Keyser & Shuriken - newsletter #56: Dealers, pimps & new discoveries
Newsflash 11.05.2001
Dear friends,
we are finally back at work after spending our last two weekends with splendid guys
all over the region, spreading the vibe behind the 1 and 2s, chilling with
cappuccinos, enjoying the first rays of summer sun, so excuse us for the rather long
news section, we had the time of our lives, and wanna let you know.
Trieste was absolutely the right place to begin our mini tour with, even though we
had some nasty ideas before getting there. I mean, what if Gianluca, who contacted us
via e-mail, makes his living from inviting djs to this beautiful town, chopping them
to moderate pieces by an axe and putting them in the freezer, and then selling their
records? :))) Even this scenario couldn't scare us away from saying OK to his kind
invitation.
We have packed Zsofi (Keyser's girlfriend, the ultimate girl when it comes to taking
care of stupid vinyljunkies, big up for driving all the way there and back) and
Fruzsi (Zsofi's younger sis, maker of the best tiramisu in Budapest, oooh she is
hot!), plus 100 kgs of vinyl in a car and got rolling, ready for the
sauna-on-four-wheels-on-the-hiway experience. Gianluca & co have turned out to be the
greatest guys around, the gig was held in an amazing palace of cakes and coffee, with
cheerful people. Now we understood why these guys called the club-night - it has been
going on for a half year now - ElectroSacher. We were in some way pioneers - the
first foreign djs to play there -, and the result of our fact finding mission is an
advice to all djs and clubbers in the scene: If you live, play, go for a holiday near
Trieste, grab your chance and contact Gianluca Guerra (guerra@newtech.it) for a taste
of ElectroSacher.
We have mentioned the Zagreb based producer/dj/promoter duo Eddy & Dus several times
in our earlier newsletters, but now they did a great job again, and we are extremely
proud to polish their shining star once more with a few nice words. Even we wouldn't
think when we met them for the first time at last year's Kontrapunkt Future Jazz
Festival (mucho thanks go to Maja & Sanjin, our local friends for letting us know
about that this tribal gathering of the nu jazz elite), that we would have a chance
to play here so soon. The tough guys of the Central-Eastern European region seem to
organise the scene rather fast, so we already played there by the end of last year.
We were now invited again to spin records, build connections and eat crazy cakes for
breakfast in Sheraton Zagreb with the likes of Tom Wieland, Karl Injex, Gotan
Project, Lil Tony, Paolo Scotti, Seiji, Domu and Da Lata. (Check out
http://kontrapunkt.aquarius.hr and you still won't believe it.). Zagreb is definitely
one of the best audiences of the world, we wonder how long it would take till the djs
will start paying big bucks for Eddy & Dus for letting them play there.
After we got back to Budapest, we visited the dex of the 2001: Funk Odyssey clubnight
at Club Rigoletto (www.odyssey.rigoletto.hu). This night, run by splendid local
funkstas and friends Mr.Tristam Shandy and Pedro Tranquillo, is always a perfect
excuse for getting high on strawberry flavoured cocktails and Champage. And this is
just what we did (with a bunch of test pressings and forthcoming goodies we got from
our friends in Zagreb). Listen:
http://tilos.hu/djk/mixek/keyser_shuriken-live_at_odyssey_1_010502.mp3
http://tilos.hu/djk/mixek/keyser_shuriken-live_at_odyssey_2_010502.mp3
http://tilos.hu/djk/mixek/keyser_shuriken-live_at_odyssey_3_010502.mp3
(Thanks for Varga Feri for doing great work for the Tilos radio web-site archiving
and uploading all these stuff. This is an exclusive mix for you, our newsletter
friends, since these links will only appear on the Tilos site by next week
sometimes.)
Our last weekend we spent in Veszprem, the name of the club-night is Syrup, run by
splendid local guys who have also opened up an already closed thrift store for us to
feed our vinyl addiction. (The guys are responsible for the Easy Life Natural
productions. They've got a double bass fuelled jazz monster coming soon. We have
heard the tune, and it's a maaaad one. Believe us.)
Speaking of new music: we are lucky enough to feature finally two brand new tunes in
our radio-mix by Dub City Fanatikz (a new side-project of the well-known Hungarian
band Anima Sound System). Check the scary combination of jazz, dub, psychadelica,
head banging hip hop beats and true Lugosi style sonic vampirism while you have a
chance (till next Tuesday that is). It is absolutely pre-release stuff, the album
will be finished later this year, and we won't forget to let you know when and where
it be released.
This week's reading goes out those who are ready to do vinyl-business the hard
British way, Guy Ritchie style:
"[...] I sussed that if you really want to get noticed, you've got to find tunes of
your own, you've got to find new discoveries, ken. And I started talking to folk, and
finding out 'Oh, we go to Detroit, and there's this guy called the Coachman, who used
to be a gangster in the sixties, a fucking drug dealer and pimp and all that, and he
knows all the fuckin' folk who've got all the records'. So I thought 'I'll go to
Detroit and meet this Coachman, ken, so I got all the numbers and I went out there,
and I found records, and I did Chicago, all the fuckin' places, ken, and then I was
playing stuff from there."
Legendary deep funk pioneer Keb Darge in an interview:
http://www.thebigdaddy.com/v4/DisplayArticle.asp?articleid=202&typeid=2&dp=displayart
icletitles.asp&XsectionID=3&bg=BG_funk.gif
Meet the Coachman till next week!
Keyser & Shuriken
Playlist
Tilos Radio (http://tilos.hu)
Kristalykert (Crystal Garden - 09.05.2001) - DJs: Shuriken & Gonnok
Listen:
Lo-fi:< http://tilos.hu/mp3/24/Wednesday/0000.m3u>
Hi-fi: < http://tilos.hu/mp3/96/Wednesday/0000.m3u>
Excuse us for the less than precise playlist, but notes of Gonnok (who finally runs
his own record store called Afrofilia in town) keep many things secret...
1. Neil Young - Dead Man Soundtrack (Vapor)
2. Blue Rum 13 - On Course (Jazz Fudge)
3. Psyco On Da Bus - ? (Comet)
4. Dub City Fanatikz - ? (CD-R)
5. Turntables on the Hudson vol 2. (Rhythm Love)
6. Fug - Overflow (Nuphonic)
7. Axel Krygier - El Regreso Del Leon Bizco (Watch TV remix) (HiTop)
8. Gotan Project - Santa Maria (De Buen Ayre) (Ya Basta!)
9. Astor Piazzola - Pulsacion n.4. (Eleven Music)
10. Art Konik - Ming Park (Meitz remix) (Comet)
11. Doctor L/Cesar Anot - Pictures Talk (Versatile)
12. Don Cherry - Rapping Recipe (Barclay)
13. Psycho on da Bus - ? (Comet)
14. Uko - Radar (Klein)
15. Zeb - Sufi (Rhythm Love)
16. Mum - Miss Defied (dZihan & Kamien's sad Travolta Dub) (Klein)
17. Axel Krygier - Cabeza De Barro (HiTop)
18. Les Gammas - Outra Viva (CD-R)
19. Waxolutionists - ? (Sound Conspiracy)
DJ Shuriken keeps on fightin
20. Quantic - Life In the Rain (Tru Toughts)
21. Psycho On da Bus - Take A Rest (Chateau Flight remix) (Comet)
22. Reunion - Eona (Seiji's Opaque Mix) (Dialog)
23. Osunlade - Tree of Life (Versatile)
24. Archie Shepp - Sea of Faces (Paolo Scotti re-remix) (CD-R)
25. Quantic - The 5th Exotic (Tru Toughts)
26. Rit On - Franbusia (Grand Central)
27. Szabraxtondos - Halott tancoltatas (Krem)
28. Funky Fresh Few feat. Afu Ra - Drop A Jewel (Grand Central)
29. Kela - Step Then (Jazz Fudge) - Shuriken's favourite right now!
30. Flytronix - Heay Traffic (Solaria)
31. Kela - Heavy Artillery Acapella (Jazz Fudge)
32. Sequel feat Shortie White - Why? (Straight Ahead)
33. Jaffa - Elevator (Fred Everything mix) (Stereo Deluxe)
34. Tim Love Lee - Zilla (Tummy Touch)
35. Neil Young - Dead Man Soundtrack (Vapor)
36. Dub City Fanatikz - ? (CD-R)
37. Neil Young - Dead Man Soundtrack (Vapor)
38. Beck - Forcefield (K)
39. Neil Young - Dead Man Soundtrack (Vapor)
K&S events in the near future:
02.06. Budapest: Astro Jazz Open Air /w dZihan & Kamien, Cadik, Szamosi Bros.,
Badihali & Sanyi /organised by Suhaid
15-16.06 Budapest: Fields of Joy Festival
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Thanks for the support: Alan Brown (aka Cukipapa); Tom (Les Gammas crew); Eddy & Dus;
Anna @ Acid Jazz; Martin & Antibalas, Paul @ Afro Art; Paul @ Blow Up; Pat @
Chocolate Fireguard; Manu & Eric @ Comet Records, Rainer, Michael, Kaisa & everybody
@ Compost Records; Zeljko @ Cosmic Sounds London; Vlado & Mario @ Couch Records;
Micke @ Diesel Music; Ecco Chamber; Paul @ Fenetik; Jonny & Grupo X; Iain @ Grand
Central Records; Vadim & Kela @ Jazz Fudge; Christian @ Klein Records; Andre @ Jazid
Club & Records; Jazzland Records; Chris @ Nuphonic; Jürgen, Barbara & Sonar
Kollektiv; Nicola & Filippo @ Fez Jazz/Schema; Paolo @ Mo Smog; Gak Sato & Rocco @
Right Tempo; Nat @ RhythmLove; Marcus, Oscar, Reini & Toasta @ Spinning Wheel
Records; Oli & Sammy @ Stereo Deluxe; Alex "Reggie" @ Straight Ahead; Heinzi & Chris
@ Sunshine Enterprises; Ali @ Switch; Rob @ Tru Thoughts; Hannes & Flow @
Twentysomething Tunes; Laszlo @ UCMG Hungary; Tim @ Tummy Touch; Yonderboi & Trevira
Modern, Ambi & Amorf Ördögök; United Future Organization & Kaori; Vinnie @ Ubiquity;
Nik @ Universal Jazz; Unique Records, Werner @ Uptight; Pita @ ParaRadio; Arnaud @ Ya
Basta!; Gilb-r & Didier @ Versatile/Future Talk; Rune & Dag @ Voices of Wonder; Tosha
(Pencilbrain); Enrico Riva & everybody else who we forgot to mention
Respect: all people @ Tilos Radio
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