Canuck beats from Neighbour

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Just found out that one of my favourite producers of the moment, Neighbour, is a Canuck! I discovered Neighbour via his remixes for The All Good Funk Alliance, and through remixes and EPs released on Funk Weapons, Super Hi-Fi and Jalapeno record labels.

Now I find he's been running his own label outta Calgary, Home Breakin Records, and he's got crap loads of more amazing releases through them. Freaking awesome. I love mondays again.

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Opening for NLX and Safe Word Project, April 4th @the Elmocombo

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I have a gig on April 4th at the Elmocombo in Toronto, opening for indie electronic singer-songwriters NLX and Safe Word Project for NLX's CD release party. I've seen both these ladies perform and they have ridiculous amounts of talent with their weapons of choice (voice, guitars, pianos, and laptops as it were), so it should be an awesome night! (File under Sia, Zero 7, Sarah Slean)

Essential details:

NLX CD Release Party w/ Safe Word Project
April 4th, 9pm 'til late
The Elmocombo
464 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Cost: $8

Here's a FB Event.

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Merlin Mann on Kutiman

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Merlin Mann talking about the whole Thru-You thing by Kutiman.

He's talking mostly about monolithic old media and labels, but I do wonder about record stores. In an internet universe positively teeming with independent, self-published artists, tastemakers will become increasingly important, to help aggregate and select the best stuff. (This is true of pretty much anything on the internet these days)

I'm wondering if local, independent record stores (The "Rotate This's" of world) should be starting up blogs and competing with Pitchfork et al?

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New DJ Mix Up! (and at 'em!)

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J Puddy's new podcast is live and ready, head on over to hear my guest mix!

Edit: Here's the tracklisting...

1. This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way) - DJ Shadow - Island Records
2. Hiding - Breakestra - Ubiquity Records
3. Chicago - A-Ko - Melting Pot Music
4. That Sound (Quantic Soul Orchestra Remix) - Ohmega Watts feat. Lightheaded, The Processions - Ubiquity Records
5. Sun-Vibes (All Good Funk Alliance Remix) - Swamburger feat. Zano, Deuce Logic - Eighth Dimension Records
6. Tu Fiesta Personal (TM Juke Dub Mix) - Mo' Horizons - Agogo
7. Give Some Space (Krafty Kuts vs. The Mexican Remix) - Dynamo Productions - Unique
8. Walking Through Tomorrow (Super 8 Part 3) - The Quantic Soul Orchestra - Tru Thoughts
9. Egg Roll - M&S Band - Jazzman
10. Let a Woman be a Woman, Let a Man be a Man - Dyke and the Blazers - Harmless
11. Soul Power (Lack of Afro Remix) - Kokolo - Record Kicks
12. Blue Grassed Devil - Featurecast & Aldo Vanucci - Funk Weapons
13. Break Your Back - Willie Henderson - Vampi Soul
14. Dance Across the Floor - Jimmy Bo Horne - Harmless
15. Rock Da Spot - Nick Fonkynson - Super Hi-Fi
16. The Bamboos - Step It Up - Ubiquity Records
17. Platypus Strut - Ohmega Watts - Ubiquity Records
18. Live in the Mix - Flow Dynamics - Freestyle Records
19. Human Race (Neighbour Remix) - Debtonate - Funk Weapons
20. Happiness - A Skillz and Krafty Kuts - Finger Lickin' Records
21. Brothers - 7 Samurai - GAMM
22. Ay Y Nama (DJ Day Remix) - Mo' Horizons - Agogo

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New dj mix should be out this week...

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Just a quick head's up, I should have a link for you sometime this week to a new dj mix I put together last week for my dj compatriot J Puddy. Puddy hosts a podcast called Homegrown and he asked me to do this month's edition.

I'm pretty excited about the mix! It highlights (partially) where my head is at these days, musically speaking, with lots of funky breaks, organic latin-influenced house, laid back hip hop and lots of original heavy funk and soul party jams. (I say "partially" 'cuz I'm still digging the electro house sound these days) The mix is also the first time I've ever done a mix almost entirely with Serato, the first time I've ever incorporated scratching, and the first time I've broken the 20-track mark in a mix. (and under an hour too!) It's definitely much more active of a mix, so those of you with short attention spans should be happy. :)

I'm pretty happy with the results, although I'm going to try something different with Serato next time. I think the mp3 format is just fine for club settings, but for future mixes I'm going to upgrade everything back to wav. Spinning mp3s, even high quality ones, looses more than CD or vinyl would once you compress it again down to a downloadable size. :P

Anyways, keep your eye on this space!

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