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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!!!!!!!!!

El néctar nacional (90)

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.

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

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

http://www.soundcloud.com/miguelmanzano

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

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!

Great track by south africa´s dj cleo

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

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

With the amazing voice of Venezuela’s Aerea Negrot.

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.

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

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

[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

I´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
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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!

download MP3

Miguel Manzano - Wind by MiguelManzano

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

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)

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

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.

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

(via nerdcore)

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

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)

DJ PIMPA:

INTRODUCED TO ME BY MY NEW FRIEND FREDERIC GALLIANO

(GODFATHER OF KUDURO IN THE WEST)

yesGuambrillo - Loop 46 (81)

nananaGuambrillo - Loop54 - Nanana (80)

playing with the xilGuambrillo - Loop40 (83)

more and moreGuambrillo - Loop24 - FingerKids (83)

And yet, another crazy berlin Guambrillo - Loop20 - Tom Waits World on a string (57)moment.

Another weird thing made in the loopstationGuambrillo - Loop20 - Religious1 (45)