DJ Fresh showing the world what a UK #1 Single sounds like DnB Style! Big ups for cracking the charts with another one!
DJ Fresh feat. Rita Ora- Hot Right Now (Official Video)
You can download “Hot Right Now” via iTunes: http://bit.ly/HOTRIGHTNOW
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FLASHBACK FRIDAYS: Giorgio Moroder: The Beginning 1969-1979
Friday, July 29th, 2011
There are no words to describe this genius! He is one of world’s best known innovators composing dance, film, pop and other musical forms. Giorgio can take you on a visual and musical expression journey like no other can.
The Italian born musician recorded under the name “Giorgio” since 1966, but got his first hit with “Looky Looky” in 1969, a bubble gum pop song with a catchy riff that makes you sing “Ah-OOO-Ma-Ma…Pa-Pa-Oooh-Ma-Ma-Ma”!!! Around the same time he sang a song called “Son Of My Father”, although it was a hit, the song was in Italian. In 1972, a band named Chicory Tip scored a hit with it sung in English. The song was one of first early forms of a synth driven music.
Giorgio was a music making machine releasing albums “Giorgio’s Music” (1974), “Einzelganger” (1975) and 1976′s “Knights in White Satin” under Giorgio Moroder, but his career exploded with the birth of Disco. His synths took him to great heights with the release of “From Here To Eternity” which was a huge success in 1977. During his time at Casablanca records, his most notable work is with Disco Diva Donna Summer creating such classics as “Love To Love You Baby” and the anthem “I Feel Love.
The following year he composed the soundtrack to the locked up abroad nightmare “Midnight Express”. If you ever saw this film, the music creates an intensified vision of the eerie trip of Turkey’s notorious prison. The composition got him an Academy Award for best musical score in 1978. During his projects he produced a group called the Munich Machine, which gave us the disco club classic “Get On The Funk Train”. Munich Machine released three albums under the Casablanca label during the 1977-1979. He also managed to squeeze in another release “Giorgio Moroder’s E=MC²” in 1979.
The year is 1980, from here on in; bands came up from nowhere emulating his style!! A new era, new technology, new music genres emerge, but that’s a different story!!!
Join me next week for Part 2 of Giorgio in the 80’s and beyond. For now, enjoy the video and the music links for you uploaded by yours truly.
Peace for now and see you next week on the FLLLLLLLLASSSSSHBACCCK!!
ESSENTIAL GIORGIO MORODER ALBUMS:
“E=MC2”
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Concentric Beats- U.S. Drum-n-Bass Documentary (2002)
Friday, November 26th, 2010Los Angeles- Back in 2002, a young aspiring documentary film maker by the name of Valida Carroll, armed with a grant and a vision, set out to capture the essence of the emerging US DnB Scene. With hops in LA, SF, SD, and NYC, she takes viewers on a 60 minute ride across the country and grabs a great slice of American DnB history along the way.
I remember when Valida was in NYC filming and I always had wondered what happened to the footage. For me it was great to see so many of my friends and people that I consider family, so young and ambitious, telling the world why 170-180BPM beats make their worlds go round. Towards the end, there’s also a VERY interesting prophecy about the future of DnB and the re-entry of 140BPM in the scene- see if you can catch it…
Big shouts to everyone that has came, went, stayed in the scene- holding it down proper, I love you all! (and super big shouts to Dave (aka Eecue from JungleScene.com) for posting this up and sharing it with the world!!!)
Music video for Take’s “Incredibright” from the album Only Mountain
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Since TAKE just had his album release party yesterday for his new album ” Only Mountain ” @ Low End Theory in LA and the day before rocking a really dope set live on the Brainfeeder radio special 4/20 show.. It only seems fit to put up one of his videos from the new album.
Take “Incredibright” from Alpha Pup on Vimeo.
Find more info out about TAKE and Cop the album now @ Alpha Pup
Here is the album description from their site:
“Alpha Pup is proud to present Only Mountain, the newest release from L.A.-based beat producer Take. His most powerful and fully realized work to date, Only Mountain serves as a complete affirmation of Take’s ten prolific years in music production. Although prominently featured on seminal releases such as From L.A. With Love and this year’s All City 10-inch, Take is poised to make the greatest impact of his career with his newest sonic creation.
From Only Mountain’s opening salvo, “Before You Think,” it is clear that Take has claimed his rightful place amongst the beat scene’s leading luminaries. A dusty off-kilter space stomp, the track lays the ground work for an album’s worth of hazy electronic textures and intergalactic breakbeats. Case in point: “Incredibright,” a no-holds-barred haymaker of astro-hop swagger. On “Implosions,” one of the albums more introspective tracks, Take drags us through a spaced out journey of low-end stabs and bit-crushed melodies.
A dense and groundbreaking work, Take’s “Only Mountain” stands as a staggering collection of gorgeously brilliant melodies and deep subharmonic bass. Truly future music towards a brighter end.”
DL a track from the record HERE
Music video for Take's "Incredibright" from the album Only Mountain
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Since TAKE just had his album release party yesterday for his new album ” Only Mountain ” @ Low End Theory in LA and the day before rocking a really dope set live on the Brainfeeder radio special 4/20 show.. It only seems fit to put up one of his videos from the new album.
Take “Incredibright” from Alpha Pup on Vimeo.
Find more info out about TAKE and Cop the album now @ Alpha Pup
Here is the album description from their site:
“Alpha Pup is proud to present Only Mountain, the newest release from L.A.-based beat producer Take. His most powerful and fully realized work to date, Only Mountain serves as a complete affirmation of Take’s ten prolific years in music production. Although prominently featured on seminal releases such as From L.A. With Love and this year’s All City 10-inch, Take is poised to make the greatest impact of his career with his newest sonic creation.
From Only Mountain’s opening salvo, “Before You Think,” it is clear that Take has claimed his rightful place amongst the beat scene’s leading luminaries. A dusty off-kilter space stomp, the track lays the ground work for an album’s worth of hazy electronic textures and intergalactic breakbeats. Case in point: “Incredibright,” a no-holds-barred haymaker of astro-hop swagger. On “Implosions,” one of the albums more introspective tracks, Take drags us through a spaced out journey of low-end stabs and bit-crushed melodies.
A dense and groundbreaking work, Take’s “Only Mountain” stands as a staggering collection of gorgeously brilliant melodies and deep subharmonic bass. Truly future music towards a brighter end.”
DL a track from the record HERE
Video Clip: DZ Live at WMC in Miami
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Check out this little clip of DZ getting loose in Miami at the Stank Love/ Big Up Magazine event down in Miami! Capital J, MC Diggadee & more in the background brockin’ out!