What are you listening to right now?

[Penguin]

Oh wow. Nudes.
When did this happen....
Carry on!

[Pierre d'Achoppement]

Queen - I's a hard life clip rumoured to be directed by Kubrick as a personal favour to Freddie (note the 8-pointed star in the middle)

[IanEye]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpoyOwKJ1A0]

Dear Lord[/url]

[IanEye]

[American Dream]

Add Me- Chumbawamba

[barracuda]

The Carpenters - All I Can Do

The Carpenters - Another Song

[Pierre d'Achoppement]

[IanEye]

Ranking Joe - "Carpenter"


Geeez 'n' Gosh - "Gotta Pray"

[Penguin]

Ha mates, this time Ima gonna give you a great big treat!
Im gonna post some links to mixes available for free on the net..
Since in these times of economic hardship, its good to remember that best things in life are free, yes they are, beats and love!

You just gotta promise me one thing - listen to em

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7eb0 ... b9a8902bda DJ Kulja
This first one is a mate of mine - these mixes contain mostly rare vinyl maxi singles, of older music, funk - soul - bass - electroish, mixed with a combination of oldskool vinyl spinning and some effects added with computer (if my ears hear right ) Good stuff...


http://koti.welho.com/kjussil1/ocrdump/ ... nology.mp3
Oldskool kickass electro mix by a friend, KICK-ASS! (available for LIMITED TIME ONLY for bandwidth conservation as its on my own space)


http://www.fanumusic.com/mixes/index.php
Fanu - the one man beat reformation act
Finnish organic drum and bass - both his own pieces mixed, and DJ mixes of other peoples material, great stuff!


http://indigo.sininen.piste.org/ DJ Indigo, a local ambient/chillout/techno DJ, Ive been to so many parties where he has made the chillout area a place of solace and philosophical dialogues! Thanks for that, man..
About 30 mixes available for download - many of his sets too from over the years. Very good stuff!

[Penguin]

FIVE QUALITIES THAT MAKE A GOOD DJ




1. The first important attribute for a DJ is to achieve confidence. Dancer (or chill out listener) must get the feeling, that the person behind the equipment gives a lot of thought for what music he/she plays for dancers/listeners.

2. DJ has not planned his/hers set at home beforehand. Instead it forms according to the mood on location. DJ should be jamming with the records, go with the flow, improvise. If the set has been made in advance it can be noticed almost certainly and mostly it turns out to be quite boring.

3. DJ must be able to control the equipment. If mixing isn't fluent, dancing becomes extremely difficult. When the songs change fluently they can be united more easily to one entirety, then it's easier to forget that your dancing "songs". Good control over the equipment also relaxes the DJ. He/She doesn't have to get stressed for mixing the records, adjusting the tone or volume. He can use that time for observing the mood.

4. DJ is able to make the music sound supernaturally different from listening to the same music at home. At its best listener doesn't even think he's dancing songs, but music that's fallen from the sky. If this emotion hasn't been felt without drugs, it's impossible to explain.

5. DJ reflects people's emotions through the music he plays and thus he encourages people to express them more freely. At its best it leads to incredible togetherness.

-DJ Indigo

Biography

Fanu is the one man breakbeat reformation act from Helsinki, Finland.

Fanu got into jungle and drum and bass in the mid-nineties, which he considers a seminal period in terms of shaping the backbone of drum and bass as well as his own drum-and-bass-mindedness in the process. Artists such as Photek, Tek9, Source Direct, Goldie, Roni Size, and labels such as Metalheadz and Good Looking Records, to mention the most important ones, were largely responsible for making Fanu’s style what it is today.

“I’m creating today’s drum and bass and breakbeat music using aesthetics that come from the past,” he says. “More often than not, there has to be proper breakbeat action in the music that I write because what blew me away in old drum and bass and jungle was the mind-blowing syncopation, the breakbeat element that I didn't catch in other styles of music in the same way; I've never been the biggest fan of the drum-machine styles. For me, the breaks were what made jungle and d&b what they were back then, and I'm after the same elements today. What's also important is a good groove and proper atmospheres you can lose yourself in.
What is equally important in music is what I call emotional resonance (he admits he picked that one from DJ Shadow); there is often this certain level of depth in the tunes that I find myself liking the most. Imaginative soundworlds are where it’s at!”

Fanu’s unique style has definitely made an impact on today’s drum-and-atmosphere-hungry drum and bass audience. Always a busy man in the studio, he has released music on Subtitles, Commercial Suicide, Offshore, Ohm Resistance, Breakin', Warm Communications, Subtle Audio, Thermal, Forestry Service , LoCuts, Soothsayer, 13 Music, Pauze, Darkestral, Cyberset, and now he's concentrating on his own label, Lightless Recordings. You can check past and future audio on the audio section of the site.

Lightless Recordings is Fanu's own imprint for the style that he is pushing: deep atmospheres and dirty fat breaks: for more info, check the Lightless section!

To close the circle, Fanu also DJs to represent the jungalism to the fullest: so far, he’s been called to do do some breakbeat reformation work to England (Bristol, Exeter), USA (Chicago, Washington DC, Saint Louis, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, New Orleans), Canada (Toronto), Hungary (Budapest, Pecs), Germany (Berlin, Leipzig), Holland (Amsterdam, Groningen, Utrecht, Antwerp), Poland (Warsaw, Rybnik, Katowice), Czech (Pardubice), Belgium (Antwerp), Lithuania (Klaipeda), Latvia (Riga), Estonia (Tallinn), Sweden (Stockholm), Austria (Wien, Graz), Russia (Moscow, Wetluck Festival), Ukraine (Kiev), Bulgaria (Sofia), Italy (Codroipo), Slovakia (Bratislava), as well as his homeland, Finland (Helsinki, Tampere, Rovaniemi, Joensuu).
“I like to keep the set varied: I play different styles and switch between the moods as I think it’s important to keep the crowd interested. I’ve always found the unexpectable DJs the best, and that’s what I am like myself when I get behind the decks. Nothing beats seeing the crowd go mental for tunes you love the most! And you won't get any boring beard-stroking sets from me or you'll get your money back. ”

Fanu is supported by Rane in May 2007, and he is now doing his gigs proudly with Serato Scratch LIVE.

Fanu's downtempo material resembles drum and bass but which still falls outside the definition of drum and bass.
“In downtempo I find endless possibilities for musical ideas: if compared to drum and bass, it has a bit more space for playfulness and limitlessness,” he admits.
“My biggest downtempo influence must’ve been the smokey 'triphop' I heard in the nineties. But basically, into downtempo I pour all my non-dnb influences - and repressions and frustrations, hah! In terms of ideas and soundscapes, I owe a great deal to Future Sound of London, Underworld, Dj Shadow, Dj Krust, Amon Tobin, and many more.”


Fanu's first album, "DAYLIGHTLESS", a heavy package of breakbeat music – drum & bass and downtempo – was released in July 2007 in the form of a 2CD (one half uptempo, the other downtempo) and a 3*12" LP of six dancefloor-accessible break-rich tracks.

Early 2008 saw the collaboration album, which is the result of the teamwork of Fanu, Bill Laswell, and a group of legendary jazz musicians: "LODGE".

Some other works – remixes and releases on labels other than Lightless – are to come out as well.

Currently Fanu is working on his second solo album, which will be called "HOMEFREE".


Fanu and Lightless Recordings can be found on Myspace:
www.myspace.com/fanubreaks
www.myspace.com/lightlessrecordings

Fanu is supported by Serato Scratch LIVE .

Lightless is distributed by St Holdings and the art is provided by Khoma.

[Jeff]

Buffy Sainte Marie - Starwalker

Paul Revere and the Raiders - Indian Reservation

Fess Parker - Kit Carson


And the President said to Kit Carson:
"Take my best four horsemen please
And ride out to the four directions,
Make my great lands barren for me" - Bruce Cockburn

[IanEye]

Ambient Temple of Imagination - "Mystery School"


click me to listen

[Jeff]

The closing credits to 'Strange Paradise' (1970), CBC's most successful gothic/voodoo soap opera ever

It's All Too Much (long version)

[compared2what?]

Come On -- Chuck Berry

[Jeff]

Matthew Good - Weapon

Burton Cummings - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

Zal Yanovsky - As Long As You're Here

Toronto - Your Daddy Don't Know

Five Man Electrical Band - Julianna