Yoruba
Posted by admin on January 26th, 2009 under Club Dance Music
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VariousPalmistry Yoruba
“Palmistry†is the latest release from the Yoruba camp, featuring some of the most respected artists and upcoming producers. Luis Davis, Ale Reis, Henrik Schwarz, Boddhi Satva, Ezel, Afefe Iku and Ian Friday are some of the artists involved in this project. Yummy.sample1 > Jimmy Abney - More Of You (Ian Friday’s Tea Party Remix) sample2 > Oveous Maximus - Apologize sample3 > Afefe Iku - Outer sample4 > Boddhi Satva - Big Theme
The Realm feat. Tony MomrelleTimePapa
Doctor Moonrocks Gotta Have It (The Remixes) Circular Motion
DJ Man-X feat. Mario Inchausti Take Me From You Deep Haven Music
DJ: Mark MendozaAffiliation: Phuture Sole Rec. Country: USA
The Detroit-based mastermind stands tall as a daring reminder of how things used to be, how things should be: authentic, exceptional music released on a carefully harvested grassroots label, with no attachment to hype or any incestuous ‘Top Friends’ circles. Distributed solely off his own back, and diligently monitoring every step (even hand-writing notes on his white labels), Omar-S’ FXHE imprint has become an underground cult of sorts, and his off-kilter productions bang as testament to his vibrant uniqueness. Bringing back the Detroit ethos but shaking up the formula in unimaginable ways, his music and label stand for everything the proud city represented in the past, as well as giving it a bright light for the future.As he says himself: “All the people I release on my label are from Michigan — because people from Detroit or Michigan need to be heard.â€His ever-supportive family has been the connecting link between each step of his musical upbringing — raised on his dad’s love of 50s/60s Motown (“I’ve probably listened to more Motown than anyone else in dance music todayâ€); his eldest brother and sister (a decade older than him) introduced him to house music; his older cousin, a house DJ, would pass him mixtapes from Chicago; his sister bought him a keyboard at age 11 (“I was playing a lot of Chicago house records, like ‘Jack Your Body.’â€); his second older brother bought him his first tables when he was 15; his grandfather owned an arcade (“Video games have had a big influence on my productions, definitely.†). Even his venture into establishing the label stemmed from his older brother.“I’ve been producing since the early 90s, when I was about 17 or 18. After a while, I kept making tracks, I was making so many tracks. And my oldest brother came once and brought me an article by Ron Murphy in the ‘Detroit Metro Times’; it said there was some guy cutting everybody’s records. I made an appointment and got a record cut - that was the Omar-S 001, in June or July of 2001. At the time, I had the money to get the records cut but I didn’t know the first thing about distribution so this shit got sat on for years. I guess the label started taking off around the time of Omar-S 004, I established it properly around 2004 or 2005. The name FXHE is a trip because I was only about 3 years old - I wrote FXHE all over the walls in our laundry chute. It’s still written on the wall in my daddy’s house.†— Omar-S
Producing at such a prolific rate at an impressively young age, his style was so different that for years, the rest of Detroit didn’t get it. Even now, despite his devout following and a myriad of hugely celebrated releases under his belt (‘Psychotic Photosynthesis,’ his wondrously adventurous LP’s, his collaboration with Shadow Ray as Oasis, etc), he rarely plays in Detroit and his hometown is none the wiser about the sound he’s perfected. And his fan base, meanwhile, is none the wiser about the enigmatic man himself: with only two known interviews to date, looming aspects of his personal life, like his street-racing profile (a prevalent part of his Detroit life the last 14 years), have simply gone undocumented.“I don’t know what to look for as far as having a certain sound. Sounds just come about. I just fuck around until it sounds good. The majority of my shit is made in a matter of minutes. I’m one of those people that can’t sit still. I just can’t sit in the studio for 30 minutes or for fucking hours, I do the shit and that’s it. The track ‘Psychotic Photosynthesis’ — that was made in minutes. A lot of my music sounds better when it’s really, really, really loud, because I made it really, really, really loud. All the speakers in my studio are blown right now. The same headphones you see me DJ with are the same headphones I’ve had for fifteen years. Every track I’ve released came through those Sony headphones that I travel with. †— Omar-SOn ‘fabric 45: Omar-S - DETROIT,’ Omar-S provides the uneducated with a stunning, arresting portrait of who he is as an artist, as a DJ, as an outsider, as a radical in an otherwise indifferent music world. Enter the wide, unformulaic world of Alex Omar Smith, where all rules of techno and house are contorted, and no directions can ever be predicted. His complex yet austere productions build and interlock individually, in the same way they bind collectively to form a fluid, surreal anthology. Deep, challenging and all-consuming, fabric 45 is aural poetry, atmospheric bliss: put simply, a work of art.
“My booking agent and I were talking about doing a mix for fabric over the last year, and for me, over the last year I haven’t really been feeling anybody’s music. I’d rather do a mix for fabric that’s all my own shit, because there are still a lot of people out there that don’t know about FXHE records or Omar-S or Oasis. I did a few different versions, remixes, of a few of the tracks on the CD, and there are about four tracks on there that haven’t been released yet. I know a lot of new people will listen to it, so of course I put my important songs on there, but I wanted to make it varied and mix it the right way. That’s why I mixed a lot of the songs a different way; but with the famous songs, I didn’t touch those because I want the new people to hear the original. I don’t need other people’s music; I got over 100 songs released. I can make fucking six fucking fabric records right now. I can probably make fucking ten CDs just of unreleased shit.†— Omar-S
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Over the years, by always giving DJs room to take new directions, Balance has given birth to numerous other ground-breaking albums. Featuring Jimmy van M, Luke Fair, Lee Burridge and S.O.S on the last respective releases, Balance’s next release was therefore much anticipated.With Balance 014, Joris Voorn has taken the next step in the series being a vehicle for artistic freedom. Without doubt, the length of the tracklist alone will make you wonder how he squeezed that many tracks on a CD album, even a double one.On his MySpace blog Joris explains, “The process of making this mix has been more like painting with sound rather than mixing the end of one track with the beginning of another. Working this way has been very interesting for me and made the project into something very different than a conventional DJ mix CD.”In the process Joris reduced some of the tracks listed to just a loop, and with others he only used the break or the intro. “I’m sure I won’t be pleasing everyone with these mixes, some listeners will be happily or uneasily surprised, but at least it’s pushing my own boundaries in a technical, but even more so, in a musical and artistic way.”
Fanatix ft. Alison Crockett & Nathan Haines FlySoul Heaven
DJ: Fabrizio DiglioAffiliation: Housegarage.comCountry: Italy
