Audio Kitchen - Kyle Ovens - Cooking House Music 
https://soundcloud.com/audiokitchen.
Started dj career in Cape Town at the iconic Baraza in Camps Bay in the late 90's. Played at Cape Town venues including Caprice, Bambu, Opium, Karma Lounge, Rhodes House, Cafe Del Mar and Sandy B's at the Bay Hotel. Loving the deeper side of house. Now based in Knysna, South Africa with residency at Bloo. 
DJ bookings : kyleovens@gmail.com

We do realize that we have a life, but considering the fact that our conversations usually turn out to be quiet hilarious, we've decided to spread the joy and make other people laugh as well. SO yeah, this is being done for a good cause - sure *cough charity cough* .. no, anyway- from anything to everything to nothing, we will probably cover it all - but we don't know how cause its not planned. It's spontaneity is its highlight, and we are bloody well hilarious.
So instead of spending our spare time "in the kitchen making sandwiches" .. we are making podcasts, bitches! .. If you just want to laugh without thinking much - subscribe. :)

They say music is the best pain killer and when it comes to choppy up-beat rhythms and addictive melodies The DF118’s are just what the doctor ordered.

Branded as psychedelic ska, The DF118s serve up a potent cocktail of – surprisingly enough – upbeat ska and colourful psychedelic rock. Influences range from 80’s bands such as The Specials and The Beat to more recent acts such as Dread Zone, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Toasters, Dread Zepplin and The Ozric Tentacles. At first glance, this strange brew of influences seems slightly odd – but after one listen you’ll get the hang of it.

The 5 founding members of the band have been playing musical chairs together in various bands for over 20 years. Their journey towards DF118 medication takes in names such as Esperanza, In Transit, Diff’rent Level, Di Mojo Ann, Techno Scrapies, The Emotional Tourists, Slider and The Tartan Rascals.

Possibly the most successful previous collaboration for the band was with The Counterfeit Clash who toured and gigged all over the UK for almost 20 years. All 5 members of the DF118’s were involved with the Counterfeits to some extent. (Rab on guitar, Johnny on drums, Shug was reserve bass player, Accy was manager & roadie and James was roadie & driver). After almost 20 years of paying homage to The Clash however, it was time to take the music in new and original direction. So in their latest cocktail, we hear the DF118’s produce a sound which is both familiar and fresh.

Lyrically, their songs take you on a hedonistic rollercoaster ride. One minute you’re at the dizzy heights of 21st century life, then you drop into the reality of a Monday morning. Along the way, we hear stories of love, trans-sexuals, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, festivals and parties. It’s good old sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll all the way - served up DF118 style. The songs are heart felt, honest and provocative. Sometimes tongue-in-cheek and sometimes disturbingly gritty. All in all, the DF118’s administer a fresh musical cocktail that will have you addicted after 1 listen. Be warned!

I was born in Dayton, Ohio. I lived there until I was six, then moved to Johnson, South Carolina. That is when I decided to start pursuing my dream with music. Music has always been a long term dream ever since I could remember. I did not have the best childhood, but what I took from it has made me what I am today and able to write the music I do. What made me enjoy music even more was when I saw how much emotion could be released when writing. Being able to write down your emotions, be it anger, sadness, love or hurt without going to other resources was an outlet for me. I can remember hearing my mom sing, loud with harmony putting heart and tickle into her tune. Shadowing her sharing her pain as we went through hard times. Living with people was nerve wrecking. Father wasn’t around growing up. My mother played the role of both, holding us together. I remember asking my mom why my dad doesn’t want me in his life, when I’m his only son. We finally received the call we were waiting for from section 8 housing, we then moved to North Augusta SC. A whole new world opened up, I mean growing up you hears your grandparents speaking on racism, but to experience it first hand was different. Not from every individual, but you know there’s always someone wanting to push your buttons. I couldn’t blame them because their parents or role models raised them in that manner. But it didn’t last long, after hearing someone disrespects you over and over start to take a toll on you as a person. I was always afraid of meeting new people, at age 8 I was already getting put out of school for fighting. And with my mom taking care of six kids on her own was taking a toll on her. So just for more discipline my mother enrolled me and my younger brother into boxing academy. Started training, and going to church. My mom would do everything to keep us busy so we would not turn to the streets. With training and church discipline it awarded me with a trophy, not any award but a silver gloves champion trophy. That was the greatest moment of my life, to see all the hard work pay off. After winning the fight while still training for next fight I feel in love with music. I can remember sitting in my room with candles writing to different songs playing on the hand set radio. Saying I’m going to be one of the greatest, feeling like superman with no cape. Telling my story boldly with feelings and emotions, cough lots of eyes with in my youth.At a young age I enjoyed meeting new people, it was not as hard as I perceived it to be. Letting them hear what I had to give was the best part, seeing their reaction and the look on their faces was priceless. When I was 13, I moved to Gwinnett County, Atlanta, Georgia. I noticed everyone around me was into some form of music. I knew if I wanted to make it within the music industry I would have to be more competitive, strong-minded and more structured than most people or artists. You know I heard Kanye West say one time if you admirer someone then come out and tell them, people never get the flowers while they can still smell them. Time passed and pride hid my character unfortunately. My biggest role model was my cousin, Jacob Padgett also known as, Major Payne. Everything he did was with love and compassion. I thank God for blessing me with him and putting such a wonderful person in my life, hearing him sing was what made me want to be like him with all I did in music, even though he was only here for a short time. Major Payne passed away on March 19, 2009, that day I felt I lost a part of me. He taught me a lot about music and how to love it. Knowing that I’m doing something that reflects on him is the part that hurts, but doing what I love counts the most. But speaking it is one thing you can’t just wake up one morning an say I want to do this or I want to accomplish that. You have to want this as much as you want to breathe you have to believe in yourself first, before you can make the next step. Believing in yourself is not as easy as you would perceive, it takes lots of dedication, it’s also time consuming. Everything I’ve been through in my past and in my present, I feel is a message to help and comfort children and adults who might be going through the same thing and not know how to come out of their circumstances because they feel they have no way out. I know what it feels like to be left alone, I know what it feels like when nobody cares, I know what it feels like to not have your father around. I speak from my heart, that’s why music is so special to me, because it’s always been there for me through my tough times. I mean, let’s just be real, sometimes you don’t feel like hearing or understanding people’s advice.. So where do you turn? Some church, friends, parents, and ah, yes.. Music! Music is more than a five letter word. Music can express so much when you least expect it. Words give off life, and life can make another, and with another you will have double; and once you have double, you are unstoppable. Here’s why not only do you have yourself for support, but you have your word which is powerful to support you and hold you down through your toughest times. We speak life and death with our speeches.

Why am I passionate about what I do? 
I like the fact that I can write down how I feel or what I am going through without turning to other resources.




Wobble and Wheeze: a potentially overweight Iron Man competitor and an endlessly wheezing whooping cough victim – who share in common the fact that they are both always, unquestionably (and completely) correct in all their opinions and assertions.

They have almost learnt the rules of chess and play and sing unstoppably in the early hours whilst their long-suffering wives and children sleep.

Biography:

Wheeze - Adam Summerhayes is an internationally renowned fiddle player, best known for acclaimed classical recordings and his work with Zum and the Lightning Thieves. He can be found on the odd Hollywood soundtrack and frequently heard on radio stations worldwide. He feels compelled to stay in this duo until he has finally beaten Wobble at chess.

Wobble - Peter Johnston is a completely unknown headteacher (probably even to his students) who happens to sing a bit and write a tune or two. He has absolutely no idea why Wheeze is slumming it in this duo other than the fact the songs seems to work and a seeming masochistic streak for being beaten at chess.

 KILLER B’S  

You can’t keep a good musician down.

Guitarist, singer, band leader Chris Thompson just goes from strength to strength – as the focal point of THE KILLER Bs, Chris proves that yet again he’s a songwriter and player to be reckoned with.

A veteran of some of the greatest British bands of the past 30 years it’s good to see Thompson still has the energy, the desire and the hunger to play live and write memorable songs, as a series of recent support spots to Wilko Johnson has readily proven.

Thompson fell in love with rock’n’roll at an early age – he lived in North America as a kid soaking up the likes of Little Richard and Sam Cooke. When he got back to the UK his teenage years were spent watching bands like the Stones at Richmond Athletic Club and Eel Pie Island. It wasn’t long before he was playing guitar himself in the clubs mainly as a solo act, and enjoyed the mentorship of legendary acoustic blues guitarist Wizz Jones.

At the end of the 70s, Chris met guitarist Bill Carter. It was to be the start of a long and very fruitful partnership that would last for the better part of a decade. It was the punk era but the pair shared a love of British rhythm’n’blues bands and Chicago blues and put together a quintet, the Small Brothers – with Chris switching to the bass. A mainstay of the vibrant London pub circuit, the band recorded one single for Albion Records, which though good, never quite caught the wildness of their live performances.

In 1981 Thompson and Carter happened across singer, harmonica player and nascent filmmaker Tony Moon who opened them up to other influences particularly Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. An offer to record for Stiff Records offshoot SSH4 resulted in a well-received EP and recruiting drummer John Kingham, they christened themselves, Motor Boys Motor (after the title of an old Joe Strummer song). The band went on the road touring the 
UK, Germany and Norway. As well as a couple of excellent BBC sessions, the band cut a fabulous self-titled LP for Albion – a mighty collision of influences as diverse as Beefheart and Dr Feelgood, the record exuded a brutal power, zany sense of humour and fierce, oft times political intelligence but it somehow fell between the cracks – too weird for the pub rock brigade and too traditionally rock’n’roll for the avant-gard crowd, though lauded by their staunch band of admirers.

When Moon decided to quit Chris and Bill had a re-think and pulling on board old mate drummer Kenny Harris (from the Small Brothers), they stripped down their sound, wrote a bunch of new material and re-emerged as the Screaming Blue Messiahs. Cutting an EP for Ted Caroll’s Ace Records, Good and Gone, this power trio suddenly caught on in a big way. The summer of 1984 saw them plastered all over the front covers of weekly papers, the NME and Sounds, and so began a dizzy ascent to fame and fortune.

Signed by Elektra/Warners, the band went on to release an expanded version of Good and Gone, and three superb albums, Gun Shy, Bikini Red, and Totally Religious and a series of singles that culminated in Top 20 success in 1988 with ‘I Wanna Be a Flintstone’ that saw them on Top of the Pops and mainstays of MTV. Combining blues, rockabilly, rhythm’n’blues, punk and even country and fusing it with an obsession with American pop culture, the Messiahs were an exhilarating experience at a time when rock was in short supply. As a live act they were second to none – exciting, unpredictable, dangerous, musical and pure dynamite! They toured extensively across the UK, Europe and North American before calling it a day in 1990 amidst a mire of managerial and financial problems.

Chris was soon back treading the boards – and back playing his first love, the guitar. Under various guises such as Head, Hive & the Honey, Dynamo Hum and latterly The Killer Bs Thompson has continued to work his mojo and his magic. The past 15 years has seen him back playing, recording and releasing records with a lot of old familiar faces including Tony Moon, Kenny Harris and producer Pat Collier.

Currently fronting a trio with long-time collaborator, bassist Ricky McGuire (The Men They Couldn’t hang) and drummer, Dave Morgan, 2013 sees the Killer B’s as potent and original as ever.  A fabulous lead player, and even better slide player, Thompson is also a songwriter to be reckoned with, who follows his instincts and has recently written a slew of great new songs such as the memorable ditty about a transsexual policeman, ‘Fascinating Bob’. The current band, whilst still very rooted in the blues, is not afraid to take on other forms like soul and even late 60s psychedelic hard rock, that makes for a diverse and irresistible repertoire.

With the release of a Screaming Blue Messiahs ‘BBC Sessions’ on Hux Records, the time is right for Thompson to make hay whilst the sun shines and crown an already remarkable career many can only dream of.

Nigel Cross



I get no kick from champagne
Their alcohol doesn't thrill me at all
So tell me why shouldn't it be true?
I get a kick out of brew
There is only one beer left
Rappers screaming all in our ears like we're deaf
Tempt me, do a number on the label
Eat up all their MC's and drink 'em under the table
Like it's on me, put it on my tab, kid, however you get there
Foot it, cab it, iron horse it, you leaving on your face forfeit
I crush the mic hold it like the heat he might toss it
Told him tell they stole it, he told her he lost it
She told him get off it and a bunch other more shit
Getting money, DT's be getting no new leads
It's like he eating watermelon, stay spitting new seeds
It's the weed, give me some of what he's drooping off
Soon as he wake up choking like it was whooping cough
The group been soft, first hour at the open bar and their trooping off
He went to go laugh and get some head by the side road
She asked him to autograph her derriere, it read
To wide load, this yard bird taste like fried toad
Turned love villain take pride and code words
Crooked eye mold nerd geek with a cold heart
Probably still be speaking in rhymes as an old fart
Study how to eat, to dine by the pizza guy
No, he's not too fly to skeet in a skezzer eye
And squeeze her thigh, maybe giver her curves a feel
And the same way she feel it when she flow with nerves of steel
They call him super when they need their back or plumbing fixed
Powers only one left, the pack comes in six
Whatever happened to two and three
A hood tried to slide with four and five and got caught
Like, what you doing G?
Don't make 'em have to get cutting like truancy
Matter fact not for nothing right now you and me
Looser than a pair of Adidas, I hope you bought your spare tweeters
MC's sound like cheerleaders
Rapping and dancing like Red Head Kingpin
Dude, can we do this thing again no matter how be blinging
You do it for the smelly hubbies
Seeds know what time it is like it's time for Telletubbies
Few can do it, even fewer can sell it
Take it from the dude who wears mask like a tarded helmet
He plots shows like robberies
In and out, one, two, three, no bodies please
Run the cash and you won't get a wet sweatshirt
The mic is the shootie, nobody move, nobody get hurt
Bring heat, like the boy I'm going to war
Came in the door and everybody on the floor
A whole string of jobs like we are on tour
Every night on the score coming to your corner store

A  fusion between LMFAO, Cindy Lauper, Machine Gun Kelly and Trinidad James is best when describing Hip Hop’s newest rap sensation PuzzL. This funky, eclectic ratchet 19 year old rapper is stepping over names and claiming her spot in the game.
 
Discovering her musical talents at the age of 11, PuzzL drew her inspiration from some of the most powerful and popular females in the music industry at that time such as: Lisa “Left-Eye” Lopez, Destiny's child, Lil Kim and Foxy Brown. She learned to incorporate their familiar sounds into her own unique flow; fusing elements of POP, R&B and Rap. 

Since then, PuzzL has mastered her own sound and technique; placing her in a wide open lane that has critics in the Hip Hop community stunned as to who she is and where she came from.
Although it may be easy to assume she’s a “white female rapper” PuzzL has NO ISSUE letting you know who she is and that she’s (Number 1, a Hot rapper- no female) and a proud African American and Caucasian mixed chick.  Her “black side” allows her to say whatever she wants and her “white side” allows her to say whatever she wants lol. 

Her universal sound is definitely a breath of fresh air. PuzzL is wholeheartedly brining the female MC rap game back by spazzin’ on tracks from some of the industry’s hottest producers such as Q. Dizzy of Ruff Ryders & protégé of Swizz Beats, Atlanta Producer Daredevil (whose produced tracks for Waka Flocka, Future,  Yo Gotti, YC and many more.

PuzzL is currently working on debut EP entitled Puzzlizm featuring hit singles “Trippy” and “6’4” (a remake of the late Eazy-E’s classic old school car anthem 64).  Project is slated to release August 4th 2013.

The Jōst Project
Walk This Way
Devoted to interpreting the rock-related “standards” in a contemporary jazz format, The Jōst Project creates an exciting new connection between the many listeners for whom the music of Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Donovan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys and others are as familiar as the Great American Songbook to prior generations of music lovers. The group’s enthusiastic audiences have expressed appreciation and pleasure in hearing this diverse repertoire of songs performed in the modern jazz idiom by this acoustic, almost chamber-like ensemble.
The Jōst Project is a jazz collective initially formed in 1990 by vibraphonist Tony Miceli and acoustic bassist Kevin MacConnell, with the purpose of performing the rock music of the 1950s-1970s in a jazz format. The seeds of this idea were planted in Miceli’s 2005 recording “Hippie Jazz” and when he heard vocalist/arranger Paul Jost with the Antfarm Quartet, he felt a strong musical connection that led him to convene the Modern Rock Ensemble. Miceli’s vibraphone stirs echoes of the famed Modern Jazz Quartet with Milt Jackson, and in this latest combination, Jost invokes blues, mainstream, and scat stylings in his unique introspective way bringing out the emotions contained in the songs. The solid, innovative drumming of young Charles Patierno, and the strong, lyrical playing of MacConnell complete this inventive ensemble. It’s immediately evident that this skilled group of artists each bring their distinctive experience and approach to this blended collective.
The ever-expanding repertoire of The Jōst Project include rock/pop classics as, “Kashmir” (Led Zepellin); “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (Simon and Garfunkel); “Walk This Way” (Aerosmith); “Can’t Find My Way Home” (Blind Faith); “Maybe I’m Amazed” (Paul McCartney); “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” (Iron Butterfly), “Good Vibrations” (Beach Boys), as well as, “What a Day For a Day Dream” (John Sebastian- Loving Spoonful); “Sunshine Superman” (Donovan); “And I Love Her” and “Come Together” (The Beatles); “Tenessee Waltz” (Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King).  For good measure, jazz compositions like “Don’t Forget the Poet” (Encrico Pierannuzi); “Caravan” (Dizzy Gillespie); “Waltz New” (Jim Hall); and “Passion Dance” (McCoy Tyner) are also included in the group’s playlists.
Give a listen to “Walk This Way”, and you’ll get a taste of the unique sound of The Jōst Project and their exceptional artistry, originality and imagination. The group, while based in the Philadelphia area, is available for bookings internationally.

Contact: Sharla Feldscher,  HYPERLINK "mailto:Sharla@sf-pr.com" Sharla@sf-pr.com, 215-285-4868


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