One of Detroit's best kept secrets, Rick Wade has been producing late night tracks and tapping into the essence of deepness since the '90's. Known for their universal appeal and appearing on over 20 different labels worldwide, soulful, timeless grooves are his signature. Growing up in Buchanan MI, 1 hour outside of Chicago he was influenced by Chicago radio station WBMX and the Salsoul material and local stations that played the likes of Al Green and Isaac Hayes. Rick remembers:
"I've always been into the music first. I loved the way they (WBMX) would blend twosongs together and make it sound like one. I didn't even know what a DJ was back then. I just wanted to blend songs together...When I went to the record store those songs were only available on 12" vinyl, then I needed turntables to play them and then I needed a mixer if I wanted to blend them... At parties I had the records and I had the turntables so I became the DJ almost by default."
A night dedicated to 80's Boogie, UK Soul, Disco Rap & B-Boy classics. Boogie Bash is a party held at Paradiso in Amsterdam and run by the Boogie Bash/Kindred Spirits family - KC The Funkaholic and Amsterdam's dopest DJ's. This is the first annual 'Boogie Bash' party in Melbourne and brings this unique concept to the Croft Institute. Bare witness Melbourne's finest spinning vinyl only gems all night long!
'THE CITY RISES' is a great show on RRR hosted by RambL and Martin L for all things future beats first thing every saturday morning 12 - 1:30am AEST.
This week they had Melbourne whizkid Galapagoose on the show rocking a 40 minute set of his own productions. We highly recommend you check the podcast out below and keep an eye on Galapagoose!
Inkswel is currently doing big tings in Amsterdam. Many of them we are not allowed to talk about yet but let's just say he's going to be one of big Australian exports in the underground music scene in 2011.
He just wrapped up a DJ slot for Aloe Blacc at Paradiso in Amsterdam. Here's a few flicks he sent through!
Brand new mix from Coleman and the Mochilla crew. We'll have this in stock soon but here's the run down!
Sounds of Al-Mashriq: The Land Where the Sun Rises
Mochilla has brought you some beautiful mixes over the past twelve months: Hear the World, Addis to Axum, and the Verocai retrospective, Arranjos e Compisicoes. We value the idea of new old music, treasures that most likely haven’t found their way to your ears yet, and today’s mix is no different.
This past summer, Coleman and myself, along with Jay Electronica and his DJ, TJ the King, Ommar Offendum, and Will Quantic had the chance to go to the Middle East and play. We even made it to Egypt and linked with Kutmah there, but that’s a whole other story… This mix represents some of what we learnt. It’s a group effort, but Coleman made the whole thing seem magically coherent…
This is the liner note from the back of the cd:
The Mashriq (Arabic: مشرق, also transcribed as Mashreq, Mashrek) is the Arabic term referring to a large area in the Middle East that is bounded between the Mediterranean Sea and Iran. It is derived from the Arabic consonantal root sh-r-q (ش ر ق) and essentially means “east” — or more poetically, “place of sunrise.” It is therefore the companion term to Maghreb (مغرب), which simultaneously suggests “west” or “sunset,” and is a reference to the Arabic-speaking countries of North Africa.
Mochilla has had the opportunity to visit Lebanon and Jordan twice within the past year, as well as Egypt most recently. We were invited by our friends Nasser Kalaji and Laith Majali of Immortal Entertainment to play our music in Beirut and Amman, and to experience for ourselves how life is at this incredible cultural crossroads. To say that we have been astonished, amazed, shocked, gratified and humbled is to put things mildly. We have only begun to scratch the deep surface of this world, and yet so many things have been revealed already.
In honor of these visits and our growing cultural exchange, we are presenting a mix of some of the music that we collected, picked up, swapped and bought along the way. Coleman always delivers when it comes to these mixes and this is no different: from Jay-Z samples to the fidjeri vocal music of Bahraini pearl divers, this is a journey worth taking. Enjoy, open your ears and let the beauty and depth of the cradle of civilization wash away your preconceptions… -B+
Pull out the couch and crank up the soundsystem for Melbourne's very first CDR session and RBMA workshop with producer, label honcho and DJ...MARTYN. This is the man who – on the dancefloor and in the studio - successfully connects the raw energy of DRUM N BASS the finer points of TECHNO the intensity of DUBSTEP and the soulful roots of HOUSE music.
Rocket science? Well, no. Music science? Definitely. Don't miss this chance to get inside the Martyn method.
CDR is the place to hear FUTURE MUSIC - NEW/UNRELEASED tracks burnt direct from the studios of your favourite local and international music makers. All music lovers are welcome but if you make music then bring down YOUR CDR, hand it in between 6:30 and 9:30pm and get ready to hear your cuts alongside the best that the world has to offer.
For more information about CDR go to http://www.cdraustralia.com/
Opening it's doors in 2006, Wax Museum Records is one of Melbourne's premier record stores. Stocking a range of new and second hand vinyl, book's, CD's, DVD's, tee's and turntable accessories. In 2009, the shop began it's own vinyl only record label. 2010 has so far seen a second store open in Adelaide and we have also begun a small distribution wing with a stable of great labels
