of Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan, as well as artists Larry Rivers and Willem de Kooning.
After trotting out a few more marquee names on the newly burnished site, like playwright “Eugene O’Neil” [sic] and composer “Virgil Thompson” [sic], the write-up concludes, asking simply: “Who will be next?”
Judging by the hotel’s policy to stop renting to long-term residents — a practice that ended with the contentious ouster of 50-year manager Stanley Bard two-and-a-half years ago — it’s not actually tenants of the aforementioned group’s artistic pedigree that the Chelsea wants staying inside. [Read More]
By Tom Carson – NY Times
Apart from a certain shared apprehension of immortality — complacent in one case, but endearingly gingerly in the other — the skinny 28-year-old on the cover of Patti Smith’s seismic 1975 album, “Horses,” doesn’t look much at all like Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein. But because the shutterbug was Robert Mapplethorpe, who was soon to become fairly legendary himself, that exquisite photograph of Smith on the brink of fame is as close as New York’s 1970s avant-garde ever came to a comparable twofer. The mythmaking bonus is that the latter-day duo were much more genuinely kindred spirits. [Read More]
Photo by Streetsy
Recent News
HP partners on music download service in Europe – CNet News
Record label blocks YouTube video embedding – CNet News
Upcoming Radio Shows
Monday: Funky Slice @ 8PM
Tuesday: Zakka Show @ 5PM
Wednesday: Halcyon Presents The BandWagon @ 7PM (Biweekly)
A1 Afterhours @ 9PM
Thursday: Mo Music Mo Life@8PM
Thursday: Bless Up @ 6PM
New in the Radio Archive
A-1 AfterHours 01.27.10: Seth
Zakka 01.26.10: Cash
FunkySlice 01.25.10: Earl Broclo Esq
The Bandwagon 01.20.10 : Taimur Agha(BlkMship)&DJSpinoza (Bunker)
FunkySlice 01.15.10: Snack & Cmish (Turntable Lab)
Mixed by Seth
01. Asha Bhosle & Suresh Wadkar – Mera Ek Diwana Mujhe
02. Asha Bhosle – He Baba
03. Mohd, Rafi & Chandrashekhar Gadgil – Mee Raksam, Mee Raksam
04. Usha & Kalyani – Sare Niyam Tod Do(Part 1)
05. Bappi Lahiri – How Are You Munni Bai
06. Sharon Prabhakar, Parvati Khan & Ursula – Tum Meri Nazar Se Dekho
07. Kishore K, Amit Kumar&Chorus – Apni Laila Ka Jo Pyar Nahin Payega
08. R.D. Burman – Dance Music
09. Kishore Kumar, Amit Kumar & Chorus – Ham To Aap Ke Deewane Hain
10. Asha Bhosle – Jhoothi Jhoothi
Danny Krivit, Pioneer of the disco edit and omnipresent zeitgeist of soulful house, is also one of the most important contemporary purveyors of vinyl. Having operated the Loft’s seminal Record Pool alongside Francois K and Larry Levin, with mixes appearing on WKTU and KISS FM, Krivit is now considered dischotheque royalty with almost 4 decades of innovation under his belt. On Valentine’s Day he will be bringing you a special extended set, an experiment in passion’s endurance.
One half of internationally renowned M.A.N.D.Y., Philipp Jung simply had a knack for making bodies move. He and his partner Patrick Bodmer’s highly successful and influential label is ever so aptly titled Get Physical, and I think you know what that means. Their shared musical proclivities invite you to be present with a symbiosis of complexity and elegance. An interpretation of classical elements through modern mediums is just the kind of paradox our fiery hearts long for–a vacillation between bright and dark, clean and dirty, soft and hard, tense and released. Furthermore, Philipp’s on-stage antics demonstrate an enthusiasm for the craft that is infectious by nature and will surely find you wherever you wander. If you aren’t yet privy to this caliber of experience, the time is now.
Mixed by Cash
01. Art Bears – Bath of Stars
02. Laurie Anderson – Big Science
03. Sonic Youth – Superstar
04. Spacemen 3 – Big City
05. Art of Noise – Moment in Love
06. Kid loco – Love Me Sweet
07. Transglobal Underground – Armchair Cowboy Clash
08. Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
09. J’s Bee – 5
10. Airto Moreira – Return to Forever
Saturday, 1/30
“TWO SOUNDS CLASH” Reggae & Dancehall VS Jungle & Dubstep: Two Floors of Sound
LADIES FREE BEFORE 11
MAIN ROOM:
Jungle/Dubstep Benny Page (Digital Soundboy, UK) LionDub feat. JahDan (Konkrete Jungle / LionDub Int’), Dave Q(Dub War), Human? (Konkrete Jungle / Survival), Geko Jones (Dutty Artz / NY Tropical) Hosted by: Diggadee MC (Konkrete Jungle / Methods) + Special Guests
DOWN SOUTH:
Reggae Dancehall Road Warrior International w / King Alexi Silvercat Sound w/ King Capone & Jugganaut I-Testament Sounds w/ Barker & Sheppy Conquering Crown w/ Shoki + Special Guests
Baba Roots Tonic & Ital Food On Sale
21+ w/ ID
admission: $15 before 1am / $20 after
door time: 10PM
BUY TICKETS
Mixed by Earl Broclo Esq
01. Star Trek Intro
02. Gen_Des_Com – Fifth Main Target
03. Josh Wink – Sixth Sense (Kevin Yost’s Booty In the Butta mix)
04. Stromba – Casino
05. Fauna Flash – Taurus
06. Red Snapper – Spitalfields
07. David Axelrod – The Sick Rose
08. Medeski, Martin, Wood – Church of Logic
09. Madlib – Song for my Father
10. Beatles – I am the Walrus
By Steven Musil – CNet News
Hewlett-Packard has partnered with Ominfone to distribute the U.K. music provider’s MusicStation service on PCs sold in Europe, Ominfone announced Sunday.
The service, which boasts unlimited access to more than 6.5 million music tracks from the four major recording labels, distributes music in DRM-protected WMA files. Songs are downloaded to the user’s computer for online and offline play, but the songs are playable only as long as the subscription is active. [Read More]
By Matt Rosoff – CNet News
The major record labels continue to prove that they absolutely have no idea how the Internet works or how to capitalize on it.
This week’s story involves the rock band OK Go. Four years ago, the band shot some quirky homemade videos and posted them on YouTube. Users saw the videos and embedded them on their own Web pages. OK Go was able to cut through the noise created by thousands of album releases every year and become well-known in certain circles, if not exactly world famous.
Now, the band is promoting its new album, “Of The Blue Colour of the Sky,” and has released a video for the song “This Too Shall Pass” on YouTube. Do you love it? So much that you want to embed it on your music blog? Too bad–you can’t.
On Monday, OK Go singer Damian Kulash wrote a post on the band’s message board to explain how this happened. Major label EMI owns the rights to the recording. And although EMIcan theoretically earn a little money from advertisements each time somebody plays one of its artist’s videos on YouTube, it can’t collect the money when the videos are embedded on another site. [Read More]
Photo by Brendan Bybee
Recent News
Banksy to Premiere Documentary at Sundance Film Fest – Unbeige
Shepard Fairey Chosen as Last to Exhibit at Deitch Projects – Unbeige
Canal Change – NewYork Press
Gang Gang Dance Sign to 4AD; New Album This Year – Fact Magazine
Upcoming Radio Shows
Monday: Funky Slice @ 8PM
Tuesday: Zakka Show @ 5PM
Wednesday: Halcyon Presents The BandWagon @ 7PM New Show!
A1 Afterhours @ 9PM
Thursday: Mo Music Mo Life@8PM
Thursday: Bless Up @ 6PM
New in the Radio Archive
Dailysession 01.10.10: Nick Warren@Cielo
Photo by Brendan Bybee
By Steve Delahoyde – Unbeige
Heading out to Utah this weekend for the start of the Sundance Film Festival? If so, one of the hardest screenings to sneak into is sure to be the just-announced addition Exit Through the Gift Shop a documentary by none other than everyone’s favorite anonymous celebrity street artist, Banksy. The film is described as a behind-the-scenes peek at Banksy’s work, or as Sundance promotes it, “a remarkable documentary that is part personal journey and part an expose of the art world with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype.” Rumors are that this will be when the secretive artist finally reveals his true identity. But even if he did, would you really believe it? The guy is tricky. Here’s the trailer: [Read More]
By Steve Delahoyde – Unbeige
Now that Jeffrey Deitch has been named the new director at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art, he has just a few months left before he’s likely to close up shop on his famed New York gallery, Deitch Projects, to absolve himself of any conflicts of interest. And he’s decided to let the space go out in a blaze of high-profile glory with the announcement that Shepard Faireywill be the last artist to exhibit there (at least under his command — he may still hand off the gallery to someone else). Art Info reports that Fairey’s show will go up on May 1st, just a month before Deitch’s takeover in L.A. Here’s a bit about the planned exhibit: [Read More]
By Matt Harvey – NewYork Press
The city wants to put a stop to the fakes for sale in Chinatown. But at the same time, it’s putting the squeeze on legit longtime merchants. MATT HARVEY investigates as the ‘Counterfeit Triangle’ slowly disappears.
What’s left of Canal Street’s hawkers and small merchants—Hispanic stereo salesmen, Chinese dry-goods merchants, Lebanese gold sellers and Jewish landlords—all agree on one thing: “The fix is in.” Everyone knows the clock is ticking.
Two new hotels, including a 361-room Sheraton, are due to open on Canal in the next six months. Very soon, locals say, Canal Street will join Times Square, Astor Place, the Lower East Side, the Garment District and all the other former centers of down-and-dirty capitalist grit that have been safely gentrified. As Greg “Heavy” Duval, an African-American watch-peddler explains before the Christmas holiday, “Canal is on its last legs. They want to make this a franchise block.” [Read More]