DAILYSESSION
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NEWS: WARNER BROS SIGNS DEVO
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]
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NEWS: OUT OF GALLERY, GO UNDER
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] -
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) -
NEWS: BMI AWARDS TO G.CLINTON
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]
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NEWS: HALCYON 10TH ANNIVERSARY
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]
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DAILYSUMMARY: WED, SEPT 09, 2009
Photo by C. Bay MilinRecent News
Musicians Look For Pay In An MP3 World – NPR
For Skateboarders,It’s Not The Same Old Grind In New Park – The Villager
‘Toots’, The Inventor Of Reggae – Metro
Q-tip’s Lost Album Finally Let Out To Play – MogUpcoming Radio Shows
Monday: Funky Slice @ 8PM New Show!
Tuesday: Zakka Show @ 5PM
Wednesday: A1 Afterhours @ 9PM
Thursday: Mo Music Mo Life@8PM
Thursday: Bless Up @ 6PM
Friday: Halcyon Presents Nu Pschidt @ 7PMNew in the Radio Archive
Zakka 09.08.09: Ali Coleman
Funky Slice 09.07.09: Takaya Nagase
Halcyon 08.28.09: Karaskilla (Biatch Corp – New York)
Mo Music Mo Life 09.03.09: Yaz Higasiya -
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) -
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!
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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
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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]
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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]
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NEWS: THE INVENTOR OF REGGAE
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]
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NEWS: Q-TIP’S LOST ALBUM RELEASE
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]
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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.
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DLYSHN: Zakka
Every Tuesday from 5pm to 7pm @ Zakka
09/08 Ali Coleman (Voice of Voice)
09/15 Radioo
09/22 DJ Moustachio (Academy Records)
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DLYSHN: Funky Slice
Every Monday from 8pm ~ 10pm
09/14 DJ Matt M (ViralVinyl)
09/21 Eric Escobar
09/28 Alex D
10/05 Earl Broclo Esq
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DAILYSUMMARY: TUE, SEPT 01, 2009
Photo by Sharone GoeRecent 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 TimesUpcoming 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 @ 7PMNew in the Radio Archive
Zakka 08.31.09: Mr.Deba
Mo Music Mo Life 08.27.09: Yaz Higasiya -
REVIEW: MASSIVE ATTACK
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]
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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