From: Ennio Styles (stylin_at_modalforces.com)
Date: 2004-02-04 13:26:28
STYLIN - Rare grooves, hi-tech jazz and other worldly fusions
Friday afternoons 12-2pm RRR 102.7FM, Melbourne
Live online - http://www.rrr.org.au/index2.html (see below for times)
Hello all
Well I seem to be getting through my list of childhood heroes on Stylin.
Jazzy Jeff a couple of months ago, now DJ Premier. I'll have to work on
getting Derrick May and Trouble Funk into the show. Premier has been touring
with his Gang Starr partner Guru for the Good Vibrations festival and is
also at the Prince tonight (it's not too late). There are so many classic
hip hop tunes Gang Starr have had over the years, so I had to include a few
personal favourites in the show. It's good to hear that their latest album
has kept to their classic sound. Apparently they're now out of their major
label deal, so it will be interesting to see what move they make next. I
must also mention a surprise highlight from Good Vibrations: soul queen
Ledisi doing heavy backing vocals for Blackalicious.
http://www.gangstarronline.com
This Friday, I have the return of Sweden's Mad Mats with an interview and
guest DJ mix. Mats is known for his label and club night Raw Fusion and for
being perhaps one of the most complete DJs in the world. Tune in on Friday
to hear what I mean.
My attempts to get London's Bugz in the Attic in the studio don't seem to
have worked out timing-wise, so your last chance to check them out will be
tomorrow night or tonight (depending on when you read this), Thursday 5th at
Honkytonks for an Open Sesame session. Represented here by Afronaught (aka
Orin Walters) and Mikey Gen'ral, the Bugz were formed from individuals with
backgrounds in the house, drum n bass, hip hop and jazz scenes, and are now
at the top of their game twisting all of these influences into new forms of
percussive soul. Dons of the so-called West London "broken beat" sound, they
have risen above categories to gather respect from all quarters. Amongst the
most in-demand of remixers, the Bugz have reworked tunes for Macy Gray, Zero
7, Nitin Sawhney, Jazzanova and MAW Records as well as being responsible for
massive underground anthems like Afronaught's "Transcend Me", Alison David's
"Dreams" and their Fela Kuti rework, "Zombie 2003" (all tunes making the
Stylin best of year charts). Represented here by Afronaught (aka Orin
Walters) and Mikey Gen'ral, this is your last chance to hear them bring the
pressure of their London club sessions at Co-op and FabricLive to Melbourne.
until then
Ennio Styles
***** COMING UP ON STYLIN *****
Friday 30 January - DJ Premier (Gang Starr, US)
Friday 6 February - Mad Mats (Raw Fusion, Sweden)
Friday 13 February - no Stylin (waaah!)
In the pipeline - Cliffy & Russ Jones, Kano, Action Direkt, DJ Lubi, Nicola
Conte, Declan Kelly, Paine, Strange Fruit Project, Dabrye, Dom Servini,
Daniel Merriweather, Tom Strauch, the Nextmen
***** STYLIN 123 - PLAYLIST - FRIDAY 30 JANUARY 2004 *****
Title - Artist (Label/Australian Distributor (if known))
1. you don't know my name - alicia keys (j/bmg)
2. he lovez me - tiffany laing (12 tribes)
3. illicity part 1 - extended spirit (sonar kollektiv/creative vibes)
4. in the sun - strange fruit project (black son)
5. (hidden track d4) - moka only (battle axe/creative vibes)
6. everywhere - fat jon (exceptional/inertia)
7. eyeless & painfree - protassov (switchstance)
8. on & on - nu logics (hospital/inertia)
9. tighten up - the bamboos (kay dee)
10. brick city - brick (bang)
11. ozan koukle - ice aka lafayette afro rock band (strut/inertia)
12. you don't have to say it back - candice ivory (candice ivory)
13. ritz - jfb (hospital/inertia)
DJ PREMIER INTERVIEW
14. dj premier in deep concentration - gang starr (wild pitch)
15. words i manifest (instrumental) - gang starr (wild pitch)
16. jazz thing - gang starr (columbia)
17. dujii - kool & the gang (de-lite)
18. just to get a rep - gang starr (chrysalis)
19. lovesick - gang starr (chrysalis)
20. soliloquy of chaos - gang starr (chrysalis)
21. skills - gang starr (virgin/virgin)
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22. veja o sol (spiritual south remix) - a bossa electrica (raw fusion)
23. ever after - rasmus faber (farplane)
24. so eye on - a hundred birds (wave/aztec)
25. philly soul - boozyfunk (boozyfunk)
26. 4th floor fiesta - no comply (equatorial)
27. in the thick of it - brenda russell (dome/didge)
28. glow - kelis feat raphael saadiq (virgin/virgin)
29. encore - jay-z (roc-a-fella/universal)
For previous playlists, go to http://rrr.org.au/stylin
***** ENNIO STYLES EVENTS *****
Every Thursday - Open Sesame at Honkytonks w/ Kano + guest DJs, dancers &
musicians
Thursday 5 February w/ Bugz in the Attic feat Afronaught & Mikey Gen'ral
(UK), Action Direkt
Thursday 12 February w/ JPS (Elementz)
Thursday 19 February w/ Elvis Aljus (percussion)
Thursday 26 February w/ Dave Krysko
Friday 13 February - Str8Up @ Revolver w/ Mad Mats (Raw Fusion, Sweden),
Kano
Sunday 15 February - Dusk Cinema @ Catani Gardens (film: Bowling for
Columbine)
Friday 20 February @ Cookie w/ Amber Tripp
Friday 21 February - Bust a Nut @ First Floor w/ Manuel Bundy (NZ), Action
Direkt, Kano
http://www.honkytonks.com.au
http://www.duskcinema.com.au
http://www.bugzintheattic.net
http://www.elementz.com.au
Also, if you're in Perth or Sydney, check out Bugge Wesseltoft (Jazzland,
Norway) playing live. 6/2 @ The Basement (Sydney), 12/2 @ The Verandah
(Perth) and 14/2 @ Sunken Gardens UWA.
***** ENNIO STYLES PRODUCTIONS *****
Psybossa - Ennio Styles & Lanu
From 12" "Local People EP 001" (Local People, Australia, 2002)
Also features: Suburban Lights, Benjamin Tobias feat Wolfgramm
Sound sample: http://www.vinyl-junkies.co.uk/samples/VJ6107_1.ram
Cubano Chant (Ennio Styles Remix) - SHQ
From 2LP/CD "Cosmic Sounds Remixed" (Cosmic Sounds, UK, 2003)
Also features remixes by: Nicola Conte, Eddy & Dus, Panoptikum, Zeljko
Kerleta, Gak Sato, Crate Soul Brothers, BGYSS
Info: http://cosmicsounds-london.com/label/cs-28/cs-28.htm
Sound sample: http://www.cosmic.f9.co.uk/MP3s/cs28ennio.mp3
Set for Seizure (Ennio Styles Remix) - Daniel Magg
From 12" (Compost, Germany 2003)
Also features remixes by: Anthony Nicholson, Wagon Cookin
Info: http://www.compost-rec.com/sections/labels/cpt_arti/magg.php3#set
Sound sample:
http://www.heavysoul.com/cgi-bin/rajukebox.cgi?file=100097_3.ra
In the pipeline: Local People EP 002, remix for Beady Belle (Jazzland),
remix for Belladonna (Irma)
These tunes have been supported by Straight No Chaser magazine, Gilles
Peterson, Jazzanova, Rainer Truby, Nicola Conte, Michael Rutten, Recloose,
Patrick Forge, BNX, Cliffy and many more around the globe. Thank you all!
***** OTHER-WORLDLY FUSIONS *****
Interplanetary jazz beats and rhythms compiled by Ennio Styles and Kano.
Rare and unreleased music from Pablo, Hajime Yoshizawa, Volker Meitz,
Plutonic Lab & RuCL, Russ Gabriel, The Bamboos, Fragment Orchestra, Gotan
Project, Joanna Law, Wagon Cookin and Swell Session. Crazy dope cover art by
Kano.
"One of the best for 2002" - Michael Rutten
"deep, sexy, exotic music to be savoured; music that can make you think,
feel and, of course, dance" - Play
"incredibly good" - Zebra
"recent cuts masquerading as forgotten masterpieces" - Zebra
"a wonderful collection of undiscovered music" - TRM
"guaranteed to keep you slipping this disc in the player - if you can get it
out" - Remix
"a touch of mastery" - inthemix.com.au
(http://www.inthemix.com.au/p/np/viewnews.php?id=6661)
Available now through Hardware Records (distributed in Australia by Shock).
Buy it online through:
Shock (Australia)
http://www.shock.com.au/releases/info.asp?release_ID=116344
Groovedis (Chicago) (sound samples online)
http://www.groovedis.com/lp/various/other-wordlyfusion/other-wordlyfusion.as
p
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http://www.rrr.org.au/index2.html
To find out what time Stylin is on in your town, go to
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=6&month=2&year=20
04&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p1=152
Last time I checked, these times were right:
Adelaide - Fri 1130am-130pm
Auckland - Fri 2-4pm
Berlin - Fri 2-4am
Caracas - Thurs 9-11pm
Hong Kong - Fri 9-11am
London - Fri 1-3am
New York - Thurs 8-10pm
Oslo - Fri 2-4am
Paris - Fri 2-4am
Perth - Fri 9-11am
San Francisco - Thurs 5-7pm
Singapore - Fri 9-11am
Stockholm - Fri 2-4am
Tokyo - Fri 10am-12pm
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