My boy Hugo has done it again and posted it on his blog. He sent this one a couple weeks ago and even though his Yolanda Be Cool was my favourite of the pack (see my august top 10), I loved his refix of this great bashment song by Busy Signal.
Talking about Busy refix, I hope you coped Poirier's refix of Cool Baby on RCRDLBL last week.
Finally, Schlatchofbronx just released their first album on Disko B this week! We've been supporters til back in November 2008, and we're really happy to see them reach the next level! There's tons of way to buy their album on line and support them, so go have a look on their website!
Après Baile MTL et Boombox, les DJ de l'émission Masala (CISM, 89,3 FM) retrouvent le Zoobizarre!
1ère de cette nouvelle soirée de rythmes urbains internationaux, tous les derniers samedis du mois, avec les DJs résidents ECP, Jeune Premier et Bendude.
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After Baile MTL & Boombox, the DJs behind the Masala radio show (CISM 89,3 FM) get together again for a new monthly night at Zoobizarre.
Every last Saturday of the month, this international beats night will be hosted by resident DJs ECP, Jeune Premier et Bendude.
Woa! Déjà une semaine sans post ici! Bon vous devriez savoir que Benoit a eu des très sérieux problèmes d'ordinateur et donc que poster ici était pas plus que ça dans ses priorités. Alors avant que Ben ou JP annonce la soirée Masala Sono #1 de ce samedi, je voulais vous prévenir que notre ami Poirier vient juste de sortir un nouvel EP orienté Dancehall et qu'il est excellent comme vous allez pouvoir l'entendre. Ma préféré du EP est la track avec YT, mais on ne partage que Enemies ici. Pour le reste vous pouvez aller acheter le EP et soutenir l'artiste sur Itunes ou sur Juno (UK)
Woa! Already one week without any post here! Well you should know that Benoit got some very serious problems with his laptop and therefore posting here wasn't in his top priorities. So before Ben or JP announce their saturday's upcoming night in MTL called Masala Sono#1, I wanted to let you know that our friend Poirier just released a new EP!! It showcase his take on Dancehall and it's really good as you can hear it! The one I like the most is the one with YT, but we will only share Enemies here. For the other track, go buy the EP and support the artist on Itunes or on Juno (UK)
Benoit et moi somment les invités de la cinquième édition de Funkété qui aura lieu ce vendredi, ici à Toronto. Funkété c'est la soirée de Sergio Elmir, l'homme derrière l'excellente émission Dos Mundos Radio qui se concentre sur les nouvelles musiques latines et plus particulièrement sur les nouvelles tendances en Cumbia. Sergio est aussi derrière le groupe de Cumbia Expérimentale (Doombia!) Huelepaga Sound System. Mais pour revenir à Funkété, Uproot Andy, Toy Selectah, Geko Jones y ont déjà joué et Ben et moi sommes trés enthousiastes à l'idée de faire shaker les culos comme le dit le flyer. Histoire de souligner ça, Bendude a enregister un mini-mix pour l'émission de radio à laquelle j'ai participé hier et je voulais partager quelques morceaux de Cumbia Warachera, ce style de Cumbia electronique du Nord-Ouest du Mexique s'inspirant des musiques Norteño.
Benoit and myself are the guest of the 5th edition of Funkété which happens this friday in Toronto. Funkété is Sergio Elmir's night. He's the man behind the great Dos Mundos Radio show which focus on new latin music and especially on new trends in Cumbia. Sergio is also the man behind the experimental cumbia band(Doombia!) Huelepaga Sound System. But to come back to Funkété, Uproot Andy, Toy Selectah, Geko Jones already played the party and we're very happy to be invited to make the culos shake like the flyer says. In order to celebrate this event, Bendude recorded a mini-mix for the Dos Mundos radio show yesterday. I also went in studio for an interview and an improvised mini-mix with lots of Cumbia Warachera. And I wanted to give away some tracks of this very particular style of electronic cumbia from North-West Mexico which is inspired by Mexican Norteño music.
Dj Koos y Makency DJ - Etnico Style (Original bimix) Download
Give it up for our family from south of the border DUTTY ARTZ!!! Like JahDan Blakamoore keeps singing it, they've been working hard for years in order to finally get this music out there. JahDan's album is at the corner and will be released on September 15th. And just like a strip-teaser, Dutty Artz is dropping this great mixtape to get everybody excited. Pitchfork is supporting, so you all know what that means right? (see Never Gonna Stop lyrics) Anyways, give yourself a favor, click on this mediafire link and download Bazooka Shot and show some love and support by going on to Itunes and buy JahDan's first single "She Said" (produced by and featuring 77Klash). And if you're lazy well, here's one my top 10 favorite tune of the moment; this should convince you! More Fire!!!
Coco Taxi from Stockholm, Sweden just sent this remix to us this morning and I wanted to give it some shine as it's standing out of the pack of raving electro takes on Maluca's mambo track El Tigeraso. People, dance music isn't only about taking pills! Anyway, I love the half time dancehall approach on this, please give it a listen and visit Coco Taxi's myspace.
Coco Taxi de Stockholm en Suède vient de nous envoyer ce remix ce matin et j'ai voulu le poster car il sort vraiment du lot de remix rave electro qui ont noyé cette track Mambo de Maluca. La dance music s'est pas seulement pour gobber des cachets! Faut arrêter ça les mecs. En tout cas, j'aime bien cette approche mi-tempo et dancehall alors écoutez ça et aller faire un tour sur la page myspace de Coco Taxi.
Il y a de bonnes soirées qui se préparent à Montreal pour les semaines à venir! D'abord Masala Sono #1 qui s'en vient pour le samedi 29 août avec les membres Montréalais de Masala (+ d'infos très vite) et aussi (ex Ghislain) Poirier qui va lancer une nouvelle soirée régulière, un nouveau Bounce Le Gros en quelque sorte, qui s'appelle KARNIVAL. Gardez-bien ce nom là en tête. Dub Boy, un des invités de Karnival V1 (samedi 3 octobre au Club Soda) vient de sortir un mix justement dénnomé Karnival, checkez ça:
Dub Boy - Karnival Mix by Dub Boy 1. Lil Silva – Seasons (white) 2. Rymez ft Jusa – African Air Horn Dance (cdr) 3. Atki2 – Black Eyed Susan (unreleased) 4. Suncycle – Around The World (Atki2 Remix) (unreleased) 5. Top Cat – We No Inna (Atki2 Remix) (unreleased) 6. Emvee – Nocturnal (wireblock) 7. Mad Cobra & Tina Star - Real Thug (jah snowcone) 8. Beenie Man ft Ms Thing – She’s Horny (jah snowcone) 9. Atki2 – Juniper (unreleased) 10. Geeneus – Yellowtail (rinse) 11. Bubblez ft Cecile & Lady Saw – Loser (white) 12. Magic Fly ft Ricky Rankin – Those Two Sounds (Mr Benn Remix) (bastard jazz) 13. Baobinga & Killa Benz - Wine Up (forthcoming steak house)
There's some good parties lining up in MTL in the next few weeks! First of, the Montreal Masala crew is starting a new night at Zoobizarre called Masala Sono! Launching is set for August 29th, more info soon! On October 3rd, Poirier (Ex Ghislain) is launching his new regular night called KARNIVAL, the new Bounce Le Gros! Keep that Karnival word in mind people and check out that Dub Boy (Bristol) mix, appropriately named Karnival! Dub Boy will be Poirier's party first guest!
La semaine dernière pour inaugurer ma vie torontoise comme il se doit, j'ai été voir RDB (Rythm Dhol Bass) en concert gratuit au Harbourt Front Center. C'était une nuit à l'humidité intense et les lumières faisaient ressembler la tour CN à un OVNI vu d'en dessous. Le concert était déjà commencé lorsque nous sommes descendus du taxi et arrivés à quelques dizaines de mètres du lieu, on entendait les cris des jeunes filles et le gros son de basse/dhol. Ca promet...
Et franchement on a pas été déçu même si la grande partie du show était du lipsync, l'enthousiasme du public a comblé le manque de performance et Kuly, le membre canadien de RDB, a fait un excellent boulot de MC. Quant à Nindy Kaur, elle donnait plus l'impression de ne pas savoir ce qu'elle faisait sur le stage... RDB c'est 3 frères Sikh qui font dans le bhangra urbain depuis plusieurs années déjà et ça fait un petit bout qu'on les suit ici à Masala. Allez faire un tour sur notre série spéciale Bhangra de 2007, vous y trouverez plusieurs tracks de RDB: Bhangra Post 1, 2, 3, 4.
RDB vient de sortir un mini-cd de bootleg et mash-up club et urbain qui s'appelle "Exclusives - The Biggest Club Remixes of 2009" dont sont tirés ces deux morceaux. Il y en a 6 autres sur la compile dont 5 sont téléchargeable gratuitement sur le site web du groupe. Je trouve le bootleg de Lil Wayne vraiment très réussi et j'ai vraiment hâte de le jouer en soirée! Je l'aime tellement en fait, que je l'ai mis dans mon top 10 du mois d'août! Bon les collabos entre RDB et les rappeurs américains ne sont toutefois toujours réussi, car même si cette video en est à presque 500 000 views, on peut pas dire que Snoop Dogg soit à son meilleur, même si c'est un Snoop Dogg Millionaire...
RDB just released a mini-cd of bootleg and mash-up with club and urban tracks called "Exclusives - The Biggest Club Remixes of 2009" from which I took the 2 songs above. There's 6 more songs on the compilation and 5 of them are downloadable on the band's website. I find the bootleg with Lil Wayne very well done and can't wait to play this at a party! I like it so much I put in my august top 10! But RDB's collaboration with US rappers aren't giving such a good result everytime, because even if the video below has almost 0.5 million views, I can't Snoop Dogg is at his best, even though he's a self proclaimed Snoop Dogg Millionaire...
BIG UP to my man Manish / DJ Publicity for rocking the afterparty!! He's the best bhangra-club DJ in Canada right now, don't let anybody tell you something else.
Zoca Zoca - Som Do Zoca (Akwaaba - Sem Transporte) F4 - Paracuca (Akwaaba - Sem Transporte) Puto Prata Feat Buraka Som Sistema - Ta Vir Dama S. - Danse avec moi! Kuduro Luky Gomes - Zeze e Toto Izé - Tronku Di Mundo ? - Moriba Yassa Pitbull ft. Machel & Lil'Jon - Floor On Fire Aziatic - Go! Dipedro - Dame mas Maluca - El Tigeraso Tiwony - Gimme Di Weed Collie Budz - Blind To You Bigjay ft. Oscen - Pa K Vwey Black Mandingo - reggaeton modulado Sonido del Principe vs Coki & Benga - Night Ministère AMER - Sacrifice de poulet KRS - One - Sound of da Police Byronn - Kay La Cho Lieutnant - Big Up Ba Yo Mighty Ki La - No Tchek Beenie Man, Vybz Kartel - Gaza Mi Seh riddim Beniton - BFF (G35 Riddim) Elephant Man - Bedroom Killer (G35 Riddim) Tifa - Dem Ting Nuh Good (G35 Riddim) Busy Signal - Picante El Bowen ft Caramel - Uju Remix RDX - Bend Over Elephant Man & Ding Dong - Dip Again Kaya Kindou - ? Mokobé ft Fally Ipupa - Malembe Neba Solo - Téléphone Cardinal,Sofistical & Ricky nastick - La Borrachera
"Dancehall is the new dancehall" comme le dit /Rupture dans son post au sujet du nouveau remix du morceau "Cool Baby" de Busy Signal par Poirier. (Via Dutty artz)
Major Lazor est probablement le truc le plus remixé dans le temps qui court. Stereotyp de Vienne saute dans le train avec ce remix!
Salut tous le monde, alors comme vous le savez peut-être j'ai récemment changé de nom de DJ, ciao Khiasma, welcome Valeo (ajoutez-moi sur myspace ou twitter). Pour marquer ça, j'ai décidé de faire un top 10 tous les mois histoire de partager mes coups de coeur, maintenant que je ne participe plus directement à l'émission. Alors voici le premier TOP 10 de Valeo sans ordre particulier; commentaires et liens ci-dessous! Bashment Party! Hello everyone, as you may know I recently changed my name from Khiasma to Valeo (add me on myspace or twitter)! So in order to get it out there, I decided to start a monthly top 10. This will be helpfull also to share with you my favourites tunes as I'm not directly participating to the radio show anymore (moved from Montreal to Toronto). So here's the first Valeo TOP 10 in no particular order, comments and links below! Bashment party!
VALEO TOP 10 AUGUST CHART Jahdan Blakkamore, 77 Klash, Spoek - Dem Nuh Like It (Prod Matt Shadetek)[Listen] Sticky Ft Marvin Brown - Jack It Up [Listen / Download] Yolanda Be Cool - Afro Nuts (Douster rmx) [Listen / Download] POIRIER ft YT - Let Them Hate (Video) Flore ft Rodney - Rewind It (original mix) [Listen] Dama S - Danse Avec Moi, Kuduro! (Prod Kuduro Sound System) [Listen / Video] Dj Du Marcel - Tribal Sound [Listen] Gappy Ranks - Stinkin Rich (Stefski Remix) [Listen & Download] Major Lazer - Pon De Floor (ft. VYBZ Kartel) [Listen / Video] RDB ft Lil Wayne - Paisa (A Millie) [Download]
So I'm really feeling the UK Funky drum pattern these days and Matt Shadetek brings his own take on the style with his excellent Wonton Garden Riddim. JahDan, 77 Klash and Spoek are even pushing it to the next level with just enough pop sensibility and attitude. While in the UK, Stiky is just killing it on the regular, and this joint with Marvin Brown is no exception. I'm loving it, just want to do dance choreography every time I hear this banger. On the other side of La Manche, Douster moved back to his home country France recently and keeps working hard on producing excellent dancefloor bombs that are mixing electro and carribean and african influenced drum patterns. And really, I'm a sucker for this sound in which I would put Switch's Pon De Floor as well as Du Marcel's Tribal Sound. Tribal sound is exemplifying that you can really find amazing techno tracks in Kuduro these days, but as Kuduro is slowly crossing over, there's also more mainstream oriented songs coming up. Frédéric Galianno, the man behind Kuduro Sound System, is on a mission to spread out this music as much as possible and consider Dama S - Danse avec moi to be one of the WMD in his arsenal.
Now to finish with the tracks that arent faster than 125BPM, I put Poirier's next big tune with rising UK reggae star YT out of the upcoming EP called Run The Riddim (Itunes on Aug 25th). Check out the video below, I did during the Bridge Burner last june. Go also have a peak at Flore's myspace page to listen to some tracks of her upcoming album to be released in october on Botchit & Scarper. The first single with Ex-Yo Majesty! member Shunda K is also a killer. In the same electro dancehall vein, Stefksi revisit of Gappy Ranks remains in my recent favorites; still loving these keys! And finally, Canada/UK's RDB are back with some bhangra-hip-hop remixes! I'll dedicate a future post to this song, as I went to see one of their show last week-end here in Tdot.
It's winter in South Africa and Spoek is in the lab prepping things to blow our minds once again this fall. He just sent out this mix and as you know, Masala is really feeling the funky sound these days and if you're like us, well you'll dig this mix as well (at least the first half héhé)! Then Spoek goes into more deep electo territories with some quality joints (from South Africa?).
SPOEK MATHAMBO - H.I.V.I.P UNITED STATES OF AYOBANESS MIX http://www.mediafire.com/?dlzntuq3zx1 TRACKLIST FEVER - SPOEK & SO CALLED FRIEND (HOSTAGE REMIX) BONGO JAM - CRAZY COUZINZ (BOKBOK & L-VIS1990 REFIX) AKUSE - ALCAPOEM ALMIGHTY FATHER - SUNSHIP FT WARRIOR QUEEN (SOLID GROOVE REMIX) WONTON GARDEN - MATT SHADETEK DEM NAH LIKE IT - SPOEK MATHAMBO & JAHDAN BLACKAMORE & 77KLASH BULLETPROOF - LA ROUX (FOAMO REMIX) WARDANCE - FOAMO DANCE, DANCE, DANCE - LYKI LI (BURAKA SOM SISTEMA) BITCH MADE - KASI HOUSE MAFIAS DREAMS - DJ WHAT WHAT I'MA TELL YOUR MAMA ON YOU - RED THE HOMELESS GFUNK BEATBOX
Also, check out this track from his Sweat-X project that just popped on the Fader blog:
Alta Joya - Hold the line Cumbia Remix Double jay - Time 2 shine Tebza - Rocka Flore ft. Rodney P. - We Rewind Mc Zulu Frikstailers Remix - Truthfully Toddla T feat. Mr Versatile - Fill Up Mi Portion RMX feat. Afrikan Boy & Batty Rymer Toddla T - Monkey Steak Uproot Andy & MJ - Smooth Criminal RMX Toy Selectah - BKLYN buraka som sistema - Bang feat. M.I.A. (WTF I Asked for a kuduro remix) The Heatwave Refix - Party Harder doctor - migraine skank Sticky - bb hype (Blackberry hype) Stush - We Nuh Run (Riddim Sirens) Busy Signal - Tic Toc (GreenMoney Liquid Re-Rub) NB Funky - Nutz Kassim Sidibe - ? Solo - Congoloid (Minimow remix) Dennis DJ - Jonathan II Deise Tigrona - Injeçao DJ Sandrinho - Italiano Lento DJ Rob3 - The Chase Erupt - Click Mi Finger (Grahmzilla rmx) Major Lazer ft. Vybz Kartel - Pon de floor Busy Signal - Just Wanna Fuck DJ Money - Khoo Demarco - She Can't Wait Tony Matterhorn - Nobody's Goin Home Werrason - Sous-sol Fally Ipupa ft. Krys - Droit chemin rmx Espoir 2000 - Abidjan Faro
Ok, the blog is running a bit slowly these days! Khiasma is now in Toronto spending his days trying to leech the network from his new neighbors, Jeune Premier is organizing a big and hot event for the International youth day on august 12 in St-Michel and I'm stuck in front of my computer trying to learn some software for my new job and therefore, spending my days in front of my computer!
Tonight I was in a Punta mood. For those of you who don't know what punta is a traditional form of dance music from central america made by garifuna in Belize and Honduras.
Anyway, I've just found this great puntarock/dancehall tune tonight from this guy named Aziatic aka “the Son of Hopkins” previously known as AZ in the rap game: Go!
It seems that a documentary about the live of Aziatic will be available soon, check here for more info!
I'm just hooked on that track tonight and if you know more song like this one! Please shared it!
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