Journey to the UWS

UNS 002 – UWS

This one is a bit belated by totally worth it. Trust me. 🙂

The next installment of UNS took me to New York’s Upper West Side. It was a lovely warm day in spring and the sun was shining. Cruising along Broadway, eating at Papaya’s, chilling with Tom and imaging Kramer walking in and Elaine complaining about her hair and finally having a lie down at the Colombia campus benches.

I’ve never really been a through and through UWS type of dude. It’s always felt like a poor man’s UES to me, and you know how much I love the UES. Well you don’t, but I am telling you now, I fucking do, and I will find Woody Allen one day.

Anyways, here you go, enjoy!

Tracklist:

1. Lemon D – I See Sunshine
2. Vtgnike – U Tebya Takie Glaza
3. Lemongrass – Cafe De Paris
4. Paul Hardcastle – It Must Be Love
5. Patrice Rushen – Where There Is Love
6. Gentle Persuasion – Gotta Lotta Love
7. Tassel & Naturel Feat. DJ Cam – Drivin’
8. Double Dee – Found Love (Reprise)
9. Mary J. Blige – Good Woman Down
10. Swamburger – Womanside
11. Jay-Z – Moment Of Clearness
12. Problem Kids Feat. Ashley Beedle – Mardi Gras
13. Joss Moog – Room 27
14. Adrian Hour – The Reason (Desos Remix)
15. Curtis Hairston – I Want You (All Tonight) (JM After-Session M&M Mix)
16. Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King – Love Come Down (12″ Version)
17. Candi Staton – Young Hearts Run Free
18. Streetlife Originals – Sidewalk Story
19. Hackman – Carry On (Dub)
20. DJ Koze – XTC
21. WILLIAMS, Boo – Teckno Drome
22. Pascal Viscardi – Lakefront (Worker Union Remix)
23. Profundo & Gomes – Sexophonic
24. DJ Qu – Loveboxx
25. Mood II Swing – Move Me
26. DJ Qu – SS1
27. Jacob B – Rave In The Cave
28. D FUNC/MARCEL HEESE – Patience
29. MUNK – Purple Dust
30. Hefner / Cosmos – Dive Into You (Tom Middleton Vox)
31. Billy Shane – Hold Yor Heart
32. ANDRADE – Optimistic
33. Streetlife Originals – Sidewalk Story
34. Mountal – Would You Be Mine?
35. Eli Escobar – NY So Hi
36. Butch – Praise The Lord
37. Steffen Deux – New York Sun
38. DJ W!LD – All About You
39. Jazz-N-Groove – Do Ya (Tribal Jazz Mix)
40. Life On Earth – Can’t Give You Up (Joey Negro Club Mix)
41. Palms Trax – People Of Tusk
42. Entro Senestre – Rosegold
43. Art Of Tones – Queue De Cochon
44. Sello – Bla Bla Bla
45. Kim Brown – Ternevej
46. Theory Of Happiness – Relax (Soothing Club Mix)
47. Toni Martin – Deeper (Blaze Deep Mix)
48. Brothers’ Vibe – Take Me 2 The Raw
49. Munk – Hot Medusa (Kai Alcé Dub)
50. Pal Joey, Beautiful People – I Got The Rhythm (Club Mix)
51. Helvert Feat. Elif Bicer – Neu
52. The Bird And The Bee – Runaway
53. Grant Nelson – Season Of Jack
54. Grant Nelson – Spellbound
55. D. Ramirez & Mark Knight – Colombian Soul (Gabriel And Dresden Tuscan Soul Reconstruction)
56. Red Grey Purple – Music Matters (Mark Knight Remix)
57. Moodymanc – Joy
58. The Far Out Monster Disco Orchestra – Mystery (Instrumental) [Feat. Arthur Verocai]
59. N.U. – Do It Again (Touchsoul Edit)
60. Jack J – Something (On My Mind)

Urban Nomads – We Make Music

Folks, its not hidden a secret that I am a part time Urban Nomad by profession.

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What do us Urban Nomads do I hear ya ask?

Simple, we traverse urban settings, admiring cities, architecture, noise, markets, music, people, shops and most importantly, our built environment.

Our activities include but not limited to:

• Finding cool hidden gems, in my case the focus is on architecture and food.
• Chilling in coffee shops and coffee related establishments. We can spend tons of hours in these places.
• Walking in unknown parts of whatever city we happen to be in. We do that to discover new things, but also because it expands our understanding of our environment. It sometimes puts me in trouble. Worth it.
• Our nomadic nature means we cannot get too attached to one city, place or setting. But we often do.
• Running new routes around the city and seeing things at 20 km/hr while your heartbeat is at 100 bpm.
• Attending gigs, going to museums, enriching ourselves culturally.
• Airports
• Metro/Subway/Tube inspiration
• Finding cool hidden gems when we run of things to do
• Make/be music as you listen to music.

And this brings us nicely to my latest project.

You might have been with me long enough to know about Kay-Ville, District Funk and then Disco Blasphemy. These were awesome shows which were broadcast and had their fun in their sun. Time for something new.

My latest is a no brainer. One of the main accessories of the discerning Urban Nomad is his headphones and music selection. It is highly unusual to find me walking random parts of Paris’s Courbevoie or New York’s Lower East Side without my headphones on, banging tunes, taking it all on.

When I often playback some tunes, it elicits such a strong feeling of a particular setting that I often can no longer but associate that track with that place. And hence my idea – put together tracks I play while hopping about places in one mix and see what that sounds like. And thus ‘The Urban Nomadic Sessions’ is born.

The first session takes us to one my favorite parts of London and where I have so many fond memories, Islington, up Naaarrffff.

Representing N1, N4, N5, N6, N7, N8, N16 and N19, with a silent ode to the gunners! Here we go!

Tracklist:

1. Grüün – GrüünGrüünGrüüün
2. Deetron Feat. Ovasoul7 – Out Of My Head (Dub)
3. Roman Flügel – More & More
4. Aaron FIT Siegel – Tonite (DD Mix)
5. Rachel Row – Follow The Step (KiNK Mix)
6. Doc Daneeka – Everyday
7. B.G. Baarregaard – Tocame
8. Olivier Giacomotto – Together
9. Martijn – Strada 23
10. Flori – SU-3150
11. Moodymanc – Joy (Ralph Lawson Dub)
12. Dave Seaman – Private Education
13. JC Williams – Need No More (NY Stomp Remix)
14. Koelle, Elli – All You Got (Richard Seaborne Dub)
15. Prok & Fitch – One Of These Days
16. P A U L I E – Spread Love (Holmes Price Remix)
17. Climbers Feat. Yasmine Azaiez – Left Your Love (Director’s Cut Signature Mix)
18. Jacob Bech – The Kibosh
19. Pablo Bolivar – Destination Novgorod
20. Softwar – Believe
21. NY’s Finest – I Can’t Wait Till Tonight
22. James Welsh – Horse Fight
23. JimmyTheTwin – Party Down
24. Surrealism – So Much
25. Matthew Collins – Nobody’s Fool (Young Hand Remix)
26. System Of Survial – Iper Island
27. Jesse Rose – Alone
28. Benoit & Sergio – House With 500 Rooms (Dub)
29. Sasse – Flushing Meadows (Mark E Remix)
30. Jens Bond – Two Seconds Of Silence
31. Chamboche – Into The Murk
32. Phil Weeks – Stay Stayin
33. Daniel Steinberg – 1981
34. Dalson – Back Home
35. Joe Morris – Elysium
36. P. Laoss – Play My Music
37. White Wolf Worx – MFED
38. System Of Survial – Shaking Slow
39. B.G. Baarregaard – C.R.A.Z.Y
40. Alkalino – Have A Ball
41. Crazy P – Cruel Mistress (Ron Basejam Remix)
42. The Groovers – Make Me Feel
43. 78 Edits – Don’t You Know
44. Mario Basanov – More For The Less (Pablo Bolivar & Maurice Aymard Remix)
45. Closed Paradise, Tesla Boy, Sasha Anastasov – The Daulphin
46. Martijn – Sestriere
47. The Groovers – Where You BelongB

Jazz Cognoscenti Move To The Incessant Disco Rhythm – Disco Blasphemy 017

Jazz Cognoscenti Move To The Incessant Disco Rhythm [Disco Blasphemy 017]

In an ode to one of my favourite paintings of all time, and inspired by the changing of the seasons, the new Disco Blashpemy is now up!

The original piece done by an unknown Flemish artist sometime around 1620 is an absolute marvel. A series of paintings and art works within one massive painting that visualized an imaginary setting where many of the artist’s favourite paintings lied. It’s currently on display at the ‘National Gallery’ in London.

The tracklist will be posted online shortly. In the mean time, jack in and chillout!

https://soundcloud.com/inhead-kay/jazz-cognoscenti-move-to-the-incessant-disco-rhythm-disco-blasphemy-017

Blasphemy On the Disco (Bunnies call to action)

Hola fellow horsemen, mermaids and mermasters (cause maids are so 20th century),

For those of you who have the dis-pleasure of knowing me in some form or another know quite well that I do dedicate quite a big chunk of my menial majestic existence to music. I always feel the urge to share all the good vibes I come across (legally ofcourse, FBI I am serious, never ever gave anything for free – virginity included). So culminating this incredible year was Disco Blasphemy 2012, a nice cap on one hell of a blasphemous podcast series that I launched back in July of last year. That followed District Funk which if you’ve been reading this esteemed rantatious blog for a while would know all about.

So without further ado, here comes the best tunes in my sleeves this year. Get your freak on, grab a disco bunny and do blasphemous stuff. Just do it (be safe though).

Tracklist

01- Dexter Wansel – Time Is The Teacher
02- Billy Paul – Let’s Make A Baby
03- Jazzanova – Rendezvous
04- Patrice Rushen – Where There Is Love
05- DJ Jazzy Jeff – The Definition (ft. Kel Spencer)
06- Ryo Murakami – Just for This
07- Skudge – Ontic (Rolando Understands Remix)
08- Moomin – Raw Like 97
09- James Mason – Nightgruv
10- Tiger & Woods – Gin Nation
11- Dusky – Henry 85 (Fcl Weemix)
12- Blawan – Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage
13- youANDme – Mouche (Luke Hess Electric Dub)
14- Mic Newman – Knickerbocker
15- Smallpeople – Move With Your Vision
16- Detroit Swindle – Guess What (Leftside Wobble Remix)
17- Homework – Cmon Start Moving
18- Drew Sky – Razzmatazz
19- Hodges, James & Smith – What Have You Done For Love
20- First Choice – Let No Man Put Asunder (12″ Remix)
21- Leron Carson – Dedicated
22- Rene Bandaly Family – Tanki Tanki
23- Objekt – Porcupine
24- Wil Maddams – My Turn
25- Phors – Fading Away
26- Phors – Shining Star
27- Everything But The Girl – Compression
28- Detroit Swindle – Jick Rames
29- Chasing Kurt – Galaxy Hero (Deep Space Orchestra Remix)
30- Pan/Tone – Stay (Nikki Gibler Remix)
31- Andrés – New For U
32- Joy Orbison – Ellipsis
33- WK7 – Do It Yourself
34- Tony Lionni – Afterhours
35- Green Velvet – Never Satisfied (Studio 54 Re-Re Mix)
36- Bicep, Ejeca – You (Steffi Remix)
37- Azuni – Raw Chord
38- Midland – What We Know (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)
39- Groove Armada – Don’t Take Your Love Away
40- Lee Jones – Moment (George Fitzgerald Remix)
41- Deep Future – You Need It (Detroit Swindle’s ‘Never Enough’ Interpretation)
42- Chris James – Kind of Heavy (Andre Crom Remix)
43- Jask – Life
44- Rahbani Brothers – La Tehtab Alayeh
45- Ziad Rahbani – Abu Ali
46- Erol Evgin – Sevdan Olmazsa

And finally, here is a cool widget with all the Disco Blasphemy sets so far:

Why do the French take the piss?

The French Revolution - the liberty to piss in public? (via icanhascheezburger)

A couple of months ago, we were all extremly elated at the news of Mr Gerard Depardieu (with an extreme phonetic focus on the ieu) getting kicked off a Dublin bound CityJet aircraft as he whipped his penis in public then took a glorious pee while he informed a bemused air hostess: “I am an elephant … I need to pee”, a totally believable statement since elephents weigh 11000 kgs on average, roughly the same weight of Gerard’s, furthermore they actually urinate 1.5 gallons at a time and up to 15 gallons a day, and judging by people’s reaction to the story, I’d say the man urinated similar copious amounts.

Anyways, this week it seems the French are back in headlines for all the wrong (right?) reasons again, and no I am not referring to Sarkozy’s ex-wife secretly visiting Carla Bruni after a 4 year catfight. French DJ/producer Alex Braxe was on Saturday kicked out of a club after he decided to show Gerard Depardieu that he too can enjoy the freedoms his forefathers in the French revolution fought for by dispensing a steam inside the DJ booth and then getting the boot.

Surprisingly, it turns out that 2011 was quite exciting piss-wise! So behold 2011’s watersports leaky heroes:

Lady Gaga likes to pee in wastebins.
Jessie J doesn’t only look, act and talk like Gaga, she pisses like her too!
Crazy footballer urinates in front of rival fans.
North London traffic dude pees as he walks.
Fellow male-oids, we can now play pacman as we piss!

And finally, it seems like American Football player Nick Novak just had to check his junk was still functioning after taking a painful kick earlier!

Alas my intellectual crowd, fear not, I have the culture cure for you to save you from the degradation that has befallen this sheet so far. November’s grooves have arrived:

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Sounds From My Revolution?

Che - Reading Goethe

It may seem a little strange that the only time off from my revolution that I took last week was to prepare and then record this month’s podcast, but then again even Che (who incidentally also suffered chronic asthma like me) would take a break from the Cuban revolution and indulge in peotry and literature, some of his favorite pastimes (which included rugby union strangely!).

Well, the revolution goes on, even if I had to scale back my presence a little as reality bitch slaps me and makes me realize that pretty soon I have to be back in an office with my fellow drones fueling the corporation and its ambitions. Oh well, not all is gloom, occupying London has taught me that I wake up with a perfect hairdoo if it’s after spending the night in the cold on the streets of the city as opposed to my cosy high thread count bed, which means that I might as well start sleeping in parks and public spaces from now on, all part of the job!

Here’s your monthly installment of grooves, peppered with revolutionary love.

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Jazzy Turkish Harem’s Delights?

Hiya fellow green goblins and humanoids.

Stuff that gives you performance powers

My last ramble was almost two months ago, my minions I have failed you, I feel somberness towards the fact that you had to go and search for unstructered idiotic blabs elsewhere on the ethersphere, but fear not, I do have the treats.

Behold my desciples, this is the stuff that gives you ultra strong orgasms superpowers. These are the Harem’s delights which I have salvaged from a recent expedition into the lands of the Turks last month. Legend has it that a measured daily dosage if consumed by highly morally reprehensible creatures can create evil not seen since Godzilla invaded the shores of Odo island.

Harem's Delights will do this to you

After extensive research on the legend, and before I delved into these boxes, I was shocked to find one of the creatures that I have described earlier. It is reported that this individual feasts on these dangerous confections twice daily. The result is interesting, the science community is baffled.

In other news, the second episode of SCM is out. Two hours of Jazzy goodness which you might enjoy, Harem free?!

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Back to the grooves! Check out July’s soundcast:

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Time for some grooves! This month’s podcast:

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And now for some grooves. This month’s District Funk podcast: