Archives for January, 2010
Know Thine Amen Loop
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
For heads and trainee heads, know your break (drum loop) and where it comes from! Prodigy, Hippity Hoppers, Dubsteppers them producers be still using it today, over 40 years since Mister Gregory Sylvester Coleman played the lick and it still works the floor!! Sir Coleman, I don’t know whether you got paid the dollar you [...]
earphones, headphones, stereophones, headsets or, colloquially cans.
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
I used to favor sporting an over sized can in the early days of my DJ career. I believe they were Sony MDR-piecesofcrap V7ooDJ. So called ‘Professional DJ headphones’ with a swivel mechanism earcup. This ‘swivel mechanism earcup’ meant that the bit that enabled your can to stay closed around your ’shell like’ would [...]
Marlena Shaw Live in Birmingham 19th March 2010
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Marlena Shaw started performing at the age of 10 but was discovered by Chess Records in 1966. She released her first two albums on their subsidiary Cadet Records. She moved to Blue Note Records in 1972, and was that label’s first female artist. She also recorded one of the Disco Era’s biggest hits – a [...]
Salsa
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Some gorgeous mixes of a Latin Salsa variety from everybody’s favourite BBoy Timber – mui mui bien! Listen to my favourite mix here.
Sofrito
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Sofrito is all about playing the best tropical and Afro sounds, the east London based international collective of producers/DJs and musicians have been running for over 3 years. I’ve been fortunate enough to go along to some wicked nights in the Dalston/Hackney area – their Halloween event was staged in a dusty warehouse with nuff [...]
New Jazzman 7″s bag…
Monday, January 4th, 2010
If you have the same problem as this lady then you might want to spend January’s pay check on one of these…
This cool Jazzbag comes in water-repellent black nylon with silver Jazzman logo on the front. The shoulder strap can be adjusted to suit your size, and there’s a also a pocket in the front [...]
Post Up…
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
This is an old poster that I remember putting up on the side of a dumpster with wall paper paste in the cold winter of 2006. Those were the days! Found at flikr from Graffpix.