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Bangin’ new mix from Six Degrees’ artist David Starfire
For more info, check his site.
Full tracklist after the jump.
1. Revival-Beats Antique (David Starfire Remix)
2. The Prototypes-Cascade (Cutline Remix)
3. R U Ready-Calvertron
4. Plan B-Love Goes Down (Doctor P Remix)
5. Just Be Good To Green-Professor Green feat.Lily Allen (Camo & Krooked remix)
6. In the Groove-Urban Assault (Drumstep Mix)
7. Come Together-Beatles (David Starfire Drumstep Remix)
8. Son Of Kick – Playing the Villain
9. Road to Cairo-Little John (David Starfire Remix)
10.Moonlit Horizions-Desert Dwellers (David Starfire Remix)
11.Batkallim -Natacha Atlas (David Starfire Remix)
12.Slip n Slide-Bass Science Ft. iCatching (David Starfire Remix)
13.Take It Back-The Qemists (The Prototypes Remix)
14.Know Us-Jillian Ann & Love and Light (David Starfire Remix)
15.2 Bad-Roksonix
16.Load-David Starfire (Love and Light Remix)
17.Get up Stand up-Bob Marley (David Starfire Remix)
Piers Faccini is a soulful and expressive singer/songwriter whose music fuses folk and West African textures. His debut album found critical acclaim in Europe and brought comparisons to classic artists like Nick Drake. Get your free download here!
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DOWNLOAD Compilation here : Generation Bass Presents MoombahLuV Volume 1
We all know DJ Umb doesn’t sleep, how else could he and the good people at Generation Bass keep up the continuous output not only on their blog, but with their new label as well. Just this last week they shared the laidback mixtape MoombahLuV and released the new EP from DJ Sabbo (Tel Aviv). Enjoy the music and check after the jump for tracklist and more info.
Generation Bass presents: Sabbo – Freaktion EP from Videomit on Vimeo.
FOREWORD & TRACK SYNOPSIS BY NEIL QUEEN JONES
The foreword and track synopsis is by a man who I admire highly, Neil Queen Jones, one of the top Moombahton journalists in this scene.
Over to Neil:
Generation bass presents Moombahluv Volume One
You should never ask what Moombahton is, it’ll only be something new tomorrow. Moombahton is more than just a global bass genre, it’s a wide-eyed, infectious field project in EDM mechanics that relishes discovery. Dave Nada’s creation bears the bruises that come from repeatedly butting up against any limitation it comes up against: the tough bass rumble of moombahcore galvanised it, then moombahsoul proved that something deeper lurked beneath the playful exterior -and now Moombahluv Volume One shows what this thing is capable of – over 17 track, Moombahluv points the way forward.
1. Home – Phi Unit
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes’ hypnotic, lilting anthem gets taken from the campfire to last-track-of-the-night, sun-rising status with this judicious workout. This is how uplifting needs to be done.
2. None Of Dem (Th0r remix) – Royksopp & Robyn
One of Moombahton’s strength is that it doesn’t seek to reinvent the wheel, it just happens to own a new set of tyres. Th0r’s exquisite repurposing of this slice of Scandinavian class pushes it jet-heeled towards the 108bpm dancefloor, without compromising the original’s potency.
3. Mouthful Of Diamonds (DJ 4Head edit) – Phantogram
When Dave Nada pitched down Dutch house, who knew it would’ve ended up here? Wistfully indie female vocals and guitar riffs are the latest components to be assimilated by the global bass hybrid – proving once again that Moombahton is a sound that confounds expectation.
4. Bob James – El Nomada
The breaks legend gets a serious mid-tempo global retread from El Nomada. This one’s perfect for kicking back and savouring the good life; a gentle bossanova is tweaked to form the distinctive Moombahton beat, flute lazily marks time and the percussion irons out any rough edges. Wonderful.
5. Everything She Wants (Thomas Blondet edit) – Wham!
This could so easily have gone badly wrong, yet now seems so logically right. At the hands of the glacially cool Blondet, George Michael’s finest moment gets the perfect Moombahton rub-down, retooled and ready for a liberated, hipster-allergic dancefloor. Effortlessly suave.
6. Another Girl (Kan Takahiko edit) – Jacques Greene
Pure tranquil bliss. Japanese producer Takahiko gives the highly rated Montreal producer Greene, a serious make over here with a sumptuous edit, one that shows that Moombahton is now comfortable in its skin. Stripped of excess, Another Girl allows the dembow to work in perfect unison with the music, building into a balaeric wonder.
7. 93 Til’ Moombah – Cabo Blanco
Moving quickly to shoot down the notion that a woman’s role in Moombahton necessitates a bikini, this dreamy serving of moombahsoul interlaces the beautiful female vocal with the wide-open expanse of the production to heavenly effect.
8. Sliding Scale – Doc Adam
Doc reins in his trademark jackhammer beats, this time tooling up with lavish strings and Q-Tip samples, yet his tight, gristle-free production style remains uncompromised. Sliding Scale proves that Doc Adam is not only of the OGs who commands respect, but one who’ll form part of Moombahton’s future, too.
9. Suave – Freaky Phillip
The tropical beats are in full working order here, as Freaky Phillip reps the Dominican Republic, stripping Moombahton down to its constituents; the dembow crunch, the Dirty Dutch riffs, the euphoric lifts – and sends them floating into deep space.
10. A Change – Elonious
Lasers and social revolution combine to devastating effect in this effort from Generation Bass’ own Elonious. Scathing Moombahcore hooks vie with old-school electro jabs in a battle for supremacy – but the listener is the winner, irrespective of the outcome.
11. Amor De Angeles – Arehouse
Monica getting a reverse screw may sound like an unfortunate turn of events, but in reality it’s Arehouse effortlessly proving that pitching up to 108bpm need not mean sacrificing any of the grace, soul or subtlety – in fact, this R&B number sounds as slick as ever.
12. What Have You Done – DJ Dice
This upbeat, minimal affair from DJ Dice effortlessly and purposefully steams into full flight, teasing a playfully childlike riff into an unlikely big room soundsystem scenario, proving again that moombahton is always full of surprises and curious intent.
13. Ya Ghali (Mendez edit) – Guitarra Band
The mutual global cosign continues, with this latin creation from the El Cuco stable reaching out east for a rare “Bellyton” joint. Mendez is a producer who matches a breadth of vision with well-drilled production chops, as this tight, hypnotic edit proves.
14. In The Zone (Boyfriend edit) – The Weeknd
The Weeknd plus Moombahton may seem like the result of a hipster focus group, but with Lithuanian producer Boyfriend’s ear for brooding melody, cavernous soundscapes and unanswerable beats applied to Abel Tesfaye’s plaintive urban love letters, any such argument is instantly proved pointless.
15. Goshen (Smash & Grab edit) – Beirut
This glorious edit shows how Moombahton is capable of more than throwing out bangers, it can also handle nuance, grace and sensitivity, as Smash & Grab show that melody and acoustics have no need to fear the dembow.
16. Caboclo – Frankie Grimes
While producers were trying to pick up the pieces in the wake of Munchi’s Firepower, Ireland-based Frankie took his own path, seeking out a more soulfully expressive sound. Caboclo shows where he ended up – in a refined and beautiful place.
17. Crawl – Stlkrfxxx
Love can come in many forms, and in the case of David Beltran, the other person doesn’t always need to know too much about it. Dragging witch house down to 108 level, this Moombahton taken to dark and exciting places.
Download the mini-mix:
Generation Bass Presents MoombahLuv Volume 1 – Excerpts Promo Mix by DJ UMB by djumb
DOWNLOAD Compilation here : Generation Bass Presents MoombahLuV Volume 1
Volume 2 is just around the corner!!!!
Let’s get together and play music.
The Morning Music & Coffee Consumption series, an informal gathering of artists, aims to do just that. The assumption about digital music production may be very different – the solo artist, holed up in a bedroom alone with a laptop is the default image. But instruments and laptops go together, and laptops can increasingly be played comfortably as instruments, so there’s really no excuse. And Jared Smyth’s mm-cc series, having already produced a volume of music and image, is both an inspiration and a potential model. Creator Jared says he’s hoping others will join in with similar events and share the sonic results – perhaps that’ll be you and your friends, wherever you are.
The series, shot in sumptuous macro video by Charlie Visinic, looked good enough in film that it made appearance on our sister site Create Digital Motion (where I erroneously described the series as being Charlie’s creation, an error I can happily now correct):
Meditative Short Films with Hypnotic Music, Made in the Realm of the Micro
With the aim of inspiring (welcome) copycat events, I asked Jared to tell us more about how this series is organized and how it works.
CDM: Tell us a bit about the idea behind mm-cc.
Jared: I started mm-cc as a ritual to reconnect with what made me want to play music in the first place: community. It’s getting together with friends with no pressure to create something marketable, and simply hanging out and creating noise together. mm-cc is my concept (though not that original … people have been getting together to make music and drink coffee long before I called it ‘mm-cc’). I host the website, create posts and also host occasional mm-cc sessions myself at my home in Florida. Charlie also hosts sessions in southern California. The idea is for more people to take part as Charlie does – hosting their own sessions, creating their own visuals and then letting me know about it so I can do a post on it. There’s even an upload form and a forum I built on the site for people to send in samples of audio, or clips of video to be used in other people’s sessions. I really want mm-cc to be as collaborative and eclectic as possible.
How did you organize people to do this?
Some of the time it’s by creating a Facebook event; other times it’s word-of-mouth. With Charlie Visnic and the California sessions, it just sort of happened that he wanted to host sessions at his home over the summer. We met through the monome forums and then became friends as each of us was working on a 365×1 blog goal. (On that note, I started mine over on January 1st, and am now on day 261 – see uprlip.com.
At what point does the coffee kick in?
7am(ish) – people show up around 10am and we play till noon…. I’m usually fairly wired before they show up. I try to buy really good, locally-grown coffee and make it in my French Press.
Are there any special moments or surprises that have happened through the various sessions?
No individual event springs to mind. But it’s always really special for me to look through my studio, where cables are strewn about and there are five or six people drinking really strong coffee and spacing out on their respective instruments, and then into my living room and see my daughter drawing, one friend hand-sewing something, and another knitting, all while listening to the music we’re creating. The chatter and movement of the non-musicians filtering into the room (and often the mic’s) where we’re recording serves as a very natural field recording to accompany us. I love listening back to a session and hearing my daughter giggling or friends talking faintly in the background. It’s a really ethereal experience when that sort of all comes together. That’s exactly what I want from mm-cc – togetherness.
Are you releasing the music separately? If so, where?
There are plans for that in the works. The session that John Keston, David Andree and I did in Minneapolis earlier this year (see video, top) has a much longer recorded form than what’s represented in the video, and we’re very much planning to make that the first (of many?) mm-cc releases. Josh Mason at Sunshine Ltd. has agreed to release it; we’re just not sure of a date yet.
How do you work across coasts?
Well, we’ve only done one session that was ‘trans-coast.’ (video above) For that one we defined a set of notes within a set key that both session’s players would play. I shot the video clips here in Florida and then sent them off to Charlie to edit as he wanted, and he sent me the audio from their session. I then mixed that with the audio from our session, and then sent the final mix back to him, and he cut the video to it. I would like to do more this way – it’s sort of a blind/deaf jam session. We had no clue what theirs would sound like and vice-versa. As for the other sessions that Charlie has hosted, they’re all him. I really have very little to do with them. He just lets me know when he’s going to have one and I then do a post for it when he’s done, and has a video uploaded.
Okay, if this has made you interested in becoming involved, here’s where to go to do it.
http://mm-cc.org/
Vimeo channel
Community / host your own session
Moses Iten a.k.a. Saca La Mois DJ!! was recently commissioned by cult ABC Radio National programme The Night Air to produce a 50 minute mixtape in celebration of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human being to travel into outer space, 50 years ago.
The Podcast (50′)
As co-producer and founder of the Cumbia Cosmonauts, Moses Iten was able to source music from an expansive collection of Soviet-bloq science fiction soundtracks and hundreds of LPs containing music produced for an unknown future, somewhere during the past five decades.
Narrated by archival recordings from the various missions to outer space from ABC Radio’s archives going back to the 1960s, Moses Iten also discovered some new sounds to include fragments of Neil Armstrong’s cassette he took on his mission to the moon and cuts of the LP made of gold that was built to last at least two billion years and is about to leave our solar system on board of the Voyager spacecraft.
For complete playlist with details on artist, song, album and label go to ABC Radio National’s The Night Air homepage.
The raspy-voiced, east coast singer-songwriter, Rachael Yamagata, has allowed Paste Magazine to stream her upcoming album, Chesapeake, out October 11th. Chesapeake will be released via Yamagata's own record label, Frankenfish Records.
The album was named after Chesapeake Bay--where it was recorded. Yamagata and producer John Alagia recorded Chesapeake in his house, which they converted into a studio weeks before recording. The record was financed by Yamagata through a PledgeMusic campaign--fans donate money and in return, they get exclusive updates about how the recording process evolves. Once Yamagata's goal for money was reached, she will donate a percentage of the excess money to the ASPCA.
To listen to the album click below. You can expect 10 poppy, folky tunes.
Yamagata is set to start her tour in October, for the dates, keep reading.
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Tour Dates:
October
24, Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall
25, Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
27, Ithaca, NY @ Delilah's on Cayuga
28, North Hampton, MA @ Iron Horse
30, Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
31, Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
November
1, Alexandria, VA @ Birchmere
2, Baltimore, MD @ Sound Stage
4, Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory
5, Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Café
6, Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
7, Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew's Hall
8, Chicago, IL @ Logan Square
10, Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Ballroom
11, Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
12, Davenport, IA @ Redstone Room
14, Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
16, Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
18, Salt Lake City, UT @ State Room
20, Spokane, WA @ A Club
21, Vancouver, Canada @ Media Club
22, Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
23, Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
25, San Francisco, CA @ Slims
27, San Diego, CA @ Casbah
29, Los Angeles, CA @ Troubador
30, Tuscon, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
December
2, Austin, TX @ The Parish
3, Houston, TX @ Fitzgeralds (Upstairs)
4, Dallas, TX @ The Loft
5, Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom (2nd Stage)
7, St. Louis, MO @ Blueberry Hill
8, Nashville, TN @ 12th and Porter
9, Birmingham, AL @ Work Play
10, Atlanta, GA @ Vinyl
12, Charleston, SC @ New Brookland
13, Charlotte, NC @ Local 508
15, Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
16, Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
17, Louisville, KY @Headliners
18, Columbus, OH @ The Basement
19, Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwells
20, Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwells
21, New York, NY @ City Winery
22, New York, NY @ City Winery
Listening to electronic music on an incredible sound system in the right atmosphere can be a near religious experience. Watching a DJ spin records or work a laptop, however, can get boring quick. The Berlin-based electronic duo Modeselektor are an exception to the rule. Since 2002, Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary have been creating bleeding edge experimental and dubstep-infused techno—and wooing crowds by dancing and
headbanging while twiddling the knobs. For Electronic Beats, Modeselektor agreed to go back to the basics.
Introspective space boogie and ADD jitter-funk are the order of the day on the final record in eLan's trilogy of limited press vinyls before he drops an album on Modeslektor's Monkeytown imprint. Bearing in mind the functional nature of Monkeytown - it's music for nightclubs and DJ's, eLan takes a decidedly pedestrian route - 'Blackout' is a 21st century take on, err Jazz funk that bar some squelchy low end could be a pitched down Paul Hardcastle number. 'Next 2 Last' is similarly sedate, with some interesting sampling that I cannot quite put my finger on, slinky beats and nod L.A's new school of funk. Modeselektor inject a bit of head nodding swagger and aquatic oscillating samples for the heads into 'Bleep Bloop Brrrmmp' where 'Down 4 You' is the highlight for me - menacing FM synths spasm and a mournful, snaking melody make for some pretty deep skanking. Rounding off the package is Anstam's take on 'Saccharin on Top' which comes a close second on the personal favourite stakes. Laid back AND fierce, you can stream the record below.
eLan "Fuzzy Numbers EP" (MTR016) - Out on October 14th by Modeselektor
