From: Crate Soul Brothers (keyser_at_freemail.hu)
Date: 2003-04-23 21:43:47
Crate Soul Brothers newsletter #102: Obsessed
Newsflash 23. April 2003
Dear friends,
it's always a very sad thing to make a tribute show for a great artist who only passed away. And we have this duty too many times. Our next show we will dedicate to Nina Simone who died on Sunday at age 70 and left us with so much excellent recordings of so many different styles. RIP!
Well, what else we can write all after this? We'll keep it short: we just got the feedback from Gav Smith @ Disorient Records that he and Thomas Schumacher really loved our version of Good Life, so quite soon you can listen to the bubblin basslines and off beat drums under the voice of a certain lady called Kaori.
We also had the pleasure lately to make a short mix for the famous Into Somethin' radio show of Munich made by Florian Keller and Theo Thönnessen. The mix was aired last week and you can even find the playlist here. They have been organising the Into Somethin' club nights with Compost-founder Michael Reinboth for 12 years now.
Me, Tibi aka Keyser make a short world tour in the next weeks including a one-week journey in NYC for the first time where finally I can meet some good guys who I only knew trough the internet and also some friends I didn't meet for a long time. You can guess I am rather excited to dig into those dusty crates than to take a look from the Statue of Liberty. But while I collected my wishlist on the web I bumped into a pessimistic writing about the NYC scene:
"Throw them crooked fingers up. Pete and Anthony want to move the whole operation to LA. I'm the only die-hard New Yorker up in here, but you know what? I don't even know why anymore. It's like smoking weed for me - I'm obsessed with what it used to be, with no regards to what the present day reality is. New York isn't New York anymore. We just passed a no smoking law for all restaurants, bars and clubs. No fucking smoking in NYC?! That was alright for pansy-ass California vegans, but New York? Already the rents are so steep that nobody cool can afford to live here, the last time I went to a big club was 8 years ago, you can't buy weed or firecrackers in the street anymore, jumping turnstiles is out of the question, there's no scene whatsoever (unless you can stand the locust invasion of button-down blue shirts and a fabricated magazine trend called "electro-clash") and we are the biggest terrorist target on the planet.... What the fuck do we live here for anyway? It's 4 am,!
35 degrees and the heat is off in our building. At least LA is warm. [...]"
Turntablelab about Tupac - California Love 12"
Anyway, I am sure there is a good scene over there and I am happy to meet some of the guys who are keeping this together including Nickodemus & his friends, Nat Rahav and Tyler Askew.
Keep on being obsessed till the next time!
Keyser, Shuriken & Erik Sumo (Crate Soul Brothers)
Radio playlist (Tilos Radio: FM 90,3 Budapest / http://tilos.hu)
A barázdán is csomót! (Crate Soul Brothers radio show - 20-00h 17. 04. 2003) - DJs: Keyser + special guest Captain Chaos
Listen (archived till the next show):
24 kbps: http://tilos.hu/ogg/lo/Thursday/2000.m3u
http://tilos.hu/ogg/lo/Thursday/2200.m3u
96 kbps: http://tilos.hu/ogg/hi/Thursday/2000.m3u
http://tilos.hu/ogg/hi/Thursday/2200.m3u
128 kbps: http://tilos.hu/mp3/96/Thursday/2000.m3u
http://tilos.hu/mp3/96/Thursday/2200.m3u
DJ Keyser behind da dex
1. Black Renaissance - Black Renaissance (Luv 'n Haight)
2. Omar Sosa - Eleggua (Cosmic Sounds)
3. Antibalas - War Is A Crime (Ninja Tune)
4. The Poets of Rhythm - Fondle Rock (Ninja Tune)
5. Quantic Soul Orchestra - Babarabiriti (Tru Thoughts)
6. RSL - Wesley Music (Players)
7. Mr. Scruff - Sweetsmoke - Manitoba remix (Ninja Tune)
8. Vikter Duplaix - Galaxy - Recloose mix (Hollywood)
9. De Phazz - You Stayed - dZihan & Kamien mix (Universal)
10. RTB Big Band - Balkan Express - Panoptikum remix (Cosmic Sounds)
11. Rednose Distrikt feat. Alma Horton - Gotta Make a Love - DJ Spinna remix (Kindred Spirit)
12. Jazoulster - Landscape from Higher Lounge (Aosis)
13. Rubin Steiner - Guitarland - DJ Vadim mix (BMG France)
14. Coxless Pair - Contemplation - Belgradeyard Sound System rmx (Cosmic Sounds)
15. Skalpel feat. Yarah Bravo - Voice of Reason (Ninja Tune)
16. London Elektricity - Born To Sythesise (Hospital)
17. Un-Cut - Midnight - Waiwan remix (Warner)
18. Common - Heaven Somewhere (MCA)
19. Micatone - Quiet Boy (Sonar Kollektiv)
20. Fertile Ground - Come 2 Me (Counterpoint)
21. Stateless - Too Late (Freerange)
22. Skalpel - Ninjazz (Ninja Tune)
Gilles Peterson Impressed Jazz mix
23. Bruther Ah - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Devine Records)
24. Joe Harriott & Amancio d'Silva Quartet - Jaipur (Universal Jazz)
25. Mal Waldron - Portrait of a Young Woman (Prestige)
26. Michael Garrick Trio - First Born (Universal Jazz)
27. Dee Dee Bridgewater - People Make The World Go Round (Trio Records)
28. Randy Weston - In Memory Of (Colpix Records)
DJ Keyser + special guest Captain Chaos
29. Shirley Bassey - Killing Me Softly (Amiga)
30. Jorge Ben - Errarum Humanum Est (Impact)
31. Edwin Starr - Easin' In (Mojo)
32. The Poets of Rhythm - Discern/Define (Ninja Tune)
33. Da d a m EMAIL souljazznphreaknoizpunk - One Fits All (Combination)
34. War - Slipping Into Darkness (Avenue)
35. Richard Groove Holmes & Ernie Watts - Come Together (Harmless)
36. Detroit Experiment - Midnight At The Twenty Grand (Ropeadope)
37. Lionel Hampton - Stardust (Mercury)
38. Visioneers - The World Is Yours (Omniverse)
39. Madlib - Variations of In the Rain (Stones Throw)
40. Didier's Sound Spectrum - Impuls (Timmion)
40. Cut Chemist - 7 Minutes & 45 Minutes of Funk (Stones Throw)
41. ?
42. Quantic Soul Orchestra - Raw Ingredients (Tru Thoughts)
43. Magnum - It's The Music That Makes Us Doing It (Harmless)
44. Antibalas - Talkatif (Ninja Tune)
45. Trio Mocoto - Swinga Sambaby (Mr. Bongo)
46. Nico Gomez - La Lupita (Mr. Bongo)
47. Teca & Ricardo - Senhor Piloto (Moshe-Naim)
48. Joao Bosco - Amon Ra e o cavalo de Troia (RCA)
49. Arkestra One - Seu Paraiso - Crate Soul Brothers mix (Cosmic Sounds)
for the older playlists read http://blog.tilos.hu/cratesoul
Next events:
26. April, Bratislava (Slovakia), Terminal: Terminal Lounge/Keyser with Tall (Red Salamanda/CZ), Hofee (Boo-Kings/CZ), DJ Magalova & Kinet (allthatjazz/SK)
30. April, New York, Tribeca Grand Hotel: Easy Beats /Keyser with Nickodemus, Mariano and Osiris (http://www.tribecagrand.com)
4. May, New York: Sunday Sunset Boat Cruise /Keyser with Nickodemus, Mariano and Osiris (aboard the Marco Polo Boat docked on the East River @ 23rd Street. 6:30 arrival, 7PM departure-11PM return) (http://www.turntablesonthehudson.com)
16. May, Ljubljana (Slovenia) /Keyser & Shuriken a. o.
23-24. May, Budapest, A38: Sound On Ultra Loud Festival / The Poets of Rhythm - live (Ninja Tune/Quannum), Alex Barck (Jazzanova), Tom Wieland (Les Gammas), Marcel aka Carmel (Good Looking Records/Fluid Ounce) + Keyser, Shuriken, Erik Sumo, Lee n'gum, Suhaid (http://www.a38.hu)
31. May, Vilnius (Lithuania), Club Gravity /Keyser (http://www.clubgravity.lt)