Where Is The Man

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Amir Abdullah is part of Hip Hop history as a sample excavator, music historian, compilation curator and DJ who’s already acknowledged alongside some of his childhood heroes. As a DJ he’s rocked parties from Brooklyn to Berlin, where he’s been based for the past few years; as a producer he reinterprets classic cuts into innovative remixes; as an educator he lectures on topics ranging from cultural appropriation in Hip Hop to the history of independent jazz; as a radio DJ his monthly residency for Worldwide FM, The Khronicles, airs every first Tuesday; and as a curator and label executive he’s responsible for over a dozen releases for his label 180-Proof Records.

 

His latest release, distributed by BBE Records, is DJ Amir presents Strata Records -The Sound of Detroit Volume 1 and coming soon is an album he executive produced and is particularly proud of: Strata Records - The Sound of Detroit - Reimagined by Jazzanova.

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Amir’s love of jazz magical musical moments buried in forgotten grooves led him to his initial fame as one half of the legendary mixtape and DJ duo: Kon & Amir. Their half-dozen “On Track'' mixes and three “Off tracks compilations for BBE.

 

While he’s best known as a DJ and compiler of choice tunes, Amir’s expertise also extends to the business side of the music industry hustle. Starting off in 1996 as an entry-level Fat Beats employee, he rose to Vice President before moving on to A&R for Rapster/!K7 and in 2007 he helped launch Wax Poetics’ record label where he worked until 2010. In 2011 he started his record label, 180-Proof, which owns the exclusive rights to release Strata Records’ influential back catalogue and unreleased sessions.

 

Amir lives for sharing his passion and knowledge about obscure and underappreciated music whether it’s as a music industry executive or an educator. Like the jazz musicians that continue to inspire him, Amir Abdullah keeps pushing the envelope of adventurous music into new and exciting places, shedding light on forgotten artists and sounds while inspiring future musicians and music lovers worldwide.

DJ Amir/ Berlin >> BEST WORKS << Exclusive Mix Nr.1 - Summer Disco Mix 2021

Residency - Sampology | QUIVR | 15-07-21

On for No. 126, this is Manics, the mastermind duo doing it all with indie pop vocals, analog synths, bass, percs, mods, and a killer underground label known as POPGANG Records.

Jordan Deherrera & Chris Sanders are friends of ours now friends of yours. Catch tracks from their 'Pastel Palace' LP out now and discover them at their infamous Cyber Rodeo series here in Los Angeles.

Pastel Palace: soundcloud.com/popgang/sets/manics-pastel-palace-lp/s-9pApIerUGqL

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TRACKLIST:
Bee Gees - More That A Woman (SG Lewis Paradise Edit)
Manics - Perfect-Energy (feat. HoneyLuv)
Manics - Eleven Eleven
Holy Ghost! - Compass Pass
Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up
Manics - Golden Teacher
Hifi Sean - Like Josephine Baker ft. David McAlmont (Omnichord Excursion)
Kraak & Smaak - Pleasure Centre (Turbotito remix)
Yüksek - Bakeu (Manics Born Slippy Edit)
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Psychemagik Naive Edit)
Flight Facilities - The Ghost (Gerd Janson Dance Mix)
Shakedown - At Night (Purple Disco Machine remix)
Tommy Trash & Yolanda Be Cool - Emergency (Pelvis Moves Remix)
Mastercris, Kathy Diamond - Whistle Down The Wild feat. Kathy Diamond (Art Of Tones Remix)
Manics - MIND CNTRL
Depeche Mode - Going Backwards (Claptone remix)
Alex Preston - Lots of Soulful Vocals
Celeste - Stop This Flam (The Blessed Madonna remix)

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L'Essentiel 126 – Manics

To the poets, free thinkers and anarchists of Berlin, always stay radical.

After a steady rise to international recognition through 2 LPS and several EP’s already since 2018, Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange joins the Get Together family for their first recording session in Europe. “Prayer For Peace” — A 7 track journey through atmospheric scenes, broken to deep four on floor rhythms and colourful top lines. From the Jazz-funk inspired 'Prayer For Peace' to the infectious Boogie twilight of 'Cadillac’ this is a record that is equally well suited to dance floor applications as it is to an intimate night with the turntable spinning and the sensual herbs burning.

This Recording represents the Berlin chapter of the Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange. The curated jam band moniker of Ziggy Zeitgeist, the experiment having emerged from the murky depths of the Melbourne underground. Zeitgeist arrived in Berlin in summer 2019 wasting no time in assembling a talented and diverse group of assorted freaks from many corners of the world to bring their own languages, melodies, rhythms and swagger on this cross continental meeting point.

This session captures the raw energetic fusion of such diverse and innovative musicians scene co-existing in the Techno capital of the world. This city already has its own sound, its own attitude. It's no wonder artists gather from every corner of the world to discover themselves through the lens of the city. That is the sound of the ‘Zeitgeist Berlin era’ the group explores deeper, darker sounds of the club emerging from their signature hip slinging disco, funk fusion.

For such an occasion the recording was engineered and mixed by platinum producer / engineer Axel Reinemer in the esteemed Jazzanova studios. 3 days of steamy Berlin summer looking over the ring-bahn towards the swamps of the Tegel Forest to the north. Spiritual jazz interludes flirt delicately with bouncing Brazilian rhythms. Psychedelic dub-grooves meander before exploding into bursts of finessed energy, before locking into steady and deep-house rollers.... All live, All together in the room, all real human spirit imbued in every note, with the level of production to easily stand up on the club system This is the kind of record that is as diverse as it is essential in every serious collectors artillery.

Exclusive Premiere: Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange "Prayer For Peace"

A special showcase from https://soundcloud.com/toucansounds. Mixed by Robert PM!

Tracklist: 

Tony G - Toi et Moi feat. Tebby
musclecars - Sol (K15 Remix)
Robert PM & Moullinex - Faces feat. Fat Tony [Unreleased]
Brandon Markell Holmes & Rogue Vogue - Garden
Escaflowne - Betta Believe [Unreleased]
Pink Flamingo Rhythm Revue - My Heartache and Me (Toribio Remix)
DJ Pasta - Piffero
Jean Tonique & Pink Flamingo Rhythm Revue - Flawless (Jacques Renault Remix) [Instrumental]
Sweatnik - Smoke It Out
musclecars - She Raised Us in Sunset Park
Haruka Salt & Tongji - Scrabble
Database - Um Segredo (Eli Escobar Remix)
Haruka Salt & Tongji - Scrabble (Drummy Remix)
Love Letters - High North [Unreleased]
Haruka Salt - Pitch ’n Itch feat. Fat Tony (AceMo Remix)
Derek Muro & Machine Woman - rill² (Lower Manhattan Rework)

Toucan Sounds - Label Showcase

It's been a great year for changing musical stylings and this early evening set recorded at this years Pikes On Sundays closing party sums up nicely what's been floating my boat this summer for this particularly fabulous part of the day when the sun is dipping below the horizon and the first stars are becoming visible.

Residency - Sampology | QUIVR | 15-07-21

QUIVR - Open Sauce Channel