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15/11/05
Fast rising glamfunk-with-style-and-substance
stars Sa-Ra Creative Partners have postponed part
of their European tour to work on an "important" movie in
the United States. The trio had committed to the film before
booking the tour and discovered that production dates coincided
with some tour dates. The band announced in a press release that
rescheduling was not possible "due to the size and importance
of the production" -hinting at something big.
Christmas comes
early for those lucky enough to be in London on December
12. Gilles Peterson will present his Worldwide Awards 2005 with
a kickin' ceremony at Camden's Koko. Punked-out
Japanese jazz electics Soil & "Pimp" Sessions will
return for a fresh live performance, following their storming
show at Cargo earlier this year. Twenty top DJs will be playing
their favourite 2005 track: spinners in the bag include Jazzanova,
Bugz In The Attic , Mad Mats, Henrik Schwarz, 1Xtra's Benji
B, UFO's Toshio Matsuura, Domu, Quantic, Patrick Forge and
Norman Jay. And a special guest is to be announced. As of
today you can still get that little paper slip guaranteeing
you a party at Ticketweb.
Ubiquity
Records kick
off their new cratescavenger Digs series
with Digs!America, an exclusive peak into Gilles
Peterson's
famous Brownswood basement.
Sixteen rare US tracks culled from
the Worldwide radio host's secret hideaway record-house
in North London, on triple-LP and CD, with a fascinating
insight into Peterson's collecting habits courtesy of very
nice liner notes. Read the OnTheFlip review here.
Nice way
to start!
Tosca, the dubby downbeat disguise of Richard
Dorfmeister and Rubert Huper, will be giving their first
US live performance at New York's Irving
Plaza on December 7. The duo,
whose latest longplayer J.A.C. is easily their best so far, have
thrown together a live band featuring Ras Mc
Tweed of Rockers Hifi
and ertswhile-Galliano-man-turned-2Banksof4-stalwart-turned-fictional-character-Earl
Zinger Rob Gallagher. The Irving Plaza show
will also feature visuals by longtime Kruder & Dorfmeister supplier
Fritz Fiske and a 4-hour Dorfmeister DJ set.
In other concert
news, Lonnie Liston Smith returns to London's
Jazz Café for a
one-off show on April 10 2006. Further Jazz Café shows
to look out for include Nicola Conte's sumptuous
live band, original electro rapper Kurtis Blow,
soul's own Marlena
Shaw and Ubiquity's
latest hardhitter Ohmega Watts.
Appreciators of
the Brazilian-fixated Farout Recordings will
be delighted that the label is issuing a series of six
limited seven-inches,
with music from the likes of Future Warriors, Troubleman and
Azymuth. Artwork on the sleeves is assured by
the mercurial Swifty and Mat,
making these both collectable and great for display. The label
has also got a new line of tees with their very nice logo..uhm,
lined up. Yes yes.
As if it was ever
hard to export the Swedes! Eternally-on-the-party-tip label Raw
Fusion is setting up shop in the United States, courtesy
of newly-recruited New York office label manager DJ Scribe.
Studio Distribution will handle all of Raw Fusion's CD releases
and join the already existing link with the more hiphop mindedn
Raw Fusion offshoot Jugglin' Records. So stateside beatheads
will have easier access to current high-flyers like the Inside
Scandinavia Vol. 2 compilation and a re-release of Damn!'s funky-as-hell
Youth-Style album.
01/08/05
We
mourn the announced passing of the Loud record
shop in
the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. The forward-thinking
outlet for all things electronic will close its doors on August
27th and a bar will take its place. Watch out for a final blowout
sale on the last day, where both records and store inventory
will go for cheap. Now where will all the Danish capital's
broken beat heads go off to?
Okay, the big 'aargh'
is the still tbc drop date for Steve Spacek's Dollars
12" on the Sound In Color label. Already a master, Jaydee
outdoes himself brilliantly on the production tip -carving out
a future-retro soul gem, sounding like a gorgeoulsy weightless
dusty old soul tune, but with just that perfect little contemporary
kick. Don't sleep on this, a good contender for track of the year.
Now where is it?
Counterpoint
Recordings, home to the soulful acid-jazz legacy-life of
Fertile Ground and the tight electronic funk of Pixel, is celebrating
its 10-year anniversary by letting selected artists dig through
the Counterpoint archives and remix at will. Sunga T' Experience,
Ernesto and Misa Negra are some of the remixers featured on the
forthcoming Version Excursion compilation,
due to drop on July 11. Now, wasn't there a Harmless
compilation with the same title a few years back? (yes, and it was
a good one!).
Taking its concept
of 'sexy house for the whole family' all the way, Neroli
Records has launched a signature pair of women's underwear.
The red g-string features a white Neroli logo on the front -and
uhm, very little on the back. They also like sexy football -although
the featuring of Danish center-forward Preben Elkjær on the
Neroli site is hardly saucy. On the musical side of things, promos
for Just One's Soul Revolution
12" are floating around.
Italy. Sun. The beach.
And if that doesn't sound alluring, throw in live performances by
Reel People and Mark de Clive Lowe as well as DJ sets by Seiji,
Domu, Patrick Forge and residents Simone Seritella and Franco Fusari.
It's all happening at the Boca Barranca Beach Parties
all through the summer in xx. Sure beats getting rained-out on Brighton
beach...
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