Nacht Blvd. and New Tracks

played most of these and lots of other new mashups from Fusion 3,and 4 for the first time and good to know they work on the floor. party ratings:

VENUE: 9/10 new and a bit unconventional: beautiful theater house with tall ceilings so has that official vibe - not the usual dark and a bit dirty club experience. sound was good.
ATTENDENCE: 6/10 place could have been more full for sure.
ENERGY: 10/10 everyone there had a great time. lots of crazy moves. there was even some ace breakdancing.
FUN FOR DJ: 10/10 nice to relax behind decks and not worry about time restriction - lots of Afro-Dutch-UK house music, sprinkled with my ethno-techno remixes, and rounded off in the beginning with cumbia and at the end some dubstep.

Nov. 18 Cooly G / Udon Club

drawing new lines for the frontier of dance music, Cooly G is in my top 3 favorite artists in the current global electronic music scene. a semi pro footballer and professor of sound design, she has been djing since age 7 and has risen very fast after her first single was picked up by Hyperdub label.

she told me the album is about 1/2 finished (!) until that drops, here is the mix she did for FACT magazine, which feature some of her production. and here is the cover story from XLR8R magazine.

party was good except for an unfortunate fuck-up: the mixer or one of the wires Cooly was using started buzzing 20 minutes in, and would not go away. the sound guys said they use the rig every week and it has never happened before. so Cooly's set was cut short - the little bit she did play sounded great though. a bit disspointing but i guess shit happens and no one could have prevented it. my set went well, and Curve DJ was dropping some ill electro-IDM funky, not a single track of which i could spot.

Voodooists reissue

(don't know how i managed to forget putting this up until now) speaking of bybridity, this 4 track EP was the result of some sessions between members of post-punk electro legends Ike Yard and Haitian Voudou singers, and has been reissued recently.

"Yeah, real voudou and gawd could they sing ...
The tape ended and they went on powered by Hennesy!" - Stuart Argabright

(a great interview with this man who showed New Order a thing or 3 back in the day here)

recorded in NYC 1979 and 1981, but the music often transcends both the temporal and geographic location. some real magic happened between the Haitian singers and these punk mavericks, and it's interesting to think about the reasons for this sounding as fresh and powerful today as ever, while other records from that time sounds hopelessly dated.

available on i-tunes and other places, watch out for the remix EP coming soon from REC label including names you should all be familiar with.