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