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October 20 2010

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VIDEO: Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers Video

Written By 3 - October 20 2010

From the recently released Pattern+Grid EP, available here Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers from Warp Records on Vimeo.

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October 18 2010

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V/A - Afro Beat Airways (Analog Africa)

Written By 3 - October 18 2010

Available on 2LP here & CD here

Organ-driven Afro-beat, cosmic Afro-funk and raw, psychedelic boogie ... just some of the flavours to be found on this highly danceable compilation by Samy Ben Redjeb, founder of Analog Africa. No effort has been spared! To document these 15 irresistible tracks and the music scene from the 70's, Samy crisscrossed the lengths of Ghana and Togo in search of the producers and artists - or their relatives. In the process he recorded a dozen interviews, scanned 90 pictures and transferred 120 master tapes. All the evidence can be seen in the 44-page full colour booklet accompanying these 75 minutes of heavy West African sounds. Afro-Beat Airways showcases an amazing diversity of local rhythms spiced with Afro-American funk, soul and jazz.

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These tracks have been hiding for 30 years and as you will hear these are modern African sounds created to stand the test of time. Afro-Beat Airways is like a time capsule, and promises to take you on a fascinating musical journey through West Africa´s vintage Afro Sounds.

Track List & Sound Clips:

01 Uppers International Dankasa clip
02 Apagya Show Band Ma Nserew Me clip
03 K.Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas Me Yee Owu Den clip
04 Marijata Break Through clip
05 African Brothers Band Ngyegye No So clip
06 Orchestre Abass Awula Bo Fee Ene clip
07 Ebo Taylor & The Sweet Beans Odofo Nyi Akyiri Biara clip
08 Pagadeja Custom Band Okpe See clip
09 De Frank Professionals Afe Ato Yen Bio clip
10 3rd Generation Band Obiye Saa Wui clip
11 Apagya Show Band Mumunde clip
12 Rob More clip
13 Cos-Ber-Zam Ne Noya clip
14 Uppers International Neriba Lanchina clip
15 Ebo Taylor & The Pelicans Come Along clip
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Date

October 18 2010

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GIG: The Turnaround - Friday 29th October

Written By 3 - October 18 2010

The Turnaround
Friday 29th October
The Bacco Room, 53 Nelson St, AK
Featuring Special Guests Lo Key & Jason Eli
11pm Till Late, $15 Door

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October 15 2010

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ART: Illegal Tender Exhibit Opens

Written By 3 - October 15 2010

[via Cut Collective] Well so this is it, our southerly sojourn sees us occupying the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (some of it anyway) for just over 3 months with brand new, tripped out, large scale works examining not if the ‘consumer society’ exists, but how we are so comfortable being part of it. And there is no denying that we here at CCHQ enjoy our nice tings much as the next con-sumer.. This is just one of the conundrums that has informed ‘Illegal Tender’.

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October 15 2010

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Jamie Woon - Night Air (Ramadanman Refix) (CANDENT SONGS)

Written By 3 - October 15 2010

Available Here on 12"

Co-produced by Burial! Jamie Woon is a special talent who will carve his blues n' bass infused pop songs into your brain and leave them there forever. You might not have heard of him yet, unless you've been tapped into the eerie, soulful end of dubstep, but it's a name you will be hearing a lot of in the coming 12 months.

Written and produced by Woon, 'Night Air' is as dark, sweet and seductive as molasses, an irresistibly understated combination of Jamie's uniquely supple voice, his subtly compulsive beats and a sky full of atmosphere. A melancholic ode to the urgency of the night, it’s a future soul vision taken further into orbit with a dancefloor-winning refix by up and coming techno/dubstep crossover don Ramadanman. But you have to go back a few years to find the seeds of his new sound. In 2007 he released his version of traditional standard 'Wayfaring Stranger' with a remix from secretive and ultra selective producer Burial on the flip. It turned people like Gilles Peterson and Mary-Anne Hobbs into full-blown Woon fans. The release also recalibrated his musical mind and inspired him to re-think his approach on music. Woon is now primed to be one of the most exciting artists you're likely to hear all year, a man who is populist but always inventive, a modest and understated 27 year old who's making hugely ambitious music that you'll be filing somewhere, between your favourite Four Tet, Richard Hawley and D'Angelo records. Singer, songwriter and self-taught producer Woon made his name by playing live. He's got hundreds of gigs under his belt, from endless spots in front of the microphone with just his guitar, an effects box and that unmistakable voice, to supporting Amy Winehouse. He's played in a full band with dubstep DJ and producer Reso on drums and he's taken stage at Sonar. He has now made the music that will let him switch between intimate gigs to stages with a bigger reach. The new sound fuses his future pop songs with '80s reverb, ultra-tight beats and acres of bass and they cleverly carry the intimate emotions of his early sound into a whole different room, bigger, badder... heavier. Watch out for his debut album in spring 2011... A. Jamie Woon - Night Air B. Jamie Woon - Night Air Ramadanman refix

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