1. Étienne de Crécy, Air - Soldissimo (EDC Remix)
2. Domenique Dumont - Le Soleil dans Le Monde
3. Prefuse 73 - Afternoon Love In
4. Otto, Edu K - Bob (Edu K Remix) 
5. Röyksopp - Gentle Movement (Lost Tapes)
6. YSE Saint Laur'ant - Warm Wind Brewing
7. Bent - Swollen 
8. Röyksopp - So Easy
9. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
10. HNNY - Cheer Up, My Brother

📷Taisiia Stupak

lekker warme teentjes

geen tijd voor haast

Keuzestress

Schlenkern

Citroensverduistering / Zonnig tuinieren

Zwarte pitjes

The Whip

The Whip (with Mikhaela Faye)

Thrupence has shared a new single, 'In Silence', following from his debut 'Ideas of Aesthetics' LP released in April.

Stream & download 'In Silence': http://futr.cl/insilence
Stream & download 'Ideas of Aesthetics': http://futr.cl/IdeasOfAesthetics

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'In Silence' features in a collaboration with Create Explore and Ben Anderson of Brightside Films. Thanks to Ben and Ta-ku for your hard work. Watch here: https://vimeo.com/239923114

In Silence - Single

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Thrupence — In Silence

RA will return to host the GAIN stage at DGTL Amsterdam at the end of March.

13 acts will perform at GAIN BY RA across the two days. On Saturday, CC:DISCO! joins Honey Dijon, Mano Le Tough, Oceanic, Philou Louzolo and Australian house sensation Mall Grab, who'll go back-to-back with rising UK artist Or:la. The Sunday is similarly loaded with house and disco acts, as Phonox resident HAAi lines up alongside Oberman, Man Power, Nathan Fake (who will play live), Nightmares On Wax and Tom Trago (who'll play a disco set).

Ahead of his set for RA, Dutch selector Oceanic treats us to a mix that explores the full range of his repertoire.

RA / DGTL Amsterdam: Oceanic

Cairo Nights Is a series of musical nights that we presents to you every two weeks 
This Night Mixed By @discoarabesquo

Cairo Nights

Cairo Nights 03

CNL Live Session | Disco 1980 Edition

Artwork, Selection & Mix by Nicolas Sheikholeslami
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In 2017, “Sweet As Broken Dates", our Grammy-nominated compilation of stellar Somali music from before the country’s civil war, captured the entire world's imagination. The songs revived heartwarming memories of a lavish Mogadishu and Hargeisa not known to many non-Somalis, and in many ways allowed the Somali diaspora to reconnect with a time and place ransacked by the wicked fates of history.

All our due diligence and research led us to believe that some of finest music ever made firmly stopped when the war started. Hibo Nuura’s song on the compilation, “If the Artist Lets You Down”, added to this perception, as the widely respected Nuura chastised her fellow musicians for what she saw as a failure of their responsibility to keep the country’s rich music culture alive amid tragedy.

But we were wrong. The music did not stop. Both famous and obscure Somali musicians quietly kept their culture alive in the 1990s and 2000s on drum machines, synthesizers, and laptops. The Somali pentatonic sound melded perfectly with new digital equipment, almost exhibiting an even more authentic sound as analog western instrumentation vacated the repertoire. Most of these recordings were kept private or shared in small circles, never reaching the same audiences in luxurious venues as the music of the 70s and 80s.

This is Chapter 2 in the Somali music story, not Vol. 2. 

At Ostinato Records, we want to reimagine the sequel for music compilations. Too often, “Vol. 2” is filled with the choice cuts that simply did not qualify for the first volume. As storytellers and image-makers, this approach needs a rethink. We have a responsibility to carry the story forward, to not simply rehash what has already been available, and to give agency to the recent past rather than constantly hark back to the 70s and 80s.

“Import/Export Mogadishu” is the side A of a mixtape to announce that we are deeply immersed in producing "Sweet As Broken Dates Chapter 2" and to give fans who relished the first compilation a sneak peak into the direction we’re headed. Side B of the mixtape will be an insight into Chapter 3.

The selection begins with a slow-burning groover by the lively Xabib Shaarabi, a key Somali music figure in the 1990s whose digital disco style was celebrated in a short but viral documentary by The Guardian. We are also proud to announce that Xabib Shaarabi along with lifetime achievement award winner, Cabdinuur Alale, will be performing in Berlin on March 23 as part of the Find the File Festival (https://www.facebook.com/events/1142289929266253/)

These are the next stages in the Somali music revival: the advancement of a story with endless chapters and the resurrection of former greats and live bands, reunited to showcase what no war could vanquish: the resilience and adaptability of the Somali experience.

Import-Export Mogadishu: Up & Down the Pentatonic

I dj at Ekko (Utrecht) during concerts. This is the space where I share other music.

Zwarte pitjes

Jens

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