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Sade - Soldier of Love (NEW TRACK)

December 21, 2009 in blog by michelleowen

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Argenis Brito & Miguel Toro interview in “Fritz Radio berlin” next saturday 14-11-2009.

November 11, 2009 in blog by miguel

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Argenis Brito & Miguel Toro interview in

“Fritz Radio berlin” next saturday 14-11-2009.

Listen to Argenis and Miguel in Anja Schneider’s “Dance under the blue Moon” in Fritz Radio Berlin on Saturday 14-11-09 from 10 to 12 at night (germany time). Check local time.

1 and 1/2 hours of our music released and unreleased, our live set plus a nice conversation about music, venezuela, Crashroots, our future plans and the party tips for saturday night.

for live stream:

-Go to http://www.fritz.de/livestream/livestream.html,

-Click on the format of your choice, (Real Audio Format or Windows Media Format)

-For Mac users we recommend the Windows Media Format (WMA) at the bottom of the   page.

-If you have problems opening the stream maybe you need to install the free plug in Flip4mac( http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/flip4mac.mspx)

we hope you enjoy it!!!!!!!!!


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el nectar nacional

October 25, 2009 in blog, crashroot by Hugo Duran

magicuento1El néctar nacional (74)

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One Love - Playing For Change - Song Around the World

October 25, 2009 in blog, video by samim

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http://playingforchange.com - From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao. This is the third video from the documentary and a follow up to the classic “Stand By Me” and the incredible “Don’t Worry.” Released in celebration of Bob Marley’s birthday on February 6th, this tribute to the legend is performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.

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Omar Torrez Band “Dog Heart”

October 22, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

Tom Waits guitarrist solo with Carlos del Puerto on double bass and our man Ed Larez

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Some new tracks upped on SoundCloud

October 22, 2009 in blog by miguelmanzano

Hey all I’ve uploaded some new tracks to SoundCloud for you to download at you will.

http://www.soundcloud.com/miguelmanzano

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NUEVA CUMBIA MIX

October 22, 2009 in blog, latincontra, mix by DJ UMB

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Here’s a Nu Cumbia mix I did about 9 months ago in February 2009, just thought it’d be great to give it a fresh airing somewhere.

Sorry I can’t remember the tracklist, save to say that it includes material from Discos Fuentes, ZZK Records, Bersa Discos and Sonido Del Principe.

Improvised & recorded in real time on Pioneer CDJ 1000 MKII & DJM 600 MIXER.

You can stream/download it here:

NUEVA CUMBIA (FEB 2009)-VARIOUS ARTISTS MIXED BY DJ UMB - by djumb



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CUMBIA LOOPS PACKAGE

October 22, 2009 in blog, crashroot, latincontra, mashupmix by DJ UMB

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Something delicious here that I liberated from my new friends at the Emayocutz blog.

A cumbia tools package and here’s what they say:

Atention DJ’s and producers!! We thought we’d pass on a package of Cumbia loops… Guacharacas, tambores, bombos… All o’ that! For your remixes, producions or whatever you want to do with them. Cumbia for everyone!!

DESCARGA/DOWNLOAD

Enjoy!

P.s. Generation Bass is down but we’ll be back up today, hopefully!

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DJ Cleo - Ndiya Ndiya

October 20, 2009 in blog, music by miguel

Great track by south africa´s dj cleo

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Khan Of Finland “eXcommunication”

October 16, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

Tha great Khan Of Finland live at Volksbuehne 5/07 Berlin

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“love is in the air” (Aerea Negrot)

October 15, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

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Starring Aerea Negrot (Hercules and Love Affair,Venezuela). This is a normal day in the life of…..

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Blind - Hercules and Love Affair at Music Hall of Williamsburg Aug-2009

October 15, 2009 in blog, music, video by miguel

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With the amazing voice of Venezuela’s Aerea Negrot.

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Tony Allen’s ‘Secret Agent’ short film

October 10, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

World Circuit and Pulse Films bring you a specially made short film for the new Tony Allen album ‘Secret Agent’, featuring exclusive footage including performances of tracks from the album, new interviews, with contributions from Damon Albarn and Flea. Back to basics, it’s pure afrobeat, plain and simple groove. and with our friend Kologbo on guitar.

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Tony Allen & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble behind the scenes Doc, Broad Casting London

October 10, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

A look behind the scenes as this amazing musical collaboration prepared for their gig at Cargo.

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Honest Jon´s Revue & Damon Albarn

October 10, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

Revue of artist of Damon´s Label with Tony Allen, Afel Bocoum, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Kokanko Sato, Candi Staton, Lobi Traore, Simone White and many more
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100% Angola

October 10, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

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Mocky “The Mockumentary”

October 10, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

“The Mockumentary” seeks to illuminate the conspiracy theories surrounding the musical identity of Mocky.

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BABALOA : KUDURO SOUND SYSTEM BONUS BEATS

October 10, 2009 in babalao, blog, music by DJ UMB

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[Via Generation Bass]

Mr Frederic Galliano has been a true homie and sent us a couple of unreleased BONUS BEATS from his recent Kuduro Sound System album to give away as free downloads.

So you can just slot them into your sets or mash them up with something or create a remix out of them or something completely new, it up to you.

Thanks Mr Galliano :-)

Saudade Nova York BONUS BEAT

Wo wo wo BONUS BEAT

THE ALBUM

You can grab the album from AMAZON as follows:

LONG DJ VERSION

SHORT DJ VERSION

Plus you can grab the First album HERE

LINKS:

KUDURO SOUND SYSTEM YOU TUBE PAGE

KUDURO SOUND SYSTEM FACEBOOK PAGE

FREDERIC GALLIANO FACEBOOK PAGE

FREDERIC GALLIANO WEBSITE

FREDERIC GALLIANO MY SPACE

MANAGEMENT FOR DJ BOOKINGS: thomas@thefacility.fr

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Chicago street drummers

October 8, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

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Latincontra (Samim & Miguel Toro & Monopolar & Jackie McLean) - La gringa & De i comahlee ah (ssan´s SMtMJml mashedit & recuts)

October 6, 2009 in Uncategorized, latincontra by ssan

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The Original song La Gringa by Samim & Miguel Toro and the new 2 versions by Monopolar were so nice but to short to play in a DJ set !! … so i did 2 longer edits with the 3 parts and added some vocals of Jackie Mc Lean - De i comahlee ah, hope you enjoy it and play it loud ….

…. worldmusic-techhouse i call it ….

 
 La gringa & De i comahlee ah (ssan´s SMtMJml mashedit & recut 1): Play Now

 
 La gringa & De i comahlee ah (ssan´s SMtMJml mashedit & recut 2): Play Now

Latincontra (Samim & Miguel Toro & Monopolar & Jackie McLean) - La gringa & De i comahlee ah (ssan´s SMtMJml mashedit & recut 1) (73)

Latincontra (Samim & Miguel Toro & Monopolar & Jackie McLean) - La gringa & De i comahlee ah (ssan´s SMtMJml mashedit & recut 2) (45)


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THE ISLAND JOB

October 2, 2009 in blog, music, photos, video by Simon

Itij_logo1´m a big fan of crashroots and I would like to share some information with you guys. Maybe some of you are interested in earning money with your own productions on a 8-day trip to a caribean island in January 2010.

The Island Job is looking for talented producers / musicians / bands, photographers and videomakers. If you are interested in this project, you can apply directly on the website. Unfortunately you must live in Switzerland to apply for the job.

With your creative contribution, the help of your friends and a little bit of luck you can earn up to 10´000 Swiss Francs. Only criteria in the category “Music” is that that The Island Job is looking for “Music That Makes You Move”, but as I know you guys, this shouldn´t be a problem ;-)

If you have any questions write to job@the-island-job.ch

www.the-island-job.ch
www.facebook.com/theislandjob
www.twitter.com/theislandjobd
www.twitter.com/theislandjobf

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JukE BoyZ “KID CONGA” RMX DOWNLOAD

September 30, 2009 in blog by DJ UMB

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JukE BoyZ are PETER POZOREK & (me) DJ UMB and we put this little Tropical Tek House remix together of the Daniel Haaksman tune, entered it into the competition and man, we came close.  It was voted the best MINIMAL remix and made the shortlist of the final 8 entries.

It’s just a bit of fun and we aimed it at the TECH-HOUSE market, hoping it would be picked up by all the Tech House DJ’s and so far we’ve had a pretty good response.

Anyway, we’re gonna re-work it with a new Kid Conga-less version with a totally tropical taste.

For now, however, you can download the Kid Conga version, which is at 126 BPM and at around 8 minutes in length, perfect to slot into those Tropical Tech House sets.

DANIEL HAAKSMAN feat. MC MILTINHO (JuKe BoYz RmX)

Watch out for our Vieux Farka Toure remix, which we are led to believe will be coming out on the SIX DEGREES label soon, it’s a voodoo MF!

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Miguel Manzano - Wind

September 28, 2009 in blog by miguelmanzano

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Miguel Manzano - Wind by MiguelManzano

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In The Studio With Rick Rubin And Ray Stevens

September 27, 2009 in blog, video by samim

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Behind the scenes of legendary producer Rick Rubin’s latest project with famous funnyman Ray Stevens.

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Siftable Music Sequencer

September 27, 2009 in blog, video by samim

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A music sequencer that uses Siftables as the interface. There are three “voices” - lead, bass and drums. Each voice has four variations, accessible via the four sides of the siftable. You can also apply reverb, filter, volume and tempo changes. Pretty cool. You can watch a short Ted Talk where designer David Merill talks about the idea in more detail and demo’s a few other applications. (via audiolemon)

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Herbie Hancock jams with his Fairlight CMI and Quincy Jones enjoys….

September 26, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

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Herbie shows off while Quincy Jones looks on. Taken from VHS recording of 1984 documentary “I love Quincy”. Via Mary Zander

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Miguel Toro “Kurduca” Remix Contest - pntmzk006

September 23, 2009 in crashroot, music, remix contest by miguel

Miguel Toro "Kurduca" pntmzk006

Enter the contest to remix  Miguel Toro’s “Kurduca”(pntmzk006 ), released on Pantamuzik , and if you are the lucky pick, your remix will be released in Mexico’s “Pantamuzik December Remix Compilation” alongside other artists from this eclectic and full of good taste label.

Download the parts on MP3’s and if you require WAV’s, send us a message and we’ll send them directly to you. Deadline is October 30th 2009.

Check the label here http://www.pantamuzik.com/, and other releases here http://soundcloud.com/pantamuzik

Miguel Toro "Kurduca" Remix Contest (parts) (98)
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 Miguel Toro "Kurduca" pntmzk006 [7:00m]: Play Now
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The Capital Dance Orchestra/Puppetmastaz/Swingerclub”Best Of” at Berghain, Berlin.

September 23, 2009 in blog, video by miguel

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Instead of Hardcore-Tecno-Party in Berghain, that thursday was The Capital Dance Orchestra with David Canisius along the Puppetmastaz, must have been a very nice party.

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Synesthesia Documentary

September 23, 2009 in blog, video by samim

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Here is the complete documentary to download: Red Mondays and Gemstone Jalapeños: The Synesthetic World

(via nerdcore)

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Clark Terry - Mumbles

September 22, 2009 in blog, video by samim

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R.I.P.: Remembering Roc Raida’s Greatest Moments

September 22, 2009 in blog, video by samim

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Bobby McFerrin Shows Everybody Gets Pentatonic

September 21, 2009 in blog, video by samim

http://www.vimeo.com/5732745

At the World Science Festival in June here in New York, specialists – including musical specialist Bobby McFerrin – gathered to ask what in music we humans hear universally, versus what is culturally specific.

Is our response to music hard-wired or culturally determined? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment? Join host John Schaefer, Jamshed Barucha, scientist Daniel Levitin, Professor Lawrence Parsons and musical artist Bobby McFerrin for live performances and cross cultural demonstrations to illustrate music’s note-worthy interaction with the brain and our emotions.

You can watch a series of five video highlights, but the one above is perhaps the most striking.Notes and Neurons videos

Via Createdigitalmusic

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The sound of the HANG…

September 19, 2009 in blog, mix by michelleowen

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KID CONGA REMIX BY THE JUKE BOYZ!

September 17, 2009 in blog, mix by DJ UMB

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Here’s something Tropical, in a tech house stylee by The Juke Boyz (Peter Pozorek & DJ Umb).

You can stream it for now and it’ll be available for a free download very, very soon.

Perfect I think for an opening  or mid-opening Tropical Tech House set.

Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Kid Conga - Daniel Haaksman ft Mc Miltinho (Juke Boyz Remix)

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Whorehousebeats - Mr. Toro & Mr. Samim (by Jorge Gonzales´s Los Updates)

September 14, 2009 in music, whorehousebeats by miguel

Whorehousebeats - Los Updates (Jorge Gonzales) We are proud to present the latest whorehousebeats collaboration from Chile´s Jorge Gonzales (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Updates). Founder of the Chilean group Los Prisioneros, Jorge is a necesary reference of Latinamerican rock/pop from the early 80´s until today. Now based in Valencia, Spain, Los Updates bring us cutting edge techno releasing in Cadenza with remixes from Ricardo Villalobos, Dandy Jack, etc. Mr.Toro & Mr. Samim is a killer dancefloor track with the unmistakable voice of Jorge.

Download it, mash it up or create something completely new and share it with the crashroots community. Tag all your contributions to this collaboration series with “whorhousebeats”.

Please leave a comment, share it and help us spread the word!

Download: Whorehousebeats - Los Updates "Mr. Toro & Mr. Samim" (81)

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 whorehousebeats - Los Updates - "Mr. Toro & Mr. Samim": Play Now
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HOW TO MAKE A BAILE FUNK BEAT

September 9, 2009 in blog by DJ UMB

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INTRODUCED TO ME BY MY NEW FRIEND FREDERIC GALLIANO

(GODFATHER OF KUDURO IN THE WEST) :-)


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Guambrillo - Loop 46

September 9, 2009 in blog by guambrillo

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Guambrillo - Loop54 - Nanana

September 9, 2009 in blog by guambrillo

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Guambrillo - Loop40 - Latin Xilofone

September 9, 2009 in blog by guambrillo

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Guambrillo - Loop24 - FingerKids

September 9, 2009 in blog by guambrillo

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