Frankie Knuckles - Live @ The Warehouse, Chicago 8/28/1981 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2018-02-14 | This is a live recording of Frankie Knuckles spinning records at the Warehouse in 1981. Not perfect quality, but for the sake for our offspring. Date not exacted, tape from 1981. Credits go to Gridface for supplying the tracklist and Deephousemixes for supplying the tape. Thanks for sharing this great music to the world! Tracklist: Skatt Bros.: Walk The Night Giorgio Moroder: I Wanna Rock You Debbie Jacobs: Don’t You Want My Love Modern Romance: Salsa Rappsody Plunky and Oneness of Juju: Always Have to Say Good-Bye Dynasty: I’ve Just Begun to Love You New Birth: Deeper (Instrumental) Ashford & Simpson: It Seems to Hang On Geraldine Hunt: It Doesn’t Only Happen at Night - video upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
Infinity Night - Synth Sumer Mix (2015) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-10-19 | This was found on the Valerie Collective website back in the day. A nice construction of synthwave, disco and soundtracks. Tracklist:01 - Jan Hammer - Tubbs and Valerie02 - Rain Sword - Summer Breeze03 - Leach - Daytona04 - Fred Fentura - Love Is My Answer (New Silvi Version)05 - Aldo Bergamachine - Juno Band pt1 ( Unrealeased Demo track 06 - Vezurro – Laser Explosion ( Lumeet Kernel Panic Version 2015)07 - Frank Tavaglione - Tumidanda (Italian Version)08 - Danielle Deneuve - The Rising Sun09 - Aldo Bergamachine - Sequencial-P5 Band pt2 ( Unrealeased Demo track )10 - Hildegard - Gay Hysteric Extended Edit11 - Sternrekorder - Antipodes12 - College - Save The Day13 - Timecop1983 - Running Away14 - Mikado - La Sardine15 - Mikado - La Fille du Soleil16 - Plaisance - Vera Cruise17 - New Paradise - I Love Video18 - Maethelvin - Plan B19 - Waveshaper - Radio Signal20 - STEREOSPREAD - The Fire Killstarr Remix21 - Mirko Hirsch - Obsession22 - Sternrekorder - Monster23 - FPU - Crockett's Theme24 - SelloRekt/ LA Dreams - Sweat25 - Timecop1983 - Indigo Tears26 - Simple Minds - Somebody Up There Likes You ( New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Traxx - Radical Hymns Of Innovation / A Mayday Rhythim is Rhythim Selection (2018) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-10-16 | Presentation as brought by The Pedestrian."The pedestrian makes a return presence with a specially made segmentfor the subject of Derrick May, the artist, and renaissance figure whoseprophetic morse code still continues to create your own ideal in the life-affirming symphonies, wrenched kicking and screaming from deep insidethe circuitry of found machinery coerced into new and uncharted contortionspreviously alien to their stoic programming. -- Aldus sprach Traxx
Cosmic 029 - Daniele Baldelli & Claudio Tosi Brandi (1981) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-10-12 | Live recording from the infamous Cosmic club in Lazise, Italy in 1981.Daniele BaldelliIn the late ’70s Baldelli took up a residency at Cosmic, a nightclub by Lake Garda, and rose to stardom with his experimental mixing style. He combined an extremely diverse range of genres, from European electronica to reggae, synth pop to African folk, often played at improper speeds and mixed with effects and drum machines. Baldelli’s worldly and hypnotic sets fathered the cosmic sound, a movement that set itself apart from the Italo disco scene. The DJ and producer who is now considered an innovator in the Italian disco scene for developing a unique, 'funky' and 'tribal' aesthetic by playing eclectic, esoteric records at drastically altered speeds, often slowed way down, and sometimes adding drum machines and effects. He developed the style he like to call "Cosmic Sound" . He start to be a Dj in 1969 . He was resident DJ at the Baia Degli Angeli (1977–1978) and Cosmic (1979–1984) discothèques in Northern Italy - Lasize (Lago di Garda) he released scores of mixtapes during his tenure at the latter. He was mostly unknown outside of Italy until a surge of English-language press coverage in the second half of the 2000s.Claudio Tosi Brandi Also known as DJ T.B.C. It was 1978 and after have studied guitar in conservatory, played in groups and worked in at a radio station (Radio Sabbia) for a year Brandi decided to become a DJ in a period it was a profession that did not exist. He started to work in the mythical Papillon a discotheque in Riccione, it was the period of the Baia degli Angeli (Bay of the Angels) with the two DJ Americans Bob Day and Tom Season (first mix DJ's in Italy). In that period the discotheques where divided in two musical kinds; the disco and the funky music but he played all styles (Funkattaro), and even what now seems an authentic performance to put 45 to 33 and viceversa. His style got noticed and soon he would play at various locations aslike the Cosmic (1980-1984).
College - Every Single Time Mix (2012) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-10-07 | Downloaded from the (now defunct) Valerie Collective website."When I make selections for College, I try to collect pieces that touched me in order to share them. Among those is Kate Bush’s hit, ”Running Up That Hill“ that, I’m not ashamed to confess, I only recently discovered! It’s always a wonderful feeling to discover music or movies for the first time so I hope you have as much fun to listening to this mix as I’ve had preparing it. I also want to thank the large audience that attended my March concerts in Copenhagen, Austin, Mexico City, Bucharest, Niort, Munich and Berlin."Playlist:01 – Phochos – Glaciers02 – Ian Boddy – Pulse03 – Starcluster – Winter of Ice04 – Mistral – Jamie05 – Young Monday – Zaire06 – Scratch Massive feat. Jimmy Somerville – Take Me There07 – Charles Lindberg N.E.V – Peinlich Peinlich08 – Terminal Twilight – The Lovers09 – Hyboid – Requiem For Hyboid10 – Xeno & Oaklander – Desert Rose11 – Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
Luke Slater @ Tribal Confusion, Portsmouth, UK 05/02/1993 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-10-05 | A key player on the UK (and now global) techno scene, Luke Slater has been a firm fixture on all the right electronic line-ups since the early nineties, and like fellow electronic visionaries and sonic sorcerers like Sven Väth and Richie Hawtin, he’s never stopped to smell the proverbial roses. Born in Berkshire, he’s a major player with a sound and (punk) attitude that’s impossible to miss and yet despite all of that success, he’s always kept hisartistic feet on the ground. That’s extremely evident as we chat over Zoom for this new interview as 2022 comes into view. “I think I've got more fire now than it had in the beginning. And I like that. I remember talking to Derrick May back in the 90s at a café in Belgium and all we talked about was the hunger. And the hunger was born out of the life you've lived, how you grew up and what you went through. And the situation for me growing up, although I didn't have a bad upbringing, it was flippin’ hard, man. The world was not how I wanted it to be and I didn't fit in. People romanticize the 90s but the path was not easy. I don't want to be bogged down by the rules. Society. And unfortunately, that's something that's even stronger in me now.”Recording courtesy of Manny's Tapez.
Albion - Spaceships Over Africa (2006) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-10-01 | Afro cosmic mix as broadcasted on CBS (Cybernetic Broadcasting System), the precursor of Intergalactic FM. Highly influential mix by the Swedish maestro in the vein of Baldelli and Loda! EnjoyMore Albion: soundcloud.com/big-muffle
Alden Tyrell @ Waterfront, Rotterdam 08/10/2004 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-09-28 | Alden Tyrell is a quiet hero of the Dutch scene. For more than a decade now he has been producing a stylistically diverse spread of music from electro to italo to techno. Most recently he has been honing his own version of Chicago house that is raw, punchy and cerebral and in collaboration with Clone boss Serge, Gerd or Mike Dunn. As well as being a studio master and man of many monikers, so too is Alden a mastering master, working on many projects for Clone when not mixing up his musical influences in clubs and festivals all over the planet. Live recording from the Clone Night in Waterfront, Rotterdam on 8th of October 2004 with Alden Tyrell (live), Serge, I-F and Duplex (live).
Stephen Falken - Energetic & Romantic Synthetic Mix (2010) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-09-25 | Downloaded from the French Valerie Collective website. Stephen Falken is 50% of The Outrunners and 100% flying through hyperspace to greet us with his musical taste.. As a member of the spectacular Valerie Collective, and he’s here to defy the laws of time and space. His music feels like warm waves of neon meeting the spirit of John Carpenter on a dark cloud of enlightenment, making it the best early 80’s movie score you’ve never heard. It’s the precise background music for chasing a girl in your Ferrari, playing a game of cat & mouse that lasts till 4 a.m., driving at full speed only to find each other at the edge of the earth.
Tony Humphries @ Zanzibar, New Jersey 03/05/1988 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-09-21 | When thinking about Tony Humphries, you might be minded of his epic stint at KISS FM as one of its greatest Mastermixers; or of his residency at one of the greatest US clubs, The Zanzibar; or, even, the walls that are lined with gold discs, from Indeep to Janet Jackson; or even his legendary eclecticism. Tony is all of those things and more. But then, there’s the Tony of today, restless, questing, searching for new challenges. Which is pretty much how Tony has always been.Few people realise just how deeply steeped in performing Tony Humphries’ family is. His father, Rene Grand, an émigré from Colombia in the 1950s, was a prominent bandleader in New York, alongside peers like Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri. Plus he has a raft of cousins, uncles and aunts who have forged a career in the performing arts. Tony was born to it.Tony Humphries has been DJing nearly 35 years, an incredible achievement that in any other industry would have been rewarded with a carriage clock or service medal. His big break came through a chance meeting with Mastermixer Shep Pettibone at the offices of Prelude Records. Tony handed the maestro a tape and the rest is history. Humphries’ star rose as his KISS FM show (and later HOT 97) lasted for decades.Although Humphries was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, he has long been associated with New Jersey and the reason for that is his long-held residency at Club Zanzibar in Newark that began in 1982. Zanzibar became synonymous with a new soulful electronic sound, labelled the Jersey sound, but with Tony’s hands at the tiller it was a vastly more varied menu than that suggests. “It wasn’t like going to a house club, everything was intertwined,” explains Tony. “The hours were long, so obviously you didn’t want to hear ten hours of straight house music. If you’re going to pay $15-20 to hear this guy, you want to hear the whole damn spectrum. You had to come with everything possible. Talking Heads and The B-52s don’t sound like Zanzibar/Garage records, but they were. I think that’s what the Zanzibar’s appeal was.”Although Tony is often seen more as a DJ than a remixer, his forays into the studio have always been productive. His remix of Mtume’s ‘Juicy Fruit’ has been sampled on several big hip hop and R&B hits and Fresh Band’s ‘Come Back Lover’ is rightly regarded as one of the best disco songs of the 1980s. He has gone on to remix scores of artists from Soul II Soul to Janet Jackson (which earned him a gold disc). Poignantly, Tony was enticed back into the studio in 2013 by Frankie Knuckles who asked Tony to do a swap mix for a track he’d been working on. As Frankie told Tony, “You’re a great remixer. I just thought folks needed to be reminded.”His reputation in Europe, established via illegally copied tapes of his KISS shows, grew hugely after successful jaunts to influential parties like Danny Rampling’s Shoom & Norman Jay’s High On Hope in London. He was coaxed back to Europe in the early ’90s for residencies at both Ministry of Sound in London and Echoes in Rimini on the Italian Riviera.Tony’s first label venture Yellorange was launched in 1998 and ran the gamut of styles, from the soulful vocals of Mel’isa Morgan, Miguel Plansencia’s Afro-Cuban flavors, through to Soweto Funk’s Italo-grooves. His latest venture, Tony Records is, “showcasing younger artists and producers doing soulful music in a modern form.” Check Tony’s own recent release Housework EP, which fuses blues, gospel and worksongs into a brilliantly contemporary setting (or even his new mix compilation with DJ Spen, Quintessentials, demonstrating his expansive style).In 2009, Body & Soul promoter John Davis brought Tony together with ‘Little’ Louie Vega and David Morales for a ten-hour session at New York’s Webster Hall that was appropriately dubbed the Kings of House. Little did any of them anticipate the success that this would be, turning into a worldwide phenomenon that has straddled continents and cities, as well as regular trips to the likes of Pacha Ibiza.What strikes anyone when meeting Tony Humphries is not what he’s done or where he’s been, but where he’s going. ““Growing up in Boston, our biggest influence was the New York house scene and no one embodies this spirit more than Tony Humphries,” explains Soul Clap’s Eli Goldstein. “For us, the gospel, deep, tribal sound he created at his Zanzibar residency reached us through the many remixes and tracks named after the legendary club. We finally had the honor of opening for Tony this year and we were blown away by his ability to represent the old, while pushing a unique, modern house sound. There is clearly only one Tony Humphries!” Amen to that.
Beppe Loda - Series Typhoon Mix 20 (1982) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-09-17 | A central figure in Italian club culture, Signor Beppe (Giuseppe) Loda pioneered the omnivorous ‘Afro’ sound and mixing style that combines everything from proto-industrial and Steve Reich to Afrobeat, disco, sideways new-wave, Celtic folk and krautrock.This living treasure is really the DJs' DJ. Greatly revered by all those who understand the breadth of his knowledge and much loved by the countless thousands who have danced under his spell (over the last 40 years). For those uninitiated, Beppe is a DJ polymath, as comfortable mixing Steve Reich with traditional Maracatu rhythms as he is mixing Conrad Schnitzler with Celtic folk. Hailing from the town of Manerbio, south-east of Milano, Beppe began developing his style in the mid 70's and coined the term 'Afro' to describe both it and the movement that it spawned. He refined his unique sound and skills during his long residency at the mythical Typhoon club from 1980-1987, hypnotising thousands of dancers a week and recording some of the greatest mixtapes ever made.Since his first gig at the Kinky club in his hometown Manerbio back in 1973, Loda has been on the hunt for off-the-beaten-track records; but it was during his 1980-1987 residency at the mythical Typhoon club that the disco trendsetter nailed down his vision for the dancefloor. Thousands of young Italians fell under his spell and Loda recorded some of the greatest dance tapes ever made.Loda on the tapes in general: "Until 1983 they were strictly [recorded] live in the club, after that some of both. I would guess in the hundreds of thousands [were made]. I sold many copies, which were copied again and again and sold accross Italy in record shops, used-clothing shops and local markets. At the time it was what you Americans would call a booming business and you could find tapes of mine and other DJs literally everywhere.This huge success brought some problems though. The booth at Typhoon allowed people to see the DJ at work and the records being played. Nothing wrong with that, but eventually the note-takers arrived, writing down the titles of all the songs. Soon after, "my" songs could be easily found (as originals or bootlegs) in the record shops, at the market stalls, on other DJs' tapes, on the radio, etc. I would have taken great satisfaction in this, but it was bad for Typhoon. Since the club was off the beaten path, it needed to remain a unique musical point of reference (i.e. the music had to be mostly exclusive) to ensure people would travel there. For me, the resident DJ with a reputation of continuous innovation, this made things difficult.In addition, the way I put together a mix was to play it live in front of a crowd, refining the sequence each time, then eventually recording it. This was time-consuming and sometimes other DJs were playing the records before I was able to put them to tape. (Some records that only I owned were on heavy rotation for a year before I put them in a mix.) To avoid all this, in the middle of the 1983 I started covering the titles with stickers that Nevio provided for me. If I was asked nicely though, I was always happy to tell someone more about the music I played!
Underground Resistance @ TodaysArt Festival, The Hague, Netherlands 22/09/2006 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-09-13 | The second edition of the TodayArt Festival took place during the evenings and nights of the 22nd and 23rd of September on more than 25 locations in the city centre of The Hague, both in- and outdoor. This year, the unique and international productions together formed an adventurous program which challenged the audience to go and explore unfamiliar territory.The TodaysArt Festival 2006 line-up consisted of over then 200 acts and artists from over 25 countries. The creative vision of the artists, who showed their own unique interpretation on contemporary creativity in music (e.g. electronic and hip-hop), video- and visual arts, film, photography, fashion, performing arts, theatre, modern dance and many other disciplines and collaborations, was the main focus for this year’s festival. The best creative artists from around the world created unique productions and performances especially for the TodayArt Festival. This year utilized specific locations (cultural and public) in the city centre such as Theater aan het Spui, Paard van Troje, the Korzo Theater and the Grote Kerk. Futhermore, TodayArt 2006 proved again to be an ideal event for fruitful collaborations between upcoming Dutch talent and international stars and heroes from today’s emerging arts and culture.Underground Resistance is a label for a movement. A movement that wants change by sonic revolution. We urge you to join the resistance and help us combat the mediocre audio and visual programming that is being fed to the inhabitants of Earth, this programming is stagnating the minds of the people; building a wall between races and preventing world peace. It is this wall we are going to smash. By using the untapped energy potential of sound we are going to destroy this wall much the same as certain frequencies shatter glass. Techno is a music based in experimentation; it is music for the future of the human race. Without this music there will be no peace, no love, no vision. By simply communicating through sound, techno has brought people of all different nationalities together under one roof to enjoy themselves. Isn't it obvious that music and dance are the keys to the universe? So called primitive animals and tribal humans have known this for thousands of years! We urge all brothers and sisters of the underground to create and transmit their tones and frequencies no matter how so called primitive their equipment may be. Transmit these tones and wreak havoc on the programmers!
Cosmic 028 - Daniele Baldelli & Claudio Tosi Brandi (1981) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-09-10 | Live recording from the infamous Cosmic club in Lazise, Italy in 1981.Daniele BaldelliIn the late ’70s Baldelli took up a residency at Cosmic, a nightclub by Lake Garda, and rose to stardom with his experimental mixing style. He combined an extremely diverse range of genres, from European electronica to reggae, synth pop to African folk, often played at improper speeds and mixed with effects and drum machines. Baldelli’s worldly and hypnotic sets fathered the cosmic sound, a movement that set itself apart from the Italo disco scene. The DJ and producer who is now considered an innovator in the Italian disco scene for developing a unique, 'funky' and 'tribal' aesthetic by playing eclectic, esoteric records at drastically altered speeds, often slowed way down, and sometimes adding drum machines and effects. He developed the style he like to call "Cosmic Sound" . He start to be a Dj in 1969 . He was resident DJ at the Baia Degli Angeli (1977–1978) and Cosmic (1979–1984) discothèques in Northern Italy - Lasize (Lago di Garda) he released scores of mixtapes during his tenure at the latter. He was mostly unknown outside of Italy until a surge of English-language press coverage in the second half of the 2000s.Claudio Tosi Brandi Also known as DJ T.B.C. It was 1978 and after have studied guitar in conservatory, played in groups and worked in at a radio station (Radio Sabbia) for a year Brandi decided to become a DJ in a period it was a profession that did not exist. He started to work in the mythical Papillon a discotheque in Riccione, it was the period of the Baia degli Angeli (Bay of the Angels) with the two DJ Americans Bob Day and Tom Season (first mix DJ's in Italy). In that period the discotheques where divided in two musical kinds; the disco and the funky music but he played all styles (Funkattaro), and even what now seems an authentic performance to put 45 to 33 and viceversa. His style got noticed and soon he would play at various locations aslike the Cosmic (1980-1984).
Duracel +/- Interr-Ference - The Acid Planet Is In Sight (Bunker 021) 1994 VHSRip Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-09-07 | This video features animations with music from the Duracel +/- Interr-Ference EP on Bunker, released in 1994. Duracel and Interr-Ference were part of the underground outlet Unit Moebius, straight from the dirty, brown and miserable streets of The Hague, Netherlands. Starting as Europe's only true answer to Underground Resistance, the godfathers of the Hague's industrial techno/planet rock scene, evolved gradually from deep alienating lo-fi acid house and crazy rigid jack trax (mixing the best of the detroit and chicago styles) to hard pounding dark industrial techno, freaky techno funk pop and mean minimalistic machine music. Raw primitive production and sound (the first 7 albums were recorded on a nearly-broken cassette recorder - it was all they had!), very diverse in style, but always with that typical twisted, paranoid and fucked-up drive, a bad sweaty groove that feels like a mindfuck.
Kid Machine - Machine Forever Mix (2013) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-09-07 | Found on the (now defunct) Valerie Collective website. "Kid Machine, a UK based artist who hit back in 2012 with his EP « Replicants », as seen on the influent dutch label Viewlexx. We then discovered his first album « First Contact », released on Cyber Dance, and a new EP called « Red Planet », still very effective, on Red Laser Records. Mark (his real name) has promised me, a long time ago, to come here showing us his story and his influences. Something done today, with this vinyl only mix, perfectly timed to celebrate the new year!" Playlist:01 – Kid Machine – Unreleased demo – (file)02 – Rockets – Another Place, Another Time(Red Laser: Hits from the Manctalo Diskoteque LP2)03 – Kid Machine – Lost Discotheque Lovers – (Viewlexx)04 – Model 11-29 – Wot Times (Instrumental Version) – (Musix)05 – Riccardo Cioni – Fog – (Master Dee Jay)05 – Starion – Fantomas – (Red Laser)06 – Paul Hardcastle – 19 (Extended Version – (Chrysalis)07 – Il Bosco – Dirty Girl – (Red Laser)08 – Kid Machine – Invasion – (Red Laser)09 – Hypnosis – Argonauts – (Zyx)10 – Kid Machine – Rulers of the Red Planet – (Red Laser)11 – Blue Vision – Visions (Instrumental) – (EMI Electrola)12 – Hypnotic Samba – Hypnotic Samba (Il Bosco Edit)(Red Laser: Hits from the Manctalo Diskoteque LP1)13 – Steel Mind – Bad Passion (Instrumental) – (Delirium)14 – Faxe – Time for Changes – (Zyx)15 – Starion – Darkstar – (Red Laser)16 – The Problems – Moustache Italo Anthem – (Moustache)17 – The Conservatives – Loneliness – (Top Secret/Test Series)18 – Space – Magic Fly – (PYE)19 – I.M.S – Nonline – (Bellaphon)20 – Charlie – Spacer Woman – (Mr. Disc Organization)21 – Alden Tyrell – Love Explosion – (Viewlexx)22 – I.M.S – Run Away – (Bellaphon)23 – Govindo – Ou Ka Vini Moin (IL Bosco & Kid Machine Edit)(Red Laser: Hits from the Manctalo Diskoteque LP2)24 – Wind – Luxury (Red Laser: Hits from the Manctalo Diskoteque LP1)25 – Steven Dale – Together Forever – (Hawkeye)26 – Kid Machine – Forever in the Stars – (Cyber Dance)
David Mancuso @ Its Music, Shibuya FM, Tokyo 31/07/2005 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-09-03 | Mancuso was a pioneering DJ, whose invite-only parties in the 1970s became the bedrock of New York’s underground dance culture and welcomed marginalised and LGBTQ audiences. His private parties at The Loft in Manhattan helped establish a vibrant alternative to New York’s commercial club scene in the early 1970s, famed for their exceptional sound quality rather than DJ showmanship.“For me the core [idea behind The Loft] is about social progress,” he told writer Tim Lawrence in a rare interview earlier this year. “You won’t get much social progress in a nightclub. In New York City they changed the law for [entry into clubs, from] 18 to 21 years old; where can this age group go to dance? In my zone you can be any age, a drinker or non-drinker, a smoker or a non-smoker. And that’s where I like to be.”The Loft was known as a positive and safe space for its often marginalised attendees and its success inspired countless more underground venues that became the birthplaces of house music. In 2005, Mancuso was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his contribution to club culture, and he was central to Tim Lawrence’s investigation into New York’s early dance scene, Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979, a book named after the first party at The Loft in 1970.Mancuso who left us in 2016 will be greatly missed, but, thankfully, he left the world a lasting vibrant legacy that continues to inspire and influence countless generations of music lovers and clubbers.This mix is downloaded from the Deephousepages site. Photo by Roberto Najar.
Masters At Work - Spins Out Of Control on Hot97, NYC 31/05/1993 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-08-31 | Masters At Work is the house/garage production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. They first worked together using the name, which had been given to them by mutual friend, Todd Terry (who recorded several tracks under that name in the 1980s), in 1990. Cousin to Eric Vega, popular event creator and promoter in New York City. The duo has also produced music together under the names MAW, KenLou, Sole Fusion, and Nuyorican Soul. Their Nuyorican Soul project had the duo working extensively with real (as opposed to sampled or synthesized) musicians, in a variety of styles including Latin, disco, jazz, and more. Musicians who took part in this project include Vincent Montana Jr., Roy Ayers, George Benson, Jocelyn Brown, Tito Puente, and members of the Salsoul Orchestra. The self-titled album released under the name Nuyorican Soul in 1996 included original tracks as well as cover versions of songs by the performers with which the duo was working, such as "Sweet Tears" (Roy Ayers), and "Runaway," originally sung by Loleatta Holloway with the Salsoul Orchestra, here sung by India and featuring musicians from the original recording of 1977. MAW has a vast history as remixers, having reproduced tracks for various acts both inside and outside the world of dance music. Some of the artists remixed by the two producers include Michael Jackson, Madonna, Donna Summer, Gus Gus, Jody Watley, Janet Jackson, Jamiroquai, Earth Wind & Fire, and Stephanie Mills.Mix supplied by Manny's Tapez.
CP Smith - Network Records Megamix (2010) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-08-27 | Mix done by CPU Records label boss CP Smith.Network Records was a Rave music label based in Birmingham, England during the late 80's and early to mid 90's. It was owned by Neil Rushton and Dave Barker. In 1996 they signed a deal with Avex to release tracks. Neil Macey was employed with the label as head of club promotion and to assist with A&R. Andy Stanley (aka DJ Stan the Devil Tune Man) did van sales for the label. They also employed John McCready and Mark Mortimer for press relations/PR. Judy Nanton also worked with promotions. The label started as "Bleep" offshoot of Kool Kat, and went on to play a massive role in the development of early Hardcore and British techno. Latterly it concentrated on bringing Garage music to Britain & developing UK House artists. Along the way it hosted artists such as True Faith, Juan Atkins / Model 500, Derrick May / Mayday, Cyclone, Rhythm On The Loose, MK, Neal Howard, Kevin Saunderson, Funky Green Dogs From Outer Space, Nexus 21, Altern8, as well as collaborating with the Underground Resistance, KMS, NuGroove and Serious Grooves labels among others. They also promoted the Bio Rhythms club night in Walsall.Tracklist:Neal Howard - IndulgeXon - DissonanceRhythmatic - Take Me BackCyclone - A Place Called BlissEnergize - Report To The Dancefloor (Electro Mix)Rhythmatic - Frequency (Depth Mix)Model 500 - Info WorldNexus 21 - Self HypnosisRhythim is Rhythim - DramaHeychild - Heychild's ThemeSuburban Knight - The Art of StalkingSymbols And Instruments - Mood (Optimistic Mix)Fade II Black - The CallingThe Forgemasters - Track With No Name (Unique 3 Remix)Nexus 21 - TogetherNeal Howard - IndulgeMK - Somebody NewC&M Connection - Bio RhythmsCritical Rhythm - Fall Into a TrancePsyche - From BeyondConstant Ritual - Hard Way To ComeBlake Baxter - When We Used To PlayR-Tyme - R-ThemeAltern8 - Move My BodyAltern8 - Infiltrate 202 (Vs Astrix & Space Mix)True Faith featuring Bridget Grace - Take Me Away (Pin-Up Girls Remix)Rhythm On The Loose - Break Of Dawn (Original Mix)Liberty City - Some Lovin'Altern8 - Re-indulgeMC Lethal - Rave Digger (2 Bad Mice Remix)
CZR - Live At The Funk Parlor (2005) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-08-24 | Texture Recordings Artist, CZR, has become world-renowned for his skills as a DJ, producer, songwriter, and remix artist. For years, CZRs music has graced the ears of listeners worldwide. Some of the most respected international notables such as Bad Boy Bill, Carl Cox, Daft Punk, Erick Morillo, Ian Pooley, Harry “Choo Choo” Romero, Moby and DJ Sneak can be found spinning CZRs tracks from continent to continent. Equally as impressive are his collaborations with artists such as Beyonce, Bob Sinclar, Brandy, Eddie Amador, Enrique Iglesias, Eric B and Rakim, Jordan Knight and Latin artist, Los Ilegales. CZR has managed to establish himself as one of the most influential House producers in the world. With countless original production, as well as, high-profile remix projects for universally respected labels like Subliminal, Defected, Interscope, Arista, Logic and Warner Bros, CZR has reached the masses. His ability to consistently produce quality pieces of music that appeal to DJs and dance floors alike is unmatched. He has been blessed with the ability to create dance floor anthems proven to stand the test of time. Prominent CZR production work includes notable tracks like, “Bad Enough“, “Chicago Southside“, “Bringin the Funk“, “This Is House Music“, “Structure“, “Something for the Dancefloor” & “I Want You“. Demand for his DJ sets has resulted in tours throughout the U.S., Europe, Columbia, Mexico, Canada and the Mediterranean (including industry landmarks like Pacha in Ibiza and Ministry of Sound in London). With an impressive list of original tracks and remix productions, the demand grows more every day proving CZR is truly a House music icon. czrmuzik.commixcloud.com/iamczr Mixed at around the year 2004/2005.
David Mancuso @ Its Music, Shibuya FM, Tokyo 26/09/2005 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-08-20 | Mancuso was a pioneering DJ, whose invite-only parties in the 1970s became the bedrock of New York’s underground dance culture and welcomed marginalised and LGBTQ audiences. His private parties at The Loft in Manhattan helped establish a vibrant alternative to New York’s commercial club scene in the early 1970s, famed for their exceptional sound quality rather than DJ showmanship.“For me the core [idea behind The Loft] is about social progress,” he told writer Tim Lawrence in a rare interview earlier this year. “You won’t get much social progress in a nightclub. In New York City they changed the law for [entry into clubs, from] 18 to 21 years old; where can this age group go to dance? In my zone you can be any age, a drinker or non-drinker, a smoker or a non-smoker. And that’s where I like to be.”The Loft was known as a positive and safe space for its often marginalised attendees and its success inspired countless more underground venues that became the birthplaces of house music. In 2005, Mancuso was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his contribution to club culture, and he was central to Tim Lawrence’s investigation into New York’s early dance scene, Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979, a book named after the first party at The Loft in 1970.Mancuso who left us in 2016 will be greatly missed, but, thankfully, he left the world a lasting vibrant legacy that continues to inspire and influence countless generations of music lovers and clubbers.This mix is downloaded from the Deephousepages site. Photo by Roberto Najar.
Kevin Saunderson @ Awakenings Festival 27/06/2009 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-08-16 | Platinum-selling recording artist, label boss, festival promoter, true innovator in the pantheon of popular music, cultural champion, cracking DJ: there’s a lot to be said about Kevin Saunderson.His influence runs deep, through both adopted hometown of Detroit, and music culture as a whole: as one of the Belleville Three, the high school trio which also includes Juan Atkins and Derrick May, he irreparably changed the face of electronic music; with Inner City, he gave it some of its most memorable tunes. The genesis of today’s enormous techno scene can be retraced straight to Kevin, Derrick and Juan, as their formative experiments on rudimentary hardware sketched a blueprint for a genre that was yet to exist. By absorbing Kraftwerk, cutting-edge funk, local radio stalwart The Electrifying Mojo’s electicism, and all manner of new synthesiser and drum machine-led pop music, the Belleville Three broke new ground as musicians and DJs in the 80s. Saunderson’s comparatively late start as a producer – kicking off in ’87 under the moniker of Kreem, with E-Dancer and Reese two of the more well-known names to follow – inadvertently gifted him a headstart. With the eruption of house music a few hours down the I-94 in Chicago, Saunderson married Detroit’s raw sound to more tactile, pop-leaning sensibilities. Inner City was born, and global success followed.Between “Big Fun”, “Good Life”, debut album Paradise and a number of follow-up singles, Inner City (Saunderson and vocalist Paris Grey) amassed 12 UK top 40 hits and over six million records sold worldwide during their peak. A dancefloor-dominating remix by Luciano in 2008, and a globetrotting reunion tour in 2012, underscores the longevity of Inner City’s classic sound. His nickname of ‘The Elevator’ is apt: for his role in transporting Detroit’s new sound to a wider audience; as anyone who has seen him perform live can attest, his high-energy, high-spirit and high-impact DJ sets; and for spending the past 35 years of his life progressing the culture he helped create. Operating in tandem to his golden run as a producer in the late 80s and early 90s, Saunderson’s own KMS record label – a remarkable 30 years strong in 2017 – has chronicled the early footsteps of R-Tyme, Blake Baxter, MK, Chez Damier, Derrick Carter, Bicep and even Saunderson’s son and regular DJ partner Dantiez more recently. A special 12” series in 2008 called History Elevate, released in tandem with fellow polymath Carl Craig’s Planet E label, brought contemporary names like Mathew Jonson, Simian Mobile Disco and Loco Dice into the fold, proving his nous for fostering relationships with each new wave to come through techno’s gates. 25th anniversary compilations and numerous reissues have followed suit. Saunderson has a behind-the-scenes role to play, too: he is intertwined with the history of Detroit’s flagship Movement (formerly Detroit Electronic Music Festival / Fuse-In). Having produced the event in the mid-2000s, the last handful of years have seen repeated invites from Movement to display his ORIGINS showcase at the festival, bringing acts like Delano Smith, Phuture and DJ Minx under his curatorial umbrella. And of course, with a stacked international touring schedule over the decades, playing in nearly every country and at nearly every festival or club worth mention, he has not stopped pushing the feeling of techno on and on. The Groove That Won’t Stop, indeed.
Parallels - Faint Image Mix (2010) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-08-13 | Downloaded from the (now defunct) Valerie Collective website."On my return from Barcelona, where the Catalan public came in their numbers to support our Valerie Party at Razzmatazz, some excellent news was waiting for me in my e-mail inbox… Faithful readers of the blog will certainly remember with the same emotions as I, the first selection mix of the Canadian project, Parallels . For two years, the group have evolved, and the singer Holly Dodson has joined to lend her cristaline voice to the band. From this new start a debut album was born entitled “Visionaries” which will soon be re-released in a limited edition vinyl run of 500 copies. To celebrate, they have given us of a new mix entitled “Faint Image”."Playlist:AFX – Wheres Your Girlfriend?Experimental Products – Glowing In the DarkCold Cave – The Laurels of ErotomaniaVirgo – Free YourselfRoxy Music – Same Old Scene (Glimmers Remix)Parallels – Ultralight (Dark Esquire Re-Version)Samson & Delilah – I Can Feel You Love Slipping Away (Instrumental)Darien シールド – Geena DavisParallels – CounterpartsAphex Twin – Alberto BalsamYukihiro Takahashi – Disposable LoveParallels – All We’ll Ever Know
Lo55o - Bocaccio 88 Acid Commando Mix (2009) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-08-09 | A gloomy 88-89 acid Belgian new-beat affair from Belgian DJ Lo55o.Lo55o stands for Low '55 Oval, JM's Volkswagen Beetle. Apart from aircooled rides, JM has a particular interest in pre-1989 electronica.In 1987 local club Boccaccio became a lovely place to be for electronica lovers in the Ghent area. The absolute climax came in 1988, hence the 88 in many mix names. By 1989 new beat went that mainstream it became a pretty embarrassing style hardly anyone wanted to be associated with anymore. These mixes try to bring back the good memories those pre-89 years had to offer. Some of them dig deeper into the past and are influenced by the pioneers who started experimenting with low RPM's in 1985 and 1986 in mythical Antwerp club Ancienne Belgique and ditto radio show Les Liaisons Dangereuses.Tracklist:.0. Acid Commando - Acid Generation (1989).1. X Kommando - Take My (1988).2. SA 42 - Carnaval (1988).3. Executive Board - I Do Anything (1988).4. Concrete Beat - Snow White (1989).5. Edwards & Armani - Up Your Bum (Dirty Edit)(1988).6. Reject 707 - Brainkiller (1988).7. Rhythm Kings - A La Recherche Du Temps Perdue (1989).8. Hypnoteck - Love On The New Beat (1990).9. Chico Crew - Acid Pages (1988).10. Dr. Zarkhov - Interplanetary Adventures (1989).11. BX-8017 - CCCP House (1988).12. PLB System - Oddity (1989).13. Airplane Crashers - I Had A Dream (1989)
David Mancuso On Its Music, Shibuya FM, Tokyo 25/06/2005 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-08-06 | Mancuso was a pioneering DJ, whose invite-only parties in the 1970s became the bedrock of New York’s underground dance culture and welcomed marginalised and LGBTQ audiences. His private parties at The Loft in Manhattan helped establish a vibrant alternative to New York’s commercial club scene in the early 1970s, famed for their exceptional sound quality rather than DJ showmanship.“For me the core [idea behind The Loft] is about social progress,” he told writer Tim Lawrence in a rare interview earlier this year. “You won’t get much social progress in a nightclub. In New York City they changed the law for [entry into clubs, from] 18 to 21 years old; where can this age group go to dance? In my zone you can be any age, a drinker or non-drinker, a smoker or a non-smoker. And that’s where I like to be.”The Loft was known as a positive and safe space for its often marginalised attendees and its success inspired countless more underground venues that became the birthplaces of house music. In 2005, Mancuso was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his contribution to club culture, and he was central to Tim Lawrence’s investigation into New York’s early dance scene, Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979, a book named after the first party at The Loft in 1970.Mancuso who left us in 2016 will be greatly missed, but, thankfully, he left the world a lasting vibrant legacy that continues to inspire and influence countless generations of music lovers and clubbers.This mix is downloaded from the Deephousepages site. Photo by Roberto Najar.
Farley Jackmaster Funk On WBMX (1988) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-08-03 | Farley first made his name broadcasting on Chicago's WBMX as a member of the Hot Mix 5 DJ team. Farley also appeared at the Warehouse club and then began a residency at the Playground. Known as Farley Keith or Farley Funkin' Keith until 1984. He then adopted the name Farley "Jackmaster" Funk and together with Jesse Saunders, created the first house single to reach the UK charts. His anthem Love Can't Turn Around (cover of Isaac Hayes' I Can't Turn Around) made the Top Ten in mid-1986. By the late '80s, he had lost his DJ residency. His recorded output during the '90s was relatively small, preferring to concentrate on performing on the global DJ circuit.
YASH @ Intergalactic FM Festival 19/05/2023 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-08-01 | The friendly giant as he's by called friends and friendettes, mixed up a lot of his favorite high energy disco tunes to get the crowd in action, inspired by his heroes Roy Thode, Warren Gluck and Loud-E. The crowd in the hazy, hot disco bunker literally went crazy at the Intergalactic FM Festival in 2023! More mixes and booking: soundcloud.com/yash
Beppe Loda - Series Typhoon Mix 19 (1982) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-07-31 | A central figure in Italian club culture, Signor Beppe (Giuseppe) Loda pioneered the omnivorous ‘Afro’ sound and mixing style that combines everything from proto-industrial and Steve Reich to Afrobeat, disco, sideways new-wave, Celtic folk and krautrock.This living treasure is really the DJs' DJ. Greatly revered by all those who understand the breadth of his knowledge and much loved by the countless thousands who have danced under his spell (over the last 40 years). For those uninitiated, Beppe is a DJ polymath, as comfortable mixing Steve Reich with traditional Maracatu rhythms as he is mixing Conrad Schnitzler with Celtic folk. Hailing from the town of Manerbio, south-east of Milano, Beppe began developing his style in the mid 70's and coined the term 'Afro' to describe both it and the movement that it spawned. He refined his unique sound and skills during his long residency at the mythical Typhoon club from 1980-1987, hypnotising thousands of dancers a week and recording some of the greatest mixtapes ever made.Since his first gig at the Kinky club in his hometown Manerbio back in 1973, Loda has been on the hunt for off-the-beaten-track records; but it was during his 1980-1987 residency at the mythical Typhoon club that the disco trendsetter nailed down his vision for the dancefloor. Thousands of young Italians fell under his spell and Loda recorded some of the greatest dance tapes ever made.Loda on the tapes in general: "Until 1983 they were strictly [recorded] live in the club, after that some of both. I would guess in the hundreds of thousands [were made]. I sold many copies, which were copied again and again and sold accross Italy in record shops, used-clothing shops and local markets. At the time it was what you Americans would call a booming business and you could find tapes of mine and other DJs literally everywhere.This huge success brought some problems though. The booth at Typhoon allowed people to see the DJ at work and the records being played. Nothing wrong with that, but eventually the note-takers arrived, writing down the titles of all the songs. Soon after, "my" songs could be easily found (as originals or bootlegs) in the record shops, at the market stalls, on other DJs' tapes, on the radio, etc. I would have taken great satisfaction in this, but it was bad for Typhoon. Since the club was off the beaten path, it needed to remain a unique musical point of reference (i.e. the music had to be mostly exclusive) to ensure people would travel there. For me, the resident DJ with a reputation of continuous innovation, this made things difficult.In addition, the way I put together a mix was to play it live in front of a crowd, refining the sequence each time, then eventually recording it. This was time-consuming and sometimes other DJs were playing the records before I was able to put them to tape. (Some records that only I owned were on heavy rotation for a year before I put them in a mix.) To avoid all this, in the middle of the 1983 I started covering the titles with stickers that Nevio provided for me. If I was asked nicely though, I was always happy to tell someone more about the music I played!
Mike Dehnert @ The Office, Stockholm, Sweden 27/02/2010 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-07-26 | Since 2007, Berlin native Mike Dehnert has run raw techno label Fachwerk Records, MD2 and a more house oriented subdivision calling Colombage. The imprint’s mission is simple: to release their own take on raw, floor techno. And so they have done, on 34 different occasions, earning both the label and the artists behind it the respect of in-the-know, serious techno fans the world over. Dehnert’s own productions (often informed by his grubby, dub infused and textured live techno sets at institutions like Berghain and Tresor) have also been unleashed on the world via other respected imprints including Clone Records, Echochord Colour and Deeply Rooted House, Delsin.
David Mancuso On Its Music, Shibuya FM, Tokyo 05/05/2005 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-07-23 | Mancuso was a pioneering DJ, whose invite-only parties in the 1970s became the bedrock of New York’s underground dance culture and welcomed marginalised and LGBTQ audiences. His private parties at The Loft in Manhattan helped establish a vibrant alternative to New York’s commercial club scene in the early 1970s, famed for their exceptional sound quality rather than DJ showmanship.“For me the core [idea behind The Loft] is about social progress,” he told writer Tim Lawrence in a rare interview earlier this year. “You won’t get much social progress in a nightclub. In New York City they changed the law for [entry into clubs, from] 18 to 21 years old; where can this age group go to dance? In my zone you can be any age, a drinker or non-drinker, a smoker or a non-smoker. And that’s where I like to be.”The Loft was known as a positive and safe space for its often marginalised attendees and its success inspired countless more underground venues that became the birthplaces of house music. In 2005, Mancuso was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his contribution to club culture, and he was central to Tim Lawrence’s investigation into New York’s early dance scene, Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979, a book named after the first party at The Loft in 1970.Mancuso who left us in 2016 will be greatly missed, but, thankfully, he left the world a lasting vibrant legacy that continues to inspire and influence countless generations of music lovers and clubbers.This mix is downloaded from the Deephousepages site. Photo by Roberto Najar.
Mike Dunn On WGCI 22/04/1986 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-07-20 | Chicago house music legend Mike Dunn, has been DJing and producing music for over twenty years. Hailing from Englewood, Chicago, Mike started out DJing at the local block parties that took place playing disco, funk, soul and prototype Chicago house tracks. “I was one of the first cats bringing two reel-to-reels and spinning with them at the parties. I was bringing out two Pioneer 707s, doing the Hummingbird, Jacks, The Courtyard, etc. I’d bring a drum machine, too. I would make tracks right then as the party was going. Way before my guys Daft Punk and all of them were doing live gigs, I was doing that at the basement parties – just bringing drum machines and doing everything live. A lot of my early tracks came from me doing them at the party when the party was going on. I’d save it in memory and bring it home and polish it up. But I listen to it now and it’s like, damn… didn’t use enough cleaner!” Word soon spread about his talents and Mike was booked for various clubs in and around Chicago, DJ’ing with house music innovators such as Ron Hardy, Larry Heard and good friend Armando Gallop. It wasn’t long before Mike got the production bug, resulting in his first release in 1987, “Dance You Mutha” on Westbrook Records, he also started to produce and engineer for other Chicago artists, such as Armando, Fast Eddie and K-Alexi Shelby. More house and techno productions followed in the late 80s with Mike’s distinctive vocal delivery and trademark hip-house, acid, production style, to create tracks such as ‘Let It Be House’, ‘Magic Feet’ and “Face the Nation”, sometimes under the name Mike Dunn but also under aliases such as MD Connection, MDIII and QX-1. He continued to produce and release throughout the 1990s, with releases on labels such as Nervous, Nitestuff and Tribal America, whilst also working with other producers and vocalists such as Syleena Johnson, Byron Stingley, Mina Jackson, Kool Rock Steady and Kym English to name a few. More recently, tracks like Phreaky MF’ and ‘God Made Me Phunky’, rereleased on Defected records, have raised his profile and delivered his music to new audiences. Whilst new interest in Mike’s original old school jamz have taken him to work with the new generation of house and techno producers and labels, demonstrated on tracks such as ‘It’s the Music’ produced by Murphy Jaxx and ‘Touch the Sky’ produced by Alden Tyrell and released on Clone’s Jack for Daze imprint. His first album in 27 years, ‘My House, From All Angles’ was released in 2019 on Classic that was well received by press and DJs alike. This year also sees the launch of Mike’s label Blackball Muzik as an outlet for Mike’s music productions as well as releases on Defected and Gliterbox to name a few. Mike continues to DJ throughout the world playing at clubs such as Panorama Bar, Concrete, Fabric and Sub Club, and festivals such as Glastonbury, Electric Forrest demonstrating why the Chicago OG is still very much in demand. This was kindly supplied by Manny's Tapez.
Intergalactic Gary - Mixed Up @ OK Coolex 13/06/2007 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-07-20 | Started mixing around 1980 after being influenced by the disco scene in The Hague. Professional DJ career started in 1990 with squat and club parties in The Hague. Got an installment in La D.S. club in The Hague in 1992 until 1996 to DJ weekly House, Garage & Disco on Sunday nights. Appeared inbetween on several local parties and clubs. Ever since 1994 weekly guest DJ for regional pirate radio stations together with I-f and crew. (Trend FM, Radical Radio) Since 1999 till now active as DJ in the European clubcircuit (Panorama Bar Berlin, Barcelona, Paard Den Haag , Melkweg Amsterdam , Moscow, Dublin, Glasgow, Madrid, Geneva, Munich etc.) First record produced in 1994 as Silverstream for Top Secret records (TS-004) Started The Parallax Corporation together with I-F in 1998 and produced the clubhit 'Lift Off (Viewlexx V12/5) followed up by the Cocadisco series (Viewlexx V12/10, V12/11, V12/12 & V12/16). The Cocadisco Album (2-LP/CD) later appeared on Disko B. Involved in The Parallax Corporation remix for Jolly Music's-Radio Jolly (Sony) Adult.'s-Hand to Phone (Clone), Ganymed's-Music Takes Me Higher (Sabotage) and Japanese Telecom remix on Detroit's Intuit Solar Records. Last vinyl production as The Conservatives (2003) together with I-F.
Lerosa - Dead Slow Mix (2009) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-07-16 | This mix was downloadable from The Infinite State Machine website around 2009/2010. "We’ve got yet another all-vinyl mix from our man in Dublin, Lerosa. He initially gave us this one and the first one we posted, and said we could have whichever one we liked. I said, “Can we get both?!?!” and it was done. Leo is another cat that we have been following since the beginning of ISM, and his continued success has been really fun to watch. He has a track on the new Panoramabar mix compilation (which is also out on 12″ with another track from the mix by Basic Soul Unit), as well as an upcoming 12″ collaboration with his old friend from Italy, Donato Dozzy. I’m definitely excited to hear that shit!On this mix, Leo takes us through lots of deep jams old and new, including some of his own joints. He even provided the picture at the top of the post, taken on location in Dublin with his mobile phone. That’s how we do it here at ISM."Tracklist:Theo Parrish - Secondary DarknessSpectre - B1Ra.h - SpacepopsMr. Fingers - StarsLarry Heard - 25 years from AlphaJassem Mosse - B1 (Workshop 003)NWAQ - Loving USTL - Hidden DopeEven Tuell - Easy Stitch EPDee Lite - What Is LoveLerosa - Ruski (Juju & Jordash ‘Polski On The Roof’ Remix)Lerosa - SubtractMOS - A1 (Rushhour 001)Linkwood - Lost ExperimentSpecter - Bazerko
David Mancuso On Its Music, Shibuya FM, Tokyo 05/04/2005 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-07-12 | Mancuso was a pioneering DJ, whose invite-only parties in the 1970s became the bedrock of New York’s underground dance culture and welcomed marginalised and LGBTQ audiences. His private parties at The Loft in Manhattan helped establish a vibrant alternative to New York’s commercial club scene in the early 1970s, famed for their exceptional sound quality rather than DJ showmanship.“For me the core [idea behind The Loft] is about social progress,” he told writer Tim Lawrence in a rare interview earlier this year. “You won’t get much social progress in a nightclub. In New York City they changed the law for [entry into clubs, from] 18 to 21 years old; where can this age group go to dance? In my zone you can be any age, a drinker or non-drinker, a smoker or a non-smoker. And that’s where I like to be.”The Loft was known as a positive and safe space for its often marginalised attendees and its success inspired countless more underground venues that became the birthplaces of house music. In 2005, Mancuso was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his contribution to club culture, and he was central to Tim Lawrence’s investigation into New York’s early dance scene, Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979, a book named after the first party at The Loft in 1970.Mancuso who left us in 2016 will be greatly missed, but, thankfully, he left the world a lasting vibrant legacy that continues to inspire and influence countless generations of music lovers and clubbers.This mix is downloaded from the Deephousepages site. Photo by Roberto Najar.
Cosmic 027 - Daniele Baldelli & Claudio Tosi Brandi (1981) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-07-09 | Live recording from the infamous Cosmic club in Lazise, Italy in 1981.Daniele BaldelliIn the late ’70s Baldelli took up a residency at Cosmic, a nightclub by Lake Garda, and rose to stardom with his experimental mixing style. He combined an extremely diverse range of genres, from European electronica to reggae, synth pop to African folk, often played at improper speeds and mixed with effects and drum machines. Baldelli’s worldly and hypnotic sets fathered the cosmic sound, a movement that set itself apart from the Italo disco scene. The DJ and producer who is now considered an innovator in the Italian disco scene for developing a unique, 'funky' and 'tribal' aesthetic by playing eclectic, esoteric records at drastically altered speeds, often slowed way down, and sometimes adding drum machines and effects. He developed the style he like to call "Cosmic Sound" . He start to be a Dj in 1969 . He was resident DJ at the Baia Degli Angeli (1977–1978) and Cosmic (1979–1984) discothèques in Northern Italy - Lasize (Lago di Garda) he released scores of mixtapes during his tenure at the latter. He was mostly unknown outside of Italy until a surge of English-language press coverage in the second half of the 2000s.Claudio Tosi Brandi Also known as DJ T.B.C. It was 1978 and after have studied guitar in conservatory, played in groups and worked in at a radio station (Radio Sabbia) for a year Brandi decided to become a DJ in a period it was a profession that did not exist. He started to work in the mythical Papillon a discotheque in Riccione, it was the period of the Baia degli Angeli (Bay of the Angels) with the two DJ Americans Bob Day and Tom Season (first mix DJ's in Italy). In that period the discotheques where divided in two musical kinds; the disco and the funky music but he played all styles (Funkattaro), and even what now seems an authentic performance to put 45 to 33 and viceversa. His style got noticed and soon he would play at various locations aslike the Cosmic (1980-1984).
College - The Renegade Network Mix (2011) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-07-06 | This mix was found on the (now defunct) Valerie Collective website. Valerie is a blog and an artistic network created in 2007 by College, a musician and a producer from Nantes. Since its debuts, Valerie saw evolving within it several projects musical as Anoraak, The Outrunners, Minitel Rose, Russ Chimes either still Maethelvin. Thanks to the blog Discodust, Valerie also met the German collective of graphic designers The Zonders who signed numerous cover and flyers and pictures of a lot of these projects. Playlist:01 – Freak Electrique – P.H.A.S.E.R.02 – Count Hemmendorff – The Trophy Room03 – Arpanet – Wireless Internet04 – Squarepusher – Goodnight Jade05 – François de Roubaix – Marée Noire06 – Brian Eno – Late Anthropocene07 – Carl Craig – At Les08 – Chris Clark – EmW09 – Hyboid – Où est Klaus Nomi?10 – College – Song of Celice11 – Nicolas Makelberge – When Your Arms Will Be Beyond My Reach12 – Shuki Levy – Magic Planet
Farley Jackmaster Funk On WBMX (1988) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-07-03 | 00:00 Side A: DHP Mix 600 Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk - WBMX 198846:11 Side B: DHP Mix 600: Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk - WBMX 1988Both files downloaded from Deephousepages. Side A1. Black Riot - Warlock2. Sleezy D - I've Lost Control3. ID4. Jungle Wonz - The Jungle5. ID6. ID7. Fingers Inc. - Distant Planet8. ID9. Royal House - Party People Marshall Jefferson - The House Music Anthem10. Bam Bam - Where's Your Child11. Kevin Saunderson - The Groove That Won't Stop12. Inner City - Big Fun13. Jamie Principle - Rebels (House Of Trix Mix)SideB1. Jamie Principle - Rebels (House Of Trix Mix)2. Thompson & Lenoir - You Can't Stop The House3. Kraze - The Party / Faces - Drums4. Joe Smooth - The Promised Land5. Sterling Void - Alright6. Ce Ce Rogers - Someday (Some Dub)7. Ce Ce Rogers - Someday (Accainstrumental)8. Virgo - Go Wild Rhythm Trax (1)9. Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk - Should I Need You / Ce Ce Rogers - Someday (Accainstrumental) / Ralphi Rosario - You Used To Hold Me (Accapella) / Ten City - Devotion (Acca-Votion)10. Status IV - You Ain't Really Down (Accapella)11. Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk - Bass Lives On12. Class Action - Weekend (Acapella)13. ID14. Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk - Acid Trip15. ID16. Ragtyme - Fix It Man17. Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk - The Acid Life18. ID19. ID20. Phortune - String Free
Steve Williams @ Hacienda, Manchester, UK (1989) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-29 | Steve Williams was a key player in the early house music scene in the North of England maybe the most underatted club DJ of all time. Back in the day his sets were awesome and while other DJ's would become more famous he was still making better mixes than other DJ's and the mixing is still great by today's standards. He was certainly a pioneer in the house music scene and left it when he had enough rather than continue, he would have most definitely have become a household name if had chased the money however for him it was about the music. That was his passion.
Traxx @ Doka, Amsterdam 04/04/2015 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-29 | This night was hosted by Knekelhuis, recording courtesy of Traxx and Knekelhuis. Doka is an underground and intimate sound bar, located in Amsterdam, where nightlife, music and other forms of culture blend together.Traxx is a lover of music — one with a passion so intense that it overcomes genre divides to weave an altogether original, exciting, and multi-textured musical fabric which envelops both the avid clubber and the home listener, as well as everyone in between. Not content to be labeled as merely a DJ, a producer, or even a DJ/Producer, Traxx is a self-described "artist of sound." A sound that is distinctive and highly emotional which defies classification and invites analysis and discussion. From eclectic and avant-garde tunes to old school jack tracks and far beyond, Traxx hears it all without discrimination, pretension or elitism.Traxx has released music on numerous underground labels in the US and Europe including Gigolo, Relief, Muzique, M/O/S, and Crème. His music has come to the world under a bucket load of alias' including Dirty Criminals, XX Art, Mysterio, ViLLan X, Saturn V (with Tadd Mullinix), X2, and more. He's also collaborated with the cream of the underground including acts like DJ Hell, Green Velvet, Legowelt,Mount Sims and many more to shape his unique definition of Jakbeat that's been created amongst James T. Cotton and D'Marc Cantu in the early years between 2005- 2007. In 2009 Traxx stepped out into the light with his first full length 'Faith' album under his own name for his Chicago based imprint Nation which recieved positive response and feedback from around the globe.Traxx's earliest musical memory is his being a young boy spinning 45 records on his toes. His mother has the picture proof. His first instrument was a handmade flute in elementary school, music it seems was just always going to be on the books for Traxx. Like many in Chicago, Traxx was drawn into house music through the legendary WBMX radio shows and two trips to see Ron Hardy at the legendary Music Box. Describing his first experience with house, Traxx recalls "nothing could compare, things were being discovered..this period stays with me because of the intense energy that was applied - it's a feeling, an emotion, a mental state of transcendental connection -a spiritual force with the higher being through the physical vessel of the body."His first release appeared on DJ Hell's Gigolo label in the early 00's under the collective alias The Dirty Criminals. The Dirty Criminals was a Chicago based collective that featured mainlythe work of Melvin working with collaborators like Charles Manier, William Torres, Daryl Cura, Brendan M. Gillen, Matt Nee, Josh Werner, Stephen Hitchell and Tadd Mullinix plus early on work from Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being. In addition to a number of 12"s Dirty Criminals released two albums very well received in Europe - 2004's "Organized Confuzion" and 2006's Collision Between Us And The Damned" which featured a cover of an early unreleased version of "Acid Tracks" by Phuture that was played around Chicago. Traxx also contributed vocals to the track "Let No Man Jack" on Hell's "NY Muscle" album.But it is perhaps on his many mysterious 12"s that Traxx has set the ground work for his first solo album in the last seven years where there's been a constant stream of them burning up dance floors with their wild new Jakbeat that's shaping the scene by releasing an 'Adjustment Production' for Gavin Russom of DFA's LCD Soundsystem for a sombre tingling cosmic, deep disco brilliance concept, also releasing with New York label Rong Records adding the quite excellent Mutant Beat Dance to their roster with this excellent release Another World/New News Is Old News to releasing a stunning solo-project on MOS Deep Under The Poetic Painter M pseudonym, with a frenetic yet hypnotizing house track that echoes memories of downpitched Newbeat material and the hooky coldness of new age following thru with incredible support and feedback in 2012 with a solid production analog Chicagoians Traxx and Beau Wanzer team up for another Mutant Beat Dance release for the Rush Hour label that have produced arguably 'the best 80s Chicago house record NOT made in the 80s. In an age of digital perfection Traxx is analog, when he DJs he plays vinyl and when he's in the studio he uses hardware. His sound recalls the past but pushes for the future with an overtly emotional and experimental approach. In addition to releasing music for other imprints Traxx also started his own label Nation in April of 2007 which has allowed him to develop and recontextualize the various aspects of his sound.
Maethelvin - Singular Mix (2014) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-26 | Found on the Valerie Collective website back in the day.No tracklist or more info on this mix.The learned amongst us Synth fans would never dispute the logic that France was indeed the birthplace of the earliest form of what came to be known as Synthwave. In fact this Retro-sapient generation felt the genus behind this movement were none other than unified group of super talented musicians from Nantes, later titled the 'Valerie Collective'.Whether you regard them as the neon trailblazers or not the fact remains that they embedded themselves in popular culture and all Synth life essentially flowed from them. The Valerie Collective were founded as a musical cooperation in Nantes, France in 2007. The collective itself included the likes of Anoraak, Minitel Rose, Electric Youth and the man himself Maethelvin of whom we interview today. This blend of 80's inspired electro spoke to the hearts of many but none could have foreseen its incredible rise in popularity or it's propensity of late to permeate into current cultural framework where even the likes of Artists who include The Weeknd & Muse have taken a bite of the neon cherry.Maethelvin continues unabated delivering some incredible sounds most recently with his latest release 'Lost Tapes of Hardware Memories' which was dropped on the masses to great critical acclaim.
Beppe Loda - Series Typhoon Mix 18 (1982) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-25 | A central figure in Italian club culture, Signor Beppe (Giuseppe) Loda pioneered the omnivorous ‘Afro’ sound and mixing style that combines everything from proto-industrial and Steve Reich to Afrobeat, disco, sideways new-wave, Celtic folk and krautrock.This living treasure is really the DJs' DJ. Greatly revered by all those who understand the breadth of his knowledge and much loved by the countless thousands who have danced under his spell (over the last 40 years). For those uninitiated, Beppe is a DJ polymath, as comfortable mixing Steve Reich with traditional Maracatu rhythms as he is mixing Conrad Schnitzler with Celtic folk. Hailing from the town of Manerbio, south-east of Milano, Beppe began developing his style in the mid 70's and coined the term 'Afro' to describe both it and the movement that it spawned. He refined his unique sound and skills during his long residency at the mythical Typhoon club from 1980-1987, hypnotising thousands of dancers a week and recording some of the greatest mixtapes ever made.Since his first gig at the Kinky club in his hometown Manerbio back in 1973, Loda has been on the hunt for off-the-beaten-track records; but it was during his 1980-1987 residency at the mythical Typhoon club that the disco trendsetter nailed down his vision for the dancefloor. Thousands of young Italians fell under his spell and Loda recorded some of the greatest dance tapes ever made.Loda on the tapes in general: "Until 1983 they were strictly [recorded] live in the club, after that some of both. I would guess in the hundreds of thousands [were made]. I sold many copies, which were copied again and again and sold accross Italy in record shops, used-clothing shops and local markets. At the time it was what you Americans would call a booming business and you could find tapes of mine and other DJs literally everywhere.This huge success brought some problems though. The booth at Typhoon allowed people to see the DJ at work and the records being played. Nothing wrong with that, but eventually the note-takers arrived, writing down the titles of all the songs. Soon after, "my" songs could be easily found (as originals or bootlegs) in the record shops, at the market stalls, on other DJs' tapes, on the radio, etc. I would have taken great satisfaction in this, but it was bad for Typhoon. Since the club was off the beaten path, it needed to remain a unique musical point of reference (i.e. the music had to be mostly exclusive) to ensure people would travel there. For me, the resident DJ with a reputation of continuous innovation, this made things difficult.In addition, the way I put together a mix was to play it live in front of a crowd, refining the sequence each time, then eventually recording it. This was time-consuming and sometimes other DJs were playing the records before I was able to put them to tape. (Some records that only I owned were on heavy rotation for a year before I put them in a mix.) To avoid all this, in the middle of the 1983 I started covering the titles with stickers that Nevio provided for me. If I was asked nicely though, I was always happy to tell someone more about the music I played!Aeo 1 by Brian Briggs blocked due to copyright infringement at 12:13 - 14:11Aeo 2 by Brian Briggs blocked due to copyright infringement at 14:11 - 16:19
Loud-E - Its Good To Be An Addict Mix (2006) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-22 | From the archive of Benji Da Freak, credits go to Loud-E and him for sharing this with the world! Classic Loud-E mix, CBS era, ca 2006, or before.
Marco Tulio Trash - The Boy Who Fell From The Stars (2011) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-18 | This is a Valerie Collective mix from 2011, selected and mixed by Marco Tulio Trash. http://marcotuliothrash.blogspot.commarcotuliothrash.bandcamp.comThis was an exclusive mix by Marco Tulio Trash, a mysterious electronic renegade whose road I recently crossed at random of a virtual highway. His selection is a story divided as the chapters of a good novel, a melodic adventure which I invite you to enrich thanks to its blog where you can discover his other numerous projects.“At night, on a lonely road, Chrissy is on her way to a party when, all of a sudden, she encounters an alien boy. She takes him with her to the party. However their fun is cut short by mysterious government agents who are after the boy. They narrowly escape into the rain and hatch a plan to get themselves out of trouble. But will Chrissy ever see this mysterious boy she has fallen in love with again?”Playlist:Part 1 – Encounter:Basil Poledouris – Lights OutHypnosis – InesiExperimental Products – Modern LivingQ – The Voice of QBasil Poledouris – Juke’s Jukebox (w/ spoken word)*Part 2 – PartyFlex – Shakin’ Night BoogieFantasy – He’s Number OneDharma – Plastic DollRofo – Flashlight on a DisconightValerie Dore – The NightAlden Tyrell – What Your Eyes Can DoPart 3 – EscapeJohn Carpenter – Christine (Pt.1)Tangerine Dream – Exit (w/ spoken word)*Legowelt – Rain SeasonUnit Black Flight – Night RaidersPart 4 – FarewellAngelo Badalamenti – Harold’s Theme (w/ spoken word)*Marco Tulio Thrash – Forgotten Lust (demo)Icebreaker International & Manual – A Turning*Spoken word courtesy of DJ Elle-C
Lil Louis @ Medusas, Chicago (1987) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-18 | Courtesy goes out to Manny's Tapez for sharing this superb one! Quality of the tape isn't ideal, but this serves as an anthropological oddity that needs to be shared with all the heads.30 years ago, Chicago teens could dance and find connection at a club called Medusa’sMedusa’s was “like a community center for weirdos and freaks and everybody else in between,” say Chicagoans who went there as teens.The nightclub at 3257 N. Sheffield Ave. was a place where people of all ages went to dance to industrial, punk, house music and more. It was a rare venue where teens from across the city could meet and hang out.Medusa’s in Lakeview closed back in 1992. But a lot of people who used to hang out at the club in the 1980s and early ’90s still associate it with a particular time in their lives: when they were figuring out who they were and how they wanted to express themselves.Many of the DJs who played at Medusa’s became some of the most influential in Chicago and beyond, including Frankie Knuckles, DJ Scrappy, DJ Psycho-Bitch and DJ Teri Bristol.The club also featured performance art, decor changes every month and live music — including performances by Smashing Pumpkins, Fugazi and Ministry.txt by Monica Eng on Webz, Chicago
Joost de Lijser - X-Treme Mix 3 (1989) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-15 | Joost de Lyser started dj-ing acid, house & techno in 1987 at age 16, in local clubs near where he was born, in the most southwest corner of the Netherlands. Soon he found his way to the decks of clubs and parties in the cities across the water in the dutch province of Zeeland, but also across the border in Belgium. In 1990, Joost moved to Tilburg in the Netherlands to study, where he became involved in the Dutch Techno scene on a more national level, but he still spent most of his free weekends in Belgian Clubs. In 1994 Joost started to play on the parties of the notorious Brussels underground techno party scene, and about simultaneously he was asked to be part of the Fuse DJ team, for the club's first season. In 1995, Brussels 2nd Techno club was born: the Network. Joost moved to Brussels & joined the Network DJ team alongside dj's Deg, Psychogene & Unit-E, and there the new-electro element in his sets started to dominate the techno side. The very last Network night was at the same time Brussels, and likely Belgium's very first new-electro only party (without techno). After the Network ended, Joost found new musical outlets in the Cybertheatre & at his own Nexus nights, pushing Electro to the Brussels party scene. In 1998, Joost hooked up with DJ Uriel, and became resident for his now legendary Enjoy Apocalypse electro nights, where Joost still continues to play as guest. Shortly after he also became resident for the Klangforschung Ost parties in Eupen, and as one of Belgiums first Electro DJ's, Joost has played for most Electro party organizations in the country, as well as on most big events with an electro room.
Peet Need & Dennis van de Berg - Beldeejays Vol. 2 (2013) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-11 | As released on Bordello a Parigi in 2013 by the bald brothers.Tracklist:1 Entità - Two Lives2 Vita Sporca - The End (Versione Francese)3 Comancero - Africa4 Eros Ramazzotti - Terra Promessa5 Jolie - Mise Au Point6 Antonella Ruggiero - Sotto Il Cielo7 Judy And D.J. - Giving To Me8 Stella Carnacina - Sola9 Zwischenfall - Sandy Eyes10 Grecos - Lonely People11 Flybox - Funky Now12 Cat's Gang - Infinita (Savino Remix)13 Cyklon B - Il Carnevale Della Disillusione14 True Colors - Limit15 Domina - You Got My Soul (Vocal)16 Fantasy Life - Over And Over (Instrumental)17 Mono Band - Ghost Town18 Private Blue - Help Me Tonight (Radio Version)19 Peppermint Lounge - Perfect High20 My Mine - Stone21 Traesko - How Long (Long Version)22 Kris Tallow - Mister J23 Lonely Boys - Hold Me24 Paul Crazy - Believe Me25 Sheila Stewart - It's You26 Marc Dem - Scared At Night27 Scarface - Killing For Love28 Middle Ages - Stop Your Lies29 Scotch - Losing In Time30 Frankel - You're A Woman, I'm A Man31 Marc Line - Little Girl32 Kriss - Hey Mister Mister33 Patrizia Saronni - E Poi
Mickey Mixin Oliver On WBMX 102.7FM Chicago 30/05/1986 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-08 | This mix is courtesy of Manny's Tapez.Born in the shadow of the steel mills on the South Side of Chicago, Mickey Mixin' Oliver was destined to help bring the underground sound of house music to the masses. As a founding member of the ground breaking Chicago radio mix show team on 102.7 WBMX, collectively known as the Hot Mix 5, Mickey drew global attention to house music with his incredible DJ mixes.House music was considered to be the new sound of the urban underground, which was first spun in Chicago.As house music began to spread in Chicago's clubs, an urban format radio station, 102.7 WBMX was looking to become a force to be reckoned with in the Chicago market. Program Director Lee Michaels decided that the best way to go about it was to put together a group of the most talented and cutting edge DJs around. Mickey ‘Mixin’ Oliver was selected by Michaels for this new concept. The others who joined him at WBMX were Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Kenny “Jammin” Jason, Ralphi "Rockin" Rosario, and Scott “Smokin” Silz. Called ‘The Hot Mix 5’,they set the standard for all others to follow, pioneering many of the turntablism tactics that have influenced the best DJ's even to this day. Mickey then began his very first syndicated radio mix show on the Star Stream Radio Network, which was ultimately followed by the Satellite Music Network, a division of ABC where Mickey became syndicated on over 100 stations from coast to coast. Next, Mickey appeared with his branded mix show on SIRIUS Satellite Radio. He’s been spreading house music to appreciative fans around the world performing at places like the Mecca of dance music itself, the Balearic Island of Ibiza!Mickey Oliver started Hot Mix 5 Records, along with Kenny Jason & Ralphi Rosario. They produced and released many hits, as three have stood the test of time as being in the Top 12 All-Time House Music Records, “In-Ten-Si-T”, “You Used To Hold Me”, and “Never Let Go”.The Chicago Bull’s basketball legend himself, Michael Jordan, commissioned Mickey to provide the music soundtrack to a documentary for the Michael Jordan Foundation, for which Mickey wrote the song "Pick Me Up." Offers by the sports world began to follow. He edited the music for the Chicago Bulls, their Cheerleaders the Luvables, and for various Sports Networks. He also wrote and performed the main song in the #1 Box Office Hit Movie “Red Heat”, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi. Later, Mickey founded Powerhouse Records a remix service with Andy Starr of the Hot Mix Radio Network. In two short years it was voted the top Remix service by DJs across America. Around the same time he teamed up with Hot Mix Radio Network to produce the comprehensive ten-hour "Mix Of The Decade" helping to launch The Hot Mix Radio Network on the ABC Radio Network.Mickey Oliver has been named by the London Observer as one of the 10 most influential DJs of all time. The City of Chicago has recently recognized Mickey for his contributions to Dance Music and has named a street after him called “Mickey Mixin’ Oliver Blvd”,making him a part of American History.
Forgotten Illusions - The Electronic Machine Mix (2014) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-05 | Downloaded from the Valerie collective website, which is no longer active.The Forgotten Illusions project is the brainchild of an artist you probably know – albeit unwittingly – as he, together with Stephen Falken, forms the the duo, The Outrunners. With its classic architecture, this multi-faceted first record can be viewed as much like an album as a collection of compositions steeped in rich electronic influences. This mix features a lot of classics of a timespan of around 30 years! Playlist:01 Marco Martina - Venture In My Heart02 Electrick Dragon - Italian Inspiration03 A Visitor From Another Meaning feat. Fred Ventura - Neon Lights04 Forgotten Illusions - Machine Girl05 Private - Everywhere (Flemming Dallum & Kid Machine remix)06 The Hasbeens - Make The World Go Away07 Atelier Folie - Leave Me Alone (Flemming Dallum remix)08 Laserdance - Humanoid Invasion09 Alba feat. Fred Ventura - Without You10 The Sweeps - Facing The Night
Marko Fürstenberg @ Alte Kantine, Berghain, Berlin 02/10/2007 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-06-01 | marko fürstenberg was born in 1976 in thuringia, germany. influenced by the 80s music such as depeche mode, a-ha and new order he was attracted to electronic music from its beginning. very early marko made his first steps in recording his own tapes as “dolby”. in the beginning of 1995 he started dj-ing at several parties in thuringia and already then showing a techno-orientation originated from labels like x-trax, force inc., klang and later basic channel. a few years later he started creating his first own electronic sounds with a pc and thus he invested constantly in technical equipment. in 2000 his first project “vertikal 23” was established, in cooperation with local musicians. the outcome was a mixture between downbeat & trip hop but later on marko developed his own deep sound. providing his music on the internet, marko got in touch with the “thinner” netlabel, which published his first release under “dolby” alias in 2002. further releases followed also on other netlabels such as realaudio, stadtgruen and instabil, as well as remixes for digitalverein, rktic, lod and sarah goldfarb. the success story began: between 2003 and 2005 marko performed at some international festivals and clubs, e.g. in canada, greece, sweden, poland, suisse, austria, etc. after publishing quite a number of netreleases, his first vinyl track on “thinner allstars pt.1” (2003) was published under the pseudonym “surphase”. very soon after that marko decided to use his real name marko fürstenberg for his future work. after moving to leipzig in 2006, marko approached a peak level in productivity, releasing a number of songs in rapid succession with labels like a.r.t.less, tfe and rotary-cocktail. marko’s success within the constantly changing techno scene didn’t come as a surprise: together with diverse dj partners as well as solo artist marko fürstenberg is now performing regularly in clubs & parties all over europe. his live sets combine classic dub-techno elements with current techno trends, which is much valued by his audience. with this kind of electronic music marko is considerably involved in the development of dub- and deep-techno.txt from Resident Advisor
DJ TLR - Het Huis van de Vlasvinken (2013) Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-05-28 | Like so many music stories, this one begins in the early 80s, or 1983 to be precise. That was the year that Jeroen Van Der Star now more commonly known as DJ TLR, played his first DJ gig. As he recalls: “Somehow I have always played records. I think my first time was when I was twelve spinning bargain bin Culture Club and Grandmaster Flash and Stevie Wonder 7"es for my classmates on a single turntable with a microphone”It was an inauspicious start to a long and colourful career. Following his high school days, Jeroen and his friends first played at jungle parties but soon began to come under the influence of The Hague’s squat parties. Organised mainly by the Acidplanet collective, these events brought together all the freaks residing in the Dutch administrative capital.Electronic music wasn’t the only soundtrack in TLR’ life and, as a child of the 80s and 90s, he lived through periods of radical cultural change. “I'm lucky enough to have witnessed the early years of most of the major music genres up close - Hip Hop, House, Techno, Jungle and to an extent Electro, Disco, 80s Pop, Wave, but also Punk, Hardcore, Garage Rock and all the sub genres it spawned in the 90s,” he explains.While he dug the Bunker Records parties, he only connected on a musical level with the label as the decade neared its end. By then, he was spinning as DJ TLR - “you just pick something when it doesn't seem to matter and then you're stuck with it,” he says of the name - and the first international gigs and as he says himself, ‘remote chances of a professional career’ had started to materialize.Those possibilities soon became a reality as the 90s morphed into the 00s and the West Coast of Holland started to gain recognition for underground electronic artists like Legowelt, Orgue Electronique, Alden Tyrell and Rude 66. Around the same time, TLR set up the pre-social media Global Darkness web forum to connect with like-minded electro/jak-aholics around the globe and concurrently established his own label, Creme Organization.Originally home to local artists like Danny Wolfers - under his various guises – and Orgue Electronique, the label has since welcomed producers from around the world, including Bangkok Impact, Alexander Robotnick, JTC and Willie Burns, while releasing acclaimed albums from D'Marc Cantu, Neville Watson and DJ Overdose.Despite his DJ background, TLR says that Crème wasn’t set up to release music that he would play out. “A lot of the early Creme stuff was not really about the clubs, we always were more in a freak zone, it never really worked for big floors, with some exceptions here and there,” he explains, adding that he admires DJs who are selectors as much as technical DJs, with Farley Jackmaster Funk, Ben Liebrand, DJ Hype, I-F, Guy Tavares and newer names like Traxx, Speculator, Ben UFO, Will Bankhead and Ron Morelli all cited as influential.The same rationale that led him to set up Crème now underscores R-Zone, Crème’s sub-label. Inspired by the early part of the 90s, in particular the intersection of rave and hard-core with techno, this sub-label allows well-known producers to put out esoteric music anonymously.Unsurprisingly, TLR keeps one ear on the past and the other on the present. He recently put together an excellent Bunker retrospective mix - “there is such an immense body of work that you can cherry pick yourself into oblivion, so why not take advantage of that” - and regularly makes new mixes available via the Crème Soundcloud. These selections document his changing DJ style.On the road most weekends, the best place to catch TLR’s grainy interpretation of electronic music is out among the freaks. “I don't have a favorite place to play really, because it’s always different, even in the same clubs - but I like places that are dark, have a booming sound system and a rowdy crowd” he says.Sounds like the perfect combination for the crème de la crème of West Coast selectors.Tracklist:1 Pev & Kowton - Raw Code2 Samo DJ - Leggo3 Cottam - Heavy Handed Disco Police4 Juan Atkins - I Love You5 Syncom Data - Beyond The Stars (Speedy J. Remix)6 Photonz & One Eyed Jacks - Keep The Filter Down7 Headless Ghost - SP38 Nina Kraviz - Working (Marcellus Pittman Remix)9 Headless Ghost - Basik Fire10 Underground Technology - The Ritual11 Rushmore - Harder12 Robert Bergman - Volg De Vink13 Headless Horseman - Hessian1.15 Ilevina– Down1.16 Pod– Anapest1.17 This Mortal Coil– Song Of The Siren
James T. Cotton - Decksession @ Nation Showcase II, Smartbar, Chicago 31/07/2010 Ivory Joe From Kokomo 2024-05-25 | This was downloaded as Nation Podcast #2 from the Jak Nation website."As a continuing contributor with nationhe makes pinpoint accuracy in production and pushes the boundariesas a disk jock playin rare pieces of new mixed with old seemlessly.On this special session, we have JTC playin from the 2ndNation Showcase in Chicago at the end of July on Traxx's Birthday.From start to end this is serious heat.Imagine yourself loosin time.Freedom of dancing with the unexpected sound that keepz u movin!.."
