I’ve been pretty excited by Floating Points‘ (aka: 23-year-old Londoner, Sam Shepherd) relatively new foray onto the scene. Vacuum Boogie is from the new Floating Points EP (snippets of the other 2 tracks are available here): A Floating Points remix of Little Dragon: …and D’Angelo/Femi Kuti! -MissRuckus
It’s Toronto Palestine Film Festival time again. Here’s a music-related film that sounds pretty interesting: Checkpoint Rock: Songs of Palestine Javier Corcueran / Fermin Muguruza | 2009 | 70 min | Documentary | Spain This incredible Spanish production spotlights superb talents of the contemporary Palestinian music scene. The film begins with Marcel Khalife at Mahmoud [...]
For those of you in Toronto, you’ve got a big dilemma to face on Saturday, October 3rd… In one corner: Lee Fields and El Michels Affair (Details here) vs. In the other corner: Nuit Blanche The soul-ution*? Do both! (*I get bad pun influences from the bad joke Master: urbansteve.. thanks, Steve!) (Wu Tang!) -MissRuckus
I like my music obsessed friends. I love sharing new tracks, artists and musical styles with others because I always learn something new. When I met MissRuckus in late 2007, I was just skimming the surface of afrobeat, high life and other forms of African music- mostly Ghanian and Nigerian. After talking with her and exchanging music [...]
Ok, Jamie Jones is the tech-house wiz producer of the moment right now as far as i’m concerned. Last week I went to check out his dj set at Cobra (wicked sound system) in Toronto sans my Hot Sauce crew. Jones rocked it ’til past 4:00am…on a thursday! which was just what i wanted to [...]
The first time I ever heard this track, I was completely and utterly floored. A seriously killer Ghanaian highlife track, it was apparently a big hit in Ghana back when it was first released: Kyen Kyen Bi Adi Mawu – Alhaji K. Frimpong You can nab a $200 original vinyl copy on Ebay. Yeah, I [...]
Upon visiting the Soundway Records website in order to grab the link for my previous entry, I stumbled across this mix by Miles Cleret (he runs Soundway). Check out the selections.. those first 3 tracks are gold! ..And much more goodness within… For those of you in Toronto who like your funk on the tropical [...]
One of my favourite artists of all time is the godfather of Ethiopian jazz, Mulatu Astatke, and this 10″ Soundway record of a few old re-releases of the funkier side of his music is one of my favourite records of all time (i.e. I will probably get buried with this record!): This 1998 album of [...]
I first came across Mickey Moonlight, formerly known as Midnight Mike, with his subtle and poppy remix for Circlesquare‘s ‘Hey You Guys’ on the brilliant K7 label. He just recently got signed to Ed Banger’s label, which I’m happy about, since I was getting tired of the Electro sound quick. He’s definitely come to the rescue. Check [...]
Yeesh, what, do I have a crush on Mayer Hawthorne or something? Oh wait, I do. Stones Throw just posted this Astronote El Camino remix of this track. I’ve been slowly trying to ween myself off of listening to this record and this record almost every single day. I don’t know why Mayer Hawthorne is [...]
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