Kirollus Live at Moodena Presents on Saturday 4th June 22

Third of my Saturday night radio shows for 95bFM in Auckland City!
Focusing on the sound of NYC Garage & Soulful House! 
Featuring music from the likes of... Louie Vega, Kerri Chandler, Kai Alce, Phil Asher, Barbara Tucker, Ash Lauryn, Moodymann, Victor Simonelli, Atjazz, Adeva and much more! X

House Of Booker: Episode 3 - House + NYC Garage

Fourth and final of my Saturday night radio shows for 95bFM in Auckland City!
Focusing on the sound of Disco! Featuring music from the likes of... Lamont Dozier, Evelyn Champagne King, Johnny Hammond, Eddie Kendricks, Inner Life, Patti Labelle and much more! X

House Of Booker: Episode 4 - Disco

Muzik & Rose in Tilburg Netherlands

My latest show for Defected Broadcasting House aired 23.09.2022.
I ll provide a paylist asap and will update the description once the video is available.

Marcel Vogel - Defected Broadcasting House #7 (Disco & House)

Rare Boogie 45s for Danilo Plessow (MCDE)

All OG vinyl set between the 2 live bands at the Space Grapes Showcase, ADE 2022

Live From Borisov | Space Grapes Showcase, ADE 2022

Aroop Roy is a producer, musician and label head, who joins the dots between electronic music and borderless organic sounds. From house, disco and techno to jazz, funk and Afrobeat, he has enjoyed universal acclaim as a producer and DJ.

Like his productions, his sets are full of personality and style and have earned him a growing reputation as a uniquely gifted DJ. In 2022, he closed We Out Here Festival with Mr Scruff who described Aroop as a 'ridiculously skilled selector, musically able to move in any direction with ease'. We were fortunate enough to witness this magic, so it's with great pleasure we welcome him to the series. Enjoy

Artist: @aroop-roy

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SlothBoogie Guestmix #370 - Aroop Roy

Robert was our friend, and we miss him. It's difficult to put into words just what he meant to us. He was a mentor, an inspiration. Canada’s, and more specifically Montreal’s, disco deity. We won’t burrow into his biography, as it is extensive, and footnotes would simply not do him justice. Check out the Red Bull Music Academy video interview if you want to start to journey into who he was for yourself. We made this mix just a few days after he died. It is a cathartic, vastly imperfect, and quick expedition into his music. It merely scratches the surface of who he was, musically.

We connected through a party we were playing for Pride Toronto, after we suggested that he replace the divine Nicky Siano on the bill, as Nicky had to back out at the last minute. After that party, we played together a handful of times, both in his native Montreal and in Toronto, but we really became close through afternoons spent in his home studio, sharing songs. He was more passionate about music than anyone we’d ever met. He was in his seventies, some forty years our senior, but was a big kid really, and when we were together we were contemporaries. We loved taking him out to dinner, which happened about once a month, and hearing stories of his Limelight disco days, or of his experience making house music in the nineties. Or speaking to what it was like to be a seventy-odd something still making music and djing parties. He was always working on something. Always. We were so proud to help get a few of his edits out to the world, through connections with GAMM, Basic Fingers, and Whiskey Disco. He had so much music to share, and was constantly clamouring for us to send him edits for his radio shows, a request we complied to, often and happily. 

When the world stopped with Covid, we were no longer able to make it to Montreal. We’d chat over the internet, or do video calls, but, in hindsight, we could and should have stayed better connected. When the news of his passing broke, over a stranger's shared Facebook post of all places, we were breathless and in disbelief. We called his phone, over and over again, putting our faith in the unreliability of social media, but he didn’t answer. Shortly after, a text came from his phone, from a friend of his, confirming the news. The hardest part was knowing that those dinners were over. No more advice and no more shared wisdom. The promise of another party to play together was to be left unfulfilled. We just hope that he knew how much we loved him and how important he was to us.

Dylan & John aka the Patchouli Brothers

Lumberjacks Tape 044: Ode to Robert Ouimet by The Patchouli Brothers

Soon Come!!! Playing all night, 5-6 hours, vibes... Here's an entree!
Saturday 19 August // NOTW // Auckland
Friday 1 September // MEOW // Wellington
Get Down With Me! X

HOUSE KEEPING

Two hours of easy Sunday Jazz and Soul vinyl selections.

Living Sounds Sunday // April 26, 2020

NZ DJ Bookings: reuben@banishedmusic.com
Australia & Asia DJ Bookings: stix@undrctrl.com
UK & Europe: paul@theunityagency.co.uk

DJ & Producer based in Auckland City.

Release records through Sleazy Beats Recordings, Disco Deviance, Down In The Basement, Razor'N'Tape & Kolour Recordings LTD.

House Of Booker: Episode 4 - Disco

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