• SESSION 1522: DEEPER THAN DISCO 10.13.13

    Mixed by DJ True

    01. Minnie Riperton – Memory Lane
    02. Roy Ayers – You Came Into My Life
    03. Lafayette Afro Band – Hihache
    04. J Dilla – Love Jones
    05. Jimi Hendrix – Who Knows
    06. Karma – High Priestess (Jazzanova Mix)
    07. Wanted & Co – Maman Moin
    08. United Future Organization – Somewhere
    09. Madlib – Young Warrior
    10. The Last Poets – White Man’s Got A Good Complex
    11. Bobbi Humphrey – New York Times
    12. Michael Jackson – We’re Almost There
    13. BT Express – Do It (Till You’reSatisfied)
    14. Lou Donaldson – Inner Space
    15. Kosma – Odessa -(Black Sea Mix)
    16. Jon Lucien – And It All Goes Round
    17. Fernando Gelbard – Alvacoiariea
    18. Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express – Whenever You’re Ready
    19. Santana – Dance sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)
    20. The Brothers – Under The Skin
    21. The Isley Brothers – Midnight Sky (Part I Part II)
    22. Jorge Ben – Fio Maravilha
    23. Terry Callier – I Don’t Want To See Myself (Without You)

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  • SESSION 1521: VOICE OF VOICE 10.11.13

    Mixed by Ali Coleman

    01. Luis Radio & Raffa – The Mood (Original Mood)
    02. Ten Walls – Gotham (Gothem EP)
    03. Matty & Monique – Now What
    04. Low Deep T – Heaven
    05. Mario Marques – Come See About Me
    06. Jepthe Guillaume Presents Erol Josue – Papa Loko (Jepthe’s Ext. Loko Mix)
    07. Piano In Transit
    08. DJ Juri – Taikoon
    09. ason “Culture” Lipsey  – Keeping It Real (Original Mix)
    10. Jessie Outlaw – Hinojosa
    11. DeepQuest – Our Joy (Emotional Mix)
    12. Salsoul Ochestra – How High (The Noodleman Rework)
    13. Central Line – Walking On Sunshine
    14. Gwen Guthrie – Peanut Butter (Larry Levan Remxi)
    15. Jimmy Ross – First True Love Affair (Larry Levan Remix)
    16. Alexander O’neal – What Is This Thing Called Love
    17. Skyy – Skyyzoo (Larry Levan Remix)
    18. Unlimited Touch – Searching To Find The One ( Francois K Remix)
    19. Mylo – Otto’s Journey
    20. Stevie Wonder – I Love You More Today Than Yesterday

  • ESSION 1520: FUNKY SLICE 10.07.13

    Mixed by Sky Zee

    01. Lalo Schifrin – Mission Impossible
    02. Love Unlimited Orchestra – Bring It On Up
    03. Love Unlimited Orchestra – I Wanna Stay
    04. First Choice – Love Thang
    05. Creative Source – You’re Too Good To Be True
    06. Quincy Jones – Stuff Like That
    07. Ralph Tresvant – Sencitivity (mix with Biz Markie – The Inhuman Orchestra)
    08. En Vogue – Hold On
    09. Soul II Soul – Back To Life
    10. Jimmy Bo Horne – Is it in
    12. War – Galaxy
    13. Brass Construction – Ha Cha Cha
    14. Marvin Gaye – Got To Give It up
    15. Issac Hayes – Chocolate Chips
    16. Creative Source – Corazon
    17. Claudja Barry – Love For The Sake Of Love
    18. Roy Ayers – Everybody Loves The Sunshine
    19. De La Soul – Say No Go
    20. Hall & Oates – I Can’t Go For That
    21. Grand Puba – 360? with Elephant Man – Message
    22. First Choice – Let No Man Put Asunder
    23. First Choice – Double Cross
    24. Michael Jackson – Remember The Time (Silky Soul 7′” )
    25. MFSB – Love Is The Message
    26. MFSB – TSOP
    27. Lalo Schifrin – Mission Accomplished

  • SESSION 1519: VINYLMANIA 10.08.13

    Mixed by Eric Lopez aka “BigE”

  • DAVID BYRNE: If the 1% stifles New York’s creative talent, I’m out of here

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    by The Guardian

    I’m writing this in Venice, Italy. This city is a pleasantly confusing maze, once an island of fortresses, and now a city of tourists, culture (biennales galore) and crumbling relics. Venice used to be the most powerful city in Europe – a military, mercantile and cultural leader. Sort of like New York.

    Venice is now a case study in the complete transformation of a city (there’s public transportation, but no cars). Is it a living city? Is it a fossil? The mayor of Venice recently wrote a letter to the New York Review of Books, arguing that his city is, indeed, a place to live, not simply a theme park for tourists (he would like very much if the big cruise ships steered clear). I guess it’s a living place if you count tourism as an industry, which I suppose it is. New York has its share of tourists, too. I wave to the doubledecker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

    New York was recently voted the world’s favorite city – but when you break down the survey’s results, the city comes in at No 1 for business and only No 5 for living. Fifth place isn’t completely embarrassing, but what are the criteria? What is it that attracts people to this or any city? Forget the business part. I’ve been in Hong Kong, and unless one already has the means to live luxuriously, business hubs aren’t necessarily good places for living. Cities may have mercantile exchange as one of their reasons for being, but once people are lured to a place for work, they need more than offices, gyms and strip clubs to really live.

    Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration. Sometimes, that possibility of serendipitous encounters – and I don’t mean in the meat market – is the principal lure. If one were to vote based on criteria like comfort or economic security, then one wonders why anyone would ever vote for New York at all over Copenhagen, Stockholm or some other less antagonistic city that offers practical amenities like affordable healthcare, free universities, free museums, common spaces and, yes, bike lanes. But why can’t one have both – the invigorating energy and the civic, intelligent humanism?

    Maybe those Scandinavian cities do, in fact, have both, but New York has something else to offer, thanks to successive waves of immigrants that have shaped the city. Arriving from overseas, one is immediately struck by the multi-ethnic makeup of New York. Other cities might be cleaner, more efficient or comfortable, but New York is funky, in the original sense of the word – New York smells like sex.

    Immigrants to New York have contributed to the city’s vibrancy decade after decade. In some cities around the world, immigrants are relegated to being a worker class, or a guest-worker class; they’re not invited to the civic table. New York has generally been more welcoming, though people of color have never been invited to the table to the same extent as European immigrants.

    I moved to New York in the mid 1970s because it was a center of cultural ferment – especially in the visual arts (my dream trajectory, until I made a detour), though there was a musical draw, too, even before the downtown scene exploded. New York was legendary. It was where things happened, on the east coast, anyway. One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn’t move to New York to make a fortune. Survival, at that time, and at my age then, was enough. Hardship was the price one paid for being in the thick of it.

    As one gets a little older, those hardships aren’t so romantic – they’re just hard. The trade-off begins to look like a real pain in the ass if one has been here for years and years and is barely eking out a living. The idea of making an ongoing creative life – whether as a writer, an artist, a filmmaker or a musician – is difficult unless one gets a foothold on the ladder, as I was lucky enough to do. I say “lucky” because I have no illusions that talent is enough; there are plenty of talented folks out there who never get the break they deserve. [Read More]

  • SESSION 1518: A1 IN STORE 10.05.13

    Mixed by Malik Abdul-Rahmaan

    01. Alice Coltrane – Andromeda’s Suffering
    02. Pharoah Sanders – Morning Prayer
    03. Dorothy Ashby – Myself When Young
    04. Yusef Latif – Book Home
    05. Phil Ranelin – Vibes From The Tribe
    06. Wendel Harrison – Where Am I
    07. Larry Willis – Walking Backward Down The Road
    08. Mulatu Astatke – Ené Alantchi Alnorem
    09. Doug Carn – Moon Child
    10. Rudolph Johnson – The Highest Pleasure
    11. Heath Bros. – Smilin’ Billy Suite Part.II
    12. Doug Carn – Sweet Season
    13. Rufus Harley – A Tribute To Courage
    14. Pharoah Sanders – Astral Traveling
    15. Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda
    16. Michael White – John Coltrane Was Here
    17. Sun Ra – Moon Dance
    18. Sun Ra – Enlightenment
    19. Sun Ra – Discipline 33
    20. Sun Ra – Discipline 44
    21. Phlip Cohran and The Artistic Heritage Ensemble – The African Look
    22. Miles Davis – Little Church
    23. Gloria – Horas
    24. Alice Coltrane – Angel Of Air

  • SESSION 1517: A1 IN STORE 10.01.13

    Mixed by Ari Mixo

    01. Larry Bright – Beauty & Grece
    02. The Message – Little Man
    03. Milt Robinson – The Wind
    04. Greg Holloway – Whim
    05. Gabor Szabo – Galateas Guitar
    06. Mi Delito Degarza – Mexico Wfdding
    07. Cay Gotilieb – Abaco Cruise
    08. Cullen Knight – A’keem
    09. Melvin Jackson – Everybody Loves My Baby
    10. Don Cherry – Air Mail
    11. Cerebral Hemorrhage – Wandering
    12. Synthesis LTD – Ships
    13. Section 25 – The Process
    14. Weekend – Together
    15. Lee perry – Kiss My Neck
    16. Observer – Corn Man
    17. Rawking Ann – Moonlight Lover
    18. Michael Campbell – Proud To Be Blank
    19. Utopia – Primo Bongosero
    20. Wild Wind – Drink or Two
    21. Etoile De Dakar – Tolou Badou N’ Diaye

  • SESSION 1516: A1 IN STORE 10.01.13

    Mixed by Seth

    01. Alain Renaud – Introduction Opus 83
    02. Peter Green – Just For You
    03. Budgle – If I Were Brittania I’d Waive The Rules
    04. The Rhinestones – This Devil In Me
    05. Humming Bird – She Is My Lady
    06. Djamel Allam – Cuba
    07. Pino Daniele – Tarumbo
    08. Richie Rome – Dup
    09. Bernie Leadon – Glass off
    10. Marl Almond – The City
    11. The Peddlers – On A Clear Day

  • SESSION 1515: VINYLMANIA 10.01.13

    Mixed by Eric Lopez aka “BigE”

  • SESSION 1514: WORLD GALAXY 09.29.13

    Mixed by Takaya Nagase

    01. John Abercrombie – Timeless
    02. Lonnie Liston Smith – Sais
    03. Francis Bebey – Super Jungle
    04. Bob Chance – Jungle Talk
    05. WAR – Flying Machine
    06. Cassandra Wilson – Traveling Sdrceress
    07. Atmospear  – Too Spaced Out (Francois K. Ambient Mix)
    08. Todd Terje – Snooze4love
    09. Kuniyuki – Earth Beats
    10. From Heaven
    11. Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
    12. isolée – beau mat plage
    13. Land of Light – Isle of Tears (Tiago Remix)
    14. Bugge Wesseltoft – Yellow Is The Colour
    15. Robert Glasper – Dillalude #2

  • SESSION 1513: GLOBALSESSION 09.26.13 ITALY

    Mixed by Luka Bernaskone

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  • SESSION 1512: A1 IN STORE 09.13.13

    Mixed by Douglas Sherman (The Loft / Joy)

    “Adventures in Flight”

    01. Space time continuum Flure Sence EP
    02. Hazme Sonar (Ambient Remix by Peter Vriends)
    03. Pacific Horizons
    04. Pablo Bolivar – Reflect
    05. Todd Terje – Rag Ysh
    06. Henrik Schwarz – Headphone Silence
    07. Was (Not was) – Listen Like Thieves (Vandal Dub)
    08. Kevin Yost – Round Bout Midnight
    09. Weekender – Sunday Session
    10. Frankie Kunckles & Adeva – Whadda U Want (From Me) (Frankie’s Deep Dub)
    11. Robert Owens – I’ll Be Your Friend (inxec & Matt Tolfrey’s Falling Down Mix)
    12. Robert Owens – Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Henrik Schwarz Mix)
    13. Herbest Moon – Blow Your Body (FK Atmospherics)

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  • SESSION 1511: A1 IN STORE 09.07.13

    Mixed by Elbin Reyes

    01. Vakula – New Romantic
    02. Vakula
    03. Black Rox – Fi Low (Soft Rocks Mix)
    04.
    05. Jose Monuel feat.Charlotte LaRouge – Les Regrets (Cosmic Metal Mothre’s)
    06. Enjebeje – Medicine
    07. Suroh – Sentimientos
    08. Auntie Flo – Water of Life
    09. Lonesome Echo Strings (Joe Remix)
    10. Ron Trent – Manifesto
    11. Arno E.Mathieu – The Cycle Project Part II
    12. Vakula – Still Time
    13. For One Hour – Paradis Remix
    14. Mickey Moon Light – Interplanetary Music
    15. Everyday People – I like What I like
    16. Winners – Get Ready Fir The Future
    17. Temptations – Law Of The Land
    18. Round Tree – I Want To Spend A Moment With You
    19. Parlet – Pleasure Principle
    20. High Energy – The Supremes
    21. Trammps – People Of The World, Rise
    22. Kool & The Gang – Get Down With The Genie (JCG ReEdit)
    23. Kevin Yost – It’s Getting Bigga
    24. Karma (JCG Edit)
    25. The ReFlex – Wheel Spin

  • JOHNNY DYNELL GLORY OF 80S NY CLUB SCENE

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    Sean Manning – The Awl

    Mark Kamins died of a heart attack at age 57. The legendary DJ and producer—who worked with David Byrne, the Beastie Boys and Sinéad O’Connor—was best known for producing Madonna’s first single, 1982’s “Everybody,” and helping sign her to Seymour Stein’s Sire Records. Around that same time, Kamins produced another popular single, the dance-rap track “Jam Hot” by Johnny Dynell. (The song was featured in the iconic 1983 graffiti documentary Style Wars, and its lyrics—”Tank Fly Boss Walk Jam Nitty Gritty/You’re listening to the boy from the big bad city”—were sampled in the #1 U.K. single “Dub Be Good To Me” by Beats International, the 1990s electronic group led by Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim.)

    Dynell’s recording career was quickly eclipsed by his work as a DJ. For the last three decades, he’s manned the decks at every New York City club of note—Mudd Club, Danceteria, Limelight, Area, Tunnel, Palladium, Roxy, Crobar, Greenhouse, XL, Le Bain. With wife Chi Chi Valenti, he also operated the iconic clubs Jackie 60 and Mother, helping transform the Meatpacking District into a nightlife mecca. These days Dynell is as busy as ever: DJing four nights a week; providing the soundtrack to such gala events as the AMFAR Cinema Against AIDS party at the Cannes Film Festival; and organizing with Valenti for this year’s Stevie Nicks fan fest “Night of A Thousand Stevies.” We spoke over dinner at Café Orlin on St. Marks Place.

    Sean Manning: Is it inappropriate to ask how old you are?

    Johnny Dynell: Yes. Don’t ever tell anyone your age because they’ll treat you that way. [Read More]

  • SESSION 1510: A1 IN STORE 09.07.13

    Mixed by Donald Lassiter

    01. Little Kirk – Man In The Mirror
    02. Little Kirk – I’ll Be There
    03. Donald Byrd – Gold The Moon, White The Sun
    04. Refus & Chaka – Any Love
    05. Marvin Gaye – All The Way Around
    06. Marvin Gaye – You Sure Love To Ball
    07. Brainstorm – loving Just You
    08. Al Green – L.O.V.E
    09. Al Green – – Dream
    10. Young & Company – Mellow Mood
    11. Positive Force – Tell Me What You See
    12. The Impressions – Preacher Man
    13. Mtume – So You Wanna Be A Star
    14. MFSB – Is It Something I Said
    15. T.C James & The Fist-O-Funk – Bumpsie’s Whipping Cream
    16. Instant House – Awade (Joe’s Raw Afrika Dub)
    17. Ethyl Meatplow – Queenie
    18. Mike Sharon – Can You Feel It
    19. Those Guys – Tonite
    20. Power House – My Woman
    21. World Power – I’m Happy
    22. Dance Lessons – U’juswanna
    23. The Neville Brothers – Fly Like An Eagle (MAW Mix)
    24. African Dream – Dream
    25. Logic – Hold Me
    26. Intimacy Feat James Faith – Want You 2 Want Me
    27. Essence – Moments In House
    28. Sade
    29. Soft Illusion
    30. L’Amour – Let’s Make Love Tonight

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  • SESSION 1509: FUNKY SLICE 09.02.13

    Mixed by DJ Monchan

    01. Stevie Wonder
    02. Kool and The Gang – Little Children
    03. Minnie Riperton – Every Time He Comes Around
    04. Slave
    05. Barrabas – Wild Safari
    06. Odyssey – Roots Suite Ajomora Going back to My Roots
    07. One Way Feat. Al Hudson – Music
    08. Unlimited Touch – Searching To Find The One
    09. Colors – Am I Gonna Be The One
    10. The Strikers – Body Music
    11. One Way – Shine On Me
    12. Caspe/Nathanson – Fade (feat.Kimblee)
    13. 280 West feat.Diamond Temple – Love’s Masquerade (Rude Awakening Mix)
    14. Carioca Soul – Bossa Nuova Sugggestions
    15. Papa Blue
    16. Sun Sun Sun
    17. MoodyMann
    18. The Untachables
    19.
    20. What A Mistry
    21.
    22. Richard Payton
    23. Three Generations Feat.Chvell – Super Lover
    24. Chrome – Finger Trip Theme
    25. MAW – Voices in my Mind
    26. Push/Pull

  • LIMELIGHT : THE CHURCH OF 90’S RAVE/TECHNO

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    by Michaelangelo Matos – NPR Music

    On Friday, a documentary ostensibly about the rise and fall of a one time club king named Peter Gatien opened in New York (it opens around the country next month). In the early to mid-1990s – the height of rave culture in the U.S. – Gatien owned the biggest clubs in New York City, including Limelight, which lived in a deconsecrated Episcopal Church in the Chelsea neighborhood. Today Gatien lives in Toronto, where he was deported in 2003 after pleading guilty to tax evasion. And Limelight has . It calls itself a “Festival of Shops.”

    Much of the story told in Limelight will be familiar to readers of , a book chronicling mid-’90s nightlife written by Frank Owen, who covered Limelight at its height and followed its scandalous end in the pages of local alternative weekly the Village Voice. It certainly was to the documentary’s director, Billy Corben, who read the book as he was pursuing another documentary about the man who ran the biggest club in Miami in the mid-’90s. Owen appears frequently as a kind of expert witness in Limelight.

    “I had read Clubland because of our interest in Chris Paciello and Liquid in South Beach, and the Miami angle,” says Corben, best known for 2006’s Cocaine Cowboys. Corben and producing partner Albert Spellman still intend to make a movie about Paciello. But first, they’ve made Limelight, which focuses on Gatien, the eye-patched Canadian nightclub impresario who owned Limelight, Palladium, Tunnel and Club U.S.A., who was brought to trial by the City of New York under mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s mid-’90s crime crackdown, alleging that Gatien was overseeing a massive drug ring in his clubs. [Read More]

  • DAVID MANCUSO ART OF DJ WITHOUT MIXING

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    By Greg Wilson

    David Mancuso’s London Loft party, ‘Journey Through The Light’, celebrates its 10th anniversary on June 23rd. Held Upstairs @ The Light in Shoreditch, it’s a party like no other, underpinned by a high-end audiophile sound system that has to be heard to be believed. Although its originator, now approaching his 70’s, hasn’t been able to make it in person during recent times, the party continues in his absence, Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy his chosen stand in (he hopes to return for future dates though).

    Mancuso’s legacy to dance music goes deep. He was there at the very roots of New York Disco culture, dating way way back to ‘Love Saves The Day’, his inaugural party, held at his home, a loft space in NY’s NoHo district, on Valentine’s Day in 1970.

    It’s almost 10 years since I attended my first London Loft. This was in November 2003, a month before my DJ return, and just after I’d reviewed, for Grand Slam magazine, Tim Lawrence’s riveting history of 70’s US dance culture, its title, ‘Love Saves The Day’, of course, taken from that original Loft gathering 43 years ago – Mancuso, the book’s central character, at the very heartbeat of the era (I posted the review earlier this month: http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2013/05/love-saves-the-day/). Following this I wrote the piece below, ‘David Mancuso And The Art Of Deejaying Without Deejaying’, motivated by my discovery in Lawrence’s book of a direct link between Disco and Psychedelia, something which had only been hinted at in stuff I’d previously read about Mancuso. Although it was clear he’d been inspired by Timothy Leary, particularly the book that the LSD evangelist had co-written, ‘The Psychedelic Experience’, it was only on reading ‘Love Saves The Day’ that I learned there was a personal connection between them, and, in a eureka type realisation, understood the ramifications of this association.
    [Read More]

  • SESSION 1508: GLOBALSESSION 08.25.13 ITALY

    Mixed by Luka Bernaskone

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  • SESSION 1507: A1 IN STORE 08.18.13

    Mixed by Elbin Reyes

    01. VaKula
    02. Kuniyuki Feat. Henrick Schwarz – The Session 2 Remixed
    03. Vakula
    04. Alex Agorr – Prise
    05. Romanthony – Ministry of Love
    06. Session Victim – Glow In The Dark
    07. DJ Duke Presents Freedom – Closer
    08. Just Be Feat Jesse Monroe – Don’t Make Me Wait For You
    09. Kuniyuki Feat. Henrick Schwarz – The Session 2
    10. Kai Alce – On It
    11. Mind Fair – Downtown Nubian
    12. Sicania Soul – Starlite (Danny Krivit ReEdit)
    13. Gianluca Pighi – Trumpeetha
    14. Kenny Chandler – Trionisphere IV
    15. Frankie Knuckles – Whistle Song
    16. Alma Horton – Lies
    17. Tito Puente
    18. Revivra Alias Estephe & Vulzor – Mercy
    19. Justice – Easy To Love
    20. Shadow – I Can’t Keep Holding Back (My Love)
    21. Caroline Crawford – I ‘ll Be Here for You
    22. George Duke – I Want You For Myself
    23. Montana Sextet – Who Needs Enemies (Inst)
    24. Pleasure – Take A Chance
    25. Quasimode – Los Conquistadores Chocolates
    26. The Writers – Share Your Love
    27. Michael Boothman – What You Won’t Do For Love

  • SESSION 1506: A1 IN STORE 08.18.13

    Mixed by Donald Lassiter

    01. Al Green – Gotta Find New World
    02. Eddie Kendricks – Someday We’ll Have A Better World
    03. Donny Hathaway – Someday We’ll All Be Free
    04. The Temptations – Mother Nature
    05. Charles Earland – Leaving This Planet
    06. Kool & The Gang – Love And Understanding
    07. Philadelphia International All Stars – Let’s Clean Up The Getto
    08. Leroy Hutson – Lucky Fellow
    09. Marvin Gaye – I Wanna Be Where You Are
    10. George Benson – Summertime
    11. Kool & The Gang – Summer Madness
    12. Trammps – Stop and Think!
    13. Sex O’clock U.S.A –  Baby Come On
    14. Sly Cabell – Feelin’ Fine
    15. The Strangers – Step Out Of My Dream
    16. Aurra – Such A Feeling
    17. The Salsoul Orchestra – Take Sometime Out
    18. Transtive Elements
    19. Meli’sa Morgan – Still In Love With You
    20. Transtive Elements
    21. Classic Man – Fifth Street Orchestra
    22. Classic Man – Mellow
    23. Classic Man – Rapid Winds
    24. Classic Man – A Passing Thought
    25. Little Kirk – Getto People Broke
    26. Peter Tosh – Get Up, Stand Up

  • SESSION 1505: GLOBALSESSION 08.17.13 ITALY

    Mixed by Luka Bernaskone

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  • SESSION 1504: GUEST SESSION 08.12.13

    Mixed by Dez Andres

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  • SESSION 1503: FUNKY SLICE 08.05.13

    Mixed by DJ Monchan

  • SESSION 1502: A1 IN STORE 07.30.13

    Mixed by Seth

    01. Bajy – Comme Ca
    02. Thimothey Herelle – Grand N’hom La
    03. Farah Juste – Pitt-Mouin
    04. Seigneur Ley Rochereau – En Amour Pas De Calcul
    05. J.K. Mandengue – Fire Will Go
    06. Farah Juste – Man Battey
    07. Analog Players Society – Coule’ba (Discovery)
    08. Manolin Gonzales – Canta Mundo
    09. Ocho – Oriza
    10. Orquesta Ilusion – El Perico
    11. Joe Bataan – Coco-e
    12. Jerry Gonzalez – Evidence
    13. Louisa Mark The In Crowd – Six Street
    14. Joe Bataan – I Wish You Love (Pt.1)
    15. The Jones Girls – who Can I Run To
    16. D.J. Rogers – Love Brought Me Back
    17. Lo Borges – Todo Prazer
    18. The Beach Boys – Angel Come Home

  • SESSION 1501: VINYLMANIA 07.31.13

    Mixed by Eric Lopez aka “BigE”

  • SESSION 1500: FUNKY SLICE 07.29.13

    Mixed by Fatik

  • TECHNICS SL-700 7INCH 45 TURNTABLE

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    Image courtesy of Jorge Fabel Pabon

    By DJWork.com

    The Tools or War Crotona Park Jams are a wall to wall Hip Hop legend-fest of epic proportions. And being something of a record collector, Biz Markie is a regular at these events. But this year, it wasn’t so much his ridiculous collection of rarities that caught people’s eyes, but the turntables he played them on. No, it’s not Photoshop — those really are 7? Technics decks. Allow me to explain.

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  • SESSION 1499: GUEST SESSION 07.25.13

    Mixed by Matt Brownell & Steve ShakeWell

    “Air a Danser vol. 1”

  • SESSION 1498: VINYLMANIA 07.20.13

    Mixed by Eric Lopez aka “BigE”

  • SESSION 1497: VINYLMANIA 07.14.13

    Mixed by Eric Lopez aka “BigE”

  • SESSION 1496: A1 IN STORE 07.01.13

    Mixed by Hiroko Otsuka

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    01. Wally Badarou – Keys/Hi-life
    02. Colored Music – African Player
    03. King Kong Paradise – KiKiaki
    04. Kip Hanrahan – This Night Come Out of Both of Us
    05. George Russell – Electronic Sonata For Souls loved by Nature (Part.1)
    06. Stephen McCreven Quaretet Feat. Sam Rivers – Urges
    07. Charles Rouse – Hipscotch
    08. Eric B & Rakim – As The Rhyme Goes On
    09. Ornette Coleman – Friends & Neighbors
    10. Erule – Synopsis
    11. Flying Lotus – Melt!
    12. Herbie Hancock – Succotash
    13. Pirahnahead Feat. Craig Huckby – Child of the Sun
    14. P-Funk All Stars – Hydraulic Pump Part.III
    15. Art of Noise – Battle
    16. Larry Young – Iching (Book of Changes)
    17. Hermeto Paschoal – Gaio Da Roseira
    18. Egberto Gismonti – Raga
    19. Nina Simmone – Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter
    20. Andrew Wartts and The Gospel Story Tellers – Peter & John
    21. Real Person – Plain Brown Wrapper
    22. Village Crusaders – Akiwawa
    23. Sarah Webster Fabio – Sweet Songs
    24. Marlena Shaw – Brother Where Are You
    25. Cross Bronx Expressway – Help Your Brothers
    26. Ann Sexton – You’ve Been Gone Too Long
    27. Martha Bass, Fontella Bass, David Peason – God Has Smile On Me
    28. Pharoah Sanders – When Light Are Low

  • SESSION 1495: FUNKY SLICE 07.04.13

    Mixed by DJ Monchan (A1 Record Shop)