• ChicoHamilton@ LPR

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  • NEWS: WARNER BROS SIGNS DEVO

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    By Vintage Vinyl News

    Devo is back on their original label, Warner Brothers, signing what is being called a worldwide groundbreaking partnership. Warner will handle all parts of the band’s career including recordings, touring, merchandising, web presence, promotion, licensing and endorsements. [Read More]

  • NEWS: OUT OF GALLERY, GO UNDER

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    By Jefferson Siegel – Downtown Express

    “This world is but a canvas to our imagination,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. 

    An art collective called Lowbrow Society for the Arts put Thoreau’s words into practice when they held an art show aboard rolling mass transit two weeks ago.  
    “Move! A Wearable Art Gallery and Celebration on a Subway Train” found more than 100 musicians, artists and other costumed performers packed into the last three cars of a J train to Brooklyn as participants painted, sang, danced and performed acrobatic displays. [Read More]

  • Moby @ MusicHall

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  • Moby @ IrvingPlaza

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  • SESSION 302: ZAKKA 09.15.09

    Mixed by Radioo

    01.Linda Laurie – Ambrose Part.5
    02.Demon Fuzz – Another Country
    03.Matata – Talkin’ Talkin’
    04.Vip Connection – West Coast Drive
    05.Sweet Life – I Get Lifted
    06.Motown Sounds – Bad Mouthin’
    07.The Dells – No Way Back
    08.Duke Of Burlington – Flash
    09.Steve Reich – Come Out
    10.Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Darkest Light

  • SESSION 301: FUNKY SLICE 09.14.09

    Mixed by DJ Matt M (ViralVinyl)

    01.Saint Etienne – Nothing Can Stop Us
    02.Madonna – Erotica (Underground Club Mix)
    03.Apostles – Super Strut
    04.Me’shell NdegeOcello – Step Into The Projects
    05.Rufus And Chaka Khan – Any Love
    06.Soho – Hot Music
    07.Soul II Soul – Wish
    08.Marrs – Pump Up The Volume
    09.Huey Lewis And The News – Heart And Soul
    10.Markus Nikolai – Bushes (Fantastic Plastic Machine Remix)

  • Record Fair @ Dumbo

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  • NEWS: BMI AWARDS TO G.CLINTON

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    By Vintage Vinyl News

    Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) saluted the best of the year in urban music on Thursday night at Frederick P. Rose Hall in Lincoln Center at its annual Urban Awards.  The big winners were T-Pain and Lil Wayne who shared the Songwriter of the Year and Polow Da Don and Kanye West who both received Producer of the Year.  Song of the Year went to No Air by Erik Griggs, recorded by Jordan Sparks and Chris Brown. [Read More]

  • NEWS: HALCYON 10TH ANNIVERSARY

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    Halcyon, a bastion of cultural connoisseurs, based in Dumbo, Brooklyn has spent ten years educating and celebrating their community.  Rooted in DJ culture, halcyon is home to an ever-changing global sampling of street art, urban fashion, alternative literature, transformative technology, unique design and, of course, music, in all it’s forms, from Jazz to Techno.

    It’s home to a family of passionate creatives obsessed with the pursuit of quality, open to the insight of collaborators and committed to the advancement of the craft. It’s home to unbridled imagination, uninhibited exploration and unrestrained discovery. Most of all, though, halcyon is simply home to relaxed, unpretentious good times wherein it all comes together… the halcyon experience. [Read More]

  • SESSION 300: ZAKKA 09.08.09

    Mixed by Ali Coleman (Voice of Voice)

    01.Cat Stevens – Was Dog A Doughnut
    02.M People – Pop Muzik
    03.Peter Brown – You Should Do It Right
    04.Ian Duty – Reason To Be Cheerful Pt.3
    05.Was not Was – Tell Me That I’m Dreaming
    06.Quartz – Chaos
    07.Kano – I’m Ready
    08.First Choice – Great Expectations
    09.Dennis Ferrer – Journey To The Sun
    10.Still Phill&Ware – Tell Me All About It(Unreleased)

  • Rotation @ Deity

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  • DeepSpace @ Cielo

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  • DannyTanaglia@Pacha

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  • Sabit @ Sappire

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  • SESSION 299: FUNKY SLICE 09.07.09

    Mixed by Takaya Nagase 

    01.Paz – Crotales
    02.Travis Biggs – Tibetian Serenity
    03.Al Jarreau – Take Five
    04.Freddie Hubbard – Gibraltar
    05.Nina Simmone – Westwind
    06.24 Carat Black – I Begin To weep
    07.The Temptations – Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Inst)
    08.Norman Connors – Mother Of Nature
    09.Henry Butler – Music Came
    10.Barry White – Your Sweetness Is My Weakness

  • SESSION 298: HALCYON 08.28.09

    Mixed by Karraskilla (Biatch Corp  – New York) – no tracklisting available

    Tren Siete record release party!

  • SESSION 297: MOMUSICMOLIFE 09.03.09

     Mixed by Yaz Higashiya @ SoleFood NYC

    01. The Roots – The ‘Notic
    02. DJ Cam – The L
    03. Man Sueto – Sentimental Song
    04. Mondo Grosso – Invisible Man (Liquid Black remix) 
    05. People Under The Stairs – We’ll Be There
    06. Pismo – Sex, Power & Love
    07. Loop Junktion – Mr. Bonyo
    08. HiFana – Uchi-Nan-Champroo
    09. Amanda Diva – Supa Woman
    10. Sauce81 – 000000000000 clock   
    11. DJ Krush – Song 2
    12. Amanda Diva – Supasonic Supanova
    13. Four Tet – Parks

  • NEWS: LOOK FOR PAY IN MP3 WORLD

    By Laura Sydell – NPR

    It has been almost 10 years since Napster helped launch a revolution that turned the music industry on its head, allowing file-sharing fans to swap music on the Web. Record labels have blamed this phenomenon for a steep drop in CD sales.

    Consider this: In early 2000, ‘N Sync’s No Strings Attached was on top of the Billboard album charts, selling nearly 2.5 million CDs in its first week. Now the bar has been lowered. Last year, it took only 1 million CDs for Lil’ Wayne to reach the top of the charts. [Read More]

  • NEWS: NO SKATER IN NEW PARK

    By Will Glovinksy – The Villager

    *In the hotbed microcosm that is Washington Square Park, it is rare that something changes with little fanfare. But that is what appears to have happened with skateboarders in the park. 

    “There has been a significant decrease in skateboarder activity,” Gil Horowitz, leader of the Coalition for a Better Washington Square Park, declared. 

    Horowitz, who can see the park from his apartment windows, wants to protect both the new granite benches — appealing targets for trick skaters — and senior-citizen parkgoers, who have complained about aggressive skateboarders who, they say, dart through crowds. Horowitz once described skaters as his group’s number-two concern after drug dealers, but now they seem to have made themselves scarce, at least while the sun shines. [Read More]

  • NEWS: THE INVENTOR OF REGGAE

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    By Heidi Patalano – Metro

    In mainstream culture, Bob Marley has long been credited as the progenitor of reggae, but before we can even ask, the Jamaican genre’s true father corrects the misconception.

    “I’m the inventor of the word reggae,” boasts Frederick Hibbert, better known as Toots, the leader of Toots and the Maytals.

    Calling from Kingston, Jamaica, his patois so thick it requires several relistens to the recording of our conversation, he says, “Bob Marley was older than me, but he didn’t create the word reggae.” [Read More]

  • NEWS: Q-TIP’S LOST ALBUM RELEASE

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    By Mog

    When an artist is on a major label, it can seem like they have to go walkin’ in artistic no-mans-land sometimes, especially when you read reports that the new album you’ve been hearing about and clamoring for is getting shelved. This is what happened in 1999 to Q-Tip’s record Kamaal The Abstract , the intended follow-up to his first solo outing, Amplified. And like most shelved albums, it leaked out there and became one of the famous lost albums. But recently, someone decided it was the time for the album to see the light of day and it is being released on September 15. You should hear it, just to see what all the fuss is about. The album leans more to the jazz/funk end of the spectrum with an almost spoken word vibe. That vibe feels like musical poetry (in that it tries to push you) and just like poetry, its not for everyone. [Read More]

  • MidniteMagic@ Galapagos

    Friday Sep 4 (9:30pm) @ Galapagos Art Space

    Midnight Magic (members of Hercules & Love Affair and Automato) make their Galapagos debut on Friday, September 4th. 

    DJ sets by Nomi, spinning into the wee hours.

    Midnight Magic is Tiffany Roth, Andrew Raposo, Morgan Wiley, Carter Yasutake, Caito Sanchez, Nick Roseboro, and Max Goldman.  Their sound is a mix of psychedelic soul inspired by electro, funk, and disco from all around the world. Midnight Magic’s first 12″ is called “Beam Me Up” (out on Permanent Vacation later this year). 

    *free haircuts all night
    *2-for-1 drafts from 9pm-10pm

  • Erik Truffaz @ Joe’sPub

    Wednesday Sep 2 (9:30–11pm)@Joe’s Pub

    “French trumpeter Erik Truffaz plays with such pristine minimalism — in long silvery peals and soft metallic breaths”

     David Fricke, Rolling Stone

     

    In 2005, Erik Truffaz was invited by his mentor John Hassell to play at the Montreal festival. He was taken aback by his kindness, his sense of space and the quality of his sound!

    The Ladyland Quartet performed a series of concerts in Paris with Michel Portal and Julien Lourau as guests. 

    2006 was a hard-working year. He composed a play for the National Orchestra of Lilles for which he performed as soloist. During the second part of the evening, he played duets with both Richard Galliano and Didier Lockwood.

    In addition, he regularly goes into battle with Pierre Henry, founder of electro –acoustic music.

    Together with the pianist Malcolm Braff, and with Indrani and Apurba Mukherjee, he moved to India, which led to the Benares album. He also took part in the Ecritures de concert project with Malcolm Braff and the poet Joël Bastard.

    He rubbed shoulders with Murcof, a tireless craftsman, and Talvin Singh joined them to create minimalist and contrasting music.

    2008 was a fertile year with the release of 3 albums: Benares, recorded in Kolkata, Paris in duet with Sly Johnson and Mexico, resulting from musical ping pong between himself and Murcof.

  • HexHector @ Cielo

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  • DLYSHN: Zakka

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    Every Tuesday from 5pm to 7pm @ Zakka

    09/08 Ali Coleman (Voice of Voice)

    09/15  Radioo

    09/22  DJ Moustachio (Academy Records)

  • DLYSHN: Funky Slice

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    Every Monday from 8pm ~ 10pm

    @ Cedar Party Room

    09/14  DJ Matt M (ViralVinyl)

    09/21  Eric Escobar

    09/28  Alex D

    10/05  Earl Broclo Esq

  • DAILYSUMMARY: TUE, SEPT 01, 2009

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    Photo by Sharone Goe

    Recent News
    The Essential…Massive Attack – Fact Magazine
    The Ecstatic Passion of Indie Rock Grows in Brooklyn – NY Times
    DJ AM, Star Disc Jockey, Found Dead -NY Times

    Upcoming Radio Shows
    Monday: Funky Slice @ 8PM New Show!
    Tuesday: Zakka Show @ 5PM (Day & Time Changed)
    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
    Zakka 08.31.09: Mr.Deba
    Mo Music Mo Life 08.27.09: Yaz Higasiya

  • REVIEW: MASSIVE ATTACK

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    By Fact Magazine

    01: DJ MILO / VA

    THE WILD BUNCH – STORY OF A SOUNDSYSTEM

    (STRUT, 2002)

    OK, so this isn’t strictly a Massive Attack album, but if you want to get any real sense of the social and musical context that gave rise to that band, you need to pay it some mind. The Wild Bunch was basically a Bristol soundsystem that came to prominence in the late 80s, tearing up parties in St Pauls and beyond with their infectious, immediate and quietly radical fusion of reggae, hip-hop and soul: a fusion that Massive Attack would take to the next level a few years down the line.

    The core members of Wild Bunch were Miles Johnson (AKA DJ Milo, compiler of this 2002 retrospective), Claude Williams (Willy Wee), Nellee Hooper and Grant “Daddy G’ Marshall, soon joined by Andrew ‘Mushroom’ Vowles and Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja. Very much pre-acid house, the parties the Wild Bunch played at and hosted were massively important to Bristol’s creative flowering and laid the foundations for the sound and aesthetic that would later be termed hip-hop. Though ecstasy and other drugs infiltrated the scene, it remained predominantly weed and booze-driven; accordingly, the wide range of music espoused by the soundsystem was united by its dub DNA: from the rolling, bass-heavy house of Mr Fingers’ ‘Can You Feel It’  to the electro-rap chop-up of Man Parrish’s ‘Hip Hop Be Bop’. [Read More]

  • SESSION 296: ZAKKA 08.31.09

    Mixed by Mr.Deba (Lex Records)

    01. Big L – All Black
    02. Biz Markie – Making Music With Your Mouth
    03. Cru – Bubblin
    04. YZ – Return of The Holy One
    05. Masta Ace – Me and The Biz
    06. EPMD – So What Cha Sayin’
    07. Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth – Good Life
    08. Brand Nubian – Punks Jump Up
    09. Nas – Sekou Story
    10. Smif n Wessun – Sound Bwoy Burial

  • SESSION 295: MOMUSICMOLIFE 08.27.09

    Mixed by Yaz Higashiya @ SoleFood NYC

    01. DJ Spooky – Reactive Switching Strategies for the Control of Uninhabited Air
    02. DJ Cam – Espionage ft. Guru
    03. Madlib – Stormy
    04. The Roots – Why (What’s Going On?)
    05. Amanda Diva – Color Blind
    06. Chimp Beams – Lovely Chimps
    07. Monsieur Leroc – Mmhm…
    08. Pharoahe Monch – Free
    09. Four Tet – Fume
    10. Prisma – Rainy Sunday Morning
    11. Birijian – Q-ILL
    12. Cosigner – UNKNOWN

  • Martinez @ WTB-LIC

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