Eclair Fifi for URB Magazine, 2011

An Other World (part 4)

Sunrise in Berlin. Wandering through a high-tech street market in Seoul. Sweat dripping from the ceiling of a warehouse rave, neo-jacked swing and off-duty deck jockeys. A picture-perfect, postcard-worthy sunset on a palm tree-lined beach in the Caribbean. A Maori showband legend performing in a smoky nightclub. Wandering endlessly through a computer-animated maze. Daydreaming about utopian futures from the deck of a rotating space station, circa 2001. The flickering evening shadows of a nighttime party in Caxias do Sul. A trio of musicians playing free jazz on a balcony in Paris. Another nightclub, another singer; a Spanish language version of ‘Crying’ by Roy Orbison. Are these my memories, or are they my dreams? Could they be uploaded reconstructions of an algorithmically generated past? Is that a hologram, or is it something I can touch? Did they remember this for me wholesale? 

Tracklist:

Horizont - Light of Darkness
누구의 노래일까 - 누구의 노래일까
누가 당신을/문을 열어주세요 - 문을 열어주세요
LX Sweat - Touch Your Body
ミルキー・ウェイ - 夏の日の恋 = Theme From "A Summer Place"
Connan Mockasin - I Wanna Roll With You
Prince Tui Teka - E Ipo
I.A.O - Places of Soul
Dennis Young - So Far
Bullion - Hula
Seaside Lovers - Evening Shadows
Ana Mazzotti - Feel Like Making Love
Luna e DJ Cri - Acabou como Comecou
Maât - Solar Mantra
Rebekah Del Ro - Llorando (Crying)

Are These My Mem◯ries [Mix By Martyn Pepperell]

01. Stones Taro - To Rave
02. GRRL - Drop Ha
03. DJ Bboy - Paga a bebida da Bela
04. Avernian & Strick - Smoking Gun
05. Grievous Angel - Move Down Low Vip
06. Roska feat. Nakamura Minami - Pree Me 
07. Badsista feat. MC Morena - Soca Sem Parar 
08. LA-4A - Panic
09. Boxwork - Pepper Stalk 
10. Tai Davis Dat Ass Sit (That Acid)
11. Tierra Whack - Cable Guy (Morgan Hislop Bootleg)
12. DJ Delish - Sleeze
13. DJ Bboy - Waves 2019
14. Hagan - Right Here
15. Skream - Konga
16. Turk Turkelton - Hype
17. J Kenzo - Hoodwinked
18. DJ Godfather- U Know U Want It
19. Chikovanni - Love Like Mine
20. Futers- Power Within
21. DJ Phil feat. Manny - See You Dance
22. Hyroglifics & Sinistarr - Turn It Up
23. Bala Bala Boyz - Sieta
24. Om Unit - Patterning
25. Riffz - Junglist Gal Dem
26. Philip D Kick - Bleach
27. Text Chunk & Hood Joplin - Keepflowin’
28. DJ Chap - Say U Wanna
29. Madcap - Out Of Reach
30. Fixate - Morbid Chatter
31. Yazzus - Impulse (Breaka Remix)
32. Sully - Clash Track
33. DJ Orange Julius - You Look Good!!!

Balance 2020 - Sarah Farina

https://soundcloud.com/glenn-astro

After releasing New Zealand composer, drummer and producer Cory Champion’s acclaimed Clear Path Ensemble jazz album at the start of 2020, we’re proud to bookend the project with a new digital EP of remixes of songs off the album by Kush Jones, Christoph El Truento, AceMo, Glenn Astro, Daniel Hayles, and Champion under his Borrowed CS house and techno alias.

Where the Clear Path Ensemble album was a vivid ode to psychedelia, spiritual jazz, planetary rhythms and celestial oddities, these remixes turn his cosmic compositions into suped-up starcraft. Glen Astro and Kush Jones give ‘Jerry’s Funk’ a series of electro, dub techno and footwork re-rubs. Christoph El Truento and Borrowed CS both reimagine ‘Drip’ for the orbital nightclubs of the future. Mongo Skato rebuilds ‘Future Fatigue’ to a pounding pulse, and AceMo takes ‘Panorama Actual Spectral’ to Saturn and back. Rounding things out Daniel Hayles meditates on ‘Inner Space’ through sparse-but-emotive piano figures.

If you’ve already spent some time on the Clear Path Ensemble mothership, hearing how these considerable talents have reframed Champion’s jazz pieces is a real joy. And if not, start here on the dancefloor, before making your way back into the lounge bar later on.

Jerry's Funk (Glenn Astro Remix)

Footnotes is a show playing music from books, and this month your host Grace Wang reads Forced Out by Kevin Maxwell. A memoir of a black and gay ex-detective from the Metropolitan Police, it details the relentless racism, homophobia, corruption and discrimination of an institution that was created to protect us. Donate to Netpol.org.

Footnoes w Grace Wang: Forced Out - September 2020

Aachen's Jan Oben coming in hot with an hour of pushing oldschool house. Check out his crew Das ist das Ja for some real good mixes and partys (once they are back).
Don't hesitate to ask Jan for ID's, he'll be happy to help out.

Check out:
@janoben
@dasistdasja

DDC Guest Mix 011 By Jan Oben

SAMPLED explores the tracks behind hip hop tracks. This month @NeeshLorraine digs into tracks sampled by the likes of Freddie Gibbs, A Tribe Called Quest, Anderson Paak, Action Bronson, Jay Z and more.

Sampled w/ Neesh Lorraine - November 2020

1hr Street Soul Christmas Spesh.


Tracklist:

Jamma-Dee - Here I.M.
Space Ghost - So Much Love
Fifth Of Heaven - Just A Little More
Dwight Sykes - That’s The Way Love Is
Uku Kutu - Right Or Wrong
SunPalce - The Funkier Worm (Oscar From Hell)
Simba - P Play
Dwight Sykes - If You Want My Love
Special Touch - Garden of Life
Maryn E. Coote - Welcome To My World (Live 2007)
D’Bora - No Sense (Club Mix)
Ms Ray - How They Shine
George & Glen Miller - Touch Your Life
Arlana - When You Call Me Name
Patrice Rushen - Each To His Own
Sybil Thomas - Rescue Me
Jarren - Jarren’s Groove

The Café Au Lait Street Soul Xmas Special 2020

Kier and Sidman are back with the January instalment of 3 Swords Republic. For their first show of the year, they brought a selection of experimental electronica to delicate and woozy ambience to hard-hitting, club-ready footwork and bass.

3 Swords Republic w/ Kier & Sid Man - Jan 2021

Mix by Kgomotso Sekhu for Music In Exile.

@djmolk @musicinexileau

"Spiritual funk travels from South Africa 🇿🇦 Africa to Brazil 🇧🇷  with a layover in Australia 🇦🇺“

https://undertheapricottree.net/music-in-exile/

Photo: Sarah Pannell

Are These My Mem◯ries [Mix By Martyn Pepperell]

Cosmic Compositions