On Saturday 14 August at Mighty Mighty, join the Jewel School and special guest Frank Booker (Hit It & Quit It/Wonderful Noise) as they pay homage to the hedonistic heyday of New York disco, an era when the pantheon of pioneering club DJs – the likes of David Mancuso, Francis Grasso, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles and Nicky Siano – reigned supreme; when music was the message and love saved the day.
Give it up and turn it loose for a Mighty midwinter mix-up. $5 on the door. See you on the floor!
Adding a percussive and experimental edge to the current class of post-dubstep pioneers, Mount Kimbie, the duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos - are set to release their highly anticipated debut album 'Crooks & Lovers' on Scuba's Hotflush label in July. Mount Kimbie's first two EPs - 'Maybes' and 'Sketch On Glass' - seemed like explorations of spaces so private that all within earshot were instantly turned into voyeurs.
"Jungle Music" is due out in August, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Walter Gibbons remains one of the most important and unheralded DJ / remixers in New York dance music history, a pioneer of reel to reel edits and the art of the remix and a tangible link between early hip hop and disco through his quickfire turntable skills developed during the mid-70's.
At his famed residency at Galaxy 21 (alongside a then young percussionist, Francois Kevorkian), Gibbons perfected his turntable prowess, mixing two copies of records seamlessly at a similar time to Kool Herc's famed block parties across town in the Bronx in 1975. He was among the first to make his own reel to reel edits of tracks, extending breaks and restructuring tracks specifically for the dancefloor. As a direct result, he was the first DJ to be granted access to multi-track tapes as Ken Cayre's Salsoul Records brought him in to re-work Double Exposure's 'Ten Percent' in '76, a mix that would set the blueprint for disco, the 12" format and all future dance music mixes.
This compilation focuses on some of the more adventurous and ground-breaking mixes that Gibbons produced during the disco era including a freeform treatment of Dinosaur L's 'Go Bang', Paradise Garage favourite 'You Are My Love' by Sandy Mercer and underground disco rarity, 'I've Been Searching' by Arts & Craft.
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Jakki
Sun... Sun... Sun... (Walter Gibbons Original 12" Edit)
Local DJ/Producer Christoph El Truento is about to release a EP of his recent productions, below is the link for the download of one of the tracks.
Introducing "EP01", a 5 track EP of experimental beats, soul and future funk created throughout the first half of 2010. The EP will be released in digital format on iTunes and for free on Bandcamp for a limited time.
The Strange Games series from BBE Records is back with the 5th installment, check sound clips below. To pre-order a copy please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
The Strange Games... series which began in the summer of 1997, represents the blueprint for modern R&B and rap music. It joins the dots between 70s soul, 80s rare groove and 90s mass market hip hop. This compilation contains a wide variety of styles of tracks, from classic dance-floor fillers as well as lesser known delights. A more accessible diggers delight if you wish with an emphasis on quality track and not just songs worth having for a 2 second sample.
Featuring a much more worldly selection than its predecessors - tracks by the multi platinum selling War to Sylvia (founder of Sugarhill Records) sit side by side with world music underground icons like C.K. Mann and Francisco Aguabella. This volume is the 5th in a series of compilations that appears to have the widest appeal of all BBEs compilations and proves to be even better by the fact that there is a bonus mixed CD by the one and only Dj Spinna!
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