tomorrow night, best sound in town. no really.

so idm / instrumental hip hop heads show up.

you like blockhead, prefuse and dabrye, show up.

his space

artist: kaito genre: mellow

not sure how what bucket to put into.  off the excellent “special life” LP.
kaito - inside river

artist: ulf lohmann genre: ambient

fitting track for the current storm approaching. off the Pop Ambient comp. Field fans should check it out.

ulf lohmann - my pazifik

do to the overwhelming spam troll attacks i’ve turned off comments for those that are not registered. i hate dealing with spam and until i figure out some of the finer points of akismet and spam nuker they will remain off.

it is good thing really, more time listening, less time typing.

what is worse is that something like 1% of the population actually clicks on spam ads. meaning they actually work and make money. i don’t get it. technically my cat has more sense than 1% of the hairless apes on this planet.

Cockpit this Thursday, the 28th, featuring: dubbel dutch, Kids & Chemicals (an idm laptop musician, Lux Divon (a trip-hop duo), Rainbow Friendship Explosion (idm/electro/8bit maship live remix sound-system)- I’m also one half of RFE, and Squire’s gonna spin out the night with some electro and breaks stuff. It should be pretty fun and it’s free.

Also for more info check mp3 blog In Robots We Trust inrobotswetrust.blogspot.com 

artist: soulphiction genre: trance inducing funk house

no not to be confused with tarnce. only on the 2nd track but i gotta post.

soulphiction - ghana wadada

PARTY PARTY PARTY, TUESDAYS!!!, GO!!!!

jugos and platanos are good. tonight may be a full moonish midnight bike ride? not sure, heard a rumor at lovejoys last night. inquire about it with your favorite bicycle friend.

this week i’ll resume posting and fix broken things.

in the meantime here is more of the field. this record made the 7 hour bus ride thru the jungle into the mountains bearable.

the field - the little heart beats so fast

joel

This has been in my crates for a bit, I LOVE THE DISCO, ELECTRO, GYPSY, FUSION, AWESOME!!!

shantel-disko-partizani.mp3

shantel-disko-boy.mp3

Shantel, real name Stefan Hantel (born in Frankfurt January 1, 1968), is a German producer and DJ, known for his work with gypsy brass orchestras, DJing and remixing traditional Balkan music with electronic beats. He is a descendant of the refugee Bukovina Germans.

Shantel began his DJ career in Frankfurt, Germany, and was inspired by the audience reaction to gypsy brass bands such as Fanfare Ciocărlia and trumpeter Boban Marković to infuse electronically-tweaked Balkan gypsy music into his DJ set. He released two compilations of his popular DJ night, Bucovina Club, on his own Essay label, which won the Club Global award in the 2006 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. He was one of several DJs to remix recordings of Taraful Haiducilor and Kočani Orkestar on the Electric Gypsyland compilations from Belgium’s Crammed Discs label, and released his next album on that label.^[1] Shantel’s 2007 album Disko Partizani departed somewhat from the techno sound of Bucovina Club, concentrating more on the music’s Balkan roots.^[2]

IN CASE YOU MISSED THE FIRST 2 THESE GUYS ARE AWESOME!!!

autobanda-nortec-collective.mp3

don-loope-nortec-collective.mp3

tijuana-bass-nortec-collective.mp3

Nortec Collective is a musical ensemble from northern Mexico. Their musical genre includes electronica in the nortec (”norteño” + “techno”) style.

Nortec Collective’s second album, Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3, was the recipient of much critical praise and was nominated for two Latin Grammy awards in 2006.

The Nortec Collective is composed of five artists: Fussible (Pepe Mogt), Bostich (Ramon Amezcua), Panóptica (Roberto Mendoza), Clorofila (Jorge Verdín) and Hiperboreal (Pedro Gabriel Beas). These producers create and perform a style of music called Nortec - a fusion of norteño (”from the North”) and techno, documenting the collision between the style and culture of electronica and traditional Mexican music.

Since 1999, the Nortec Collective musicians have toured throughout the United States, Mexico, Europe, Japan and Latin America, and played New York’s Central Park SummerStage and Irving Plaza, as well as the prestigious Winter Music Conference in Miami and shows at the Royal Festival Hall in London and Elysée Montmartre in Paris.

Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo invited Nortec to provide music for the Mexican pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hannover, and they’ve done remixes for Beck, Calexico, Ennio Morricone, Kronos quartet, Leigh Nash, and Lenny Kravitz among others.

In 2006 Nortec performed at the LA Weekly Detour Festival in Los Angeles, sharing the bill with Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, and Basement Jaxx.

Nortec’s music has appeared in commercials for Volvo, Dell, Fidelity Mutual, Edwin Jeans (with Brad Pitt), Nissan and others.

The song “Tijuana Makes Me Happy” is one of the soundtracks in 2006 FIFA World Cup video game and the title song of the feature film by the same name Tijuana Makes Me Happy.

An interactive book entitled “Paso del Nortec: This Is Tijuana” dedicated to the Nortec phenomena was released in the US, Mexico and Europe in 2004.

In 2005, Nortec Collective released their most acclaimed work to date, the album “Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3″, which received two Latin Grammy nominations and earned significant airplay on tastemaker radio stations like KCRW (Los Angeles), KEXP (Seattle) and KUT (Austin).

The book “Nor-tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World” by Alejandro L. Madrid was published in March 2008. “With an impressive hybrid of musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural and performance studies, urbanism, and border studies, Nor-tec Rifa! offers compelling insights into the cultural production of Nor-tec as it stems from nortena, banda, and grupera traditions. The book is also among the first to offer detailed accounts of Nor-tec music’s composition process.”Amazon.com Product Description

A new album titled “Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible: Tijuana Sound Machine” is released digitally on April 29th and in stores on May 6th.

Nortec’s album Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3 (Nacional Records) received two Latin Grammy nominations in 2006 for “Best Alternative Music Album” and “Best Recording Package.”

* The Tijuana Sessions Vol. 1 (Released: 15 Jul 2002)
* The Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3 (Released: 26 Jul 2005)
* Nortec Collective Presents Bostich+Fussible: Tijuana Sound Machine (Released: 29 April 2008)