• SESSION 390: ZAKKA 02.19.10

     Mixed by DJ Yuko @ CedarPartyRoom

    01. Music Is The Answer – Danny Tenaglia
    02. Hey – Dennis Ferrer
    03. Headphone Silence – Dennis Ferrer
    04. Don’t Believe In Love – Dido
    05. Koro Koro – Kerri Chandler
    06. Fired Up – Funky Green Dogs
    07. Let Them Come – Dan Electro
    08. Escuchame – Glenn Underground
    09. Special – Peven Everett
    10. La Music Ka – Osunlade

  • SESSION 389: A1 AFTRHRS 02.17.10

    Mixed by Ron Morelli

    01. The Music of Bobby Beausoleil – The Lucifer Rising Suite
    02. The Music of Bobby Beausoleil – The Lucifer Rising Suite
    03. Rev.Jim Jones – Thee Last Supper
    04. Unknown
    05. D.Carter – Abstract Expressionism
    06. Da Rebels – It’s Time To Jack The House
    07. Da Posse Feat. Chirista Jordan – The Groove
    08. Unknown
    09. Chez Damier – Untitled
    10. Jackmaster Hater – Hiccup Track

  • SESSION 388: ZAKKA 02.16.10

    Mixed by DJ BC (Guerrilla Sound System)

    01. Les McCann – Sometimes I Cry
    02. Marvin Gaye – Since I Had You
    03. Cannonball Adderley – Capricone
    04. David T. Walker – On Love
    05. Buster Williams – Pinnacle
    06. Ramsey Lewis – My love For You
    07. Junior Parker – Tax Man
    08. Eugene Mc D – Freedom Death Dance
    09.Lee Mason – Shady Blues
    10. Tower of Power – Sparking In The Sand

  • SESSION 387: MOMUSICMOLIFE 02.10.10

    Mixed by Yaz Higashiya @ SoleFood NYC

    01. Kenichiro Nishihara – Nebulosa
    02. Ronny Jordan – Floor & More
    03. Pete Rock – Take Your Time
    04. Mos Def – Beautiful ft. Mary J. Blige & Talib Kweli
    05. Four Tet – Hands
    06. Tsunenori – Believe That ft. Pismo
    07. Prince – Purple Rain (Yaz Higashiya Remix)
    08. DJ Krush – Fu-Yu
    09. Incognito – Time Has Come
    10. Gorillaz – Re-Hash

  • LarryHard@12Turn13

  • Dre Day @ MusicHall

  • MKL @ Drom

  • DAILYSUMMARY: TUE, FEB 16, 2010


    Photo by Joe’s NYC

    Recent News
    Swagger and Sideburns: Bad Boys in Galleries – NY Times

    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
    Friday: Halcyon Presents Nu Pschidt @ 7PM

    New in the Radio Archive
    FunkySlice  02.15.10: DJMonchan
    Zakka 02.09.10: Eric Escobar
    FunkySlice  02.08.10: Sean Bee (Downtown)

  • SESSION 386: FUNKY SLICE 02.15.10

    Mixed by DJMonchan

    01. Mtume – Out of Breath
    02. Francois K – Fk On The Beach
    03. Jeff Samuel – Hopefulless
    04. Oracle Three – Esther II
    05. The Orb – Toxygene
    06. UR – The Theory (Mind Mix)
    07. Trumpet Jam(Dub Mix By Joel Mull)
    08. The Orb – S.A.L.T.
    09. Henrik Schwarz – L’Abeille (Guem Et Zaka)
    10. Gotan Project – Triptico (Acoustic Mix)

  • NEWS: BADBOY IN GALLERY

    By Roberta Smith – NY Times

    Judging from a number of overbearing, obstreperous and generally large works by male artists that command gallery space right now, it seems to be bad-boy week on the New York art scene. Isn’t every week, you ask? Maybe, but some are more emphatically so than others.

    It’s hard to say exactly what qualifies an artist for “bad boy” status. Is it a matter of social swagger and conspicuous display? Extroverted self-indulgence and a tendency to revel in unholy messiness? A penchant for extra-large sinister-looking objects that are the sculptural equivalent of long sideburns? All this and more, certainly, awaits your scrutiny in a few of these shows, which exemplify different stages of bad-boyness: beginner (there’s still time to turn back), over the top and over the hill. Others give hints of a change of tune or even redemption. They adopt the scale but not the macho; they add parodying overtones or elegiac undercurrents; or they exercise restraint, delicately explore touch and even broach maturity. [Read More]

  • Shakers@CedarRoom

  • DubWar @ Love

    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)

  • Kaya HiFi @ Royale

  • DeepSpace@Cielo

  • Roots @ Cielo

  • TheClubHouse@Love

  • DJMonchan@CedarRoom

    DJMonchan @ CedarPartyRoom (Bushwick, Brooklyn)  11pm~?

    RSVP – muzic@earthlink.net

  • Sabit @ Sappire

  • SESSION 385: ZAKKA 02.09.10

    Mixed by Eric Escobar

    Please email Eric for Track name.

  • Afro Funky @ Cameo

  • SESSION 384: FUNKY SLICE 02.08.10

    Mixed by  Sean Bee (Downtown)

    01. Alice Coletrane – Jorney in Satchidananda
    02. The Doors – Rider On The Storm
    03. Pharoah Sanders – Astral Travelling
    04. Eddie Kendricks – My People… Hold On
    05. Fela – Beasts Of No Nation
    06. Deniece Williams – Free
    07. Stevie Wonder – Golden Lady
    08. Sylvia Striplin – You Can’t Turn Me Back
    09. Barry White – Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up
    10. Herb Alpert – Rise

  • DAILYSUMMARY: SUN, FEB 07, 2010


    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

  • SESSION 383: MOMUSICMOLIFE 02.04.10

    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

  • Bunker@PublicAssembly

    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.

  • NEWS: WE ARE THE WORLD PT.2

    By Vintage Vinyl News

    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]

  • SESSION 382: A1 AFTRHRS 02.03.10

    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

  • SESSION 381: ZAKKA 02.02.10

    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)

  • DAILYSUMMARY: TUE, FEB 02, 2010


    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.

  • NEWS: SADE ‘SOLDIER OF LOVE’

    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]

  • SESSION 380: FUNKY SLICE 02.01.10

    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

  • SESSION 379: M.A.N.D.Y. October, 2009

    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.

  • NEWS: CHELSEA HOTEL EVICT ARTIST

    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]

  • RIVIEW: THE NIGHT BELONGS TO US

    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]

  • DAILYSUMMARY: FRI, JAN 29, 2010


    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)

  • Eclectic @ Deity

  • Spinna&Moustachio@Sappire

    Spinna on Dailysession

    Moustachio on Dailysession 1, 2

  • SESSION 378: A1 AFTRHRS 01.27.10

    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

  • DanceHereToo@Santos

  • 718Session @ Santos

    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.

  • M.A.N.D.Y@Santos

    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.